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Hey, Weirdos. I'm Ash.
And I'm Elena. And this is Morbid.
This is morbid. I was making that face, Adelina, where you like tuck your top lip.
Over your top teeth.
You like tuck it into your gums, kind of.
Kind of. And then you start talking Southern.
I don't know why. Because I think I'm a Southerner in a past life.
You have Southern Belle vibes.
Thank you so much. Inside of your soul.
That's super duper kind.
Yeah. It's also just like when you know talking in a southern accent is so buttery.
It's also fun like it's the easiest accent to slip into Yes.
You know. British is pretty easy too.
British is easy but it never sounds authentic.
Nope. Never Like never.
No. Like we think it does but a British person would be like you shut your dirty American mouth.
Yeah and we would say you're probably right Shut your filthy mouth.
But a southern accent always sounds right right.
You can't mess it up.
It's buttery. I love it.
It depends on where in the South.
I don't know where mine is, but it feels buttery.
You sort of sounded like when Reese Witherspoon goes Southern in Sweet Home Alabama.
That crazy -ass flick, Sweet Home Alabama.
Do you ever watch a movie that was so beloved to you in your childhood and then you're like, what the fuck?
I'm like, is everyone alright?
You guys got married again?
The fuck? I also love a New Orleans accent.
Like a Louisiana accent to me is so buttery.
I was going to say a Newisiana.
A Louisiana accent.
Louisiana accent is so cool, but it's one that I cannot do.
Yeah. It's cozy. It is cozy.
If you're from Louisiana, I think you have a cozy vibe.
Because you know what it is?
Like historical things are sort of, not all of them, But some of them are kind of cozy.
They have a cozy vibe most of the time.
Some of the time I should say.
When they go way back.
Yeah. Sort of, you know?
Yeah. I was trying to transition us into what we're talking about.
Speaking of historical vibes.
Thank you. See, you picked up what I was stepping in.
Today's a haunted hotels or spooky hotels episode.
But I think what you saw in the title, you were like, wait, wait, wait, what?
Hold on. What? False advertising.
All of her house murders.
I thought you said, yep, you didn't hear that.
We didn't hear that.
This is spooky hotels, but spooky in the sense that lots of murders, lots of deaths.
And as a result, lots of hauntings.
On your side. On my side.
Mine does not have any murders that I could find, but it has deaths and limbs.
And limbs. Phantom limbs.
So there's that. And real limbs.
Phantom limbs. I like that.
And real ones. Isn't that a Shinz song?
Yes. Wow. Deep cut.
I love the Shinz. The Shinz are great.
New slang. Oh, yes.
It's so good. All right.
Go off, queen. So I have two, and they're in the same area.
They're in Arizona.
You're just better than me?
I have two. What's even weirder about this, and this happened in real time, and Ash can tell you it really happened.
Yeah. So I found this hotel, the Copper Queen, and it's in Bisbee, Arizona.
Yep. Yeah. I was reading about it and I'm like, wow, what?
This was a cool one.
A few people had recommended it in our email.
And I was like, holy shit, you guys rule.
Absolutely. I want to cover this.
And then as I was doing that, I came across the Oliver House Hotel in Arizona.
I like that sound of that name.
It's horrifying, to be honest. It looks really cool, though.
I want to go. Let's go.
I was like, oh, this one's interesting, too.
It was just by happenstance.
I was like, like oh yeah this one's cool too you know what i'll do a twofer because they're very interesting and i can't pick and so i was looking up like other you know all this stuff about both of them and i come across a ghost adventures episode with you know the one the only and i was like oh which one did he go to and i look one episode he went to the copper queen and the oliver house what are the odds and i was like that's weird i guess not because they're in the same state and i think They're not far apart, but still weird. I don't know.
It's fucking spooky, bro.
It's so fucking spooky.
I said that she just wanted to do the Copper Queen because she is a Copper Queen.
And I loved it. I loved it.
I really did. I thought it was funny.
Well, let me tell you about the Copper Queen.
Another Copper Queen.
Yeah, the other one.
So not the Copper Queen.
Let me not tell you about myself, but about this other Copper Queen.
This other Copper Queen.
It was built in 1898 in Bisbee, Arizona.
and this was after the phelps dodge mining company found that they needed you know some luxurious accommodations to put up prospective invested investors i almost said investigators those two those two investors into the mine and you know the corporate executives they wanted something to like schmooze you know of course only the best for the best exactly so it was it ended up being finished in 1902 and originally had 73 rooms and finally you know originally there was only one bathroom per floor.
