023: Sins of the Father
Pleasing Terrors
Mike Brown
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2017
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The Heriot House in Georgetown, South Carolina was built in 1765. It is now the Harbor House Inn and there are many stories by visitors and Georgetown residents alike of seeing an image of a woman that looks like she doesn't belong there. Is this woman the ghost of a forlorn lover or does she represent something more sinister?
Something that ties in with the four circles of Dante's Inferno and stretches all the way from the old Heriot House to a Greenwich Village neighborhood located on Jane Street. A story that crosses the founding of America and the early days of New York, featuring such notable founders as Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and even George Washington.
Episode Highlights:
- Dante Alighieri's Inferno The Divine Comedy
- Are ghosts fragments of energy left behind
- A lantern in the window of The Heriot House
- Jane Street hauntings and ghost sightings
- The ghost of Alexander Hamilton
- The home of Eliza Jumel
- The story of Gulielma Sands and the Well of Malebolgia
- The Ambition of Aaron Burr
- Tragic life and death of Theodosia Burr Alston
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| 0:00.0 | Some stories were never supposed to be told. |
| 0:09.0 | Stories that exist in the twilight between science and the |
| 0:16.8 | supernatural, between history and the horror. Stories that speak of terrifying things. |
| 0:25.0 | Stories that you want to hear. |
| 0:28.0 | Stories that you need to hear. |
| 0:31.0 | Stories that will sink their teeth in and never let you go. My name is |
| 0:38.2 | Mike Brown and this is pleasing terrors. |
| 0:48.0 | Episode 23, Sins of the Father |
| 0:54.0 | of the Father. |
| 1:02.0 | He was lost in the wilderness, having strayed from the right path. |
| 1:05.3 | In the distance, he could see the peak of a small mountain, and he began to make his way toward |
| 1:11.2 | it in the hope that he could find a way out. |
| 1:15.4 | But monsters blocked his intended path. |
| 1:19.0 | There were three of them, a wolf, a lion, and a leopard. |
| 1:24.7 | Each of the three represented a sin. |
| 1:28.0 | The wolf symbolized lust. |
| 1:30.8 | The leopard symbolized fraud and the lion symbolized violence. |
| 1:37.0 | These three monsters, these three sins, turned him away from his goal and forced him back into the darkness of the |
| 1:46.7 | wilderness. This scene comprises the first canto of DanteAnte Allegheny's Inferno, which is the first part of his 14th century |
| 1:57.4 | epic poem, The Divine Comedy, which he began writing in 1308 and finished in 1320. |
| 2:06.5 | Dante serving the dual role of author and protagonist |
| 2:10.6 | is met by Virgil, author of the Aniad, which tells the story of the hero Anius's journey |
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