Ep. 255 - The Mermaid Inn

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

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

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

At the confluence of three rivers, sits the East Sussex town of Rye. This is an ancient medieval town that became an important harbor along the English Channel. In the town of Rye, one will find the historic Mermaid Inn. The original building no longer stands, but the current building dates back more than 600 years with the original old cellars still in place. There are several secret passages that were used by smugglers. Some of these smugglers were members of the Hawkhurst Gang and they used the Mermaid Inn as their hideout. The inn has seen a long turbulent history. Today, it is a restaurant, bar and hotel that reputedly has many spirits kicking about in its various rooms. There are stories of cold spots, chairs moving on their own and full-bodied apparitions. Let's explore the history and hauntings of the Mermaid Inn! The Moment in Oddity was suggested by listener Amy Harris Martinez and features Charles E. Peck calling his family after his death and This Month in History features the theatrical release of The Love Bug.

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Vanishing from http://purple-planet.com (Moment in Oddity)
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0:00.0	This episode of History Goes Bump is entirely listener supported. History tells the story of the story of the world and of our lives.
0:27.0	Sometimes that history goes bump in the night.
0:45.0	Broadcasting from the center of Oddity and the Supernatural in Central Florida. It's The History Goes Bump Podcast. Hello you sputacular people welcome to this 255th episode of the
0:58.6	History Ghost Bump Podcast ghost tours for the Theater of the Mind. I am your host, Diane.
1:04.0	On this episode, we're going to be talking about The Mermaid Inn, which is over in Rye, in Great Britain.
1:10.0	There's a lot of hauntings going on in this place,
1:12.0	so I'm looking forward to bringing it to you.
1:13.6	And it's so much fun to go over to the UK and the countries that are over in Europe
1:19.2	because all of the structures there are just so old as compared to here in America.
1:24.0	So you've got so much history to dig into.
1:26.3	There's a lot of interesting stuff that's happened here.
1:28.7	Before we get into that, we had a lot of you come into the spookacular crew.
1:31.9	We want to welcome you.
1:33.0	K Y. Y. Welcome. Sandra Brian with a Y, Lisa, Jennifer, Alicia, Bettina, love that name.
1:42.0	Emily Deborah with an R-O-A-H at the end, Katie with an i-e, Lisa with an e, Julie,
1:48.8	Dawn, Melissa, Gary and Christie, Belinda, I believe it's Abbey with just one B and an I, Karen and Beth.
1:56.6	Welcome everybody, glad to have you with us.
1:59.2	And now this moment, Naudity. The moment Naudity was suggested by Amy Harris Martinez.
2:04.0	On September, The moment Nodity was suggested by Amy Harris Martinez.
2:14.0	On September 12, 2008 at 4.22 PM, a commuter train carrying 225 riders in California San Fernando Valley
2:22.4	collided with a freight train at 83 miles per hour.
2:25.9	The crash came to be known as the Chatsworth Crash.
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