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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 MindTGIY Ep. 18 - The Great Disappearing
The Rapture. It's a pretty weird event. In the blink of an eye, millions – perhaps billions - of people just disappear. In the Christian religion, the Rapture…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 605 - The Life and Afterlife of Liberace
Pianist and singer Liberace was one-of-a-kind with big dimples, pompadour hair, huge rings on his fingers and expensive and flamboyant suits and capes. No one…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindPhantasmal Crime Ep. 49 - America's Original Outlaws
Many of us have some family ancestry that has left us with skeletons in our closets? For Lindsay, that family ancestry included the Doan Gang. The Doan Gang…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 604 - The Elms Hotel
Thirty minutes north of Kansas City is Excelsior Springs, Missouri. This town was formed around natural springs that attracted Native American populations for…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindGunter and Emily Morgan Hotels Redux
The city of San Antonio is beautiful and its River Walk is famous. The historic Gunter Hotel sits along that River Walk. That spot has hosted a hotel for…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindTGIY Ep. 17 - Noah's Ark
Every culture claims among its earliest stories, the tale of a great flood that wipes out humanity. The tale of a great flood seems to have first been written…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 603 - Margam Castle
The visually stunning Margam Castle is located in Margam, Wales and while the 269,000 square foot structure resembles a castle, it really is technically just a…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindStones and Bones Ep. 12 - Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta
Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta is a magical place. This is not only a garden of the dead, but a garden for the living. For 175 years, Oakland has been a burial…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 602 - Haunted Crystal River
The town of Crystal River in Florida is the home of the manatee. This is where they can be found in the winter, congregating in the natural springs found in…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindLanders Theater and Haunted Springfield Redux
Springfield, Missouri will soon be celebrating its 200th anniversary. We've covered the haunted Pythian Castle that is here and back in 2015, we also featured…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindTGIY Ep. 16 - Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Horses are magnificent and beautiful creatures and, in the Bible, they have an important place. For the Israelites, these were mainly work animals. For YHWH…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 601 - Haunted Pretoria
Our listener Celia hails from South Africa and she wrote us about an experience she had at a historic museum located in the capital city of Pretoria. It's an…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindPhantasmal Crime Ep. 48 - The Serial Killer Amelia Dyer
The Victorian Era in Britain was a tough time for women, particularly if they were single mothers. Desperate women would find themselves pregnant after giving…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 600 - Magick vs. the Nazis
The plan was named Operation Cone of Power. Sounds militaristic. Possibly some kind of intelligence operation. Certainly had to be official. It was the summer…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindBen Lomond Hotel Redux
The Ben Lomond Hotel is now known as the Bigelow Hotel and Residences and is located in the historic downtown of Ogden, Utah. When we did our original episode…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindTGIY Ep. 15 - Tower of Babel
The Tower of Babel was built after Noah's Great Flood. Yahweh had told Noah and his sons to go out and multiply on the Earth and they did have children and…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 599 - Fort Ontario
Oswego, New York was a bustling port in the 1800s, but long before that, there was Fort Ontario. The Fort represents over 260 years of history from its…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindStones and Bones Ep. 11 - Of Obelisks and Columns
Mausoleums are the stars of cemeteries, but if there is anything that ranks closely with mausoleums as being eye catching in a cemetery, it is the obelisk. And…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 598 - Brown Palace Hotel
The Brown Palace Hotel and Spa is an iconic landmark in Downtown Denver. The hotel has stood for over 130 years and was one of the first atrium-style hotels…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindSt. James Hotel Redux
The Old West in America is filled with stories about cowboys and Native Americans and outlaws and lawmen. This was a time when a man could die in the streets…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindTGIY Ep. 14 - The Mount of Olives
Christians are very familiar with the Mount of Olives. This location on the eastern side of Jerusalem is mentioned many times in the Bible. Events that took…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 597 - Frederic Remington Museum of Art
Frederic Remington created some of the most iconic Western art in the history of America. His art was able to bring the untamed frontier to the big city and…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindPhantasmal Crime Ep. 47 - The Murder of Grace Brown
Big Moose Lake is at the head of the Moose River in upstate New York. The lake is remote and beautiful and would probably remain rather obscure if not for the…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 596 - Haunted Massillon, Ohio
Massillon, Ohio is located in Stark County along the Tuscarawas River. This was a Quaker town and a canal town that grew and evolved as transportation changed…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindThe Life and Afterlife of John Lennon Redux
Our original Life and Afterlife episode featuring John Lennon was one of the first episodes we produced, all the way back in December of 2014. We were…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindTGIY Ep. 13 - The Soul
What is the soul? Some believe that it is just your conscience and emotions. That it is what makes you YOU. Others believe that there is a spiritual connection…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 595 - Queen Anne Hotel
The Queen Anne Hotel in San Francisco has been a fixture of the Pacific Heights neighborhood for more than 100 years. As the name reveals, this is an old…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindStones and Bones Ep. 10 - Odd Fellows Cemeteries
The Golden Age of Fraternalism lasted from 1870 to 1920 and was a time when fraternal organizations in the US had the largest surge of popularity. These…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 594 - Haunted Tulsa
Tulsa is a thriving city with a diverse cultural and arts scene, but it wasn't always that way. The city suffered through the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindAndersonville Prison Redux