Oh, no. Yeah. Honey, that's not the best for the best. Yeah.
It's on Howell Street currently and it's apparently the oldest continuously operating hotel in Arizona.
Wow. Like hundreds of years old.
That's cool. So, or a hundred years, over a hundred years old.
Yeah. But this whole, like this whole layout changed because eventually the hotel wasn't just for investors and fancy pants executives anymore, but instead it became It became, like, a hot and happening place for anyone coming through to stay in Bisbee.
Okay. It was, like, this cool place.
Yeah. So once it started to get to be the place to stay for those outside of just fancy pants investors and the mining company, they renovated and put a bathroom in each suite like a normal hotel would.
That was fucking smart.
Yeah, and this made the 73 rooms turn into 48 because, obviously, they needed the room to kind of conjoin.
Yep. Upgrade to me.
I agree. I'll take it.
Also well known stars And like kind of iconic people Have stayed at this hotel Julia Roberts has stayed there I love her She might be my favorite actress I didn't know that about you Erin Brockovich Pretty Woman Runaway Bride The list goes on Fucking Drink the juice Shelby What is that Oh my god I'm drawing a blank I don't know no you do you've never seen it i'm sure dolly parton julian roberts fucking oh my god why was i about to say fried green tomatoes i just like similar vibes maybe it's same vibes but i'm like why was i saying that fried green tomatoes is such a good movie but anyway i do
love julia roberts yep there you go well she stayed there hell yeah marlon brando has stayed there cool harry houdini so pretty cool place damn if you ask me um so that sounds awesome huh let's talk about what's happened there it does but your face tells me it's not so apparently just to give you a little idea it's pretty haunted in there uh the furniture moves a lot i like how you said that pretty haunted pretty haunted in there i think they should just hire you to stand outside just go hey pretty haunted in there doing the thumb the thumb and And they're like, ugh, that place reeks of haunting.
I have lots of haunting going on.
The furniture moves a lot in particular.
Okay. And with seemingly no explanation, like staff has reported that they'll leave a room in either like the lobby area or one of the rooms or in the bar area.
And they'll come back within a minute or two.
And all the furniture will be completely different.
Like too quick for it to be somebody fucking with them.
I kind of love that.
Yeah. yeah they just well somebody alive fucking with them I was gonna say somebody's fucking with them so that's interesting that's one of the things a lot of people hear things they hear footsteps they hear voices a lot of people feel like they get touched they get tugged at a lot so we're gonna talk about a couple of these specific ghosts because they have specific ghosts at this place and they've actually named rooms after some of these ghosts that's fucking cool so first one is julia lol she was a young woman in her 30s who worked as a sex worker in the early 1900s and she used the hotel
to entertain her clientele specifically she used a room on the third floor and that room is now named the julia lol room that's iconic like officially it has a plaque made by the hotel as it should now unfortunately for julia the story goes that she fell in love with a married client oh no yeah it's not great so she decided to tell him she was being a brave bitch and she was like i'm gonna tell this man you know he's coming to see me that's the thing maybe i should be shot juliet yeah exactly and he didn't return the feelings unfortunately and he apparently wasn't very nice about telling her that he didn't
return the feelings what a douche so she was very distraught and this is really sad but she ended up taking her own life by hanging and she either did it in or just outside of her room that's so sad now apparently julia now in And the afterlife is still very active.
You'll smell perfume around her spirit.
She has a very nice perfume.
Love that. She can be seen on the second and third floors.
And man, she is busy.
She can be seen sometimes dancing at the bottom of staircases.
Just twerking. Which I love.
And she'll actively flirt with male guests she finds attractive.
Oh, honey, she's having a good time in the afterlife.
She'll try to seduce them by whispering in their ears or stroking their legs or feet.
Hey there. hey there big guy and she can also be seen sometimes people will wake up this is my favorite what she people will wake up and see her seductively dancing at the end of their bed stop it what a sassy queen just throw an ass at the end of the bed that's julia i love it that's julia i feel like she doesn't throw ass i feel like she kind of no she's like yeah like that you know you know she's definitely slinky as hell she's very demure very mindful very cutesy cutesy slinky slinky but we love a julia she's a sassy queen she's apparently not at all malicious in any way she's not scary in any
way she's a welcome presence well fuck the guy that did her wrong that guy uh the next ghost we have is billy billy billy is a child ghost oh yeah his story's a little sad but he seems like he's like living living it up for the most part in the afterlife.
Not really. He was an eight -year -old and he was an eight -year -old son of someone who worked at the hotel and he was like beloved.
Everyone loved him there.
