How The Great Depression started Haunted Houses - The History of Haunted Houses

In today's episode of History and Hearsay, we are discussing the history of haunted houses and how the depression gave us haunted houses. We even take it WAY back and talk about the influence that Marie Tussaud had on horror and how that became part of American halloween traditions. Did you know that The Great Depression started Haunted houses? Did you go to Homemade haunted houses growing up? Let me know what you think of this  AND give me some history story suggestions as well! HOPE YOU ENJOY! ~ Christina 
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WATCH the VIDEO of todays episode HERE: https://youtu.be/3xUAnI8riz4 

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Sources:
https://www.history.com/news/halloween-haunted-house-great-depression
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/history-haunted-house-180957008/ 
https://castleofchaos.com/blog/the-history-of-haunted-attractions/
https://hauntedwalk.com/news/enter-if-you-dare-the-history-of-the-haunted-house/ 
https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2019/08/today-in-disney-history-haunted-mansion-opened-at-disneyland-park-in-1969/

Book: Trick of Treat (A History of Halloween) By Lisa Morton https://books.google.com/books?id=h6vDoVs5aioC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false 
Haunted House Fact Sheet: https://www.americahaunts.com/ah/facts/  

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