Ep. 599 - Fort Ontario

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

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

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Oswego, New York was a bustling port in the 1800s, but long before that, there was Fort Ontario. The Fort represents over 260 years of history from its beginnings as an earthworks fort to a brick and mortar one and it has had a significant role in several conflicts. The structure was destroyed and rebuilt four times. There was a time that it was a huge general hospital as well as a safe haven for refugee Jews fleeing Europe during World War II. Today, the Fort is a living museum with costumed guides that lead all varieties of tours, including the ghost ones because there are several spirits here. Join us for the history and hauntings of Fort Ontario! The Moment in Oddity features Megaflash and This Month in History features the Double Eagle II Balloon. Our location was suggested by Katherine McManus.

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Music used in this episode:

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

Other music used in this episode:

Music: Battlefield 6 Streaming Music Vol. 3 by Sascha Ende
Link: https://ende.app/en/song/13077-battlefield-6-streaming-music-vol-3

Transcript

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0:00.0	History tells the story of the world and of our lives.
0:21.3	Sometimes that history goes bump in the night.
0:32.3	Broadcasting from the center of oddity and the supernatural in central Florida.
0:39.1	It's the History Goes Bump podcast.
0:47.3	Hello, you spectacular people.
0:49.4	Welcome to this 599th episode of the History Goes Bump podcast.
0:53.8	Ghost tours for the Theater of the Mind. I am your host, Diane. And this is Kelly. Kelly on this episode, we're going to hit a location in New York. It was suggested to us by our listener, Catherine McManus. It's a fort. It's another one of those glorious forts, Kelly. Awesome. I love them. Fort Ontario and Oswego, New York. Has quite a few spirits there. Before we get
1:13.6	to that, we want to welcome into the spectacular crew, Susan. Thank you so much for joining our
1:17.9	Facebook group. And now this moment in oddity. The moment in oddity was suggested by Dewey Oxburger.
1:33.3	Central Florida is known as the lighting capital of the United States.
1:37.0	But back in October of 2017, there was an extreme light show, which is known as a megaflash.
1:43.1	Mega flashes are storm cloud discharges that are classified as stretching 60 miles or more.
1:48.6	They typically occur over hotspots like the Great Plains where multiple storms cluster together.
1:54.3	This particular strike was only recently able to be fully measured with scientific data analysis
1:59.2	collected by a geostationary satellite.
2:02.1	The measurements found the 2017 strike to be 515 miles long, covering the states of Texas,
2:08.6	Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, and almost all the way to Kansas City, Missouri.
2:14.0	The length of time of the strike clocked in at around seven seconds.
2:21.1	Lightning occurs when electrons pool in one region of a storm cloud,
2:26.2	creating an ionized path in the air between where ions flow from negative to positive charges.
2:31.0	A professor of geographical sciences at Arizona State University commented,
2:35.8	It is likely that even greater extremes still exist, and that we will be able to observe them as additional high-quality lightning measurements accumulate over time. With the proof
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