186 Dead Children’s Playground
About this episode
The episode explores the haunted history of the Dead Children’s Playground in Huntsville, Alabama, and its connection to local legends and ghost stories.
Is the Dead Children’s Playground in Huntsville, Alabama haunted? Episode Summary This week on Ghostly, we’re heading deep into northern Alabama to the oldest and largest cemetery in the state, Maple Hill Cemetery in Huntsville, and the small, unassuming playground tucked against its limestone bluff that locals call The Dead Children’s Playground. Pat walks us through the cemetery’s history, from John Hunt’s 1804 cabin to the autumn of 1918 when the Spanish flu carried away hundreds of Madison County’s children. Rebecca brings the swings that move on their own at midnight, the little boy in suspenders nobody else could see, the spectral carriage of Governor Thomas Bibb, the rocking chair ghost of Mary Chambers Bibb, and the silent Lady in White who drifts between the 1800s headstones. This episode was inspired by our most recent Book Club pick — The Dead Children’s Playground by James Kaine , the first book in his American Horrors series. Featured Book — The Dead Children’s Playground by James Kaine A #1 bestseller in U.S. Horror on Amazon. BookLife by Publishers Weekly called it a story that “will chill readers to the…
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Hosts: Pat, Rebecca
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Organizations: BookLife by Publishers Weekly
Books & works: The Dead Children’s Playground
Places: Huntsville, Alabama, Maple Hill Cemetery
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