Ep. 627 - Kennecott Copper Mine
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind
Diane Student
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🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The Kennecott Copper Mine in Alaska had been one of the richest copper mines in the world. A thriving mining camp developed around the mine, as was the case during the various gold and silver rushes around the country. And just like those rushes, eventually the town was abandoned and what has been left behind quite possibly could be ghosts wandering through the rusted machinery and crumbling buildings. Join us for the history and hauntings of the Kennecott Copper Mine. This Month in History features Houdini's Escapable Dive Suit patent.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, you sputacular people. Welcome to this 627th episode of the History Ghostbump Podcast. |
| 0:06.2 | Ghost tours for the Theater of the Mind. I am your host, Diane. And this is Kelly. |
| 0:10.1 | Kelly, do you have a hard hat ready to put on? |
| 0:14.2 | I don't. Well, you need to get one. |
| 0:16.8 | Damn. |
| 0:17.1 | We're going mining. Oh, very cool. We're going up to Alaska to the Kennecott Copper Mines. It's going to be very cool. I do have a headlamp, though. So there's that. Well, as long as you got a headlamp, I guess we're okay. Because I know. I've got a hard head. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if anything hits me. She said it first, folks. |
| 0:44.3 | History tells the story of the world and of our lives. |
| 0:48.9 | Sometimes that history goes bump in the night. |
| 0:55.0 | Broadcasting from the center of oddity and the supernatural in central Florida. It's the History Goes Bump podcast. |
| 0:59.0 | Before we get into talking about the history and hauntings of the minds, |
| 1:04.0 | we want to welcome into the Sputacular Crew, somebody with an awesome name, Diane. |
| 1:09.0 | With two ends. Thank you so much for joining our Facebook group. |
| 1:13.6 | And now this month in history. |
| 1:16.6 | Music In the month of March, on the first in 1921, Harry Houdini's patent was granted for an escapeable diving suit. |
| 1:40.6 | During his career, Houdini astonished audiences by escaping from handcuffs, straight jackets, chains, and other restraints while being submerged underwater. |
| 1:51.0 | The master magician and escape artist created a diving suit which the wearer could remove easily while being submerged underwater. |
| 1:58.6 | Diving suits of the time required assistance to both put on and take |
| 2:02.0 | off the suits. The diving suit that Houdini had created enabled the diver to do so without assistance. |
| 2:09.2 | Houdini's diving suit consisted of two separate parts, with a latch for locking the two parts together |
| 2:14.1 | in the middle. If a diver disengaged the latch, the two pieces would come apart. |
| 2:19.8 | This allowed the diver to easily exit the suit even while submerged, allowing the diver to safely |
| 2:24.9 | swim to the water's surface. Clearly, this type of suit would have been very advantageous to Houdini |
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