Speaker 1: Salutations and welcome to the He'll Billy Nation. I am
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying it is? So I am I am
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Speaker 1: week an ending in an even better weekend.
Speaker 2: Ah.
Speaker 1: I see the person from last week stepping out the
Speaker 1: shower has to throw clothes on this time. We all
Speaker 1: thank you for that one. Just in case I'm not
Speaker 1: able to get an episode out next week. If you
Speaker 1: celebrate Easter, Happy Easter. I know Jerry and Tracey have
Speaker 1: a rule no politics or religion, so we'll just leave
Speaker 1: it there, Happy Easter. I will be attendant to Easter
Speaker 1: sermon with my wife and afterwards she'll be heading over
Speaker 1: to the grandchildren, and I will do what I always
Speaker 1: do work. I was really hoping to go because I
Speaker 1: printed these cute large melted chocolate eggs for their Easter baskets. Okay,
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Speaker 1: So come join us, and if you're lucky, you might
Speaker 1: even see Tracy. She does pop in that cute load
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Speaker 1: seeing you all. Yeah, So let's get on with this
Speaker 1: week's episode. Jerry and Trace to talk about the inspiration
Speaker 1: of the signing the Stanley Hotel, and afterwards to talk
Speaker 1: about death Knocks. Now that is actually something I'm very
Speaker 1: interested in. And at the very end they interviewed the
Speaker 1: Haunted Explorers from Las Vegas. That sounds like a pretty
Speaker 1: good show this week, So I'm gonna let y'all go
Speaker 1: and you go enjoy the show.
Speaker 3: This is Dakota, and you're listening to my grandma and
Speaker 3: grandpa and Hillbilly Horror Stories.
Speaker 4: All right, everybody, and welcome to a very special thirtieth
Speaker 4: edition of Hillbilly Horror Stories. I'm Jerry and that's Tracy
Speaker 4: beside me.
Speaker 3: Ola coma Sta.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure that meant anything, but.
Speaker 3: Hello, hell, are you okay, well me.
Speaker 4: I'll take your word for it. Some of some of
Speaker 4: our Hispanic listeners can tell us if that's what that
Speaker 4: actually meant.
Speaker 3: Be ready to be amazed.
Speaker 4: The introduction you heard us from our adorable little granddaughter, Dakota,
Speaker 4: and and she did a fantastic job. We've got another granddaughter,
Speaker 4: and I tried to get her to say a little something,
Speaker 4: but I can only get one word out of her.
Speaker 4: And after you hear it, you will definitely know she's
Speaker 4: a member of this family. And here she is poop.
Speaker 4: That's right for all of you keeping score at home.
Speaker 4: She said poop. She could have said any word in
Speaker 4: the world, and she chose poop.
Speaker 3: She likes to talk about poop for some reason. I'm
Speaker 3: not sure just why. But we still love her.
Speaker 4: And in case you have any declarations about Tracy being
Speaker 4: country as I was gonna say fuck, but that was
Speaker 4: a bad word, but she said poop, she said. Guys,
Speaker 4: you're probably wondering why are we playing Tony Orlando in
Speaker 4: the beginning with the knock three times, But it's because
Speaker 4: we have a really cool story to tell you about
Speaker 4: the night. It's actually more of a I guess you
Speaker 4: could say a superstition than a story, but we've got
Speaker 4: a bunch of little stories to go along with it.
Speaker 4: But it's called It's about Death Knight because I don't
Speaker 4: know how many people are familiar with it, but we're
Speaker 4: going to tell you about that, and then we're going
Speaker 4: to talk about the Stanley Hotel, which has several ghosts
Speaker 4: and a famous book that came from it. We also
Speaker 4: have an interview with the Haunted Explorers. They're a ghost
Speaker 4: hunting crew out of Las Vegas, and we're going to
Speaker 4: tell you a story about sleep paralysis from a listener
Speaker 4: who just found the show and heard our episode and
Speaker 4: had a really cool story. So we have a jam
Speaker 4: packed episode for you tonight.
Speaker 3: Exciting. I can't wait, So.
Speaker 4: Let's go ahead and jump right into it. I want
Speaker 4: to do a couple of shout outs first, because I
Speaker 4: know we've been doing them kind of at the end
Speaker 4: of the night, but I want to go ahead and
Speaker 4: do some of these in the beginning. First one, this
Speaker 4: was when I overlooked she interacts with us on the
Speaker 4: Facebook page all the time, and I don't know why
Speaker 4: I haven't done it yet. It's just an oversight on
Speaker 4: my fault. So Priscilla Gordon. Thank you so much for
Speaker 4: being so active on our Facebook page and being a
Speaker 4: great listener, and sorry that took me so long to
Speaker 4: get you a shout out.
Speaker 3: Hey, Priscilla.
Speaker 4: Another one that I've probably should have already done, and
Speaker 4: I think we've done a shout out, but I want
Speaker 4: to give some extra recognition is Robert Burton. Robert actually
Speaker 4: has taken it upon himself to volunteer and do some
Speaker 4: research on a bunch of different stories from around the world,
Speaker 4: because we've got a listeners from around the world and
Speaker 4: I want to try to get some kind of story
Speaker 4: at least close to home. Last week we did the
Speaker 4: Japanese suicide forest and that gives something for our Japanese,
Speaker 4: but we've got several other countries such as Australia, India, Canada,
Speaker 4: and Robert is actually helping us locate some cool stories
Speaker 4: from all around the world that we can start using.
Speaker 3: That's amazing. Thank you so much. I can't wait to
Speaker 3: hear what you got.
Speaker 4: I've got This is kind of funny. Amanda de Grasse.
Speaker 4: I hope I'm doing that right. But Amanda actually reached
Speaker 4: out to me on Twitter because I sent her a
Speaker 4: request and said, hey, listen to the show and she's like, Hey,
Speaker 4: I already listened to the show, bitch. Well she didn't
Speaker 4: say that, but she said she was already a listener.
Speaker 4: So I had some cool conversation with her yesterday.
Speaker 5: Nice.
Speaker 4: That's if you guys join us on Twitter, I'm in that,
Speaker 4: so I respond. I get several direct messages every day
Speaker 4: and tweets, and we respond to all of them. But
Speaker 4: I highly advise everybody to join our Facebook page. It's
Speaker 4: not a group, it's just a page, but we do
Speaker 4: a lot of fun stuff and we interact with you
Speaker 4: guys a lot on there. So if you want to
Speaker 4: talk to us and send suggestions or just talk about
Speaker 4: what's going on in sports or whatever, we talk to
Speaker 4: everybody who wants to talk to us. So it's a
Speaker 4: cool way to interact with the show and know what's
Speaker 4: coming up for upcoming shows. With that being said, I
Speaker 4: do have one request, and this is something that I
Speaker 4: do last couple of shows. If I hear a podcast
Speaker 4: that I really like, especially if it's an up and
Speaker 4: coming podcast, I try to get the word out there.
Speaker 4: I did it last week for Don't Break the Oath.
Speaker 4: Them guys were very thankful for you guys that gave
Speaker 4: them an opportunity, and we're going to do it again
Speaker 4: this week. I got a couple of young ladies, Am
Speaker 4: and Christine, and they have a podcast. They're only on
Speaker 4: their I think the sixth episode came out today, maybe
Speaker 4: the fifth, and it's called and That's Why We Drink.
Speaker 4: These young ladies are very funny and they're they're getting
Speaker 4: their feet underneath of them. They're starting to get listeners
Speaker 4: and they're really a fun listen. So give them an
Speaker 4: opportunity and I think you'll be surprised, and uh, let's
Speaker 4: grow with them. I think as they go on, they're
Speaker 4: gonna get better and better. You can already see it
Speaker 4: if you listen to episode one and listen to the
Speaker 4: last one. It's been noticeable improvement. It's tough when you're
Speaker 4: first starting out doing this, and it takes a while
Speaker 4: to get used to having a microphone stuck in front
Speaker 4: of your face and get that comfort level. But they're
Speaker 4: doing a fabulous job and I hope all you will
Speaker 4: give them a listen and see what you think.
Speaker 3: And I like the name of their show too, it's
Speaker 3: pretty pretty awesome.
Speaker 4: They have some their their graphic, their logo is awesome.
Speaker 4: It's made like a Oiji board, but it spells out
Speaker 4: and that's why we drink. So it's if nothing else,
Speaker 4: it's worth checking out just for the graphics.
Speaker 3: It's got blood and guts all over it.
Speaker 4: It does not have bloody. Tracy's one of those moods today.
Speaker 4: So there's no telling how this is going to turn out.
