Savannah does not just set the scene. It shifts your balance. We begin with the Creeps inside the Sorrell-Weed House, where grief, scandal, and centuries of rumor fuel one of America’s most famous hauntings. Reports of floating candlesticks, uneasy mirrors, and a heavy presence in the basement sit alongside a harder truth about how thin the historical record can be, especially when power shaped what was preserved. We examine how that silence invites storytelling and how responsible ghost tours navigate the tension between a thrilling legend and a verifiable source.

The Crime brings us to the 1981 shooting of Danny Hansford by antiques dealer Jim Williams, a case that unfolded through four trials, overturned convictions, a hung jury, and finally an acquittal. A toppled grandfather clock, a jammed pistol, and a half hour delay became the foundation of a courtroom saga shaped by wealth, identity, and narrative control. We close with the Cryptid known as Alti, the Altamaha River Monster, whose serpentine sightings in Georgia’s brackish waters collide with biology, misidentification, and a century of newspaper flare-ups.

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Creeps, Crimes & Cryptids is a podcast by Ghost City Tours, exploring the strange, sinister, and unexplained history lurking beneath America’s most haunted cities. If you'd like to take a ghost tour in this episode's featured city, or to find tours in a city nearest you, visit www.ghostcitytours.com!

Nashville hums with more than guitars. We begin with the Creeps inside the Ryman Auditorium, a building born as a tabernacle and later crowned home of the Grand Ole Opry. Staff tell stories of balcony watchers, shifting objects, cold pockets of air, and a presence that lingers in the wood grain of a room steeped in hymnals and radio waves. We explore how the Ryman helped turn Music City into the capital of country music, tracing the sound from Celtic roots and Black string traditions to record labels and comedy stages, and ask whether heavy history alone can charge a space or if something else keeps the air buzzing after the lights go down.

The Crimes pull us into both myth and modern tragedy, from George Jones’ infamous lawn mower ride that blurred self destruction and legend, to the stark Christmas morning bombing of December 25, 2020. An RV, recorded warnings, a countdown, and a blast that shook downtown raised questions about conspiracy, illness, and grievance, revealing how quickly fear and fragmented facts become narrative. We close with the Cryptids of Tennessee folklore: the Wildman roaming Appalachian hills and the enduring legend of the Bell Witch, whose whispers and scratches still echo through American storytelling.

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Creeps, Crimes & Cryptids is a podcast by Ghost City Tours, exploring the strange, sinister, and unexplained history lurking beneath America’s most haunted cities. If you'd like to take a ghost tour in this episode's featured city, or to find tours in a city nearest you, visit www.ghostcitytours.com!

A hospital wall grows a face that won’t wash away. A millionaire heir hides as a mute old woman by the bay. In Galveston, Texas, legends cling like salt on skin. We begin with the Creeps: UTMB’s Ewing Hall and the infamous “Face of Galveston,” a stubborn stain locals have photographed for decades. Acid washes haven’t erased it, air conditioners didn’t conceal it, and whispers tie it to a defiant landowner or even William “Bigfoot” Wallace. What lingers most is the hush—blocked sightlines, reluctant staff, and the strange fact that the clearest view may be from the water. Whether mineral bloom, trick of light, or ghostly grudge, the story reveals how a city manages a mystery it can’t quite scrub clean.

The Crime carries us into Robert Durst’s Galveston chapter: a rented duplex, a disguise, a confrontation, and a body dismembered and dumped into the bay. We trace the legal twists that led to a conviction for improper disposal rather than murder and examine how The Jinx reframed the case with a chilling hot-mic moment that blurred performance and confession. To close, we wade into the Cryptids of the Gulf Coast—a local sea serpent, the cautionary Deer Woman, and the kind of barroom folklore that thrives on storm-soaked nights along The Strand. Creeps, Crimes & Cryptids is a podcast by Ghost City Tours, exploring the strange, sinister, and unexplained history lurking beneath America’s most atmospheric cities.

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Creeps, Crimes & Cryptids is a podcast by Ghost City Tours, exploring the strange, sinister, and unexplained history lurking beneath America’s most haunted cities. If you'd like to take a ghost tour in this episode's featured city, or to find tours in a city nearest you, visit www.ghostcitytours.com!