Latest / PNW Haunts & Homicides / Nevada City, California: A Ghostly Gold Rush Town
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- 0:00It made me think like what if every time we're searching for something like a piece of our soul like breaks off and just is like eternally searching for that thing?
- 0:13Okay then how do I have any soul left?
- 0:16Do you?
- 0:20It's like a whore crocs every time like a piece of your soul right? God, you guys! I have no soul left just based on the number of times I couldn't find my keys.
- 0:32Hi Caitlyn. Hi Cassie. Hi creepy people. Hello!
- 0:46If you're new to our creepy corner of the world, this is PNW Haunts and Homicides where we chat about true crime, the paranormal, and all things spooky in the Pacific Northwest.
- 0:58The PNW. If you're nasty.
- 1:01We're so nasty.
- 1:04We're... yeah, we are that.
- 1:07You know what else is nasty? Well, doing tarot readings.
- 1:11Oh right. I mean some people think.
- 1:15And we just happen to do this in every episode for a little deeper insight into our topic.
- 1:20Until that's made of federal crime.
- 1:24Which, you know, which...
- 1:27The way things are going.
- 1:31Any who...
- 1:33Yeah, we're gonna try to keep the good energy going with this episode, but you know the world's crazy right now.
- 1:38And yeah, we found out some fun things today, so we're here.
- 1:44So indeed, I'm hoping that something stronger than coffee.
- 1:48It is a watermelon white claw.
- 1:52Ooh.
- 1:54I took your advice and I got a brown sugar cortato this morning.
- 2:00Oh my god, did you love it?
- 2:02Oh, so good. So good.
- 2:05It is good. Absolutely addicting and I hate that I'm addicted to it.
- 2:09It's life-altering. I feel as though it's the only thing keeping me sane.
- 2:14I mean, well, and you know this.
- 2:17But yeah, I'm using a coffee mug because I'm classy.
- 2:19Classy-cassy.
- 2:21I also have something cool to show you that my aunt got me for Christmas.
- 2:26Well, I guess technically kind of us.
- 2:30She put our little faces and logo on a wine bottle.
- 2:36It's just so cute.
- 2:38That's amazing.
- 2:40So we do have some Patreon shout outs.
- 2:43Yeah, we do.
- 2:44We have three of the creepy people tier, which is the $1 tier.
- 2:51We have, oh, I'm sorry, four. We have four.
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- 2:56We have Jan, Ann-Marie, Patience and Marie.
- 3:02And Marie.
- 3:03not Ann-Marie! We have an Ann Marie and a Marie. An. We have an An, a N, a Panned. The N is silent. Yes, exactly. Yeah, so Jan, I mean, Jan, did you, Jan did you join in Jan January?
- 3:24Let's check. No, it was December, but close enough. Close enough. We're close enough. You know what? We're counting it. And then I know we talked about patience kind of got a little too shout out.
- 3:38Because we talked about them because we were just, I don't, we were doing a terror reading that like just kept saying patience.
- 3:45Yes, that's right. I totally forgot about that, but you're right. Yeah, we kind of she got like a pre shout out. And then Marie, smarty pants that she is. I don't know if, and I'm assuming gender here. So oopsies.
- 4:00But smarty pants that they are signed up in like the last 24 hours, which is that's how you get your shout out sooner. You subscribe on a Friday or like bright and early Saturday morning.
- 4:14And then it's more likely that we're going to put your name in for the shout out as we record on Saturday. Right? That's true.
- 4:23Well, who knows? Well, insider tip. Well, should we get into this episode? But I have. I guess so might be a spooky one. We don't know yet.
- 4:37I really like my newly developed like how many scoots system. I think that came about just pretty recently. Like how many legs do I need to have up in the chair. So like, do you want to give it a rating or this one might be like a two or three scooter.
- 4:58Okay. So I mean, I'm not sure we haven't established the highest ranking yet, but I feel like we don't need to yet until we get there. But I'm going to call this a two or three. So like pretty mild pretty mild.
- 5:12Oh, okay. We're calling two or three pretty mild because I feel like last last time you said like one and a half. It was a one. No, it was like a one one. Okay. Yeah. And you did a one. You did a one scoop. So.
- 5:25Okay. I feel like today already feels like a three scoop just before you even start. So yeah. All right. All right. Well, let's get going. All right.
- 5:38Today we're talking about Nevada city, California. So it's a little bit of a trickery there. Yeah, that's not confusing at all. She's like Nevada.
- 5:50That's not P and W. I mean, we'll take her. But it is in northern California. So technically it is specific Northwest. We think it's about an hour northeast of Sacramento. Okay. Okay.
- 6:06You know what's really funny. You remember last time I was like Damascus. It's yeah, it's Northwest, Northwest Southwest Southwest, deportment. I kept saying Southwest and I looked at the fucking map. And I was like, yeah, Southwest, Southwest. It was totally Southeast. Oh, no.
