Ep. 284 - Squirrel Cage Jail

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

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

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Old jails just seem to be crawling with spirits as we have come to find from the several jails covered on this podcast. No matter the country, region or city and no matter the size, prisons hold spirits. One incredibly haunted jail can be found in Iowa. Council Bluffs was known as the Great Railroad Center of the Northwest. Before that time, it was a hub for trade between Native American tribes and white settlers. The Squirrel Cage Jail was built here in 1885. This jail has one of the most unique designs of any jail I have ever researched. This prison had a long run, being used until 1969. Today, it offers tours giving a glimpse into penal history and is said to be home to several spirits. Join me as I explore the history and hauntings of the Squirrel Cage Jail. The Moment in Oddity features Old Mike and This Month in History features Architect Stanford White Born. Our location was suggested by Jessica Garcia and Lynne Larsen Savage.

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

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0:00.0	This podcast is part of the Dark Niths Collective.
0:05.0	Visit darkness.org to discover more shows like this one.
0:10.0	The Darkness awaits. History tells the story of the story of the world and of our lives.
0:34.3	Sometimes that history goes bump. in Central Florida. It's the History Goes Bump Podcast.
0:57.0	Hello you spook-tacular people, welcome to this 284th episode of the History Ghost Bump
1:06.3	podcast Ghost Tours for the Theater of the Mind. I am your host Diane. On this episode
1:11.8	we are going to Iowa this This is a location that was
1:14.2	suggested by Jessica Garcia and Lynn Larson Savage. This is the
1:18.2	Squirrel Cage Jail, which is found in council bluffs. It was originally known as the Patawatami County Jail,
1:25.0	but it got the nickname of Squirrel Cage Jail
1:27.6	because this has one of the most unique designs
1:30.2	I've ever seen in any jail. I'd never heard of it before and I was so excited to find out about it because it's just very very unique.
1:38.5	So I'm looking forward to bringing that to you.
1:40.5	Before we get into that, I want to welcome to the spectacular crew, Megan, Teresa with
1:45.2	no H, Jeff, and Alicia Amanda. Welcome, everybody.
1:49.6	And now this moment, Naudity. Cornish funeral home in Prescott, Arkansas had a very unusual display for years.
2:05.1	The display featured the embalmed mummified remains of a man that everybody just
2:09.9	knew as Old Mike. The reason they called him old Mike was that no one knew who he was.
2:16.0	The story is that Mike was a traveling salesman in the early 1900s and he would come into
2:20.7	Prescott occasionally on the train to sell his wares,
2:23.2	which consisted of stationary and pencils. He would sometimes stay overnight and then leave on the
2:28.3	train the next day. No one really got to know the guy. Nobody knew about his family or where he came from.
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