We 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 traveled on this three year journey, but the sun has set on …

This 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 violent tendencies. And while the actual Annabelle is a …

We 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 celebrate Mardis Gras, St. Patrick's Day, and Hallowe…

The 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 claims to the contrary. Now, she's stationed in the bay of…

The 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 Public Works, Joel Poinsett, and may have been designe…

While 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 water’s surface, the Altamaha-ha is rumored to swim so…

This 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 off from Ft. Lauderdale on Dec 5, 1945 to do a routine …

This 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 approximately 33 years since the sculpture’s unveiling, only three …

This 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 alive. The third is the large and beautiful Cave Hill …

Founded 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 original location in 1809. Many passed through the hot…

This 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, convinced he L&N Railroad company to merge the North …

The 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 most haunted hotel in the state. In this episode, we di…

Zoey 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 a men's size 50 to 56 shoe. In this episode, Zoey dive…

You 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 thinnest, to the idea that demonic forces are at play…

Robin 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 wear all black, and usually sunglasses, whose raison d'…

People 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. And, in turn, he would give his advice: determined by…

It'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 Haunted Boozy Place! The Blacksmith Shop wasn't just any s…

We'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 her; 2) a man about to go to sleep beside his girlfrien…

Hello 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. So we're taking a break this week, and we're sharing a…

Cassadaga, 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 spirit to speak through his body. He formed relationsh…

You'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 vehicle theft. The two wrote to each other often while he wa…

In 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 back then that she'd cover Samuel Mason one day, and t…

In 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 in the building. Lights will turn on and off. People w…

You 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 feet, and red eyes glowing in the headlights about tw…

The 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 the kids, it looks like the school didn't burn down a…

Zoey 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 donkey in life and looked like a donkey in death. Depending…

For 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 voice that shouldn't be possible on the other end of t…

Today'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 on Glenn, was abusive and controlling, and spent all th…

We 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 apart from much of the world today: wilder, or a window i…

This 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 won't let you get lost. Okay, maybe we're exaggerating.…

James Chaney and Michael Schwerner spent the first six months of 1964 working together to increase voter registration among Black residents in Mississippi. This was a major goal of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) — which they both worked for — and the Civil Rights Movement as a whole. That year, they organized a voter registration hub at the…

Finishing up the third season of our Haunted College Tour Palooza, Zoey brings us an extra-long episode to talk about the many haunted buildings of the University of Montevallo. Along with the typical southern history of the civil war and enslavement, this school has a history of violence and death paired with a rural, historic college that brings …

On this stop of Haunted Hospitality's annual haunted college tour, we're going to the University of Georgia! Founded in Athens, Georgia in 1795, UGA is a public university with a very famous bulldog, over 30,000 students, and some spooky stories. Expect sightings of a historically inaccurate bride who brings with her either a blessing or a curse, a…

Continuing on the Haunted College Train, Zoey brings us Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. This school may be small with a student body of about 800, but it has plenty of ghosts to go around. We have the helpful Eliza(Beth) in the theater workshop who helps you find lost items, a friendly nurse ghost in Swannanoa Hall who will check your temp…

For the second episode in this year's installment of our Haunted! College! Tour! Palooza!, we're taking you on a ghost tour of East Tennessee State University. Founded in 1911, ETSU has no shortage of campus lore. Expect stories of an invisible young boy playing with marbles, a stained glass ghost that now haunts the university's radio station, an …

That's right!! It's here!!!! For newcomers, every August, Zoey and Robin do what they call the "Haunted! College! Tour! Palooza!" where they cover a college or two in every episode. Their goal? To scare incoming freshmen! This year, Zoey kicks it off with Clemson University in Clemson, SC, the rival to USC - where Robin and Zoey both went to colleg…

Some stories of hauntings are isolated — old houses, barns, that kind of thing — and some are public: hotels, theme parks, tourists attractions, etc. If someone were to tell you about their own isolated haunting, which perhaps only their family experienced, you would have to base your assessment on how much you trusted that one person. Do you trust…