- 6:27I was like, my brain was just doing that left right thing where it's like I'm left like very confidently. But like I mean, right. So yeah, no, I mean, I don't like there. Yeah. Perfect. The magic editing.
- 6:41And I was like, Taylin, please cut this out. So I don't look like an idiot. But this time I'm confident it is Northeast of Sacramento. It's in the Sierra Nevada mountain range.
- 6:53And did you know that Nevada means snow covered in Spanish? Really? Yeah. That is not weird. Yes, because that's not an association that I make with Nevada. Not at all. Not at all. But like it does make sense with this because Sierra Nevada means like snow covered mountain range.
- 7:14Okay. So they just named the state Nevada wrong. That's all. Yeah, I would say the town got its first settlers in 1849. And many, many more after that because it was the gold rush days.
- 7:31Everyone is rushing to the West. To pan for gold. Some even got their via the same pass as the Donner party. No, no.
- 7:41So like it was not easy to get there, you know, I'm scooting. I'm not going to talk anymore about that because that's like for some reason it makes me so sad. And they were like they had some pictures. Yeah.
- 7:54It's so awful. And even just like I had never seen really pictures of the Donner pass. And like I come across them. And I just like looked at it and just got like so sad. Well, yeah. I just like felt it. Like how awful.
- 8:09I mean, yeah, there's not a lot of things that you can imagine that are worse than some of that. Anyway, it's moving on.
- 8:20I got really cold. I mean, need to grab a blanky. So even though it's like kind of hard to get there, everyone had to kind of migrate and a great travel really, really far.
- 8:31It was the best mining town in California. So everyone wanted to be there.
- 8:35I feel like that saying something at that point. Yeah, right. Because there was a lot of them.
- 8:40Oh, yeah. I think really all throughout the Pacific Northwest. California was definitely like the hotbed.
- 8:48I came across an interesting tidbit. And this is the one I was kind of like hinting at to you with our conversation.
- 8:56I was like, three recording Northern California had a four in minors tax. And this was because a lot of Chinese and Hispanic people were coming to look for gold as well.
- 9:09And saw the white people were like, Hey, that's not fair. That's our gold. We stole this land. Yeah. Yeah, go steal your own. Yeah, exactly. So they're like, let's, let's just tax the shit out of them.
- 9:24And originally it was $20 a month, which is like absolutely insane for back then. It was $809 now. Wow.
- 9:35They did later very kindly, very kindly lower it to about three to four dollars, which is still $121, $211 now.
- 9:47Well, and I'm assuming that because it's like a monthly tax, I'm assuming that that means we're not basing that on whether or not you're actually successfully mining right gold.
- 10:00So it's like you're paying that regardless. So that that just feels particularly punitive. Yeah. I mean, it's all like just Iki. I wanted to point it out, but I feel like if anything, why wouldn't they just like take a percentage of it?
- 10:14But I think they just wanted to discourage that many people coming. Yeah, that's true. Because they feel like the percentage may have been the thing that paid better in the long run.
- 10:26But it would, if you take like a monthly fee on the front end, that discourages people from even getting established. Yeah.
- 10:35So you have to, I think you do have to kind of look at like what was the motivation behind it? And it makes sense. I think that.
- 10:44Yeah. And then like what did they have to do to get the money to even start like that so much money?
- 10:49Exactly. Yeah. They have to like pay for room and board and food and.
- 10:54And then you're in a new town like that's it's just so fucked up. Yeah, so fucked up. So we I just had to start off this episode right. Excellent.
- 11:06So this like I said was a very important town and it needed a very important place for it's very important people to stay.
- 11:14So first, revisiting the national exchange hotel, which I think they some people just call it the national hotel. Oh, okay.
- 11:24It just seems like an odd name. Yeah. Like the national exchange like it sounds like a like a trading post.
- 11:34Kind of. Yeah. I think though I think when they when it first opened it kind of did do a lot of stuff like I think they said it had a post office and stuff in it.
- 11:43So maybe it was more of like a hub for a bunch of different things, not just a hotel. So that kind of makes sense. Maybe that makes more sense then.
- 11:52And it's like the 1800s on they said weird shit back then. All that weird stuff. So opened in 1856. And the hotel is still open now.
- 12:02It's a California historical landmark and listed on the national register of historic places. How many times have I said that? I don't know. You know if I had a nickel. Yeah.
- 12:14And it is like one of the oldest hotels in California. If not the oldest, I think some places said it was the oldest. Yeah.
- 12:22Like one of the one of the articles that it was like the oldest on this side of the Mississippi. Oh, I love it when we get to say things are something on either side of the Mississippi. Right. Is that funny? I love that. I don't know why that it really.
- 12:39It really jazzes me up. So it's really cute on the front of their website. It says last night I dreamt I was at the national hotel. Oh, that is cute. So cute. I was like, OK, I want to stay here just because of that little quote on their website.
