Ep. 582 - The Mount

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

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

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Edith Wharton was a woman ahead of her time when she was born into her upper-class New York family. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature and is considered one of America's greatest writers. She inspired countless other authors and gave the world a glimpse into the rich of the Gilded Age. Wharton also wrote ghost stories. She believed in ghosts. The home that she built, that is known as The Mount, is said to be haunted. Join us as we explore this interesting woman's life and the history and hauntings of The Mount. The Moment in Oddity features Emma Gatewood and This Month in History features Susanna M. Salter elected as the first female mayor in the U.S. Our location was suggested by listener Mary Larkin.

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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:

Title: "Ballerinas Opus"
Artist: Tim Kulig (timkulig.com)
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Transcript

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0:00.0	History tells the story of the world and of our lives.
0:21.3	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.
0:47.5	Hello, you sputacular people.
0:49.7	Welcome to this 580 second episode of the History Ghostbump podcast.
0:54.0	Ghost tours for the Theater of the Mind.
0:55.7	I am your host, Diane. And this is Kelly. Kelly, on this episode, we're going to do a location that was suggested by our listener, Mary Larkin. And this is the mount. And when I initially put it into Google, it came up as the Mount of Olives. And I was like, oh, not that mount. That's initially where my head went.
1:12.3	And it's not an actual mountain. It's a house. It was the house that Edith Wharton built. Did you ever see
1:18.1	the movie The Age of Innocence? I did. She wrote that. She was a wonderful author. And this is an
1:24.3	extraordinary house. She didn't live in it for very long, but apparently it's quite haunted,
1:29.2	and she was a writer of ghost stories too.
1:31.2	So this is going to be a very interesting episode.
1:34.6	Before we get into that,
1:35.5	we want to welcome into the Sputacular Crew, Greg.
1:38.2	Thank you so much for joining our Facebook group.
1:40.9	And now this moment, Nottity.
1:51.8	Music group. And now this moment in Audity. The moment in Audity was suggested by Jenny Lynn Raines. Back in 1955, there was a little
1:58.2	granny by the name of Emma Gatewood, who one day told her family that she was
2:02.7	going for a hike in the woods. Emma was 67 years old and known by all as Grandma Gatewood.
2:09.8	She was a mother of 11 children and grandmother of 23 grandchildren. She was a strong woman
2:15.7	after growing up doing strenuous manual labor on the family
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