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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. 430 - Heard Opera House
The Heard Opera House is located in Arcadia, Florida. This building has served a variety of purposes through the years from bank to theater to retail business…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 429 - Haunted Nantucket
Nantucket is a small isolated island off of Cape Cod and has long been a summer destination for people. This had once been a whaling hub and was originally…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 428 - Haunted Cemeteries 22
Every life is worth remembering. And that is what cemeteries are all about. Remembering those who have lived. Some of those people in graveyards were famous…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 427 - The Village of Rugby
A British author founded the village of Rugby in the beautiful Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee. This was meant to be a utopia and for a time, it really was…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 426 - Fort Omaha
Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Nebraska has a campus filled with historic buildings because this was once Fort Omaha. This fort's main purpose was to…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 425 - Hannah House
The Hannah House in Indianapolis, Indiana was the family home of Alexander Hannah. This home was meant to be a place of refuge for runaway slaves along the…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 424 - Thomas House Hotel
The 1880s were a time of great interest in the healing powers of mineral springs and one of those springs we haven't covered yet was Red Boiling Springs in…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 423 - Halifax, Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia means "New Scotland" and is known for its coastal views, lobster, fish, blueberries and apples. Halifax is the capital of Nova Scotia, Canada and…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 422 - Cincinnati's Union Terminal and Art Museum
Union Terminal in Cincinnati, Ohio was one of the last great American train stations built and has the largest half-dome in the western hemisphere. The…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 421 - Laura and Oak Alley Plantations
Traveling through the swamp lands of Louisiana is an adventure, not only through nature, but through history. The dank humid air and large oaks filled with…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 420 - Ellicott City
Ellicott City is a suburb outside of Baltimore with a historic and shopping district that attracts visitors year round. And it makes sense that this would be a…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 419 - Holly Hotel
The Holly Hotel is located in Holly, Michigan and has survived through several fires, the Great Depression, two world wars and a visit from the infamous…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 418 - Epping Forest
There is nothing quite so epic when it comes to ghost stories as a haunted wood. About an hour outside of London is Epping Forest. This is an ancient woodland…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 417 - Haunted Cemeteries 21
We love our cemeteries around here. They are places of such peace and for many of us, strangely, a place of comfort. And as we have found, many have a spirit…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 416 - St Briavels Castle
St Briavels Castle dates back to 1075 and is located in Gloucestershire, England. This isn't one of those grand and beautiful castles that Britain is known…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 415 - The Ramsey House
The Ramsey House has also been known as Swan Pond and is located in Knoxville, Tennessee. It was built by a prominent man in the town, Colonel Francis…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 414 - Haunted Petersburg, Virginia
Petersburg, Virginia is about 21 miles south of Richmond. Not many people know that this city has been thought of as the graveyard of the Confederacy. Anyone…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 413 - Jailer's Inn Bed and Breakfast
Bardstown is the second oldest city in the state of Kentucky. This capitol of bourbon making and town once voted "The Most Beautiful Small Town in America" has…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 412 - Haunted Anchorage
Alaska is a land just ripe for hauntings. Darkness cloaks the land for much of the year and thick pine forests spread across the expanse. There are legends…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 411 - Miss Molly's Bed and Breakfast
Miss Molly's Bed and Breakfast has been on the suggestions list for quite a while and we decided to produce it now because our longtime listener and Executive…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 410 - Cerro Gordo Ghost Town
This fairly prosperous mining town was established in the mid-1800s and had been mostly abandoned for decades. New life was breathed into it recently after…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindHGB Bonus: St. Augustine Lighthouse Investigation
This is a special bonus episode featuring our private investigation of the St. Augustine Lighthouse in September 2021 that we hosted along with Jerry and Tracy…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 409 - Gaither Plantation
Covington, Georgia is nicknamed Hollywood South due to the number of movies and television shows that have been filmed there. One location that not only hosts…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindHGB Halloween Special 2021
Happy Halloween! When one thinks of Halloween and Trick or Treating, more than just pillow cases full of candy come to mind. There's always that one creepy…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 408 - Legends of Werewolves
Werewolf lore has been a part of human history for centuries and some of the best horror movies feature werewolves. We've covered the hysteria that surrounded…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 407 - Haunted Cemeteries 20
We like to think of cemeteries as open-air museums. They not only represent the culture and beliefs of an area, but they serve as a historical record of who…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 406 - Haunted Fellsmere
We joined Larry Lawson, founder of The Florida Bureau of Paranormal Investigation, and his team Indian River Hauntings for a paranormal event that included…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 405 - Haunted Guam
Guam is a United States territory located within the Mariana Islands. The island was occupied by humans starting around 4,000 years ago. Guam IS the Chamarro…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindHGB Anniversary Special 7
On this special anniversary episode, Diane and Kelly celebrate 7 years of the podcast, talk a little about some of the behind-the-scenes stuff and share the…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 404 - Walt Disney World