It's Robin's Birthday week! So Zoey went to Reddit and found four Frights in the City stories to share with everyone this week. The first story is about a woman who went to New Orleans on their Baby-moon and they had two spooky experience. The second story is a group of friends who saw a street that didn't normally exist and a woman with backwards …

For years, the Tennessee Children's Home Society had a sparkling reputation — a private adoption organization that went largely unregulated with the backing of wealthy and grateful adoptive parents, as well as Georgia Tann's relationships with high-ranking members of Memphis' political and societal landscape. But over time, people grew suspicious a…

In this week's episode, Zoey brings us a story you probably haven't heard before. Zoey knows about it through a personal connection, and she'd like to share the story of Walt Davis, a man who was giving to a fault. Walt was driving home one day when he saw a young homeless man named Daniel walking on the side of the road. Walt pulled over and learn…

Most of the time, the Earth works as it should. Water can be counted upon to rise, mist, and fall again when heavy. We get variations of this, of course: fog, snow, and hail, for example. But for the most part, the cycle is quite normal — except when it really, really isn't. In this episode, we explore two specific cases of odd precipitation: North…

We've covered the Emily Morgan Hotel, the Alamo, and now, the Menger Hotel. This hotel is estimated by experts to be home to 32 to 45 ghosts including, but not limited to, Teddy Roosevelt, Sallie the Chambermaid, Captain Richard King the Cow Baron, a lady in white, and a few kids running around. It's to be expected, with a long history of renovatio…

Welcome to the first installment of a new ongoing series: Frights in the Backcountry. We hunt the interwebs for personal accounts of spooky encounters and eerie events in rural areas of the American South. Think: backroads, small towns, and abandoned buildings. In this episode, we dive into four stories of encounters with the paranormal, including:…

Every so often, we get a case where you just look at it and say, "That can't be true." Not because the murder is so gruesome, or the killer is so stupid, but because the police haven't seemed to do their job properly. This is one of those cases. Holly Bobo, a sweet but shy young woman, was seen arguing with a man and then walking into the woods wit…

Vampires — they can't live with us, and they can't live without us. Because they're undead! Throughout history, different cultures have developed their own conceptions of vampires: how they originate and their potential to inflict pain upon the living. Whether sparkly, lurking down darkened alleyways, or menacingly chewing underground, vampires ten…

Have you ever been to one of those "haunted" houses with the actors that jump out at you? How about one where they were allowed to touch you? Ever want to experience it for real? Then head over to the Old Jail in St. Augustine, Florida. A project funded by none other then Henry Flagler to make the prison less scary looking to tourists, the Old Jail…

We're going full haunted house in this episode! The McRaven House in Vicksburg, Mississippi is old — very, very old. Its first two rooms were built over 200 years ago in 1797, with the rest of the house to follow in the years 1836 and 1849. Today, you can find it just off the end of a residential road, surrounded by trees and foliage that once loom…

In this week's episode, Zoey shares the case of Pamela Shelley, a woman from Ashdown, Arkansas. Pamela was found, shot, in her boyfriend's Texas home in 2001 after getting in an argument with her boyfriend, Ronnie. Pam and her two kids were set to move back to Arkansas with her first husband and the father of her children that same day due to frict…

By all accounts, July 4, 1965 was a fairly normal night for Madison and Marrs Cawein. They went out with their friends for Independence Day, and after some drinking and revelry, Marrs decided to turn in while Madison decided to stay out longer. She got back home around midnight, greeted the babysitter, and had a nightcap with the friend who drove h…

On Tuesday, August 19, 1952 around 11 pm Scoutmaster Sonny DesVergers was taking three Boy Scouts home after an event. They were driving on a road near West Palm Beach, Florida when they saw a bright light flash on a road called Military Trail. Being the proper Scoutmaster he was, Sonny decided to pull over and head towards the light, thinking that…