024: The Devil Inside

Pleasing Terrors

Mike Brown

Arts, Performing Arts, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 31 July 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Chicago's West 63rd Street Post Office was built in 1938 over the site of what its creator referred to as "The Castle", and in 1902 an Ohio Daily News article called it Chicago's Ghost Castle. Whatever you want to call it, this site was once or possibly still is the home to a notorious killer.

A figure who built a home that included a 2nd floor full of secret passages, trap doors, and hidden staircases. The basement so notorious that a crowd would lay on the sidewalk and try to peer through the cracks as it was excavated.

The creator of "The Castle" claimed to be under an evil influence. An influence that seemed to continue to claim victims after his death. An influence that is still felt today

Moyamensing Prison was finished in 1835
Chicago Police Detective Frank Geyer interviews his nemesis in 1895
A crowd gathers for the excavation of "The Castle" basement excavation
Another crowd gathers outside "The Castle" to see if the owner returns after his execution
In 2012 a tunnel that leads to "The Castle" basement is discovered
The story of Herman Webster Mudgett
Christmas Day, 1891 Julia Smythe and her daughter Pearl disappear
The investigation into the Pitezel case
H.H. Holmes wrote Holmes' Own Story while incarcerated at Moyamensing
Mysterious deaths of anyone connected to the case or "The Castle"

Resources:

Herman Webster Mudgett or H. H. Holmes

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Denisara from Evil Podcast, and like you, I'm listening to
0:07.4	pleasing terrors with Mike Brown.
0:10.6	Enjoy. Some stories were never supposed to be told.
0:23.8	Stories that exist in the twilight
0:27.0	between science and the supernatural,
0:30.1	between history and horror,
0:36.0	stories that speak of terrifying things.
0:39.1	Stories that you want to hear.
0:42.1	Stories that you need to hear,
0:43.0	stories that will sink their teeth in,
0:46.0	and never let you go.
0:48.0	My name is Mike Brown,
0:51.0	and this is pleasing terrors. Episode 24, The Devil Inside. There are some places that are burdened with such a terrible history that they never escape.
1:22.0	Places where the violence and cruelty of the past have passed a shadow that lingers for generations.
1:29.0	Even when there is nothing left of what once stood there, the shadow remains.
1:36.0	Like an architectural ghost, these buildings can leave an imprint,
1:41.0	not in the soil, but in the mines of the local residents.
1:45.0	If you visit 1400 East Passayunk Avenue in South Philadelphia,
1:51.0	you will find a strip mall containing an Acme Saveon pharmacy.
1:55.0	The location is drab and mundane, but there is a historical marker that reveals something very different once stood there.
2:05.0	Until it was torn down in 1968, this was the location of Moyaminsing Prison.
2:12.0	Finished in 1835, it was a Gothic building with an Egyptian
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