- 12:57Yeah, it's been renovated several times. It's really old. And they found like beautiful rooms that had been boarded off for some reason, which is always really creepy when rooms are just boarded off.
- 13:12Yeah, I don't I don't care for that. I feel like that's. No. Yeah. I feel like even if it's not for like a specific reason. Like maybe they just weren't using it or whatever.
- 13:21But I feel like energy just like gets trapped in there and just sit in there and it's just it gets weird. I don't know. OK, first of all, I don't buy that a particular room of a hotel is just getting boarded up for for no particular reason. Like no, no.
- 13:39Like they did a lot of rent like a lot of different render renovations. Renewed on it. Renewations. They did a lot of different renovations on it. So I don't know. I really don't know. I didn't find anything that explained, but it's just creepy. And I wanted to point that out.
- 13:57That is creepy. Yeah, because they I think they said one of them was like one of the balcony rooms or like room with a veranda. What's a veranda? That's like a balcony.
- 14:06Yeah, it's like a bigger balcony typically. Yeah, so like, why would you board that off? Did someone that's you know why you know why?
- 14:16But now after the most recent renovation.
- 14:20Quote the property now provides guests with a luxurious day that combines contemporary comfort with Victorian charm. That's quote from the site.
- 14:30Yes, please. Yeah, this definitely Victorian era so that you're gonna hear me say Victorian era a lot. And you know, now I know what that means. So it actually means something to me.
- 14:42Yes. I'm all about that. So the people staying at this hotel were businessmen, mine owners and like casually president Herbert Hoover.
- 14:54Who who who who do ver who who who who who who who who?
- 14:59Is he a bad one?
- 15:02Ah, I don't think he's one that's associated
- 15:05Typically with like anything to Narnar. I don't know a president stayed there so like obviously it was a big deal
- 15:12You know, honestly if you look hard enough any one of our presidents. You're gonna find yeah, I mean
- 15:19He's obviously like there's the Hoover Dam. So he's you know, there's an association there with job creation and
- 15:26Of course, you know that that he he did the damn thing. Yeah
- 15:31Exactly. Yeah, I mean job creation as a president
- 15:36Typically like that does well with voters and
- 15:39Speaking of job creation. It's interesting you mentioned that because they even think this is where talks of the PG&E were started
- 15:49Really in room 314
- 15:52So they have like even a specific room number and that is of course the Pacific Gas and Electric Company serving millions of Northern Californians. So very important stuff
- 16:04Yeah, job creation definitely definitely and you know, maybe creating some other things the bad things explosions
- 16:13Explosions fires
- 16:18You know, but electricity at what cost just for aspires
- 16:23Well, thank the national hotel for that
- 16:27It's not their fault that these you know businessmen who were into like that kind of business
- 16:36Meth there so yeah in that same room 314
- 16:40I guess woke up in the middle of the night and saw some business looking men of that era
- 16:46Like that late 1800s smoking cigars and they look like they were talking excitedly about something
- 16:53So you know possibly having a meeting possibly just some locker room talk. Oh, we don't know. Yeah
- 17:01Well, I'm creepy. It was in like happening in her room if I just woke up to see if I'm a man in my room I'd be freaked out
- 17:08Yeah, and anything that is described as like locker room talk
- 17:14I mean no one's
- 17:16No one said that I was just like assuming you're at
- 17:18Talking excitedly about something that doesn't mean it was something good, you know
- 17:24Yeah, not necessarily but the fact that they did have like these kind of business meetings in that room
- 17:30So maybe they were just they left their impression of their you know exciting new business mentor. Yeah
- 17:37That's that's an interesting thought
- 17:40There is a white lady
- 17:44Of course
- 17:46That's my favorite joke. I think you did it
- 17:48There was a white lady and you were like
- 17:51So now every time I hear that I'm like
- 17:57I think it's important to distinguish between white lady and lady in white
- 18:06Right, but they do frequently call like a lady in white just they refer to it as white lady
- 18:13So I just think it's so funny. I love to make that joke
- 18:16Like listen these can mean a lot of different things. This can be like a frequent
- 18:21reoccurring haunt this could be a Karen this could be a bride it could be a combination of all three
- 18:28So this scary Karen was not
- 18:32So anyway this lady in white she roams the halls in that classic Victorian hairstyle with the classic Victorian dress
- 18:43But her dress has a yellow sash which I think is like a really cute detail. Oh
- 18:48Yeah, so it makes me think sometimes we think of white ladies and we think oh, they're like a ghost
