Andersonville Prison Redux

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

Travel, History, Places & Travel, Paranormal, Haunted, Society & Culture, Ghosts

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🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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During February 1864, Camp Sumter was opened in Macon County, Georgia. Camp Sumter came to be known as Andersonville, and that is what it is referred to still today. Of all the prisons we have featured on the podcast, Andersonville Prison might just be the worst. This prison was opened to house Union prisoners during the Civil War and to say that it was overcrowded would be an understatement. The amount of prisoners who lost their lives at this prison reaches into the several thousands. And the prison was not open for very long. These kinds of conditions and numbers of death usually lead to paranormal activity and there seems to be quite a bit of it going on here. Join us as we explore the history and hauntings of Andersonville Prison.

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0:00.0	History tells the story of the world and of our lives.
0:21.4	Sometimes that history goes bump in the night.
0:32.4	Broadcasting from the center of oddity and the supernatural in central Florida.
0:39.2	It's the History Goes Bump podcast.
0:47.4	Hello, you sputacular people.
0:49.7	Welcome to History Goes Bump Redux.
0:51.8	I'm your host, Diane.
0:52.9	And this is Kelly.
0:55.3	Kelly, on this Redux,
1:02.4	we're rewinding back to a very, uh, an awful location, honestly. It's probably one of the worst things in the history of America, Andersonville Prison. Lots of bad stuff happened here.
1:08.1	Mm, indeed. You ready to go back?
1:11.8	I'm ready. During February, Sumpter was opened in Macon County, Georgia. Camp Sumter came to be known as
1:30.4	Andersonville, and that is what it is still referred to as today. Of all the prisons we've featured on the
1:36.2	podcast, Andersonville Prison might just be the worst. This prison was open to house Union prisoners
1:42.0	during the Civil War, and to say that it was overcrowded
1:45.3	would be an understatement. The amount of prisoners who lost their lives at this prison
1:50.0	reaches into the several thousands, and the prison was not open for very long. These kinds of
1:55.8	conditions and numbers of death usually lead to paranormal activity, and there seems to be quite a bit of it going on here.
2:02.4	Join us as we explore the history and hauntings of Andersonville Prison.
2:30.3	Thank you. From the beginning of the Civil War until 1862, prisoners were exchanged on the battlefield,
2:34.8	a private for a private, a sergeant for a sergeant, and a captain for a captain.
2:40.2	Problems arose with this system in 1862, resulting in the creation of large holding pens for prisoners on both sides. Union Army Major General John A. Dix and Confederate Major General Daniel
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