Morbid - Episode 350: Haunted Hotels Vol. 1
Episode Date: August 10, 2022We’ve got a new installment for ya partners, HAUNTED HOTELS! Alaina brings us to the Langham hotel in London and then to Ben Lomond Suites in Utah while Ash brings us to the Hollywood Roose...velt Hotel and then to Hotel Savoy. It’s gonna be creepy and ghostly up in here because we’ve got all things that are good; ghostly elevators, mirror Marilyn ghosts, spectral weapons and so much more. Hold onto your butts and if you would like to suggest a Haunted Hotel for our next episode please send to Morbidpodcast@gmail.com with “Haunted Hotels” somewhere in the subject line :)Sam and Colby visiting The Langham Hotel in London (Hilarious)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Hey, Weirdos!
I'm Alina.
Hey, Weirdos, I'm Ash!
Well, you said it twice.
And this is more pit. I threw you off.
That was really weird.
I don't like when you throw off the whole vibe.
I kind of just do it to mess with you
because honestly it doesn't feel great for me either,
but I'm messing with you does.
Honestly, it does not feel great for me either.
So we're all suffering together.
Hey, straight up not a good time.
Yeah, as you can tell, we're a little punchy.
We're feeling punchy.
We're a little sloppy. We're feeling all punchy. We're a little slappy.
We're feeling all kinds of things, but no, no, no, no, no, no.
We're not doing a listener tale.
No, no, that's a fucking great.
We're doing a haunted, mother fucking hotels episode
installment, numero uno.
It's a new installment.
Nope, not an, well, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, a new series.
Yeah, yeah yeah you're right
even yourself do it I believe in me and you know what I felt like Patrick
Swazie and Donny Tarko so too you were you know I'm not a freeze yes Donny Tarko is a
great movie you should watch it Patrick Patrick's Way's He Was Great.
And he was also terrifying.
All right, Pete.
So we also were feeling pretty spooky because our boy, our
droopsofar fucking man fucking boy, took a little trip
without saying a word to us.
Didn't say anything.
Went to Beth and Body Works, which I don't know if you guys have been on TikTok,
and if you're TikTok is as spooky and Halloween-y as mine is.
Mine is too, man.
But it has been all over TikTok how Bath & Body Works has all these amazing little spooky,
oaky Halloween things.
And boy the fuck they do.
Drew just went on his own volition.
Accord. We just went on his own volition, accord. And for the pod lab, bought this spooky Victorian vampire hand candle holder for us.
It's wearing a ring.
Wearing a fucking ring.
It has acrylics.
Great nails.
It looks great.
It looks great.
And bought one, two, three, four, four, like six candles.
Yes, six.
Six pumpkin fall candles for the pod lab.
We have two burning right now.
It is fall.
I know, you know what tomorrow,
it is supposed to be over 100 degrees here.
Fuck the...
But that doesn't matter because fall is in our hearts
and it's in the pod lab because it's like...
Honestly, thanks to Drusifer.
It's thanks to my man.
If you hear tapping, I'm googling how many days until Halloween.
There you go.
Oh man, you know what?
Drew killed it.
He put us in the right spooky mood and we were like,
you know what, spooky it is today.
I mean, there's only 89 days left until Halloween.
That's like four days if you ask me.
It's essentially right around the corner.
It's time to start celebrating.
Let's, it'sthe harvest is coming.
Hop on your brooms,
fucking heat up your pumpkin latte,
get your knee socks out,
and let's go ghost hunting bitches.
Yes, and you know what?
Speaking of ghost hunting
for my first, you like that segue was
a prima.
I just teed you up there.
You just teed me up so perfectly. It was primo. I just teed you up there. You just teed me up so perfectly. It was delicious.
Because my first hotel that I'm gonna cover is the Langham hotel in London. Sounds Langy.
You know me. I cannot get away from London. I just spent five episodes in London,
but somehow here I am. Yeah, you should chill. I will not leave. You're stuck with me, London.
You have like honestly at this point, I think you have like dual citizenship. I think should chill. I will not leave. You're stuck with me, London. You have like, honestly, at this point,
I think you have like, dual citizens.
I think I do.
I think I qualify and that's fine with me
because I really want to go.
Did I make that joke already?
Maybe, but I love it.
But it's true.
It's a good joke.
You know what?
Still true.
Still true.
I don't see any falsities there.
And you know what?
I say ghost hunting when you mentioned it,
because while I was looking up this hotel
was like super haunted, like the most haunted hotel in London,
in like ever, it's just very haunted.
And it's gorgeous.
And I was watching some stuff about the hauntings of it
and I came across this YouTube channel.
I don't fall, like I'm not a YouTube person really.
Like I don't really go on YouTube that much.
I really don't want to go on at this point for like research purposes.
Yeah, sometimes I like, like, stumble upon stuff and like I respect the YouTube game.
So I came up on this YouTube channel that was these four guys that were in London, they
were American.
I can tell right away.
They were, they still are.
At least I'm pretty sure, I haven't double checked that, but they were at that time.
And they were in the Langham hotel and they were doing like, they're like paranormal, paranormal.
It's a day.
It's fun.
Paranormal investigators and they were doing an investigation at the Langham.
So I was like, I'm gonna watch this.
Their names are Sam and Colby.
They're really great.
I know some of you must know this YouTube channel
because I know people watch YouTube
and follow creators on there.
They're hilarious.
I was not even watching the video.
I was sitting on the little couch over there listening
and I was cracking up.
I was dying. I was like, who are they? Can we be friends? Can we do a paranormal investigation
together now? I want to do one. I've watched one video and I am sold. Let's, let's be friends.
I'm a fan now. I'm ready. I'm ready to do this. So I think they already did the Lizzie Borden House,
but we could find another one.
We could go back.
There's always more investigations to be had.
I was going to say, I don't think you got all the ghosties in there, so I'm sure we could
conjure up some.
Let's do it.
Let's go, Sam and Colby.
That's my official pitch.
So tweet at them or something.
Make it happen.
I'm not going to do it.
Let's go.
Sorry for your question, Emily.
Sorry for your question, Emily.
I was in love with it.
So the hotel is gorgeous. Oh. Gorgeous. It for your question, please. I was in love with it. So the hotel is gorgeous.
Ooh.
Gorgeous. It was built in 1865.
It was designed by architect John Guiles.
I don't know if it's Guiles or Giles.
I also like Giles because of Buffy.
So there you go.
It has somewhere around 500 rooms, probably more.
And was built as London's first grand hotel.
Ooh, weren't they all.
Wasn't they all.
Oscar Wilde and Mark Twain have apparently stayed there before?
And it's part of a ton of Sherlock Holmes novels.
Oh, cool.
Yeah.
The hotel was a big deal at the time.
It was the first in London to get Emma.
I was at American Express.
Uh, what? It's not even close to that. I wrote AC, like air conditioning. I was at American Express. What?
