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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 MindLegend of Bloody Mary Redux
In this redux episode, Kelly and Diane explore the origins of the Bloody Mary legends and rituals. Through that exploration, they examine the superstitions…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 500 - Mystic Mountains
Vast areas of the oceans have never been explored, but there are also places on the earth that have been left untouched. Particularly the mountains. Some are…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindPhantasmal Crime 25 - Ursulines Avenue's Murder Block
New Orleans, Louisiana is well known for its legends and its ghosts. Like every other large city, it has played host to some heinous crimes and the 700 block…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 499 - Peabody-Whitehead Mansion
Denver was considered the Queen City of the Plains during the Victorian era and by 1867, it was designated the territorial capital. Colorado would gain…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindStanley Hotel Redux
Estes Park is a gorgeous mountain city and one of Diane's favorite places in Colorado. F.O. Stanley would build the Stanley Hotel in this town, a hotel made…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 498 - Memphis' Victorian Village
Memphis' Adams Avenue is where the rich built their homes during the Victorian era. Today, it is referred to as the Victorian Village, but in its heyday, this…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindPhantasmal Crime 24 - Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie and Clyde are an infamous crime duo who left behind a legacy that has been romanticized in books and movies. But the truth was that this young couple…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 497 - New Zealand's Vulcan Hotel
There are two things that bring people to St Bathans in New Zealand: gold and fossils. The St Bathans fauna bears dozens of different kinds of fossils. The…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindSleepy Hollow and the Headless Horseman Redux
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a well known piece of fiction written by Washington Irving in 1819. Many of us first heard the story in our youth and the tale…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 496 - Haunted Amish Country : Lancaster County
The Amish are one of the oldest communities in America, predating the formation of the United States. Lancaster County in Pennsylvania is considered Amish…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindPhantasmal Crime 23 - The Notorious Purple Gang
During Detroit's bootleg wars, a ruthless gang of Jewish immigrants rose up. They killed nearly 500 people during their reign of running the city of Detroit…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 495 - Haunted Schools
School is scary enough without having ghosts running around the halls. There's all that social pressure and expectation of good grades. A haunted school means…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindWest Virginia Penitentiary Redux
Kelly and Diane revisit Ep. 116! Moundsville State Penitentiary is formally known as the West Virginia Penitentiary and is located in the city of Moundsville…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 494 - Beauvoir
Beauvoir House is located in Biloxi, Mississippi. This was once the home to former president of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis. The estate…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindPhantasmal Crime 22 - Death of a Teacher
Chopticon High school was established in 1965 to serve the St. Mary's County Public Schools in Maryland and is located in the city of Morganza. It was at this…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 493 - St. Augustine Haunted House Investigation
A haunted house in the city of St. Augustine is not unique. It seems every location near the historic downtown is haunted. But this house was fairly new, being…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindSalem Witch Trials Redux
Salem just has a haunting air about it that oozes through every brick, tombstone and t-shirt shop. Salem and witches have become intertwined through the years…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 492 - Haunted Cemeteries 26
There really is no place quite as peaceful as a graveyard. The dead generally don't talk. Introverts don't have to pretend to read a book to remain…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindPhantasmal Crime 21 - The Lawson Family Murders
Familicide is impossible to understand. How does a family member kill their entire family? The Lawson Family Murders took place on Christmas Day in 1929. Left…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 491 - Glen Tavern Inn
The Glen Tavern Inn is located in Santa Paula, California and was a hotel that prospered during the California oil boom. When Prohibition was enacted, the…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindRipley's Odditorium Redux
Many claim that St. Augustine, Florida is one of the most haunted cities in all of America. We are willing to believe that based on our experiences there and…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 490 - Palace of Versailles
The entire estate that is part of the Palace of Versailles covers 1,978 acres. The grounds are immaculate and amazing and the palace itself defies words. What…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindPhantasmal Crime 20 - The Departed Dames of Long Island
Long Island is the largest and longest island in the contiguous United States. The island stretches from New York Harbor to Montauk Point, which has become…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 489 - Pickfair
The Pickfair estate was once one of the most lavish properties in Hollywood. This had been the home of old Hollywood stars Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 488 - The Graffiti House
The Graffiti House is owned by the Brandy Station Foundation and served as a hospital during the Civil War. Soldiers left behind their marks on the walls of…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindPhantasmal Crime 19 - Murder-Suicide at the Greystone Mansion
The historic Doheny Greystone Estate is more commonly known as the Greystone Mansion and was even once known as the Hearst Castle. This glorious and grand home…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 487 - Haunted New South Wales
New South Wales in Australia seems to be the most haunted state in the country and for good reason. This was the first place colonized in Australia. Not only…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 486 - Tinker Swiss Cottage
Tinker Swiss Cottage is a unique and beautiful home that resembles a Swiss cottage. Built by the Tinker family, it would become a symbol for Rockford, Illinois…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindPhantasmal Crime 18 - The Disappearance of Ambrose Small
The Toronto Grand Opera House was the scene of a haunting that was connected to a crime that was once dubbed the "Crime of the Century." Ambrose Small was a…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 485 - Cocoanut Grove Fire
The Cocoanut Grove in Boston started as a speakeasy and grew to become a very popular club. In 1942, the nightclub burned to the ground with hundreds of…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 484 - Hill View Manor
