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Episode 153: Hold On (ad-free)
🕑 Added 2020-10-05 07:01:01 +0000 UTCSometimes the past sticks around because we work hard to make sure it’s never forgotten. Other times, it stays with us because we refused to let it go. But in one American city, the past seems to have stuck around for darker reasons.
Research by Michelle Muto, and music by Chad Lawson.
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Further Reading
- “Fort McHenry,” Battlefields, https://www.battlefields.org/learn/war-1812/battles/fort-mchenry.
- “Oh, say, can you see ghosts at fort? Walking war dead spotted throughout the year, some say,” Baltimore Sun, October 31, 1996, https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1996-10-31-1996305005-story.html.
- “Haunted stories abound at Fort McHenry,” WBALTV, October 30, 2015, https://www.wbaltv.com/article/haunted-stories-abound-at-fort-mchenry/7096860.
- “The Story Behind This Haunted Fort In Maryland Is Truly Creepy,” Only in Your State, September 21, 2016, https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/maryland/haunted-fort-md.
- “Battle of Baltimore,” The Dead History, https://www.thedeadhistory.com/fort-mchenry.
- “When World War I and the Spanish flu turned Fort McHenry into one of the country's largest hospitals,” The Baltimore Sun, September 20, 2018, https://www.baltimoresun.com/features/retro-baltimore/bs-retro-baltimore-mchenry-1918-story.html.
- “Baltimore’s Haunted Fort McHenry,” Seeks Ghosts, https://seeksghosts.blogspot.com/2013/12/baltimores-haunted-fort-mchenry.html.
- “Spotlight on Ghosts: Fort McHenry,” America’s Haunted Roadtrip, http://americashauntedroadtrip.com/tag/fort-mchenry.
- Ed Okonowicz, Haunted Maryland: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Old Line State (Rowman & Littlefield, Jul., 1, 2020), p. 64.
- “…the Heav’n rescued land…”—Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland,” Southern Spirits, November 27, 2011, http://www.southernspiritguide.org/the-heavn-rescued-land-fort-mchenry-baltimore-maryland.
- “The American Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919: Baltimore, Maryland,” Influenza Encyclopedia, https://www.influenzaarchive.org/cities/city-baltimore.html.
- Anne Van Ness Merriam, The Ghosts of Hampton (The Grangerie and Gift Shop Committee of Historic Hampton, 1985).
- John Martin Hammond, Colonial Mansions of Maryland and Delaware (J.B. Lippincott, 1914), pp. 131-137.
- “The (Still) Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe,” Smithsonian Magazine, October 7, 2014. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/still-mysterious-death-edgar-allan-poe-180952936.
- “13 Haunting Facts About Edgar Allan Poe’s Death,” Biography, October 28, 2019, https://www.biography.com/news/edgar-allan-poe-death-facts.
- “Who Was the Poe Toaster? We Still Have No Idea,” Smithsonian Magazine, January 19, 2017, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/who-was-poe-toaster-we-still-have-no-idea-180961820.
- “Edgar Allan Poe’s poem ‘The Raven’ was rejected by one magazine, it was eventually sold for $9,” The Vintage News, October 28, 2016, https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/10/28/priority-edgar-allan-poes-poem-raven-rejected-one-magazine-eventually-sold-9.
Comments
Emily J
Really good episode.
Matthew Dudley
That was a great episode. Learned a lot from that one. Loved the Poe stuff as well
