The stories of Marion County, IN
149 narrated audio stories from across Marion County — hidden history, true crime, food legends, and local lore from its towns, landmarks, and back roads.
Indianapolis
What Everyone Knew on East New York Street
A case that horrified the nation by exposing cruelty in plain sight.
Indianapolis
The Crime That Broke Indiana’s Klan
A brutal assault exposed power, corruption, and shattered the Indiana Klan.
Indianapolis
Before Unigov, a Scholar’s Reform Vision
How reform-era legal thinking helped frame Indianapolis politics long before Unigov.
Soldiers and Sailors Monument
Where Indiana’s Civil War Comes Down to Earth
Inside Indianapolis’s monument, war shifts from memorial to lived experience.
Bush Stadium
When Bush Stadium Became Comiskey Park
An old Indianapolis ballpark took on a second life on film.
Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center
Where Service Turns Into Recovery
An Indianapolis veterans hospital built for the long work after war.
Slippery Noodle Inn
Where the Blues Meets a Ghost Story
A historic Indianapolis venue where music and ghost lore share the same stairs.
Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library
The City Vonnegut Never Really Left
How Indianapolis became the lasting home inside Vonnegut’s imagination.
Indianapolis
How Indianapolis Made the Hoosier Poet
A local poet’s voice grows into national fame from an Indianapolis home base.
Indianapolis
From Indianapolis to the Screen
Mike Epps turned stand-up roots into a screen career that kept circling home.
Lockerbie Square Historic District
How Lockerbie Square Kept Its Old Streets
A neighborhood survives by choosing repair over erasure.
Slippery Noodle Inn
When the Music Took Over the Room
A downtown Indianapolis bar became a blues institution by making the bandstand the point.
Indianapolis
Booth Tarkington and the Midwestern Drama of Becoming
How Indianapolis shaped Tarkington’s fiction of class, ambition, and change.
Congressional Medal of Honor Memorial
Where Valor Becomes Light
An Indianapolis memorial turns Medal of Honor citations into public art.
Meridian Street
Meridian Street and the Novel of Status
How one Indianapolis street became a literary signal of class and change.
Shortridge High School
Where Indianapolis Taught Writers to Begin
A school where student pages became a training ground for writers.
Hilbert Circle Theatre
How Indianapolis Kept the Music Playing
A fragile orchestra survives, reorganizes, and becomes a civic cornerstone.
The Vogue
Where the Movies Gave Way to the Music
A neighborhood theater learned how to keep the lights on.
Crispus Attucks High School
Where Basketball and Jazz Rose at Crispus Attucks
A segregated school became a stage for Black excellence in sports and music.
Indianapolis
Before the White House, Indianapolis
How Benjamin Harrison became a president in plain sight.
Indianapolis
A City’s Name, Carried Into Tragedy
How a ship named for Indianapolis sailed into one of naval history’s darkest losses.
Central State Hospital grounds
Where a Hospital Became a Haunted Legend
How care, loss, and abandonment fed one of Indianapolis's enduring ghost legends.
Hinkle Fieldhouse
Where Hoosiers Found Its Championship Home
How a real Indiana arena became a lasting movie memory.
Indiana Statehouse
When Indiana Built Its Arrival
A capitol meant to prove Indianapolis had become the center of power.
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