Charleston Gothic (Part 1)
Pleasing Terrors
Mike Brown
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we take a look at Edgar Allan Poe's "The Gold Bug," a story about an encrypted map that leads to a buried pirate treasure. We will visit a haunted theater and discuss a play a play about the death of Poe that was first performed there in 1994. The story, the ghosts, and the play are all clues that lead to a hidden treasure that Poe was attempting to find in Charleston in 1828. This is the first installment of a two-part story.
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Buxton, Julian T., The Ghosts of Charleston , Beaufort Books, 2001
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Dawidziak, Mark, A Mystery of Mysteries, St. Martin's Press, 2023
Downey, Christopher Byrd, Edgar Allan Poe’s Charleston, History Press, 2020
Downey, Christopher Byrd, A History Lover’s Guide To Charleston, The History Press, 2023
Hecker, William F., Private Perry and Mister Poe: The West Point Poems, 1831 Louisiana State University Press, 2005
Jacobi, Jolande, Complex/Archtype/sSymbol in the Psychology of C.G. Jung, Bollingen Foundation Inc., 1959
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Jacobi, Jolande, Complex/Archtype/sSymbol in the Psychology of C.G. Jung, Bollingen Foundation Inc., 1959
Main, Roderick Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal, Princeton University Press, 1997
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, it's been a while. Welcome back to pleasing terrors. I hope that you |
| 0:07.8 | enjoy the twilight. were never supposed to be told. Stories that exist in the twilight, between science |
| 0:26.2 | and the supernatural, between mystery and horror. Stories that speak of terrifying things. stories that you want to hear, stories that you need to hear, stories that you need to hear, |
| 0:37.0 | stories that will sink their teeth in and never let you go. |
| 0:45.2 | My name is Mike Brown and this is pleasing terrors. hers. |
| 0:57.0 | Pliecing Tears Podcast episode 44, Charleston Gothic Gothic Part 1 My favorite time of night is when I am walking back to my car after giving a ghost tour. |
| 1:27.0 | There are not many people around in Charleston's French Quarter and the streets are quiet. |
| 1:34.8 | Charleston, South Carolina is known for its rich architectural heritage. |
| 1:40.8 | But at night, when you are all alone, what seems charming during the day can take on a sinister |
| 1:47.3 | aspect. |
| 1:49.7 | It is the perfect environment for a ghost story. |
| 1:55.2 | After learning that I've been giving ghost tours for more than a quarter of a century, |
| 1:59.7 | people often say, I bet you know all the ghost stories, but I don't. Even after all this time, I am |
| 2:08.0 | still finding new ones or finding out new things about old ones. Some stories are secret and their |
| 2:16.7 | revelation is reserved for unexpected moments. You just have to hope that you are in the right place at the right time to hear them. |
| 2:27.0 | If you are lucky, sometimes when you are alone on a Charleston street late at night, the city whispers one of its secrets. |
| 2:39.2 | In February of 2023, I was walking back to my car after a ghost tour, and I heard one of those |
| 2:45.8 | whispers. |
| 2:47.6 | On that particular night, I wasn't thinking about the city or its secrets. I was thinking about Edgar Allan Poe. |
| 2:55.0 | Poe is, of course, one of the best known figures in American literature, |
| 3:01.0 | perhaps best remembered for his haunting poetry like the Raven or Annabel Lee, as well as his |
| 3:07.4 | macabre tales such as the fall of the House of Usher, the mask of the red death, and the tell-tale heart. |
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