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Ep. 71 John and DW's Excellent Adventure: Haunted Hotels
Send your favorite Co-Ghosts a message!
Dare to check in to history's most haunted accommodations? Join us as we unlock the doors to spine-chilling hotels where some guests have never checked out. From Minnesota's local haunts to internationally infamous establishments, we're exploring the spectral residents that make these destinations bucket list stops for paranormal enthusiasts.
We begin close to home with Minnesota's hidden gems - the Victorian-style Afton House Inn where a woman in period dress still roams, the historic St. James Hotel in Red Wing with its ghostly figures, and Rush City's Grant House Hotel where unexplained footsteps and sudden temperature drops have convinced many it's among the state's most haunted locations.
Our journey then takes us to the Stanley Hotel in Colorado, whose corridors and rooms inspired Stephen King's "The Shining." This legendary establishment boasts everything from self-playing pianos to full-body apparitions, becoming a mecca for ghost hunters and curiosity seekers alike. In California, we explore the Queen Mary's maritime mysteries and the dark history of the Cecil Hotel (now Stay on Main), infamous for tragic deaths and its connection to notorious figures.
Crossing oceans, we visit France's Château de Brossac, haunted by a woman murdered by her husband, and Canada's Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel, where a ghostly bride still wanders in her wedding gown. Meanwhile, Chicago's Congress Plaza Hotel harbors the spirit of a woman who leapt from its 12th floor among other restless souls.
Whether you're planning your next supernatural adventure or simply curious about what lurks in these historic hallways, join us for a fascinating tour of accommodations where the paranormal is part of the amenities. Which haunted hotel would you dare to spend the night in? Let us know in the comments!
Thanks for watching what's going on. This is sclarious. I am john olsen and with me, as always, is dw, the delightful winkle bottom serene there we go no, there we, there we went. What are you all right so?
Speaker 2:all right, this is funny, um, so I found this in amongst all my other uh, um, uh, alcohol, alcoholic beverages. This is a can of v8 and this is harder for me to get down than uh other drinks why is that you don't like? It. Oh gosh, I hate it. Yeah, really, I mean nothing. I, I eat my vegetables, don't get me wrong but, the, the taste of v8, just the regular original. I cannot stand.
Speaker 1:That's crazy. You know, you throw a little beer in there, you'd be able to knock it down.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh Real beer.
Speaker 1:Like maybe like a Michelob Ultra Light or something. If you want to say that's real beer, yeah, it's got again.
Speaker 2:we're talking about looking at the nutrition label, yeah.
Speaker 1:Sodium.
Speaker 2:Sodium 9 milligrams 920, which is 40%. And the thing is that you would say, oh, this is, you know, it's vegetables. They did add salt. Salt is on the list of ingredients. Why do they?
Speaker 1:have to do that A lot of salt actually For it to be 900. For it to be 40%.
Speaker 2:That's a lot of salt.
Speaker 1:I'm going to pop this.
Speaker 2:Okay, Now you don't have. You're taking a break from THC, right? What is? Oh, okay.
Speaker 1:Yep, sugar-free root beer, that's what I'm having. Uh, I've been drinking big, mostly water and tea for geez over a week. Um, I am not. Yes, you're right, I'm taking a. I may hear me out. I know I said you probably never heard on here again, but the grams of sugar in that is just it was you want to talk about the milligrams of sodium there? For two servings in a thc soda was legitimately 80 mill like, is it 80? Yeah, 80 milligrams of sugar, jeez. So I don't know if anybody can hear this. Can you hear? I wonder if you can hear the popping? Yeah, yeah, it's kind of cool. Um, it was sitting here in front of me and I heard it and it's like, wow, that's weird, moved away from the mic and whatever. So, yeah, sugar-free root beer, that's what I'm having today.
Speaker 2:Uh, so do you have a favorite root beer? A, w and okay, yeah, yeah, you got, I mean beer A&W, a&w.
Speaker 1:Okay, I mean that's, you can't go wrong with A&W, honestly, do you?
Speaker 2:ever have root beer at a brewery.
Speaker 1:No, I haven't.
Speaker 2:Because that's If you ever go to a brewery and they have their own, not just A&W or whatever, but if they make their own root beer. That root beer, that's good stuff I might do that.
Speaker 1:Uh, so I'm not drinking thc sugar-free root beer, but you know, obviously I've already ingested my thc for the day. So well, not for the day, but for this. This show, um, so that's gonna be kicking in here shortly and we're gonna play a little game. Guess, when it kicks in, that's when we're that's the game, we're gonna be all right, all right. Um, yeah, I don't know, man, it's, it's nice weather out. Uh, we are, uh, for now.
Speaker 2:For now, it is and we were just talking about this might've even been yesterday how this is. It's such a tricky time of year because it could be fantastic, like it was today. It could be 30 degrees and snowing, like they're predicting for later this week. Yep, you know that that's the crazy part, and when we're talking about like being outside and things like that, we uh, our daughter's birthday is in may and we, ever since she was born, we wished we could do a like picnic outside type of thing. But you just can never tell with May, so we've never done that, because you don't want to book a reserve, a shelter, whatever you want to call it picnic area, and then find out it's going to be 30 degrees and snowing and can't use it.
Speaker 1:So yeah, is she early, mid or late?
Speaker 2:she is uh, she is early okay, all right so yeah, so both my youngest and middle, which?
Speaker 1:is uh, the boy and the girl. Uh, their birthdays are five days apart. I mean three, it's a three year. Yeah, three years and five days before it is, yeah, it's uh may 23rd and may 28th. Yeah, so nice, nice little birthday. Uh, weather, yeah down there. So, uh, today. I don't know if anybody heard uh me talking about this last week at the end of the show.
Speaker 2:If you made it to the show last week and you heard John and Early again yep yeah you did no, I don't have a problem with that.
Speaker 1:We've discussed this numerous times about how I do not have a problem with ending Early with anything else other than just because, you haven't discussed it with your?
Speaker 2:doctor doesn't how. I do not have a problem with ending early with anything else other than just just because you haven't discussed it with your doctor doesn't mean it's even if I had a doctor, I would not tell him that I wouldn't.
Speaker 1:I suppose you don't have a regular doctor, since you've you know I don't, I haven't had the doctor, doctor in 20 years. I haven't had a doctor in 20 years. Easy yeah, 20 years. Think back 20 years ago, 2005,. Things were hopping. John had a doctor. Now not so much.
Speaker 2:I'm sure that's are like oh yeah, 2005, I've got a doctor most importantly, john has a doctor.
Speaker 1:They'll hear this and know when they think of 2005 from here on out they'll be like oh, that's when John had a doctor, that's badass, that's good stuff, that would be a frame of reference for time if you had a doctor back then.
Speaker 2:That's how stuff that would be a frame of reference for time, like if you had a doctor back then, you know that's how long ago it was. You had a doctor.
Speaker 1:There's pearl harbor, there's 9-11 and then there's 2005, when john had a doctor. You'll always you'll remember where you were when you found out that john had a doctor 2005 um so long ago, john had a pediatrician that's that was his doctor, uh I mean some would say mentally I could still have a pediatrician, so, whatever, all right.
