What The History Podcast

What The Halloween?

In this very special spooky episode we bring you ghostly tales and gruesome horror!

Suzie shares the tale of Fisher’s Ghost and Trevor visits the mansion of Delphine Lalaurie.

WHAT THE HISTORY?

**WARNING – This episode of the podcast contains graphic descriptions of very nasty stuff that happened to people.  If you do not wish to hear this bit, or have younger listeners, we highly recommend you skip from 11 minutes 43 seconds to 16 minutes 55 seconds.

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Sources:

FISHER’S GHOST

 

Campbelltown City Council n.d, ‘Festival of Fishers Ghost’ http://www.campbelltown.nsw.gov.au/RFG/FishersGhost/

Gilbert R 2002, ‘Fishers Ghost, Australia’s Most Famous Ghost’, Australian Ghost Hunters Society http://www.castleofspirits.com/website/old/Australianghosthunters/fishersghost.html

Wikipedia 2016, ‘Fishers Ghost’  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%27s_ghost

THE MANSION OF DELPHINE LALAURIE

 

Delphine LaLaurie (Wikipedia) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphine_LaLaurie

This Day in History – A torture chamber is uncovered by arson (The History Channel) – http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/a-torture-chamber-is-uncovered-by-arson

MISTRESS OF DEATH: THE HAUNTED HISTORY OF MADAME LALAURIE (Prairie Ghosts) – https://www.prairieghosts.com/lalaurie.html

MADAME DELPHINE LALAURIE: THE MOST EVIL WOMAN IN NEW ORLEANS (The Lineup) – http://www.the-line-up.com/madame-lalaurie-evil-woman-new-orleans/

THE TWISTED TALE OF DELPHINE LALAURIE AND HER HOUSE OF HORRORS (Today I Found Out) – http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/09/twisted-tale-delphine-lalaurie-house-horrors/

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from…

History Never Repeats – Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating – Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees – Cold Chisel (1984)

You’re History – Shakespeare’s Sister (1989)

Centuries – Fall Out Boy (2015)

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