The Living History Project | Creep Cast

The podcast is recorded in the basement of the Sally House in Atchison, Kansas, a location reputed to be one of America's most haunted houses. The hosts describe its history, including a young girl named Sally who died there during an appendectomy in the 1800s when the basement served as a makeshift hospital. They mention experiencing strange noises, a fenced-off hole in the wall, and sitting on a spot where a ritual to summon Beelzebub was reportedly attempted.

Host: 'We are inside of the Sally House in what's the town's name? Achinson, Kansas. Uh, this house is regarded as being one of the most haunted houses in America. As legend has it, back in the 1800s, this basement that we are in now was used as a makeshift hospital... A little girl named Sally came here with stomach pains and tragically died on the table during an apectctomy.' Host: 'Someone was kicked out because they tried to perform a ritual to summon be elabub. And you can see the mark in the floor. Nick's sitting on it.'

The story 'Empty Prison' details a private prison in North Dakota, Pambina Prison, built on a cursed site where two priests encountered a 'rotting woman' entity in 1818. This entity slowly 'rises' through the prison's five floors, causing prisoners and guards to be transferred, disappear, or succumb to terror. The protagonist, sentenced to exactly one year, faces the entity as it reaches the top floor, highlighting the horror of being trapped with no escape or external help.

Host: 'Pambina prison confirmed by governor's office and two notary publiclix witnessing in person to be afflicted by the supernatural such that continued business is impossible.' Host: 'The folktale has it that the vision of a rotting woman came in the night and stole uh Provincial's life.' Host: 'It's physically rising through the levels of the prison people.'

The episode's final story, 'My students submitted the most disturbing living history project I've ever seen,' centers on a great-uncle's account of a janitor named Stannislov in a war-torn Eastern European city. After losing his family, Stannislov developed a profound delusion, believing he was cleaning a functioning school, interacting with 'students' and 'teachers,' while in reality, it was a destroyed building filled with corpses. His sanity was maintained by a radio, which he believed 'died,' leading him to suicide, only for it to be found still playing later.

Host: 'This man was Stannislav went to went to a vandalized falling apart schoolhouse and cleaned up blood and rubble like it was spilled drinks and dust. He smiled at dead bodies in the hallway and believed they were smiling back at him because they liked his radio.' Host: 'The radio was still on.'