Ep. 578 - The Life and Afterlife of Benjamin Franklin

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

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

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🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Benjamin Franklin was a little bit of everything: inventor, diplomat, statesman, author, publisher, a Founding Father and a bad boy. He helped guide America through the growing pains of becoming a constitutional republic guiding its own destiny separate from Great Britain. Philadelphia became his home and the caretaker of the cemetery where he was buried in that city once said, "If Ben Franklin haunts the city and the streets of Philadelphia, he haunts it with his personality and his invention." And it might seem that he haunts a couple of places with his actual spirit as well. Join us for the history and hauntings of Benjamin Franklin. The Moment in Oddity features Pound Cake and This Month in History features a Robert Frost poem published.

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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

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Franklin Theme created and produced by History Goes Bump
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Transcript

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0:00.0	History tells the story of the world and of our lives.
0:21.3	Sometimes that history goes bump in the night.
0:32.3	Broadcasting from the center of oddity and the supernatural in central Florida.
0:39.1	It's the History Goes Bump podcast.
0:47.6	Hello, you sputacular people.
0:49.8	Welcome to this 578th episode of the History Goes Bump Podcast, Ghost Tours for the Theater of the Mind.
0:55.7	I am your host, Diane.
0:56.7	And this is Kelly.
0:58.0	Kelly, on this episode, we're doing another one of our life and afterlife.
1:01.7	I love those, as do the listeners.
1:04.3	And this is probably my most favorite founding father, Benjamin Franklin.
1:08.9	Looking forward to bringing this to the listeners. Anybody got a kite?
1:13.4	Let's go fly a kite. It was windy the last couple of days. It certainly was. It would have
1:18.1	blown us away. I don't know that we would have gotten electrocuted or anything like that, but before we
1:22.6	get into that, we want to welcome into the Sputacular Crew, Linda, Janet, and Tammy with OI. Thank you so much for joining
1:29.3	our Facebook group. And now this moment, Nodity. One of the most basic cakes ever made is the pound cake. The oldest recorded recipe for pound
1:47.6	cake was in Hannah Glass's The Art of Cookery made plain and easy in 1747. While most people might
1:54.0	think the etymology of pound cake is due to the weight of the sweet treat, the name is actually
1:58.4	related to the quantity of its ingredients. One pound of
2:01.9	flour, one pound of eggs, one pound of sugar, and one pound of butter, and some salt. Not one
2:08.1	pound of salt, however. That would be a lot of salt. I'd be like, water, water? Could I have some water,
2:13.7	please? This staple of family gatherings and picnics would be quite dense using that
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