Ep. 93 - Eloise Asylum

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

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

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2015

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

We are joined on today's episode by freelance writer Bill Clayton. The term asylum brings about many images and most of them are not pleasant. Particularly the asylums of years ago. Today, we know more about mental illness and have better plans for caring for people, but in the past, mentally ill people were treated as cast offs and it was permissable to do horrid things to these people. One of the most notorious asylums in America was Eloise Asylum. Conditions were overcrowded and care was subpar at times. The asylum grew from the origins of a poorhouse to a schoolhouse and post office to a series of buildings built over the years to house the large amount of sick and mentally ill people brought here. Eloise is reputed to be one of the most haunted locations in the Detroit area for good reason. There is also a cemetery nearby named Butler Cemetery that has a reputation for being haunted. Join us as we explore the history and hauntings of the Eloise Asylum. Moment in Oddity features a cleaning lady that thwarted a Nazi spy ring and This Day in History features the First Ball Drop on New Years Eve.

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Show notes can be found here with links to articles by Bill Clayton: http://historygoesbump.blogspot.com/2015/12/hgb-podcast-ep-93-eloise-asylum.html

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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.
0:23.0	Broadcasting from the center of oddity and the Supernatural in Central Florida, it's The History
0:37.0	goes Bump podcast.
0:40.0	Hello, you spoke. Hello you spook-tacular people welcome to this 93rd episode of the
0:48.4	History Ghost Bump Podcast ghost tours for the Theater of the Mind I am your host Diane and this is Denise and on this episode we are featuring the
0:57.4	Eloise asylum which is in Detroit and we are joined by special guest Bill Clayton.
1:03.8	Denise, why don't you tell us a little bit about Bill?
1:06.5	Bill Clayton is a writer from Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1:09.5	He's been writing professionally for more than 30 years and has been the editor for the Michigan
1:14.5	engineer, the magazine published by the University of Michigan
1:18.0	College of Engineering. He also writes and edits content for the College of
1:22.0	Engineering website.
1:23.6	He also regularly contributes to a number of magazines and writes about various topics, many dealing
1:28.8	with science.
1:30.4	And he has interviewed celebrities, CEOs, and average Joe's.
1:34.4	But what got our attention is his writing on the Ghost and Urban Legends of Detroit.
1:39.4	Bill, how are you?
1:41.4	I'm doing real good, thank you. We covered a brief bio. Why not tell everybody a little more about yourself?
1:47.0	Well, I'll tell you about my ghost experience. Probably 30 years or so ago, I got a call from a local magazine asking me for ideas anything of interest I had and I just happened to run into some friends from the Michigan Ghost Hunting Society and they're just real
2:04.1	interesting people I mean they'd go out all the time and they they hunt ghosts
2:08.0	with technology which got me interested because I have a technical background.
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