Speaker 1:so if you made it to the end of the show last week yes, you heard that I ended early, not because of any other problems other than a quick trigger, um but I said that we were going to be talking about hotels this week. So we are definitely going to be talking about hotels in just a few minutes. I guess. Guess who guest is? No one, we don't need guests. Me and DW, we're the show baby. We do need guests, by the way, we do, okay, sometimes. Yeah, we need guests.
Speaker 1:I was trying to pump it up saying we didn't, but yeah, most likely we do and that's okay. But we have fun with each other. That's weird to say, but we have fun, okay. Anyway, all right. So I said we were talking about hotels. We're going to be talking about that in just a few minutes. I do want to mention a couple things before we get going. One of them is if, by any chance, you want to have any type of merch from me or dw, um, just go to crowdmadecom forward, slash collections, forward, slash scolarius pod, or just go to crowdmade and search scolarius pod and you're gonna find a whole lot of stuff that you can have for like roughly 30 or less. Right, dw? Is there anything really over 30 bucks in there?
Speaker 2:not much. I thought there was something for like 29, but I don't think so yeah.
Speaker 1:So t-shirts we have. We have the here's the thing dw serene t-shirt. We have the sclarius 316 t-shirt, which is perfect. No, I guess not now. It's not perfect, but as we're recording, this would have been perfect yesterday. Anyways, um, we also have, you know, my personal t-shirt that said you know, uh, I'm not trying to offend you, but I don't care if I did. Uh, also, we have dog leashes, dog collars or cat leashes and cat collars. We have the pet dish, all you know, working on a fish bowl. I think it'd be awesome with the big old ghost in it, don't you do? You love you big old ghost?
Speaker 1:sclerus fishbowl okay yeah, nobody else thought so either. All right, we have coasters. Nope, no, we don't. We have goasters. That's right, because you know why would we have coasters? That's weird. You can put your drink whether it's a V8 or a sugar-free root beer or whatever it is you're drinking, right there on the Scolarius goasters and you can find those right there at crowdmadecom forward, slash collections, forward, slash scolarius pod, and or just go to crowdmade and search scolarius pod and then you can find all that good stuff. And while you're on the computer, you know you might be lonely. You may be out there thinking to yourself man, is there somebody for me? Is there somebody that's into the paranormal and the comedy like me? And the comedy like me? You know, and you're going through all your web searches, your Tinders and your Bumble and your Plenty of Fish and most like I don't know, maybe eHarmony, not 100% Christian Mingle, which would be weird based listening to the show and having that it's sad that you know all these.
Speaker 1:I know it from tv. That's, that's why. But say, you're going through all those and you're like man, I just wish, I wish I had somebody to talk to. I wish I could talk about paranormal and comedy. We can't get it there, but you can go to facebook where you can find dw. Dw serene comedian on facebook. You can find me at john holtz comedian 2.0 on facebook. You can find us both together on a couple?
Speaker 1:yep, no, we're not a couple. You find us at the sclarious page also. Also, we do have a tiktok sclarious 8 and an instagram where guess what we are.
Speaker 2:We are.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're Scalarius. Yeah, I can tell DW is just already zoning off and then, if you want to chit-chat, you can email us at ScalariusPod at gmailcom, or if you want to, you can go through every single episode that we have and you can find that at scolariaspodbuzzsproutcom. Hey, dw, we got through all that stuff.
Speaker 2:Okay, finally. Now let's get to the meat of the matter.
Speaker 1:Let's get to the meat of it. Let's get to the meat of the matter. Let's get to the innards of this hot dog. Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 2:Pretty much yeah, okay, sure.
Speaker 1:Exactly, that's exactly what you were saying. All right, yeah, you know we're going to talk about. Hey, it's going to be springtime and people you know people are wanting to take trips, and when you take trips, you need a place to stay. I suppose you can sleep in your car, but you need places to stay. So you're going to go to well, probably a Vrbo or Airbnb too, but most likely a hotel right, but most likely a hotel right. So it's our job here at Scalarius to provide you, our listeners, with the hotels that you want to go to, because you're all into the Honda stuff. See what I did there. All right, but that's our job. So we're going to do that today, but we're going to start right here in our home state of Minnesota. So, GW, we don't have to put much gas in the car. We'll stop at Quick Trip. Are you ready to hit our first hotel?
Speaker 2:Is this going to be like the other vacation we took where?
Speaker 1:you didn't let me stop, absolutely. You can have, listen, man, let me stop, and you can. You can have you, listen, man, I, I am a rewards member, quick trip, so I will allow you to get whatever you want. As long as I can swipe that card naked, I get to visit, okay, whatever, all right. So where do you want to go? Do you want to go really close to home or do you want to go kind of out west right now?
Speaker 2:well, why don't we start close to home?
Speaker 1:okay, and well, you know, there's a few hotels pretty close to us, right, um, a couple of them, uh, within 15 and 35 minutes and another one at an hour. So actually, everything that we're going to discuss in Minnesota is basically an hour away from us, but we're going to start at the closest one and this is going to be kind of fun, because I don't know if DW knew anything about this. I know that my queen consort, who has lived in Minnesota for her whole life, did not know this. Okay, so this is going to be fun for you, but it's kind of notorious and there have been a lot of uh experiences there, apparently okay just don't talk about them.
Speaker 1:all right, we're talking a stone's throw away from where we're at right now, the Afton House Inn, afton, minnesota.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Now it's right downtown. I mean, if anybody's through Afton, it's legitimately just a town right on the St Croix River. It has a ski resort and things like that in it for the winter time, but it's a really small town. Uh, best ice cream place in all of minnesota's there, salmas. Uh, shout out to them they are not paying me for this, and if they were, they'd be paying me in gallons of superman ice cream. That's what they'd be doing. But anyway, all right. But yeah, right there in in, right in the center essentially of apt in minnesota, is the apt in house, and it was. It's a victorian style house.
Speaker 1:Um, it is rumored to be haunted by former guests and staff okay uh, like I said, people are kind of hush hush on it and so that is basically all there was on it. But, um, it's kind of intriguing. Uh, it's former guests and staff, including a woman dressed in victorian era clothing, which would make sense because the house is older too. But right, yeah, uh, so yeah, that those are the the hauntings of the afton house in now dw, I'm sure you've been to afton. Were you aware of this? Uh, hotel?
Speaker 2:no, no even aware of the hotel I don't think so, and I'm looking, so I'm looking at it. Now I've noticed uh, they've made it. It's victorian style and it's um, didn't they have? Where did they have on here? Well, it says 1867. And I'm guessing that's when they Built the house. Built the house, but clearly they've made some modifications.
Speaker 1:Yeah, modifications.
Speaker 2:yes, Because it looks like every room has a flat screen TV, a fireplace looks like a gas fireplace and a jacuzzi, oh wow. And it looks like most rooms have, I think, at least two of those. Two out of three of them. Some of them maybe don't have a fireplace, but they'll have a jacuzzi.
Speaker 1:Okay, so if anybody wants to come to the Twin Cities, you want to see a little awesome place just east in Afton uh, go to the afton uh at the house in. So let me ask dw, is it affordable, did they say?