Speaker 4: So let's talk a little bit about death knocks.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 4: I wanted to talk about this subject because I've actually
Speaker 4: known about this for a very long time, several years.
Speaker 4: But when I talk to people about it, it seems like
Speaker 4: nobody that I've talked to has ever heard of this before.
Speaker 4: And you know, we're gonna start off with the way
Speaker 4: I've always understood and I've learned as I've started researching this.
Speaker 4: But I've always had situations to where and just think
Speaker 4: about this and see if you've been in this same situation.
Speaker 4: Have you ever been asleep you hear three pounds on
Speaker 4: the door? It sounds like just think about like what
Speaker 4: it would sound like on a castle door with the echo,
Speaker 4: you know, the boom, boom boom. Have you ever heard
Speaker 4: that and just woke up in the middlenight thinking there's
Speaker 4: somebody knocking on a door and then there's nobody there.
Speaker 4: I've actually had this happen two or three four times
Speaker 4: and then actually went to the door because it was
Speaker 4: that realistic to realize there was nobody there. So was
Speaker 4: it something I I was just imagining. I don't know,
Speaker 4: because when I started looking into it, I found out
Speaker 4: that there's actually a phenomenon called death knocks. And now
Speaker 4: this goes all the way back to the eighteen hundreds
Speaker 4: where people would swear that if you hear three knocks
Speaker 4: on the door or anywhere, and it doesn't have to
Speaker 4: be in the middle of the night, this could be
Speaker 4: while you're awake. But they call it the three knocks
Speaker 4: of death or death knocks and what that supposedly say.
Speaker 4: There's different different variations of the story. But a lot
Speaker 4: of times people will hear this and within sometimes minutes,
Speaker 4: they hear that somebody they know and love have passed away.
Speaker 4: It could be friend, family member. Sometimes it's you know,
Speaker 4: some people will tell you that it's either three days,
Speaker 4: three weeks, or three months to the day you hear it,
Speaker 4: somebody's going to pass away. So there's the different variations.
Speaker 4: But I've got a bunch of stories that actually collaborate
Speaker 4: with this, and I thought i'd share these with you guys.
Speaker 4: So here's the first one. This is actually from a
Speaker 4: gentleman named Hensex in upstate New York. But he says,
Speaker 4: when I was fifteen years old in nineteen sixty five,
Speaker 4: I lived out in the country in a small town
Speaker 4: called GasPort. One cold and very snow evening, we all
Speaker 4: were gathered in the living room around the television when
Speaker 4: we suddenly heard a loud pounding on the front entry door.
Speaker 4: The door was sealed with weather stripping for the winter,
Speaker 4: and we never opened it. It was in a dark place,
Speaker 4: didn't have any kind of lighting, so nobody goes there.
Speaker 4: The pounding was so loud that my mother went out
Speaker 4: to the side door to see whoever was knocking to
Speaker 4: walk over to the side door tell them to come
Speaker 4: over the side door whatever. She called again, and there
Speaker 4: was no answer. She turned on the outside of light
Speaker 4: over the front door and peered out the window, and
Speaker 4: there was nobody there. She went out and looked. There
Speaker 4: was no marks in the snow where anybody had been
Speaker 4: walking over there, so it seemed very odd that somebody
Speaker 4: could be out there since there was no footprints in
Speaker 4: the fresh snow. My dad, being a skeptic, he suggested
Speaker 4: the noise was windblowing something against the door. The next morning,
Speaker 4: we got a call that our uncle Charlie had passed
Speaker 4: away unexpectedly. That's one of those stories. Here's another one.
Speaker 4: As a child, at the age of eight, I was
Speaker 4: in care of my German grandma. I'd been drawing at
Speaker 4: the kitchen table my grandparents farm house during the summer break.
Speaker 4: My grandmother was drawing preserves and when we were both
Speaker 4: startled by three loud knocks that seemed to come from
Speaker 4: nowhere and yet everywhere, all at the same time. My
Speaker 4: grandmother had turned and said nothing for a few minutes,
Speaker 4: she quickly took me outside of play. Nothing was ever
Speaker 4: said about it, and you know, the only remained. It
Speaker 4: only remained in my memory because of the first being
Speaker 4: startled and then being angry that I was taken away
Speaker 4: from my drawing. What a gritty little punk. I later
Speaker 4: learned many years that my grandmother's sister passed away that
Speaker 4: evening from a heart related ailment. Years later, my dad
Speaker 4: had called when I was home with my partner. My
Speaker 4: brother suffered from a long term substance abuse addiction and
Speaker 4: had extremely hard to deal with that evening. My father
Speaker 4: went on to add that not only that he had
Speaker 4: that situation to deal with, but he thought the whole
Speaker 4: house was going to come down too, because he had
Speaker 4: three or four large bangs within the walls. My brother
Speaker 4: died from a cocaine overdose just hours later.
Speaker 3: My gosh, that's crazy.
Speaker 4: The last instance took place after my long term companion
Speaker 4: pet dog fell violently ill very quickly one day. I
Speaker 4: had no car, but I phoned and requested a VET
Speaker 4: ambulance to come and get us. As I lay on
Speaker 4: the floor with her, there were three sharp knocks on
Speaker 4: the apartment door. I rushed to open it, but there
Speaker 4: was no one there. The vets arrived approximately fifteen minutes later,
Speaker 4: but my baby girl passed away in my arms less
Speaker 4: than an hour later. That's from Christopher.
Speaker 3: That's terrible.
Speaker 4: So Christopher had a couple of experience.
Speaker 3: I don't want to hear no knocks.
Speaker 4: Here's a couple more. My story begins back in the
Speaker 4: twenties when my grandmother was in the kitchen and heard
Speaker 4: three large, loud knocks on her front door. There was
Speaker 4: no one there, but three days later learned that her
Speaker 4: mother had died. Back in Germany. In seventy three, my
Speaker 4: parents were awakened by three loud knocks on the front door.
Speaker 4: Upon inspection, there was no one there, but received a
Speaker 4: phone call about an hour later that my uncle had
Speaker 4: passed away. This was never brought up again until I
Speaker 4: was telling my uncle about the story at my father's
Speaker 4: funeral in nineteen seventy nine. He and his wife froze
Speaker 4: and said that they had heard three loud knocks on
Speaker 4: their storm door about the same time my father had
Speaker 4: passed away. They lived in Arizona, which was three hours away. Now.
Speaker 4: Two weeks ago, my mother awoke the three loud knocks
Speaker 4: or bangs on the front door again. She got up
Speaker 4: and found nothing at the front door and was immediately
Speaker 4: scared because of it reminded her of the nineteen seventy
Speaker 4: three incident. Three days later, my brother was murdered in
Speaker 4: Louisiana in the early morning. The strangest fact is that
Speaker 4: all the times a family member heard the knox, it
Speaker 4: corresponded with a time of death, give or take an
Speaker 4: hour of the family member. That's from Neil tack one.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's so creepy.
Speaker 4: Here's another quick one. My mother and her mother have
Speaker 4: always been gifted by omens. We live in a little town,
Speaker 4: Saint Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, November tenth, twenty eleven, and
Speaker 4: my mother heard three knocks. She always said that means
Speaker 4: it takes three days, three weeks or three months right
Speaker 4: to today that something bad was going to happen, usually
Speaker 4: a death. Well, three days later, her cousin shot himself
Speaker 4: in a hunting accident while hunting with his seven year
Speaker 4: old son.
Speaker 3: That is amazing. I better be not hearing no damn
Speaker 3: knocks anywhere. And don't you be getting up in the
Speaker 3: middle of the night and knocking on the door either,
Speaker 3: because that's how you roll.
Speaker 4: Well, here's one from nineteen seventy nine. Miss Hughes of
Speaker 4: England heard three knocks at eleven pm. Now she said
Speaker 4: that she went and looked at the door, but it
Speaker 4: was surprised her that it didn't surprise her that nobody
Speaker 4: was there, because she's got a really squeaky gait and
Speaker 4: she can hear when somebody comes to the gate. Thirty
Speaker 4: minutes later, two policemen told her that her husband had
Speaker 4: been killed. He got struck by a car and was
Speaker 4: killed in the road. In nineteen eighty two, Miss Hughes
Speaker 4: and her daughter heard three knocks on the kitchen window.
Speaker 4: Fifteen minutes later, she found her brother dead of a
Speaker 4: heart attack at the front door, but he hadn't made
Speaker 4: it to the door to be able to be the
Speaker 4: one that knocked. Had two incidentss There's another incident where
Speaker 4: a guy named Frank had three knocks on his living
Speaker 4: room wall and then he found out surely later that
Speaker 4: his ex wife committed suicide. But you can see there's
Speaker 4: a lot of different stories. I mean, I can literally
Speaker 4: find probably fifty more stories almost instantly with these same things.
