Ep. 214 - Legends of the Balkans

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

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

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The Balkans historically has been a place of violence and for this reason, its borders are very fluid. The main countries that generally are accepted as a part of the Balkans are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Serbia, Kosovo, Romania, Macedonia and parts of Greece, Turkey, Italy and Hungary. This Peninsula of land is named for the Balkan Mountains, which in Turkish means "a chain of wooded mountains." The superstitions and legends of the region are rich. The legends that people are most familiar with from this region are those regarding vampires, but there is so much more here. Our listener Chris Klimovitz, who has been living in Albania, returns to the podcast to share his first-hand accounts of the legends surrounding cemeteries, witches and ghost in the Balkans. The Moment in Oddity features the mysterious sinkholes of Mt. Baldy and This Month in History features the eviction of the Bonus Marchers and their shanty town burned.

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Show notes and pictures from Chris can be seen here: https://historygoesbump.blogspot.com/2017/07/hgb-ep-214-legends-of-balkans.html

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Music:

Vanishing from http://purple-planet.com (Moment in Oddity)
In Your Arms by Kevin MacLeod http://incompetech.com (This Month in History)

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0:00.0	Society 13 Podcast Network. Redefining Podcasts. Do you like to listen?
0:10.0	This is Sean and Chris from the Childhood Remastered Podcast where we look back on the cartoons, TV shows and movies of our youth to see if they're still worth a damn or not
0:19.2	Or not which is far too often the case now get ready because you're about to listen to History Goes Bump. History tells the story of the world and of our lives.
0:46.0	Sometimes that history goes bump in the night. Broadcasting from the center of Oddity and the supernatural in Central Florida.
1:04.0	It's the History Goes Bump Podcast.
1:08.0	Hello you spook-tacular people welcome to this 214th episode of the
1:17.4	History Ghost Bump Podcast goes towards for the theater of the mind I am your host
1:22.0	Diane and this is Denise. On today's
1:24.3	episode we are going to bring you the Legends of the Balkans. We're going to be
1:28.0	joined shortly by our listener Chris Klimovitz who has joined us on a
1:31.6	previous episode,
1:33.2	and he has been living over in Albania, and he's going to share with us
1:37.2	some of the legends that he's heard while he's been there.
1:40.2	There's lots of superstitions, and there's a lot more than just vampires over there.
1:44.7	So we're looking forward to bringing that to you guys.
1:46.9	Denise, we're glad to have you back here. Well, thank you.
1:49.8	We want to thank the guys over at Childhood Remastered for the bumper at the beginning of this episode.
1:55.0	Yes, we do. Thanks so much.
1:57.0	That'll take you back to your childhood when it comes to cartoons.
2:00.0	And make sure you check out the Dirty Bits podcast. I've been enjoying
2:04.2	binging on that one. It brings a little bit of a seedy side of history, things that
2:08.9	you definitely were not told about in history class, which you know we love here because that's the reason why we
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