Speaker 2:say that again.
Speaker 1:Hang on is it affordable on the on the website for somebody to get a room it's well, it varies.
Speaker 2:So they got lots of options. They had one. Let me see where was I just page passed. Uh, one of them is no, where'd it go? I mean one was like 135. Okay that's not horrible not not crazy amenities like jacuzzi and things like that well, I uh that one didn't have a jacuzzi now if you want, like the executive suite, it does go. So 135, but does go up to um. Where was the fanciest one?
Speaker 1:I want to say yeah, 285 okay, well, that's really not that bad. I mean honestly when you say I was thinking like five, six hundred bucks. Everyone say so. 285 is not that bad if you want to live in the lap of luxury for one evening in afton and that's I mean that that's a big one. Uh, obviously yeah separate bathtub, jacuzzi, fireplace oh wow, look at that that's a really nice one alright, so we're gonna go right down, we're gonna leave DW, get in the car we just got here.
Speaker 2:What are you talking about? We went, not gonna.
Speaker 1:I mean we, we went to salmas and we looked at the hotel. So now we have to leave and we're gonna go down, but you had your ice cream, okay, so we're gonna go down the road I did not even turn on the jacuzzi, and you told me to get out of here.
Speaker 2:I do this. This is why I don't want to. You always talk about hey, we should do this. Do you like my impression, by the way? Hey, we should do this and go stay at this hotel. The reason why I don't want to do that is even imaginary trips with you, suck. I'm at this place for five minutes and you said okay, time to get in the car before we have fun. Oh, my gosh, all right, we're leaving. Where are we going now? Apparently, I'm not driving.
Speaker 1:We're going to go down the road. We're going south, man, we're going to follow St Croix and the Mississippi down the roadways to red wing, minnesota, and when we get there, also, we're going to stop a quick trip because I'm going to have to pee, and then, you know, we'll get you a little something there. And then, uh, yeah, I'm gonna make our way over to the, uh, the st james hotel, if anybody wants to know, red wings, a really nice town. It's on the river, um stones, throw away from treasure island casino. So I mean, that's not a drawing point, I don't know what would be, um, but red wings, just a, uh, a few miles away from, uh, wabasha, not too far. Uh, yeah, it's, when I say a few, I mean a few. It's like 2030, I think, or something. It's not horrible, but still um, but you know, red wings pretty nice. And so the st james hotel people talk a lot about this. Actually, uh, katrina brown, her episode, if people want to go back yeah, katrina Brown's episode.
Speaker 1:She actually, um speak, spoke about. No, I am wrong, it is not Katrina. I apologize. Katrina's coming later. When we talk about the next hotel, we're gonna be, well, not the next one, but one of them anyway. No, I apologize to everyone involved, which is me and DW. And no, it was not Katrina, it was Steve Sabo. Steve Sabo talked about an experience at the St James Hotel in Red Wing, minnesota, and Steve Sabo's episodes way back there. I think it might have been before Katrina's.
Speaker 2:You know what a message to steve and katrina and everyone else keep in mind after doing this many episodes. They all bleed together and I applaud john for remembering who it was. I would not have been able to figure out who said this because I would have said I remember talking about this hotel in Red Wing. No way I would have been able to remember who it was.
Speaker 1:That's because I know offense, I just cannot remember stuff. All right, so this one, it's going to be short. I just want to let you know, dw, we're not going to be in Red Wing very long. All right, it's going to be short. I just want to let you know, dw, we're not going to be in Red Wing very long.
Speaker 2:All right, I'm not going to unpack because we're leaving pretty soon.
Speaker 1:I'm just saying, like just to preface this, like this might be a shorter trip, okay it might be a little bit shorter than the other one, all right, but anyway. St James Hotel in Red Wing, minnesota. This historic hotel is known for its paranormal activity, including sightings of ghostly figures and strange noises, particularly in the older section of the hotel.
Speaker 2:Okay, All right, we going, because that's all we had time for.
Speaker 1:I mean that's that's it, I mean we don't have to go yet, but we can. I just figured we would oh good thank you. I was hoping, geez, just figured we would touch on the uh all right so st james hotel.
Speaker 2:Okay, um, again another. Oh, let me see if we can figure out. Do you have a year, 1875, when it was built? And this was the one, gosh, wasn't there a bellhop or someone that died? Yeah, something like that and they supposedly they like are still helping people or whatever. I can't remember.
Speaker 1:I thought it was something like that at first there I thought you were conflating that story with the story of the uh, the bones guy, the, the guy the catacombs no, no, that's it but yeah, you're right, I think I think steve mentioned something about that like it was like a bellhop and something like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I thought so, but I, you know, could be wrong. Uh, ghostly figures, could you know, the bellhop could fit right into that one, I suppose. And then, you know, strange noises could be anything, especially a building that was built in 1875. Um, now, if the strange noise was, I'm gonna kill you. It's a little different than, you know, a door creaking. You know what I mean. All right, but yeah, st james hotel, uh, we're not, not there very long, no, okay I'm sorry oh, all right jeez, do you want to?
Speaker 1:do you want to go now?
Speaker 2:I wanted, wanted to stop and eat, but we're leaving, so let's get in the car.
Speaker 1:If you were to stop and eat in that area, where would it be?
Speaker 2:You know, jeez, where was it Get a?
Speaker 1:local business to shout out. Just I'm just saying.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to. I and I actually looked into this. I thought there was one place that was uh, uh, kind of that was nice nearby. Dang it, uh, well, we're already leaving. I can't, you know whatever. Dang it, uh, well, we're already leaving. I can't. Yeah, whatever. Oh, there's a godfather's pizza okay, that's good, oh, here we go. Here we go um, um hannish bakery.
Speaker 2:I might be saying that wrong, but there's a bakery and coffee shop and they've got um, maybe that looks like they've got cakes, um cupcakes, um what else they've got here? Oh, bread, buns and rolls, oh, and donuts. Here we go, we're good, so I'll get some donuts there. All right, if we do, we have time. Can I stop and get donuts, or are we leaving already?
Speaker 1:I mean it's up to you. Do you want to leave?
Speaker 2:first sensible thing you've said all day um can I? All right, I'm gonna get a oh m&m cake donut okay, I ordered a donut and already you're laughing.
Speaker 2:Reese's piece is cake donut. All right, so I'm getting two, um, and I don't know if they have a three, four, three, four deal. But, um, let me get one more. I'll do a peanut butter cupcake donut. All right, mind, you'm not going to eat all of them now. I'm going to eat one now and two are to save for later. Put it in my pocket, I don't know.
Speaker 1:The upper breast of your pocket.
Speaker 2:Next to my calculator, because I'm a machine.
Speaker 1:Oh Crapers.
Speaker 2:See, I knew you were going to do it.
