Ep. 620 - Haunted Gainesville, Georgia
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind
Diane Student
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
The city of Gainesville is in the northern part of the state of Georgia and was in the heart of the Georgia Gold Rush. Yes, Georgia had a Gold Rush. This fueled the early growth of the city, but eventually textile mills and the poultry industry would drive the local economy. Several of the historic buildings in town have ghost stories attached to them. Join us for the history and hauntings of Gainesville, Georgia!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, you spectacular people. Welcome to this 620th episode of the History Ghostbump podcast. |
| 0:05.9 | Ghost Tours for The Theater of the Mind. I'm your host, Diane. |
| 0:08.5 | And this is Kelly. |
| 0:09.6 | Kelly, on this episode, we're going to hit a, I guess it's not a, I would say it's a middle range-sized city, kind of like where we live, about 40 to 50,000 people living there. Never had heard of it in relation to |
| 0:24.7 | Georgia I had in relation to Florida, and that's Gainesville. Yes, same. Yeah, we definitely |
| 0:31.2 | know Gainesville, Florida, but not Gainesville, Georgia. It's up in the northern part. We had our |
| 0:35.3 | listener, Veronica Martin, suggests this to us. So we're going to be talking about a few of their haunted locations there. |
| 0:43.3 | History tells the story of the world and of our lives. Sometimes that history goes bump in the night. |
| 0:52.9 | Broadcasting from the center of oddity |
| 0:55.5 | and the supernatural in central Florida, |
| 0:58.8 | it's the history goes bump podcast. |
| 1:04.5 | And now this moment in oddity. |
| 1:06.7 | Music The moment in oddity was suggested by Ruth Dempsey. |
| 1:21.1 | Many strange creatures lurk in the deepest depths of our oceans. |
| 1:24.9 | Many of them yet to be discovered. |
| 1:29.7 | In March of 2019, off the central coast of California, a new and, dare I say adorable species of fish was discovered. Adorable |
| 1:36.7 | in relation to fish? Okay. The Caraproctus coliculi, or common name bumpy snailfish, |
| 1:47.0 | is a deep sea dweller in the Pacific Ocean. Ruth aptly nicknamed the little guy, the old man of the sea. |
| 1:51.0 | Bumpy snailfish measure in at only about four inches in length. |
| 1:55.0 | They're a pale pink hue with large eyes and wide pectoral fins. |
| 1:59.0 | Their appearance is likened to a bumpy, bald-headed little old man with a beard. |
| 2:04.3 | They live at depths of over 10,000 feet. |
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