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Coast to Coast - October 28 2017 - Ghost Stories & Haunted Places
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More Info............: https://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2017/10/28
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DATE: Saturday - October 28, 2017
HOST: Dave Schrader
GUESTS: Colin Dickey, Troy Taylor
For nearly two centuries, American popular culture has been influenced by the
supernatural. Author and founder of American Hauntings Ink, Troy Taylor, joined
Dave Schrader (email) to reveal the roots of our fascination with ghosts,
haunted houses, and the supernatural, along with stories he's uncovered that
showcase something scary, evil, or demonic.
Taylor spoke about the Fox sisters and the rise of rise of spiritualism during
the mid-19th century, which introduced Americans to idea of talking to the dead.
Millions of people believed in spiritualism in that period, he revealed.
Spiritualism faded in popularity but experienced a resurgence after the Civil
War, when President Lincoln and his wife made it popular once again, Taylor
continued. "The idea that someone died and that you could communicate with them
afterward wasn't as strange back then as it is now," Taylor said.
He traced origin of one of his favorite ghost stories, The Vanishing Hitchhiker,
in which an unsuspecting driver gives a dead girl a ride home. According to
Taylor, the real story actually happened in Chicago, where a woman was seen
flagging down drivers and trying to get into their cars as they passed by the
Resurrection Cemetery. She became known as Resurrection Mary and drivers
recognized her as someone from the area who had recently died, he reported.
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In the latter half of the program, Colin Dickey traced a trail of some of
America's haunted places. Dickey credited growing up near the famous Winchester
Mystery House for fueling his fascination with weird locations. His journey took
him to the Lemp Mansion in St. Louis, where a ghost is said to move buckets of
ice, to haunted hotels in downtown Los Angeles, a cemetery in Kansas, a bridge
in Portland, Oregon, and a penitentiary in Moundsville, West Virginia. The
stories of hauntings at each place have different vibes, Dickey disclosed.
He suggested the economic benefits of tourism is a motivating factor for many
locations to claim paranormal activity occurred there. "Ghost tours become a way
of keeping [these places] from becoming... a drain on the community," he said,
noting how the Moundsville state prison was unceremoniously closed and left for
the small town to deal with. Hauntings associated with these locations are
usually residual hauntings, he explained, citing the St. Johns Bridge in
Portland. "Supposedly a woman was murdered there in 1941, and the stone and
metal from the bridge became a perfect conductor that would then replay her
murder back," he revealed.
WEBSITE(S):
bumpinthenight.net
colindickey.com
BOOK(S):
American Hauntings
Haunted Illinois
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius
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