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Not today. He said, I love playing here.
Not now, not never.
He can be seen all around the hotel, most often by children.
Because, in fact, adults can't see him at all.
Wow. Only children can see him.
That's cool. What a fucking superpower that is.
But adults can hear him or they can feel him when he touches them.
That's spooky. He likes to tug on clothing, like a little kid, or tap people from a child's height.
Like gets their attention that way?
Yeah, like a tap -tap.
One of the – like a bartender there was saying that while she was behind the bar, her clothing was tugged so hard that she assumed a little kid was behind her.
Wow. And when she turned around, he wasn't there.
But according to Phoenix Ghosts, Billy likes to befriend children, and there have been many reports of guests saying that their children will try to introduce them to their new friend Billy.
Oh. But no one's there.
That's fucking horrifying and adorable.
I was just going to say, I would shit my pants and also think that is the cutest thing ever.
I'd say, I'm so excited for your new friend, but he's got to go soon.
That's so lovely. You should bring him to the light.
You should bring him to the light.
Tell him if he sees it, go towards it.
Go towards it, baby.
But Billy is known to play around the hotel lobby.
He also likes to move furniture in the rooms and other things.
So maybe it's him. He also likes to move guests' belongings around.
Oh, he's a little joke stuff.
He loves it. He's very much a jokester.
He likes to take stuff to animals and put them in other locations.
That's cute. He's probably just playing with them.
Yeah, he is. He also likes to play with people's shoes.
So he will misplace people's shoes a lot.
Many guests will come down to the front desk and say, I don't know where my shoes went.
That's so funny. It's Billy putting them in random spots.
Objects will also float sometimes at child level where it looks like a child is holding them.
See, we've experienced some really cool shit, I would say, ever since we've been paranormal investigating with our brothers girls ghost colton coven yes uh sabrina and corinne what's up but we've never seen an object floating but you know what i'm trying to see that it's gonna happen oh absolutely i can't wait i feel it in my bones i can't wait and often people hear a little boy's giggle oh or a little boy's voice saying things like they can hear clearly a little boy's voice and this is the saddest part though if you are especially there's a room that's It's called Billy's Room.
Oh. And if you're in Billy's Room, if you run a shower or a bath, people say you will sometimes hear him crying or whimpering because he's, like, traumatized by the running water.
That just made me so sad.
Yes. Oh. And they actually did it on Ghost Adventures, which I'm not putting stock in, like, all these shows.
No. But I'm just saying, like— But that's a great fucking show.
Interesting. It's a fun—these are fun shows.
I also love Ghost— Hunters.
Ghost Hunters. international or ghost hunters regular ones yeah like taps right taps that's the one um because they're they're so fun this time of year oh they're so fun this time of year but they did the water thing and they did capture like a strange evp that sounded like a child but you know people should like tell him before they're gonna run a bath i know just be like nothing bad gonna happen pop out of the bathroom yeah it's not gonna happen no um and the last one that people see a lot is a man in a top hat oh that's i don't i don't love that well the man is not named he He doesn't have a name.
They don't know where he comes from.
But he appears in a top hat and a black cape, which makes me think of Jack the Ripper.
Retweet. But his presence is not as ominous as Jack the Ripper, apparently.
That's good. He's, by all accounts, pretty chill.
Okay. He's always seen smoking a cigar.
Fucking living. And you can smell a cigar when he's around.
Sometimes I like the smell of cigar and sometimes I don't.
Me too. So it depends on the day.
Yeah, toss up. He's often seen on the fourth floor near room 409.
He feels like he kind of rules a little bit.
I don't know. He's fancy.
Just smoking a cigar.
Yeah, he's got like a sexy, mysterious vibe.
And he just seems like he's hanging.
Yeah. And people say he hangs a lot in like dark areas, so they get freaked out by him.
But I was like, I don't know.
Maybe he just doesn't want to be perceived, you know?
Perhaps, yeah. Maybe he's just like, I'm in here because I don't want you to see me.
I just want to smoke my cigar in peace.
it's giving a little bit like sleep paralysis demon absolutely like the hat man yes yeah but if my sleep paralysis demon was smoking a cigar we might have a better relationship because I would think that's hilarious see it would change the way I saw it depends on the situation you know what I mean I feel like it would make the situation funnier though to me possibly you know like right now sleep paralysis is a horrifying thing for me yeah because it's there's nothing something kooky or camp about it in any way.
But like if he's smoking a cigar.
Your eye just twitched.
Did it? Yes. You said sleep paralysis is a lot for me, twitch, twitch. I'm very tired.