Speaker 1:So are you all gonna do it? So are you? Are you all donated up? So we, okay, we can go. Now, all right, let's go. There's a method of my madness and I know that might be shocking, but we're gonna. We're gonna leave. We're gonna leave red wing, we're gonna go straight up 61 and we're gonna go straight up 61 for a long, long mile. We're gonna go straight up. Well, there might be some, because there's two 61s. We're gonna have to get off of 161, then take 94, and then what we'll do is we'll take that to the 61 exit oh, no, 94 to the 36 exit. Then we get on 36 and then we will take 36 down and then we'll get on 61 North and we'll head up 61 North, uh, for approximately uh 45 miles.
Speaker 2:I hope you're using a GPS, cause I don't trust your directions.
Speaker 1:I'm okay, roughly 45 miles. I hope you're using a GPS because I don't trust your directions. Are you Okay? Roughly 45 miles to Rush City, minnesota. Remember when I talked about Katrina Brown? Now is where Katrina Brown will be coming in, all right? So if we're going to be talking about hotels, we're going to be talking about Rush City. Obviously, it's going to be a haunted hotel. So the Grant House Hotel, located at 80 West 4th Street in Rush City, minnesota, is a historical establishment with a rich past dating back to 1880. The current brick structure was rebuilt in 1896 after a fire. Over the years, guests have reported numerous paranormal experiences at the hotel. Visitors have described hearing unexplained footsteps, seeing apparitions and experiencing sudden temperature drops. These accounts have led many to consider the Grand House Hotel as one of the most haunted hotels in Minnesota. In Minnesota, and for those interested in exploring the hotel, the Grant House Hotel's website offers ghost stories shared by guests.
Speaker 2:Okay, Well, here let's.
Speaker 1:Let's tell You're going to be there. Go to the website, see what the Grant House Hotel has in store for us.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to find where these stories are. Here's all the. They don't have jacuzzis, but they're nice rooms. Where are they're nice nice rooms? Um, where are? Where are these stories? What's going on, unless it's on hang on? Is it on their facebook page? I don't know. I I'm sorry, I'm just having trouble finding what the heck? I don't know where.
Speaker 1:Maybe they took them down. Maybe they don't want that known, like you know, obviously. Uh, it was written that way. I don't, uh, I don't know, maybe they took him down maybe I don't know. I can't sorry, I can't find him if anybody wants to uh know a personal story about the uh, the grant house hotel in rush city, go back to the Katrina Brown episode and listen up, okay.
Speaker 2:They also, by the way and I think the last hotel did too, and I forgot to mention it this one Grand Hotel, also for a fee, accepts dogs. So if you want to go with your dog, there's an additional fee. But I bring that up because, um, we have our, our dogs. We either have to take them with or someone has to stay behind because they're, you know, nuts. So it might be be a perk for some people if they're you know they need a place that is pet friendly, but no smoking or vaping.
Speaker 1:Damn it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I don't smoke, so that's all right.
Speaker 2:Okay, should we go?
Speaker 1:Are you ready to go?
Speaker 2:I'm not, but I'm just preparing myself for the fact that you usually say we have to go.
Speaker 1:There's nothing else in Rush City but this hotel. So if you want, to eat the restaurant's downstairs. We can eat there. By the way, activity happens in the restaurant too, that was said. So if you want to eat, we can eat there. You can have a nice big dinner. So your your belly's full and you're not so grumpy for the next leg of our tour here all right, all right, yeah, let's go all right all right, we're leaving okay, we're going okay, we're gonna leave and we're gonna go west.
Speaker 1:We're gonna go west not real far west, but like west central, and that's in sock center, minnesota, to the palmer house hotel. We just literally talked about the palmer house hotel with, uh, I think it was minnecosta, maybe, oh yeah, I'm pretty sure. Um, maybe not see. Now you got me questioned like did we have a group after minicosta, didn't we?
Speaker 2:I don't know, I can't remember I can't see, told you I'm sorry yeah, anyway.
Speaker 1:So I think it was them, and if it was like hey, shout out and uh yeah you guys can, uh, yeah, talk anytime, it's cool, all right. The Palmer House Hotel in Sauk Center, minnesota known for its ghostly residents, particularly the spirit of a woman who appears in the hallways and the ghost of a former hotel owner who haunts the building. Now, I could be wrong, but I think I remember, in the like, in the mini ghost episode, palmer House Hotel, talking about it and talking about, like, a ghostly woman. Don't you remember that?
Speaker 1:yeah, I think so yeah so I don't you remember that? Yeah, I think so. Yeah, so I don't know, seems to be, seems to be legit, at least for that part of it. I mean, yeah, those are just.
Speaker 1:You know little bits about our haunted hotels here in Minnesota. You know little bits about our haunted hotels here in, uh, in minnesota, we, you know we're gonna get the next hotel. We're gonna be there for a little while because you know, yeah, so just want to let you know dw so you can get, you know, you can get comfortable at the next one, at least for a little bit. All right, so palmer house, hotel socks in minnesota, no, frisco city residents, uh, a chick who roams the hallways, and then the hotel owner, uh yeah, afton house, palmer house, jane, st james hotel, uh, which is in Red Wing, and obviously the Grand House in Rush City. All very haunted hotels, all stone's throws away from us. So if you ever want to come and visit us, we can check out any of these hotels. But it's time for me to get DW into the car and we're gonna take on you say that, like I'm an infant, so all right, I'm in the car get in your car seat facing the other way it's backwards, that's good, okay, all right.
Speaker 1:No, but sincerely we're gonna. We're gonna take off down, well, southeast a little bit. We're gonna go to a pro, I think, the third largest city in minnesota and that's rochester. So rochester, minnesota, that's right. We're only here because it's an international airport. We can get to our next destination from here. All right, dw, I don't know if you've ever been here, but I personally have, and my queen consort has, and actually we did a little ghost boxing when we were there and they were talking directly to her. So it was pretty awesome.
Speaker 1:And that is the kaylor hotel. Kaylor hotel it's now part of the mayo clinic campus, by the way, because they're all connected tunnels and things like that, and mayo clinic, the most famous hospital in the world, essentially rochester, minnesota anyway. So the killer hotel has a very rich history and is known for its paranormal activity. The hotel, originally built in 1921, is a well-known landmark and over the years there have been numerous reports of ghost sightings and unexplained occurrences. Are you ready for the sightings? First one ghost of a woman in white. Many guests and staff have reported seeing the apparition of a woman in a long, flowing white dress, often seen walking down the hallways or appearing in rooms, only to vanish when approached.
Speaker 2:Okay, okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, elevator oddities. There have been reports of the hotel's elevators acting strangely. Is that I don't know, I'm sorry, acting strangely, the door opens and it goes whoopity, whoopity, whoopity, whoop.
Speaker 2:Well, and the thing is every once in a while, like where I work the elevator door is open and the elevator goes down a teeny bit more. Would that be strange Like oh, our work is haunted because our elevators are weird, but that's odd.