Speaker 4: Here's one with a mister Hannaby that two days before
Speaker 4: her dad died. I'm sorry, miss Hanniby. Two days before
Speaker 4: her dad died, she told her mom that she heard
Speaker 4: three knocks, and her mom said it was a sign
Speaker 4: of death, and her dad died two days later.
Speaker 3: Let's change the subject. This is depressing.
Speaker 4: Well, let's talk about the Stanley Hotel.
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, let's do that.
Speaker 4: We'll talk about the Stanley and then we'll do our
Speaker 4: interview with Haunted Explorers, and then we'll come back and
Speaker 4: We'll do the listeners story because that's a really cool story,
Speaker 4: so we'll save that for last. As alls I.
Speaker 3: Can say is I hope you guys none of you
Speaker 3: all have any Three Knocks anywhere, because that's that got
Speaker 3: me all paranoid and stuff.
Speaker 4: What if it's three knocks and it really is Tony
Speaker 4: Orlando at the door?
Speaker 3: I mean that would be awesome because I could get
Speaker 3: down with.
Speaker 4: That, but not better not happening late at night. I'll
Speaker 4: be playing a yellow ridbond around his throat. Oh, waking
Speaker 4: me up. No way I can take him. He's like
Speaker 4: old now, he's playing his seventies.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he still got a stash.
Speaker 4: He might have a fun if he shows up at dawn.
Speaker 4: Our younger listeners won't get that. Oh, Stanley Hotel. A
Speaker 4: whole bunch of cool facts about the Stanley, And normally
Speaker 4: we would have led with this, but I didn't have
Speaker 4: any Stanley Hotel music, but I had Three Knocks music,
Speaker 4: so we led with the door with the death Knocks.
Speaker 4: Stanley Hotel. It's in Estes Park, Colorado, which is right
Speaker 4: at the foot of the Rocky Mountain National Force. And
Speaker 4: actually that actually had a lot to do with it
Speaker 4: because back when it was built, it became kind of
Speaker 4: a touristy town. If it hadn't been for that hotel
Speaker 4: being built in the touristy town being there, they probablyrobably
Speaker 4: wouldn't have that park right there. So that's all part
Speaker 4: of it. Let's talk a little bit about how it
Speaker 4: came to be right now. It's got four hundred and
Speaker 4: twenty rooms.
Speaker 3: It's huge and white, really really white.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's got four hundred and twenty rooms. It was
Speaker 4: built by Freeman Freeland. I'm sorry, I don't want to
Speaker 4: mispronounce the man's name, Freeland Stanley. He opened it on
Speaker 4: the fourth of July nineteen oh nine. Now Freedland had
Speaker 4: a twin brother named Francis, and they actually made a
Speaker 4: lot of money. These kids were very smart. When they
Speaker 4: were kids. They would build whittle tops, you know, like
Speaker 4: the little spinning tops. They would whittle tops and sell
Speaker 4: them to their friends. So they were entrepreneurs from the
Speaker 4: from the very beginning of their time for them, and
Speaker 4: they created a product caught Stanley dry plate, and that
Speaker 4: was actually a I guess a photography product that they
Speaker 4: ended up making a lot of money off of because
Speaker 4: mister Eastman from Eastman Kodak bought it from them for
Speaker 4: a fortune. It was the equivalent of something like fifteen
Speaker 4: million dollars back then, and he used that for what
Speaker 4: became mostly the way photography has done today, as far
Speaker 4: as it used to be a really long process with
Speaker 4: taking a picture, and it shortened the process tremendously. So
Speaker 4: that's how they made their money. Then they invented the
Speaker 4: Stanley Steamer.
Speaker 3: Well, who knew you could make so much money cleaning carpets.
Speaker 4: This is a different Stanley Steamer. Maybe most people probably
Speaker 4: think of Stanley Steamer their carpet cleaning company, But the
Speaker 4: Stanley Steamer back then was an automobile and it had
Speaker 4: a steam engine. And so when you think of like
Speaker 4: the Model T forwards and stuff like that, it's kind
Speaker 4: of like that, but it had a steam engine instead
Speaker 4: of a combustible engine, and they made a lot of
Speaker 4: money off of that. Unfortunately, they were kind of stubborn
Speaker 4: and they didn't want to change with the times, and
Speaker 4: as automobile companies kind of got more complex, they kind
Speaker 4: of stayed with where they were and that was the
Speaker 4: end of that. But they made all their money and
Speaker 4: it was it was no big deal anyway. But Freedland
Speaker 4: had a situation back in nineteen oh three where he
Speaker 4: contracted TB and back in the day, there was no
Speaker 4: cure for TV, so they advised a lot of people
Speaker 4: to move out west, and Colorado because of the high
Speaker 4: altitude and the good clean air was a place that
Speaker 4: a lot of people were advised to go to. Well,
Speaker 4: they were from Maine, and there was a doctor that
Speaker 4: originally from Maine that was now in Colorado on that area,
Speaker 4: and he said, hey, come on out Freeland, this will
Speaker 4: be the place for you. He came out there. They
Speaker 4: got out there in March of that year, him and
Speaker 4: his wife Flora, and they loved it. They just thought
Speaker 4: it was absolutely fantastic. And in June they decided to
Speaker 4: spend the rest of the summer there and it did
Speaker 4: wanders for him. His TV started getting a lot better,
Speaker 4: and within like three years later he was completely cured.
Speaker 3: Wow weeks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he ended up living to be ninety one. Three years.
Speaker 4: About three years he was completely cured. I'm sorry if
Speaker 4: I said three weeks.
Speaker 3: I I was gonna say dad gone.
Speaker 4: Well, back then three years was still pretty miraculos. But yeah,
Speaker 4: he ended up living to be ninety one years old.
Speaker 3: That's amazing. What place is so beautiful to so.
Speaker 4: What he decided because he liked it so much he
Speaker 4: wanted there was nothing here. There was nothing here. He
Speaker 4: actually bought the land from the very first person that
Speaker 4: lived there that had bought it, which was the Earl
Speaker 4: of Dunraven. He was the fourth Earl of Dunraven. He
Speaker 4: was from Ireland. He came over and he actually by
Speaker 4: a trick got a lot of that land because from
Speaker 4: being from Ireland, he wouldn't allow it to get that land.
Speaker 4: They had like homesteadying acts for as long as you
Speaker 4: made an improvement on the land, you could get all
Speaker 4: these lands. But he would and didn't qualify because he
Speaker 4: wasn't a US citizen. So he basically paid all these
Speaker 4: people to go out there and sit long enough to
Speaker 4: get the land, and he'd buy the land from them.
Speaker 4: Then he ended up getting like, you know, six thousand
Speaker 4: acres by doing that. Wow. But the Stanley actually bought
Speaker 4: the land from him in nineteen seven and decided to
Speaker 4: build this hotel. It took two years, but he wanted
Speaker 4: to make it like the top of the top. This
Speaker 4: was going to be the place where anybody that had
Speaker 4: money was going to come to me.
Speaker 3: It had everything, isn't it kind of like in the
Speaker 3: middle of nowhere.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was. It's in the middle of nowhere, and
Speaker 4: uh it's but it's a beautiful place. And he decided
Speaker 4: he wanted to make the town a resort town. And
Speaker 4: by doing that, or by putting that hotel there and
Speaker 4: making it, you know, the Krim de la Creme, you know,
Speaker 4: this thing and everything. I mean, he built a hydro
Speaker 4: electric plant so it could have electricity, which not a
Speaker 4: lot of places had back in the day.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean they had running water, they had everything.
Speaker 4: So this was a place where the rich people could
Speaker 4: come and enjoy it. And he eventually went back to
Speaker 4: Maine and he would come there for some of the time,
Speaker 4: but he, you know, he pretty much just left it
Speaker 4: for others to run. But he loved the place. He
Speaker 4: loved it when he when he would come up there.
Speaker 4: And uh, he's one of the people that that they
Speaker 4: say that still today haunts the place. So you can
Speaker 4: see him and his wife.
Speaker 3: To be able to haunt it. That was pretty amazing
Speaker 3: what he did.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but yeah, it's it's pretty pretty incredible. With what
Speaker 4: this guy was able to accomplish in his time. Now,
Speaker 4: when he originally opened up in nineteen oh nine, it
Speaker 4: was only forty eight rooms. Keeps in mind, it's four
Speaker 4: hundred and twenty rooms now, so they've really added on
Speaker 4: to it since then. Now, the Stanley Hotel is extremely
Speaker 4: famous for one main reason, and it's because they had
Speaker 4: a famous author that came to stay there. Do you
Speaker 4: have any guests who that author was and what the
Speaker 4: book was?
