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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. 631 - University of South Carolina
The University of South Carolina in Columbia is said to be the flagship university of the state. This is the home of the Gamecocks and was established over 200…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindStones and Bones Ep. 18 - Monumental Cemetery in Milan
The Cimitero Monumentale di Milano isn't just a cemetery. This is a remarkable place of outdoor art, an open-air museum if you will. This city of the dead in…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 630 - Haunted Air Force Bases
World War I would birth the beginnings of the Air Service branch of the Army, which would eventually become the Air Force. This branch of the military is…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindGrove Park Inn Redux
One of the most unique looking hotels in America is located in Asheville, North Carolina. This is the Grove Park Inn, which looks at home in its mountain…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 629 - The Life and Afterlife of Rudolph Valentino
Rudolph Valentino has been an enduring symbol of early Hollywood glamour. He immediately comes to mind when someone speaks of "Old Hollywood." Valentino was…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindBONUS - Haunted Campgrounds
We have an extra Tuesday this month, so we thought we would share a bonus episode that we produced for our Executive Producers. Summer is approaching and that…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 628 - Lagoon Amusement Park
Lagoon Amusement Park in Farmington, Utah is one of the oldest amusement parks in America and still continues to thrill children and adults with rides…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindThe Life and Afterlife of Mark Twain Redux
Mark Twain authored some of the most beloved stories in American literature and he lived an amazing life. This was a life of literary genius, but it was also…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 627 - Kennecott Copper Mine
The Kennecott Copper Mine in Alaska had been one of the richest copper mines in the world. A thriving mining camp developed around the mine, as was the case…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindPhantasmal Crime 54 - Hawk Mountain
Is it possible that some kind of great evil could whisper in the ear of a man and compel him to kill? That is what Matthias Schaumbacher claimed. The German…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 626 - Thistle Hill House
Thistle Hill House is also known as the Wharton-Scott House and was built back in the early 1900s in Fort Worth, Texas. This historic mansion goes back to the…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindHaunted Disneyland Redux
Haunted Disneyland first appeared on our feed back in 2015 as one of our earliest episodes. We later covered Walt Disney World and the Haunted Mansion got its…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 625 - Legends of the Caucasus
Many years ago, we did an episode about the legends of the Balkans. We thought it would be interesting to go across the Black Sea and explore the legends of…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindStones and Bones Ep. 17 - Holy Cross Cemetery
Catholics trace their cemetery history all the way back to the first disciple being buried. They chose to bury their lost close to their churches in…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 624 - Haunted Fredericksburg
Fredericksburg in Virginia has seen a vast amount of American history with roots reaching back to the 17th century. There are centuries old buildings here and…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindChillingham Castle Redux
Chillingham Castle is located in Northumberland, England and dates back to the 12th century. The village of Chillingham surrounds it and the village sits…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 623 - Haunted Hanoverton, Ohio
Hanoverton is a village in Ohio that is over 200 years old and has a deep connection to the canal systems. The village was a safe haven for runaway slaves and…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindPhantasmal Crime Ep. 53 - The Legend of Fisher's Ghost
Campbelltown in New South Wales, Australia hosts a very peculiar annual festival. This event is called The Festival of Fisher's Ghost. And not only is this a…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindTGIY Ep. 24 - They Didn't Die
Nearly everyone, if they could choose the way they die, would say they want to die warm in their bed, asleep. No pain. Just peace. But an even better choice…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 622 - Nemacolin Castle
The Nemacolin Castle is also known as the Bowman's Castle and is found in Brownsville, Pennsylvania. While the mansion itself dates back to the Victorian era…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindDumas Brothel Redux
We covered this historic and famous brothel back on Ep. 120 in 2016. This is one of the few haunted locations we have found in Montana and it is located in…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 621 - Haunted Sydney, Nova Scotia
Sydney, Nova Scotia's historic North End has a haunted reputation. Many of the buildings here have stood for more than 100 years and a handful are now museums…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindStones and Bones Ep. 16 - Zoshigaya Cemetery
Zoshigaya Cemetery is located in Old Tokyo in Japan and dates back more than 150 years. There are thousands of burials here and several of them are for…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 620 - Haunted Gainesville, Georgia
The city of Gainesville is in the northern part of the state of Georgia and was in the heart of the Georgia Gold Rush. Yes, Georgia had a Gold Rush. This…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindHaunted Virginia City Redux
Virginia City is an Old West mining town complete with a history of gun fights, explosions, brothels and mine cave-ins. The Virginia City National Landmark is…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 619 - The Life and Afterlife of Janis Joplin
Every one who loved her, called her Pearl. Janis Joplin was an energetic singer who lived life hard and fast. Her talent has been inspirational to generations…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindPhantasmal Crime Ep. 52 - Jack the Ripper and the Psychic
Sometimes traditional methods of murder investigation fail and law enforcement seeks unconventional ways to solve a crime. One of those unorthodox ways is…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindTGIY Ep. 23 - Samson the Superhero
Samson in the Bible had superhuman strength and this strength was connected to his hair. His parents were told by Yahweh to never cut his hair and Samson was…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 618 - The Capitol Building
The Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. is the heart of our American government. Both houses of Congress meet here to pass the laws of the land. The building…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindFearing Tavern Redux
The Fearing Tavern Museum is located in Wareham, Massachusetts and has original parts that have stood for 335 years. It's history is rooted in the…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 617 - Haunted Christmas Markets
