History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

A man was on a simple afternoon stroll on December 9, 1909 in his Savannah, Georgia neighborhood when he heard moaning coming from 401 W. Perry Street. What he found inside the small wooden house would horrify the city. One woman lay dying and two more were already dead. An axe had been used and the murders were brutal. As to who committed the crime, that remains a mystery, although the husband of...

Fort Lauderdale means fun in the sun at a beach for most people. But this oceanside town has another side. There are many haunted locations here and for good reason. The Seminoles fought with settlers, the titans of industry made this their playground and this is the Venice of America with 165 miles of scenic inland waterways. Water is a key conduit for paranormal activity. In October, we met up w...

Octagon Hall in Franklin, Kentucky has the distinction of being the most unique house in the state of Kentucky.  An octagon shaped home is a rarity, there are only four in America, but this Antebellum home is mysterious and distinct for more reasons than just its shape.  Octagon Hall and the entire property that makes up the plantation it was built upon, survived the Civil War and occupation by th...

Stagecoach stops have a knack for being haunted. This isn't surprising due to the amount of activity that these locations experienced throughout history. The stagecoach was the best form of transportation across land before the railroad stretched across America. The Old Stagecoach Inn in Vermont served as a stagecoach stop as well as a tavern. Eventually, the building became a private residence an...

Love triangles are never a good thing. Someone always gets hurt. And sometimes, someone gets dead. In the case of this story, that someone was a man named Stanley Goodside. He became friends with two former flower children and when things got complicated, Goodside was murdered. This is a tale of a pot bust, a love triangle, a murder, a body that was dismembered and had parts ending up in different...

Quincy, Illinois became a thriving riverfront featuring steamboats and trade due to its location along the Mississippi River. Many Germans settled in the town and one of those people was a man named George Metz. He built his mansion, Villa Katherine, here and it seems that his beloved dog has stayed on there in the afterlife. That isn't the only haunted location in Quincy. There are many legends c...

Happy Halloween 2023! Welcome to our CarnEvil! Step right up and test your degree of coulrophobia - fear of clowns. Clowns have played significant roles in society, bringing humor and laughter, but also bringing fear. It's that last piece that makes clowns the perfect subject for a Halloween episode. Join us as we explore the history and creeps of clowning and then stick around to hear some amazin...

A belief in Faeries has existed for centuries and stretches all around the world. Early stories of faeries originate in medieval Western Europe and this is where we get the term "Fairy Tales." Stories of faeries traveled with the colonists to America and are still strong in Appalachian and Ozark lore. There are many theories as to what faeries may be and because of this, they take many forms in fo...

There is a pretty standard description of the Grim Reaper. Generally speaking, people envision a cloaked skeleton carrying a scythe. But there is so much more to this figure that has become the personification of death. On this episode, we are going to explore the centuries of mythology around the embodiment of death and explore whether this is an actual entity. And is this someone or something th...

The Addams Family has been with us for 85 years. What began as a cartoon created by American cartoonist Charles Addams has grown into so much more. They've been adapted into every form of media available and have managed to stay popular regardless of the decade with Netflix's Wednesday series becoming a pop culture phenomenon in 2022. Join us on this special bonus episode as we share the history o...

One of Britain's most haunted homes was nicknamed The Witch Farm. A young family experienced seven years of haunting activity while living there. This was meant to be their dream home, but it became a nightmare. Some people believed that ley lines of dark energy ran under the property. There are some who thought that the family who lived there were perhaps having mental health issues. Many people...

Quarantine Station, or Q Station as it is more commonly known, is a heritage site located in Manly, which is a suburb of Sydney in Australia. This site was used as a quarantine station from 1833 until 1983 to help prevent illness from entering the country. Many people died during quarantine and conditions weren't great. After the station closed, it reopened as a historic park with a hotel. This si...

This is another haunted cemeteries episode! We feature five cemeteries including the London Necropolis, Portugal's Cemetery of Pleasures, King's Chapel Burying Ground in Boston, Pine Hill Cemetery in Alabama and Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis. Join us as we share the history and hauntings of these final resting places! The Moment in Oddity features Dancing on a Grave Memorial and This Month in Histor...