Speaker 3: Ummm, doctor sus.
Speaker 4: No, why not unless the book was Horton. Here's a
Speaker 4: who the hell are those two creepy ass kids in
Speaker 4: the hallway? Which I don't think it was. It was
Speaker 4: actually Stephen King, ah, and that is where he got
Speaker 4: the inspiration for the shining.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, you're kiddy.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 4: It was kind of funny because Stephen King came to
Speaker 4: stay there. It was like the end of the season,
Speaker 4: the last day of the season, so that virtually was
Speaker 4: hardly anybody there. He may have been the only person
Speaker 4: staying there, and they stayed in room two seventeen. It
Speaker 4: was him, His wife is three year old little boy,
Speaker 4: and Stephen King said he woke up in the middle
Speaker 4: of the night after a horrible dream. He dreamt that
Speaker 4: his little boy was running down the hallway and he
Speaker 4: looked over his shoulder. A little boy looked over his shoulder,
Speaker 4: and he was being chased by fire hose. But I
Speaker 4: think we've all had that dream, or if not.
Speaker 3: Bro, I feel like I've seen that dream somewhere on
Speaker 3: TV somewhere.
Speaker 4: But that's what he said, a dream was. But he
Speaker 4: said he couldn't go back to sleep, so he sat
Speaker 4: looking out the window and he lit a cigarette. And
Speaker 4: by the time he was done with a cigarette, he
Speaker 4: had the whole basic bones of the book.
Speaker 3: The Shining, you know, that's you know, when you think
Speaker 3: about that, that's pretty amazing because the place is so beautiful.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just gorgeous. And to think what it
Speaker 3: was like on the Shining.
Speaker 4: Well, but Keeping the Shining wasn't actually shot there, Oh no,
Speaker 4: they actually used a hotel. There was The outside of
Speaker 4: the hotel was up in Oregon. Is what they used
Speaker 4: for the outside of picture for a hotel up in
Speaker 4: organ is what they used for the pictures for the
Speaker 4: outside in the in the movie. And then there was
Speaker 4: a hotel in Yellowstone or Yosemite. I'm sorry Yosemite Park.
Speaker 4: You can tell I don't write this stuff down, But
Speaker 4: in Yosemite Park there's a hotel that they used for
Speaker 4: the inside, but they actually recorded it in England and
Speaker 4: all this was done on a set. The inside of
Speaker 4: the hotel was the inspiration from the one in Yosemite,
Speaker 4: but they actually rebuilt that on a set in England
Speaker 4: and that's where it was filmed.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of trouble now.
Speaker 4: They redid the movie a couple of years ago for
Speaker 4: a mini series that they did, and they actually filmed
Speaker 4: all of that at the Stanley Hotel.
Speaker 3: Well, how cool. Guess what other movie was there?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 3: Dumb and Dumber.
Speaker 4: That's right, Dumb and Dumber was So those of you
Speaker 4: who are sitting there saying I want it, this place
Speaker 4: looks like if you've ever watched Dumb and Dumber, that
Speaker 4: was the hotel that Jim Carrey and h which brings
Speaker 4: me to a good story after this. But Jim Carrey
Speaker 4: and what's his name, what's the other guy's name?
Speaker 3: Dummer?
Speaker 4: Dumber? Jim Carrey and Dummer what's his name? But this
Speaker 4: the it's the hotel where they stayed at. Because remember
Speaker 4: they pulled up in the what was the Lamborghinia of
Speaker 4: the Ferrari or whatever, but they pulled up there in
Speaker 4: the front. You see the big, beautiful white hotel with
Speaker 4: the red roof. That's it. Yeah, I don't know, Uh,
Speaker 4: that's what I am DB's for. And we'll get that later.
Speaker 4: Everybody out there knows who we're talking.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jeff, Jeff, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Jeff, yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't think that's his name. Yeah, Daniels, Daniel,
Speaker 4: Jeff Daniels. There were some Jack Daniels. And this is
Speaker 4: why we drank. I just get drunk show. But no,
Speaker 4: but that was you know, even the upstairs when when
Speaker 4: he goes to the bar area, that's the bar in.
Speaker 3: The comes down the big staircase and.
Speaker 4: Stand when he comes down the staircase, that's right, it's
Speaker 4: the main entrance to the Stanley. So yeah, that a
Speaker 4: lot of that footage exactly shot in the Stanley Hotel.
Speaker 4: So pretty cool. But the story we got about Jim
Speaker 4: Carrey when they were filming, he wanted to stay in
Speaker 4: room two seventeen and two seventeen obviously as the room
Speaker 4: Stephen King stayed in, and there's some hauntings that go
Speaker 4: on there due to a young lady by the name
Speaker 4: of Elizabeth Wilson. But we'll get to her in a minute.
Speaker 4: So let's talk about Jim Carrey. So he stays there.
Speaker 4: In the middle of the night, he comes running down
Speaker 4: the stairs to the front desk. He's in his pajamas.
Speaker 4: He says that he demands to be moved to another
Speaker 4: room immediately, and he even runs outside in a panic.
Speaker 4: And to this day he's never told anybody what he saw,
Speaker 4: what happened, what the problem was. He just demanded to
Speaker 4: be moved to another room. Wow, what a pus So. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I've seen some of his movies, talk about scary.
Speaker 3: He's great.
Speaker 4: He's great in some stuff until he tries to be serious.
Speaker 4: But Room two seventeen. What's the story with Room to seventeen. Well,
Speaker 4: there was a young lady who worked there by the
Speaker 4: name of Elizabeth Wilson. And Elizabeth Wilson was basically the
Speaker 4: head I guess you could say made for lack of
Speaker 4: better term. And there was a situation. We told you
Speaker 4: they had electricity in the place. Well, there was a
Speaker 4: real bad storm in twenty eleven, nineteen eleven, and it
Speaker 4: knocked the electricity out. Now they had backups each room
Speaker 4: had a sedlene, which is a type of gas. They
Speaker 4: had acetylene lamps. Well, room two seventeen, she walked into
Speaker 4: with a lit candle to light the lamps, and there
Speaker 4: was a gas leak. And back then the gas you know,
Speaker 4: most people, I don't know if you know this or not.
Speaker 4: Natural gas does not have a smell to it. They
Speaker 4: add that smell that smells like rotten eggs, so you
Speaker 4: can tell if there's a leak. It doesn't naturally have
Speaker 4: a smell less. It's colorless and odorless. And back then
Speaker 4: they weren't adding anything to it, so when she walked in,
Speaker 4: she couldn't smell anything. There was no way of knowing.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Now she walks in with the candle. It blows up
Speaker 4: and it blows the whole big hole in the floor
Speaker 4: and she falls down two levels, two stories to the
Speaker 4: dining room, to which they said, okay, now fix me
Speaker 4: a sandwich. You no, she falls in there. She broke
Speaker 4: several bones. They took her to the hospital. She did
Speaker 4: a full recovery. And you know, of course, mister Stanley,
Speaker 4: being the generous man and not you know, wanting to
Speaker 4: adhere to workers' comp laws, he went ahead and paid
Speaker 4: for everything, and he also no, and uh, yeah, you
Speaker 4: screwed my hotel up.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: It burnt ten percent of the hotel down, the original hotel,
Speaker 4: and they said it was a type of flame. I
Speaker 4: can't remember the uh uh, it's like a non combustible
Speaker 4: type fire that kind of puts itself out. And had
Speaker 4: that not happened, most most of the hotel would have
Speaker 4: probably been lost. But they only lost ten percent of
Speaker 4: the hotel.
Speaker 3: Her hair off, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I have no clue about her hair. They didn't go
Speaker 4: into that kind of detail. I don't know she still
Speaker 4: got eyebrows or any of that stuff.
Speaker 3: That's amazing. She lived through that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she lived through that. And some of the stories
Speaker 4: I heard is because she was wearing, like you know,
Speaker 4: the people wore corsets back in the day, that her
Speaker 4: corset was so tight that actually helped save her. I
Speaker 4: don't know how that, no idea, no idea, unless she bounced,
Speaker 4: I don't know. But he was. He actually gave her
Speaker 4: a job for life, and she actually worked there until
Speaker 4: in the fifties, until she was in her nineties.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. So she was like there for like
Speaker 3: forty years or something.
Speaker 4: Then Yeah, she was there for a very long time.
Speaker 3: Wow, that was very awesome of him to do that.
