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.

Hello, you sputacular people.

Welcome to History Goes Bump Redux.

I am your host, I.N.

And this is Kelly.

Kelly on this episode,

we're going back to a location that we covered in 2015 down in Australia. This is Port Arthur.

In the way, way back machine. It is. This has got a very interesting history. It was a jail,

and then it had a horrible mass shooting there.

And now there are spirits left behind.

Are you ready to go back?

I'm ready.

Port Arthur is part of a world heritage site featuring former Australian jail sites, and it is an open-air museum.

Australia has a harsh history since it was established as a place for Britain to send her convicts.

Many of the prisoners from Ireland's Kilmainum Jail were sent to Australia. Port Arthur's prison became the stop for Britain's worst convicts. Such a harsh place would be a good breeding ground for things that go bump in the night

just for its penal history alone. But this area has an even more tragic story. As Diane said,

it was the site of a massacre in 1996. No wonder Port Arthur is considered to be one of the

most haunted locations in all the world. 12,000 years ago, the oceans were rising due to the melt-off from the ice age. This rising of the

oceans changed the geography of Australia and cut off one area of the continent that we know today as

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