Ep. 94 - Peoria State Hospital

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

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

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode we are joined by author and paranormal investigator Sylvia Shults. The Peoria State Hospital opened in 1901 in the village of Bartonville in Illinois. The asylum was home for the mentally ill for seventy-two years and it provided some of the state of the art care at the time, but it was also the scene of some very tragic circumstances. Many people died here, both patients and staff. These tragedies combined with the fact that Bartonville was once Native American land and it is an area surrounded by water and limestone have quite possibly led to the Peoria State Hospital being rumored to be haunted. There seems to be many fractured spirits here at the Peoria State Hospital. Join us as we explore the history and hauntings of Peoria State Hospital with Sylvia Shults. Moment in Oddity features Nosferatu's Director's Skull Stolen and This Day in History features the discovery of Messier 80.

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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.
0:35.0	It's the History Goes Bump podcast.
0:40.0	Hello, you spookacular people welcome to this 94th episode of the history
0:48.8	Ghost Bump Podcast ghost tours for the theater of the. I am your host Diane, and this is Denise.
0:55.0	And on this episode we have a special guest joining us, Sylvia Schultz.
0:59.0	How are you Sylvia?
1:00.0	I am fantastic.
1:02.0	How are you guys doing tonight?
1:03.4	We're great and we're very excited to have you with us because our topic on this episode is the
1:08.8	Peoria State Hospital and as far as I'm concerned, Sylvia is the expert.
1:13.8	She'll probably say she's not, but she, to me, is the expert on this location.
1:18.2	So we're excited to have her here to pick her brain on that.
1:20.8	And the way I see it, it two against one so we win. Okay I'll
1:26.7	roll over I'll show belly. All right Denise why don't you tell the listeners a little
1:30.9	bit about Sylvia. Sylvia is a paranormal investigator, writer, and host of the Lights Out podcast.
1:37.0	She got involved in paranormal research while writing and researching her non-fiction book,
1:42.0	Ghost of the Illinois River, in 2010.
1:45.8	Her fascination with ghost dates back to her childhood as she is an avid reader who was raised
1:51.2	on Grimm's fairy tales. A few years ago, she was inspired to write a
1:55.2	collection of people's supernatural experiences at the Pierre State Hospital in Bartonville, Illinois.
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