Ep. 66 - Ohio State Reformatory
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind
Diane Student
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2015
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes a place is needed to help with reforming young people when they wander down the wrong road in life. That is what the Ohio State Reformatory was originally meant to do: help wayward young men get back on the right road. The beautiful Gothic reformatory built of iron and limestone is so picturesque that it was used as a location in the movie, "The Shawshank Redemption." But what happened to many of the residents of this building was anything, but beautiful and certainly was not about truly reforming young men. Stories that include torture, beatings and other misdeeds are numerous. And wherever strong emotions are built up, we usually find some kind of unexplained phenomenon. Come with us as we venture inside the Ohio State Reformatory! The Moment in Oddity features the Hammersmith Ghost and This Day in History features a pretender claiiming the throne as King Richard IV.
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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. |
| 0:35.0 | It's the History Goes Bump podcast. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello you Sputacular people welcome to this 66 episode of the History Ghost Bump Podcast |
| 0:50.0 | Ghost Tour is for the Theater of the Mind. |
| 0:52.1 | I am your host, Diane. |
| 0:53.6 | And this is Denise. |
| 0:55.1 | And in today's episode, we're going to be presenting to you the Ohio State Reformatory. |
| 1:00.9 | This is one of those places that they call Reformatory that I don't think it was really about reforming anyone |
| 1:06.7 | It's like reformatory equals torture and treat badly really badly now for a of our listeners, if you watch a lot of the paranormal shows that are out there that are the reality |
| 1:17.4 | TV shows on cable, you probably have heard of the Ohio State Reformatory because nearly all of them have made a visit to this |
| 1:24.5 | location because Denise it is the most haunted reformatory in the what United States |
| 1:30.8 | or world? |
| 1:32.8 | I don't know, but they consider it to be one of the most haunted locations, definitely in Ohio, |
| 1:36.4 | probably in this country as well. |
| 1:38.4 | So there's a lot of stuff going on there, a lot of history. |
| 1:41.1 | We're looking forward to sharing with you guys but before we get |
| 1:43.6 | into that we do want to point you at our website historygozbump.com has everything you could |
| 1:48.8 | possibly need in order to get involved more with the show whether it's where you can listen to the show, how you can catch up with us on social media. |
| 1:57.0 | Our archives are up there. You can also find the blog which has all of our show notes. |
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