Speaker 1:But here's the oddity and this is the uh. This is why that what you just said makes sense. There have been reports of the hotel's elevators acting strangely again, I'm sorry moving the floors without being called or stopped unexpectedly, sometimes with no one inside.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:So what you said basically is like okay, if that's the case, my place is haunted too. So I'm going to take this piece of evidence and I'm sorry People might think it's strange, and everything else. We're going to take this piece of evidence and I'm sorry People might think it's strange, and everything else. We're going to take this piece of evidence, we're going to throw it out, we're going to toss it aside because I feel that's an everyday occurrence. It's no different than water dripping from a faucet. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, All right. Unexplained noises. Guests and staff have also reported hearing footsteps. All right, Unexplained noises. Guests and staff have also reported hearing footsteps, whispers and other strange noises, especially in the quieter older sections of the hotel.
Speaker 1:Okay, this is kind of okay. A ghostly presence in rooms. Some hotel guests claim to feel cold spots, the sensation of being watched, or a presence in their rooms, though no one is physically there. Now they're saying these hauntings aren't officially confirmed, because you cannot officially confirm a haunting, not really. The stories have become an integral part of the hotel's mystique. Many people believe that the hotel's long history, including its original use and the extensive renovations over the years, may have attributed it to the paranormal activity. Is that the Kaler Hotel was used for extra space because it is attached to the hospital and they had guests in there and I guess patients and you know patients die and and things happen like that.
Speaker 1:So, um, but yeah, there was a section of the hotel that was, I mean, yeah section of the hotel that was used for basically a hospital for a uh, a good amount of time. Now, as for personal experiences now, DW, have you ever been to the Kaler? Do you know? Are you familiar of it? I don't think so. Okay, so it's really cool. It has kind of a, in a way kind of an old-timey feeling and also a retro feeling. Timey feeling and also a retro feeling.
Speaker 1:So like you go downstairs and it's like in you're in the 1970s and you go upstairs and it's just beautiful victorian era, old-timey, like you know, not victorian area, but you know like the 1920s type decor and everything was pretty, pretty badass, Anyway. So you go down and it leads to like tunnels and these tunnels lead to different parts of the hospital campus and things. But you know there's a Qdoba in the basement which is pretty badass I've eaten there a few times and little shops and and things like that, and I guess it's part of the Rochester quote unquote subway, which isn't exactly a subway because it uh, well, you know, it's not a train, it's just people walking through it.
Speaker 1:But anyway, um, yeah, so we we've, we've been there, you know, myself, the queen consort even taking the kids around there and things like that, and we've had experiences hearing whispers directing with the ghost box. We went down into like those tunnel area things and we were kind of by where the morgue was at one point Just heard some stuff there and that could be talked about. I mean, that was talked about in episode six, ryan Stock. He talked about an experience there too and I think I even brought it up. But yeah, pretty pretty cool area. Uh, they don't want ghost hunters up in there, they won't allow people to investigate it. Uh, yeah, so I don't know if that's a male thing, because I think that you know the male clinic either owns it or you know they're a part of it. You know in some way because they're connected. But yeah, they don't really talk too much about the hauntings there at least, right.
Speaker 2:So Some places try and deny it. You know some well not.
Speaker 1:Maybe not deny is the right word, but don't acknowledge it like don't um advertise it yeah which is weird because I feel it would bring a solid growth and in visits and stuff I do. I think people go, they want to go and some some people may want to go to a haunted hotel tell so all these places that are um advertising it.
Speaker 2:They're smart about it, kaylor I, I don't know, maybe it doesn't need it, if you know what I mean yeah I don't know well, and the other thing is, I don't know, kaylorer, just looking at their website, is, I don't know, more modern, more fancier, if that's the right word for it and maybe they just you know people who are coming through on their honeymoon or whatever, I don't know honeymoon in rochester, but I don't know.
Speaker 2:But maybe for whatever reason, like they don't want the people that are staying there, they don't want to scare them away with ghost stories or something. I don't know. I'm just just coming up with some idea, I don't know well, I mean, it's a pretty good idea.
Speaker 1:I don't understand any of it. Even if they are trying to save face for those who have more money, um, essentially that's that's what it is. I don't know. I think that's a silly thing to do, but people have the experience. Man, once you've been to a haunted hotel, you're like I don't want to stay at one that isn't. I had an app on my phone at one time when I was doing a lot more road gigs. He had the bed bug registry, which you never want to be at a hotel that has that and that's in it, I guess. And then, um, yeah, there's an app on my phone that I could check and see if the hotel was haunted. Not, you didn't like push it and you know, uh, and it's like you know, scans it or something it's like not haunting, it wasn't anything like that.
Speaker 1:It was like, um, you, um, you just type in what the address is and then it brings up any reports of hauntings or whatever else. But I did use it a lot and I really enjoyed getting into a hotel that had activity, so yeah, so I hope that this was long enough for you, dw. I mean, we could. There's things we could do in Rochester, if you want to. There's a cannabis club there. I. I like, um, we could go by there sorry, no, yeah that's yeah, okay, uh, all right, that's not for you.
Speaker 1:That's cool. Uh, well, the apache mall is there. We can go there mall walk if you wanted to. I don't know, there's a corn water tower. I mean that's cool to see for a second. Yeah, there's really nothing else to do. Dw, I just want to go to WhoHot. I'm always up for WhoHot.
Speaker 2:For what?
Speaker 1:WhoHot, who's.
Speaker 2:WhoHot? No, no, you don't really. You know who hot mongolian grill, who hot? Oh well, I, I know that's. I.
Speaker 1:I've gone to different mongolian grills, but okay, going grill, okay, yes now I'm on board all right, okay, we going to hang out there for a little bit and then we're going to go to Rochester International Airport and we're going to take a flight. You want to guess where we're going to fly? To DW, pittsburgh. No, much shorter flight. We are going to go to my favorite city in the whole wide world and we are not going to be here very long. So I'm going to be one that's very sad in this one. This leg of the trip is going to be me because I guarantee dw, I'll tell you what. We're going to be here for a very short period of time, but I will treat you, my friend, to some deep dish pizza.
Speaker 2:Are we going to Chicago then?
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're going to Chicago, All right. Chicago has several reported haunted locations, Among them the Congress Plaza Hotel. It opened in 1893 and is said to be haunted by a variety of spirits, including the ghost of a woman who reportedly jumped to her death from the hotel's 12th floor, as well as the spirit of a former hotel guest who died under mysterious circumstances. A former hotel guest who died under mysterious circumstances. Visitors and staff have reported eerie noises, cold spots, flickering lights and even sightings of figures in the hallways or rooms.
Speaker 1:Okay, the Congress Plaza Hotel in Chicago, I okay, the congress plaza hotel in chicago, I okay. So I don't know. The thing that got me was the, the spirit of a hotel guest who died under mysterious circumstances. Like, okay, you're in a hotel, you either died in your sleep because you, you know drugs, you were overdosed because, well, you know drugs, there is a possibility that you were murdered, maybe just a heart attack in your sleep. There's only, like, really, four ways you're going to die in a hotel. So what mysterious circumstances could that have been? I suppose, okay, uh, eerie noises, it's all that.
Speaker 1:1893 is when it was built. Okay, I think. Not even 100, sure, but I think that was before the first fire. Okay, I don't know, anyway, I could be wrong. Those in chicago, let me know, was it before the fire or after it? All right, anyway. Uh, cold spots, which is normal for hauntings, flickering lights and even sightings figures in the hallways of rooms. I feel, based on this, I would want to go to chicago for numerous reasons, but one of them being to the go to the the congress plaza hotel, okay, yeah, how about you?
