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🗓️ 5 June 2025
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Benedict Canyon. What isn't haunted about this place? Actress Elke Sommer and her husband at the time, Joe Hyams, moved into their Benedict Canyon Drive mansion in 1964. Not long after they unpacked their boxes, they became aware of strange things happening in the house. Some were subtle, but others woke them up in the middle of the night. The couple tried cleansing the house, but ended up running from the home after a mysterious fire erupted. They never lived in the house again. Join us for the story of the Elke Sommer haunting. The Moment in Oddity features the Black Banquet and This Month in History features the passing of Melitta Bentz.
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(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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0:00.0 | History tells the story of the world and of our lives. |
0:21.4 | Sometimes that history goes bump in the night. |
0:32.4 | Broadcasting from the center of oddity and the supernatural in central Florida. It's the History Goes Bump |
0:41.5 | podcast. Hello, you sputacular people. Welcome to this 589th episode of the History |
0:52.7 | Ghostbump podcast, Ghost Tours for the Theater of the Mine. |
0:56.3 | I'm your host, Diane. |
0:57.7 | And this is Kelly. |
0:59.3 | Do you like how I introed myself in there, Kelly? |
1:01.8 | It was just a little halting compared to how you normally do it, so that's why I gave you that look. |
1:07.4 | Well, maybe that's because we're going to be doing a little bit of a different kind of |
1:10.9 | episode. We're not going to be talking about a specific haunted location or even the ghost of a |
1:15.6 | famous person who has passed on. We're going to be talking about a famous person who had a |
1:19.6 | haunting at their personal home. And Kelly, this one is pretty darn scary and convincing. |
1:27.0 | I can't wait to hear about it. Now, most people have probably |
1:30.0 | never heard of Alka Summer, but I'm sure if you've watched some older movies from back in the 60s, |
1:37.9 | or maybe even a particular loveboat here and there that she would have probably guest starred on, |
1:43.0 | you would recognize her face. |
1:44.8 | So we're really looking forward to bringing this to everybody. Before we do that, we want to welcome |
1:48.4 | into the crew, Vicky with an I, Kane with a K and an E at the end, and Eileen. Thank you so much |
1:55.5 | for joining the Sputacular Crew. And now this moment, Nodity. |
2:17.9 | As Taffophiles, if Diana and I were invited to a meal at someone's home, and our place setting was decorated as a tombstone, we would love the ambiance that our host had created. |
2:24.7 | However, far before our current day, back in 89 AD, Roman Emperor Domitian hosted a banquet. |
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