Pleasing Terrors

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.

  • 1 hour 26 seconds
    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 discuss a play a play about the death of Poe that was first performed there in 1994. The story, the ghosts, and the play are all clues that lead to a hidden treasure that Poe was attempting to find in Charleston in 1828.  This is the first installment of a two-part story.

     

    Works Cited:

    Buxton, Julian T., The Ghosts of Charleston , Beaufort Books, 2001

    Caskey, James, Charleston’s Ghosts: Hauntings in the Holy City, Manta Ray Books LLC., 2014

    Dawidziak, Mark, A Mystery of Mysteries,  St. Martin's Press, 2023

    Downey, Christopher Byrd, Edgar Allan Poe’s Charleston, History Press, 2020

    Downey, Christopher Byrd, A History Lover’s Guide To Charleston, The History Press, 2023

     

    Hecker, William F., Private Perry and Mister Poe: The West Point Poems, 1831 Louisiana State University Press, 2005

    Jacobi, Jolande, Complex/Archtype/sSymbol in the Psychology of C.G. Jung, Bollingen Foundation Inc., 1959

    Main, Roderick Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal, Princeton University Press, 1997

    Pitser, Sarah.  Haunted Charleston, Morris Book Publishing, LLC., 2013

    Poe, Edgar Allan,  Complete Tales and Poems, Maplewood Books, 2013

    Wiles, Julian, Nevermore, The Dramatic Publishing Company, 1998

    Jacobi, Jolande, Complex/Archtype/sSymbol in the Psychology of C.G. Jung, Bollingen Foundation Inc., 1959

    Main, Roderick Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal, Princeton University Press, 1997

    18 January 2024, 1:37 am
  • 47 minutes 6 seconds
    The Mermaid Returns: Part 3

    The conclusion of the three part series which combines history, ghosts, true crime and fairytales.

    21 December 2022, 10:52 pm
  • 52 minutes 27 seconds
    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. 

    11 December 2022, 12:56 am
  • 52 minutes 30 seconds
    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.

    1 December 2022, 1:16 am
  • 47 minutes 44 seconds
    Here Are Dragons

    This episode features the untold story of the origin of King Kong.

    29 March 2021, 10:03 pm
  • 1 hour 36 seconds
    Last Breath

    This episode tells a story about pirates and a haunted dungeon.

    30 October 2020, 11:10 pm
  • 47 minutes 22 seconds
    The Mermaid

    This episode tells the story of the Charleston mermaid.

    24 July 2020, 4:52 am
  • 46 minutes 40 seconds
    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

    23 October 2019, 9:58 pm
  • 34 minutes 39 seconds
    Through A Glass Darkly

    This a story about the Titanic, Victorian sex trafficking and a mummy's curse.

     

     

     

     

    17 September 2019, 8:58 pm
  • 38 minutes 15 seconds
    Shadows of Savannah Part 2: The Dead Time

    Haunted houses, midnight witchcraft and famous murder in historic Savannah, Georgia.

    15 August 2019, 10:00 pm
  • 33 minutes 55 seconds
    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. Byrd

    22 February 2019, 1:40 am
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