Episode 22: "The Devil's Music - Part Three"
American Hauntings Podcast
Cody Beck and Troy Taylor
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Based on the episodes that you’ve heard in this series, then you’re likely aware there are many stories of curses, superstitions, and creepy coincidences that have been interwoven into the fabric of the “Devil’s Music.” Some are silly and a bit of a stretch, some are eerie, and some – like the most famous music curse of the “27 Club” – are downright unnerving.
In this episode, we’ll dig into the infamous “Buddy Holly Curse,” which began on a fateful night in February 1959 – the “Day the Music Died.” Legend has it that this curse dogged an entire generation of rock stars connected to Buddy Holly. Is it truth or fiction?
Curses and superstitions are not taken lightly in the music world. But I’ll leave it up to you to decide if the frightening things that occurred were the supernatural at work, mere coincidence, or the result of that famous rock-n-roll adage of “living fast and leaving a good-looking corpse behind.”
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| 1:03.3 | Those are just two that we've heard so far in this series, so it's likely no surprise that there are many stories of curses, superstitions, |
| 1:14.8 | and creepy coincidences that have been interwoven into the fabric of the devil's music. |
| 1:21.5 | Some are silly and a bit of a stretch. Some are eerie and some like the most famous music curse of the 27 Club are |
| 1:30.5 | downright unnerving. But the idea of music-related curses isn't new. Musicians are a superstitious |
| 1:38.8 | bunch, and they've been looking for supernatural reasons to explain their failures and their successes |
| 1:45.5 | for centuries, dating back to long before the rise of rock and roll. |
| 1:51.9 | In classical music, there's something called the Curse of the Ninth, which became infamous |
| 1:57.9 | when someone realized that a lot of composers who wrote a ninth symphony died soon after finishing it. |
| 2:07.0 | Beethoven is the curse's most famous victim, but there have been others. |
| 2:12.5 | Gustav Mahler thought he had the curse beaten when he began his 10th symphony, but then died before it could be completed. |
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