It's not even close to that.
I wrote AC like air conditioning,
but I looked at it and said American Express.
They were the first to get American Express points
before it even existed.
I swear I only have been drinking coffee
and eating chips.
Yeah, she doesn't even partake.
I don't so as crazy as I sound right now.
I'm shit face.
No, but it could come off that way.
They also were the first people to get hydraulic elevators in the hotel.
So it was like a big deal.
Also kind of scary though, because I don't think I would want to be the first person
to try out a hydraulic elevator.
Probably not.
Or the fifth really for that matter.
Definitely not.
So while watching Sam and Colby's channel, their experience in there,
they pointed out, because I was like, I got to see inside this place, and thank you Sam and Colby's channel, their experience in there, they pointed out,
because I was like, I got to see inside this place, and thank you, Sam and Colby, for showing me.
Sam and Colby, to you.
So Colby, let's go. They showed me that there are a lot of what they kept referring to as vortexes
in this hotel. A lot of mirrors facing other mirrors. Not a good plan. A lot of them in the rooms,
a lot of them in the hallways
is like a continuous staircase of vortexes
that they were just losing their shit over.
Oh my God.
Yeah, and I was like, oh, that might be bad.
Are they trying to conjure some shit up in there?
Maybe.
And I have read in a bunch of sources
that a lot of people have like super,
like crazy temperature changes in the hotel.
They'll get really hot, but they'll get really cold.
But most of the time it's really hot.
So you need your own wave.
Nippy, you need your Ember wave, wow, that's a callback.
But they can't get comfortable.
People end up having to go outside to get there.
Yeah, and it's like not because of anything
the hotel's doing.
The ghosts.
It's the ghosties.
It's what I feel.
It's the demons.
Yes.
So they were also feeling this in the middle of the night.
They were like, why is it so hot in here?
And I was like, I don't know, Sam, it could be why.
And I said, it's so hot right now.
I also read about people getting bad headaches sometimes
in certain rooms, like room 3333,
which tends to be the most haunted room.
That is the room.
Wonder why. which tends to be the most haunted room. That is the room. Why? Because 3333 is supposedly like associated with like, bad shit.
Lane.
So there you go.
Laughed at the mook up.
In Sam and Colby's video, they all had headaches.
They all kept getting headaches and I was like,
I believe you.
Headaches.
I believe you.
Headaches.
This is 100% true.
I'm worried for you if you need an Accenture Migraine.
I have one.
Oh nice.
But don't worry, one of them gave each.
They shared an X-Nibee Profen and it was adorable.
Was that the moment where you were like,
these are my people?
I was like, these are my people.
Migraines, I get it.
Yeah, so I think that was it.
I was like, let's have migraines together.
Yay.
So that's interesting.
And I was like, well, okay.
Then I found an article
that said the England cricket team in 2004 stayed at this hotel as a team and they were haunted
as fuck while they were there. Oh no. Several of them requested that their rooms be changed out
sometime in the middle of the night. Ooh. Some of their wives, girlfriends, partners literally stopped
they wouldn't they would refuse to stay in the hotel. They're like, no, I'm not doing it.
That's scary.
A guy named Stuart Broad, who was on the team,
said the room was so hot, and he couldn't sleep
because of it.
He was feeling so uncomfortable, and then all of a sudden
out of the blue in the middle of the night,
the faucets in the bathroom turned on.
Like, squeaked on.
Which they can't just like, it's not like it's electric
and can just turn on.
You have to squeak the faucets on.
It's not electric.
Pogiyogi.
Not electric.
And he turned on the lights.
And as soon as he did that, they squeaked off.
Oh.
And he turned them back off.
They squeaked back on again.
He squeaky.
So he was like, no.
So he ran out of there.
He was like, fuck that.
And he changed a room.
So he ended up sleeping with a teammate
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Now, apparently if you look back on some ghosty ghost stories, a doctor is said to have murdered his brand new bride
in room 3333.
Why is it always a dead bride?
And it's always a doctor.
It's always a lie.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Now, after he killed her, he killed himself, apparently.
So there was some stuff going on.
It was their honeymoon.
It was bad.
It was like, ready or not?
It was.
Now, his ghost is a man that can be seen wearing Victorian attire.
He has very dead eyes according to reports.
And he only trolls about during the month of October.
My favorite thing is that they're like, this dead man has dead eyes.
He's not like lively and like, hello.
He's not living.
He has dead eyes.
And he only walks from, he's only seen in October.
I kind of love that about him.
Frankly, I don't blame him if I had the option to only be seen in October. I kind of love that about him. Frankly, I don't blame him if I had the option
to only be seen in October.
I also would take that option.
October and June, let's do it.
Yeah, that's it.
So a BBC announcer, James Alexander Gordon,
actually was someone who brought this story forward
in 1973 when he moved in that room.
He was living, he was just like briefly staying in that room.
But he was the one who came out.
He said in October of that year,
in the middle of the night,
he woke up to a strange feeling.
He then sought the end of his bed, a ball of light.
So he watched it thinking like,
am I really seeing this?
Probably like all of us when we have sleep paralysis demons.
I know I always am like, is this real? Yeah. Am I really looking at this? Then the ball of light
started changing and forming into a shape. And suddenly it was changing into the
shape of a man, but his calves were missing. What? Below the knee just gone. Just
floating there. Oh, no. He was the doctor apparently, wearing evening wear from the Victorian period,
and they just stared at each other.
Where did his shins and calves and feet go?
I'm not sure. Alrighty.
So basically it was like,
and I looked at him,
and he looked to be,
and I looked at him,
and he looked at me.
That was what was going on.
But for real, he then just screamed, what do you want?
Because he was like, what the fuck is going on right now?
Yeah.
But then the ghost began to move towards him
with his arms outstretched.
He looked at me.
And he was done.
I'm going to mace you.
James got out of there.
He fucking ran out of there.
Apparently he ran into the lobby.
This is in the middle of the night, basically,
in a blind panic, and asked if a hotel clerk would just accompany him
back to the room, because he was like,
well, sir, I just saw a shinless ghost
appear at the foot of my bed, and this guy was like,
no, thank you, sir.
I don't want to accompany you back up to that bedroom.
Why would you even think about that?
I'm even going back up there.
So he went back up alone, because he said
his wallet was up there, like everything,
he couldn't go anywhere.
He was like, I have to get my wallet
to my website, Davey.
And he said the ghost was still fucking there
when he went back to the room.
He said it was fading and didn't feel as threatening
and it didn't even look at him when he came in the room.
But he said it was still there.
I got chile's just saying that.
I didn't.
And he told his colleagues at the BBC's the next day.
He was like, fucking, I gotta tell you what my night was.
And did they lol so hard?
No, several of them who had stayed there
because at this point, the BBC owned the hotel
and like people would stay there.
