Ep. 80 - Legend of the Jersey Devil
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind
Diane Student
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2015
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Many people, particularly those that live in New England, have heard the story about the Jersey Devil. The tale about a mother giving birth to a devil baby is not totally unique in history. Even in our modern era, we have had movies like Rosemary's Baby. Is this just another urban legend or is there some real history behind this tale of the Jersey Devil? Was this really more of a religious dispute that spawned a story to destroy a family name? We'll explore the superstitions that existed in the area around the idea that devil babies could be born and cover the various sightings that have continued far past what would be a reasonable life span. Come with us as we look at the legend of the Jersey Devil. The Moment in Oddity features Black Blizzards and This Day in History features the patenting of the cash register.
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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. |
| 0:36.0 | It's The History Goes Bump Podcast. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello, you spookacular people welcome to this 80th episode of the |
| 0:48.6 | History Ghost Bump Podcast. Ghost Tours for the Theater of the Mind. |
| 0:52.6 | I am your host Diane, and this is Denise. |
| 0:55.2 | And we have another urban legend for you guys this evening, |
| 0:58.5 | the legend of the Jersey Devil. |
| 1:01.0 | And Denise, this one was actually supposed to be a moment in oddity. |
| 1:05.0 | I asked our research assistant Phil to help me out with it. |
| 1:08.0 | And by the time he got down with his research and digging into the true history behind this tale I went you know what this is its own |
| 1:14.7 | show so here we are and we will find out is it really an urban legend or could it possibly |
| 1:20.4 | you know I had no idea that the Jersey Devil was based in a lot of fact and based on some real people and real family. |
| 1:29.0 | And it's New England with all of its wonderful superstitions that we've been talking |
| 1:33.5 | about when it came to the vampire craze or the Salem witch trials. The |
| 1:38.2 | Jersey Devil. So here we go with another one. So you have to wonder if they get enough sun up there? I don't |
| 1:45.4 | know if it was just because the population seemed to be more in that area |
| 1:49.3 | because that's where the colonies got started and where America basically got started? |
| 1:54.0 | St. Augustine is the oldest city in America and we don't have no |
| 2:00.0 | Salem witches and all of that going on down here. |
| 2:03.1 | We're weird, but you know, we have like |
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