Ep. 638 - Railroad House Inn and Shank's Tavern
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind
Diane Student
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The Railroad House Inn celebrated its bicentennial in 2023. Through those 200 years, the inn has witnessed a lot of history in Marietta, Pennsylvania. The oldest continuously operated bar in all of Lancaster County, Shank's Tavern, is also in Marietta. Both of these historic locations are reputedly haunted. Join us for the history and hauntings of the Railroad House Inn and Shank's Tavern. The Moment in Oddity features an arrow injury saving a woman's life. Our location was suggested by listener Kay Eberhart.
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(Moment in Oddity) "Vanishing" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, you sputacular people. |
| 0:01.8 | Welcome to this 638th episode of the History Ghostbump Podcast. |
| 0:05.7 | Ghost Tours for the Theater of the Mind. |
| 0:07.5 | I am your host, Diane. |
| 0:08.5 | And this is Kelly. |
| 0:09.5 | Kelly, on this episode, we're going to be hitting two locations, |
| 0:14.0 | the Railroad House Inn and Shanks Havern. |
| 0:18.0 | Both of these are in Marietta, not Georgia, not Ohio. Pennsylvania. Yes. So we're looking |
| 0:25.6 | forward to bringing the history and hauntings of these, and I think I'll be all right, and I seem like |
| 0:30.8 | I sound okay right now, that I did get a huge molar pulled yesterday. So I have a hole in my head, another hole in my head. |
| 0:40.6 | And I feel like Kelly punched me in the side of my face. |
| 0:43.3 | I did no such thing. |
| 0:44.5 | Which may have happened. |
| 0:48.8 | History tells the story of the world and of our lives. |
| 0:53.9 | Sometimes that history goes bump in the night. |
| 0:58.4 | Broadcasting from the center of oddity and the supernatural in central Florida, it's the |
| 1:04.9 | History Goes Bump podcast. Before we get into talking about the history and hauntings of the railroad house and |
| 1:14.3 | and shanks tavern, we want to welcome into the spectacular crew, Lynn with an E on the end of it, |
| 1:18.9 | and Stacy with a Y. |
| 1:20.8 | Thank you so much for joining our Facebook group. |
| 1:23.2 | And now this moment, Nodity. |
| 1:36.2 | Yeah. And now this moment in Audity. The moment in Audity was suggested by Chelsea Flowers. |
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