History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind · Diane Student

Ep. 609 - Chatham's Haunts

·39 min·3 clips
Visitors to Fort Amherst report daily dark shadows and tiny handprints appearing on their backs from an unseen child.
This episode explores the haunted history of Chatham, Kent, focusing on its military forts and the Chatham Dockyard. Hosts Diane and Kelly discuss ghost stories, paranormal investigations, and the historical significance of these locations, from Fort Amherst's eerie apparitions to the dockyard's shipbuilding legacy.

As heard by us

A haunted-history tour that lets the place speak before the ghost story shows up.

The hour spends its time on Fort Borstal and the ground around it before it gets to the haunting. It moves through the fort's 1875 to 1883 construction, the dry ditch, underground tunnels, and polygonal shape, then notes that the site was sold in 1990 and is now being…

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You want a fort tour where the history does the heavy lifting.

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