Hello, you sputacular people. Welcome to History Ghostbump Redux. I'm your host Diane.

And this is Kelly. Kelly on this one, we're rewinding to one we did back in 2016.

Sloss Furnaces. Are you ready to go back?

I'm ready.

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.

Sloss Furnaces is located in Birmingham, Alabama, and while it spent decades producing iron,

today it is a popular spot for music and art.

This imposing historic landmark is special in that it is the only blast furnace in America to have been preserved and restored.

Something else has been preserved from the past.

There are rumors of spirits here.

Ghosts seem to lurk in the old buildings.

Join us as we explore the history and hauntings of Sloss Furnaces. The Industrial Revolution began in Britain in the 1700s.

It was a time when handmade products moved to factory production by machines.

This was the beginning of innovation.

Coal and iron ore were a central piece of industrialization.

As the Industrial Revolution took off, so did iron production.

The Industrial Revolution took a foothold in America during the War of 1812 when an embargo was set that would prevent export from and import to America.

In 1825, a new Iron Age began. The construction of bridges, railways, ships, and even items such as window frames, fueled this new era.

Iron was made by smelting iron ore, which was heating it up

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