I didn't sleep well last night.
Neither of us did. It was so bad.
Yeah, but I think it would be much funnier if he was just like had a cigar and he was just like puffing a cigar in my room.
I'd be like, are you just chilling?
Hello? Like, what are you doing?
Let me know if that happens.
I will because maybe it will though.
Have you had sleep paralysis in a while?
i haven't recently i just knocked on wood to make sure i don't invite that into my life girl that's from target that's i know knock your walls that's not that's from target too no she's knocked the walls where's the what where's someone knock on wood uh if you're listening will you knock on wood no i tried to but she told me no that's that's some kind of i don't know all right well my next Let's hope.
We'll all just hope together.
My next one, so that was the Copper Queen.
That was you and the Copper Queen.
Me and the Copper Queen.
The next one is the Oliver House which this is where it all really goes down.
It pops off. We're going down but now we're going down.
So this is another mining hotel.
Check that out. This one was built in 1908 by Edith Oliver and Henry Oliver who was an oil tycoon and his wife.
They also wanted a A place that they could house big investors and bigwigs.
Who doesn't? A place of style.
A place of class, you know?
Swag, if you will. Exactly.
And all was well and fine.
And eventually it even tracked the miners who would stay there for a long period of time, basically becoming boarders.
So it became like a boarding house for the miners eventually.
It's got a spooky -ass exterior.
Really? Oh, I'm going to look it up.
Which I think it knows that.
Like, the Oliver House knows that.
there's this like concrete walkway bridge type thing that leads to it and it's like all overgrown like bushes and stuff that lead you into it it's like a real experience but i think the um the is it the copper queen or is it this one i think it's the oliver house that has a little ghost on its it might be the copper queen one of them has a little ghost on its sign oh it kind of it kind of like leans into the fact that it's very haunted i don't see one on the oliver house the oliver house looks like you could literally pluck it out of there and put it into nola yeah it really does the copper the copper
queen might be the one that has little ghosties on its sign which is very cute i don't see it there so let's get into the oliver house in 1920 nathaniel nat anderson was one of the lodgers staying at the oliver house he was a miner uh he was working in the local mine obviously that's what miners do miners just study mining you know he was known to be a pretty chill fellow but his personal life was a little bit uh messy oh he borrowed a lot of money oh money he couldn't repay and he also had a habit of like sleeping with other people's wives oh you're gonna piss a lot of people off with those with those
character hobbies with those hobbies of yours it was in habits and hobbies and i put What hobbies?
Gruel. Gruel. Gruel.
So he was having a very torrid affair with a woman during this time.
Okay. Oops. It happened to be the wife of a man he owed a lot of money to, so he combined his hobbies here.
Oh, what are you doing, guys?
Which is a bad idea, Nate.
A bad idea because this man found out where Nate was staying and he barged into the room at the hotel, shot Nate between the eyes, and then again in the back twice.
Fuck. Yes. He was found at the top of the stairs near room 13.
Ooh, spooky. Yeah, he got, now this guy who shot him got away with it because he covered it up by staging a robbery in another room and then running the fuck out of there.
Still hasn't been caught to this day.
Whoa, and this was in the 20s?
Yeah. That's crazy.
In the 20s. Yeah, so that's a little scary.
And we'll talk about a little bit more about, you know, some of the ghosts that have come out of these things.
Yeah. Like, guess who will stay in room 13?
We'll hear footsteps.
Sometimes they'll see Nate, like, full body apparition Nate.
I don't want to see that.
And they always feel like they're being watched in that room.
And the hotel, there's actual, like, copies of Nate's death certificate.
So this is, like, a real thing.
On the death certificate it says cause of death, pistol shot to the forehead.
Fucking A. Like, it says it right there.
There's articles about the event.
I found one from the Tombstone Epitaph, and part of it says, An inquest yesterday morning shed little or no light on the murder.
The coroner's jury gave a verdict of death from gunshot wounds at the hands of an unknown person.
Following the shooting, both Mrs. Richard Davis, the landlady, this is of the Oliver House, and a rumor saw a man leaving the place.
They did not see him clearly enough to describe him.
The theft of money and a watch from Kay Ross's room a short time prior to the shooting, remains a puzzling feature of the crime.
The weight of evidence against the theory that the man who entered Ross's room is the same man that shot Anderson is almost overwhelming.
On the other hand, everything points to the crime as being an act of a man who had some personal score to settle with Anderson.
Sounds like it. A score of violent hatred before firing the third shot into the prostate man's back.
That means he was down on the ground.
Okay. His assailant cursed him with a vile epithet.