Speaker 4: And the funny thing is she's the type of ghost
Speaker 4: they say she's there and that's that's the ghost of
Speaker 4: two seventeen for the most part. But she does stuff
Speaker 4: like when they have guests check in and they'll come
Speaker 4: and just leave their suitcase and stuff on the bed
Speaker 4: and they'll go out and do something. They'll come back
Speaker 4: and everything's put away, and then they'll call and say, hey,
Speaker 4: thanks for putting the stuff away. That was nice. And
Speaker 4: they're like, no, we didn't do that.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: That's kind of miss Wilson's signature trademark. She doesn't like
Speaker 4: a messy room. So if you leave your room messy,
Speaker 4: she tidies it up. Isn't she nice?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: I wish she'd come humped this house for a while.
Speaker 3: Agree with you there, But so cool.
Speaker 4: She And the fun like. The other thing is, I
Speaker 4: think it's kind of funny is if you stay in
Speaker 4: that room and you're a man and a woman and
Speaker 4: you're not married, supposedly she kind of gets in the
Speaker 4: middle of you and yeah, she don't want you to
Speaker 4: spoon or spork if you work for KFC. I was
Speaker 4: dating this one fat girl one time. She was so
Speaker 4: big we couldn't spoon. We had a ladle anyways, So yeah,
Speaker 4: supposedly she gets in the middle and she'll try to
Speaker 4: prevent anything from happening, because you know, back in her
Speaker 4: day that was something. I don't think that's gonna happen.
Speaker 4: This isn't a Chris Brown story or who is that
Speaker 4: not Chris Brown? Oh, Bobby Brown. Yeah, Chris, Chris Brown
Speaker 4: just knocked the hell out of her. But that's the
Speaker 4: story with Room two seventeen. Now what about some other
Speaker 4: ghosts at the Stanley Hotel. Well, the fourth floor is
Speaker 4: supposedly haunted by children. I mean, first of all, we
Speaker 4: talked about the owner of the original owner of the
Speaker 4: land and the fourth orle of Dunraven, and that sounds
Speaker 4: so much like a damn Tim Burton movie or something.
Speaker 3: Oh, I was just this just a weird word.
Speaker 4: Coming Memorial Day, the fourth World done. It's a weird word.
Speaker 4: But so he supposedly haunts room four oh seven, and
Speaker 4: they people said they can sit here, you know, still
Speaker 4: smell his pipe smoke and a couple other things. So
Speaker 4: I don't know if he was the only person that
Speaker 4: ever smoke a piper. Not where they just assume it's him.
Speaker 3: But oh, you mean that was his room.
Speaker 4: I don't know if that was his room, but that
Speaker 4: for some reason, that's the room they say he haunts.
Speaker 3: Oh, but the children has a different.
Speaker 4: The children have room four eighteen. They hear laughter and
Speaker 4: stuff like that all down the hallways.
Speaker 3: Oh that's nice, yep.
Speaker 4: So nothing like having a bunch of dead children laughing
Speaker 4: in the hallways to make your trip more memorable.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's better love and laughing than like evil
Speaker 3: and like I'm going to kill you.
Speaker 4: Well, that's the whole thing, is that everything everybody says
Speaker 4: that the ghost that they have there that none of
Speaker 4: them are you know, mean ghost. They're all happy, happy.
Speaker 3: Ghosts, just saying no, that's okay, Wi's okay.
Speaker 4: Which brings us to Lucy. I don't know how she's
Speaker 4: a happy ghost. But Lucy was a young girl, approximately
Speaker 4: thirteen years old and back. They never really gave a
Speaker 4: day for this, so who knows how true any of
Speaker 4: this is. But she was a runaway and she was
Speaker 4: staying in the basement. The basement has kind of made
Speaker 4: like a cave area there's tunnels and stuff like that,
Speaker 4: and some maintenance men found her down there and even
Speaker 4: though she was young, even though it was cold outside,
Speaker 4: they gave her the boot, kicked her out. It dropped
Speaker 4: blow zero that night, the temperatures dead and they found
Speaker 4: her frozen dead. So she died of exposure. And now
Speaker 4: supposedly she haunts it haunts the hotel, and she likes
Speaker 4: to close doors and open doors and shut and closed cabinets,
Speaker 4: and supposedly she can be seen in a pink dress.
Speaker 4: And there's actually a picture floating on the internet. Look up,
Speaker 4: look up Lucy picture from Stanley Hotel and you'll actually
Speaker 4: see a picture of her in the pink dress and
Speaker 4: that somebody caught just I think it was last year.
Speaker 4: It wouldn't have long ago, but it's a pretty cool picture.
Speaker 4: But that's that's pretty much our story on the Stanley Hotel,
Speaker 4: so you can kind of be your own judge. Those
Speaker 4: rooms are all available if anybody wants to rent them.
Speaker 4: I'm sure they're pretty costly, but it's a pretty cool
Speaker 4: ass story. And to know that that's where the shining
Speaker 4: came from the inspiration, and there's several ghosts that haunt
Speaker 4: the place. Yeah, let's go Yeah, let's.
Speaker 3: Don't we got friendly ghost.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't see no Casper there. Let's go ahead
Speaker 4: and we're gonna do a little interview. These gentlemen are
Speaker 4: pretty cool. I'm gonna give you a heads up that
Speaker 4: the sound quality is not as great on this interview.
Speaker 4: There was a little bit of problems in the beginning,
Speaker 4: but it does get better as it goes, so just
Speaker 4: kind of stick with it. These guys are out of
Speaker 4: Las Vegas. They've got about thirty years of ghost hunting
Speaker 4: experience between them. They go by the Haunted Explorers. They
Speaker 4: sell merchandise, they've got a Facebook page, they're on Twitter,
Speaker 4: they've got a website. But they've been to some of
Speaker 4: the coolest places. We'll eventually probably get them back on
Speaker 4: again when we have our Virginia City show, which we'll
Speaker 4: do somewhere down the line, because they've all been there
Speaker 4: and it'd be cool to have some insight. But right now,
Speaker 4: let's listen to the guys from the Haunted Explorers. All right, guys,
Speaker 4: welcome back to Hillbilly Horror Stories. I've got something cool
Speaker 4: for you tonight. Because as you know, we very seldom
Speaker 4: ever do interviews but when we do, it's usually something
Speaker 4: I think is really going to bring an added dimension
Speaker 4: to the show. And even though what we've interviewed in
Speaker 4: the past has been podcast hosting some of the good
Speaker 4: ones out there, tonight's going to be a little bit
Speaker 4: different because we actually have a group of I guess,
Speaker 4: for the lack of better term, we'll say ghost hunters.
Speaker 4: I know not everybody likes that term, but it's the
Speaker 4: Haunted Explorers out of Las Vegas. And I ran across
Speaker 4: these guys and they seemed very interesting to me, and
Speaker 4: I thought, if they're interested in me, you guys are
Speaker 4: gonna like it too, so I wanted to bring them
Speaker 4: on the air. So who I've got with me tonight
Speaker 4: is Steven, Tim and Moorad. Did I get there right, Marod? Yes? Okay, awesome, guys.
Speaker 4: Tell me a little bit about your group, how many
Speaker 4: members you have, how long you been doing this, and
Speaker 4: what got you into it.
Speaker 5: Well, I started the Haunted Explorer is almost it's we're
Speaker 5: going to be getting up to our fourth year in March,
Speaker 5: and so I started about four years ago because I
Speaker 5: really was just looking into starting a group that just
Speaker 5: got rid of all the whole politics of the other
Speaker 5: groups that I was involved with. So I really just
Speaker 5: wanted to start from scratch and just really get out
Speaker 5: there and just start you know, investigate, and then just
Speaker 5: you know, enjoying the process involved in investigating instead of
Speaker 5: you know, every kidfit that needs.
Speaker 2: To be you know, dying, you know, trying to keep.
Speaker 5: The politics out of it, and just sticking with investigating.
Speaker 5: And my full background of investigating was I'm I'm the
Speaker 5: type of person that just never had a personal experience.
Speaker 5: I've just always been fascinated by the paranormal and I
Speaker 5: never really did anything or went about try to investigate
Speaker 5: or anything on my own, but finally just decided, hey,
Speaker 5: what the heck, let's just I'm just gonna go out
Speaker 5: and start trying some places around town. And from there
Speaker 5: I got involved with another team in Vegas and worked
Speaker 5: them for several years, and just one day it just
Speaker 5: came to me and you know, uh, you know, Pawn
Speaker 5: Explorers just popped in my head a purpose and I
Speaker 5: just need to just follow this and go with it,
Speaker 5: because I don't know, just something from it just pop
Speaker 5: popped up and I.
Speaker 2: Was just like something promise to tell me to go
Speaker 2: for it. And so I did. Uh, the crew got out.
