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The Bowery Boys: New York City History

#144 Mysteries and Magicians of New York

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Places & Travel, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.73.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2012

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Our sixth annual ghost story podcast takes a little twist this time around. Oh sure, we have two of New York's most FAMOUS horror stories in our first part, beginning with a spirited sailor named Mickey who haunted a classic structure on the Lower West Side. Today's it's the Ear Inn, where you better watch your drink. Then we switch to a Colonial-era tale of obsession and entrapment in old Flatbush, the tale of Melrose Hall with its secret passages, stairwells and dungeons. But in the second half, we observe New York's spiritualism craze of the early 20th century through two frightening faceoffs. In the first, its the madame of the Ouija board, Pearl Curran, and her ghostly companion Patience Worth vs. one of New York's original ghostbusters, the adventurer and conjurer Joseph Rinn. And in the final tale, Tom explores the secrets of Harry Houdini and what happens when a close confidante -- in this case, the noted author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- believes his powers are of a supernatural variety. Featuring our annual ghost-story dramatics, a few sound effects, and the surprising haunted history of Carnegie Hall. www.boweryboyspodcast.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

Transcript

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0:00.0

Episode 144 of The Bowery Boys, mysteries and magicians of Old New York.

0:11.5

Hey, it's The Bowery Boys.

0:13.0

Hey.

0:15.0

The Bowery Boys is brought to you by EuroChipo.com.

0:19.0

EuroChipo's editors inspect and recommend the best budget hotels in Europe.

0:25.0

On the web at EuroChipo.com.

0:29.0

Welcome.

0:30.0

And hi there.

0:31.0

Welcome to The Bowery Boys.

0:32.0

This is Greg Young.

0:33.0

And this is Tom Myers.

0:35.0

And I'm kind of creeped out by that, Greg.

0:37.0

Turn down the lights, settle into bed for it is time for this sixth annual.

0:42.0

Bowery Boys Halloween Special.

0:45.0

The fact that this is our sixth Halloween show is scary enough.

0:49.0

Writing indeed.

0:50.0

But tonight we have some really special tales, some spiritual tales.

0:55.0

Mysterious unexplained phenomena will be discussed this evening,

0:59.0

based on real life places and events in New York City history.

1:03.0

And Greg and I are both putting on our over dramatic ghost story voices,

1:08.0

even though these aren't all ghost stories.

1:10.0

No, they're not.

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