What? Which like, damn.
That's wild. And it says there's a wooden footbridge across the canyon leading to the front of the house.
A nearby neighbor said that before the shooting, a scuffle was heard on the bridge and a woman screamed.
The police think that the robbery of K.
Ross's room might have been a coincidence or might have been done with the object of throwing them off the trail to make it seem as if it was the act of common thieves trying to escape.
So they were onto this fucker.
They were a little bit onto this fucker, but they could never find them.
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Which is crazy. Amazing.
Now, according to a few websites, there's a local DJ that took a bet for $100.
It was like a whole thing.
It was on a radio show or something, like a radio DJ.
Okay. And he said for $100, he'd go stay in the Nate Anderson room.
I would need more money than that.
Well, the reason was he was like, I don't believe in ghosts.
I think this is bullshit, and I'm going to prove it all to you.
That's always the beginning of a wild experience.
He said when he went into the room, he saw Nate's ghost standing in that room staring right the fuck at him.
Immediately? He immediately went back to the front desk, handed them back his key, and said, I don't want the $100.
He literally gave it back.
He said, that is quite all right, folks, I'm a believer.
He's like, you know what?
You got it. Like, nope, not doing that.
So there was that, that murder, and that is confirmed.
confirmed in 1932 there was a literal mass murder oh at the oliver house where 12 people were killed holy shit so a local police deputy found out his wife was having an affair oh see it's always a fair there's a lot of affairs in the oliver house like it's wild maybe it's like yeah something in the air i don't know but he tracked her and her paramour to the oliver house where he found them in what was referred to as the Blue Room.
Oh. I was like, sounds sassy.
Sounds... The Blue Room.
Sounds kind of nice.
Yeah. He shot them both in the head in bed and then systematically walked through the hotel killing 10 more people in the process.
Why did he kill a bunch of...
I mean, why do you kill anybody?
I think he was very angry.
Damn. It only ended when he turned the gun on himself.
Oh, wow. Yeah. So...
So I guess it was 13 people.
But guests who stay in the Blue Room are treated to a really fucking heavy vibe, they say.
I would bet. Like, right away.
It feels dark. It feels sinister.
It feels ominous in there, most of them say.
Also, people hear cries for help and screams. A lot of people here know being screamed.
Staff also find the furniture moved almost every time they clean that room, which is just, whoa.
So much moving furniture.
Yeah, and I think it's the vibe.
vibe like the vibe really fucks people up yeah um but in 1986 this um the oliver house was bought by dennis schrantz who turned it into a bed and breakfast and it's now an adults only hotel and referred to as your haunt away from home let's fucking go so it is this one that has like a little ghost on one of the signs oh okay maybe it's not the sign but it's like one of the signs It's like a little ghosty on it and it's cute.
I want to go to that.
And even now, there is a guest book for guests to share their stays and like what they experience.
I always loved that, like the one at the Lizzie Borden house.
That was so scary. That one is fucking terrifying.
That's when we got all kinds of activity happening.
And it is full of ghost experiences.
And there specifically is mentioned that there's a portal in one of the rooms. Like several people said that.
They say it's on the bed.
What? And people feel like their limbs fall asleep and they're like touched, they're pulled, they smell things, they hear things.
And actually, in that same like Ghost Adventures episode, they caught a scream on EVP that was actually really scary.
Are you serious? And yeah, when they asked whoever it was why they were screaming, the EVP answered, I'm angry.
And it was like a very scary voice.
Fair enough. So, I mean, why not?
You know, like, why are you screaming?
I'm angry. Scream it out.
Okay, sir. Thank you.
Bye. That's all. We're going to pack up now.
But that is the Copper Queen and the Oliver House.
Wow. Those are freaking cuckoo.
They were very interesting ones.
I could have read about those all day, to be honest. I could have listened to them all day because what the fuck?
Because what the fuck, Arizona?
Well, I'm taking you to Savannah because you know how haunted Savannah is.
And we're going to talk about the Marshall House Hotel.
hotel. The Marshall House Hotel which was built all the way back in 1851 is one of Savannah's oldest hotels and is currently the oldest operating hotel that Savannah has.
It was named after Molly Magdalene Lever Marshall.
What a name. I know.
Four names so you know she's legit.
She came from a really prominent family in Savannah and she inherited a lot of moolah moolah when her parents passed away.
Get it girl. But luckily it seems like they raised her right right, because she was known to be a philanthropist in the area.
She felt like the city, just like in your story, needed some kind of accommodations for visitors, somewhere nice to stay.
