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Ep 156 – Stay Spooky
Haunted Hospitality - April 02, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsWe wanted to call this episode "Stay Sh!tty" but we were worried about the censorship of the word. This week we talk about the past bathroom stories we've covered in previous haunted locations. It's also...the end. Thank you so much for joining Haunted Hospitality, Robin, and Zoey as they tr...
Ep 155 – From the Patreon: Annabelle
Haunted Hospitality - March 26, 2024 08:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThis episode, we’re venturing outside of the South to discuss Annabelle, possibly the world’s most famous haunted doll story. In the Conjuring movies, Annabelle is a tall, porcelain-esque doll with an angry, vengeful expression. She is possessed by a demon and, to say the least, exhibits some vi...
Ep 154 - A Very Haunted St Patrick's Day in New Orleans
Haunted Hospitality - March 19, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsWe hope you aren't done drinking from the St. Patrick's Day weekend (if you're 21 or over) because we have a new way to celebrate, and this includes two types of spirits! Zoey takes us to Pat O'Briens, mostly in New Orleans but partially in The Alamo. The bar is the Irish pub that many go to, to...
Ep 153 – The Girl Dinner of Ghost Stories
Haunted Hospitality - March 12, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThe USS Lexington, AKA the Blue Ghost, is an aircraft carrier that first entered into service in 1943 during World War II. She, and the approximately 3,000 people who lived and worked on her during the war, were primarily in the Pacific. There, the ship was attacked but never sank — despite clai...
Ep 152 - The Not-Cursed Poinsett Bridge and the Not-Haunted Gosnell Cabin
Haunted Hospitality - March 05, 2024 09:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThe Poinsett Bridge is the oldest bridge in South Carolina and debatably the oldest bridge in the entire South Eastern United States. It was built in 1820 as a part of the state road from Charleston and Columbia to the North Carolinian mountains. It was named after the president of the Board of ...
Ep 151 – Tales of the Altamaha-ha
Haunted Hospitality - February 27, 2024 09:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsWhile traveling on family vacations to the Golden Isles while she was growing up, co-host Robin would peer out of the car window into the gray waters of Georgia’s Altamaha River — searching for the Altamaha-ha. A long, scaly, aquatic cryptid with an alligator-like head that parascopes above the ...
Ep 150 - Flight 19 and the Bermuda Triangle
Haunted Hospitality - February 20, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThis episode is not for those planning to fly out for spring break, because we're off the coast of Florida, in the Florida Keys, and we're going to talk about the mystery of Flight 19. This mystery claimed the lives of 27 men and made 6 planes go missing. The flight of trainee navy pilots took o...
Ep 149 – A Puzzling Sculpture
Haunted Hospitality - February 13, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThis episode’s subject is not paranormal. It’s not true crime. And it’s not folklore. But it is a mystery — and a puzzling one at that. Installed at the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, Kryptos is a sculpture designed by artist Jim Sanborn with four encrypted messages. In the approximatel...
Ep 148 - A Tour of Haunted Kentucky Cemeteries
Haunted Hospitality - February 06, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThis week Zoey has a new genre of Haunted Hospitality episodes: a Hunted Cemetery Tour. This first episode focuses on Kentucky! Our first cemetery is the witch filled Wynns Cemetery, which Zoey did a bit of a deep dive on. The second one is Pikeville Cemetery, where a woman was allegedly buried...
Ep 147 – The Dock Street Theatre (We Love Nettie)
Haunted Hospitality - January 30, 2024 09:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsFounded in 1736, the Dock Street Theatre in Charleston, South Carolina, was the first building on the continent solely for theatrical performances before it likely burnt down in the Great Fire of 1740. The Calder House Hotel — later named the Planter's Hotel — was built at or near the theatre's ...
Ep 146 - The Gruesome Sloss Furnaces
Haunted Hospitality - January 23, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThis week's episode isn't for the faint of heart. Zoey brings us the bloody history of The Sloss Furnaces, a national historic landmark in Birmingham, Alabama that once produced iron. The town of Birmingham was built almost overnight when Colonel James Withers Sloss, a merchant and railroad man,...
Ep 145 – The Queen of the Gulf
Haunted Hospitality - January 16, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThe Grand Galvez (also known as the Queen of the Gulf) has stood by the Galveston, Texas shore for over one hundred years, hosting weddings, swimsuit contests, and tourists visiting the Gulf of Mexico. During that time, ghost stories have collected around the building, with some calling it the m...
Ep 144 - Did Grandpa Make the Bigfoot?
Haunted Hospitality - January 09, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsZoey decided to go big for their first episode of the new year, and they're covering The Bigfoot! It's about damn time, as Robin says. Bigfoot, or Sasquatch is a big, hairy, stinky man who has a foot that spans 24 inches. To put that into prospective, since Zoey did the math, Bigfoot would wear ...
Ep 143 – The Witching Hour
Haunted Hospitality - January 02, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsYou may know it as the Witching Hour, the Devil's Hour, or simply 3 a.m. No matter which you call it, the hour between 3 and 4 o'clock in the morning is known for being a time when things go bump in the night. There's a wide range of theories for this phenomenon: from this being when the veil is...
Ep 142 - An Introduction to the Men in Black
Haunted Hospitality - December 26, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsRobin and Zoey are celebrating the end of the year with booze, presents, and a deep dive into the conspiracy theory of the Men In Black! You may know them from the movie, Men in Black, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith that came out in 1997, the same year as your hosts. These are men who w...
