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**Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of homicides, suicide and torture** This week we’re back in spooky Appalachia to explore a haunted attraction that might be a little too real. Sitting on 20 acres of a former Tennessee plantation is Frightmare Manor. The haunt’s story centers on Jeremiah Lexer, the former plantation owner who was secretly a serial killer, the shocking 1902 axe murders that exposed his crimes, and a pit of bodies believed to hold dozens of missing locals. It’s a dark legend that raises a bit of an eyebrow when you realize it’s now being used as entertainment. Today the property is one of the country’s most popular haunted attractions, with a challenge so intense that almost no one completes it. Yet staff and visitors report shadow figures, strange noises, moving objects, and a man carrying an axe in the manor windows. So we have to wonder… are the scares just part of the show, or is something else haunting Frightmare Manor? Current book club pick: Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie Next book club pick: Hollow by Celina Myers Have ghost stories of your own? E-mail them to us at twogirlsoneghostpodcast@gmail.com Edited and produced by Jaimi Ryan. Original music by Arms Akimbo! This episode is sponsored by Skims, Gust & Fora. Shop SKIMS Fits Everybody collection at SKIMS.com Try Gusto today at gusto.com/TGOG and get three months free when you run your first payroll. Become a Fora Advisor today at Foratravel.com/TGOG New Episodes are released every Thursday and Sunday at 12am PST/3am EST (the witching hour, of course). Socials: https://www.instagram.com/twogirlsoneghost/?hl=en https://www.tiktok.com/@twogirlsoneghost https://www.facebook.com/groups/twogirlsoneghostpodcast/ https://discord.com/invite/np5ACspXck https://www.patreon.com/twogirlsoneghostpodcast Check out our website! https://www.twogirlsoneghost.com/ Join the pyramid scheme: We're not quite the illuminati...yet. and we can't promise fame, but we can promise a couple other things when you join our patreon. We promise not to haunt you in the afterlife. All episodes are released one week early and ad-free, additional full-length patreon-exclusive episodes published each month, live ghost storytelling every Tuesday night, and a whole lot of spookiness and maybe some photos of our toes. https://www.patreon.com/twogirlsoneghostpodcast This show includes topics that cover: ghosts, hauntings, demons, exorcisms, visits from loved ones, ghost kids, ghosts caught on camera, poltergeists, curses, haunted dolls, cryptids, mothman, bigfoot, witches, sea monsters, conspiracies, haunted houses, killers, murderers, possessions, gnomes, fairies, witches, oracle, tarot, ghost hunting, paranormal investigations, true crime, astral projection, past lives, aliens, mysteries, ouija boards, missing persons, near death experiences, the occult, and more! CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction 06:49 introducing Frightmare Manor 10:06 history of the land 13:41 missing persons in Hamblen County 16:22 Skims 17:27 axe murder on Lexer Plantation 24:51 the house post discovery 30:02 Gusto 31:05 Frightmare Manor 41:16 hauntings 46:57 Fora Travel 48:03 debate - truth or lore? 55:35 listener story