Ep. 486 - Tinker Swiss Cottage

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Tinker Swiss Cottage is a unique and beautiful home that resembles a Swiss cottage. Built by the Tinker family, it would become a symbol for Rockford, Illinois and the family's contributions to Rockford would help the town grow. Most of the family members who had lived at the house, died at the house. Most of the furnishings and artifacts in the house, that is now a museum, belonged to the family. Possibly this is why there are so many claims that many of the family's spirits still reside in the home. Join us as we share the history and hauntings of the Tinker Swiss Cottage! The Moment in Oddity features taxidermied birdsand This Month in History features the birth of Martha Graham.

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

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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 center of
0:35.0	poverty and the supernatural in central Florida. It's the history goes bump
0:41.6	podcast.
0:45.8	Hello, you spooktacular people. Welcome to this 486th episode of The History
0:52.8	Goes Bump Podcast. Ghost tours for the theater of the mind. I'm your host,
0:56.6	Diane. And this is Kelly. Kelly, on this episode we are featuring a really cute
1:01.8	house. It's the tinker Swiss cottage. It is so neat. People are gonna love this
1:07.6	that are our listeners. I know you guys love these kinds of houses. And Kelly
1:11.9	in the spooktacular crew, people post every so often like a Victorian house that
1:16.9	looks really cool. That's for sale or you know, a haunted location. That's for
1:20.8	sale. And we're always like, Oh, this will be the HGB Clubhouse and Chelsea
1:25.2	posts a lot of those pictures. Yes, she does. This would make a great HGB Clubhouse.
1:30.5	I just love the name of it. Yes, it sounds adorable. It does. And it's actually the
1:35.5	last name of the family tinker before we get into sharing the history and
1:39.0	hauntings of this location. We want to welcome into this spooktacular crew,
1:42.0	Megan, Marsh, and Pandora, who spells her name, P-A-N-D-O-R-A-H. Very cool. Indeed.
1:50.4	Thank you so much for joining our Facebook group. And now this moment, not a
1:54.8	lot of it.
2:04.6	The industry of aviation has made leaps and bounds since the Wright brothers
2:08.5	conducted their first successful flight back in December of 1903. Now there are
2:14.0	researchers from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology who are
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