And that's where she came up with the idea for a beautiful hotel in the shopping district that could do just that.
Smart. She said, go shopping, stay here.
Now, she had inherited some land from her father and felt like it would be the perfect spot to build a hotel on.
Let's go, Oh, girl.
Sitting on current -day East Broughton Street, I think that's how you say that, the hotel opened its doors in 1851, and many architectural historians believe that it's actually the finest structure she ever built, because she also built the Mary Marshall Row on East Oglethorpe Avenue.
Of course. Yes, about four or five years after the Marshall House, and then she also built the Mary Marshall Houses, which were built in 1859.
Damn. Yes, lots of Mary Marshall properties in the area.
She really went for it.
She did. Now, even though the name would make you think that the Marshall House Hotel had, you know, maybe been an actual home at one point, it never was.
But it did serve as a boarding house and a hospital during the Civil War.
Oh, damn. And as a hospital during two yellow fever epidemics.
So many hotels were Civil War hospitals once.
So many. Yeah. It's just like, damn.
Especially in the South, like, obviously.
obviously uh it seems like a lot of the hauntings obviously come from the time when the hotel was used to hospitalize soldiers oh yeah i think at first it was actually just for union soldiers and then it was like any soldier because people were getting so injured but one of the main hauntings and this is fucking terrifying one of the main hauntings people report is running into a man in the lobby who is holding his own severed arm and begging for help or like a surgeon to sew it back on what do you do run in that situation but then like far away but you're like this poor guy i know like he's just
he just wants to be fixed i didn't read anybody who had like actually found a doctor for him like do you just grab your cell phone and be like nine one there's a man with no arm he's translucent uh can you help him a little misty that's the thing like foggy how do you help them i feel bad i do too but guests have also reported waking up in the middle of the night with their arm outstretched like from their bedside and having the sensation that somebody's touching like their lower arm area or their wrist like a nurse working on them or checking their pulse i do not consent there have also been
reports of people feeling like somebody's touching their forehead like for a fever when like when they're laying in bed oh no thank you Yeah.
Now, one of the perks of the hotel is that there are, of course, ghost tours, and there's also a museum with, like, a ton of artifacts from the time.
So, you can join the ghost tours, and the tour includes seeing the old operating room from when it was a hospital.
Oh, that's cool. And people who have joined these tours report seeing doctors working on patients, and even— Shut up.
People who don't even go on the tour have said that they've seen doctors, like, rushing through the hallway.
Oh, my God. I would love that.
And asked, like, the front desk or somebody, like, oh, is something going on?
And they're like, oh, no, like, that's the ghost. Yeah, that's, oh, that's just a ghost. Yeah.
Sorry about that. And people have also reported seeing other soldiers walking around with missing limbs.
Yeah. And there's also reports of another man walking around asking people if they've seen his arm.
Aw. Mm -hmm. Another man without an arm.
Like, I'm sorry, everybody.
It's very sad. Yeah.
Now, this is fucking crazy.
The reports vary between 1996 and 1999.
I saw both. So I said in the late 1990s, there was a major renovation and the workers were redoing some of the floors in the hotel.
And on the ground floor where the surgery room used to be, they found skeletal remains when they dug the floors up.
Of course they did.
And all the remains were believed to be amputated limbs.
What? Isn't that fucking crazy?
so they were just burying disembodied limbs i guess so oh now all these people are just walking around looking for that's the thing and like then they found them but i don't know what they ended up doing with them because still people are looking for their limbs yeah to this day guests in rooms uh 414 314 and 214 which are said to be among the most haunted rooms they say that they'll get a whiff of foul odors oh one account i found on ghost city tour said when they were first renovating the hotel and opening it in 1999 three rooms had foul smells and bad vibes so overpowering that the staff and workers
could not stay in them long enough to get anything done rooms 214 314 and 414 414 being the worst and i stink i think it's still very active today what's funny is you just said i stink it and it kind of worked it kind of worked and to elaborate on that this person said they tried every deodorizer they could get a hold of and nothing thing worked.
Finally, they had a prayer slash blessing in those rooms and the smell and vibes relented only with 414 still having the persisting odor and vibes.
Staff is said to play gospel music in that room when they're cleaning it because that's the only thing that keeps the vibes and odor at bay.
But also imagine how fucking like, if you like gospel music, I'm not making fun of it or anything.
It just personally creeps me out.
I feel like that would just add to the scary vibes.
Well, and that's the thing.
When it's, like, when scary things are afoot and you hear gospel music, it just makes it scary because it's such a, like, a juxtaposition of things.
