Ep. 485 - Cocoanut Grove Fire

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The Cocoanut Grove in Boston started as a speakeasy and grew to become a very popular club. In 1942, the nightclub burned to the ground with hundreds of patrons trapped inside. This would be the second deadliest nightclub fire in US history. And although the area where the club was once located has completely changed, the spirits have refused to leave the site of their tragic ends. Join us for the history and hauntings of the Cocoanut Grove fire. The Moment in Oddity features a mummified squirrel and This Month in History features the birth of Golda Meir.

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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.
0:22.0	Sometimes that history goes bump in the night.
0:33.0	Broadcasting from the center of poverty and the supernatural in central Florida, it's the history goes bump podcast.
0:48.0	Hello, you spectacular people welcome to this 485th episode of the history goes bump podcast goes tours for the theater of the mind.
0:56.0	I'm your host, Diane.
0:57.0	And this is Kelly.
0:58.0	Kelly, we still have you here for right now, but the next couple episodes are probably going to be I'm shipping out again on this episode.
1:07.0	We're covering something that maybe a lot of people don't know about.
1:10.0	There was this nightclub called the coconut grove and it had this massive fires.
1:14.0	A matter of fact, this is the second deadliest nightclub fire ever in the U.S.
1:19.0	So of course we have some ghosts in the wake of this.
1:22.0	And there's probably a lot of people who looked at the title of this episode and went, that's not how you spell coconut.
1:27.0	Well, is how you spell coconut grove?
1:29.0	C-O-C-O-A-N-U-T.
1:32.0	Yeah, I chuckled when I first read the title because I thought you accidentally misspelled it.
1:38.0	I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts.
1:41.0	There they are, all standing in a row.
1:45.0	Big ones, small ones, some as big as your head.
1:51.0	Before we get into that, we want to welcome into this spectacular crew.
1:55.0	Tabitha, who has an A after the B, Ingrid, Kath, I believe this is Shaneid, Brian, Kylie and Kyle.
2:03.0	Thank you so much for joining this spectacular crew.
2:06.0	And now this moment, Naughtity.
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