Ep. 153 - Ghosts of the 1871 Infernos

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

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

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2016

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This episode is dropping on October 8th because this day in history marks the 145th anniversary of a day when terrible fires wiped out cities and took the the lives of thousands of people in 1871. One fire, the Great Chicago Fire, is well known, but there were other big fires, including one that not many people know about that actually claimed more lives and that was the Peshtigo Fire. The summer had been abnormally dry and it did not take much for the fires to spark and spread. The stories about these disasters are tragic, leaving behind emotions and turmoil that seem to fuel paranormal activity. And then there is the odd twist that these deadly fires occured on the same day. Join us as we share the history and hauntings of the 1871 Infernos! The Moment in Oddity was suggested by Michael Rogers and features the baby eating giant statue in Bern and This Moment in History features the Second Opium War. Our show topic was suggested by listener Ellen Martin.

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0:00.0	Society 13 Podcast
0:05.0	Podcast Podcast Network.
0:07.0	Redefinite Podcasts.
0:10.0	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 sputacular people welcome to this one hundred and fifty third
1:09.6	episode of the history Ghost Bump podcast ghost Ghost Tours for The Theater of the Mind.
1:14.0	I am your host Diane, and this is Denise.
1:17.0	And today's episode we are featuring the Ghosts of the 1871 infernos.
1:23.0	Many of our listeners have probably heard of the Great Chicago Fire,
1:28.0	but I bet you haven't heard of the Great Pestigo Fire.
1:32.0	This one was even worse than theestigo Fire.
1:32.8	This one was even worse than the great Chicago Fire.
1:36.5	This was suggested to us by Ellen Martin.
1:39.3	It was something I had never heard of before.
1:41.7	And as I did the research, Denise Denise I came to find out that there
1:45.0	were other fires that happened on this day October 8 in 1871. There was also
1:51.2	something that's called the Great Michigan Fire, which was several cities that burned.
1:56.0	So we had these three major fires all on the same day.
2:01.0	Today, October 8,, 2016, marks the 145th anniversary of that day when they say America
2:09.3	burned.
2:10.3	Oh, geez, it's amazing how many fires and you wonder why?
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