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🗓️ 29 February 2016
⏱️ 48 minutes
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The Winchester Mystery House or Winchester Mansion is one of the most unique and bizarre homes ever built. The mystery part of the name refers to the interior infrastructure. It truly is a mystery why certain elements were constructed. There are stairways that lead to nowhere, doors that open to walls and windows on the interior of the house. Numerology plays a significant part in the design as well. Legends and rumors permeate the history of the home. Was the weird construction an elaborate attempt to fool spirits to keep them at bay? Many of the rumors about the house include tales of haunting activity. Tours are very popular here and listener Ronda Williams shares her experience with the Flashlight Tour in this episode. Come with us as we explore the mysteries, history and hauntings of the Winchester Mansion. The Moment in Oddity features Scratching Fanny as suggested by Bob Sherfield and This Day in History is Hattie McDaniels Oscar win.
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Tour audio featured is from official Lighthouse Tour of the Winchester Mansion.
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0:00.0 | The History tells the story of the story of the world and of our lives. Sometimes that history goes bump in the night. |
0:26.0 | Broadcasting from the center of Oddity and the supernatural in Central Florida, |
0:39.0 | it's The History Goes Bump Podcast. |
0:53.9 | Ghost Stores for The Theater of the Mind. |
0:55.8 | I am your host, Diane. |
0:57.3 | And this is Denise. |
0:58.3 | And Denise, on this episode, we have the most demanded location we've had thus far in the podcast. So no pressure at all on us. |
1:08.0 | Man, we better get this right. We actually had done this location the Winchester Mystery House before. |
1:13.8 | What it happened is, I'd found this place called Mystery Manor that was a haunted house attraction |
1:19.2 | that actually had been a real location that had actual hauntings that were going on in it. |
1:23.8 | But they'd made up a fabricated story to go with it. |
1:26.8 | And in doing the fabricated story that went with it and then trying to figure out everything, |
1:30.9 | it only was like about maybe 10 to 15 minutes of the show so I was like I've |
1:34.7 | got to have something else to do here and I've been looking at the Winchester Mystery House |
1:38.2 | and I went well it has mystery in the name and I just did Mystery Manor so I could make this |
1:42.2 | the mysterious episode. |
1:44.0 | It sounded like a really great idea at the time and that's episode 8. |
1:47.0 | But we only gave the Winchester Mansion about 15 minutes in that show. |
1:51.0 | We kind of went through it really fast. And so we keep getting requests |
1:53.9 | for it because people don't realize it's there if they haven't worked their way all the way through |
1:57.0 | the archives because it doesn't actually show up when you just look down at the titles. You don't see it in the |
2:01.1 | title anywhere. And I thought, know looking at this place and all of the wonderful comments that we've gotten about it. We're going to share a lot from our listeners because a lot of our listeners, this is probably the most visited place by all of our listeners as well. |
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