A lot of them said, I saw that too.
Wow.
And thought it was crazy.
Oh, I have tingles.
Which to which I say like, what a team building exercise
this was. I know you will be the best. I say like what a team building exercise this was.
I know you will be the best team.
Bonded for life for eons.
Now apparently there's also a ghost that appears that has a giant
gnarly wound on his face, like right in the middle of his face.
Okay.
I picture that ballerina with all the teeth in cabin in the woods.
I don't know, that's the first thing I think of.
Yeah.
But he just likes to walk around the hallways. I don't think he really does a whole lot. Let him. And I say if you see him,
just let him walk. Top of the morning, Taser. He's taken a stroll, let him have it. He's missing part
of his face. So like just give him a moment. He deserves a stroll. Now you may also feel a German
prince manifest as a spirit here. What does that feel like? Feels cold? Oh, yeah. The temperature change. Okay. You can often find him standing in a window on the
fourth floor. That was very boss and I'm sorry, fourth. Fourth floor.
Fourth floor. Just staring. He's just staring. And he said to have jumped to his
death out of the fourth floor window of the hotel and now he just can't leave.
And he's described as literally in every
source I saw in these, like at least three or four sources. I saw this one description
was either described as hefty or beefy.
Root and Root.
Which is like, whoa, I've never described it goes that way.
No.
He apparently has cropped hair in a military type jacket with like a high neck. He looks
very distinguished.
All right, this beefy man.
And he likes to jump or he likes to just walk through,
I'd not jump.
He likes to walk through doors.
I mean, I would too if I was a ghost.
But like right into rooms through the doors,
so be careful when you're just hanging out in the buff
because he could just walk through your door
and be like, hello there, I would say.
But in German, he's extremely active and he's seen a lot.
Like he likes the attention.
He's an attention one.
He's a German eye ghost.
He probably is.
Now apparently the emperor Napoleon III
lived at the hotel for a time during his exile.
What?
And he just chills in the basement now.
All right.
I see him.
And in room 333 again, back to room 333,
it has a ghost that will just wait until you're asleep
and then try to either throw you or tip you out of the bed
by shaking it violently.
No, yeah.
I once lived in an apartment where my bed would shake
that feeling, like you hear that in so many paranormal stories
that that feeling when you actually feel that
is absolutely fucking terrifying.
Because like, you're vulnerable.
Yeah, and you're bed is shaking.
And what are you supposed to do?
And you were just so relaxed a minute ago?
You were.
You were sleeping so bad.
I can like feel that.
Now, one guess literally ran
from the whole asshole
tell in the middle of the night
because it was so intense of a shake
from this wily spirit that she was like, I'm out.
Now also this happened to Sam and Colby
while they were there to-
Their bed shook it.
I believe it was Colby.
I think you were wearing a striped shirt Colby.
You were in the bed and you said, I feel it shaking.
Just let us know during our collab.
One of you, yeah, during our collab, you can let us know.
During the time when we go time with you, goes time-turs.
It's gonna happen.
So yeah, you can let me know if it was you and the better not.
You know, it's actually funny.
3-3-3 is actually about manifestation.
So we're just manifesting right now.
We're just manifesting here.
So there's also a Victorian footman who is wearing like a powdered wig and it's very fancy
and he just hangs out in the library.
Distinguished.
He will sit in a very cold spot though.
It's like the whole room doesn't become cold.
You'll just walk through and we're like,
oh cold spot and that's when he's like
top of the morning.
Hendy for a hot flash.
You know, there's also a butler who's on the third floor.
He's just walking around and he stays on the third floor
just doing his business. He is said to be wearing socks with a lot of holes in them. I don't know
why. He's just still working though so just he's just trying to make your
fucking stay beautiful. Maybe leave him out some new socks. Just be nice to him
okay. Give him some wool socks. It sounds pretty cold in there. Please do because
he's just trying to do his job still and And he should be able to do so comfortably.
He's just making your stay great.
He's just making you imagine if you were a Butler
like and you didn't really like it.
And then you just had to do that for the next year.
And you just had to hold God in existence.
No.
Fuck a whole whole thing.
No, thank you.
Fuck that really hard.
No. So hard.
No.
That's the Langham hotel.
And I like that you ended on the butter with holy socks.
It felt right.
That's pretty fantastic.
It did feel right.
Oh, sorry, I squeaked my mic.
You squeaked.
I squeaked my mic.
We got a new desk and I'm trying to figure out how to look
at my computer, also look at Elena
and talk to my microphone.
Life is hard.
Thanks for asking.
It is hard.
It is so.
I'm taking us all the way to Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood I bet that's shocking
I'm gonna take us to the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel which is located in Hollywood
Hollywood
California there you go. All right, so the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, it is located at 7,000 Hollywood Boulevard,
and it's actually Los Angeles' longest-running hotel.
Look at that!
Fun fact.
I made my ex-boyfriend take me there when we went there.
Okay, I thought you had been there.
Yep, I thought so.
Yeah, I was like, I wanna go there, Maryland, stayed there.
Did you look at any mirrors?
I didn't.
Well, it's doors were first opened on May 15th, 1927,
and throughout the years, pretty much anybody who is anybody in Hollywood has stayed there.
Ooh.
We had back in the day Mary Pickford, I've talked about her a ton.
She actually was one of the hotel's founders.
Oh, okay.
Marilyn Monroe stayed there, like you said, Clark Gable,
and then more recently, like, super big stars, like Beyonce, Jay-Z,
Prince, RIP, before his death,
and of course, my girl Lilo, have been spotted there.
Of course.
Um, yeah.
And I think if the walls at the Roosevelt could talk, they would definitely tell you that they have seen their fair share of cool shit.
Shirley Temple supposedly had her first tap dancing lesson at this hotel?
My god.
Which is like wild.
Errol Flynn tested out his first batch
of bathtub bootleg gin.
Yeah, he did.
And he did it in a barber shop
in the back of the hotel, like in a bathtub.
That's amazing.
I was like, why was there a bathtub in a barber shop?
Why not?
Don't ask questions, he said.
And also, I thought this was super duper cool.
The hotel actually hosted the first ever Academy Awards
slash Oscar.
That's cool.
How crazy is that?
That is cool.
And the first ceremony was like super short.
I saw in one source that it was five minutes long,
and then I saw in another that it was 15 minutes long.
Either way, probably better than what's happening today.
Yeah, it's far too long.
And they only handed out 13 awards at the first one.
They were very cheesy.
They were. I think, you know, bring it back.
And if that wasn't cool enough, this place is said to be haunted by the ghost of the one.
The only.
The queen.
Marilyn Monroe.
Marilyn.
So Marilyn actually did her first debut photo shoot by the pool at the Roosevelt,
which is called, yeah, the Tropa Camel.
Yeah, it is.
Which I love.
