Ep. 478 - Mason House Inn

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The Mason House Inn is the oldest steamboat hotel on the Des Moines River in Bentonsport, Iowa. It has a history connected to the Mormon Trail, the Civil War and the Underground Railroad. Today, it is run as a bed and breakfast rather than a hotel. There are several reasons for spirits to be hanging out here and the owners embrace the haunting, documenting dozens and dozens of experiences. join us as we share the history and hauntings of the Mason House Inn. The Moment in Oddity features Fiscal Fishy and This Month in History features the birth of Greenbacks.

Check out the website: http://historygoesbump.com

Show notes can be found here: https://historygoesbump.blogspot.com/2023/03/hgb-ep-478-mason-house-inn.html

Become an Executive Producer: http://patreon.com/historygoesbump

Music used in this episode:

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

(Moment in Oddity) Vanishing by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4578-vanishing
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

(This Month in History) In Your Arms by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3906-in-your-arms
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Outro Music: Happy Fun Punk by Muse Music with Groove Studios

From https://purple-planet.com:
Decay

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	History tells the story of the world and of our lives.
0:21.9	Sometimes that history goes bump in the night broadcasting from the center of
0:35.1	oddity and the supernatural in central Florida. It's the history goes bump
0:41.9	podcast.
0:47.9	Hello you spooktacular people welcome to this 478th episode of the history
0:52.9	goes bump podcast ghost tours for the theater of the mind. I'm your host Diane and
0:57.4	this is Kelly Kelly on this episode we're heading to Iowa and we're going to
1:01.4	check out the Mason House in. There's a lot of ghosts in this place. A lot of
1:06.6	experiences. We're only going to share a small portion of them looking forward to
1:10.9	it. Before we do that we want to welcome into this
1:13.0	spooktacular crew Jillian with a J Amy, Tamara, Whitney, and Karen. Thank you
1:19.8	so much for joining our Facebook group. And now this moment, Naughtity.
1:23.8	So many people around the globe play video games. Recently there was a Japanese
1:38.3	gamer with about 1000 subscribers on YouTube who had his credit card
1:43.0	compromised by his beta fish. Without ever giving a thought to the consequences
1:48.0	this viscally foolhardy fish used it without his owner's permission and created a
1:53.1	security breach during a live stream gaming event. This particular gaming
1:57.6	community actually used fish as the players. How do you ask? Well the YouTuber
2:03.5	devised a system that allowed their beta fish to play Pokemon games on an
2:07.6	Nintendo Switch. The fish tank actually has sensors that act as buttons on the
2:12.8	gaming device. The recordings of the beta tell us the characters which way to
2:17.4	move or how to make decisions. Prior gaming attempts were in Pokemon
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Diane Student, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Diane Student and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.