During February 1864, Camp Sumter was opened in Macon County, Georgia. Camp Sumter came to be known as Andersonville, and that is what it is referred to still…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindTGIY Ep. 12 - Lucifer
People who believe in an all-powerful, universal Creator, also must believe that what is evil was created by that Creator. But is that true? Was evil created?…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 593 - Haunted Foggy Bottom
Washington, D.C. is the home of the American government and every square inch of it oozes history. Shockingly, we haven't covered many haunted locations in the…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindPhantasmal Crime 46 - Murder on the Hill of Christie
The Gaelic name for the Cairngorm Mountains of the Scottish Highlands translates to The Red Mountains. The mountains are formed from granite and once had a…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 592 - The Adolphus Hotel
So many deaths have taken place at the Adolphus Hotel that it should be nicknamed "The Death Hotel." This historic luxury hotel in Dallas was named for a beer…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindThe History and Hauntings of Dolls Redux
Dolls are one of the oldest and original toys. Dolls have been used for more than just play though. Sometimes they are used in religious rites, for magic or…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindTGIY Ep. 11 - Demons
The current state of the world should make it abundantly clear that we are in a spiritual battle. The Bible reveals that we are surrounded by an unseen realm…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 591 - Haunted Sault Ste. Marie
Locals call it "The Soo." Sault Ste. Marie is the name of two cities that sit across the St. Mary's River from each other. One in Michigan and one in Ontario…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindStones and Bones Ep. 9 - Laurel Hill Cemetery
Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia became a part of the rural cemetery movement shortly after it started, becoming the third garden cemetery in America to be…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 590 - Lake Lanier
Lake Lanier in Georgia is an extremely popular recreational area. This is a man-made lake that was created when the Buford Dam was built in 1956 and covers…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindPeoria State Hospital Redux
The Peoria State Hospital opened in 1901 in the village of Bartonville in Illinois. The asylum was home for the mentally ill for seventy-two years and it…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindTGIY Ep. 10 - Mental Health and Spiritual Warfare With The Unseen Realm
Dr. Natalie Atwell has over 20 years of experience in the field of mental health. She created Mental Warrior Consulting providing training and courses to help…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 589 - The Elke Sommer Haunting
Benedict Canyon. What isn't haunted about this place? Actress Elke Sommer and her husband at the time, Joe Hyams, moved into their Benedict Canyon Drive…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindPhantasmal Crime Ep. 45 - A Bomb in Anchorage
Muriel C. Pfeil is buried in the Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery next to her husband Emil, who preceded her in death by 47 years and her namesake daughter who…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 588 - Beattie Mansion
The Beattie Mansion in St. Joseph, Missouri has stood for more than 170 years. This began as a home for the Beatties and later became a home for unwed women…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindCachtice Castle and Elizabeth Bathory Redux
The Cachtice Castle lies in ruins in Slovakia, but was once a home to royalty. This then became a prison for Baroness Elizabeth Bathory. Her family was known…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindTGIY Ep. 9 - Ghosts
Ghosts. This is a topic with which the church does not like to deal. And this is whether people are asking tough questions like, "What is a ghost?" or asking…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 587 - McCune Mansion
The McCune Mansion sits perched atop a hill on Main Street in Salt Lake City, Utah. This splendid Victorian is unique both outside and inside. The interior…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindStones and Bones Ep. 8 - Graveyard Humor
George Bernard Shaw wrote in The Doctor's Dilemma, "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 586 - Houghton Mansion and the Masons
The Houghton Mansion in North Adams, Massachusetts was named for the family that commissioned its construction. Their biography is ripe for ghost stories with…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindFort Edmonton Redux
Fort Edmonton is a settlement that dates back to the true beginnings of Canada becoming an official country and to Alberta becoming a province. This would be a…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindTGIY Ep. 8 - Mount Hermon and the Watchers
There are several important mountains in the area that we today call the Holy Land. Mount Hermon is one of these mountains and has been considered sacred for…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 585 - S.K. Pierce Mansion
One can't miss the S.K. Pierce Mansion in Gardner, Massachusetts. This magnificent mansion is a huge Victorian that takes up the whole corner of West Broadway…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindPhantasmal Crime 44 - The Mysterious Death of Thelma Todd
Old Hollywood and mysterious deaths seem to go hand in hand, whether it's the case of the Black Dahlia or the mysterious "suicides" of Marilyn Monroe and…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 584 - San Juan Capistrano
We had the chance to visit San Juan Capistrano and the mission there, as well as the Los Rios Historic District in April 2025. The historic district still…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindHaunted Boone Redux
Boone, North Carolina is nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, in an area of the state locals refer to as the "High Country." Boone and the…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindTGIY Ep. 7 - Mythic Beasts
Leviathan and dragons have already been featured in their own episodes, but they aren't the only fantastical animals in the Bible. There are several mythic…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 583 - The Life and Afterlife of James Dean
James Dean's star burned bright, but fast. He starred in three amazing films, earning two posthumous Academy Award nominations, before his untimely death in…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindStones and Bones Ep. 7 - Ye Olde Burying Grounds
On this Stones and Bones, we are focusing specifically on the cemeteries that name themselves Old Burying Ground. These Old Burying Grounds offer a snapshot of…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindBonus: Haunted Deadly Waters
Water can be dangerous for anyone, even the best swimmers in the world. Water has a cunning to it and when you add currents and rocks and other things, a mild…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindChico Hot Springs Lodge Redux
Just north of Yellowstone National Park, in the heart of Paradise Valley in Montana, lies the Chico Hot Springs Lodge. The property stretches over 700 acres of…