History tells the story of 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 spookacular people welcome to the history ghost bump podcast

ghost tours for the theater of the mind I am your host Diane and this is Denise and we are still road tripping

2015. Our last stop here that we just finished was in St Charles Charles, Missouri.

What did you think of St. Charles?

Oh my gosh, what a neat, neat little old downtown area loved it.

The downtown in St. Charles is not only a neat place to go shopping, but a lot of the structures

down there are original, very old, and really neat architecture. And I got to go on a ghost tour while we were there.

Denise was supposed to come too, but some of our plans fell through and we didn't have anybody to watch the dog,

so only one of us got to do it and she drew the short straw so

she got to babysit dogs while I got to go on the ghost tour and it was with

Michael Henry who is a fabulous historian I would say he's probably the authority on St Charles history mixed with the ghost stories that go with it.

Had a great time. Before we get into that, we want to tell you a little bit about the history of St Charles.

The first Western settler who built a permanent structure in St Charles did so in about 1750. The settlement was named Lé Petit Kotetes, which is French for little hills,

and this is a hilly area for sure. Once this permanent structure was built, there was a bit of a dispute over who owned the property there

So there could have been a big bloody battle over this but instead the first guy who was there decided to move on.

They're not sure who he was, they just know that he was French,

and he was married to a Native American.

In 1769, Lewis Blanchip built a log cabin in what would become known as St Charles, and he did so on the banks of the Missouri River.

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