Ep. 576 - U.S.S. Forrestal

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

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

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The USS Forrestal was one of the largest aircraft carriers ever built. She served for nearly four decades before being decommissioned in 1993 and then she was scrapped in 2015. During the Vietnam War, the carrier experienced a devastating tragedy with bombs on board the ship that led to several fires and over a hundred men dead. And because of that, stories of ghosts on the ship have been told about her. One particular ghost was known as George. Join us for the history and hauntings of the USS Forrestal. The Moment in Oddity features The Cursing Stone and This Month in History features the end of the Guadalcanal Campaign. Our location was suggested by Karen Miller.

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Music used in this episode:

Main Theme: Lurking in the Dark by Muse Music with Groove Studios

(Moment in Oddity) "Vanishing" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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(This Month in History) "In Your Arms" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Outro Music: Happy Fun Punk by Muse Music with Groove Studios

Other music used in this episode:

Titles: "An Armada Upon Us" and "Here Be Dragons"
Artist: Tim Kulig (timkulig.com)
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Sound FX from Pixabay

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.
0:47.2	Hello, you sputacular people.
0:49.5	Welcome to this 576 episode of the History Goes Bump podcast.
0:53.8	Ghost tours for the Theater of the Mind. I'm your host,
0:56.2	Diane. And this is Kelly. Kelly, on this episode, we're heading to a ship. We love our naval ships.
1:01.8	Yes, we do. This one's a big one. It was suggested by our listener, Karen Miller,
1:07.0	the USS Forestall. I'm so looking forward to bringing this to the listeners.
1:12.2	Got a lot of ghost stories to go with this one,
1:15.0	although it doesn't actually exist anymore.
1:18.2	It's been scrapped, so we can't visit it.
1:20.6	Terrible.
1:21.3	Before we get into that,
1:22.3	we want to welcome to the Sputacular Crew, Rhonda.
1:25.3	Thank you so much for joining our Facebook group.
1:27.9	And now this moment, oddity.
1:38.2	The moment in oddity was suggested by Lynn Beasley.
1:41.9	In Glasgow, Scotland, back in 1525, the Archbishop Gavin Dunbar was
1:46.4	frustrated about Revers on the Anglo-Scottish border. Revers were raiders, and Dunbar issued a
1:52.6	1069 word curse, which was delivered from every pulpit in the diocese. The ranting curse was part
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