Ep. 573 - Carlinville Courthouse

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

Travel, History, Places & Travel, Paranormal, Haunted, Society & Culture, Ghosts

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Carlinville is a small town stop along the original Route 66 and is located in Macoupin County, Illinois. The town is home to the "Million Dollar" Courthouse, which seems a bit out of place because it is so massive and cost so much to build. The building began as a small project that ballooned out of control, surrounded by money laundering schemes and scandals. Today, the courthouse is a top tourist attraction and is the final stop on the local ghost tour. Someone who knows a thing or two about that tour and has had her own experience at the courthouse is Courtney Egner. She will be joining us as we explore the history and hauntings of the Carlinville Courthouse. The Moment in Oddity features colored honey candy eating French bees and This Month in History features Norman Rockwell Birthday.

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(Moment in Oddity) "Vanishing" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Transcript

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0:00.0	History tells the story of the world and of our lives.
0:21.4	Sometimes that history goes bump in the night.
0:32.4	Broadcasting from the center of oddity and the supernatural in central Florida.
0:39.1	It's the History Goes Bump podcast.
0:47.5	Hello, you spectacular people.
0:49.6	Welcome to this 573rd episode of the History Goes Bump podcast.
0:54.0	Ghost tours for the Theater of the Mind.
0:55.8	I am your host, Diane. And this is Kelly. Kelly on this episode, we're heading to Illinois
1:00.2	to the Carlinville Courthouse. This is an amazing looking courthouse. It's a very expensive
1:06.3	courthouse. It's known as the million dollar courthouse. Oh my. And not necessarily for a good reason.
1:12.7	We're friends with Tyler and Beck from over at Minds of Madness and Tyler contacted me and he said,
1:18.4	Beck was talking to this woman who did ghost tours in Illinois and she had this experience at the
1:23.0	courthouse. Would you be interested in talking to her? I was like, sure. And he sent over her
1:27.3	experience that she had emailed and I was like, sure. And he sent over her experience that
1:28.3	she had emailed and I was like, oh my gosh, this is amazing. So we're going to be joined by Courtney
1:33.1	Eggner for her to share what happened to her. And it is absolutely terrifying and amazing at the
1:38.7	same time. Looking forward to it. Before we get into that, we want to welcome into the Sputacular
1:43.0	crew, Stephanie and
1:44.9	Anthony. Thank you so much for joining our Facebook group. And now this moment in Audity.
1:55.0	The moment in Audity was suggested by Mindy Hull. Honey has many restorative qualities, especially
2:05.2	raw honey. Many people use it for its antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant properties.
2:11.9	Back in 2012, beekeepers in Alsace, France, discovered that the bees in their apiaries were
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