Ep. 141 - Waitomo Caves Hotel
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind
Diane Student
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2016
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Waitomo is a beautiful natural location on the North Island of New Zealand that is known for its lush bush area and sea caves. The original people of this land, the Maori, have developed a culture rich in legend. A main draw for people from around the world are the Waitomo Glowworm Caves. The caves are not only known for their natural beauty, but for the creature for whom they are named: the glowworm. A popular tourist destination needs lodgings for the visitors and that is where the Waitomo Caves Hotel comes in to fill the need. The hotel has existed for over a hundred years. Situating a hotel in a land rich with lore, limestone and strife has led to rumors of this hotel being haunted. Join us as we share the history, lore and hauntings of the Waitomo Caves and their hotel! The Moment in Oddity is by Bob Sherfield and features George Wyman's cross-country journey and This Day in History is by Kristin Swintek and features the Whiskey Rebellion. Our location was suggested by listener Erin Olivia.
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| 0:00.0 | Society 13 Podcast |
| 0:05.0 | Podcast Network. |
| 0:07.0 | Redefinite Podcasts. |
| 0:10.0 | Society-13. Society-13.com. I like to listen. History tells the story of the story of the world and of our lives. |
| 0:38.0 | Sometimes that history goes bump in the night. Broadcasting from the center of Oddity and the supernatural in Central Florida, |
| 0:56.0 | it's The History Goes Bump Podcast. Hello you spookacicular people welcome to this 141 |
| 1:09.0 | episode of the History Ghost Bump Podcast |
| 1:11.6 | Ghost Tours for the Theater of the Mind. |
| 1:13.5 | I am your host Diane, and this is Denise. |
| 1:15.8 | And we're going to New Zealand on this episode. |
| 1:18.8 | I believe this is our first location in New Zealand. |
| 1:21.3 | I think so as well. I really wish that we could have |
| 1:24.4 | gone and like researched it in person. No kidding this is definitely something we've |
| 1:28.8 | added to our bucket list. This was suggested to us by our listener Aaron |
| 1:32.3 | Olivia and that location is |
| 1:34.1 | Whiteomo Caves Hotel. This is an exciting episode for us because we have a little bit |
| 1:40.1 | of a connection when it comes to the Maori people which we're going to have to talk about in order to talk about these caves. |
| 1:45.8 | We're going to be going down some rabbit holes on this show because you can't talk about the |
| 1:50.1 | Waitomo Caves hotel without talking about the actual |
| 1:53.0 | Whitomo Caves and officially they're called the Whiteomo glow worm |
| 1:56.8 | cave so we're gonna be talking about glow worms or you talk about these caves |
| 2:01.2 | the Maori people the Hawka're going to get into a lot of stuff and I think |
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