- 18:53So like they're just all white and like see through
- 18:56Right, right and not just like specifically wearing a white dress
- 19:01But I think this is like a person just wearing a like an actual white dress with a yellow sash because the sash is yellow so
- 19:10There's some little pop of color in there. I was just gonna say a little dash of color
- 19:14Besides her yellow sash people also smell her perfume
- 19:19Oh, which I love when there's like a smell in the haunting
- 19:23I'm realizing now I don't know if I sprayed my perfume this morning. Oh
- 19:28I usually put it like some in my hair
- 19:31So I stick it good
- 19:33You have to remember that for when you're a ghost make sure to bring your perfume. Oh god
- 19:39One article too called a cheap perfume and I'm like oh
- 19:42That's rude. Why would this fancy lady Victorian air lady wear cheap perfume? I just it didn't make sense to me
- 19:50Also wasn't everything that wasn't literally just a bare essential
- 19:56Like expensive fact that right? It's like
- 19:59Define cheap perfume. Yeah, I mean like maybe nowadays it would be considered like
- 20:06Something cheaper smelling because like they have so many different sense now that are just all crazy
- 20:12But I don't know. I feel like to sometimes people describe it as cheap if they
- 20:16If they just don't like the smell of it. Yeah. Yeah, I'm like that doesn't that doesn't mean as cheap bitch
- 20:23Yeah, I mean, I don't feel that just because you don't like something that that means you need to assign a specific
- 20:31monetary value to it. Yeah
- 20:34Like I've had perfume that's not expensive but smells good
- 20:37Yeah, and not all expensive perfume smells good. I know
- 20:42For some reason a lot of people have left rooms 208 and 209 in the middle of the night
- 20:49And I guess this is like their presidential suite. So I imagine it's like not cheap
- 20:55So to be leaving in the middle of the night
- 20:59Like something's going down something's going down and I couldn't find anything that specifically was saying
- 21:05What was happening?
- 21:07But I know there were a ton of renovations in those rooms specifically
- 21:11They did mention that so maybe it was just something was not happy with all of the change. I don't know
- 21:17That would make sense. I feel like maybe you should go and stay there and just see what happens, you know
- 21:24I would love to
- 21:26Okay, I would love to
- 21:28Write to me
- 21:30There is another spirit here that kind of sounds like a child to me. Oh, I think they did
- 21:35I did find something later that does say it's a child but like this specific article I was reading
- 21:41Doesn't say it's a child, but I'm going to read you what they do and you're going to be like oh, that's for sure kid
- 21:46Oh, it's like kind of weird because they don't specifically say it at first. So I'm like kind of picturing an adult
- 21:52Oh, okay, that's I don't know which is worse
- 21:57It would be creepier as an adult. So her name is Elizabeth and people will see her playing with a ball
- 22:03Or a jump bro or writing her little tricycle
- 22:09Okay, I take a fact it's way worse as an adult
- 22:13Because I see like an adult on a kid's size tricycle and like the spider needs going down
- 22:20Unless it's somebody like my size and they can actually ride the tricycle comfortably
- 22:27Maybe it is maybe it's just the cat-lin sized adult. I don't play with a little ball and a jump rope and writing a little tricycle
- 22:35Oh my god. I don't even think I can write a tricycle comfortably. So yeah, I haven't tried it on a while
- 22:40Yeah, like I was a nanny so that's not weird for me to have tried to write a tricycle like
- 22:46In my adult life, but it's been a minute
- 22:49Immediately defensive take note take note
- 22:54I'm just out there on the streets like stealing little kids tricycles and writing
- 22:58Oh boy
- 23:01Also part of her legend is that she had passed in room 411 of the mumps
- 23:07411 in room 411. Yeah, I don't know how many honestly okay
- 23:13This is probably bad. I forgot to look up like how many stories in rooms this had but I'm not about to go do it right now
- 23:18But it's a pretty big it's pretty big hotel. Yeah
- 23:22I am just noting that 411 because I don't know
- 23:27Maybe people don't say this very much anymore, but you I
- 23:30You've heard the phrase give me like the 411
- 23:34Oh, yeah, yeah, the 411 is that she passed and oh
- 23:39Oh, no, 411. I don't like it. I know it's really sad for me too because like a kid like passing in a hotel
- 23:48That just seems like extra sad to me
- 23:51I don't know. I don't know if it's true. It's all like a legend. So I really don't know if this actually happened
- 23:56Um, obviously, I don't think they were vaccinating back then
- 24:00In the 1800s. Yeah, the guy on the vaccines came around, but I can imagine that not that far back
- 24:07No
- 24:09So she's seen all over the hotel and even in the hotels restaurant, which is named
- 24:15Lola
- 24:17Ooh, and this is actually after someone very specific
