Ep. 88 - Homestead Sanatorium
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind
Diane Student
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🗓️ 9 December 2015
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Many people mistakenly refer to the Homestead Sanatorium as an asylum, but it was never an asylum. Although abandoned and derelict, the building still stands grandiose and beautiful and it would be a shame to see it torn down. The benefactor of the property, Horace Carpentier would not want to see that happen either. For decades, those with TB called Homestead home and many of them died here. Is that why the place is rumored to be haunted? Or is it just because it is a large abandoned building with a history? Join us as we look at the history and hauntings of the Saratoga County Homestead Sanatorium. The Moment in Oddity features an underwater fake skeleton tea party and This Day in History features the Christmas Seals.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Pepsi Max. Christmas is great, but there's loads of ways to make it better. |
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| 0:20.1 | Christmas. Better with Pepsi Max. History tells the story of the world and of our lives. |
| 0:45.0 | Sometimes that history goes bump in the night. Right. |
| 0:55.0 | Broadcasting from the center of Oddity and the supernatural in Central Florida, |
| 1:02.0 | it's the History Goes Bump podcast. |
| 1:07.0 | Hello you spectacular people welcome to this 88th episode of the History Ghost Bump |
| 1:15.9 | podcast ghost stores for the theater of the mind I am your host Diane and this is |
| 1:20.6 | Denise and on today's episode we're going to be featuring Homestead Sanitarium. |
| 1:26.4 | This location was suggested to us by Sarah from St. Louis. |
| 1:30.6 | This is a location in New York and Denise this is another one of those locations. |
| 1:34.0 | That's reputation seems to be a little bit bigger than the actual reality of the situation. |
| 1:40.0 | We had a heck of a time researching this and finding really any information on the sanitarium for number one and number two although it's listed on many most haunted lists |
| 1:50.4 | And as a matter of fact I believe it's one of the top five most haunted places in Albany, New York. |
| 1:55.9 | We didn't find a whole lot of evidence of any kind of haunting going on there. |
| 1:59.2 | This is one of those properties that they've closed up and if you trespass they will call the cops on you |
| 2:04.1 | so it's really hard for anybody to have actually been there to experience anything |
| 2:08.0 | because this has been closed up for some time so there's a lot of urban legends |
| 2:12.4 | involved so we'll get into sharing those with you and sharing as much of the history as we can. We'll be going down a few rabbit holes and one of those is going to feature the California Gold Rush because the man who was behind the financing of the sanitarium |
| 2:24.9 | and giving them the land, that's where he got most of his money from. |
| 2:28.2 | So we thought that we would go ahead and share some ghost stories that pertain to the California Gold Rush. |
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