Ep. 68 - Maitland Gaol
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind
Diane Student
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2015
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Maitland Gaol is considered Australia's hardest jail. For nearly twenty years the gaol has stood empty, but for 150 years this jail housed some of Australia's worst criminals. Behind the sandstone and razor-wire of this modern day tourist attraction, some of the worst brutality occurred from murders to rape and of course, suicides. Inmates claim that the cells were concrete coffins. This kind of energy and emotion usually feeds unexplained activity. Rumors of hauntings permeate the stories about the gaol. Come with us as we explore the history and hauntings of the Maitland Gaol! Moment in History features the Fertility Chair and This Day in History features Francis Scott Key being inspired to write the Star Spangled Banner.
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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. |
| 0:24.0 | 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 speak. Hello you spook-tac-tac-people people welcome to this 68th episode of the History Ghost Bump |
| 0:49.5 | podcast. |
| 0:50.5 | Ghost Tours for the Theater of the Mind. I am your host Diane and this is Denise and on this episode we're talking about the |
| 0:58.4 | Maitland Jail we're going back to Australia. We like Australia a lot. We do. They have all kinds of cool hauntings down there. |
| 1:06.3 | And this jail is well basically considered one of the worst jails probably anywhere in the world and it was open until just a little while |
| 1:15.2 | ago that's really creepy then indeed so we're going to be talking about the history |
| 1:19.2 | and hauntings of the Maitland jail but before we into that, we want to point you towards our website, |
| 1:24.1 | History Goes Bump.com, has everything you could possibly need in order to get involved more |
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| 1:54.2 | plus any extra bonus cast we did one for 9-11 and we'll probably do one with some of the |
| 1:58.6 | extra bonus material that we did while interviewing Janice Carlson a medium |
| 2:02.3 | that we're going to be having |
| 2:03.0 | come up in one of our future shows here episode 70. Denise if anybody wants to send us |
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