Ep. 151 - Hotel Galvez

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

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

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2016

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Galveston Island is a beautiful setting on the Gulf side of the state of Texas, south of Houston. People flock here as a vacation destination. The island was originally settled by Native Americans and then explorers came who set down roots. The city of Galveston was chartered in 1839 and the rich came to build their mansions along Broadway. The city grew to be one of the largest in Texas in the late 1800s. This would all change with the Great Storm that hit on September 8, 1900. Thousands were killed by the hurricane and two thirds of businesses and homes were destroyed. Bodies were buried quickly wherever a spot could be found. The aftermaths of this storm and the countless bodies buried beneath the island seem to have opened a portal into the afterlife. Galveston is quite haunted. Many locations on the island claim to have ghosts. Historical Researcher and Author Kathleen Shanahan Maca has just published "Ghosts of Galveston" and she is going to share the history and hauntings of Hotel Galvez. The Moment in Oddity features The Petrifying Well of Knaresborough and This Day in History features Spanish Flu Hits Philadelphia. We also have the third installment from Series 3 of Tim Prasil's Spectral Edition!

Check out the website: http://historygoesbump.com

Show notes can be found here: http://historygoesbump.blogspot.com/2016/09/hgb-ep-151-hotel-galvez.htm

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Kathleen Shanahan Maca's author's page: https://www.amazon.com/Kathleen-Shanahan-Maca/e/B00V2HCL3E

Tim Prasil's website: https://merryghosthunter.wordpress.com/

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0:00.0	Society 13 Podcast Network. Redefinite Podcasts.
0:07.0	Redefinite Podcasts. Society-13.com. I like to listen. History tells the story of the story of the world and of our lives.
0:39.0	Sometimes that history goes bump in the night.
0:44.0	Broadcasting from the center of oddity and the supernatural in Central Florida,
0:57.0	it's the History Goes Bump Podcast. as.
1:05.0	Hello, you spook-tacular people,
1:08.0	welcome to this 151 episode of the History Ghost Bump Podcast.
1:12.0	Ghost Tours for the Theater of the Mind.
1:14.0	I am your host Diane, and this is Denise.
1:17.0	And on today's episode, we are bringing you a location
1:20.0	from Galveston, Texas, Hotel Galvez, and we have a special guest joining us to talk about that.
1:25.6	Author Kathleen Maka, how are you doing, Kathleen?
1:28.9	I'm great, how are you ladies?
1:30.5	We're fabulous.
1:31.6	So this is a wonderful book. Thank you so much for sending it to us. We have really been enjoying reading it. You have a lot of locations in here. It's called Ghosts of Galveston. How many locations did you do? I think I
1:45.1	narrowed it down to just over 40. Just over 40. That's a haunted island.
1:51.1	It's a very haunted island.
1:53.0	Tell us a little bit about yourself before we get into talking about Hotel Galvez.
1:57.0	I'm a local writer. I work for a magazine called Galveston Monthly.
2:02.0	I really specialize in more historic writings, but I've
2:06.4	been a genealogist and a researcher of historic cemeteries for over 40 years. So I have a book out from last year called Galveston's Broadway
2:16.0	Cemeteries about the historic cemeteries in Galveston.
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