I love this podcast. The historical/dark stories are exactly what I was looking for. LV has a perfect voice. I am now going back for the third time of listening to this magnificent, entertaining, and educational work of art. Thank you LV! I look forward to your next work.

Pure LGBTQAIP2+ blah, blah, blah propaganda

Mahalo for sharing the tragic story of Hawai’i in its true from.

I can’t explain it, but her voice stirs so much emotion in me. I don’t think I’ve ever cried because of a podcast, but she managed to pull ALL the emotion from these tragedies that happened decades ago. If I could give this 10 stars I would. I cried all the way through “Under The Weather”. My cat looked at me like I was insane. I looked at me like I was insane. I hope Willis Moore is living the eternity he deserves. 👏🏻🙅🏻‍♀️🔥

Lauren’s voice is perfect for historical storytelling. Great podcast.

I want to thank you for your hard work. Very sad to hear the show will not continue. I truly enjoy all of the topics you covered 😍😍

Focuses too much on biases instead of actually telling the story. Vocal phrasing is negatively distracting so I had to finally stop listening.

American Shadows is one of my favorite podcasts! I love the stories that happened between the 1800s to early 1900s. This show has introduced incidents that I had never known about before. N

Good show these other reviews are by a bunch of knit- wits who don’t k ow what they are listening too.

Just wanted to tell y’all that ‘queer ‘ is a very charged word in the LGB and TQIA+ communities. The TQIA+ side mostly embrace it. Us LGB folks of a certain age generally don’t but SOME of the younger folks do— it really depends. So if you mean Gay, say Gay. Otherwise it’s borderline insulting and definitely confusing. Thank you for the podcast!

My first time listening and I chose the horrific story about Coney Island and the terrible abuse suffered by the baby elephant Topsy. I could not listen to the end because you can’t un-hear things. Im sure the baby elephant dies a slow cooked agonizing death after a lifetime of fear and loneliness. I can’t get my hour of life back but I can make sure I don’t add to the host thinking these are good topics to talk about. And her vocal fry is unbearable. Please get a voice coach.

Really enjoyed listening and learning new things with each episode. Sorry to hear that it won’t be continuing. Thank you for your work and time to make this show!

As a lesbian of a certain age, I find it highly insulting to be referred to as queer. I don’t care if the “meaning” has changed it still stings. Plus please don’t lump us all together, for instance, trans people don’t belong with the LGB, they aren’t gay, but are a group of marginalized people, other than that there’s nothing in common. Queer is a slur! Otherwise I enjoy the content of grim and milds various podcasts however if I'm going to be further insulted by the use of the queer slur, I may have to find other podcasts to listen to.

Mai bay is the place for a qua cod restaurant and a restaurant in a great place for the place to eat

Like the topics but the host’s vocal fry is difficult to overlook. Kept trying to ignore it but couldn’t. I know it’s not her fault, I have it too.

Loved this show! Wishing the creators all the best!

I’ll miss this show. It was well written and well produced. Wishing the entire production team the best luck on their next endeavor.

This podcast is so wonderful! Please don’t leave us! It’s in my top ten favorites. How can we go on with out you Lauren!?!

American Shadows was my favorite podcast. It seems to have drifted into the abyss. What a disappointment. Lauren Vogelbaum was excellent and I loved listening to her and the dark tinged stories she told. I will miss it dearly.

I loved American Shadows. The history lessons were so interesting and fascinating. I hope it comes back.

I love this show!!! Please don’t stop producing this show! I can hardly wait two weeks before another episode comes out- and now it’s going away?! Please, no! This show is so interesting and informative. I love learning about history and have loved the marriage between history and true crime! I have shared so many stories from this podcast with family and friends. Please keep the episodes coming!

Your podcast is amazing, I learned so much from the beautiful work you created. Thank you so much for getting me through some rough few years. I look forward to you future works if gifted another podcast. Best of luck and light for all your endeavors.

Hate to see this podcast go. Love this

Sad to see this show go… I loved the topics. Didn’t love the host though. Her cadence, weird breaths and beginnings every word with “uh” was so distracting. Hope you come back with someone new and I’ll definitely be listening!

Your show has it all, suspense, irony, humor, the dark, and the light, and on top of all of that it’s true history! I have enjoyed and looked forward to listening to the show since day one, and you will be sorely missed! I am heartbroken to see you go. Wishing you much success on your next venture.

Lauren’s goodbye just made me teary. I gasped out loud when she said this would be the last episode. This has been one of my favorite podcasts for the past year. I hope it continues in the future. Wonderful work, thank you to everyone.

