Ep. 64 - Pittsburgh's Federal Courthouse
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind
Diane Student
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2015
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Pittsburgh is the original "Gateway to the West" and began as a Frontier Fort. In the 1900s, the Federal Courthouse was built in a design that leaves much to be desired particularly compared to the more interesting Allegheny County Courthouse. But the Federal Courthouse is quite interesting when considering the rumors that it is haunted. Pittsburgh is a very haunted city and this location is just one of the many spots harboring those still here in the afterlife. Join us as we explore the history and hauntings of Pittsburgh's Federal Courthouse! Moment in Oddity features Surgeon Barbers and This Day in History features the patent of the Kinetoscope. We also discuss an interesting study on how hauntings might make people more honest.
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Show notes and pictures contributed by Dan Foytik of 9th Story Studios: http://historygoesbump.blogspot.com/2015/08/hgb-podcast-ep-64-pittsburghs-federal.html
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| 0:00.0 | History tells the story of the story of the world and of our lives. |
| 0:18.0 | Sometimes that history goes bump in the night. |
| 0:25.0 | Broadcasting from the center of oddity and the Supernatural in Central Florida, it's The History |
| 0:37.0 | Goes Bump Podcast. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello, you speak. Hello you spookacular people welcome to this 64th episode of the |
| 0:49.0 | History Ghost Bump Podcast ghost |
| 0:50.9 | ghost tours for the Theater of the Mind. |
| 0:53.0 | I am your host Diane, and this is Denise. |
| 0:56.0 | And on today's episode, we're talking about Pittsburgh's federal courthouse. |
| 1:01.1 | It's kind of a boring building on the outside, Denise, but on the inside it gets very interesting, especially at night. |
| 1:09.0 | Because there's things that go bump. |
| 1:12.0 | Before we get into that, we do want to invite everybody to check out our website at |
| 1:15.2 | historygoes bump.com. It's got everything you could want to know about the show |
| 1:19.3 | where to find us on social media where to listen to the podcast. Our emporium is there where you can buy some really cool on the last crew review newsletter I did indeed let everybody |
| 1:35.2 | know who one of our upcoming guests is going to be and invited them to ask questions |
| 1:39.4 | Denise. |
| 1:40.4 | Ooh we're not we don't get involved with our listeners that way. What were you thinking? Not at all what am I thinking indeed? Also if you would like to donate to the show you can find all the information you need in order to do that there on the |
| 1:54.3 | Support the show tab for five dollars and above a month. You can unlock exclusive |
| 1:59.4 | content which includes our haunted true crime podcast and we already have one of those |
| 2:05.1 | up featuring the Cleveland torso murders very gruesome and very creepy indeed and |
| 2:11.2 | we have more great stuff coming after that and as matter of fact Denise all the bonus |
| 2:14.9 | cast that we've been doing are now going to go over to exclusive content as well. |
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