And some of the most famous photos of her on the diving board, some people say
that she was selling toothpaste, other say sunscreen, either way, protective
substances for your teeth or skin.
And either way, I'm buying it.
I'm buying whatever Maryland is selling.
Now, when she officially moved out to California, the Roosevelt was actually
her official resident.
She lived there for almost two years.
Yeah.
And her one request, maybe there was more than one,
but like I like to represent her as a humble queen.
Of course.
Her one request was that a full length mirror
be placed in her room.
Yeah, and I get it.
I get it.
Fit checks are important, okay?
Now, I can only personally imagine
how much time she spent looking in that mirror, like getting ready
and shit.
If I looked like Marilyn Monroe, I would look
in the mirror all day.
I would actually never thought.
I would have never been in a movie
because I'd just be sitting and looking at myself
full of low narcissism right here.
I love it.
But yeah, I feel like she spent a lot of time looking
in that mirror, which would make sense
because she haunts that fucking mirror to this day.
Wow, allegedly.
Allegedly.
She's also been seen wandering around the hotel like outside of the mirror and inside of
her favorite rooms that she actually stayed at while she was living there.
Room 229, book it, sweet 1200, book it, or over the pool in one of the cabanas, 246.
Okay, I'm booking all of them.
Let's book every single one.
Now, it's at the Housekeeping Workers where the first to see her reflection in the mirror,
and it was while they were cleaning one of those rooms.
This woman was kind of, you know, maybe when Dexing the Mirror adusting it, I don't know.
And all of a sudden, she's like, oh, there's this very sad-looking blonde woman.
She must be behind me, because that's how mirrors work. So, she turned around, and she was like, let me help this very sad looking blonde woman. She must be behind me because that's how mirrors work. So she turned around and she was like, let me help this sad looking blonde
woman. But there was no sad looking blonde woman to be found.
Because I was Maryland. So she looks back in the mirror and the woman is still there, still
sad, still blonde. Aw. And that's when she realized that she was looking at Marilyn Monroe.
Oh my God, I would be like, oh my God, I know. I probably only have a second to say something to you,
but like, I love you.
I wouldn't even know what to say.
It would be like when I met Andrew McMahon
from Jack's Manicin and I would literally spend
the entire time in line thinking of what to say to the man
and then I get in line and I literally just blurt out,
I love you.
It's true.
It was the most embarrassing moment by the way.
Thanks for being there.
This photographic proof of it somewhere.
There is.
But yeah, there's other variations of the story,
but that's like the one that's most often shared around.
So once people started talking about spotting one
of Hollywood's most famous stars inside a fucking mirror,
people wanted to get their hands on said mirror.
They were trying to summon Miss Monroe for themselves.
Yeah.
So for that reason, the staff at the hotel,
they were like, oh, fuck, that's gonna get the people coming.
I mean, we had the first Oscars here, and now we have a mirror that shows Marilyn and
Ro.
Yeah, I'd come.
So they put it downstairs by the elevators, and apparently they put two big pictures of
Marilyn on the wall opposite it.
So like, technically, they're not lying.
She's always in the mirror.
You're gonna see her.
You are gonna see her.
It was then eventually moved next to the gift shop, and now it's said to be in storage somewhere. Oh, that's fake. Why would you get rid of that
mirror? No, you wouldn't. Can I have it? I don't think they did. I feel like they
just like put it in a random bedroom and I don't know. Maybe we'll have to
wait in here from the guest who finds Marilyn next. Also, if it's in storage,
like I want it. I need it.
And I have it.
Can you give it to me?
It's a really pretty mirror too.
Yeah, I want it.
It's like dark wood and everything.
Oh, give me it.
Okay, I'll call someone.
Thank you.
So, but Marilyn is actually not the only celebrity who haunts the Hollywood Roosevelt.
Four-time Oscar nominee Montgomery Clifft is also said to haunt not only Room 928 but actually the entire ninth floor.
Whoa look at him. Now if you're not aware of who this man's is, he was a very famous actor
between the 40s and the 60s, best known for the misfits, a place in the sun, and the movie that he
was filming while staying at the Roosevelt from here to eternity. Ooh, which is like really creepy
once you realize that he actually does seem to be spending
the entirety of his eternity at the hotel.
Ooh, I would hate that.
Yeah, so while he was working on the movie,
he would paste the halls of the ninth floor,
just repeating his lines over and over again.
And to this day, people say they hear low mumbles
on the ninth floor while they're in the hallway.
And sometimes they feel like somebody's bumped into them
or brushed up against them.
So they're like, could that be him
like still pacing the hallways?
And he's also said to still mess with the radio
and the heat settings to let people know that he's lurking.
I love it.
So you know, if you're visiting the ninth floor
and your room gets a little toasty,
just ask Monty to turn the heat back down.
Monty, take it down.
Take it down, take it down a notch. And while you're at it, you also might have to ask him
to stop playing the music so loud, but he's not going to.
Because guests who stay at the hotel to this day,
again, still hear him practicing his trumpet
all around the ninth floor.
Oh, damn.
And I wish you guys could have seen
that I actually did a little trumpet move
with her shoulders too.
I, um, she meed. Yeah, she meed while playing a ph shoulders too. I, I, um, it's shimmied.
Yeah, shimmied while playing a phantom trumpet.
Air, air trumpet.
Air trumpet over here.
It's the new air guitar, spread it like wildfire.
There you go.
Uh, but apparently the years of practice
haven't really helped him so much
because it's not so good.
Oh, I'm sorry, Monty.
I know, he actually had a really sad life.
He like, um, got into a car accident
and actually became like disabled and like hurt his face and all this stuff. Oh my, come,ery. How to really a really sad life. He like got into a car accident and actually became like disabled
and like hurt his face and all this stuff.
Oh my, comey.
How to really, really sad life.
But I'm gonna be honest, I get overstimulated
with a lot of noise, so.
Me too.
I'm gonna need you to take it down.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you.
Now the next two celebs who are said to hunt the place
are Clark Gable in Carol Lombard.
No big deal.
Casual.
Who are they?
Well, while they were alive and after they were married,
they decided to spend their honeymoon at the hotel
in the penthouse, um, suite on the 12th floor.
Now, apparently there's a belief held by a lot of people
in the paranormal world that ghosts will go back to a place
or a time where they were the happiest.
Oh, it seems to be the case here,
because Carol and Clark still hang out on the 12th floor.
Dopp.
And they also hang out in the blossom room,
and the blossom room is actually the banquet hall
where they held the first Oscars.
So it makes sense that these two actors
are drawn to it, hello.
Of course, I believe it.
Now, down in that room, guests have actually reported
this one spot in the blossom room,
where it's impossible to get
or to stay warm.
And it's like a super crazy cold spot that is about 30 inches in diameter.
Whoa.
Which is like pretty big.
Yeah.
And they say it's freezing cold.
