Ep. 266 - Colonial Williamsburg

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

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

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🗓️ 12 July 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Colonial Williamsburg is part of America's historic triangle. Today, it is a historic area that features a look back into the America of colonial times just as the struggle for independence was sparking. Visitors can watch artisans ply trades from the past and visit dozens of historic buildings that have been restored to their eighteenth century charm. This is a place where one can walk in the footsteps of our Founding Fathers and experience the reality and uncertainty of the times that earlier Americans lived under, both free and slave. In any city with this much history, there is bound to be talk of a ghost or two. And there are many here with fascinating stories of pirates, poisonings, suicides and war. Many of the historic buildings have ghost stories attached to them. Join me as I explore the history and hauntings of Colonial Williamsburg. The Moment in Oddity features the largest baby ever born and This Month in History features the Enigma Code broken.

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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.
0:45.0	Hello, you spook-people people.
0:50.0	Welcome to the 266 episode of The History Ghost Bump Podcast.
0:54.6	Ghost Tours for the Theater of the Mind.
0:57.0	I am your host, Diane.
0:58.6	On this episode, we're going to a place that I visited
1:01.0	when I was a kid a long time ago. I remember bits and pieces of it.
1:05.0	Definitely want to visit it again in the future.
1:07.0	This was suggested to us by Lloyd Durker and I know a few others of you have thrown it out to me as well.
1:12.0	And that is colonial Williamsburg.
1:15.1	There's a ton of history going on here and that obviously lends itself to a lot of haunting
1:20.0	so we're going to talk about the various buildings that are here in Williamsburg and some of the ghosts that seem to be attached to them.
1:27.0	Before we get into that, we want to welcome into the sputacular crew.
1:30.0	Chelsea, Tony with an eye, Janet,
1:33.4	Caleb, Stacy with an EY,
1:35.7	Haley, Tito, Leslie with an EY, Mindy, David,
1:40.1	and PG and Minnie.
1:41.4	Welcome, everybody. And now this moment, Naudity. And now this moment, Naudity. Anna Haining Bates was a woman born in Canada who became famous because she was considered a giantess.
2:00.0	She was 16 pounds at her birth in 1846 and grew to the height of 7 feet 11 inches.
2:07.0	She eventually joined the sideshow circuit and met her husband, Martin Van Buren Bates.
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