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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. 266 - Colonial Williamsburg
Colonial Williamsburg is part of America's historic triangle. Today, it is a historic area that features a look back into the America of colonial times just as…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 265 - Legends of Taiwan
The island of Taiwan is located between the Philippines and Japan, about 100 miles off the coast of China. The small island is inhabited by many people who…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 264 - Stories and Haunts of Asbury Park
In honor of Pride Month, listener Melissa Edwards suggested featuring Asbury Park in New Jersey. This is a hot spot for the LGBTQ community and is one of the…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 263 - Holy Cross Abbey
The Roman Catholic Church purchased 90 acres of land in Canon City, Colorado, formerly known as Fruitmere Orchards, from Captain Benjamin F. Rockefeller for…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 262 - Return to Charleston's Old City Jail
Charleston is one of my favorite cities. There is so much history here and building after building has a story. This road trip had a group of us touring…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 261 - Old Slave House
Whether one calls it the Crenshaw House, Hickory Hill or the Old Slave House, one thing is certain about this house that sits on a hill in Southern Illinois…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 260 - Haunted Islands of Maine
Based on its location, Maine has been a prime spot for explorers. There are 4600 islands off the coast of Maine and each of these islands has its own unique…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 259 - Melbourne's Princess Theater
Melbourne is the capital of Victoria and home to close to 4 million people. This city is a center of diversity and for the history of Australia it is a symbol…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 258 - Haunted Skagway
Skagway, Alaska is a popular destination for cruise ships hosting Alaskan cruises and it was one of the settings for Jack London's "Call of the Wild." And…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 257 - Waverly Hills Sanatorium
Tuberculosis was a horrible disease in which people had to watch their loved ones literally waste away before their eyes. For this reason, it was commonly…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 256 - Haunted Cemeteries 9
Most cemeteries in the world do not see many tourists or visitors. Usually there is only the occasional family visit to lay some flowers at a grave site. Pere…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 255 - The Mermaid Inn
At the confluence of three rivers, sits the East Sussex town of Rye. This is an ancient medieval town that became an important harbor along the English…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 254 - Old Town Spring
Old Town Spring is just outside Houston in Texas and started as a railroad boomtown in the mid-1800s. It then became a farming community that grew cotton and…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 253 - Yom HaShoah and the Nazi Death Camps
This year, 2018, the Jewish community observes Yom HaShoah starting at sundown on April 11th. Yom HaShoah is Holocaust Remembrance Day, a day that the country…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 252 - Brookdale Lodge
Santa Cruz has come up several times on the podcast. The city is a redwood forested wonderland, but it is also a mystical and supernatural dreamland. One of…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 251 - Fort Leavenworth
Fort Leavenworth is the oldest permanent settlement in Kansas and is the oldest active United States Army post west of Washington, D.C. The fort not only has a…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 250 - Himeji Castle
The country of Japan does not usually cross the mind when castles are mentioned. But Japan does have castles and Himeji Castle is the largest castle in Japan…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 249 - Rocky Mountain School of Art and Design
The city of Lakewood is a suburb of Denver, Colorado. There was never a traditional downtown in the city, but there was a central business area along Colfax…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 248 - Legends of Venice
Venice is considered one of the most romantic cities in the world and it really is an extraordinary and unusual city. The city gives the illusion as though it…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 247 - Western Carolina University
Western Carolina University is located in Cullowhee, North Carolina. The small town is named for a legendary Cherokee warrior and the area has a strong…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 246 - Carnton Plantation
Franklin was a small town in Tennessee when the Civil War erupted. The war would bring the deadly Battle of Franklin to the city, leaving behind scars that…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 245 - Haunted Cemeteries 8
Much of a town's history can be found in its cemeteries. The granite and marble slabs carry the names of the people who founded and built the town and those…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 244 - Bonanzaville
On 12 acres in West Fargo, North Dakota sits a treasure chest of historic buildings and artifacts known as Bonanzaville. This is a pioneer village and museum…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 243 - Sorrel-Weed House
We have been inside the Sorrel-Weed House twice and while we have never had a paranormal experience in the house, there is definitely an energy inside this…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 242 - Rotherwood Mansion
The name bestowed upon Rotherwood Mansion really says it all. It is known as the House of Terror and Sadness. Today, it is a private residence where the…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 241 - Baker Mansion
The Baker Family moved to Altoona, Pennsylvania in the 1830s and grew a successful iron-making business. Elias was an ambitious man who ruled his family with…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 240 - Yosemite National Park
In the United States, there are 59 separate natural protected areas known as National Parks. The Department of the Interior oversees these parks under the…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 239 - Keith-Albee Theater
The Keith-Albee Theater in Huntington, West Virginia was a part of a national chain of theaters that hosted vaudeville shows and then eventually converted to…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 238 - Emlen Physick Estate
Cape May in New Jersey is considered to be America's oldest seaside resort and while the word "cape" is part of its name, Cape May is actually an island. Dr…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindChristmas Eve Live 2017