- 24:21The restaurant is named after Lola Montez who was a self-proclaimed Spanish dancer. Oh, I was gonna say was it Lola
- 24:30She was a show girl right? No, is that song named? I don't know if I thought song is about her
- 24:37Well, let me go on with this and then we can decide if we think that song is about her not okay
- 24:45But she was a self-proclaimed Spanish dancer because she was born in Ireland as Eliza Gilbert
- 24:51She had a long and interesting life
- 24:56In between being born and the time that she made it over to California
- 25:02But by that time she was known as Lola the Spanish dancer
- 25:08Oh, okay, and she was known for doing
- 25:13You're gonna fuck you Nate this. I'm sorry. I forgot about this part and now I'm like wait this might be like a five scooter
- 25:20Great. I literally can't wait. I literally can't wait. I'm so excited
- 25:26So she was known for doing her spider dance
- 25:30And she would basically act like spiders were crawling up her legs and she would like stop in like flinger skirts
- 25:39Around like trying to get them off of her but like in a dancing way. Oh like Emma Stone in the you know that
- 25:47Yeah, she does like a spidery look and dance. Oh fuck what is that? Oh, is that the new the newer movie that she's in the weird one? Yeah
- 25:56That's what I remember that part, but oh my gosh. No, I want to go watch that. I really want to watch that too
- 26:05So she would do this dance to Italian folk music called tarantella. Oh and it's like literally what you think of when you think of Italian music
- 26:16Okay, let me send this to you. Okay, it's like you think of like an accordion
- 26:20Yes, yeah, I'm picturing an accordion, but also at the same time it's sort of giving me like it's almost got like a Von Trap meets like
- 26:34uh
- 26:35Conquista door isn't quite the right word, but they've got like the red skirt like who's the guy uh
- 26:40Who's the guy that tries to get the bowls to charge
- 26:44That that Matador oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, what you say it. I'm like oh yeah
- 26:50It looks like it looks like a costume
- 26:54All of these dancers in this like example song is that they look like they're wearing like a
- 27:00A sweet dish made like a milk made type outfit, but the skirt is red like and it's giving Matador
- 27:07Yeah, I feel like I'm very culturally confused right well, I feel like this like this Italian type of music and like some Spanish music are very similar
- 27:16I yeah, I would imagine so there's influence because they're you know, it's kind of history
- 27:22Well, well history, but also just proximity. I thought it was interesting to that
- 27:29She calls herself a Spanish dancer and then uses this like Italian song
- 27:33But like has like Spanish feel vibe to it. Yeah, and I don't know specifically that she was saying like this
- 27:40spider dance specifically was Spanish
- 27:43I just think she really like she kind of dressed like
- 27:48She was kind of like cultural appropriating like she that was like trying to pass off
- 27:55Yeah, her name with like her look
- 27:59That she was actually
- 28:01I'm gonna show you photo. I mean she could very easily pass as Spanish, French
- 28:07uh, I mean a lot of cultural identities in in that region. I think and obviously I don't think she meant it in like a malicious way
- 28:16She just kind she like I said she had a very interesting life
- 28:19So I feel like she kind of just want to like reinvent herself go do something new and fun
- 28:24So like when I say she was like cultural appropriating like nowadays if like a white Irish lady were to
- 28:31Call herself Lola Montez and dress like Spanish and color herself a Spanish dancer. That would be very very different a little dice
- 28:40Yeah back then you know, I mean that's what it is. That's why I'm not doing it personally
- 28:47As a white baby. Yeah
- 28:49Why do you think I dyed my hair bro
- 28:54Um, I'm looking at a picture of her right now that is
- 28:58Like the very typical
- 29:01It like I think the kids today now would say she's like snatched
- 29:07I'm in it. I'm gonna send it
- 29:10She's good looking
- 29:12Well, and I'm talking very you'll as soon as you see this you'll you'll know exactly what I'm talking about
- 29:18Yes, yeah
- 29:20I'm like she would say be saying yeah, yeah, oh my god the waist though
- 29:25Oh my god, that's what I'm saying snatched and you know that's not that is all corset like that cannot be photoshop because right
- 29:34All the days
- 29:37So anyway back to like the song and dance thing back to the spiders
- 29:41Cuz you know I was like I need to know more about this spider thing
- 29:47I was like tarantella that sounds like really close to tarantula
- 29:52That's weird
- 29:54Wouldn't you know it's not that weird
- 29:57It totally is it does mean tarantula and
- 30:01Now this dance is kind of seen as a couple of stands, but originally it was it was known as the dance of the spider
- 30:09And tarantella comes from an Italian word tarantola, which is clearly it's tarantula, right?
