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History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind
Podcast dedicated to the side of history that goes bump in the night. Every episode's content features community time that includes listener mail and experiences, a "Moment In Oddity" and "History Of The Day" segments and then interviews and discussions about a historic location, event or person and the hauntings associated with the subject of the particular show. The tagline for the show is "Ghost tours for the theater of the mind" and our goal is to entertain you while creeping you out just a…
Episodes
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 321 - Malvern Manor
Malvern is located in Southwest Iowa. This is a really small town similar to most of the small towns we visited in Iowa. Agriculture is the main economy here…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 320 - General Dodge House
We visited and investigated several haunted locations while in Iowa and the General Dodge House is one of them. The man who built the home has a fascinating…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 319 - Yule
We mentioned Yule briefly in the History Goes Bump Christmas Special in 2015, but we've never just focused on this set of beliefs, practices and traditions. On…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 318 - Haunted Ashland, Virginia
Richmond, Virginia had been the capital of the Confederacy, so one can imagine that the towns around it would be strategic locations for gathering supplies and…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 317 - Legend of Elementals
Our lives are touched nearly everyday by the four elements. We breathe air, drink water, eat things fed by the Earth and cook or warm ourselves with fire…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 316 - Investigation of the St. Augustine Lighthouse
The St. Augustine Lighthouse is a location full of history, but it also has many stories of tragedy. The tower that stands there today is not the original…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 315 - The Menger Hotel
San Antonio is one of my favorite cities not only for its amazing history, but it is full of haunts. One of those haunted places is right next to the Alamo and…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 314 - Haunted Churches of York
York, England is a place full of haunted locations with a vast history stretching back centuries. There are those who claim that York is the most haunted city…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 313 - Haunted Lawrenceville, Georgia
Lawrenceville is a quaint town about forty minutes outside of Atlanta and is actually the second oldest town in the Atlanta metropolitan area. The historic…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindHGB Halloween Special 2019
Kelly joins me on this Halloween Special for 2019 and we share an overview of the history of paranormal television in the United States. My love for Halloween…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 312 - Haunted Cemeteries 15
Cemeteries are all unique and there are many varieties from classic Victorian garden cemeteries to forgotten and overgrown burial grounds for criminals. And…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 311 - Winecoff Hotel
The Ellis Hotel sits along Peachtree Street NW in downtown Atlanta. The original hotel here was the Winecoff Hotel and it was a grand place that dwarfed the…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 310 - Investigation of the Villisca Ax Murder House
In a quiet neighborhood, just a few blocks away from Villisca's downtown, stands a very ordinary looking white frame house. The crime that took place here was…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 309 - The McInteer Villa
The McInteer Villa began as a grand home for the McInteer family and over the last century it has been a place of comfort for many people. For several decades…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindHGB Anniversary Show 2019
History Goes Bump turns 5 today! That is five years of Moments in Oddity, This Month in Histories and haunted history. We've produced 350 episodes with over 4…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 308 - Investigation of the Squirrel Cage Jail
The Squirrel Cage Jail is very unassuming. This is a regular looking historic brick building in the middle of Council Bluffs, Iowa. No one would really know…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 307 - History of Witch Hunts
Why is it that we persecute those who believe differently than we do? Why do neighbors turn on each other? On this episode, I present a brief overview of the…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 306 - Haunted Cemeteries 14
When we look at haunted graveyards, we have many questions. Why are there ghosts or at least, unexplained things happening in cemeteries? Can we find answers…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 305 - The Black Dahlia Murder House
The "Black Dahlia Murder House" is actually the John Sowden House. The man I believe killed Elizabeth Short lived here for a time and I believe he murdered her…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 304 - Of Jail Riots, Ghosts and the Penitentiary of New Mexico
The Penitentiary of New Mexico has the dubious distinction of being the site of the worst prison riot in American history. Prisons are already notorious for…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 303 - Keg Mansion Steakhouse
Keg Mansion Steakhouse in Toronto, Canada is considered Canada's most infamous and haunted restaurant. The Steakhouse is the former home to a radio station and…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 302 - Mineral Springs Hotel
Alton, Illinois' position along the great Mississippi River made it a good place to stay and when mineral springs were discovered under the spot where the…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 301 - McPike Mansion
Alton, Illinois is a great little river town that Diane has had the pleasure of visiting four times. Haunts and legends abound in this little city with a big…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 300 - It's A Haunted Gay Life
This episode is going to be a little different and why shouldn't it be since this is officially HGB's 300th episode! June 2019 marks a few things. I've been…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 299 - Haunted Cemeteries 13
There are various types of cemeteries all around the world. There are those that are huge with grand sculptures and palatial mausoleums. Others are boring with…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindStones and Bones 10 - Normandy American Cemetery
As a special treat on this D-Day, I am making public one of the Stones and Bones BonusCasts that are usually only available to the Executive Producers of…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 298 - Haunted Ybor City
Ybor City was known as the "Wild West of the South." This neighborhood just outside of Tampa, Florida has an amazing history, which has led to some interesting…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 297 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
St. John's is one of the oldest cities in North America and is found in Newfoundland and Labrador on the coast of Canada. St. John's is said to be THE most…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 296 - The Battle of Passchendaele