Lon Chaney's filmography is vast with his starring roles in horror movies bringing him the most fame. His expertise and innovation with special make-up effects brought him the nickname of "The Man of a Thousand Faces." He was only 47-years-old when he died and there are a couple of places that his spirit returned to often in the afterlife. Music used in this episode: Hollywood Cinematic Intro Iden...

Omni Hotels & Resorts own a long list of haunted hotels and they embrace that reputation. One of their hotels is the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. This is a beautiful location surrounded by the White Mountain National Forest, so it is no wonder that the rich would make this one of their playgrounds. Some of the grandest hotels ever built in America's history, were built h...

McMenamins Edgefield is located in Troutdale, Oregon and it is an historic hotel that features a little bit of everything from fine dining to concerts to a movie theater to a distillery and brewery to a spa and golf.  The spot once housed the county poor farm. There are several spirits here and some of them seem to be hitchhiking ghosts like our infamous friends at the Haunted Mansion. Over 30 min...

On October 1, 2014, History Goes Bump dropped its first episode. It was a dream come true. Over the past 9 years, we have featured thousands of locations. More than any other podcast out there. And thanks to our listeners, we have produced episodes on some obscure places that many people have never heard of before. We have no intention of slowing down and look forward to bringing even more great s...

Portugal sits right along the coast of Spain and while Spain overshadows it in size, the history of Portugal is vast. A mix of cultures have lived and ruled here for centuries. The country became a leader in exploration of the world and thus a principal entity for world trade. Today, the Republic of Portugal is a respected country that heralds peace and has a population of 11 million people. There...

We often wonder why spirits stay behind in haunted locations. Many times the answer is that some sort of trauma was experienced. And digging even deeper, we sometimes find that a spirit is at unrest because their case hasn't been solved or even perhaps that their body hasn't been discovered. I've been collecting ghost stories from around the world for years. I found this one out of India that happ...

Lincoln, Nebraska is the home of the Cornhuskers and its also the state's capitol city. The Sower stands atop the tower of the Capitol Building, preparing to toss some seeds to businesses and neighborhoods below. Some refer to the area as fly over country and describe the landscape as boring. But for us, if you throw ghosts in the mix, a city becomes suddenly exciting. And a quick drive through th...

There's no missing the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. It stands tall along Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles with a bright red neon sign on top announcing to the world that it is Hotel Roosevelt. This is Los Angeles oldest continually operating hotel. The rich and famous from all walks of life have passed through its doors and some of those people still seem to be hanging around after their deaths. J...

Dartmoor is located in an upland area of southern Devon, England. Much of the area is protected by a National Park and it has the largest concentration of Bronze Age ruins in the United Kingdom. This land has been an inspiration to many writers. The landscape is full of standing stones, tombs, legends and spirits. Join us as we explore the history and hauntings of Dartmoor! The Moment in Oddity wa...

Not too far from Malabar Farm State Park in Ohio sits Pleasant Valley Cemetery. One marble grave marker stands a bit higher than the rest of the headstones around it and across the top is embossed the family name Rose. This marks the final resting place of three members of the Rose family who all died within a thirty day time frame. The cause of death was not some hideous plague that swept through...

Kennebunkport is a Maine town that goes back hundreds of years. This coastal resort town plays host to several haunted inns. The Kennebunkport Captains Collection in Maine are four historic homes that had belonged to the Captain Daniel Walker family. Two of them are reputedly haunted. There is also the Nonantum Resort, which is the oldest inn in town. And the Kennebunk Inn hosts a well known spiri...

In this redux episode, Kelly and Diane explore the Shanley Hotel. The Shanley Hotel is one of New York's most haunted hotels and is located in Napanoch, nestled among the beautiful woods of the Shawangunk Mountains in the historic and mysterious Hudson Valley. The hotel was built in the mid 1800s and still retains its historical charm. This charm is only broken by the countless reports of unexplai...