- 30:16Oh my god a couple's dances like spiders
- 30:19Yeah, it used to be so there's a really crazy reason
- 30:23This song exists
- 30:26Okay
- 30:27In southern Italy people believed there were tarantulas that would cause a person to fall into fits of hysteria if bitten
- 30:35And it caused a strong urge to dance
- 30:39And I assume I assume they mean like uncontrolled like movements
- 30:44I don't think they were like waltzing or like doing like TikTok dances the fox strut
- 30:48But they thought they could cure this by dancing the tarantella
- 30:56So they would have this person dance
- 30:58Oh they were like wildly dancing and then they would kind of like start to follow the beat and like the rhythm of the tarantella
- 31:05And then eventually they would like sweat it out or whatever and
- 31:10This to my knowledge, this is something they believed this is not like actually something that the
- 31:16That it caused I don't know
- 31:19Doesn't sound super scientific if I'm being honest. Yeah, so
- 31:24But that's what they believed and that's why the song exists
- 31:28All right, yeah, so eventually I don't know when it changed to be like a couple's type of dance, but
- 31:35Then interesting. Okay, so I like I just have to talk about Miss Lola Montez a little bit longer because I just like can't leave her alone. She's so fascinating
- 31:45She was a spicy lady and
- 31:48There's like two more super cool things about her. I literally couldn't help myself so
- 31:53She had a lot of pets and one of them was a bear that she walked on a leash
- 32:00A bear
- 32:03I don't know if it was like a little cub
- 32:06Oh like an actual bear
- 32:08I mean, I have to assume
- 32:10Probably not a full grown bear. I hope it was like a little cute cub
- 32:15But then like what if it grew into like a big bear and she still walked on a leash. I mean, I feel like
- 32:20I don't know. I have to I have to try not to look at this through like a modern lens
- 32:26I guess because I don't think that probably a bear wants to be locked like walked on a leash like a dog
- 32:35But if you find him like a little baby. I don't know. It's not it. I'm not saying it's like right
- 32:40But it's so cute and interesting and we have like this weird bear theme running through our episodes
- 32:46I saw that and of course I was like okay if anything mentions a bear like I got to mention it
- 32:51Yes, just a bear
- 32:54Exactly. There's one more thing about Lola. I have to mention. It's like the spicy part of her. Oh
- 33:00So she wrote a couple of things and I feel like I want to get this and read it for like a patreon bonus
- 33:06One of the things she wrote is titled the arts of beauty
- 33:10colon or secrets of a lady's toilet with hints to gentleman on the art of fascinating
- 33:16Oh my god what
- 33:20I know Lola. I have to read this. I really want to know what this like I have to
- 33:27I think we can buy it girl you know I'm gonna you know I'm gonna the secrets of a lady's toilet
- 33:34Coming to a patreon bonus near you
- 33:39I'm so excited. I love it
- 33:42Okay, so we might be hearing more from Lola in the future
- 33:47Might be that sounds pretty non-committal and I am pretty committed
- 33:55Okay, so I made the spider thing better. Okay, maybe we'll see
- 33:59Okay, we're gonna move on
- 34:02There's a couple of other buildings in town we need to stop and visit
- 34:05And the first of those is firehouse number one
- 34:09Now the Nevada County Historical Society Museum
- 34:14And it's said to be pretty haunted
- 34:16Stay haunted. I don't know why I said it like that
- 34:22But I felt like being annoying so I did it. I mean because it's fun
- 34:25because it's fun
- 34:28There's only there's only so many times I can say a place is haunted
- 34:31I'd got him like have some variety in my life. Okay, let's try
- 34:35So the firehouse was built in 1861 and it ran for 80 years
- 34:41It became a museum in 1947. Wow, so I'm not sure if it sat empty for those six years or if they had to like repair some things
- 34:49Remodel get ready for it to become a museum. I'm not really sure. I mean, it's an old building. So I would imagine
- 34:57You know fair to say it could be due for some repairs or you know bring it it up
- 35:04To code for just like the general public
- 35:07They're probably trying to like decommission the fire poles that people aren't
- 35:12Slide down that yeah, they're like this is a museum. Okay
- 35:17Yeah, I feel like that's that's a decent time frame to like do remodeling and to like set up an entire museum where it used to not be a museum
- 35:25So like it like
- 35:26Yeah, so I feel like that's hopefully it didn't just sit empty and creepy, but I'm gonna send you like the Google image search
- 35:33So you could just like kind of see what it looks like and we're gonna talk about it. So it's really cool
- 35:38I want to live there
- 35:42So it's this white building and it's described as gingerbread Victorian architecture and I was like
- 35:49Oh my god
- 35:51This is the cutest thing and I was it is gingerbread architecture like a real thing. Yeah, and it total it totally is
- 35:58I had no idea
- 36:00So it was a popular thing in this era to decorate homes with elaborate trim like you would like kind of decorate with icing a gingerbread house
- 36:08Which is that a bell tower?