Yes. You know, like, it's two very dichotomous feelings of, like, what?
Like, gospel music is supposed to uplift people and make them feel safe, and then this room is fucking terrifying and a ghost might pop out at you.
And gospel music is playing, and it's like, oh my lord. Yeah.
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but even after the renovations there are a lot of the original structures still in the hotel to this day it still has its original wood floors original staircases wow fireplaces brick walls so the vibes pretty much all of the doors are the original doors damn and even some artwork from way back in the day one of the original paintings um is a portrait of mary marshall herself in the lobby and it was painted around 1830 and there's a story of a guest and his younger daughter checking out and the little little girl saw the painting and grabbed her dad and was like oh i saw that lady in the hallway
like while we were staying here shut up and he was like cool glad we're checking out freaky that's so fucked up imagine your kid just being like oh i saw that lady and you're like you didn't that lady from the 1830s in the hall oh shit but other guests have reported seeing her too um and other spooky happenings include doorknobs jiggling in the middle of the night toilets overflowing i would fucking yeah because i would assume it's like a live person yeah same into my room also i'd be screwed because whenever i stay at a hotel i put a um alarm in front of the door like it would literally be gone
off yes constantly but uh toilets it's overflow for no reason people hear disembodied voices especially children's voices and they hear like children's activities specifically on the fourth floor guests who are staying there i've heard kids running up and down the halls at all hours of the night they hear like rubble rubber balls bouncing other hill uh they'll hear like marbles like kids playing with marbles oh and they'll call down to the front desk to be like hey like there's a loud family And there's, like, the front desk worker will be like, there's no kids on the floor tonight.
Hey, there's a loud family.
And they're like, there's not.
In the hallway. There's not.
There's not even a quiet family.
There's no family. There's actually no family staying on the floor.
Or people will stick their heads out into the hall and see nothing when they, like, just heard something out there.
Some guests also have woken up in the morning with small bite marks on their arms. No. So, like, watch out because the kids in this hotel happen to be wily.
They're biting you.
one little girl she was staying there with her mom on the third floor and i guess she was like taking a bath and she started screaming and ran out of the bathroom and when her mom asked what was wrong she showed her her arm and there was a bite mark on it like a little bite mark no i'd want to like throw hands at this point oh hell yeah my kids i'll fight you yeah you bite food you don't bite people yeah somebody better teach you that that's the thing yeah you fuck with a a kid like ghost kid or not that's messed up that's messed up but when the mom was like what happened she said that the little
boy in the bathroom had done that to her no so the mom goes into the bathroom and takes a peek around and she's about to fuck shit up if there's a little boy biting her she was like in a you know why i oughta kind of why i oughta but there was no one to oughta there's no one to oughta now lights also flicker dim inexplicably uh hello hello.
Hello. Inexplicably.
Faucets turn off and on on their own.
And then apparently author Joel Chandler Harris had a room there that he stayed in quite quite often.
And guess who stay in that room can hear a typewriter still clicking.
Stop. I thought that was pretty cool.
Also electronics will turn on and off by themselves.
Like your phone will turn off and then on again.
and guess what alina what one of our very own listeners stayed at the marshall house hotel and wrote in a tale to share about her and her husband's scary experience tell me all right so this is um let me make sure i can say your name i think i can it's misty misty so hello beautiful souls i wanted to share my husband's and myself recent trip to savannah georgia i really enjoy watching ghost shows really anything paranormal.
My husband always thought they were ridiculous, which makes this even better.
We decided to stay in the Marshall house, which was built in 1851.
It was used as a hospital during the yellow fever epidemic and in the mid 1800s as a union hospital during the civil war.
They still have many artifacts and things still on display throughout the hotel.
But onto the story.
Of course, we were put on the fourth floor, which is reported to have the most activity.
We were put in room 409.
We got to our room and my husband turns on the light that's sitting on the desk and the light starts to flicker slightly before it starts to cut off and on which could be explained by faulty wiring i guess sure that was the first day nothing more happened that day the next morning he went out to get my hairbrush for me out of the car on his way back in he got into the elevator pushed the button to the floor fourth floor but when the doors opened he was on the basement level and nobody was waiting for the elevator oh damn so the door closes and takes him to the fourth floor which we joked about the day
before that we would like to go down and see it down to the basement and see if it was that creepy the whole time he has the hairbrush deep in his coat pocket when he gets back to the room i ask for the hairbrush it's gone even though he had just checked to make sure it was there when he was walking into the door after searching the room he went back out to the uh back out to the hall and there was the hairbrush in the middle of the hallway what the fuck as we were preparing to leave the room he couldn't find his key card we looked through bags pulled the sheets off the bed double checked his pockets
the key card was nowhere to be found we go to breakfast and come back to look again he starts moving everything around he lifts the silver tray that has the heavy silver ice bucket on it and his key card is sitting in the center under the silver tray like why would that happen yeah this next one is a little strange but he is very particular about his socks and things in his shoes he will not even wear two different kinds of socks we had walked about two blocks to river street and and had been going in the shops, etc., for about two hours when we decided to stop for a coffee.
