Memories Of The Old Slave House
American Hauntings Podcast
Cody Beck and Troy Taylor
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2024
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
On a windy hill near the small Southern Illinois town of Equality is a decaying mansion that was known for decades as the region’s most haunted house. It was a place dubbed Hickory Hill by its builder and over the years, it’s been many things – a plantation house, farmhouse, a tourist attraction, and many believe, a chamber of horrors for men and women brought to this house in chains. Thanks to the long-standing legend of the terrible things that occurred in the house, locals eventually began referring to it as “The Old Slave House.”
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| 0:00.0 | On a windy hill near the small southern Illinois town of equality is a decaying |
| 0:06.1 | mansion that was known for decades as the region's most haunted house. It was a place dubbed Hickory Hill by its builder and over the years it's been many things. |
| 0:18.7 | A plantation house, a farmhouse, a tourist attraction and many believe a chamber of horrors for men and women brought |
| 0:27.2 | to this house in chains. Thanks to the longstanding legend of the terrible things that |
| 0:32.4 | occurred in the house, locals eventually |
| 0:34.4 | began referring to it as the old slave house. |
| 0:39.0 | For more than 70 years, travelers from all over the Midwest came to see the mysterious and isolated |
| 0:44.0 | old house, but time, expenses, controversy, and the eccentricity of its last owner closed |
| 0:50.6 | its doors in 1996. |
| 0:53.0 | It's now owned by the state of Illinois, |
| 0:55.5 | closed to the public and unlikely to ever reopen. |
| 0:59.5 | And yet the stories of Hickory Hill |
| 1:02.0 | continue to be told. |
| 1:04.0 | They still linger behind the locked doors and shuttered windows. |
| 1:09.2 | And they say the dead of Hickory Hill do not rest in peace. |
| 1:19.0 | Welcome to American Hauntings, the podcast dedicated to the history, |
| 1:23.1 | hauntings, legends, lore, and the dark side |
| 1:26.0 | of American history. |
| 1:27.4 | And welcome to our latest season, Home, |
| 1:29.9 | which is written and performed by Troy Taylor |
| 1:32.1 | and produced and co-host performed by Cody Beck. |
| 1:35.2 | This is season 8 of the American Haunting's podcast, Home. |
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