History tells the story of the world and of our lives.

Sometimes that history goes bump in the night.

Broadcasting from the center of oddity and the supernatural in central Florida. It's the History Goes Bump

podcast. Hello, you spectacular people. Welcome to History Goes Bump Redux. I'm your host, I.N.

And this is Kelly. Kelly, on this Redux,

we are going way, way, way back to 2014. It was one of the first episodes we ever did.

I visited Marietta, Georgia, and took the ghost tour there. And then we did an episode on that.

So that is what we're going to talk about on this Redux. Haunted Marietta, Georgia. Are you ready to go back?

I'm ready.

Marietta, Georgia is a large suburb of Atlanta. The downtown public square of Marietta was built over a

graveyard. That is enough to lead to hauntings, but Marietta also went through the Civil War and was

burned by General Sherman. Dead soldiers were piled up in the square. As Diane said, she visited in 2014

and took the ghosts of Marietta Ghost Tour. Stories of murders, accidental deaths, and hangings

were shared, and there are several haunted locations in this quaint town. Join us for the

History and hauntings of Marietta in 1824.

This was in Cobb County, which had been named for U.S. Representative, Senator, and Supreme Court Judge, Thomas Willis Cobb.

Cobb was the main founder of Marietta, and he named it for his wife, Mary. The state officially recognized the town in 1834, and it began to prosper.

The 1850s brought three fires that destroyed the town three times. When the Civil

War started, Marietta had finally recovered. In November of 1864, General Sherman started

burning his way through Georgia. The path he burned towards Atlanta left behind what was

described as, quote, a heap of ruins. The business district of Marietta was set aflame, but Sherman called

for the churches to be spared. Only a few buildings remain today from that time. Marietta Square once

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