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Sometimes that history goes bump in the night, broadcasting from the central

apartment and the supernatural in central Florida. It's the history goes bump

podcast.

Hello you spooktacular people welcome to this 429th episode of the history goes bump

podcast. Those tours for the theater of the mind. I am your host Diane and this is Kelly.

Kelly on this episode we're going to be traveling through Nantucket and looking at all of the

different haunted locations there. This came up on my radar because I had done the bonus cast

this last week featuring one haunted location I'd found there and as I was researching it I stumbled

across a whole bunch of other ones and I went wait a minute there's a whole bunch of haunted

places here in Nantucket we need to do a whole show on it but I'd already researched the

bonus cast I'm like well I don't want to have to try to do something else so this is the rest

of haunted Nantucket. Yeah luckily there was enough to spread around yes have you ever been to

Nantucket? I have not. I haven't either I've gotten up into Cape Cod but I never made it out to

any of the islands. But before we get into that we want to welcome into the spooktacular crew Suzy

Jeanette with two teas and Augusta. Thank you for joining us in our Facebook group and now this

moment Naudity. The moment in Naudity was suggested by Sarah Lynn Jones. Helene Adelaide Shelby of

Oakland California filed for the US patent number 1749090 on August 16th 1927 for an invention she

named apparatus for obtaining criminal confessions and a photographically recording them.

That's quite the mouthful but what is really unique about this invention is that it entailed using

a skeleton to extract confessions from criminals. A suspect would be placed in a small dark chamber

facing a curtain area. The curtain would be lifted and there before the suspect would be a

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