Ep. 625 - Legends of the Caucasus
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind
Diane Student
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Many years ago, we did an episode about the legends of the Balkans. We thought it would be interesting to go across the Black Sea and explore the legends of the Caucasus. The Caucasus is a region of Eastern Europe and Western Asia that includes the countries of Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Southern Russia. This region is steeped in folklore, mythology, and legends and that isn't surprising because the history here is one of struggle, war, conquest and the precarious victory of independence. Paganism gave way to Christianization and cultural beliefs mixed. Join us as we explore the legends of the Caucasus! This Month in History features the sinking of the USS Maine.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, you sputacular people. Welcome to the 625th episode of the History Ghostbump |
| 0:05.5 | Podcast. Ghost Tours for the Theater of the Mind. I am your host, Diane. And this is Kelly. |
| 0:10.3 | Kelly, on this episode, we're doing a Legends episode. And way, way, way back in the day, many, many |
| 0:17.9 | years ago, we did a Legends of the Balkans, and we actually had a young |
| 0:21.5 | man join us who I think he was teaching over there. And so he came on with us and shared about |
| 0:27.4 | the different legends that he'd learned about there while he was teaching and such. It was |
| 0:30.9 | very fascinating. And I was watching the Olympics the other day, and they had the team skating, and there was this |
| 0:39.3 | country called Georgia, and I was like, wonder if things are haunted in Georgia. So I looked it up, |
| 0:46.2 | and yes, there's some interesting stuff there. And then I was like, huh, that whole region, |
| 0:52.2 | you know, it's called the Caucasus, what other countries are there, what other legends are there? |
| 0:56.7 | And so that's what this episode is about. |
| 1:01.2 | History tells the story of the world and of our lives. |
| 1:06.3 | Sometimes that history goes bump in the night. |
| 1:10.8 | Broadcasting from the center of oddity and the |
| 1:13.8 | supernatural in central Florida, it's the history goes bump podcast. Before we get into that, |
| 1:25.0 | we want to welcome into the sputacular Crew, Brenna. |
| 1:28.1 | Thank you so much for joining our Facebook group. |
| 1:30.6 | And now this month in history. |
| 1:55.1 | Thank you. In the month of February, on the 15th and 1898, the USS Maine sank in Havana Harbor. |
| 1:59.4 | The USS Maine was a battleship that was anchored at the time of the sinking. |
| 2:01.9 | The ship was sent to Havana to protect American, the ship was sent to Havana to protect American interests during Cuba's revolt against Spain. |
| 2:08.5 | A massive explosion in the forward gunpowder magazines destroyed a third of the front of the battleship, |
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