For those of us that like the creepy, Christmas is a time for ghost stories. This is also a time of markets and Europe is world famous for their Christmas…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindBonus - How Haunted featuring Christmas Spirits
What we have to share with you here is an episode from our fellow spooky podcaster Rob Kirkup, host of the How Haunted Podcast. Rob hails from the UK and has…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 616 - Heceta Head Lighthouse
Lighthouses are literally a light in the darkness. Many have been located in remote places and all of them are located in areas that have suffered shipwrecks…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindStones and Bones Ep. 15 - Moravian Cemeteries
The Moravian denomination is one of the oldest Protestant denominations in Christianity. Its roots date back to the mid-1400s and was one of the first…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 615 - Haunted Placerville, California
Placerville is one of these California towns that got its start during the Gold Rush. This was a rough and tumble Wild West place also known as Hang Town. The…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindTower of London Redux
In London, located on the north bank of the River Thames, stands a tower that the mere mention of the name inspires feelings of dread and the macabre and that…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 614 - Rolling Hills Asylum
Rolling Hills Asylum in East Bethany, New York was once known as the Old Country Home and served as the Genesee County Poor Farm for decades. The main building…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindPhantasmal Crime Ep. 51 - The Kidnapping of Bobby Greenlease
In 1953, a horrific kidnapping and murder captured the attention of the nation. The perpetrators were Carl Austin Hall and Bonnie Emily Brown Heady and the…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 613 - Kreischer Mansion
A little known factory town was home to the Kreischer Mansion, which actually had a twin. There were two exact mirror-image homes that sat next to each in…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindValley of the Kings Redux
Egypt is a land of ancient treasures and wonders. Pharaohs were honored in death with immense public monuments and tombs like pyramids, temples and obelisks…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindTGIY Ep. 22 - Shiny People
Have you ever heard someone say of another person, particularly a child, "He had the face of an angel." It's an interesting description, but we all understand…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 612 - Haunted Historic Cary Houses
Cary is a town west of Raleigh in North Carolina that routinely shows up on lists as a desirable place to live and is known as the gourd capital. Railroad…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindStones and Bones Ep. 14 - Oak Grove Cemetery
Oak Grove Cemetery is located at 196 N. Lanana Street and was established in 1837. This is one of the oldest cemeteries in the city of Nacogdoches in Texas, a…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 611 - Haunted Newport Mansions
Belleview Avenue was the Millionaire's Row of Newport. The avenue was lined with Gilded Age summer cottages built by wealthy industrialists. Those "cottages"…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindHaunted Marietta, Georgia Redux
Marietta, Georgia is a large suburb of Atlanta. The downtown public square of Marietta was built over a graveyard. That is enough to lead to hauntings, but…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindTGIY Ep. 21 - Raising the Dead
Modern medicine has made it possible to raise the dead. As long as the person who has died, did so very recently. So far, no one that has been dead for days…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindBONUS: #10 Downing Street
We are taking this week off to recover from Halloween, so we have a BonusCast to share instead, featuring #10 Downing Street. It is the most famous address in…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindHGB Halloween Special 2025 - Halloween Music
We always try to pick a fun theme for our Halloween Special and this year we thought we would feature Halloween Music. Not just the music one might hear in a…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 610 - Legends of Feathered Terrors
Can there be anything more terrifying than a monster that can swoop down out of the sky and attack? Perhaps even pick you up? Probably the most famous scary…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindWitches in America Redux
On the podcast, we have covered the Salem Witch Trials and other witch hunts in America and Europe. When we originally produced the Witches in America episode…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindTGIY Ep. 20 - Numerology
We all have our favorite numbers that we consider to be lucky. There are numbers that some steer clear of because of superstitious beliefs or bad experiences…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 609 - Chatham's Haunts
Chatham in Kent has many haunted locations with most of them being connected to battle, war and the military. There were six forts built here to protect the…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindPhantasmal Crime Ep. 50 - Death Row Ghosts
Prisons are notorious for being haunted. They are places of such strong emotion, that isn't surprising. There are a couple of areas of jails that lend…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 608 - Haunted Cemeteries 31
Cemeteries just lend themselves to ghost stories.There is hardly a town that doesn't have that one cemetery that has a legend or myth connected to it. These…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindGlamis Castle Redux
Many believe that Glamis Castle is the most beautiful castle in Scotland. This castle has stood for 650 years and dates back to the 14th century, remaining in…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindTGIY Ep. 19 - Stones of Fire and the Divine Council
Is it possible that Yahweh might have a special group that he runs ideas by or likes to have around as witnesses? Something like a Board of Directors? There…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 607 - Mizpah Hotel
The Mizpah Hotel has been voted the number one haunted hotel by a couple of publications. Not surprising for a hotel that has stood for 120 years. And it's…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindStones and Bones Ep. 13 - Gravediggers
Gravediggers have a special place in our hearts, obviously. Our pseudo-mascot, Mort, is a gravedigger. For centuries, gravediggers have been stigmatized…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 606 - Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp
There are two main Spiritualist Camps in America dating back to the Victorian Era: Lilydale in New York and Cassadaga in Florida. We've visited Cassadaga…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindHaunted Pittsburgh Law Redux
This Redux originally was going to be about Pittsburgh's Federal Courthouse, but when we learned that just down the same street was Allegheny County's…