Most of the time, the temperature in that one single area is at least 10 degrees colder
than the rest of the room.
Wow.
Isn't that weird?
That's weird. There's also just a random man in a top hat that sits of the room. Wow. Is that weird? That's weird.
There's also just a random man in a top hat that sits in the room
that like nobody claims him.
Nobody claims him.
No, they don't.
They don't know him.
Whose man's is this?
He's just lurking.
They think he's like some actor that may have like been in a movie
and tuned into the Oscars, but.
Oh man.
He just sees.
He just stays lurking.
And then there's also another little ghost girl who wanders around in a blue dress looking
for her mom.
Oh, I'll help her.
Isn't that so sad?
Oh, that's really sad.
I'll be your mom.
I'll be your mom, little ghost girl.
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In her book, The Big Book of California Ghost Stories,
which if you don't buy that, you're stupid.
She says that, quote, perhaps being a celebrity
means never having to leave the party.
I love that quote.
I love it so much.
Such a good quote.
Put that in one of those like light things
that Jessie loves. That Jessie loves. Put that in one of those like light things that Jessie loves.
That Jessie loves, you know?
One of those light things.
I want one of those light things.
It's got to say something completely innocuous though.
It should say something so lame.
I know if I got one, you know what it would say.
I would hang it in my living room.
Guess what it would say.
Ah.
So I don't know.
So silly.
Farts.
What if you just got like this beautiful pink light?
That would be amazing.
And like in beautiful, sorry, I stepped on a chip bag
and get the two I am.
In beautiful pink curse of lettering, it just says Farts.
Please get that.
And like you have to look at it for a second
to see what it says.
To understand.
Yeah, like mom would come over my house
and be like, very far far.
Farts. And then she'd question how she raised me
Please do that. How do you get one of those?
We get one order them on Etsy. Let's order one
We're gonna go to the PO box and there's gonna be like nine that I say farce
We can make a fart wall. Oh my god. I saw I've ever dreamed of it. That's all you've ever dreamed of
Please don't do that. I don't want that
But you can do it.
I want you to do it in your own parts.
I need you to do it in your own.
I'll do it in my office.
In your actual home.
It needs to be in your living room.
OK.
I gotta talk to Drew.
All right.
I think Drew's affair will be into it.
He's a farty boy, so.
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Alright, so moving on from that, my next one is the Ben Lomon Suites in Ogden, Utah, Utah.
So I go from London to Utah. That's just like fitting in a weird way.
I don't know, it just makes sense.
It felt right.
I felt like I was spending too much time
across the pond.
I had to come back for a minute.
You wanted to stop at Beauty Lab and Laser.
What?
Can't tell you.
I don't know what that is.
Housewives.
Oh, okay.
Ah.
No.
I don't know what that is.
It's really tough.
I'm being on the secret.
Oh man.
Well, these were built in 1927, and it was one of three
grand hotels in Utah.
Oh, I picked grand hotels.
The grand day.
The grand day, too.
So where the hotel, where this hotel was,
was actually the site of two previous hotels before it.
They tried.
They gave it their best shot, but a lot went down there. was was actually the site of two previous hotels before it. They tried.
They gave it their best shot, but a lot went down there.
So the first one was the Reed, which was built in 1891.
And it was five stories, pretty cool hotel, pretty decent.
But apparently three days before the hotel even opened to the public, the brother-in-law
of the owner, his name was William B. Steele, he just up and died from tuberculosis in one of the rooms on the bed.
Yeah, I bet that happened a lot back then.
Whoops, and apparently there was a...
Whoops, that's not good.
That's tuberculosis.
Oops.
There was eight more deaths after this in the hotel.
Oh, no.
No, September 1921, a new chef at the hotel fell down an elevator shaft to their death.
Their name was Asuki Nakone, I believe it is.
I'm sorry if I said that wrong.
Apparently, the elevator came up.
They just stepped in while not looking, and the car had not come up with it, so they
just fell down the shaft.
That is my biggest fear.
It happens a lot too.
It happens a lot.
Weirdly a lot too.
Even still.
Yeah, I hate elevators. I do not like elevators. Weirdly a lot too. Even still. Yeah.
I hate elevators.
I do not like elevators.
I've gotten stuck in an elevator before and it was the scariest experience.
No.
No.
Horrible.
Didn't you get stuck in an elevator and somebody threw up?
Yeah.
I got stuck in an elevator at Boston College.
I mean, it's very evident why I got stuck in the elevator.
I chose to go on one with like 30 people and it was really stupid.
But yeah, a girl had a panic attack and threw up.
Another girl couldn't find her inhaler.
Somebody was smoking weed in there.
I was like, dude, what do you do?
I would lose my damn mind.
Yeah, and then firefighters had to come and like lift us all up.
And I was not 21 at the time.
And I had to get out of there.
I had to get out of there.
Oh, the story.
I had to get the fuck out of there. Oh, and my phone got, I lost my phone of there. Yeah, I had to get out of there. Oh, the story, I had to get the fuck out of there.
Oh, and my phone got, I lost my phone in the beginning.
Oh, yeah.
And then we had to go to the dining hall
after we like ditched the firefighters.
And this super nice girl came over to me
and because I think I was like in my background picture
with someone else.
And she was like, is this your phone?
And I was like, it is my phone.
And I got my phone back.
That was a great story.
I mean, it was.
It was a story about kindness and not stealing.
It was.
It had a message.
It said.
It had a message.
Unfortunately, these elevators are terrible.
So another, the moral of the story elevators suck.
Yeah, they do.
Now, another guest was Helen Van Allen.
And she was staying long-term in the hotel with
her husband, and she shot herself in Room 1902, and her husband in a bellhop found her.
Oh, yeah.
That's very sad.
Now the read was demolished in 1926, when a big banker bought it and decided to make
his own hotel on the site.
The hotel that was built in 1927,
the following year was the Bigelow Slash.
It became the Ben, you know, Lomanch Suites.
Gotcha, gotcha.
And also I just love that he's like,
a hotel already exists here,
but I'm actually gonna knock it down.
Knock it down.
I'm gonna build a hotel.
A hotel over this.
And he's like, I'm gonna make it bigger.
You can't just renovate the one you have.
And you know what, this hotel was a wild place.
It was in 1927, and it was where the roaring twenties were definitely the roaring twenties.
Like, like, gangster.
Like, bootlegging, like all that stuff was going on here.
Very Gatsby-S.
There was a tunnel under the hotel that was used to smuggle alcohol.
Fuck yeah.
But it was also a tunnel that would lead
into other parts of the town in city,
where like a nefarious and like sinister dealings
were going on.
Obsessed.
Like all kinds of like,
obsessed, just things of the night, basically.
Let's go.
Yeah.
Apparently they cemented it shut.
The city did.
Why the fuck would you do that?
Because I think it just was going to lead
to a lot of nefarious things fun.
