Ep. 158 - Witches in America

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

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

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2016

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Many people are aware of the Salem Witch Trials in America. And while these trials and these alledged witches get most of the attention, these were not the only people accused of witchcraft. It is generally understood that these people were not really practicing witchcraft, but that does not mean that there were not really witches in America. Witchcraft has long been practiced in America and Wicca is an accepted religious practice in our modern era. On this episode, we are going to explore other witch hunts and discuss some possible real witches, including the Bell Witch of Tennessee and Pat Fitzhugh joins us to discuss that entity. Join us as we explore witches in America. The Moment in Oddity features a suggestion from listener Zoe Zimmerman about a crewless blimp falling from the sky and This Day in History features Japanese Kamikazes being used for first time. Our topic was suggested by listener Molly Farquhar and we had research help from Kristen Calderon.

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0:00.0	Society 13 Podcast Podcast Network. Redefining Podcasts.
0:07.0	Redefining 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.
0:43.0	Broadcasting from the center of oddity and the supernatural in Central Florida,
0:56.0	it's the History Ghost Bump
1:11.4	Podcast.
1:12.4	Ghost Tour's for The Theater of the Mind. I am your host for the theater of the mind I am your host
1:14.7	Diane and this is Denise Denise on today's episode we have a topic that was suggested
1:19.8	to us by Molly Farquhar and I hope I said her last name right. We had research
1:23.7	assistance from Kristen Calderon and the topic is Witches in America. We have
1:29.2	already covered the Salem witch trials before but there's other Witch Trials that went on even before that that we only have touched on briefly and we're going to talk a little bit more about those on this episode.
1:40.0	We're also going to get into some of the real witches that possibly were out there
1:44.0	and this includes something that many many many of you too many to actually list have asked us to do and that is the Bell Witch.
1:51.0	Later in this episode we're going to be sharing with you
1:54.6	an interview with a man that we consider
1:56.7	to be the foremost expert on the Bell Witch,
1:59.5	and that's Pat Fitz You.
2:01.0	This is an interview that Denise and I conducted probably about
2:04.4	three and a half to four years ago with Pat but what we did is we pulled it out of our
2:08.5	archive. We remastered it and re-recorded ourselves so that it sounds a lot better than it did when we originally broadcast it and we think you're really going to enjoy listening to what he has to say about that.
2:20.0	But before we get into that we love to have you check out our website,
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