- 36:11Yeah, so the building definitely has that decorative trim and the most stunning thing about it
- 36:18The bell tower
- 36:20So I think it's two stories and then it has a bell tower on top
- 36:24Oh my god this picture of it from like just down the street
- 36:29I'm dead
- 36:32Yeah, it's so it's so guys I'm moving to Nevada, California
- 36:37Nevada city
- 36:40I know I said Nevada, California, Nevada city
- 36:43You know what I'm moving
- 36:46She's moving, she's getting out of here
- 36:48The only thing like like kind of
- 36:51Interesting about it is it's a really small building and it's kind of smashed in between this row of other mismatched buildings
- 36:59Yeah, this looks like
- 37:02It looks it's it's very confusing because I feel like right next to it like you can see there's a mainstream
- 37:08Antiques which I feel like is found on every mainstream in every
- 37:12state in the entirety of the United States
- 37:17And then it's like this looks like almost like an 1860s like general store
- 37:23Hmm, it just smashed in there between them all smashed straight
- 37:28They're all like it's this white building so sticks out like a a thore thumb a thore thumb and then the other buildings are like blue and like
- 37:36And yeah, it's weird
- 37:39It is beautiful and I would happily live smashed between the antique and general store
- 37:47Hmm, I have a new dream, okay, I feel like this is me like Michael Scotting
- 37:55I
- 37:56This is my dream since lunch
- 37:59Well, I might crush your
- 38:03You're very recent dreams
- 38:06or
- 38:07According to one of the past museum directors
- 38:10Haunt tanks were a very common occurrence. I mean like every day
- 38:16It wouldn't be the first place I've lived
- 38:18That's true
- 38:21You know, I'll tell you about it and you can decide if you can handle it or not, okay
- 38:25So people hear footsteps when no one is around
- 38:29Unexplained cold spots and cabinet doors constantly opening after being closed
- 38:36But it's not just like slowly creeping open. They were described as flying open. Oh, I don't love that
- 38:44Okay, so I was adjusting my headphones if you're watching on like YouTube or um
- 38:49I thought about just taking them off so that you wouldn't ruin this for me
- 38:53A dream that I've had for like 10 minutes
- 38:57I'm ruining it all
- 39:01There's an organ in the museum that is supposedly from a brothel
- 39:06And people have seen a woman in a Victorian dress with red hair playing it
- 39:12Okay, so she seems pretty cool
- 39:14She's right here
- 39:18You know playing the organ
- 39:20Of famously the coolest instrument to play it's pretty cool. It's pretty cool that they have an organ like I feel like those are not very common
- 39:29right but like
- 39:31On top of that how common is it for an organ to have been present in a brothel?
- 39:39Yeah, I don't know like did the brothel double as if you're home
- 39:44It's I was it's funny because I was thinking the same thing really and then another another article
- 39:51Though also referred to it as just a piano. So I'm like, well, was it a piano or was it an organ?
- 39:56But that article didn't seem like it had legit info in it. So I don't know
- 40:00So I called it an organ
- 40:02But it could be maybe we'll have to call the museum because they'll know
- 40:05Oh
- 40:08Okay, okay, so do you have an organ or a piano?
- 40:13Is there any way that we can text or email them? You know how I feel about making phone calls
- 40:19Yeah, we might I might be able to okay. I like to do the
- 40:23Doing the phone call though for that kind of thing because it's like well
- 40:27They have the option to not email you back but if I'm a phone. That's true. You know
- 40:32Unless they just hang up on you which I
- 40:35Hope they would never listen. They they run a museum in a gingerbread house
- 40:41I would hope they would never hang up on anyone. They probably wouldn't they probably they would probably love to answer questions
- 40:47They have a historical museum. So I feel like if anyone's interested in the historical items
- 40:53They would like be down to answer questions, but I don't know. Maybe I'll call some day. We'll see stay tuned. All right
- 41:00I'll be here
- 41:03Uh, so they've also seen this woman with the red hair standing in the second floor window like peering out as well
- 41:09Oh
- 41:11I think people see her from like the outside so they they'll like see her up in the window. Yeah
- 41:16There is another woman described with the same type of clothing
- 41:22They don't specifically say she has red hair, but she likes to go through the cabinets
- 41:26And I also don't know if it's the same one that would make the cabinets fly open
- 41:32I was if she's like
- 41:33Going through them and someone close them. She's like hey, how's going through those? What are you doing? I'm in here
- 41:40busy
- 41:44Trying to get supper ready
- 41:48Yeah, so also it made me think of like this really weird
- 41:52thought
- 41:54and
- 41:56Go on
- 41:57We've heard this a couple of times where I think it was like when we stayed at the lighthouse
- 42:01There was a woman that went through like the cabinets and stuff there. I think that was one of the things that happened
- 42:06That sounds vaguely familiar. Yeah, it made me think like what if every time we're searching for something like a piece of our soul like breaks off
- 42:16And just as like eternally searching for that thing
- 42:19Okay, then how do I have any soul left?
- 42:22Do you mean
- 42:27It's like a whore crook so every time like a piece of your soul right?