Yeah, like, fun, fun, runer city of London.
Fun, sucker.
But, you know, there it goes.
So March 9th, 1929, actually, a guy named Edward Spellman was killed there,
like murdered.
And here's the story.
This was during, and there's like newspaper articles for this.
This was during the Utah Canners Association Convention with Sounds.
Whoa, wild.
I feel like we've talked about Canners.
I think we have.
I think we have.
I feel like we have.
A man named Dan Roland invited some of his fellow Canners to the room upstairs where he's
staying and to have some like pre-game beers and drinks.
We love the pre-game.
And just, you know, like, be men.
But then, you know, it was up on the 12th floor.
They all just hung out.
Some ladies and wives came in and out
during this whole thing, drinking with them.
They all hung out for a while, went back downstairs
to the ballroom where the whole party and shindig
was going on.
Now, one of the men who was with them
was his friend and colleague, Edward Spellman.
They were all now back in the ballroom
and he suddenly excuses himself and goes back upstairs.
So Dan Rowland is a little suspicious.
He's like, why are you going back up to my room?
Yeah, like we just like, did you forget something?
So he goes back up to check on him
and he finds that Edward was in the room
and he was because one of his other colleagues' wives
had passed out drunk on the bed and he was assaulting her.
Oh, what the fuck?
So Dan went in there and he ripped him off her
and he starts beating the shit out of him
because he's like, how dare you?
Yeah.
And he ends up throwing him into the hallway.
They're fighting scuffle, scuffle, scuffle.
And Dan lands a serious punch to Edward's face,
knocks him into the wall hard, and he dies.
Dan.
Boom, dead.
Now, he died from a ruptured artery,
which is like an aneurysm.
Oh, shit.
Now, Roland was apparently charged with murder for this,
but was acquitted later because they figured out
he had died from the aneurysm and not the punch,
and they could not determine that the aneurysm was caused by anything else but natural causes.
It was just a weird coincidence.
Divine intervention.
Whoa.
Now check out this website wherewoafs.com by the way.
Where woafs?
Where woafs.
I'll link it in the show notes.
They just had a lot of information on this and they had like other paranormal stuff on
there too. That was really interesting. So, just wanted to
put that out. Now, in the Bigelow Ben Lomond Hotel in 1939, two men, Glein Jackson and
Elmoji Chapman arrived at the hotel one day. They were belligerent and angry and they weren't
staying in the hotel and they were kind of arguing with the staff and then they just walked
into the elevator and took it up to the top floor.
So the manager sees them, tries to follow them, and she kind of like corrals them at some
point and is like, I'm getting security, you need to leave.
When she's getting security, they run off back to the top floor, and then they both apparently
jumped out the window together off the top floor of the building.
What? Later it was discovered they had just both lost their jobs.
Oh.
There's newspaper articles for this one too.
How's this real?
How's this real?
Because you know how sometimes with like hauntings and stuff you're like,
I have this story but like there's nothing really.
There's so many articles for this one.
It's funny that you're finding all these articles.
The next one I was like, I tried to find it.
I tried but I couldn't find it.
And it's so sad. There's like a lot of suicides at this hotel.
Now in July 16th, 1951, a teacher, Donna Anderson, she was a teacher like locally for 20 plus years.
She jumped from the 9th floor to her, 9th floor to her desk. And according to an article
from a desert, from the desert news, she found, she was found first by her friend on the ninth floor.
Oh, God.
And she hadn't jumped yet, but she had slashed her wrists.
And her friend tried to help her,
and she pushed past her friend in ran and dove out the window.
Oh, God.
No one knows the exact reason,
but she was having health problems recently,
and people think it may have been worse
than she was letting on.
And she just,
which is so sad.
Being that friend too and like,
I can't, like obviously like the survivors guilt.
Oh my gosh, yeah, like, oh, I can't imagine.
I also encourage you to check out history
goes bump in the night blog
because that's a lot of cool information on there too.
I'll link it in the show notes.
Now August 24th, 1976, so we're in the 70s now,
Johnny Perez, who was a 15-year-old boy at the time, came into the hotel to rob it.
And in the middle of everything, he's trying to rob the clerk at the front desk, who was a guy named
Henry, Henry Topping Jr. He was 65 years old. Are you kidding me?
In the process of rob trying to rob him,
he ended up stabbing him 44 times and killed him.
So people, and he was like charged with first degree murder,
he's in prison.
I mean, yeah.
Now people still feel like they can sense Henry,
the clerk in the lobby, and staff say he turns on the music
over the speakers a lot.
And like apparently he was like a music lover.
So they've been good.
Jam.
Now, the elevator at the new hotel acts crazy.
Don't get in it.
Yeah.
It moves independently of being summoned.
It will like stop and just open clothes.
Like, it's not, it's working totally on its own volition.
And they've had like elevator repair people come out
and check it. And they're like, nothing's people come out and check it,
and they're like nothing's wrong with this elevator.
Like nothing is wrong with it.
So there's so much wrong with it.
It's ghosties. That's it.
But there's also these stories about a woman who died in one of the rooms, 1101.
She drowned in the bathtub.
People say, sometimes people say it was after she got married. I don't know if that's the truth always
It's usually a bride. I think it was it was just a woman. We know that and later her distraught son came to gather her things
From the hotel and just like he was like very upset
So he stayed in the room next to that room where she died and it was 11.02 and he got so upset and was so depressed while he was staying there that he ended up killing himself in that room
next to me. So now in those two rooms people feel like really heavy weird vibes and also the water in the tub will just turn on and start filling by itself
and if you take a bath in there sometimes you'll feel hands pressing on you, like pushing you. Fall. Yeah.
That.
It's crazy.
And I saw in a couple of sources,
people who had stayed there were like, no, I felt it.
Like, I felt like someone was pushing me
out of the tub.
No, no, no, no, no.
Yeah.
I never take a bath at a hotel.
No.
People also hear a man and a woman talking,
like a radio almost in rooms.
Like a wall-toucher.
Like a hear radio and they're like, what is that?
But it's just like hearing voices talking to each other.
Oh.
Like, disembodied. People will also smell perfume, especially lilac perfume, which was a favorite of the wife of the original owners.
Oh cool.
So they think she's just walking around, checking out everything, making sure everything's going on.
I always love a perfume, huh?
We love a perfume.
The group of the perfumes.
I was going to say in my house, you could always, you could always smell Chanel number five because that was the perfume that my grandmother wore
wore. And you can smell it when you're like stressed out and you'll calm you. Luxury,
but always luxury will calm you. There are also a lot of temperature issues in this hotel as well.
Always. A lot of cold spots that places that like just will not get warm. They are always cold no matter what
But many guests will hear like disembodied voices in the middle of the night walking by their doors as well
And they'll be like huh, I like I didn't think anybody was on this floor or something and they'll peek out and no one's around good bye. Yeah
Staff gets calls in the lobby from room 1106 often
And they'll check and see that no one is staying in that room Staff gets calls in the lobby from room 1106 often,
and they'll check and see that no one is staying in that room.