Speaker 5: It's been awesome to me, you know, get them all
Speaker 5: involved and uh, places we've been going to and the
Speaker 5: places we're looking forward to going to, and it's just
Speaker 5: been awesome, awesome light so far.
Speaker 4: Let me ask you a question real quick and jump
Speaker 4: because you've already intrigued me when you say when I'm
Speaker 4: getting too specific, because I know you don't want to
Speaker 4: step on any toes when you say the politics of
Speaker 4: the other groups, give me an idea of what you're
Speaker 4: talking about when you say politics, because most of us
Speaker 4: out here won't have any clue because we've not been
Speaker 4: involved in anything like that.
Speaker 5: Well, I understand that, like each group needs to have
Speaker 5: structure and you know, and rulings to them. But when
Speaker 5: it got to a point to where there was there
Speaker 5: was just somebody was coming up with like a fifty
Speaker 5: eight page book and I'm not and I'm not joking
Speaker 5: about that. It was about fifty eight pages worth of
Speaker 5: ruling that.
Speaker 2: Need to be done.
Speaker 5: And and it's understandable that when you make a group
Speaker 5: that everyone.
Speaker 2: Should be able to understand, you know, what your role is,
Speaker 2: what you're.
Speaker 5: Supposed to do, you know, and as everyone starts coming
Speaker 5: together more of a family instead of friends. You know,
Speaker 5: you have each other's backs and there's no need to
Speaker 5: do all that nit picking and everything else like that.
Speaker 5: And so when it started getting to the point to
Speaker 5: where I was in a group, to where it was.
Speaker 2: Just like everything was.
Speaker 5: Just so rule oriented, it was just like, these rules
Speaker 5: are ruining the whole enjoyment of the process.
Speaker 2: That's that's what it was.
Speaker 5: I mean, it just wasn't too you know, I'm not
Speaker 5: saying that the Hunt Explorers are completely ruleless. I mean
Speaker 5: we still have, you know, rules that we tried to
Speaker 5: apply by you know, but it was just when it
Speaker 5: was get to that point to where it was just like,
Speaker 5: this isn't find anymore because the politics of it are
Speaker 5: just creating more disaster than anything, I mean, And so
Speaker 5: that's what I wanted.
Speaker 2: I just wanted to.
Speaker 5: Get back into the funt of investigating, and that's why
Speaker 5: I created the High Explorers.
Speaker 4: Could you give an example of some of the rules
Speaker 4: that you're talking about, just so we can't have a
Speaker 4: guideline of what you guys mean by rules as compared
Speaker 4: to what you do well.
Speaker 5: There was like if you missed like even one or
Speaker 5: two meetings you were automatically kicked out. I mean it's understandable,
Speaker 5: like if we all have our own personal lives. So
Speaker 5: I mean that's that's always been from the get go,
Speaker 5: from us start, and was the understanding that live, family, life, jobs,
Speaker 5: personal responsibilities. Those are always going to be number one.
Speaker 5: And then number two is when we can then we
Speaker 5: try to get together and we do an investigation. And
Speaker 5: if we all can get together, then some of us
Speaker 5: can get together go off and do an investigation. So
Speaker 5: we don't stick to just the whole team thing. It
Speaker 5: doesn't have to be one hundred percent team oriented. We
Speaker 5: can split off and all to do our own things
Speaker 5: under the Hunt Explorers and they come back together. Can
Speaker 5: we talk to that, you know, everyone, everyone talks to
Speaker 5: the team. We share our adventures, we share our stories,
Speaker 5: We post what we find on the internet, you know,
Speaker 5: on our website. You know, it's just it's just really
Speaker 5: just core function is just investigating.
Speaker 2: That's what we do.
Speaker 4: How do you get most of your investigations? Do you
Speaker 4: have a lot of people reaching out to you saying, hey,
Speaker 4: I feel like something's going on. Can you come out
Speaker 4: and take a look.
Speaker 5: That's part of it. And then the other part of
Speaker 5: it is just us trying to figure out where we
Speaker 5: can go, you know, aside from the fact a lot
Speaker 5: of places just constantly keep asking for tons of money,
Speaker 5: which is kind of hard, Like I said, from us,
Speaker 5: you know, from the number one thing that we try
Speaker 5: to do is you know that your family and job
Speaker 5: and you know, life comes first, you know, and then
Speaker 5: your finances come first.
Speaker 2: So it's so from there we had to plan out,
Speaker 2: you know, like.
Speaker 5: What where's the money going to take us to get
Speaker 5: to a place, you know, and how you know, and
Speaker 5: we try to make sure we've worked everything out.
Speaker 4: Okay, let me ask you this, So what's what What
Speaker 4: are some of you can just give me wonder you
Speaker 4: can give me a cup off, won't and make you
Speaker 4: narrow it down? What are some of the coolest places
Speaker 4: that you've been able to investigate that just stand out
Speaker 4: to you just.
Speaker 5: Getting invited to you know, our most recent we got
Speaker 5: invited to go do the Railroad cas.
Speaker 2: Casino, which was awesome.
Speaker 5: We were the first official group to you know, to
Speaker 5: officially investigate the place. You know, We've been to Mandali Bay,
Speaker 5: the Foundation Room. That was an amazing place. You didn't
Speaker 5: think that things would happen there, but we did get
Speaker 5: evidence there.
Speaker 4: You guys have some YouTube footage of that too, correct, Yes, okay,
Speaker 4: So how can people see that if they want to
Speaker 4: be able to see some of the footage of you guys,
Speaker 4: can you give your YouTube channel?
Speaker 5: Yeah, just go to YouTube dot com slash the haunt Explorers.
Speaker 4: Awesome. What about this? Let me ask you, so that's
Speaker 4: those are some of the coolest places. Let's talk about
Speaker 4: the Railroad Casino. I can't remember the exact name you
Speaker 4: gave to it. How it is that? Is that one
Speaker 4: of the real old casinos or is it a newer casino?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was one of the one of the first
Speaker 5: older casinos that was built.
Speaker 2: They kind of built it.
Speaker 5: I think it was back in the thirties, in the
Speaker 5: thirties when they were building the Hoover Dam. That is
Speaker 5: that casino is actually holding the number one business license
Speaker 5: in the state of.
Speaker 2: The bat Oh wow, we're talking like number wise.
Speaker 5: That was there was one prior to that, and I
Speaker 5: don't know the name of the casino off hand, but
Speaker 5: they they shut down and now Railroad Pass that is
Speaker 5: the actual number one holder.
Speaker 4: What is the reason that that the Hauntings are going
Speaker 4: on there is that they got like a mobster passed,
Speaker 4: or or what seemed to be the rumors that float
Speaker 4: around there.
Speaker 5: I think the biggest thing was it was built more
Speaker 5: or less for the Hoover Dam, so you had a
Speaker 5: lot of workers building the Boober Dam. So they needed
Speaker 5: a place to stay and eat and everything. So you
Speaker 5: had you had quite a bit of influx of the
Speaker 5: workers out there. You had some some Western people, there
Speaker 5: were some foreigners that stayed out there, but a lot
Speaker 5: of it was mainly built around that.
Speaker 4: So let me ask you this, that was the coolest place.
Speaker 4: What are some of the creepiest things you guys have seen,
Speaker 4: either as a group or individually during your time of
Speaker 4: doing this, anything just kind of jump out at you,
Speaker 4: so to speak.
Speaker 5: I think for me, I could say, like the previest
Speaker 5: thing I've ever walked into. You've probably seen it a
Speaker 5: lot of the clown hotel.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I'm not.
Speaker 5: Scared of clowns, but you know, you just walk into
Speaker 5: like a hotel and it's a whole bunch of clowns.
Speaker 2: So I just thought that was I don't know, it's
Speaker 2: not my type.
Speaker 5: Another clown person I'm okay with clowns not a clown
Speaker 5: hotel though.
Speaker 4: Is that? Is that a place that you guys got
Speaker 4: to investigate or just something that you just don't on
Speaker 4: your own just kind of ran into.
Speaker 5: That's actually located on Panavata and you know, we've seen
Speaker 5: it on TV a few times and we wanted to
Speaker 5: go at least check it out. I don't believe that's
Speaker 5: someplace I would investigate. You know, the options are still there.
Speaker 2: I think we would.
Speaker 5: We would still do that afre Hast, but something that's
Speaker 5: on the bucking List.
Speaker 2: I don't believe that was on pame No. But they
Speaker 2: have Degree Yard right next door to.
Speaker 4: So what about you other guys, you got anything that
Speaker 4: stands at you?
Speaker 5: I haven't like, Uh, what's the place called Aubert Hill
Speaker 5: in California?
Speaker 2: There?
