Ep. 40 - Australia's Port Arthur
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind
Diane Student
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2015
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode features a special guest co-host! Seventeen year old Welsh/Australian Freya joins us to help share the history and hauntings, including her own experience! Port Arthur is part of a World Heritage site Tfeaturing former Australian jail sites and it is an open air museum. Australia has a harsh history since it was established as a place for Britain to send her convicts. Many of the prisoners from Ireland's Kilmainham Gaol were sent to Australia. Port Arthur's prison became the stop for Britain's worst convicts. Such a harsh place would be a good breeding ground for things that go bump in the night just from its penal history alone. But this area has an even more tragic story. It was the site of a massacre in 1996. No wonder Port Arthur is considered to be one of the most haunted locations in all the world. Moment in Oddity features the blue people of Kentucky and This Day in History features the first run of the Pony Express.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | History tells the story of the story of the world and of our lives. |
| 0:18.0 | Sometimes that history goes bump in the night. |
| 0:25.0 | Broadcasting from the center of oddity and the Supernatural in Central Florida, it's The History Goes Bump |
| 0:38.0 | podcast. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello, you sputacular people welcome to this 40th episode of the history |
| 0:49.0 | ghost bump podcast ghost tours for the theater of the mind I am your host Diane and this is Denise and tonight we have a special treat for all of you we have a special guest co-host all the way from Australia. Freya Porter, how are you Freya? |
| 1:07.0 | I'm good. Hello. |
| 1:09.0 | Well I told you all on the last podcast that I had received this fabulous email from this young lady and that |
| 1:15.0 | she had not just sent us a little email telling us that she really enjoyed the show, but |
| 1:20.5 | she suggested a location which is the one that we're doing tonight, |
| 1:24.0 | Port Arthur in Australia, and she didn't just suggest the site. |
| 1:28.0 | She actually gave us a bit about the history and a lot about the hauntings that have gone on there. |
| 1:34.2 | So we're looking forward to having her help share some of that with us this evening. |
| 1:38.7 | Before we get into that, we do want to point everybody in the direction of our website, that's History goes Bump. |
| 1:44.8 | com. And there you can find out everything you want to know about the show where you can follow |
| 1:48.7 | us on social media. And you can sign up for the newsletter or maybe we should start saying that it's joining our email list or our mailing list. |
| 1:57.5 | Now if you are a part of the spookacular crew or you are signed up for the email newsletter or our mailing list, you already had a |
| 2:06.3 | heads up that we were having a special co-host tonight. So maybe y'all want to go |
| 2:10.6 | ahead and join either one of those two things so that you can get some special |
| 2:14.8 | information as well. |
| 2:16.4 | And I guarantee when we're doing our road trip, I'm trying to work out all the technological |
| 2:20.8 | stuff. |
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