And no one ever talks when they answer the phone
and nobody'll say anything,
and then it just hangs up.
And no one's in the room.
And there's this tale where they think it's this mother
who was staying in the hotel during World War II,
and her son was a soldier,
and she got a call that he was killed in battle,
and she died of a broken heart in that room.
Oh. Isn't that sad?
So many residual hauntings.
So many.
And the last thing that will happen
is security guards will pass by rooms,
and they'll hear noises in the empty room.
Go to check it out.
No, but nothing's in there, and they're like, okay.
And they'll go shut the door,
and as they walk away, the door handles
will violently shake. No. Yeah. And they walk away, the door handles will like violently shake.
No.
Yeah, and they'll like, no, thank you.
Yeah, so that is the Benloman sweets
in Ogden Utah.
Sure is.
Which was two other hotels before it and not good.
And not good.
Not great.
I mean, it's great.
Like, go stay there if you want to. It's fine. But like a lot of shit happened there. Yeah not good. Not great. I mean, it's great. Like, go say that if you want to.
It's fine.
Yes.
But like, a lot of shit happened there.
Yeah, fun.
Fun.
Fun for haunts.
Thank you.
Yeah.
For paranormal investigations.
Thank you.
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That's betterheelpe.com slash morbid. Um, I don't, I, I know that we're like really good friends now, but I don't know if, um,
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Your friends?
Your friends.
Colby, if they have some friends you are, but I don't know if they have gone there.
But if you have, I'll go find your video because we can ask them when we do.
Oh, yeah, I forgot.
We'll ask when we do our Oh yeah, I forgot. We'll ask when we do. Yeah, yeah, perfect.
We'll also have to ask them if they've ever gone to hotel Savoy and Grill in Kansas City.
And Grill. And Grill.
It is also a Grill. It's also a Grill.
It's actually not anymore. And now it's called the 21C Museum Hotel because it's different.
Oh, because it's different. It's different. But either way it's said to be incredibly
muffled and haunted. I'm ready. So this original hotel opened up in 1888.
Ooh! Does that your son familiar to you? I don't know, just the year that Jack the Ripper
was stewing his thing. Yeah, creepy. Also because it opened like so long ago,
it is the oldest running hotel west of the Mississippi.
Good for it.
And I had a lot of fun right now at M.I.
SSI, SSI, PPI.
Thank you.
So these days, it actually houses guests for short stays
and also features apartments for people
who are interested in staying a little more long term.
All right.
So some of those tenants, like especially from the apartments,
have stories that will give your chill bumps, chill bumps.
So curl your toenails.
Yeah.
Now, reportedly, the most haunted room is room 505.
So you came for my number.
I'm coming for yours.
There you go.
Now, a woman named Betsy Ward said to have died in the room
while she was staying there,
either in like the late 1800s or the very early 1900s. I did check newspapers.com,
and I couldn't find anything to say that a woman had been killed there, but it's a fun ghost story,
so proof be damned. And you know what, if it was in the 1800s, maybe it just wasn't reported on.
Exactly. So there you go. Yeah. Now, there's like a lot of stories
as to how she died or was killed.
Some people think that she ended her own life
in the room's bathtub.
Oh.
Other people think that she was killed by somebody
who broke in.
And then other other people say that she actually
suffered a heart attack while she was in bed sleeping.
Oh, OK.
But one thing is for sure, she haunts that damn place
to this day.
Yeah, she does.
She does.
So while the hotel was being renovated in the late 90s, which if you know anything about
paranormal shit, you know that they don't like a renovation.
No.
And while it was being renovated, a man named Larry Freeman was living in the now apartment
505, which used to be the hotel room of the same number.
So one day Larry gets out of the shower.
He turns off the water because you know he's done with the shower gets out of the shower, he turns off the water,
because he's done with the shower and save the fish,
closes the curtain,
he's like, let's not get water everywhere.
Heads to the sink wants to get his dental hygiene on.
Yeah. As he's doing so,
he hears the water start back up again.
And he's like, the fuck?
And then he looks over his shoulder,
and he sees that the curtain is wide open,
and the water is most definitely running. So he goes over and he's like maybe I'm just having like
a geriatric moment and I didn't just do what I thought I did. So he turns off
the water closes the curtain la la la. Goes back, tries to brush a brush a
brush a brush a same thing happens again. Uh oh. Same thing happens again. Now
according to haunted homes.com which is like a super fun website with a ton of
information about that.
Oh, I saw that one too.
Haunted homes.
Yeah.
It's really good.
I've used it before.
It's a good one.
Now, according to them, Larry carried out
the same steps four times in total
before he ran the fuck out of his apartment
and got a hold of the property manager
who was Sean Bryan, so I'm gonna say.
Now, it's a little unclear what Sean did
to resolve this specific issue.
I don't really think he specialized in ghost evictions.
Probably not, but one day on a separate occasion,
Sean was actually heading back to his own apartment,
which was also on the fifth floor of the hotel.
And he heard some super loud music coming from Larry's place
and he's like, Jesus, this guy's a pain in my ass.
And he heard jazz music to be more specific.
So anybody who knew Larry, he was like,
wait, what?
Anyone who knew him said,
Larry exclusively listened to Rock and Roll.
And he always had any radio that he owned
set to a specific station that only played Rock and Roll.
Hell yeah, Larry.
Larry Rocks, Larry Rolls.
Larry only rocks.
Yeah.
So this was weird for Sean because he was like, what the hell?
But he was more worried about the noise than anything.
So he made like a little mental note to talk to Larry
before the day I ended, because he had shit to do.
We had to go run errands.
Yeah, you had shit to do.
Yeah, so he goes down to the lobby
and to head out and do a shit that he's got to do.
Shit to do.
And he sees Larry walk in.
And he knows that Larry lives alone.
So he's like, wait a second, what the fuck? So he's like, hey, dude, what's with the loud music coming
out of your place? And when did you take a liking to jazz? Yeah. And Larry was like, what's
the fuck are you talking about, man? So the two of them had up to the apartment knowing that
there are the only two people that have keys to this apartment. And they're like, did
somebody break in somehow? And just play jazz. And just like the ax man, I was going to
break into my home. Yeah. So when they get in, they realize that the music wasn't coming from
like where Larry usually played his music, which was a clock radio that he had. But it was actually
coming from this little flick on radio that he had next to his washer and dryer, but he didn't
use it very often. And there was no way that anybody else was in that apartment. They checked
and they found absolutely nothing.
Whoa.
And they were just like, I don't know what to do about this.
So Jazz playing ghosts.
It's a Jazz playing ghost.
Like fuck that.
