Ep. 97 - Pythian Castle
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind
Diane Student
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2016
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
One would not expect to find a castle in a Missouri city like Springfield, but indeed there is a structure here that is very castle-like and thus it has been given the name Pythian Castle. It is a massive structure that has found itself under the supervision of various owners in the past with very different uses for the building. It has served as an orphanage and retirement home and also as a place to rehabilitate injured service members. And POWs even found themselves incarcerated in the basement. The building has not been a place of tragedy, but emotions could have been high for military members and orphans alike. Or is there some other reason for supernatural activity in the building because there is definitely something unexplained going on within the walls? Join us as we explore the history and hauntings of the Pythian Castle. Moment in Oddity features the true story behind the Phantom of the Opera and This Day in History features the final launch of Space Shuttle Columbia.
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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 97th episode of the |
| 0:48.0 | history goes-pump podcast ghost tours for the theater of the mind I am your host Diane and this is Denise and on |
| 0:54.7 | today's episode we're going to Missouri to Springfield this is the second time we've |
| 0:59.4 | been in Springfield we did the Landers Theater before but we're going there again because one of our research assistants, Amy Connor, wanted to do a location from her hometown, which is where she, well, I don't know if she'd call this hometown because she's really from Louisville, but this is where she lives right now. |
| 1:14.4 | And we're going to do the Pythian castle. |
| 1:16.7 | So we're having back-to-back castles kind of, sort of. |
| 1:19.3 | This isn't like a legitimate castle, castle, but it looks like one. |
| 1:23.4 | You're going to hurt the poor Pythian castle's feelings saying it's not legit. |
| 1:26.8 | Are you telling me that a building has feelings? |
| 1:28.8 | Yes. |
| 1:29.8 | Well, maybe that's why they get haunted then. |
| 1:32.8 | Exactly, that's what I'm saying. |
| 1:35.1 | Well, if it wasn't haunted before, it is haunted now. |
| 1:38.3 | So we will get into talking about that in just a moment. |
| 1:40.9 | We want to point you at our history goes bump.com website |
| 1:44.3 | Denise of people would like to send us an email where can they do that they're gonna do |
| 1:47.6 | that at history goes bump at gmail dot com and we did receive an email from Rick Kennett and he writes for ghost and scholars about |
| 1:58.6 | Jamesian Podcasts so he sent me this little email here. He said, |
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