Haunted American History

For more than 140 years, a pink quartzite fortress known simply as The Hill has loomed over Sioux Falls. Its walls have witnessed riots, murders, executions, deadly escape attempts—and one innocent man who had to be hanged three times before the state finally killed him. But the prison's strangest story comes from its chapel, where generations of guards reported a mysterious woman, unexplained cold spots, moving objects, and even a locked door seemingly opening by itself. Nobody knew who she was. Then, buried in the archives, investigators found the forgotten story of a woman murdered on that exact stage in 1935.

Tonight, we enter the haunted history of the South Dakota State Penitentiary...and meet the woman who apparently refused to let the prison forget her.

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Spearfish Canyon has a habit of swallowing things. In 1887, a farmer discovered a stone supposedly containing the final words of a prospector who vanished into the Black Hills more than fifty years earlier. Since then, the canyon has erased an entire mining town, destroyed a railroad, hidden missing hikers from search teams... and, for nearly ninety years, even lost a waterfall.

Add sacred Lakota traditions, unsolved murders, modern Missing 411 mythology, and a landscape almost perfectly designed to make people disappear, and it's easy to understand why generations have believed something is wrong inside this gorge.

Tonight, we explore the strange history of Spearfish Canyon and ask whether its reputation requires anything supernatural at all.

 

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Deadwood, South Dakota, was never supposed to exist. Built illegally on land guaranteed to the Lakota, the gold-rush town exploded into a lawless maze of saloons, brothels, gambling halls, violence, disease, and sudden death. Wild Bill Hickok was murdered at a poker table. Women trapped in the Badlands died violently. And more than a century later, visitors claim the people who built Deadwood are still there.

Tonight, we explore the bloody history and enduring ghost stories of a town that seems determined to keep its dead exactly where they fell.

 

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For nearly a century, the Hotel Alex Johnson has towered over downtown Rapid City, hosting presidents, Hollywood stars, and generations of travelers. But some guests apparently never checked out. Employees report phantom high heels crossing empty floors, elevators moving without passengers, and the apparition of the hotel's long-dead founder still watching over his lobby.

Then there's Room 812—where a young bride plunged eight stories to her death and guests now claim something opens the windows, crawls into their beds, and wanders the hallway dressed in white.

Tonight, we check into one of South Dakota's most enduring haunted landmarks and uncover the strange disappearance of the hotel's decades-long record of paranormal encounters.

 

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In 2011, a pair of Swedish treasure hunters scanned the floor of the Baltic Sea with a $1,900 sonar system—and accidentally ignited one of the biggest archaeological mysteries of the internet age. The blurry image appeared to show a massive circular object with a dome, strange geometric features, and a 300-meter skid mark trailing behind it. 

Within days, the world was calling it a crashed UFO, an ancient monument, and even the Millennium Falcon. But what happened when scientists finally examined the evidence? Tonight, we separate viral mythology from underwater geology and uncover the surprising truth behind the Baltic Sea Anomaly.

 

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