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MonsterTalk

Winchester’s Cathedral

MonsterTalk

Monster House LLC

History, Science, Society & Culture, Natural Sciences

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The Winchester Mystery House is a sprawling Victorian mansion in San Jose, California. It is a famous piece of American architectural history, yet nearly every story commonly told about its mysterious history is likely untrue. In this episode of MonsterTalk, we are joined by Colin Dickey, author of the fantastic book Ghostland to discuss the case of the Winchester house and some of the other fascinating places he covers in his fascinating work. Read the episode notes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You've probably heard of the Winchester Mystery House, the sprawling San Jose Victorian

0:44.4

mansion which they say was built by gun-era-Saharan Winchester to atone for the many deaths

0:49.3

of those killed with the weapons that made her fortune. There's even a new movie about the ghosts in the house out now. But how much of that story is true?

1:00.0

It's actually quite unlike anything we've ever seen before.

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A giant hairy creature, part 8, part man.

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In larkness, a 24 mile long bottomless lake in the highlands of Scotland.

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It's a creature known as the Loch Ness Monster. Yeah. Monster Talk.

1:41.0

Welcome to Monster Talk, the Science Show about Monsters.

1:43.4

I'm Blake Smith and I'm Karen Stalsner.

1:46.0

Today we're going to talk with author Colin Dickie about his book, Ghost Land.

1:49.6

And thanks to Rachel Lee for being the first listener and to suggest the book to us.

1:53.7

Other listeners also suggested the book and we tried to get Colin on in October but couldn't get things scheduled.

1:58.9

So here we are now and there's this new movie in theaters about the Winchester House

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