History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind
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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...
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Ep. 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 Victor...
Dumas 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 locat...
Ep. 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...
Stones 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...
Ep. 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. T...
Ep. 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 gen...
Phantasmal 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 way...
TGIY 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 Sam...
Fearing 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 inc...
Ep. 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 Chris...
Bonus - 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...
Stones 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...
Tower 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...
Phantasmal 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 an...
Ep. 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 eac...
Valley 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 ob...
Ep. 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. Rail...
Ep. 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 "co...
Haunted 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...
TGIY 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 fo...
Witches 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...
Ep. 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...
Stones 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 stigmatiz...
Ep. 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 Cassad...
TGIY 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...
Ep. 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...
Phantasmal 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 Doa...
Ep. 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 populat...
Gunter 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...
TGIY 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...
Ep. 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 technical...
Stones 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...
Ep. 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 fo...
Landers 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...
TGIY 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. Fo...
Ep. 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....
Phantasmal 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 afte...
Ep. 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 th...
Ben 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...
TGIY 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 childre...