Speaker 2:no, you just want to stay home I'm not driving, so I guess we're going yeah all right, another.
Speaker 1:Well, we, we took a flight. Remember we actually flew to Chicago. It was a short flight. Anyways, all right. Another infamous hotel in Chicago with a haunted reputation is the Drake Hotel. Many have claimed to have paranormal activities, particularly in the hotel's older rooms. I'm sorry, I don't know a whole lot about the drake hotel, just know that it's, you know, supposedly haunted. That is cool. Uh, it's claimed to fame. For me is um being referenced in the first mission impossible movie.
Speaker 2:Oh yes, drake Hotel Chicago, yep yeah.
Speaker 1:So if you're haunted, awesome. If you're not, at least you have Mission Impossible. Right, yeah, right, yeah, okay, all right. So let me ask you a question, dw, do you do? You do you want to go to france real quick and then swing back around and hit canada, or what do you want to do?
Speaker 2:we're swinging back to Canada. How do you swing back to Canada?
Speaker 1:What do you mean In? An airplane, it's the same way you get over there.
Speaker 2:All right, all right, all right, let's go to, yeah, let's go to France.
Speaker 1:Okay, this is going to be fun because you know French.
Speaker 1:All right, let's try this out. Chateau de Brassac, chateau de Brassac, brassac Queens see, if it was Spanish, should be keen say so. I'm not, but anyway, france know for its closely appearances, including the spirit of charlotte de brossac, a woman murdered by her husband. Okay, see, I think it's a bed and breakfast. Uh, I'm not 100 sure, uh, what it is in whatever, but I think it's a bed and breakfast because it was a home and they just, you know what I mean. All right, and I don't know if bed and breakfasts are big there in, uh, in france or or not, but there's really not much there and that's, that's what. So the ghost of charlotte, the ghost of Charlotte de Brossac, just roams around and scares people.
Speaker 2:So the ghost of. So what did she? What's her story?
Speaker 1:She's the woman murdered there by her husband. Her husband killed her. Okay, yeah, so I don't know. This to france wasn't as fun as the well, we haven't eaten yet, and so what?
Speaker 2:do you want, you want a baguette you want a baguette, just french food I don't care, I mean what in france? So we, we pastries, so we just need to find someplace that has a, a danish, a danish. There we go. Yeah, in france, a danish. They call it a french, I don't know um, just just something we'll. We'll have something to eat and I don't know we should probably like what do you?
Speaker 1:what do you think? I mean, I don't know, well, I maybe.
Speaker 2:Well, maybe we should get some, uh, french roast coffee. We should probably have wine at some point, not at the same time as coffee, but I suppose we're leaving so soon we can't have both.
Speaker 1:It's going to be kind of weird, me and you just at a table drinking wine together.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm not sitting next to you. No, of course not.
Speaker 1:There's a table right.
Speaker 2:You know, I'll say this bottle of wine, charge it to that bald guy over in the corner, perfect 2DW my hetero life mate. Oh my.
Speaker 1:God, all right. So we leave in France. Now, after you got liquored up and stuffing baguettes down your gullet.
Speaker 2:Maybe Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, we're good all right, okay, so we're going to canada now now we're going to canada okay, yeah, there we go the fun country we're gonna fly to alberta.
Speaker 1:We're just in france.
Speaker 2:And now you're saying canada is fine even worse, alberta.
Speaker 1:Okay, all right, so we're going to alberta from france, to bamf alberta, canada. It's the fairmont bamf springs hotel. Ghost stories around this luxury hotel in the Canadian Rockies with sightings of a bride who died in the hotel and a bellboy who passed away in the 1960s. So it's the second bellboy right there.
Speaker 2:Yeah and the. So what happened there? The bride, but not the groom, what?
Speaker 1:can guess what happened there I don't know.
Speaker 2:So if it's the bride, is her ghost still in her wedding gown?
Speaker 1:That's a good question. I bet Usually with ghost stories. That's the way it goes.
Speaker 2:Like Beetlejuice when they were in uh in their yep, when they went into their wedding best come on by which, by the way, good movie I and honestly I haven't seen the new one, but, um, we watched it, uh, this past halloween and I forgot how uh funny it is. And I mean, michael keaton, I love that guy, he was freaking hilarious. So anyway, that's michael keaton, michael keaton, he was, he's.
Speaker 1:He's my favorite batman he is the probably I but I guess he's most definitely the best bruce wayne. I'll give him that. I think christian bale's the best batman his was good but here's the, here's the other thing.
Speaker 2:I I feel like a lot, of, a lot of people who have a favorite superhero and have a favorite like portrayal of that. They pick the one that was the biggest when they were a kid, yeah, so there, there might be people who are a little bit older and their favorite is superman and and they think of christopher reeves who doesn't?
Speaker 2:right. But I mean there have been superman since then and there have been different ninja turtles and different batmans and stuff like that. But for me I really got into into Batman and superheroes right around the time the Tim Burton Batman came out and so for me that was the Batman and everything else has just been Secondary. I don't know, just because I feel like I'm hanging on to that childhood image that was first created when I was a kid of this is Batman.
Speaker 1:No, I get it. He'll always be Like I said, was it last week? Yeah, last week she touched on Gene Hackman. And I was like he'll forever be like Lex.
Speaker 2:Luthor'll forever be Lex Luthor.
Speaker 1:Lex Luthor, greatest criminal mind of all time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, I understand we don't have time for this, but like there's a different favorite Batman, but who's the bestoker, you know? Hard to say, because I feel like there's apples and oranges, though I feel like mark hamill I do like hits yeah you know, but the thing is at the same time. How do do you compare, in the same regard, to Batman, the Adam West? Batman is so campy. How do you compare that to the Christian Bale? Christian Bale's was scarier and darker, but I'm laughing at Adam West's. So which one's quote-unquote right?
Speaker 1:Well, the Joker was methodical, deadly, but then he had like this odd crazy sense of humor which wasn't pulled off in the Dark night. But everything else was right and he was zany kind of in the 89 batman yeah um I don't know.
Speaker 2:I he Ledger's was pretty awesome, but and again, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, the Joker from that movie. Why am I blanking on his name? Heath Ledger? No, from the Tim Burton. Oh, that was.
Speaker 1:Jack Nicholson, jack nicholson gosh whatever jack nicholson pal that was.
Speaker 2:I mean because the thing here's the thing heath ledgers was scary. Heath ledgers took the scary, scary Batman and made him human. But you look at Jack Nicholson's who did he have before? He had the TV show Cesar Romero, cesar Romero version, yeah, so he had to make it scary. So he, I feel like, went in a direction no one had gone before. Yep, so, but I do. I feel like I do like Mark Hamill's, because I feel like having read the comic book of the Killing Joke, that's exactly how I feel like it sounded in my head, almost. So anyway, we've been talking about Batman.
Speaker 1:By the way great, one of the greatest graphic novels of all time the Killing Joke.