Hill View Manor is located in New Castle, Pennsylvania. This started as The Lawrence Home for the Aged, a poor farm to take the place of a previous poor farm…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindPhantasmal Crime 17 - Murder, Cards and Oysters
Georgetown is a picturesque small town in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. My family visited often when I was a kid because my dad enjoyed fishing in…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 483 - Haunted Occoquan, Virginia
The town of Occoquan in Virginia is a suburb of Washington, D.C. and was established over 250 years ago. This is a town full of historic and colorful buildings…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 482 - Heathman Hotel
The Heathman Hotel is one of the few remaining historic hotels in Portland, Oregon. It beckons to passerbys with its red and white neon sign on the front of…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindPhantasmal Crime 16 - Walkup Family Murders
The Flagstaff of 1937 was quite different from the sleepy little railroad town it had once been. Emigrants from Boston had passed through this pine forest near…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 481 - Haunted Inns of Cape May
Cape May in New Jersey is one of the oldest seaside resort towns in America and has one of the largest collections of 19th century buildings in the country…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindDeceptions and Resurrections, Part 2
This Easter, join Shane Waters on a whimsical adventure featuring 13 podcasters (including History Goes Bump) as they share true stories of con artists and…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindDeceptions and Resurrections, Part 1
This Easter, join Shane Waters on a whimsical adventure featuring 13 podcasters (including History Goes Bump) as they share true stories of con artists and…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 480 - Hemingway House
We decided to take a long weekend trip to the Florida Keys for our honeymoon and one of the locations we visited was a former home of American author Ernest…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindPhantasmal Crime 15 - Corpsewood Manor Murders
The true crime this episode features is a recent event dating back to just the 1980s. It is a crime that shook the small town of Summerville, Georgia. A gay…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 479 - Prospect Place
Prospect Place in Trinway, Ohio was built by an abolitionist and was a stop on the Underground Railroad. This was a house that not only had to be built twice…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 478 - Mason House Inn
The Mason House Inn is the oldest steamboat hotel on the Des Moines River in Bentonsport, Iowa. It has a history connected to the Mormon Trail, the Civil War…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindPhantasmal Crime 14 - Murder at Glensheen Mansion
Glensheen Mansion is reportedly the most visited historic home in the state of Minnesota. The stately home originally sat on 22 acres of lakefront property in…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 477 - Investigation of Lilian Place
Lilian Place is a Victorian house named after a member of the Thompson family. This was a pioneer family of Daytona Beach and the house remained in the family…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 476 - Haunted Smoky Mountains
The Smoky Mountains carry a certain mystique about them and since they are a part of the Appalachian Mountains, the Appalachian culture has enhanced them with…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindPhantasmal Crime 13 - The Tragic Rathbones
President Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary were not the only people sitting in their box at the Ford's Theater to watch the production of "Our American…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindBonus: King's Island Amusement Park
Kings Island is a popular amusement park near Cincinnati, Ohio. It opened in the 1970s and has expanded through the years. As is the case with so many…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 475 - Haunted Cemeteries 25
The final destination for most on this earthly plane is a graveyard. On this haunted cemeteries episode, we will feature cemeteries in Massachusetts…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 474 - Haunted Duxbury, Massachusetts
The historic seaside town of Duxbury, Massachusetts is covered in dune grass with pebbled shores and crisp air touched with salt and the scent of pine and…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindPhantasmal Crime 12 - Murdered Bones Don't Rest
One of the reasons cited for a soul to be at unrest is a lack of justice. And sometimes that justice hasn't come because a body hasn't been discovered. Some of…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 473 - Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is the oldest flying field in the world and is located near Dayton, Ohio and is the site where the Wright Brothers developed…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 472 - Investigation of the Whaley House
History Goes Bump featured the Whaley House on an episode in 2016 and it has been on our bucket list to investigate for quite a while. We finally had the…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindPhantasmal Crime 11 - Thornhaven Manor
Thornhaven Manor is located at 2172 S. Spiceland Road in New Castle, Indiana near the Big Blue River Valley. The dilapidated home sits on seven acres of former…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 471 - Flight 401
In December of 1972, the second deadliest single plane crash at that time occurred in Florida. Eastern Airlines Flight 401 had taken off from New York and was…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 470 - Wolcott Heritage Center
The centerpiece of the Wolcott Heritage Center is the Hull-Wolcott House, which was built in 1830 in Maumee, Ohio. This mansion is a great reflection of the…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 469 - Western Lunatic Asylum of Virginia
Imagine a luxury hotel in an old insane asylum. That is precisely what has happened with the Western Lunatic Asylum or as it was later known, the Western State…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindPhantasmal Crime 10 - The Murder of the Grimes Sisters
German Church Road in Chicago is haunted. At least, that's what urban legends claim. The possibility of apparitions being seen along this road is supported by…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 468 - River Raisin Battlefield
The Battle of Frenchtown took place during the War of 1812 and its battlefield is the only nationally recognized American battlefield dating to the War of…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 467 - Old Town Albuquerque
Old Town Albuquerque is home to more than 150 shops, restaurants, galleries and museums. This community center was built centuries ago and features several…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindPhantasmal Crime 9 - Los Feliz, a Rich Place to Die
Los Feliz is a hybrid of nature and urban sprawl with a long history of Native American habitation, ranching, high-end living, curses, suicide, murder and…