Ep. 629 - The Life and Afterlife of Rudolph Valentino
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind
Diane Student
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🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Rudolph Valentino has been an enduring symbol of early Hollywood glamour. He immediately comes to mind when someone speaks of "Old Hollywood." Valentino was nicknamed "The Latin Lover" and women swooned in his shadow. He grew famous through silent films. Gossip columns talked about him being the sheik with a Ouija board and Valentino was indeed a serious Spiritualist. He bought a ring from a jeweler who warned him that it was cursed and some claim this is why he died young. Could this be why his spirit is still around. There are many places that claim to harbor his spirit. Join us for the life and afterlife of Rudolph Valentino. This Month in History features Tiger King launches.
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(This Month in History) "In Your Arms" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Music: Sexy Scene Instrumentals Vol. 6 [Tango]
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, you sputacular people. Welcome to this 629th episode of the History Ghostbunt |
| 0:05.4 | 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 doing a life and afterlife. This is an actor from way, way back when |
| 0:17.3 | he was known as the Latin lover. Oh. |
| 0:22.4 | Rudolph Valentino. |
| 0:27.8 | He's come up on several of our episodes because, you know, he used to frequent a lot of places around Hollywood and such. |
| 0:29.8 | We've seen his grave at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, but we've never actually |
| 0:34.7 | talk specifically about him and his ghost. |
| 0:38.3 | It seems to be haunting a lot of locations. |
| 0:42.7 | History tells the story of the world and of our lives. |
| 0:47.9 | Sometimes that history goes bump in the night. |
| 0:52.3 | Broadcasting from the center of oddity and the supernatural in central Florida. |
| 0:58.2 | It's the history goes bump podcast. Before we get into talking about the life and afterlife of |
| 1:07.6 | Rudolph Valentino, we want to welcome into the spectacular crew, Mallory. |
| 1:12.0 | Thank you so much for joining our Facebook group. And now this month in history. In the month of March on the 20th in 2020, |
| 1:36.3 | the show Tiger King Murder, Mayhem, and Madness |
| 1:40.5 | debuted on Netflix, and who watched it? |
| 1:43.2 | We did. |
| 1:44.1 | Everybody listening? |
| 1:45.9 | Within a week of its release, the Netflix show went viral, |
| 1:48.8 | motivating enormous social media engagement |
| 1:51.3 | and becoming one of Netflix's highest rated shows at the time. |
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