Walt Disney World is celebrating its 50th anniversary in October of 2021. This incomparable theme park is exactly what its name describes, a complete world…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 403 - Butterworth Building
The Butterworth Building in Seattle, Washington is home to Kells Irish Restaurant & Pub. This building had once been home to a mortuary and the man who built…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 402 - Virginia Military Institute
Virginia Military Institute was founded over 180 years ago and the institute takes pride in having a competitive educational program that also develops cadets…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 401 - Haunted Hannibal
Hannibal, Missouri is known as "America's Hometown" and author Mark Twain helped to put it on the map as this was his boyhood home. This was a quintessential…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 400 - Whispers Estate
The Whispers Estate is located in Mitchell, Indiana and is thought to have been built in 1894 by Dr. George White and his wife Sarah. The estate was then…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 399 - Korner's Folly
The house that is nicknamed Korner's Folly is also thought to be one of the strangest houses in America. This is a large mansion with 22 rooms that was built…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 398 - Fort McClellan
Fort McClellan is located in Anniston, Alabama at the foothills of the magical Appalachian Mountains. We've always found these mountains to harbor a…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 397 - Ghost Hunting New Orleans and Beyond
One thing History Goes Bump knows is ghost tours. We've been joined by several tour guides on the podcast and on this episode, we are joined by our favorite…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 396 - Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey is an iconic structure that has stood for hundreds of years. More than 3300 people are buried here, seventeen of which are monarchs and this…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 395 - Haunted Taverns of Annapolis
Annapolis, Maryland has hundreds of years of history behind it. First settled by Puritans in the mid-1600s, it grew into an important coastal city of…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 394 - Quebec City
Québec City is the capital city of the province of Quebec and sits along the Saint Lawrence River. The city is mostly French speaking as it was established by…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 393 - Old Baraboo Inn
The Old Baraboo Inn is located at 135 Walnut Street in Baraboo, Wisconsin. This location has housed a brothel, a brewery, a boarding house, a speakeasy…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 392 - Lyceum Hall
Lyceums were part of an educational movement in the New England area during the Victorian era. These were places that hosted some of the greatest orators of…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 391 - New Orleans Absinthe and Ghosts
The Green Fairy is the nickname for a once illegal liquor known as absinthe. There are a few places in New Orleans where one can get a shot of absinthe. The…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 390 - 1872 Denham Inn
Monticello, Florida has a claim to being the South's most haunted town. The 1872 Denham Inn is located in Monticello and when we realized we had a chance to…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 389 - Haunted Cemeteries 19
We all love cemeteries around here. These are places of beauty and memorial, even the ones that have become overgrown and neglected. Headstones contain…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 388 - The Jefferson Hotel
The Jefferson Hotel, named for the city of Jefferson in Texas, has a fun history that continues on into today. From beginnings as a cotton warehouse to a…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 387 - DeSoto House Hotel
The DeSoto House Hotel sits at the corner of Green and Main Streets in downtown Galena, Illinois. This building has claims that it is the most haunted hotel in…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 386 - Bishop's Stortford
Many of the buildings and homes in Bishop's Stortford have changed very little since medieval and Tudor times. This is a historic market town in Hertfordshire…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 385 - Old Clay County Jail
We joined our listener Emily on a ghost hunt of the Old Clay County Jail in Green Cove Springs, Florida. This one will give you goose bumps by the end as we…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 384 - Boston Common
Boston is one of the oldest cities in America and full of history. One center of this history is the Boston Common, which is considered America's oldest park…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 383 - The Ghost Town of Bannack
Bannack, Montana was a wild gold mining town with no sheriff to keep the peace until Henry Plummer came along and he turned out to be the worst criminal of…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 382 - Haunted Cemeteries 18 and Cremation
Why would a spirit hang around their grave? We recall that we had a listener named Maya write us a few months back and she had wondered if cemeteries were…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 381 - Tri-County Truck Stop
Route 66 was once known as the "Main Street of America" and is still affectionately referred to as the Mother Road. It's hard to believe this highway was once…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 380 - Old Hamilton County Jail
The Hamilton County Jail was open for nearly 100 years and housed a variety of criminals, both men and women. Many people died here and at least three were…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 379 - Molly Stark Sanatorium
We have covered many former and abandoned sanatoriums and mental institutions on this podcast. It never ceases to amaze us how many of these buildings still…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 378 - Thornewood Castle
Thornewood Castle is located in Lakewood, Washington. The English Tudor/Gothic mansion is the only private castle on the West Coast and is known as the house…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 377 - Eastland Disaster
The Eastland Disaster was the most deadly shipwreck in Great Lakes history. More passengers would die in this disaster than in the sinking of the Titanic. This…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 376 - Fox Hollow Farm
Herb Baumeister was an entrepreneur who founded the successful Sav-A-Lot thrift stores, but beneath that successful veneer, he was also something quite…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindBONUS: Shadow People
This is an uncut conversation, taped live on the Stereo App featuring Kelly and Diane talking about the phenomenon of Shadow People and fielding "calls" or…
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The MindEp. 375 - Wyoming Frontier Prison
Wyoming can be a beautiful state, but it can also be harsh, particularly in the winter. The Wyoming Frontier Prison was a brutal place with no heat during the…