What makes a ghost? According to legend and lore, a ghost is created from sudden death, regrets, despair, and murder. There are no ghosts created from happiness. Or are there? In this long-awaited Christmas holiday episode of the Hist-eerie podcast, "America's Ghost Storyteller" Diane Ladley, introduces you to a most unusual haunted house in Savannah, Georgia; filled with a large family of ghosts who happily abide together forever in their own little piece of Heaven on earth.

Rated PG-13, not for younger or more sensitive listeners due to graphic descriptions of certain dark historical events and facts.



Special Note to You From Diane: "Hi there! Just a note to say that while this episode features some (deliciously dark!) traditional Christmas music and mentions Christmas specifically, please be assured that its message is intended to warm the hearts of people of all faiths, or of no faith at all, during this most magical, supernatural time of year."


"THE HAPPIEST HAUNTED HOUSE IN AMERICA" Hist-eerie Podcast Episode #17,

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Alan Piljak - Flying Away. Silverlight by Alan Špiljak is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License. Based on a work at http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Alan_Spiljak/

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Kevin MacLeod - Classic Horror 3 (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons- By Attribution 3.0 License http- creativecommons.org licenses by 3.0

Kai Engel - February. February by Kai Engel is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.

Nicolas Gasparini (Myuu) - Facing Darkness, Disintegrating (Music Box Vers), Carol of the Bells (Christmas Cover), Jingle Bells (Dark Piano Ver.), Silent Night (Dark Piano Ver.). http://thedarkpiano.com.

Thank You For Listening, and Happy Holidays to You and Yours! Keywords: Christmas ghost stories, Dickens Christmas Carol, ghosts, Christmas spirit, true ghost stories for Christmas, spooky scary ghost stories, haunted houses, Savannah Georgia ghosts.

Award-winning "America's Ghost Storyteller", Diane Ladley, presents a thrilling work of audio fan fiction in honor of HBO®'s GAME OF THRONES television show and George R.R. Martin's novels. Remember Old Nan, the elderly woman who told the boy Bran such bone-chilling scary stories of the Night King, Corpse Queen, Mad Axe, and others? Diane re-tells Old Nan's stories (northern Scottish accent and all!), spinning those terrifying legends that sprang from George Martin's deliciously fearsome imagination. Listen, and you'll feel as if you're the boy Bran Stark himself, huddled in his bed as Old Nan does her best to scare the wits out of him...and succeeds. 



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CREDITS: Martin, George R.R., A GAME OF THRONES, Bantam Books, New York, New York, Copyright 1996. Martin, George R.R., A STORM OF SWORDS, Bantam Books, New York, New York, Copyright 2000. Old Nan Image copyright: HBO • SKY ATLANTIC

IDEA: International Dialects of English Archive, Scotland 22. 
Subject: Age 80, Scottish/Caucasian, from Glasgow and Isle of Tiree. RECORDED BY: Flloyd Kennedy. DATE OF RECORDING: 21/08/2014 https://www.dialectsarchive.com/scotland-22

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Ghost children. No other paranormal entity is more desperately tragic and heart-rending to our emotions—or more capable of freezing the blood in our veins—than that of a child haunting the site of their death. Saddest of all are the ghosts of children who had been abandoned by their parents and society, left into the cold, indifferent care of orphanages and foundling hospitals from ages past. At their best, such places throughout history were comfortable and clean, where the children were given simple education, trained for future work, and properly fed. At their worst, orphanages were their own circle of Hell. This episode of Hist-eerie—the second in a three-part series—explores the innocent children who were condemned in life by society's most callous doctrines...and whose ghosts condemn us after their deaths.

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"Phantasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons- By Attribution 3.0 License http- creativecommons.org licenses by 3.0

"Unnatural Situation" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons- By Attribution 3.0 License http- creativecommons.org licenses by 3.0

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Keywords: Ghosts, haunted orphanages, Halloween, true ghost stories, paranormal encounters, spooky scary ghost stories, supernatural, haunt