Join acclaimed ghost storyteller Mike Brown for a bi-weekly tour through the shadows of history. The Pleasing Terrors Podcast features stories about haunted places, creepy history, and forgotten folklore.
Latest episodes
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47 min
Charleston Gothic: Part 6- Ghostly Alchemy
A wax figurine forgotten in museum storage. A book of poems that prophesied a ghost. A woman on a beach who found something she wasn't looking for. In the final episode of the Char…
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1 h 22
Charleston Gothic: Part 5- The Unfortunate Pirate
Episode 51: The Unfortunate Pirate For over a century, "Annabel Lee" has been read as Edgar Allan Poe's final love poem—a haunting elegy to his child bride Virginia, written months…
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Charleston Gothic: Part 4- Tekeli
CHARLESTON GOTHIC Episode 4: Tekeli The Charleston Library Society has survived fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, and war—emerging each time with its treasures intact. Among those tr…
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55 min
Charleston Gothic: Part 3- Juliet's Tomb
Find the grave of Annabel Lee and you find the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe! In this episode, a hand-drawn map pulls us through a locked iron gate into Charleston's most overgrown chur…
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54 min
Charleston Gothic: Part 2- Buried Treasures
In this episode, we follow the Annabel Lee legend backward: from modern ghost tours to nineteenth-century poetry, from pirate treasure maps to academic footnotes, from Sullivan's I…
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1 h 02
Charleston Gothic: Part 1- Night Sea Journey
The Descent has led us to Charleston, and to a haunted historic theatre where we uncover a clue that may bring us closer to finding the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe. Sources: The Ghost…
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50 min
The Descent: Part 3- Lost
In this episode we visit the most haunted house of Edgar Allan Poe and then retrace his path to the threshold of a secret world. Sources that were either referenced directly or con…
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1 h 10
The Descent: Part 2- Spiral
In this episode we continue our search for the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe and retrace his path through the final, ill-fated months of his life. Sources that were either referenced di…
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45 min
The Descent: Part 1- Hollow
In this episode we embark on a search for the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe, guided by Henry David Thoreau and the mystery of the Hollow Earth. Our quest begins with a visit to a haunte…
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1 h 00
Charleston Gothic (Part 1)
In this episode, we take a look at Edgar Allan Poe's "The Gold Bug," a story about an encrypted map that leads to a buried pirate treasure. We will visit a haunted theater and disc…
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47 min
The Mermaid Returns: Part 3
The conclusion of the three part series which combines history, ghosts, true crime and fairytales.
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52 min
The Mermaid Returns: Part 2
The second episode in a three part series about one of Charleston's lost stories. It is a true story that combines history, true crime, ghosts and fairy tales.
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53 min
The Mermaid Returns: Part 1
This is the first in a three part series about one of Charleston, South Carolina's lost stories. It combines history, ghosts, true crime, amd fairytales.
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48 min
Here Are Dragons
This episode features the untold story of the origin of King Kong.
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Last Breath
This episode tells a story about pirates and a haunted dungeon.
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47 min
The Mermaid
This episode tells the story of the Charleston mermaid.
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47 min
Corpsewood
This is a story about a German fairytale and a brutal murder in northwestern Georgia. Suggested reading: The Corpsewood Manor Murders In North Georgia by Amy Petulla
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35 min
Through A Glass Darkly
This a story about the Titanic, Victorian sex trafficking and a mummy's curse.
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38 min
Shadows of Savannah Part 2: The Dead Time
Haunted houses, midnight witchcraft and famous murder in historic Savannah, Georgia.
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34 min
Shadows of Savannah (Part 1): Most Haunted
In this episode I visit some of Savanah's most haunted locations. Suggested Reading: Haunted Savanah: America's Most Spectral City by James Caskey Haunted Savannah by Georgia R. By…