Speaker 5: Oh the Albert Hill in Elementary school and Lake Elston,
Speaker 5: or California. Yeah, that was actually a good one for us.
Speaker 5: I actually, uh pretty much got touched. All I felt
Speaker 5: was this really ice cold like can And we actually
Speaker 5: had it on the camera when we saw the little
Speaker 5: fingerprints on my back. There's a video of it on
Speaker 5: on our YouTube page where we've we've gone at Albert
Speaker 5: Hill several times. And it's our second trip there. We
Speaker 5: were asking for the kids to come and go up
Speaker 5: to the chalkboard to do a.
Speaker 2: Little bit of homework assignment. And upon that time we.
Speaker 5: Were asking him, Uhd, Brod made like a like a
Speaker 5: oohs down, you know, and we looked over at him
Speaker 5: and he's like something just touched me or pushed me.
Speaker 2: And we lifted up his shirt and he has.
Speaker 5: Pretty much you can see the outline of the little
Speaker 5: child's hand on.
Speaker 2: His on his back.
Speaker 4: Oh, that is scary.
Speaker 2: It was a nice cold though. It wasn't like a
Speaker 2: hop deal in so I just didn't know what.
Speaker 5: It was for the moment there until they show showed
Speaker 5: it on camera. Who So that was pretty cool, having
Speaker 5: a handpin all like that.
Speaker 4: That's that's always. That's always the things that freaked me
Speaker 4: out the most. When you see the videos of of
Speaker 4: when you you feel something and you raise your shirt
Speaker 4: and there's a scratch or there's a handprint or something
Speaker 4: that those are the things that just make you feel
Speaker 4: like that something's evil in the room as opposed to
Speaker 4: something you know, just a regular ghost.
Speaker 2: Well, and when we've gone there, there's there's never been
Speaker 2: like anything that felt evil.
Speaker 5: But still on one on essence, there's like the local
Speaker 5: kids or whoeveryone I don't know who it is, or
Speaker 5: adults I've been doing like their own fake satanic stuff
Speaker 5: within the school, so who knows, you know, what they
Speaker 5: brought forward or you know, or summoned or you know.
Speaker 5: So there's been times that we were in there and
Speaker 5: there's been some really weird.
Speaker 2: Stuff that's happened, and it's.
Speaker 5: You don't know if it's accounted to something that's they
Speaker 5: did or you know, or maybe just residual haunting that's there.
Speaker 2: But you know, you always just try.
Speaker 5: To, you know, make sure you're you're you know, you're
Speaker 5: well protected when you're out there as well.
Speaker 2: Don't forget there's a lot of beats too in that place.
Speaker 4: Bats always make things much creepier.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got a quick question for each one of you,
Speaker 4: and we'll start with you Steven. Okay, if you can
Speaker 4: investigate any place in the world, money wasn't an object,
Speaker 4: you could just go and set up and investigate, what
Speaker 4: would the place be for you?
Speaker 5: Like one of the like one of my biggest places
Speaker 5: I'd love to get to is uh. I'm trying to
Speaker 5: think of what the name of this, it's an old supurriculo.
Speaker 5: Most is plenty, but it's what's what's that name on
Speaker 5: Waverley Hills, Yes, Weverly Hills. Yeah, there was no money,
Speaker 5: you know, money wasn't an option. I would love to
Speaker 5: just go to Waverley Hills and just spend the night there, just.
Speaker 2: Hanging out, investigating.
Speaker 5: It just just seems like that place and everyone's getting
Speaker 5: activity when they go there, and I would just it
Speaker 5: would be a dream for me.
Speaker 2: I mean that, or for Myrtle's plantation. I would just.
Speaker 5: You know, I had if somebody said, you know, you know,
Speaker 5: give give me your arm, I'll b I'll give you
Speaker 5: my arm so I can go to the place.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's that would be huge to go to
Speaker 2: the place.
Speaker 4: We've actually done shows on both of those, and as
Speaker 4: far as Waverley, I am sitting right now about an
Speaker 4: hour and ten minutes away from Waverley and used to
Speaker 4: live in Louisville where it's at, and I actually have
Speaker 4: spent the night in there.
Speaker 2: That's cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Wow, it's a I got some cool pictures I'll
Speaker 4: have to send to you guys from that we that
Speaker 4: I snapped up there. But uh, Yeah, it's a it's
Speaker 4: a really cool place. And uh actually if you listen
Speaker 4: to uh the podcast we did on Waverley, uh we
Speaker 4: actually uh actually got a little sexual activity going on
Speaker 4: up in there, so in the morgue, in the morgue.
Speaker 4: So a few people can say that. But so what
Speaker 4: about you, Tim, what is what's your one place if
Speaker 4: you had a choice?
Speaker 5: Well, I guess it's it's a toss between two of them.
Speaker 5: I will have to say Burl's Plantation. My wife who
Speaker 5: was also on a team, she's not here either. Everybody's
Speaker 5: at part except for.
Speaker 2: For of us. Brtle's Plantation is the biggest one.
Speaker 5: And also I want to go back to Australia where
Speaker 5: I did Mainland outs.
Speaker 4: That's interesting that one.
Speaker 5: That one I would I don't prefer I would rather
Speaker 5: go to just because the time that we went was
Speaker 5: during an Australian parathon and we kind of got you know,
Speaker 5: free rom of the prison, but it was kind of
Speaker 5: locked down between like fifty people, and firston I'd rather
Speaker 5: do them, but the final because that was a that
Speaker 5: is a pretty hot place there.
Speaker 4: See. That's I'm glad you brought that up because we
Speaker 4: actually have a lot of Australian listeners, and I've been
Speaker 4: trying to come up with some show ideas for some
Speaker 4: of our listeners overseas, and we're doing one next week
Speaker 4: on the Japanese Forest for our Japanese listeners, and then
Speaker 4: we're going to do one in Australia. And I've got
Speaker 4: a couple of our listeners that were coming up with ideas.
Speaker 4: But that sounds like a pretty cool idea on a
Speaker 4: show by itself. Oh yeah, definitely, all right, Last, but
Speaker 4: not least, Mrad what's your place?
Speaker 2: Actually, you actually said it.
Speaker 5: It was in Japan with a haunted for us and
Speaker 5: one of the main places that I would always love to go,
Speaker 5: Nakotomy as I didn't know what is the name.
Speaker 2: I've seen it a few times.
Speaker 5: I can't think of the name of it, but it's
Speaker 5: the forest that the suicide force. Yeah, suicide Forest, that's
Speaker 5: the name, okay, and then Getty's birth, I know, the
Speaker 5: whole suicide forest thing. You might go in and not
Speaker 5: come out.
Speaker 4: It's funny when you get to when you can get
Speaker 4: a microphone in front of you and talk to people
Speaker 4: all over the world. I put something on our Facebook
Speaker 4: page about doing a show next week about the Suicide Forest.
Speaker 4: I get a listener from Australia send me a message
Speaker 4: and say that her brother has actually been there and
Speaker 4: was telling me things about this that I won't go
Speaker 4: into detail about because she told it to me in private.
Speaker 4: But how cool is it that you can put something
Speaker 4: on Facebook and fifteen minutes later you got a listener
Speaker 4: halfway across the world talking about she's got a relative
Speaker 4: that's been there, and then giving you details by a place.
Speaker 4: It's just it's unbelievable what the Internet is able to
Speaker 4: do for people.
Speaker 2: Now, that's amazing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, guys, I appreciate you giving me some time today.
Speaker 4: I know all of us have busy lives and we'd
Speaker 4: all love to be able to just do this for
Speaker 4: a living and not be able to do regular jobs,
Speaker 4: but we know that's not reality for most of us. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but that that does bring up an interesting question though,
Speaker 4: a lot of people see the big ghost hunter shows
Speaker 4: on TV and we all know the names. I'm not
Speaker 4: gonna throw all the names out there, but you see
Speaker 4: all of them, what do you guys know about that lifestyle?
Speaker 4: I mean, these guys, for the most part, most of
Speaker 4: them still have regular jobs and stuff. Just the same
Speaker 4: as you do, am I correct.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: A big thing with all those shows, you know they're
Speaker 5: they're doing like most other paranormal investigators would do, is
Speaker 5: they're spending you know, hours upon days, you know, investigating
Speaker 5: a place because everybody knows you just can't walk them
Speaker 5: into a place and get something.
Speaker 2: And it's not everything's on command. I will tell you though, too,
Speaker 2: it's no as well as I do.
