Ep. 611 - Haunted Newport Mansions

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

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

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Belleview Avenue was the Millionaire's Row of Newport. The avenue was lined with Gilded Age summer cottages built by wealthy industrialists. Those "cottages" were actually palatial estates and many of them still stand today and are run as museums or are privately owned. Several of them are haunted. These include Belcourt Castle, Seaview Terrace, The Breakers and Rough Point. Join us as we explore the history and haunts of these summer cottages to the rich and famous in Newport, Rhode Island! This Month in History features the first deep level electric tube.

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Music used in this episode:

(This Month in History) "In Your Arms" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Music: Silent Movie 49, produced by Sascha Ende
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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, you sputacular people. Welcome to this 611th episode of The History Ghostbump
0:05.8	podcast. Ghost Tours for the Theater of the Mind. I'm your host, Diane. And this is Kelly.
0:10.5	Kelly, on this episode, we're going to a really cool area of the country. It's a place that I'm dying to get to.
0:17.5	I have a client that has a home in Rhode Island, and she's like, you got to come up and stay
0:22.9	sometime. And I'm like, I'm very tempted because I want to go to Newport and see all of those
0:28.3	Gilded Age mansions. I do as well. We got familiar with these specifically because we were
0:34.6	watching the Gilded Age. And I was looking up like, where did they do
0:38.5	the filming? Is that a real place? What's going on here? And sure enough, these people who
0:44.4	lived in New York that were the movers and shakers of the time built their summer cottages in
0:51.9	Newport and they're magnificent. And quite a few of them are haunted.
0:56.6	So we're going to be sharing that on this episode.
1:00.7	History tells the story of the world and of our lives. Sometimes that history goes bump in the night.
1:10.3	Broadcasting from the center of oddity and the supernatural in central Florida.
1:16.2	It's the History Goes Bump podcast.
1:22.3	Before we get into that, we want to welcome into the spooktacular crew,
1:26.0	Jane, Stacey, Jerry, William, and Nicholas, who spells his name, N-I-K-O-L-A-U-S. Love that.
1:34.6	Thank you so much for joining our Facebook group. And now this month in history.
2:03.8	Thank you. In the month of November, on the 4th in 1890, the world's first deep-level electric tube railway was officially opened in London, England.
2:11.2	Deep-level rail lines are subterranean train tunnels, and they were created to result in less disruption to surface streets and buildings.
2:18.8	The railway was designed by James Henry Greathead and was inaugurated by Edward Prince of Wales in November 1890, but did not open to the public until December 18th of the same year. This was the first major railway to use
2:24.0	electric power trains. The line ran approximately 3.2 miles from Stockwell to King William Street
2:30.2	in London. The construction method consisted of tunneling and lining the tunnels with cast iron
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