History Goes Bump Podcast Christmas Special 2014

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2014

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Come gather round the cyber fire as we share a most wonderful holiday tradition! We are sharing ghost tales as we wait for the arrival of Santa Claus! We share a brief history of the Christmas tradition of telling "scary ghost stories" and then two classic creepy ghost tales are read. The first is M R James "Canon Alberic's Scrapbook" and the second is H. Russell Wakefield's "The Red Lodge." Grab your cocoa and eggnog and join us!

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0:00.0	The The The The The The The The The The Merry Christmas, you spook-a-
1:58.7	people. Welcome to the History Goes-Bump Podcasts, Christmas Special for 2014.
2:01.8	I am your host, Diane. is Denise and we want to invite you to come
2:06.1	on and hang out here near our roaring fire with us as we share Christmas stories
2:12.3	on this Christmas Eve waiting for Santa to arrive with all of the good presents.
2:17.2	You think he's bringing you anything good, Denise?
2:19.0	I don't know. I had that shirt held up that you took a picture of that says no matter if I've been naughty or nice, I get whatever I want.
2:25.0	I have a feeling Cole might be coming your way.
2:30.0	Before we got into sharing the stories that we want to do this evening, we thought we'd share a little bit about the history of sharing ghost
2:36.7	stories because some people might think aren't ghost stories for
2:39.3	Halloween what are they doing with Christmas? Well this this is a tradition that goes back many, many decades.
2:45.0	And so we thought we'd share that with you to begin with.
2:47.0	The course of the Christmas Carol, it's the most wonderful time of the year,
2:50.5	goes like this.
2:52.2	There'll be parties for hosting, marshmallows for toasting, and
2:55.9	caroling out in the snow. There'll be scary ghost stories and tales of
3:00.9	the glories of Christmases long long ago.
3:04.0	It's the most wonderful time of the year.
3:06.0	Oh, you weren't going to sing that for us?
3:08.0	Diane, I want to keep our listeners.
3:10.0	There's a reason I don't sing. And yeah, there's a reason reason I don't sing.
3:13.0	And yeah, there's a reason why I don't sing either.
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