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Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

Introducing: Havoc Town

Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

Society & Culture, History

4.58.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Hi, Cabinet of Curiosities listeners! We're excited to share with you a sneak peek at iHeartPodcasts' latest release, Havoc Town!

Havoc Town: A strange plague has struck Abbesstown, NH, a sleepy farming village in the foothills of the White Mountain: Fever, the vomiting of blood, wild night terrors that wrack the victims. No medicine seems to work against it, and so the Reverend Josiah Abbess, believing something infernal is at work in his flock, begins his campaign to root out the evil. What follows becomes known as The Abbesstown Vampire Panic. 

200 years later, and the peace is once again violently shattered when a man drives his truck into the side of city hall, attacking those who come to assist him with an ax. Wild-eyed and sweating blood, ranting of a coming storm, he is finally taken down by the town’s police and brought to the hospital.

In the following days, a familiar old plague follows. In the midst of the ensuing panic, Jury Havock, scion to the Havock business empire, appears. He is cool-headed. Pragmatic. Determined to get control over the sickness overtaking the population. But Corinne Abbess, the last of her disgraced bloodline, is suspicious of this would-be messiah and becomes determined to uncover the truth about his sudden appearance in town, and all of the unbelievable events that follow.


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0:00.0

There's a vile sickness in Abbas town. You must excise it. Dig into the deep earth and cut it out.

0:13.2

A sleepy town with a dark history. The village is ravaged with the blood fever. Entire families have been consumed.

0:22.0

And I fear the next wave will extinguish us.

0:26.4

A strange illness stalking the land.

0:29.2

You know how waking up from a dream,

0:33.1

a familiar place can look suddenly, completely alien?

0:37.6

Crazy, son of a bitch, bit me.

0:40.4

Get back, everyone's not.

0:43.6

An unbreakable family curse.

0:46.3

Noah.

0:47.1

I have to clean the grave dirt from my nails.

0:49.9

Your hands are clean.

0:51.6

Nothing in this town is clean.

0:54.1

I must fall a father.

0:56.0

A brutal legacy of violence.

0:58.5

And if you see the devil walking around

1:00.2

inside of another man, be an enemy

1:02.3

of your very home brother,

1:04.2

you must cut out the very heart of him.

1:06.7

And so I picked up a hammer

1:08.0

on a nearby workbench.

1:10.7

And I brought it down on the back of his skull.

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