In 1874, just nine years after President Lincoln was slain, the nation was again shocked by a terrible event. It was not the death of a great leader but the disappearance of a previously unknown four-year-old name Charles Brewster Ross. “Little Charlie Ross” – as Americans would soon know him – was stolen away in what became the first kidnapping for ransom in the history of the United States.
Check out our updated website and sign up for our newsletter at AmericanHauntingsPodcast.com
Check out our merch at AmericanHauntingsClothing.com
Follow us on Twitter @AmerHauntsPod, @TroyTaylor13, @CodyBeckSTL
Follow us on Instagram @AmericanHauntingsPodcast, @TroyTaylorgram, @CodyBeckSTL
Subscribe for more bonus content on our Patreon page
This episode was written by Troy Taylor
Produced and edited by Cody Beck
Goat Castle
Horror In Good Hart
Taken From Home (The "Lipstick Killer" And The Murder Of Suzanne Degnan)
Last Stand Of The Barker Gang
The Easter Sunday Massacre
Memories Of The Old Slave House
Murder At Corpsewood Manor
BONUS EPISODE: Ed Gein, Texas Chainsaw and Your Ghost Stories!
Live From Dead of Winter 2024
The Myrtles Plantation
(BONUS!) Until Death Do Us Part
INTRODUCING SEASON 8: "HOME"
(BONUS) Return to Villisca and the Newton Murders of 1898
EPILOGUE: THE FINAL DISAPPEARANCE OF SEASON 7
End-of-the-Year Scary Movie Countdown Show
The Christmas Mystery (The Mystery of the Sodder Family)
The Missing Reporter (The Mysterious Disappearance Of Jodi Huisentruit)
Two Mysteries, Too Soon (The Disappearances Of Sharon Pretorius And Brandon Swanson)
Our Favorite Road Trip Horror Movies (Halloween 2023)
The Vanishing of the Springfield Three
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Ghosts of Dallas
Mortal Musings Podcast
True Crime Investigators UK
Scaredycast
Dateline NBC
Crime Junkie