Ep. 46 - Norwich State Hospital
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind
Diane Student
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2015
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Norwich State Hospital in Connecticut served as a home and place of treatment for the mentally ill for a hundred years. As is the case with many old insane asylums, treatment methods were arcane and in some cases torturous. Mental illness was not understood and people were mistreated years ago. Places that harbor pain and suffering seem to capture the energy for all eternity and that energy tends to lead to supernatural activity. Is it because spirits become trapped? Are evil beings attracted to the painful emotions and so they come and take up residence? Or is the bad energy trapped within the walls of the building itself? Today, we talk about the history and hauntings of the Norwich State Hospital for the Insane. The Moment in Oddity features Bog Bodies and This Day in History features the assassination of France's King Henri IV.
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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. |
| 0:23.0 | Broadcasting from the center of oddity and the Supernatural in Central Florida, it's The History |
| 0:37.0 | goes Bump podcast. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello you spookacular people welcome to this 46 episode of the history |
| 0:48.8 | ghost bump podcast ghost tours for the theater of the mind I am your host Diane, and this is Denise. |
| 0:54.9 | And on today's episode, we're talking about the Norwich State Hospital for the insane. |
| 1:01.5 | Which always gets very creepy just because of a lot of the techniques they used. |
| 1:06.0 | Indeed and this insane asylum was like many of the time they just didn't understand |
| 1:12.2 | mental illness Denise I I guess they moved past the times |
| 1:15.8 | when we used to hang people or burn people at the stake for witchcraft or something of that nature |
| 1:21.3 | for being demon possessed because people didn't understand |
| 1:23.8 | mental illness. But they still were employing Electroshock Therapy and |
| 1:28.3 | Lobotomies and Ice-Bas and all kinds of great stuff at this place, but I do have to say what a beautiful |
| 1:35.5 | campus it was at one time. |
| 1:38.7 | Because now, I'm not exactly sure what's out there. |
| 1:42.0 | I think there's only maybe I know for sure one |
| 1:44.4 | building is still standing. I'm not sure about how many others Denise it sounds like |
| 1:48.1 | most of the places at this location |
| 1:55.0 | that there's only been one |
| 1:58.0 | that there's only been one paranormal investigation group that's been allowed to go in |
| 2:00.0 | and that was unfortunately ghost hunters so some of the information we're gonna to go |
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