Episode 5: "Fire and Brimstone"

American Hauntings Podcast

Cody Beck and Troy Taylor

True Crime, Spirituality, Film Reviews, Tv & Film, History, Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

The Devil didn’t confine his shenanigans to Salem Village or even the Massachusetts Bay colony in the 1600s. A penchant for hanging and persecuting those believed to be in league with him swept through the colonies in those days, leading to many tragedies and deaths. But the madness the Puritans introduced in that period drained America of its lust for religions mania and fanaticism for many years to come.

The hardship, brutality, and war that followed over the next century and a half sent the broken and the disillusioned in search of enlightenment. In the 1820s and 1830s religious excitement began to sweep the country, and soon new churches, sects, and cults began to emerge. This new age would be dubbed “The Great Awakening” and while none of these new groups would compare with the strictness of the Puritans, a devout belief in the works of the Devil remained.

As did an unhinged belief in doomsday, the Antichrist, and the end of the world.

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