Ep. 615 - Haunted Placerville, California

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

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

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Placerville is one of these California towns that got its start during the Gold Rush. This was a rough and tumble Wild West place also known as Hang Town. The Cary House Hotel was built to accommodate people coming in for the Gold Rush and was the jewel of Placerville. The hotel is believed to be quite haunted and there could be several reasons why. The Odd Fellows were strong in this town and met at the hotel. And there were two deaths there. But it isn't the only haunted location. Several buildings have spirits. Join us for the history and hauntings of Placerville, California. This Month in History features the Chunnel Breakthrough.

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(This Month in History) "In Your Arms" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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0:00.0	Hello, you sputacular people. Welcome to this 615th episode of the History Ghostbump Podcast.
0:06.2	Ghost Tours for the Theater of the Mind. I am your host, Diane.
0:09.1	And this is Kelly. Kelly, on this episode, we're going to your home state of California.
0:15.3	Oh. And it's also the state of my birth. True. To a place called Placerville.
0:22.0	Have you ever been there?
0:23.4	I actually think I have, but it was many, many, many years ago.
0:28.6	Well, it has a few haunted locations, so we're going to share those with everybody.
0:33.1	Looking forward to it.
0:35.7	History tells the story of the world and of our lives.
0:40.8	Sometimes that history goes bump in the night.
0:45.3	Broadcasting from the center of oddity and the supernatural in central Florida.
0:51.1	It's the History Goes Bump podcast.
0:54.4	And now the Central Florida, it's the History Goes Bump podcast.
0:59.2	And now this month in history. Music In the month of December on the first in 1990, the channel breakthrough occurred.
1:22.2	Soon after 11 a.m. on that date, 132 feet below the English Channel, a hole was drilled through sedimentary rock,
1:30.9	large enough to drive a vehicle through. This hole was a link between two ends of an underwater
1:36.3	railway tunnel. For the first time, the channel linked Great Britain with the European mainland.
1:42.9	It took nearly four years and 13,000 workers to dig
1:47.0	95 miles approximately 150 feet below the seafloor. Once the project was completed, the tunnel would
1:54.6	consist of two rail tracks going in opposite directions as well as a service tunnel. The channel
2:00.7	connected Folkestone, England, to Chalet, France.
2:04.6	After the connection was made in December of 1990,
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