Speaker 2:The Killing Joke yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, people need to go get it that and then pick up the walking dead, because if you, if you read the graphic novel, you'll be a lot happier than what you would with the tv show. Uh, all right, so anyway, we're just gonna dw. Do you mind leaving canada?
Speaker 2:all right, let we can go yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:So now we're gonna zigzag all across america, but we're gonna do fast, okay, okay, all right, let we can go. Yeah, okay, so now we're gonna zigzag all across america, but we're gonna do fast, okay, okay, all right, first stop, we're gonna actually, this isn't too bad we're gonna go straight down the rockies, straight south from from alberta, and we're gonna go to the stanley hotel in estes park, colorado, which is famous for inspiring stephen king's the shining. Okay, he stayed there. Uh, he had experiences and he was like oh, haunted hotel, that's badass. And he wrote the shining. So, um, it's rumored to be haunted by the hotel's fond, uh, founder and other spirits uh, a lot of spirits. This thing has been investigated more times than huh, I don't even know like I can't.
Speaker 1:Even. I was gonna say something but it was gonna be. This isn't censored, but they would have found a way, all right, but anyway. Um, yeah, this thing's been investigated a lot and you know, piano played by itself, footsteps, full body apparitions, just everything all the time, and they have comedy shows there, which is kind of cool. They do have paranormal conventions and stuff there a lot. Paranormal conventions and stuff there a lot. It's been. This is the hotel the Stanley Hotel itself was inspired. I mean, this inspired Stephen King to write the Shining, right, but this hotel also was actually the Overlook Hotel in the TV version of the shining. So that was the hotel that they used, the actual Stanley hotels.
Speaker 1:Also, in dumb and dumber, it was a hotel that Lloyd and Harry stayed in when they, uh, wrote all the ious that's right yep, yep, so it was in that um, a very famously haunted hotel, but also in a whole lot of movies, which makes it really cool. So, dw, we're leaving colorado, are you happy? With that all right. Okay, we're going to make two stops in california, then we're going to go to louisiana. All right, the queen mary in long beach. We've been here before, dw we were here with uh closer to the veil. That was yeah that was it.
Speaker 1:Yep, that was, yeah, that was a really, really good one. Um, if you want to hear all the experiences on the Queen Mary, go back. Listen to our episode with Closer to the Veil Paranormal, um, which is in the early ones. Again, I think it's top 10 or something somewhere around there. Go back and listen to that. Then we're going to go to the Hotel del Coronado in Coronado, california. It's a beachfront hotel and it's rumored to be haunted by the spirit of Kate Morgan, a guest who died under mysterious circumstances.
Speaker 2:Mysterious circumstances.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Okay, Okay, she was either. You know, she was either murdered or she wasn't. That's how it was. I mean, that's yeah Anyway. So I don't know, Do you want to stay at the Hotel Del Coronado very long?
Speaker 2:Well, we got to get going, don't we?
Speaker 1:Okay? All right, now we're going to go to the Cecilcil hotel. The cecil hotel now is the stay on main, okay? Uh, it's infamous for it's very dark history, including tragic events. This hotel has been the site of numerous ghost sightings and mysterious deaths, numerous and, uh, night stalker richard ramirez lived there. Um, yeah, they ever said you know that he was either summoning demons or he had a demon in his room that made him do everything he was doing, whatever, I don't know, silly stuff like that. It's not founded anyway. But the Cesar Hotel is where Elisa Lam mysteriously disappeared. They found her in the water tank on the roof. It was literally no way to get up there. We discussed this a few episodes back too, with Tawny Can't remember her last name right now, but it's okay. But you'll tawny something tawny, yeah, a few few episodes back we talked about the ceasar hotel. All right, so that was california. All right, you ready to go to? Like I don't know?
Speaker 2:I wanted to stay on the queen mary, but you did. I mean, I just like, I don't know, I like boats and I would have really, I mean we couldn't be there very long.
Speaker 1:We we talked about it in previous episode. We're just bringing it up now. See what I'm saying. All right, tony lewis, by the way, is her name okay you beat me to it.
Speaker 2:I was gonna look for it, so um but yeah, listen to her episode.
Speaker 1:Back sees the hotel. All right. Now we're going to go to new orleans, louisiana. We just been in new orleans not too long ago, dw, we just been down there don't, oh, oh, you've gotta stop, that's just oh man, wait, what hope we fixing to go down there again right now? All right, bourbon hotel, the bourbon orleans hotel at least you laugh at it this hotel, built on the site of a former convent and ballroom, has a reputation for being haunted by former nuns and dancers not together okay, all right, not none dancers.
Speaker 1:They're not from nonsense or anything like that, right yeah?
Speaker 2:so given a show of sister act every night.
Speaker 1:Oh, could it be Please? I hope they recast what we go over. Jesus, all right, get somebody else, somebody in there with talent.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, oh geez. For the record, by the way, John does not speak for the both of us.
Speaker 1:She hasn't done a show in 30 years. Dw, you ain't opening for nobody. You'll be fine, you can just ride along, baby. We went to the Berman orleans hotel. We were there dw, it's sister act two every night, like you said. Uh, what do you think? Should we? Should we pack it up? Maybe?
Speaker 2:yeah, we can go, go.
Speaker 1:Okay, we can go. Where do you want to go, buddy?
Speaker 2:What time are we going home, jeez?
Speaker 1:Okay, well, we should go home soon.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we should. We're in New Orleans.
Speaker 1:It's going to be okay. What is that? Three-hour flight yeah, we should probably pack up and leave, don't you think? Yeah, we should TW. Let me ask you a couple questions before we get into our fun way that we end our show, and these questions are this that's weird. I even said that. So what do you think? Would you stay at any of these hotels?
Speaker 2:You know, the one with all the jacuzzis seemed nice, especially if, by the way, I'm getting my own room. I am not sharing a room with you because those rooms look very uh, uh nice and romantic and I would not, uh, no, hearing that I booked a room with you. At what that? That place would just be no, we're not doing that. But also, I did like that donut in Red Wing.
Speaker 1:That was delicious, so you just want to stay close to home. That's what you're saying. You don't want to go to Chicago.
Speaker 2:I don't mind going, but I just I like traveling, but I always like to. There's something nice about heading back, so it was a good trip, it was fun, but you know, head back home and see the dogs.
Speaker 1:So okay. So I was going to say, of the everything that we mentioned today, which one would you stay at? But you just kind of answered that probably.
Speaker 2:Yeah, probably. Which one was that with the? That wasn't the Red Wing one, that was the Afton Inn. Yes, oh, that was like, yeah, that was there, it is Yep and fireplaces, that's right, but I mean these just, they just look like really nice cozy rooms.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, okay, I All right, okay, well, I can't ask myself, so I'll just answer okay, all right.
Speaker 2:Sorry, where would you want to stay, john, of all the places?
Speaker 1:I want to say to all of them.
Speaker 2:I didn't know you could give a blanket answer like that.
Speaker 1:But okay, there we go honestly, my favorite like for a while has been the stanley hotel. I need to get there, I want to get there uh, that's, that's number one top of my list, but also, at the same time, meaning that it's close and not that you know, expensive. I don't know the afton, the saint james and maybe, maybe the kaler, essentially because the kaler I know there's activity there, but you know, I don't know the saint james would be cool too, yeah yeah, so I think I'd go to those.
