Ep. 565 - Haunted Cedar Key and the Island Hotel

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

Travel, History, Places & Travel, Paranormal, Haunted, Society & Culture, Ghosts

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

We originally featured the Island Hotel and Restaurant in Cedar Key, Florida back on Ep. 36 in 2015. In November 2024, we stayed overnight and did a little investigating and while our experiences were subtle, it does seem that paranormal activity does occur here. The building was originally built in 1859 and used as a general store and it was built to last. The building material that was used was Tabby, which is a mixture of oyster shells, sand and limestone, and the structure has lasted 165 years. The most recent hurricanes to hit the area, particularly Hurricane Helene, only caused slight wind damage to the structure. The building has passed through the hands of many owners, some of whom may still remain in the afterlife. People claim there are as many as thirteen ghosts here. The rest of Cedar Key did not fair well during Hurricane Helene, but we still enjoyed the surroundings of what seems to be a very haunted island. Join us for the history and hauntings of the Island Hotel and Cedar Key! The Moment in Oddity features Frog Milk and This Month in History features Puerto Rico discovered by Christopher Columbus.

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

(Moment in Oddity) "Vanishing" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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(This Month in History) "In Your Arms" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Outro Music: Happy Fun Punk by Muse Music with Groove Studios

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Tropical Island House by Sascha Ende from Ende.App
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Transcript

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0:00.0	History tells the story of the world and of our lives.
0:21.6	Sometimes that history goes bump in the night.
0:32.6	Broadcasting from the center of oddity and the Supernatural in Central Florida.
0:39.4	It's the History Goes Bump podcast.
0:47.8	Hello, you sputacular people.
0:49.9	Welcome to this 565th episode of the History Goes Bump podcast.
0:55.9	Ghost tours for the Theater of the Mind.
1:02.9	I'm your host, Diane. And this is Kelly. Kelly on this episode, we are kind of doing a redux and some fresh stuff. We had done the island hotel and restaurant back in 2015. And I'd been kind of setting it
1:09.4	aside doing it as a redux because I'd wanted to
1:11.5	actually go stay there. And we actually got that opportunity a couple of weeks ago.
1:15.8	Yes, we did. Did a little investigating, had another one of our profound experiences that we've
1:21.5	never had at any other location before. So we're looking forward to sharing that with everybody.
1:26.4	We're also going to talk about a couple of the other haunts that are on Cedar Key, which was completely devastated by
1:31.2	Hurricane Helene that just whipped through there a couple months ago. Before we get into sharing
1:35.7	all of that, we want to welcome into the sputacular crew, Becky and Christos. Thank you so much
1:41.3	for joining our Facebook group. And now this moment in oddity.
1:53.6	The moment in oddity was suggested by somebody in the crew.
1:57.8	I just don't recall who, so my apologies.
2:00.6	Throughout history, many methods of food and drink preservation have been discovered.
2:04.9	Prior to the invention of modern refrigerators, preserving things like milk proved to be challenging.
2:10.4	However, centuries before modern refrigeration, the people of Russia and Finland discovered a strange method for keeping milk fresh and free from bacteria.
2:18.7	It just so happens that the body secretions of their common frogs have many antibacterial properties.
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