Every Christmas Eve we follow the tradition of telling scary ghost stories around the fire. This is the audio from our live stream, unedited and lots of fun!…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 237 - Gettysburg College
Gettysburg is a town in Pennsylvania that is well known for its haunts. The place is steeped in history from the bloody Battle of Gettysburg to one of the most…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 236 - Haunted Cemeteries 7
The final resting places we are covering in this haunted cemeteries episode are all very different with one thing in common, they are all haunted. The Waldheim…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 235 - Manresa Castle
Port Townsend claims to be one of the coolest small towns in America. The city had its heyday during the Victorian era and several of the historic buildings…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 234 - Haunted Calico
The Calico Mountains rise out of the Mojave Desert, painted in a variety of colors, which is how they got their name. These mountains are home to Calico, a…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 233 - Haunted Cemeteries 6
Most cemeteries are peaceful final resting places, but occasionally these graveyards have spirits at unrest for a variety of reasons. On this episode, we have…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 232 - Saltair Resort
Along the shores of the Great Salt Lake in Utah stands The Saltair Resort. The resort has three separate incarnations and seems to have been plagued with a…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 231 - Haunted Whitby, Ontario
Whitby, Ontario is in southeastern Ontario and is what we would consider a suburb of Toronto. The name is Danish and means "White Village." The original…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 230 - Legends of Malaysia
Sabah is one of two Malaysian states located at the northern tip of Borneo. The island is shared with Brunei, Indonesia…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindHGB Halloween Special 2017
Happy Halloween you Spooktacular People! This is our fourth Halloween Special and we have it packed with chills featuring your real life supernatural…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 229 - Haunted Cemeteries 5
The three cemeteries we are featuring in this episode are some of the most well known cemeteries in the world. They also happen to be famously haunted. Each…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 228 - Poasttown Elementary
Poasttown Elementary School was dedicated in 1937 in Middletown, Ohio. Before a school was located on this spot, there was a train wreck with casualties within…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 227 - Hinsdale House
A rather nondescript and falling apart farmhouse in Hinsdale, New York has been described as one of the most haunted places in the state. The house has a…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 226 - Legend of Lilith
Lilith is an enigma. Did she ever actually exist? And if she just was a mythological character, which description of her is accurate? Was she just the shunned…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 225 - Asylum 49
The city of Tooele in Utah has a history of mining, industry and bloody conflicts. The original Mormon pioneers who settled here were not on friendly terms…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindHGB Anniversary Special 3
On this episode, we celebrate our three year anniversary. It's been a wonderful journey! We have some new rewards for Executive Producers, which means more…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 224 - Haunted Cemeteries 4
Many cemeteries have been designed to serve as parks. They have many features that we would find in large public parks like statuary, stone architecture, large…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 223 - Old Idaho State Penitentiary
The Old Idaho State Penitentiary was in use for over a hundred years and had more than 13,000 prisoners pass through the gates. As was the case in most prisons…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 222 - Culbertson Mansion
William S. Culbertson was once one of the wealthiest men in the state of Indiana. He made much of his fortune in the dry goods business and he became a very…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 221 - Jerome Grand Hotel
The city of Jerome in Arizona sits perched above the beautiful Verde Valley on Cleopatra Hill. Today, it is considered an artist community, but it once was…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 220 - Kentucky State Penitentiary
The Kentucky State Penitentiary is known as the "Castle on the Cumberland." The prison is perched along the Cumberland River and is Kentucky's oldest prison…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 219 - Arcadia University
Just outside of Philadelphia, in a town called Glenside, sits a small private university that is home to a castle. This is the second campus that we have…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 218 - Old Fort Niagara
When one hears the city of Niagara mentioned, one immediately thinks of the stunning natural wonder Niagara Falls. There is much more to this western New York…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 217 - Haunted Cemeteries 3
We love to visit cemeteries. They are so peaceful and many of the older ones are like parks. We will be talking about a couple of these park-like cemeteries…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 216 - Conrad Mansion Museum
Montana is known as Big Sky Country and one tends to think of wide open spaces when picturing the state. The state was formerly part of the Louisiana Purchase…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 215 - Haunted Derby
Derby has been described as the "Ghost Capitol of England." The city claims to have 159 known ghosts. The center of the city lies on a series of rolling hills…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 214 - Legends of the Balkans
The Balkans historically has been a place of violence and for this reason, its borders are very fluid. The main countries that generally are accepted as a part…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 213 - Manhattanville College
Manhattanville College is a small liberal arts college in New York. The college began as a Catholic women's school, but through the years it not only moved…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 212 - Preston Castle
Perched on a hill above the town of Ione in California is a menacing and haunting castle-like structure that once was a reform school. The Preston Castle was…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 211 - Haunted Cemeteries 2
There is one absolute for all human beings and that is that we all will die. Throughout history, humans have disposed of and honored their dead in various…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 210 - 17 Hundred 90 Inn
Savannah, Georgia is a city shaped by unique people and compelling events. There have been battles, devastating fires, murders and so much more that has led…