Ep. 128 - Fairfield Hills State Hospital and Charles Island

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

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

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Fairfield Hills State Hospital was a state run mental health facility in Connecticut that was opened to alleviate the overcrowding in other asylums. The facility was pleasing to the eyes from the outside, but within its walls unspeakable acts were taking place. This was not a place of rehabilitation, but more a place of experimentation. Just as we have found to be the case at other asylums during this time period, barbaric practices were followed and many "mysterious" deaths were the result. This has led to the typical result: hauntings. We also will share the curse of Charles Island, which is not far from Newtown, and it involves pirates! But is there only one curse on this island or could there be more? Join us as we explore the history and hauntings of these two Connecticut locations. The Moment in Oddity is by Bob Sherfield and features Mother Shipton and This Day in History is by Steven Pappas and features First American Space Walk. This location is suggested by listeners Paige Sherman and Michael Rogers and our Research Assistant is April Rogers-Krick.

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0:19.8	Bluetooth and internet connection required.
0:21.8	You must be signed into the same Google account on both your phone and Chromebook. History tells the story of the story of the world and of our lives.
0:48.0	Sometimes that history goes bump in the night.
0:53.0	Broadcasting from the
0:59.0	from the center of Oddity and the supernatural in Central Florida.
1:06.0	It's The History Goes Bump Podcast. Hello you spook-tacular people welcome to this 128 episode of the
1:19.8	history ghost bump podcast ghost tours for the of the Mind. I am your host
1:24.4	Diane and this is Denise. On today's episode we are covering two locations in
1:29.3	the state of Connecticut. The first is Fairfield Hill State Hospital, which was suggested to us by
1:34.4	listeners Paige Sherman and Michael Rogers.
1:38.0	And the second is Charles Island.
1:39.8	I found this one on my own because let's face it when it comes to
1:43.8	asylums we've covered a lot of them here and unfortunately a lot of them have the
1:48.4	same basic premise a lot of people who did not belong in them were locked up in them, and they were horribly mistreated, and experimental treatments were used on them.
1:58.5	And because of this kind of thing and mysterious deaths, we have hauntings there.
2:03.0	So I wanted to add a little something else to the show and I found Charles Island and it's a place that supposedly has three curses in connection to it.
2:12.0	Before we get into that we like you to check
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