019: The Dark Séance Polka
Pleasing Terrors
Mike Brown
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The White House: In all it's glory, from the immaculately-kept gardens to the walls hung with priceless art, is an icon of American history and power. Home to every President since 1800, the White House is seen as a safe haven for the President and their family.
Not even the heavy iron fence that borders the grounds of the White House can keep dark magic from harming its inhabitants. A curse muttered on a bloodied battlefield in 1812 has left over a hundred years of President's scared for their lives, but has the debt finally been paid?
Episode Highlights:
- Strange sights in the Lincoln Bedroom
- The tall tales and magical powers of Tenskwatawa
- A dark prophecy
- Lincoln's bloody presidency
- Tainted water in the President's glass
- Mediums and séances in the White House
- Dreams of an ominous voyage
- A row of white headstones in the Presidential cemetery
- A debt is paid
Resources:
The History Goes Bump Podcast, Episode 162: The White House
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| 0:00.0 | I would like to give a special thanks to Diane and Denise of the History Goes Bump podcast. |
| 0:06.5 | This episode was directly inspired by History Goes Bump episode 162, The White House. |
| 0:14.3 | Diane and Denise are explorers of the strange and scary places of the world. |
| 0:19.5 | I am simply following the trail that they have blazed through the darkness. Some stories were never supposed to be told. |
| 0:35.0 | Stories that exist in the twilight, |
| 0:39.0 | between science and the supernatural, |
| 0:42.0 | between history and the horror. |
| 0:45.0 | Stories that speak of terrifying things. |
| 0:48.0 | Stories that you want to hear. |
| 0:51.0 | Stories that you need to hear, stories that you need to hear, stories that will sink |
| 0:56.7 | their teeth in and never let you go. My name is Mike Brown, and this is pleasing terrors. |
| 1:07.0 | Episode 19, the Dark Seance Polka. You're going to be here. They were asleep when the light first appeared in the room. |
| 2:10.0 | The first time that they saw it, it was orange. A few nights later, it appeared again. |
| 2:14.4 | This time the light was red and it turned the walls the color of Ronald Reagan, his daughter Maureen and her husband, Dennis Rivel, |
| 2:30.7 | were frequent visitors to the White House. During those visits they often stayed |
| 2:36.6 | in the Lincoln bedroom. One night they awoke to find a man standing at the bedroom window. He was transparent, barely discernible, but they recognized |
| 2:48.2 | him instantly. He remained only for a moment, and then he was gone. |
| 2:55.0 | This may have been the last time that he was seen, but it was not the first. |
| 3:01.8 | Jacqueline Kennedy never claimed to have seen him, but she did say that she felt his |
| 3:06.2 | presence when she lived in the White House. |
| 3:09.7 | President Eisenhower claimed to have seen' walking down a hallway. |
| 3:13.0 | President Truman was once awoken by three distinct knocks on his bedroom door. |
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