Ep. 264 - Stories and Haunts of Asbury Park

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 June 2018

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

In honor of Pride Month, listener Melissa Edwards suggested featuring Asbury Park in New Jersey. This is a hot spot for the LGBTQ community and is one of the smaller cities located on the Jersey Shore. This beach is ranked the sixth best beach in New Jersey and began attracting the gay community in the 1950s. In 1999, a gay discotheque called the Paradise Nightclub, opened near the beach and The Empress Hotel, which opened in the 1960s, is New Jersey's only gay-oriented hotel! The music scene in Asbury Park is thriving and a place that has launched the careers of rockers like Bruce Springsteen. There is a paranormal underbelly here though, with a history of tragedies and spirits stuck in place. Join me and Melissa as we share the history and hauntings of New Jersey's Asbury Park. The Moment in Oddity features Napoleon attacked by bunnies and This Month in History features the birth of Jacques Cousteau.

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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	And the History tells the story of the story of the world and of our lives. Sometimes that history goes bump in the night.
0:27.0	Broadcasting from the center of Oddity and the Supernatural in Central Florida,
0:39.0	it's the History Goes Bump Podcast.
0:43.0	Hello, you spook-people people.
0:50.0	Welcome to this 264th episode of the History Goes Bump Podcast,
0:54.0	Ghost Tours for the Theater of the Mind.
0:56.0	I am your host Diane.
0:58.0	June is Pride Month, for those of you who don't know,
1:01.0	and I've never done anything specifically in regards to the LGBT
1:05.6	community ever before on the show. And one of our listeners, Melissa Edwards,
1:09.5	said, you know, in honor of Pride Month, there is a location that you could feature that has some great stories and some hauntings involved and that's Asbury Park on the Jersey Shore.
1:19.5	I said, well let me look into this and see what we've got going on and sure enough she was right.
1:23.5	There's some great stuff here.
1:24.9	So in honor of Pride Month we are doing Asbury Park.
1:28.2	I will be joined shortly by Melissa who's going to share the history of Asbury Park and also some of the hauntings and some of her own experiences.
1:37.5	Looking forward to bringing that to you.
1:39.5	I just got back from the Haunted America Conference here in 2018. I encourage you guys to join me next year. I'll be there again next year.
1:46.8	It's a great place to get together. It's in the center of the country so it's easy for everybody to get there and there's a lot of great
1:53.7	speakers there and we do a lot of great events. I want to thank Tammy and Brian
1:57.7	for hanging out with me that whole weekend and it was so great to meet
2:01.2	Paula and Sheila.
2:02.9	Thanks for introducing yourselves.
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