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Allie In the Archives

Allie In the Archives

Written by: Allie Seibert
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 Allie in the Archives is a narrative history and true crime podcast digging up the forgotten, overlooked, and unthinkable stories from America’s past. Hosted by historian and author Allie Seibert, each episode is meticulously crafted, rich in archival research, and delivered with the same intensity as a ghost story told around the fire—slow-burning, unsettling, and grounded in truth. From unsolved murders to vanished women, witch trials to whispered rumors, these are the stories time tried to bury. If you’re drawn to the eerie, the obscure, and the historically true, you’re in the right place. New episodes every week. Follow wherever you listen.2025 Fawkes Media Group Art Social Sciences True Crime
Episodes
  • The Bath School Disaster

    The Bath School Disaster
    Jan 23 2026
    On May 18, 1927, a series of explosions tore through Bath Township, Michigan, killing forty-four people and injuring dozens more in what remains the deadliest act of school violence in American history. This episode traces the full arc of the Bath School Disaster-- from the conditions that allowed it to happen, to the devastation that followed, to the stories that were shaped in its aftermath. Along the way, we look closely at Andrew Kehoe’s carefully constructed narrative of grievance, the failures of oversight that gave him access and proximity, and the lives that were forever altered-- including the life of his wife, Nellie Kehoe, whose death came before the bombing and was largely absorbed into the disaster that followed. The Bath School Disaster is often reduced to a single morning of violence. But understanding how it happened requires looking earlier-- at silence, at power, and at the stories that are allowed to stand unchallenged. Content note: This episode contains discussion of mass violence, domestic murder, and the deaths of children. Welcome to the Archives. Bloodstained: Exploring Michigan's Darkest Murders Forgotten By TimeHouseholdhistory.comInstagram: @allieinthearchives
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    44 mins
  • Charles Dickens and the Ghost of Christmas Past

    Charles Dickens and the Ghost of Christmas Past
    Dec 23 2025
    Charles Dickens is synonymous with Christmas. With generosity. Redemption. Kindness. But behind the stories that shaped Victorian morality was another story-- one carefully rewritten, tightly controlled, and believed for more than a century. In this episode, we examine the marriage of Charles Dickens and Catherine Hogarth Dickens, a union that collapsed under the weight of celebrity and power. Drawing on letters, contemporary accounts, and modern archival scholarship, this episode explores how a cultural icon became one of the earliest examples of a global media figure shaping "truth," and how Catherine Dickens quietly ensured that her own story would survive long enough to be heard. Welcome to the Archives. Bloodstained: Exploring Michigan's Darkest Murders Forgotten By TimeHouseholdhistory.comInstagram: @allieinthearchives
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    23 mins
  • Talking to the Dead: The History of Spiritualism in Michigan

    Talking to the Dead: The History of Spiritualism in Michigan
    Dec 12 2025
    Long before ghost tour tickets were sold and Ouija boards became party games, Michigan was at the center of a national movement-- one that believed the dead were still speaking, and the living could learn to listen. This is the strange and powerful world of Spiritualism: seances in pine groves, table rappings by candlelight, and the people who built communities around messages from the other side. Welcome to the Archives. Bloodstained: Exploring Michigan's Darkest Murders Forgotten By TimeHouseholdhistory.comInstagram: @allieinthearchives
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    33 mins
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