Ep. 409 - Gaither Plantation

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

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

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Covington, Georgia is nicknamed Hollywood South due to the number of movies and television shows that have been filmed there. One location that not only hosts weddings and other events, but has also served as a set for films and TV shows is the Gaither Plantation. The house dates back to 1850 and there are two cemeteries on the property along with other historic buildings, one of which is an old church that was moved to the property. Several of the buildings, especially the main house, have paranormal activity. Join us as we explore the history and hauntings of the Gaither Plantation! The Moment in Oddity was suggested by Mike Rogers and features a coffin found in a golf course pond complete with skeleton and axe and This Month in History features Cherry Valley Massacre.

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Main Theme: Lurking in the Dark by Muse Music with Groove Studios

(Moment in Oddity) Vanishing by Kevin MacLeod
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(This Month in History) In Your Arms by Kevin MacLeod
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Transcript

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0:00.0	History tells the story of the world and of our lives.
0:21.8	Sometimes that history goes bump in the night, broadcasting from the Central
0:35.0	Opality and the Supernatural in Central Florida. It's the History Goes Bump Podcast.
0:46.8	Hello, you spooktacular people. Welcome to this 409th episode of the History Goes Bump Podcast.
0:52.8	Ghost tours for the theater of the mind. I am your host, Diane. And this is Kelly.
0:56.8	Kelly, on this episode, we're going to be hitting a place in Georgia called the Geather Plantation.
1:02.8	Looking forward to it. Before we get into that, we want to welcome into the spooktacular crew,
1:07.8	Rochelle, Mary, Karen, Jerry, Keely, whose name ends with an EY, Stephanie, Jenny with one N,
1:16.8	Chris S, and Chris W, Brendan, Amanda, Abigail, Holly, and Jacqueline, who spells her name,
1:24.8	J-A-C-L-Y-N. Welcome to the crew, everyone. And now this moment, Naughty.
1:38.8	The moment in Audity was suggested by Mike Rogers. Just another day out of the golf course.
1:44.8	Until you find a coffin in a pond and, well, it wasn't empty. The coffin was discovered in 2018
1:51.8	and a pond at a golf course in Lincolnshire, England. Archaeologists estimated that it dated back to the Bronze Age.
1:57.8	The coffin was made from a hollowed-out oak tree trunk. The even more amazing part was what was found inside the coffin.
2:04.8	The remains of a 4,000-year-old man, who was of high status, were inside, along with a well-preserved axe.
2:10.8	And this was no ordinary axe. It was very rare. One of only 12 discovered in Britain.
2:16.8	The coffin and axe are on display at the Lincoln Collection Museum. The technique golf club also has a tribute to the discovery made on the property.
2:23.8	They have a photograph of it up on the clubhouse wall. An axe makes a pretty unique golf club, and finding one in a coffin with a 4,000-year-old skeleton,
2:32.8	certainly is odd.
2:43.8	You're not afraid of a little ghost. Are you?
2:48.8	And now this month in history.
3:02.8	In the month of November, on the 11th and 1778, the Cherry Valley Massacre took place.
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