MURDERS THAT HAUNT: The Case of H. H. Holmes & The Murder Castle
Paranormal Activity with Yvette Fielding
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🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In this chilling continuation of our Murders That Haunt series, Yvette Fielding crosses the Atlantic to investigate one of the most infamous serial killers in history.
H. H. Holmes, the man who built murder into brick and mortar.
Previously, we’ve explored the lingering shadows of Mary Blandy, Al Capone, Mary Ann Cotton and Amelia Dyer.
Now, we step inside the legend of the so-called Murder Castle.
A labyrinthine building constructed at 63rd and Wallace Street in Englewood, Chicago, designed with hidden corridors, sealed rooms, and deadly intent.
But the building is gone.
So why do reports of hauntings persist?
In this week's episode, Yvette unpacks Holmes’ disturbing life story and then examines the chilling phenomena linked to five key locations:
- The original Murder Castle site at 63rd & Wallace
- The Englewood Post Office that now stands in its place
- Artifacts held in storage by the Chicago Historical Society
- Moyamensing Prison in Philadelphia, where Holmes met his end
- Holy Cross Cemetery in Pennsylvania, where his body lies buried in concrete
From shadow figures and unexplained footsteps to spatial distortions and overwhelming sensations of being watched, we explore what witnesses have reported and whether the architecture of cruelty can leave something behind long after the walls have fallen.
Are these hauntings the result of psychological imprint?
Lingering intention?
Or something far more unsettling?
This is Murders That Haunt: Dr. H. H. Holmes & The Murder Castle.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to paranormal activity with me, Yvette Fielding, and to another chapter |
| 0:08.6 | in our ongoing murders that haunt series. In recent episodes, we've explored figures whose crimes |
| 0:15.6 | left more than historical footprints, they left emotional and paranormal scars on the places that they touched. |
| 0:23.2 | But this week, we travelled to late 19th century America to examine a man whose horror was not |
| 0:30.6 | only in his actions, but in the very walls he built around them. His name was H. H. Holmes, though he was born Herman Webster |
| 0:40.5 | Mudgett, charming, articulate and disturbingly methodical. Holmes constructed a building in Chicago |
| 0:47.6 | so strange in its layout, so secretive in its design, that newspapers would later christen it, the murder castle. |
| 0:56.6 | It burned, it was demolished, it no longer stands. |
| 1:00.6 | Yet the hauntings tied to homes and to the site itself have never disappeared. |
| 1:06.5 | This week we step inside the legend and ask what still lingers. |
| 1:18.6 | Welcome to another episode of paranormal activity. |
| 1:21.8 | Now, as you know, I like to have a little fact or fiction at the start of the show. |
| 1:25.8 | Listen out for the answer at the end. |
| 1:27.7 | What do you think to this one? |
| 1:28.8 | As this week's episode is all about the case of Dr. H.H. Holmes, |
| 1:32.4 | I want to know whether it's fact or fiction, |
| 1:34.7 | that his execution was an immediate death. |
| 1:38.6 | What do you think? |
| 1:39.5 | Fact or a load of old nonsense. |
| 1:41.9 | Find out at the end of the show. |
| 1:47.2 | Chicago and... or a load of old nonsense. Find out at the end of the show. Chicago 1893, the world's Colombian exposition, the grand world's fair, transformed the city |
| 1:55.5 | into a beacon of modern ambition, known as the white city. It dazzled visitors with electric lighting, |
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