Ep. 81 - The Biltmore Estate
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind
Diane Student
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2015
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Many people have heard of the Vanderbilt family. They are a family of Dutch origin that amassed a huge fortune in transportation through both shipping and the railroad. Their prominence lasted through to the mid 20th century and then the "Fall of the House of Vanderbilt" occurred. Many of their mansions and other properties were torn down, but one survives today and is considered the largest home in America, the Biltmore Estate. It is a beautiful home that housed George Vanderbilt II's family at one time. And it just may still house the family in the afterlife. Could it be that this impressive mansion is haunted? Come with us as we explore the history and hauntings of the Biltmore Estate. Moment in Oddity features the Little Woodcutter and This Day in History features Napoleon becoming Dictator.
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| 0:45.0 | Sometimes that history goes bump. in Central Florida, it's the History Goes Bump Podcast. |
| 1:07.0 | Hello, you spook-tacular people. welcome to this 81st episode of the History |
| 1:15.9 | Ghost Bump podcast ghost tours for the theater of the mind I am your host Diane and |
| 1:21.0 | this is Denise and we are joined on this episode by special co-host |
| 1:25.6 | Stephen Pappas how you doing Stephen? I'm good thanks for having me on again and |
| 1:30.3 | we are thrilled because we are going back to the Blue Ridge Mountains, which are, we've heard gorgeous, according to Stephen. We can't wait to see them ourselves. And we're going to look at the Biltmore Estate. This |
| 1:43.0 | uh... built more estate sounds like a really cool place to visit. |
| 1:46.2 | You all come through. You all should go to the mountains for a day and do like this and |
| 1:50.4 | running over to a flat top and all that stuff. |
| 1:53.0 | Yeah, I think we're going to be hanging around the Blue Ridge Mountains a bit. |
| 1:57.0 | Yeah, it's a one it's beautiful of course, but two it's got some interesting stuff and built more geez you can you can kill a whole day there I mean we went and got there at 10 in the morning I don't think we left till sundown like it's just |
| 2:09.4 | There's so much to do there's so many rooms you go in and out of. If you're a history nerd like me, the audio tour thing, I'll stand in each room and listen to it. |
| 2:20.3 | Oh my gosh, I can't't so it's basically this huge museum. Yeah it's just a huge |
| 2:27.3 | like it says 252 rooms of just museum I mean in it you hear rooms, and to me that means like bedrooms. But I mean, some of these rooms are... |
| 2:37.0 | Like a ballroom and stuff? Yeah, like the dining hall is just this, it's that big classic dining room you've seen in like Beauty and the Beast and |
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