Ep. 497 - New Zealand's Vulcan Hotel
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind
Diane Student
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
There are two things that bring people to St Bathans in New Zealand: gold and fossils. The St Bathans fauna bears dozens of different kinds of fossils. The small town itself was once a center of the Otago Gold Rush and one of the leftover locations from that time is the Vulcan Hotel. A painted lady might have lost her life at the hotel and today, people claim her spirit haunts one of the rooms there. Join us for the history and hauntings of the Vulcan Hotel. The Moment in Oddity was suggested by Karen Miller and features Le Passage du Gois and This Month in History features the sinking of SS Andrea Doria.
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Main Theme: Lurking in the Dark by Muse Music with Groove Studios
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(This Month in History) In Your Arms by Kevin MacLeod
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Transcript
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| 0:46.0 | History tells the story of the world and of our lives. |
| 0:51.0 | Sometimes that history goes bump in the night. |
| 1:03.0 | Broadcasting from the Central Apodity and the Supernatural in Central Florida |
| 1:09.0 | it's the History Goes Bump Podcast. |
| 1:13.0 | Hello, you spectacular people. Welcome to this 497th episode of the History Goes Bump Podcast. |
| 1:24.0 | Ghost tours for the theater of the mind. I'm your host, Ian. |
| 1:27.0 | And this is Kelly. |
| 1:29.0 | Kelly, on this episode we're going to a place that we haven't been to very often. |
| 1:33.0 | We haven't done them in a while, New Zealand. Awesome. |
| 1:37.0 | I was doing a bonus cast and I was like, well, we haven't done New Zealand in a while |
| 1:41.0 | so I looked up this location that we're featuring, which is the Vulcan Hotel. |
| 1:46.0 | And after I did the research, I was like, you know, I think it's got enough to do a regular episode on it. |
| 1:50.0 | So I switched to a different place in New Zealand for the bonus cast and brought this one over to the main feed. |
| 1:54.0 | Love it. Before we get into sharing the history and haunts of this location, |
| 1:58.0 | we want to welcome into this particular crew, Lisa and Amber. |
| 2:02.0 | Thank you for joining our Facebook group. |
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