Haunted Virginia City Redux
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind
Diane Student
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Virginia City is an Old West mining town complete with a history of gun fights, explosions, brothels and mine cave-ins. The Virginia City National Landmark is one of the nation's largest historic districts and includes over five hundred buildings dating to the time of the great bonanzas, from 1859 to 1880. John Mackay was an industrialist who formed a partnership with three other Irishmen and operated silver mines on the Comstock Lode. They hit it big in 1873 when they discovered the "Big Bonanza." That find built Virginia City and kept it on the map for the next two centuries. On the original episode, we were joined by three listeners to share their experiences. We'll share a bit of those on this one and updates. The Washoe Club was given its own episode originally, but we are including it here to give Virginia City a complete exploration. Join us for the many haunts of Virginia City!
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Music used in this episode:
Main Theme: Lurking in the Dark by Muse Music with Groove Studios
Outro Music: Happy Fun Punk by Muse Music with Groove Studios
Other music in this episode:
Title: "The Wastes"
Artist: Tim Kulig (timkulig.com)
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| 0:00.0 | History tells the story of the world and of our lives. |
| 0:21.3 | Sometimes that history goes bump in the night. |
| 0:32.3 | Broadcasting from the center of oddity and the supernatural in central Florida. |
| 0:39.0 | It's the History Goes Bump podcast. |
| 0:47.1 | Hello, you sputacular people. |
| 0:49.4 | Welcome to History Goes Bump Redux. |
| 0:52.0 | I am your host, I am. |
| 0:53.0 | And this is Kelly. |
| 0:54.0 | Kelly, on this Redux, |
| 0:55.4 | we are doing Virginia City. And we had done a separate episode for the Washoe Club. And I decided to |
| 1:02.9 | just put this one in here, too, because this is in Virginia City. So we've got the Washoe Club on this one |
| 1:08.1 | as well. So it's kind of like two reduxes in one. |
| 1:12.5 | Excellent. Are you ready to go back? |
| 1:13.6 | I'm ready. |
| 1:32.4 | Virginia City is an old west mining town complete with a history of gunfights, explosions, brothels, and mine cavens. |
| 1:37.5 | The Virginia City National Landmark is one of the nation's largest historic districts and includes over 500 buildings dating to the time of the Great Bonanzas, from 1859 to 1880. John Mackey was an industrialist |
| 1:47.0 | who formed a partnership with three other Irishmen and operated silver mines on the Comstock load. |
| 1:52.9 | They hit it big in 1873 when they discovered the Big Bonanza. That find built Virginia City |
| 1:59.4 | and kept it on the map for the next two centuries. |
| 2:02.6 | On the original episode, we were joined by three listeners to share their experiences. |
| 2:07.4 | We'll share a bit of those on this one and updates. |
| 2:10.7 | The Washoe Club was given its own episode originally, but we are including it here to give Virginia City a complete exploration. |
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