Ep. 60 - Danvers State Hospital
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind
Diane Student
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2015
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Danvers State Hospital sits on land that once was inhabited by Native Americans. Through the years the area was settled by Europeans and became known as the town of Salem. Later, the town of Salem would be broken into smaller towns and the city of Danvers was established. A state hospital was built here that became home to not only the terminally or drastically ill, but also the mentally ill. As is the case with so many hospitals and sanatoriums that we have researched, this was not necessarily a good home for people. Years of abuse and deaths have led what used to be Danvers State Hospital to be considered one of the most haunted places in Massachusetts. Reports of hauntings continue today despite the fact that it has now been converted into apartments. Come with us as we explore the history and hauntings of Danvers State Hospital. Moment in Oddity features the lady in black and This Day in History features the founding of the Firestone Tire Company.
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| 0:00.0 | History tells the story of the story of the world and of our lives. |
| 0:18.0 | Sometimes that history goes bump in the night. |
| 0:25.0 | Broadcasting from the center of oddity and the Supernatural in Central Florida. |
| 0:35.0 | It's the History Goes Bump podcast. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello, you spookacular people welcome to this 60th episode of the |
| 0:48.4 | History Ghost Bump Podcast ghost tours for the theater of the mine I am your host Diane and this is Denise and today we're finally home from our |
| 0:57.3 | Boston trip but we're still going to be staying in the Boston area when it comes |
| 1:00.9 | to our podcast today we're doing Danvers State Hospital |
| 1:04.7 | which is in Danvers Massachusetts. Unfortunately we had big plans to go visit |
| 1:09.7 | the site but our schedule was so packed that we were not able to do that, right? |
| 1:15.0 | Right, we are exhausted from our trip up to Boston. |
| 1:19.0 | We did a little bit of everything while we were there |
| 1:22.0 | and we do apologize we were planning on |
| 1:24.0 | doing a lot of periscoping. We always have big plans to do all this technological stuff |
| 1:28.7 | while we're on the road and then either we go to places that don't have Wi-Fi access, or in the case of Periscope, after a lot of trying very hard to do it over and over using Wi-Fi, not using Wi-Fi, doing it here at home, doing it in the hotels. |
| 1:45.1 | I finally decided I'm going to go on the internet and see what the heck is going on because I know |
| 1:48.9 | I'm technically challenged, but this periscope thing, everybody seems to be using it so easily. |
| 1:53.0 | Come to find out that using the app on an Android, |
| 1:58.0 | well if any of you are having any luck with that, let me know |
| 2:01.0 | because apparently the Android app is an afterthought. with that |
| 2:05.0 | I'm not because apparently the Android app is an afterthought. This was made for iPhones and so they haven't really bothered with the Periscope app for Android. |
| 2:10.0 | And so far I haven't found anyone who's been able to really use it when it comes to Android. |
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