The Battle of Passchendaele in Belgium during World War I would be one of the bloodiest of the war, killing half a million men. The weather and mud at the…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 295 - Haunted Derby Street in Salem, Massachusetts
Long before America was America, there was Salem. The town was a successful and busy port city, but it would become an infamous location that still causes a…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 294 - Dover Castle
Dover Castle stands on the White Cliffs of Dover in Britain. This castle was originally not much to behold, but during the reign of King Henry II, it would…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 293 - Kentucky Caves and the Trickster
The state of Kentucky is not only a place full of caves, these voids seem to exist under the entire state with the largest cave system in the world being…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 292 - Aradale Asylum in Australia
Gold brought people to Ararat, but what it would be known for is its asylums. The Aradale Asylum would be home for the mentally ill for over a century and…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 291 - Jackson Square in New Orleans
Jackson Square is a magnet for visitors to New Orleans. Centuries of history are represented in the square and this history includes shipping, trade, artists…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 290 - Return to the Queen Mary
We first featured The Queen Mary all the way back on episode 13 in November of 2014. I had the opportunity to visit this magnificent ship recently (January…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 289 - The Colosseum
Rome is a city that is believed to have had some kind of human existence within it for at least 10,000 years. This city would rise from a place of little…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 288 - The Tutwiler Hotel
The Hampton Inn and Suites in Birmingham is an upscale hotel with a long history. This is the former Tutwiler Hotel and the former Ridgely Apartments. This was…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 287 - The House of the Seven Gables
The House of the Seven Gables is a gothic novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne featuring a real home in Salem, Massachusetts that he knew well. The story has…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 286 - Culloden Battlefield
The Battlefield of Culloden is under the care of the National Trust for Scotland and can be found in the Scottish village of Culloden. Culloden Village is an…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 285 - Pennhurst State School and Hospital
Pennhurst State School and Hospital is sometimes referred to as Pennhurst Asylum. This is a location deemed to be one of the most haunted and with its history…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 284 - Squirrel Cage Jail
Old jails just seem to be crawling with spirits as we have come to find from the several jails covered on this podcast. No matter the country, region or city…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 283 - Haunted Cemeteries 12
As I continue to roll out these new episodes in the Haunted Cemeteries Series, it never ceases to amaze me just how wrong I was in thinking that there were…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 282 - The Great Wall of China
Visiting the Great Wall of China is a bucket list item for many people. This man-made structure runs west to east across northern China for 13,171 miles…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 281 - Duff Green Mansion
Vicksburg is one of those Civil War era cities that I long to visit because I love antebellum mansions. The Greek Revival architecture and magnolia trees take…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindHGB Halloween Special 2018
The annual HGB Halloween Special is here featuring paranormal experiences by fellow listeners. We have many spine-tingling tales that will cause the casual…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 280 - The Legend of the Hitchhiking Ghost
Roadside apparitions have been witnessed by thousands of motorists and there seems to be a legend of a hitchhiking ghost in every state in America. Many…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 279 - Ferry Plantation House and the Virginia Witch
The site where the Ferry Plantation House stands in Virginia Beach was once the scene of a trial for a woman accused of practicing witchcraft. That woman was…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 278 - Edinburgh Vaults
In the late 18th century, two bridges were built in Edinburgh to help the city to expand over the hills that were part of the area, the North Bridge and the…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 277 - Iron Island Museum
The Iron Island Museum is said to be the perfect spooky spot for anyone in western New York to enjoy a little Halloween fun. For those of us who celebrate…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindHGB Anniversary Special 2018
The History Goes Bump Podcast celebrates its four year anniversary today! We've explored a couple hundred haunted locations, looked at the lives and afterlives…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 276 - Schenck Mansion Bed and Breakfast
The former Benjamin Schenck Mansion in Vevay, Indiana is today known as the Schenck Mansion Bed & Breakfast Inn. The two story Second Empire-style mansion has…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 275 - Haunted Flagstaff
Flagstaff, Arizona has its roots in the railway and its growth in the timber industry. The flourishing town became a hotspot for tourism with the Grand Canyon…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 274 - The Goldfield Hotel
Many consider the town of Goldfield in Nevada to be a ghosttown and with a population hovering around 200, it really does seem to be that way. This was once a…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 273 - Haunted Cemeteries 11
Cemeteries are not really a place I would seek to investigate when looking for ghosts. After years of hearing stories of paranormal experiences in graveyards…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 272 - Cincinnati Music Hall
One of the most recognizable buildings in Cincinnati is its music hall. This location dates back to the late 1800s, but the site itself has been home to other…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 271 - Belle Grove Plantation
Belle Grove Plantation is an estate and plantation house dating back into the 18th century that has witnessed over 300 years of history that includes…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 270 - Haunted Castles of Denmark
Denmark is a land that has had people living on it since the Last Ice Age. This gives it an ancient history and while it is not considered a powerful nation…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 269 - Haunted Cemeteries 10
Spooktacular Crew Member Lynn Weingarden-Marston said, "I have traveled all over the world. The quickest way to find out about the history of a city or town…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 268 - Hauntings of the Cumberlands
Williamsburg, Kentucky is said to be the "Gateway to the Cumberlands." This area is nestled in the foothills of Daniel Boone Country. It's part of Whitley…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 267 - Fort Mifflin
Fort Mifflin stands on Mud Island as a reminder of a time when the original capital city of our new nation, Philadelphia, was in need of defense. The British…