Ep. 1 - Ripley's Odditorium in St. Augustine
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind
Diane Student
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2014
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In this premiere of the History Goes Bump Podcast, hosts Diane and Denise introduce themselves and the podcast to the audience. Following that is the "Moment in Odd History" featuring The Great Serpent mound, "This Day in History" featuring the introduction of the Model T and then the featured haunted location of the show: Ripley's Believe It Or Not Museum in St. Augustine, Florida. The history of the building is covered as well as a biography of Robert Ripley. And then there is the "bump" part of the show detailing the hauntings, one of which is a personal experience from your hosts.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Ah, so you're one of those types. You got to go all the way back to episode one and work your way through the archive. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi, I'm Diane, and I am the Creator, the Editor, the producer, and the host of History Goes Bump. |
| 0:16.0 | This is me talking to you from September of 2020, |
| 0:19.0 | and we're about to celebrate six years of production. A lot has changed in the last six years and I want to |
| 0:25.9 | brace you for some of those changes because some of them are pretty major. |
| 0:29.1 | First, which you're about to listen to in this first episode is really rough. |
| 0:34.0 | We didn't know what we were doing. We had really bad equipment and I had no idea how to edit audio. |
| 0:39.0 | It does get better and better until it gets as crisp as what you're listening to right at this |
| 0:44.8 | moment. |
| 0:45.8 | So give us a chance if you don't like the audio in the beginning. |
| 0:49.4 | Also I thought when I started this podcast it would be best with two people hosting it. |
| 0:54.6 | So I asked my wife at the time, Denise, to join me. |
| 0:57.8 | And she did. |
| 0:58.6 | But don't get to a attach door because life happens and we end up getting a divorce. |
| 1:04.0 | So there will be a brief time where I'm going to be hosting all by myself. |
| 1:08.4 | And then I bring on board Kelly, who is my new partner in life. |
| 1:11.9 | I encourage everybody who starts back here in the archives |
| 1:15.0 | to also listen to the most recent episodes |
| 1:17.8 | for a few reasons. |
| 1:19.3 | Number one, I want you to see how much we've improved, |
| 1:21.8 | how the format has changed, and I want you to keep ab much we've improved how the format has changed and I want you to keep |
| 1:24.2 | abreast of some of the things that we're doing that are recent activities like meetups, |
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