Ep. 91 - Charles Dickens and A Christmas Carol

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

Travel, History, Places & Travel, Paranormal, Haunted, Society & Culture, Ghosts

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2015

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Charles Dickens is the author of many classical novels, but probably his most beloved work is "A Christmas Carol." Christmas would not be Christmas without the tale it would seem in our modern era. Many of us probably never questioned as children why it was that ghosts were sent to teach the angry and obtuse Scrooge the life lessons he must learn. But why did Dickens choose ghosts? Did the idea of telling scary ghost stories originate with him? Join us as we explore the life of Charles Dickens and dive into his beloved classic, "A Christmas Carol, which is obviously quite haunted. Moment in Oddity features Marjorie McCall buried twice and This Day in History features the publication of "A Visit from St. Nicholas.

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Show notes can be found here: http://historygoesbump.blogspot.com/2015/12/hgb-podcast-ep-91-charles-dickens-and.html

Transcript

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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, it's The History
0:37.0	goes Bump podcast. Hello you spookacular people welcome to this 91st episode of the history
0:48.9	ghost bump podcast ghost tours for the theater of the mind I am your host Diane and this is Denise and my throat is still on the men so we might have a little cracks and
0:58.9	gruffness here, but I'm hoping that it's not as bad as the last round.
1:02.8	It was bad, so you think it's bad when your sexy voice goes away?
1:07.1	On this episode, we are going to be bringing you Charles Dickens and his most famous novel, A Christmas Carol. We figured that would be
1:15.0	perfect during this week that we're getting ready to celebrate Christmas and
1:18.2	this was actually suggested to us by our research assistant Jesse Harms and she actually did most of the research on the Charles Dickens history.
1:26.1	She most certainly did. Now we were unable to find anywhere that he seems to haunt, but obviously he had some kind of acquaintance with ghosts because not only did he like to write ghost stories, but he used them very well in his novel of Christmas Carol.
1:40.4	So we're going to explore some of the theme there, the ghosts, and the different ways that they compare to some of our modern day experiences when it comes to hauntings.
1:48.0	Before we do that, we want you to check out our website, History Goes Bump.com.
1:52.0	And Denise, if people would like to send us some feedback, where can they do that?
1:56.0	They can do that at History Goes Bump at gmail.com.
1:59.0	We have some people to welcome into the Spoectacular crew.
2:02.0	We want to welcome Sadie
2:03.6	Sadie. Hey Sadie.
2:04.6	Constance.
2:05.6	Hi Constance.
2:06.6	Daniel.
2:07.6	Vicky.
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