This is my favorite podcast! I am so sorry to have it ending! You guys are the best! I will miss hearing these stories!

Went from a great history podcast to political beliefs shoved down us until we begin spouting the same nonsense. Stick to what you were good at. Probably time for this to end.

More history content the better

Narrator is trying to come across as suave and professional. But her CONSTANT gasping for air is really irritating and unprofessional. Does she not listen to the playbacks?

Content is good, but the host is trying so hard to sound like Phoebe Judge from ‘Criminal’ that it’s almost unlistenable. Please just use your natural speaking voice! From the breathiness to the intonation, to the pronunciation of certain words, this awful voice impression of Phoebe ruins the whole podcast. So irritating.

Really enjoy this podcast usually but started to listen to the recent episode and instead got a lecture on modern gender theory. Stupid. Stick to stories, not lecturing. If I want to hear how absurd the idea of basing gender in biological realities like DNA is I’ll find an absurd podcast about that. Come on.

The concept is good and I keep listening, but as others have pointed out, fact checking is needed. Part of fact checking is checking for correct pronunciation. This is an issue across Grim and Mild podcasts but this one is pretty egregious. I think the host could have a great voice for a podcast if she didn’t sound so forced. For example, when saying the word “but” to transition, she says, “uhbut.” I doubt she naturally speaks this way. A more conversational and natural cadence would be preferred. All these things are pretty distracting. However, the people complaining about politics are disappointing. Who knew historical facts about some groups of people being marginalized was political? Pretending this stuff didn’t happen does nobody any good.

This is one of my favorite podcasts to listen to before I sleep. In the last two episodes they’ve forgotten to cut out the little breathy inhales so every 1-2 sentences you hear “hah”. It’s unlistenable. Please fix!!

I love to hear the history and Lauren’s voice is so very soothing.

Excellent retelling of what happened on Smuttynose Island. Always impressed with the story telling on this podcast but as a person from that area hearing such a well written and researched telling of a local “ghost story” is nice.

I appreciate that this podcast doesn’t shy away from providing listeners with historical facts that extremists are trying to white-wash out of education. And, that the writing contains no judgement or bias one direction or another is commendable! I just wish that podcasts and episodes rated “clean” didn’t have restricted advertising. While listening to one episode, I heard one ad for a liquor store and another for a gun shop. My opinion on those are, in order, gross and my aim filled my freezer in years back, but I no longer want guns in my house.

Extremely heavy with pushing sexual preference. Not friendly for younger ages.

Please keep the LGBTQ+ agenda off the podcast. All of Grim and Mild’s productions would be better served leaving the political slants to the political podcasts.

If you don’t love this, you don’t love yourself.

This this the best podcast Grimm and Mild has imo. I love the stories and narration

I don’t know why other people say they hate the narration. I love it. I love the information and the way it is presented. When I’m trying to wind down on my break at work I’ll make a comfy spot and stop whatever I’m listening to and I throw American shadows on. Keep them coming please!

This is my all time favorite podcast. I wish it was weekly release because I’m constantly looking forward to the next episode. I tell everyone about it, such great stories and perspectives. Thank you for creating this!

Had to give five stars after some idiot called it communist.

Just as annoying as his initial podcast. No cure for communist programming, impossible to take seriously.

Sound quality has gone down considerably. “ Stranger Than Fiction” fluctuations make it impossible to listen to. It’s too bad that the narrator is a disgrace to feminism. The content is excellent but the cutesy wootsie voice is far too grating to listen to. Could you possibly hire a professional? Sounds like porn. I’m embarrassed to listen to this where other people can hear it. It’s actually getting much worse as time goes on. And it’s just terrible that the information is so good and the narrator is so bad and you guys just don’t do anything about it. To have this narrator cover 911 is a disgrace to this country!

I've heard Lauren speak normally, so I wonder why for this podcast she chooses to sound like Vanessa Bayer's Saturday Night Live kid actor character. It's distracting and silly.

The information would be interesting if it wasn’t read in a feigned NPR-like, holier-than-Thou tone. Aaron Mahnke’s other podcasts are well-produced and presented, for the most part. I find myself having to stop halfway through these episodes because I can’t stand the pretension. It’s not engaging. It doesn’t serve to make the information any clearer. I waffle back and forth on giving it a chance again every few months and I simply can’t do it. Which is a shame—the subject matter is interesting and I would love to hear more.

One of my favorite podcasts! The stories are so interesting. I love how they are woven together.

The content is great, but the narrator is hard to listen too, too soft and with too much of a sing song voice, and with added vocal raising and falling that it is really distracting.