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🗓️ 19 July 2018
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Fort Mifflin stands on Mud Island as a reminder of a time when the original capital city of our new nation, Philadelphia, was in need of defense. The British commissioned the fort in 1771, but it would be the Americans who would finish the construction. The fort would witness the greatest sea battle of the Revolutionary War. Hundreds lost their lives here during that war. When the Civil War raged, the fort served as a Confederate prison. This kind of history lends itself to paranormal activity and there are many stories of a variety of ghosts walking among the casements and barracks. Join me and listener Drea Hahn as we share the history and hauntings of Fort Mifflin! The Moment in Oddity features the Sin-Eaters and This Month in History features Production of the Dymaxion Car.
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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. to this the history ghost bump podcast |
0:54.0 | Ghost Tours for the Theater of the Mind. |
0:56.0 | I am your host Diane. |
0:58.0 | On this episode, we're going to be over in Pennsylvania, |
1:01.0 | near Philadelphia, we're going to be checking out Fort Mifflin. This was |
1:04.8 | suggested to me by our listener Andrea Hahn. She also did a ton of research. This is a |
1:09.1 | location that she's been to several times and she's a reenactor. So she's been there as a reenactor as well she has a few experiences of her own to share we love that here |
1:18.1 | Before we get into that we want to welcome to the spookacular crew, Jim, Andrea, Patricia, Brian, Tracy, Leslie, Johnny, Jenny, and |
1:27.1 | Marine. |
1:28.1 | Welcome, everybody. |
1:29.6 | And now this moment, Naudity. There was a rather peculiar tradition that started in southern England that was meant to free a dead person from any sin they may have committed. |
1:48.0 | Upon the death of a person of prestige, a certain outcasts from the edge of the village would be brought to the home. |
1:54.0 | This person was an outcast because they were thought to carry the sins that they ate. |
1:58.4 | You heard that right. |
1:59.4 | These people were known as sin-eaters. |
2:02.2 | The ritual usually consisted of a body or casket being carried out of a home and passed the sin eater. |
2:07.0 | The deceased family would pass a bowl of beer, loaf of bread, and a sixpence to the sin eater over the body of the dead person. |
2:14.7 | The sin eater would say an incantation and then eat the food. |
2:18.5 | Sometimes the ritual would take place inside the home. |
2:21.6 | A plate of salt was placed on the chest of the departed and then a |
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