You're going to be here. The special podcasts about horror films that we do here at American Hauntings are some of our most popular episodes.

It seems that people who love haunted history also love

horror movies too. I know that I do. In fact, horror movies were sort of my gateway drug into the world of the

supernatural when I was a kid. I like ghost stories and

hauntings I love horror movies all year round but they seem to be especially

popular Halloween when the world just seems to be a little bit spookier.

Every Halloween Cody and I put together a podcast to talk about

our favorite horror films and over the last few years we've been breaking down our favorites by the

decade and this year is no exception. But before we get to that

special episode I have another one for you that fits pretty well as in addition to

our current haunted Hollywood season of the show. It's a short look at some horror films that you

definitely have never heard of and one so lost and mysterious will never be able to

review them on the podcast. Finally we'll also look at a film that was delayed for years because of the rumors that

actual ghosts had imprinted themselves on the film that was being used in the

vintage cameras they shot the movies with. Truth are a good marketing ploy, you can decide.

Horror has been such a part of films that some of the very first moving pictures ever produced were horror movies. People of the late 19th century

when movies first became popular in small Nickelodeons in America and Europe loved

horror. This was the era of Dracula, Dr. Jeklin, Mr. Hyde in the Grand Gunyall.

In Paris, this was a live stage show that thrilled audiences with simulated gore on stage.

So when movies came along, it was only natural that horror films were immediately put into production.

The very first horror film ever made was one called the House of the Devil and it was made in 1896 by George

Mala's the first director to really tell stories with his films he would become

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