As we were walking out, he said he needed to stop because something was in his shoe.
When he took his shoe off, he had a nickel in it.
Considering we pay for everything with our debit -slash -credit card, and he's particular about his shoes, that was very strange.
I thought it was great these strange things happening to him, since he's so skeptical about all these type of things.
Apparently, I should have kept my opinion to myself.
That night, after dinner, I went to get Oh, no. really bad cold chills.
The room was quite warm, so that didn't make sense, but thank goodness we were leaving the next morning.
Of course, I asked the husband if he cut the TV off during the night and he said no, he hadn't.
It was all fun and games when things were happening to him, but my tune changed when it was my turn.
Maybe the talking I heard in the hall and the door slamming was not actually other people staying there.
Of course, I googled room 409 when I got home and found a video of something similar to the light thing that happened to somebody else staying in that room.
we've been back home a week with nothing weird ever taking place no strange vibes at our house we live on seven acres away from the road at 3 30 this morning our two chihuahuas start barking waking both of us up i heard someone say hush sass the dog's name is sassy but we call her sass and she stopped barking immediately this is the first time this has happened and everybody else was in bed as i was driving up the driveway to take my son and nephew to school the next morning my nephew screamed what is that after slamming on the brakes i asked what he saw and he said nothing i asked again and he
said he saw a woman in a white gown with long black hair standing next to the creek by the trees no i told him it was probably just a tree you know because most trees look like the creepy girl from the ring yeah the tree with hair you know yeah you know my husband has also mentioned something coming home with us since he keeps getting random cold chills again being the brave person I am I'm hoping like crazy something didn't decide to have a vacation in our home like we did theirs sorry if this is long and all over the place maybe if I have time again I can share the story about my oldest son son's
imaginary great uncle Boo Boo that my brother ended up seeing and describing the very same thing my son did several years later absolutely love your show stay safe and continue to be your wonderfully weird selves Misty Misty like did she bring one of the ghosties home with her You brought a lady home with you.
You brought a lady.
And I didn't even hear about a lady in white at this hotel.
That's because she took her home with her.
She's not there anymore.
She's not there. Oh, no, Misty.
But that is the Marshall House Hotel and Misty's experience.
You know what's funny?
Misty mentioned room 409.
There's a room 409 is where the man in the top hat is seen.
In your story. In the Copper Queen.
That's weird. That's nuts.
Oh, my goodness. Wow.
Wow. Spooky. That is spooky, spooky.
It's that season we get to do more of these spooky cases and I just love doing them.
I know. And it's fun when they can, when they're kind of like, when you can combine the true crime with the spooky, spooky.
Yeah, that is always fun.
Because oftentimes you need a true crime to have a spooky, spooky.
That's the thing. So.
Well, and I guess technically mine had some kind of true crime because you're definitely not supposed to bury limbs under floorboards.
Yeah, that feels like a crime.
It's a crime of sorts.
I think we might be a business there.
That's the thing. But yeah, it's spooky season.
So you know how we do during spooky season.
You're going to get some spooky stuff.
But it's going to be what you're looking for.
Yeah. You want to be scared.
We never stray too far.
No. And if you guys want to suggest any spooky things like haunted cemeteries, haunted hotels, haunted schools.
Haunted prisons. Haunted prisons.
Just send them into morbidpodcast .gmail .com.
dot com with haunted insert haunted thing here yeah and the subject line and tell us all about it yeah tell us which ones you want to hear about because we'd love we're always down to dig into these ones they're really fun so please do please do i think next spooky installment is going to be uh nope this is spooky hotel spooky cemetery again i said spooky cemeteries and i have a really good one i also have a really good one i do i have a really good one Mine's better.
So, guys, enjoy spooky season.
And we're off to the races.
We're off to the races.
You know, here we are.
We hope you keep listening.
And we hope you keep it weird. But not to worry that you don't send in your spooky suggestions.
Happy spooky season.
I'm so excited. Yay!
Ah! Thank you. Let's go, girls.
That was so scary. What do you mean?
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