Haunted History

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Haunted History was a 1998 UFA/Cafe Productions series exploring the supernatural. Executive Producer Ed Babbage for Cafe (London).

[edit] Premise

Tell ghost stories related to famous people and events using a mixture of experts and dramatic reconstructions of both the supernatural events and the history underlying them.

[edit] Season one

  • Episode 1 Legacy of the Battle of Little Bighorn examines the ghost stories associated with Custer's Last Stand.
  • Episode 2 Echoes of an Earthly Hell : Perched on a craggy peninsula on the south coast of Tasmania are the ruins of the infamous Port Arthur Penal Settlement. Do psychic echoes reverberate here?
  • Episode 3 Ghosts of Slavery The Myrtles is a two-hundred-year-old Louisiana plantation house with a turbulent past. A ghost story from America's South.
  • Episode 4 The Witches Who Cannot Forget : The story of Matthew Hopkins, Witchfinder General and the Witch Trials, and the ghosts which are still said to linger.
  • Episode 5 Verdun: The Secret Battle Underground : claims of ghosts haunting tourists in the underground tunnels of the fortifications of this terrible First World War battle.
  • Episode 6 Mary Queen of Scots: The Tragic Queen :retells the tale of the tragic Queen and the many ghost stories today associated with her romantic life.

[edit] Haunted History New York

In October 1999, documentaries of places with ghostly manifestations aired on the History Channel. There were five segments on Haunted History New York.

  • The first segment involved the ghost of a woman named Gertrude Tredwell, who was born in 1840 and died in 1933. She closed herself from the rest of the world after her father, Seabury Tredwell, refused to let her marry her lover, Lewis Walton.
  • The spirit of George Sullivan haunted the USS The Sullivans.
  • Beardslee Castle manifested with the ghosts of Guy Beardslee and some spirit once known for scaring out employees at night by making a shriek/growl noise.
  • A house on Staten Island known for the ghost of Christopher Billup.
  • The ghost of Lavender, a girl that went to a dance with two boys going stag.