Speaker 5: It's a lot of it's all holiday, so most of
Speaker 5: the stuff you will see on there is probably not really.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we we had that situation. Like I said, I
Speaker 4: was tied in close with a lot of the Louisville
Speaker 4: stuff and like Waverley when Ghost Hunters came there and
Speaker 4: did their show, I mean it was it was common
Speaker 4: knowledge that some of that stuff was set up. And
Speaker 4: it kind of sucks. And to be honest with you,
Speaker 4: and it's not against anybody, because I love what you
Speaker 4: guys do, and I love what people go out and do.
Speaker 4: I just have a hard time watching those shows. And
Speaker 4: I used to love those shows, but you know now
Speaker 4: it just seems like they're more theatrics than they are
Speaker 4: of reality. And it's like you said, you know, some
Speaker 4: of these shows are twenty four hours and some of
Speaker 4: them are they stay for forty eight hours and what.
Speaker 4: But you know, it's like you said, how much can
Speaker 4: you really get to really prove anything in that time?
Speaker 4: And it's just amazing somebody can walk in spend a
Speaker 4: night and they got all this stuff on tape and
Speaker 4: I don't know, it's just it really is hard to believe.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to say it's all fake because I don't.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to say that just because that's not
Speaker 4: fair to them of any of these shows, but it
Speaker 4: is kind of hard to believe you can just walk in,
Speaker 4: spend one night and get all this footage enough to
Speaker 4: make a whole show. And it's just you know, I've
Speaker 4: seen enough to where I know that's not necessarily how
Speaker 4: things work.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean you're right about that. But you know,
Speaker 5: some of these shows that if they spend you know,
Speaker 5: with there too, and sometimes they may film for a
Speaker 5: week just to get all that footage. You know, some
Speaker 5: days you may not have with any activity. I mean
Speaker 5: some other days you may just have way too much
Speaker 5: activity that you know, all you can do is just
Speaker 5: squeeze it in for thirty minutes, I mean, for what
Speaker 5: we do. We've got a bunch of places where we've
Speaker 5: had no activity at all, and when we go back
Speaker 5: three months a year later, all kinds of activities have.
Speaker 2: So yeah, you do have to throw in things for your.
Speaker 4: Wait, it's amazing, but you know you're right. I mean,
Speaker 4: it's it's hit or miss most of the time. So, guys,
Speaker 4: tell my listeners out there how they can get in
Speaker 4: touch with you, how they can follow you. I know
Speaker 4: you've got a bunch of social media. What's the best
Speaker 4: way to get a hold of you, guys?
Speaker 5: The best way We have our website, the Haunted Explorers
Speaker 5: dot or. Once you go to that age, all of
Speaker 5: the links to our social media is on the top
Speaker 5: right hand site. So we have Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube,
Speaker 5: got the YouTube.
Speaker 2: We also have a store on there.
Speaker 5: We've got an offline store, so if they want to
Speaker 5: pick up any shirts, they've got that as well. They
Speaker 5: can send us by by email, which is info at
Speaker 5: the Huntredexplorers dot Org. Another way to get a hold
Speaker 5: of us. Another thing we do want to put out there.
Speaker 5: We don't do any home investigations. It's very rare that
Speaker 5: we do them. And if we were to do a
Speaker 5: home investigation. It's typically only for like somebody close because
Speaker 5: too much liability. It's it's kind of too much time
Speaker 5: to work with somebody trying to find out for if
Speaker 5: they're loony or if it's a real thing that's happening
Speaker 5: and it's just something we're not currently interested in right now.
Speaker 4: I can definitely understand that. I mean, it's it's uh,
Speaker 4: there's a lot of people out there with a lot
Speaker 4: of loose, loose heads, we'll say, and you can't always
Speaker 4: believe everything that's going on. It's it's a sad world
Speaker 4: we live in unfortunately. Yeah, guys, thank you so much
Speaker 4: for being on the show. And uh, I know my
Speaker 4: listeners are gonna love hearing from you and I appreciate
Speaker 4: it and I'll definitely keep following you guys.
Speaker 2: Awesome, thank you for having us. Don't forget to subscribe
Speaker 2: and like this on YouTube.
Speaker 4: Absolutely everybody go out there. Remember just google the Haunted Explorers.
Speaker 4: I know when you google it, most of that stuff,
Speaker 4: including the YouTube stuff shows up. So and they do
Speaker 4: got a pretty cool looking logo, so I'm sure their
Speaker 4: their merchants are actually pretty damn cool too. Thank you
Speaker 4: guys so much, and be looking forward talking to you
Speaker 4: in the future.
Speaker 2: All right, very much?
Speaker 4: All right, So those were the Haunted Explorers. Like I said,
Speaker 4: we'll probably hear from those guys down the road. We
Speaker 4: wanted to read a story now this is I saved
Speaker 4: this one for last because this is actually pretty cool.
Speaker 4: Josh Hopkins Hoskins, not the guy from Cougar Town's Josh Hopkins.
Speaker 4: Joshua Hoskins from Portland, Michigan sent us this and he's
Speaker 4: you know, basically, I'll let his words do the speaking
Speaker 4: on it. He said, Hey, guys, my name is josh
Speaker 4: and I found you about two weeks ago. I listen
Speaker 4: to you every day while I'm working. I don't normally
Speaker 4: send messages, but I listened to your sleep paralysis episode
Speaker 4: last night and actually had an incident. I've had several
Speaker 4: times four but this one was a little bit different.
Speaker 4: When I have an episode, that's usually I can't move
Speaker 4: anything and I feel a way, but I'm watching myself
Speaker 4: sleep from the side and a black mass floating over
Speaker 4: top of me, and sometimes I see a smile looking
Speaker 4: down at me at as I'm sleeping or awake, with
Speaker 4: a grip over my mouth so I can't move my mouth.
Speaker 4: Last night, it was different altogether. It was me sleeping,
Speaker 4: then feeling the heavy pressure of my whole body and
Speaker 4: unable to move anything, but I could open my eyes.
Speaker 4: I did, and I was looking directly into the eyes
Speaker 4: of the black mass, and again the hand over my
Speaker 4: mouth to speak. I saw the smile and it seemed
Speaker 4: to last forever. All of a sudden, I hear you
Speaker 4: leave him alone. It was not my voice. As I
Speaker 4: looked to my left, I saw a board or something
Speaker 4: swing towards the mass. I felt a strange sensation on
Speaker 4: my nose, and the mass struck and dissipated. I felt free,
Speaker 4: and I woke up, got my bearings and was like, okay,
Speaker 4: that was a new one. Well, here is something that
Speaker 4: really put this over the top. I felt my nose
Speaker 4: start running really fast, so I ran for a tissue
Speaker 4: in the bathroom and looked in the mirror and it
Speaker 4: was bleeding all over the place. I thought dry air
Speaker 4: or something, but I could not get it to stop.
Speaker 4: I kept putting the tissue in and it just wouldn't
Speaker 4: kept going. Anytime that it did stop, it would start
Speaker 4: right back up again as soon as I dozed off.
Speaker 4: This continued all night until the sun came up and
Speaker 4: it just stopped right when I said out loud, I'm
Speaker 4: going to the hospital now again. I've had several episodes
Speaker 4: with sleep paralysis since high school, and if the nose
Speaker 4: bleeding hadn't happened, I wouldn't have given it a second thought.
Speaker 4: This afternoon, I remembered hearing your episode yesterday and I thought,
Speaker 4: what the hell, I'll see what he says. So thank
Speaker 4: you for your time, and I hope I didn't ramble
Speaker 4: too much. I love your show and I'm a bald
Speaker 4: man too, so we have that in common. The struggle
Speaker 4: is real to y'all, and if y'all know having any questions,
Speaker 4: feel free to reach me. Josh, Josh, that is one
Speaker 4: screwed up story.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I can't. I cannot even imagine what you must
Speaker 3: go through. I mean, if it's happened all these years, well,
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't even know what to say
Speaker 3: about that. I just I want to say I feel
Speaker 3: bad for you because I can't imagine going through that
Speaker 3: and you, I mean, you really don't know what to
Speaker 3: expect next.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it does sound like you have a
Speaker 4: guardian angel, though, so that's a positive.
Speaker 3: That's very true.
Speaker 4: That's if you want my advice, that's what it sounds like.
Speaker 4: I would say, somebody's kind of looking over you, and
Speaker 4: that would explain the board or something flying. That would
Speaker 4: also explain, you know, the voice that wasn't yours telling
Speaker 4: you to leave you alone. So I think that's pretty cool.
Speaker 4: So I think you're probably in pretty good shape.
Speaker 3: Let's let's hope for no more incidents than get any
Speaker 3: worse than that. But I'm like Jerry, I think you
Speaker 3: have a guardian angel looking over you. And thanks for
Speaker 3: sharing that story with the because that's pretty crazy.
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