I'm a rock and roll kind of guy.
Yeah.
But so here, Larry is like whatever.
Like I don't know what to do about this.
And I got to sleep here.
So he was like, I guess I have a roommate.
Yeah, exactly.
He's like, cool.
You're gonna paint rent, buddy.
Yeah. But he's like, all right, let me ignore this, whatever.
So another night, he's sleeping.
And there's this huge heavy, I'm pretty sure it was like made of oak,
which is incredibly heavy.
And it's a sliding door that separates his bedroom from the living room.
So he's going to bed, he's wide, wide asleep, I was gonna say.
He's wide asleep.
He's fast asleep.
And all of a sudden, he wakes up to the noise
of the door sliding open,
because it's like on a runner,
so it's gonna make that little like, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom entire apartment, but the door is still locked to the apartment. And there was nobody in the apartment.
No.
Insane.
Get out of that apartment, Lair.
So then he starts kind of talking to his neighbors and stuff, and then he found out
through a neighbor who knew the history of the hotel that 505 was reportedly super haunted
because Betsy had died there.
Ah, so it's Betsy.
Yes.
Now there's more stories because Hans and Hotels.
Of course.
Another encounter comes from this young guy
who was staying at the hotel while his friend
was working in the lobby.
Since she was working there, she had an apartment
on the fourth floor, and I think he was like
getting ready to also get an apartment there,
so he was staying with her for a little bit.
Now, he was like, find a stay there.
He was like, live in, having a good time.
He was like, cool, whatever.
So his friend is down in the lobby working, and her neighbor comes over, and he was like, live in, having a good time, he's like, cool, whatever. So his friend is down in the lobby working and her neighbor comes over and she's like,
hey, lend me some sugar, I am your neighbor.
I'm just kidding.
Direct quote, she needed some sugar.
Yeah.
And he was like, okay, it's just going to take me a second because I don't live here.
So like, do you mind if I just knock on your door when I have said sugar?
I got to go get it.
I got to go locate sugar. Yeah. So if you don't mind, must locate the sugar. So she was like, do you mind if I just knock on your door when I have said sugar? Like I gotta find it. I gotta go locate sugar. Yeah, if you don't mind.
Must locate the sugar. So she was like, okay, sure.
So she, he like locates the sugar. He makes his way back over and he's like, oh, she must have
company because he hears voices coming from her apartment. So he knocks on the door and he just
about shits himself on the woman answers because she did have company.
She's sitting there just waiting for him to hand over the sugar, but he's too busy looking
at the ghostly, grayish man figure standing next to her.
Oh.
So later, he said that the man was wearing a 1930s double-breasted suit.
Hot.
That I know super hot.
And that he was really just like an outline almost of a person.
He looks like a person, but it was hard to,
he was misty, you know?
Oh yeah.
On misty.
He was misty.
Oh, the woman sees this kid's terrified face and goes,
oh, that's my dead husband, Fred.
Ah!
That's just Fred.
Oh, I can see you're about to shoo your pants over there.
That's just my dead husband. That's just my deceased.
To spoused, even more.
Even more. It's all good.
Don't worry, that's a man I buried in the ground years ago.
Just Fred, don't freak out. Calm down, give me my sugar.
That's just my dad has been.
Wow, that's why you don't do people favors.
That's great.
Don't get angry.
Guy, for some reason actually still continued
and ended up ending up getting his own apartment there.
Just one floor below the fourth floor
where the woman had introduced him to dead Fred.
And it seems like dead Fred actually took a liking
to this poor kid.
Sick, all of a sudden this kid's's room would get super duper cold at night,
and he'd be like, okay, Fred, calm down.
Do calm down.
And then I guess he would like candles on Sunday morning.
I guess that's something you do in the Catholic religion
before you had to church.
Oh, I don't know.
And he would come back and he would find,
which is also dangerous,
because don't even explain that.
I was going to say I'm very concerned about this.
Yeah, don't be doing that.
You can get those ones now
that are just like fake candles.
The fuckers, yes.
But he came back and all of his candles were blown out.
So like I think dead Fred was looking out for him.
If I was Fred, I'd be like, listen,
I'm not dying twice.
I'd be like, have you ever heard of Smokey the Bear?
Yeah, this is my house too, buddy.
Only you can prevent hotel fires.
Exactly.
Yeah, so weird. Yeah, this is my house too, buddy. Only you can prevent hotel fires. Exactly. Yeah, so weird.
Wow, Fred.
And then also, one night, he came home from work
or like something, and he said there was all his records
and cassettes just all over his bed.
Like Fred was just trying to figure out
what to listen to that night.
That's amazing.
He moved out shortly after.
I mean, he's not doing anything mean.
He's not.
But everybody was saying like maybe he just
like really took a liking to you because he helped out his wife. Exactly. He thought you were a cool cat.
Yeah and he's like I want to check out his music collection. Yeah. What are the kids listening to these
things? I want to make sure he's okay. I'm blowing out these candles. I'm worried for him. Yes. He's
like, what's the cool jam? And he's like everyone likes to sleep in a cool room with some snugly blanket.
So I'm gonna cool it down for you. Obviously. I say Fred is really in the right here.
And I think so too. Fred, for life. Honorable mentions go to a little girl dressed in Victorian
clothing that apparently just runs around the fourth floor. Yeah, yep. Yep. An old man who wears
a purple jacket that is sometimes spotted in the basement of the hotel. Okay. He's just chilling. Yeah, he is. He wore a, I don't know, it doesn't work.
And another honorable mention goes to a 32 caliber pistol that was just found chilling in the wall
while they were renovating the hotel. Oh my god, I thought you were going to say the ghost of a 34
caliber pistol. And that's like, wow, you were like, tell me anything. I was like, tell me more about the specter of a pistol.
That would be it.
Holy shit.
Do you think that's like happened?
I hope so.
That's the next episode is ghostly weapons.
Email us.
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And name it spirit weapons.
Name it verbal mentioned spirit weapons.
Because wow, no, no.
They just found a 32 caliber pistol sitting in the wall.
Just in the wall.
Yeah.
And you're like, that definitely murdered someone.
Easy.
No reason to hide that in the wall, unless you did something bad
with it.
Real nefarious.
It is.
Wow.
That's our first installment of haunted hotels.
And I got to say, I want to do like 800 more of them.
There's so many.
There's, I mean, there's a lot of hotels.
Around the world.
So we're gonna keep doing these.
These are fun.
If you have any that you want to hear, you know where to find us.
More of our podcast at e-mail.com.
Make sure you put in the subject line haunted hotels.
Yay!
Woo!
And we'll do more of these because they're just fun every once in a
while.
You know.
And after talking about Jack the Ripper for five episodes, I was
like, ooh, give me some spooky.
Let's have some fun.
Let's have some fun.
All right, well guys, we hope that you keep listening.
And we hope you keep it weird.
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