Ep 141: The Life and Death of Simon Warner
Haunted Hospitality - December 19, 2023 09:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsPeople would ask Simon Warner just about anything: where they might find their lost guitar, whether or not they should divorce their husbands, if their parents might reunite. They would stare at the crystal ball in his bungalow in Shelbyville, Tennessee, give him honest answers to his questions....
Ep 140 - Haunted Boozy Places Part 4: Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop
Haunted Hospitality - December 12, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsIt's time to go to Zoey's favorite city: New Orleans, Louisiana! We're visiting Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop in the French Quarter. While the shop did originate as a Blacksmith Shop and keeps the name, the shop is better known for the drinks that they can make you. That's right, here's another Hau...
Ep 139: Frights in the Wild 4: The Stranger on the Stairs
Haunted Hospitality - December 05, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsWe're back with another episode of our Frights in the Wild series, where we discuss first-person accounts of paranormal or otherwise spooky wilderness experiences from the web! Today's stories involve: 1) a young girl trying to find her way home in the woods, when she hears footsteps following h...
Thanksgiving Break
Haunted Hospitality - November 28, 2023 09:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsHello everyone! It's been a HOT minute since Robin and Zoey have had a break from researching, recording, editing, and posting a Haunted Hospitality episode. I'm sure we'll tell you all about it in our next how's life section, but life got busy there for a while around the Thanksgiving Holiday....
Ep 138 - The Psychic Capital of the World
Haunted Hospitality - November 21, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsCassadaga, Florida is an unincorporated community in Volusia County, which is on the east coast of Florida. Cassadaga was founded by well known "Seer of Spiritualism" George P Colby. George was a trance medium, meaning he would conduct seances with the dead by going into a trance and allowing a ...
Ep 137 – Bonnie & Clyde
Haunted Hospitality - November 14, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsYou've likely heard of the outlaws Bonnie and Clyde, but can you name one thing about them? When Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker met in 1930, they were two young adults from families struggling with poverty in Depression-era Texas. Already committing crimes, Clyde was soon incarcerated for vehicl...
Ep 136 - Samuel Mason, Founder of the Mason Gang
Haunted Hospitality - November 07, 2023 09:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsIn this week's episode, Zoey finally fulfills a promise they made in May of 2021, Episode 8. In that episode, they covered the first serial killers in the United States, the Harpe Brothers. The brothers occasionally worked closely with the Mason Gang and it's leader, Samuel Mason. Zoey promised ...
Ep 135 – The Apparitions in the Tavern
Haunted Hospitality - October 31, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsIn this installment of our Haunted Boozy Places series, we're covering a Tudor-style tavern on Florida's Atlantic coast. Known today as Ashley's Restaurant and Bar, the establishment first opened as Jack's Tavern shortly after the Prohibition era. Folks have long reported paranormal experiences ...
Ep 134 - He Stole my Catalytic Converter - Origin of the Moth Man
Haunted Hospitality - October 24, 2023 08:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsYou know him, you love him, you want to date him: Moth Man. This week Zoey talks about the Origin of Moth Man who we're technically including in the South since he was seen in the Appalachian Mountains. First seen in 1966, the cryptid was six or seven feet tall, light gray, had a wing span of 10...
Ep 133 – The Place d'Armes Hotel
Haunted Hospitality - October 17, 2023 08:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThe Place d'Armes Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, is regularly listed among the most haunted hotels in the city. A quick internet search will tell you that a school burned down on the property over 200 years ago and the ghosts of the children who died in the fire now roam its halls. Luckily for...
Ep 132 - The Goat Man's Neighbor: Donkey Lady Bridge
Haunted Hospitality - October 10, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsZoey brings us back to San Antonio, Texas for another haunted story. You've heard of The Goat Man Bridge in Denton, now get ready for the Donkey Lady Bridge! This bridge has a very similar set up: a bridge, a farm animal themed ghost, and a tragic backstory. This ghost is a woman who had a don...
Ep 131 – Frights in the Backcountry 2: Laughter, Voices, and Dirt Roads
Haunted Hospitality - October 03, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsFor the second installment of our Frights in the Backcountry series, we're exploring four stories of paranormal experiences in rural areas. The macabre sighting of a ghost family covered in blood, a mad dash to get away from disembodied laughter, a cup of coffee that ages way too quickly, and a ...
Ep 130 - The Deaths of Glenn Turner and Randy Thompson
Haunted Hospitality - September 26, 2023 08:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsToday's episode is a true crime story of Glenn Turner, Randy Thompson, and the woman who connects them, Lynn Turner. Lynn and Glenn were married less than a year after meeting. Glenn worshiped the ground Lynn walked on, doted on her hand and foot, and loved her with all his heart. Lynn cheated ...
Ep 129 – The Handprints in the Holloway
Haunted Hospitality - September 19, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsWe talk a lot about old buildings on this podcast, but what about old roads? Stagecoach Road in Marshall, Texas has been around since 1850, when it was first used as a pathway for — you guessed it — stagecoaches. Never paved, and surrounded by trees and steep banks, Stagecoach Road feels set apa...
Ep 128 - To plea or Not to Plea: the Origin and History of the Alford Plea
Haunted Hospitality - September 12, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThis week's episode is eerily like last week's, and we didn't plan it at all. Today Zoey is going to hold your hand, whisper assuring words, and give you the treat of a bad joke every now and then as we navigate a complex legal decision together. Don't be afraid, Zoey's here to guide you. They...
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