Speaker 1:But if you want to talk about like all like broad out there, I I would definitely want to go. Uh, hit up that place in france. I like it over in france, yeah, um, yeah. And then the sisa hotel. I know it's called the stand main now, but I think that would be a fun one to stay in if you can escape all the horror in there. Meaning, like you know, people are always like you can't just stay there one night, you get sucked into a time vortex and you're there for six days. It's kind of, I don't know, it's weird. Okay, yeah, we should stay there. I don't know, but anyway, yeah, those are, those are hotels, guys, those are hotels, and we stayed at a lot of hotels. Dw ate a lot of food, but yeah, those were hotels. So I, I, I'm.
Speaker 1:This is a call to action, essentially for our listeners. A call to action essentially for our listeners. A call to action I want you to comment. All you have to do is like, please, just do. It Just hit the bottom thing and it says like, talk to us, essentially, just comment and say I want to know this, I want to know where you would want to stay, what haunted hotel you would want to stay, what haunted hotel you would want to stay at, and if there's any that we didn't mention, there's a couple honorable mentions uh, the bullock in, uh, deadwood, south dakota.
Speaker 1:Uh, basically every place in that town is haunted, but that's, that's one and then another. I can't name the place because I can never remember the name and I don't want to sit here and wait, but it's in Fort Madison, really cool place. I've talked about it a couple times on here. Yeah, so places like that, please let us know. Down below, say, hey, we want to go to blankety blank, thank you. Or hey, you guys didn't mention bloopity, bloop, okay, thank you. Do that. We really really appreciate it, wouldn't we? Dw?
Speaker 1:yes yeah, yes, yes. We would now usually at this time I'm gonna say where could uh, we, you, you find us? But we already did that, but we did that earlier, uh, because and we're not guests we're guests with each other, which is weird, uh, but we're not a couple. But, um, yeah, so now I'm all out of swords, dw, does this mean?
Speaker 2:this means we're back home, we're done. I mean, yeah, yeah, is it this or that time? Then I don't think we do we've, I don't think we do it this or that we do the back of the fortity well, I feel like we did that last time. We were co-hosting each other, right.
Speaker 1:Okay, so if we did that the last time, then this time would it be my turn to? How's that work? Is it my turn now, if you want sure go ahead. All right, it's hotel themed, so you know, whatever dw. Okay. Would you rather go to a soda vending machine or a food vending machine? I?
Speaker 2:I. I avoid caffeine, and so a soda vending machine, or a pop machine, as we say, um, wouldn't have a lot of options for me, so all right, food, food, is it okay?
Speaker 1:yeah, all Continental breakfast or full-on breakfast buffet.
Speaker 2:You know something about continental breakfast. I always like a place that's got a good continental breakfast, so yeah, Okay, pool or hot tub, ooh you know, if it's a I'll, I'll say hot tub, I'll say hot tub.
Speaker 1:But that's a tough one, because they're both nice, so okay, king size or full size well, you're going I'm talking about beds, but right and you're just doing the extremes.
Speaker 2:If, with those two options, I'm gonna go with king, I'm tall enough that my feet dangle off of a full size okay, all right.
Speaker 1:Which weird. That must be really short.
Speaker 2:You know taller people, john, have that problem. Oh, okay.
Speaker 1:Got it All right, perfect. We had breakfast, we did the pool and the hot tub thing. So what else is there about hotels, dw Ooh, room service or no room service?
Speaker 2:I usually don't do room service. I don't know. There's something weird about a person bringing food to your room. I don't know why that seems weird to me. I usually don't do room service. Here's the thing. I have no problem going down and having their continental breakfast in the morning, but something about room service having it brought to my room, I don't know. I just never got into that. Okay.
Speaker 1:We're getting into the rules here. Okay, whether or not they're real rules or they're just rules of normal human behavior, but here we go.
Speaker 2:when you go to the ice machine do you use the ice bucket given to me?
Speaker 1:Trash can holds more ice.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but it's just me, so I don't need a whole lot, and that is, by the way, one of the things I do in every hotel. First thing, I do grab the ice bucket, find where the ice machine is, because I always like um ice cold water to drink, so I want to make sure I got got my ice bucket very good.
Speaker 1:So when you steal stuff, when you're leaving, I don't but go on nope, when you do, do you take the towels?
Speaker 2:nope, when you do, do you take the towels or do you take the shampoos and soaps?
Speaker 1:I, I don't take the towels, so it's usually the shampoos and and soaps. See, that's why I said when, not if when, because everybody does, it doesn't. There's, my mom has an ashtray from the Flamingo Hotel in 1968. I swear to God. So, yeah, people, yeah, they take whatever. All right, so now we're going to get into the real fun one.
Speaker 2:John Olsen or Jack the Ripper, hmm, jack the ripper hanging out with, by the way, this is like hanging out with having a nice conversation chilling out, yeah, and didn't jack the ripper kill people. Well, but wasn't it mostly like prostitutes and stuff?
Speaker 1:it didn't it? In this context, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2:He was a cold-blooded murderer and he could murder you at the blink of an eye if it's during the day and we're just having a conversation and he's not going to kill me, I'd probably go with jack the ripper. I mean, oh, he's okay. I mean, and here's the thing, he's a, we don't know exactly who he is, right oh, they said they found out recently.
Speaker 2:I can't remember his name, but he was like he was a barber I think it'd be cool to talk to him. Be like so how'd you, how'd you do it? But but maybe he'll pull a and was like it wasn't me type of thing. He'll still deny it, even if I'm there.
Speaker 1:But you know. So, jack the Ripper, it is Over me. Alright, that sounds great.
Speaker 2:He might let me stay more than five minutes in Resurrection.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because you'll be dead. He'll kill you, you'll be there forever.
Speaker 2:I don't know, it was him the risk you wanted to make.
Speaker 1:That's good. That's good stuff right there. I like that. He didn't have to say it, I could. I'll take that risk. It's all good, alright. Well, that was this or that, anything else? Cw. That All right, well that was this, or that, anything else? Cw, that's it. That's it for this one. If you're sad, then we're going to leave. That's what's going to happen.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:All right. Well, that was hotels, guys. I hope you want to stay at one of them. I do, I want to stay at all of them. But yeah, again, let us know if we missed any hotel that you wanted to talk about, or if you've been to any of the ones that we did discuss and you could tell us whether or not they are really haunted or not, or if you just want to tell us the hotel you want to go to really really bad. Yeah, do that. Then, on the the thing down below, just talk to us all, right? Well, dw said nothing else, right?
Speaker 1:yep nothing else we're good, next week we're in Ukraine, so pack up buddy, all right. Okay, we'll stay longer there. Okay, in the whole country we'll be staying, all right. Well, you know what that means, right?
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:It means they're going to do this wrong, probably, but you know who?
Speaker 2:knows, turn it in early.
Speaker 1:We can figure it out all right. Well, you guys have been amazing, we have been scolarius and we are out LIT.