Ghost Hunter!

Dan Snow's History Hit

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4.7 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Kate Summerscale has written one of the Sunday Time books of the year exploring the world of poltergeists and ghosts in the build up to the Second World War. She came on the podcast to tell us all about Nandor Fodor – a Jewish-Hungarian refugee and chief ghost hunter for the International Institute for Psychical research in London. From New York to Croydon he used all the gadgets of modern technology to record, X-ray, tape and photograph ghosts.

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0:00.0	Hey folks, it's the invitation you've all been waiting for, I'm sure.
0:08.7	Come and holiday with me.
0:09.8	Come on a history holiday with me.
0:12.7	Let's do it.
0:13.7	I am going to Normandy between the second and the sixth of June this year, which is the
0:18.6	anniversary of D-Day, obviously.
0:20.9	I'm going to be your expert guide.
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0:27.3	Get a special offer.
0:28.3	It's going to be awesome.
0:29.3	Come along.
0:30.3	historyhit.com slash trips.
0:32.1	UK only.
0:33.1	Hi everybody.
0:37.1	Welcome to Dan Snow's history.
0:39.1	Everything's got a history.
0:40.9	Even ghosts, poltergeists, ghost hunting.
0:44.2	It's all got a history.
0:45.6	Kate Somerskill is a journalist and best-selling writer.
0:49.8	She's won the Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction.
0:53.4	She's always been intrigued by poltergeists.
0:54.9	I mean, I guess it's hard not to be really.
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