What Lies Beneath America’s Haunted Places, Part Two | Grave Talks CLASSIC
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🗓️ 28 March 2026
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This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! PART TWO
America’s most haunted locations are often defined by the legends that surround them—but those stories don’t always reflect what really happened there.
Author and cultural historian Colin Dickey takes a closer look at some of the country’s most well-known haunted sites, examining the real history behind them. What he found wasn’t just folklore or exaggerated tales, but deeper—and often more troubling—stories tied to the people and events that shaped these places.
From prisons to asylums and other infamous locations, Colin explains how many hauntings are built on narratives that have been simplified, altered, or misunderstood over time. In some cases, the true history has been overshadowed by the legend itself.
It’s a conversation about haunted locations, the stories we attach to them, and what we might be missing when we don’t look deeper.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to part two of our conversation with Colin Dickey, author of the book, Ghostland, |
| 0:05.9 | in American History in Haunted Places. When you're out there and you're looking for these |
| 0:11.3 | locations, are there certain locations that seem to have more lore around them than others? |
| 0:22.1 | Of course. |
| 0:22.5 | I mean, you know, and one of, one of my initial questions for the book was, you know, |
| 0:26.2 | what, what makes a building sort of more or less likely to have these kind of stories? |
| 0:31.6 | So, you know, why our haunted house was always Victorian mansions and never, you know, |
| 0:37.0 | mid-century modern tract homes? Sure.ions and never, you know, mid-century modern |
| 0:38.0 | tracked homes. You know, why does every, when you picture a haunted asan asylum, why do you |
| 0:44.0 | picture a clock tower in the front of the building, you know, with a kind of wings spreading |
| 0:49.1 | out to either side, you know, like, and that, that's that kind of thing, you know, drew me to a lot of these, you know, the, the places that became chapters in books are sort of trying to answer these questions. |
| 0:59.6 | I mean, you know, I was looking, I think I was just casting a broad net for haunted downtowns, because I was like, what does that mean to have a haunted downtown? |
| 1:09.0 | And, you know, one of the places that I came |
| 1:11.8 | upon was Richmond Virginia and I thought okay you know cool I don't know much about |
| 1:15.8 | Richmond let's find out why it's haunted and I you know started just reading all of |
| 1:20.7 | these stories about haunted Richmond and you know just something in the back of my |
| 1:24.1 | head triggered at some point and I thought you know this was the this was the |
| 1:27.4 | capital of the Confederacy this This was, you know, the second most heavily trafficked slave |
| 1:33.6 | trading market in the South. How come all of these ghost stories about white people? You know, |
| 1:39.0 | and again, it was just sort of like, well, you know, why these stories and not other stories, you know? And so, so, |
| 1:45.3 | you know, in many ways, I think most of the chapters, the book started from a place of, you know, |
| 1:51.8 | why this building and not this other building. Why, why this place and not some other place? |
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