Oystermouth Castle Redux

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

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

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Oystermouth Castle is located in a small resort village in Wales that is named Mumbles. The original castle was built here several thousand years ago and sits atop a forty foot limestone ridge overlooking the village. It found itself frequently under attack and was under the ownership of several prominent family's through the years. One of those owners just may be hanging around in the afterlife as one of our infamous Ladies in White. Join us for the history and hauntings of the Oystermouth Castle.

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

Outro Music: Happy Fun Punk by Muse Music with Groove Studios

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The Most Shocking Halloween Trailer 1 by Sascha Ende at filmmusic.io
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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.
0:47.3	Hello, you sputacular executive producers.
0:50.3	Welcome to History Goes Bump Redux.
0:52.7	I am your host, Diane.
0:53.7	And this is Kelly. Kelly, we're
0:55.3	winding back to another episode we did back in 2016, I believe. We had a young listener who was
1:02.3	actually from Wales named Freya Porter join us on this one talking about the Oyster Mouth Castle.
1:08.2	So that's what we're going to be doing on this Redux. Are you ready to go back?
1:12.1	I'm ready.
1:25.0	Oyster Mouth Castle is located in a small resort village in Wales that is named Mumbles.
1:30.7	The original castle was built here several thousand years ago and sits atop a 40-foot limestone
1:35.4	ridge overlooking the village. Limestone, there you go. You know it's going to be haunted.
1:40.5	It found itself frequently under attack and was under the ownership of several prominent families through the years.
1:47.0	One of those owners just may be hanging around in the afterlife as one of our infamous ladies in white.
1:53.0	Join us for the history and hauntings of the Oystermouth Castle.
1:56.4	Music Mumbles, which is an excellent name for a town, is a small Victorian resort town that is a headland overlooking Swansea Bay.
2:28.9	It has a pier there that was the endpoint for the Mumbles Railway, which was the oldest passenger railway in the world
2:34.5	at the end of the 1800s. It was dismantled in the 1960s with a lot of controversy. There were people
2:40.4	in that village that were not happy about that. Crop growers first came to the area around 5,000
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