- 42:30God you guys I have no soul left just based on the number of times I couldn't find my keys
- 42:36I mean it makes sense to me. I feel like when I'm looking for something
- 42:41I'm in a like a like an altered state
- 42:43Yes, I were meditating or something. Yeah
- 42:46So like very interesting like panic meditation. Yeah
- 42:49And I feel like I have a lot of dreams too. We're just like in that state like where you're like looking like the panic meditation
- 42:56We just like feel like you're looking for something that you can't find
- 43:00So I feel like what if I'm dreaming about that but like a piece of my soul is actually still doing that and then like a hundred years from now
- 43:07Someone is gonna see me looking for something
- 43:10Oh my god, I'm gonna be such a creepy bitch. What is time?
- 43:16Can you imagine the number of places that my ADHD ass has just been like
- 43:25It also makes me think of too like when someone walks into a room and like forgets why they walked in there
- 43:35Like what if because there's a lot of ghost stories where like a ghost will just like walk into a room and disappear or something random like that like what if those are just like pieces of us lingering
- 43:46Okay, well now I feel like you're specifically targeting me
- 43:49It's me too. I get it. That's why I bring it up. So I understand it
- 43:55That's yeah, that's an interesting thought
- 43:58Do you have any idea how many times that's already happened to me today?
- 44:03Yeah, probably a lot
- 44:06I also love home like that was an interesting thought and it was like my own thought
- 44:13Hey listen, we're not above being intrigued by our own shower thoughts, okay?
- 44:19I'm the most interesting person I know I have a running list of those shower thoughts. Oh thank god
- 44:26We're gonna need them. They're gonna be fun when they come out because they're very weird
- 44:31So then there's this old lady who sits in a rocking chair and I know how you feel about old ladies and rocking chairs as well
- 44:42I don't
- 44:44I don't I don't love it. I don't love it
- 44:48But she is described as pleasant
- 44:51so
- 44:53I think she's just chilling. She's just living her best afterlife
- 44:56um
- 45:01Has anyone considered asking her to relocate to a less creepy chair?
- 45:09I wouldn't want to ask an old lady to relocate anywhere. That is just you just you just leave them be let them
- 45:17lie where they lie
- 45:20Okay, just let her just let her be in a rocking chair
- 45:26So if you lived then that would be something you would have to deal with right yeah
- 45:30Yeah, yeah, yeah, or if you were already scooted so far back up into your chair that there was there was no more
- 45:38Goudage room
- 45:40Then then you might be at sort of an impasse
- 45:43I don't know this might be your limit though that might not even
- 45:48scotch the surface
- 45:50Last and maybe littlest but not least
- 45:55a boy with a boy with blonde hair frequency building with
- 46:01Sense of bay rome cologne and talcum powder accompanying him
- 46:06I'm sorry. Did you say bay rum? I said bay rum cologne and that's a very specific like as in drinking
- 46:15rum down on the dock of the bay I
- 46:18I don't think so this is actually so I
- 46:22Bay rum it's spelled like bay rum two separate words and
- 46:27I asked google. I was like okay. I've never heard of this what does bay rum cologne smell like and this is what the AI told me oh
- 46:36All right, bay rum cologne typically smells like spicy warm and slightly sweet blend of herbs and spices
- 46:44With prominent notes of west Indian bay leaf clothes cinnamon and sometimes citrus giving off a distinctly masculine and tropical vibe
- 46:52often associated with classic barber shops. It is not actually like the smell of rum itself
- 46:59But rather the essence of bay leaf combined with other aromac ingredients
- 47:04Okay, so I was gonna say it's giving old spice
- 47:08Hmm and it did say it's different from old spice. I did she want one thing that was like it is no
- 47:16Well no old spice doesn't even like old spice has like 87 different scents now. Yeah
- 47:22So I think the the biggest thing is like the the west Indian bay leaf is in like the clove and citrus and stuff
- 47:30Also, I said aromac and I meant to say aromatic aromatic aromatic. I think I said aromac, which is not a word but aromatic
- 47:38Allegedly, but I thought that was a pretty good description of like what a the AI came up with is like what this cologne
- 47:45No, it's like okay. Thank you because that's a very specific smell. It is I feel like that description
- 47:51tells you everything you need to know
- 47:54Yeah, and now I'm deeply deeply afraid
- 47:58And why is this little boy though wearing cologne, but he also smells like like baby powder. That's what talcum powder is right
- 48:05Ah, I mean
- 48:07It's not anymore, but I think right. I think those things used to be yes at largely interchangeable
- 48:15And I assume it had a scent
- 48:18Because like if it was unscented, why would they even say it smelled like talcum powder so
- 48:24Right. Yeah, things that are unscented then describing them as having a scent. Yeah
- 48:29Yeah, yeah, yeah, so I assume like baby powder-ish smell
- 48:33But that also kind of makes sense is there there's this like random cast of characters in this one building
- 48:39Because it's a museum with like a lot of different antiques, so I don't think these people came with the building
- 48:45I think they came with like the museum antiques
- 48:48Oh
- 48:50Like they're like attached to the specific like artifacts, you mean?
- 48:55I think so yeah, okay, that makes sense
- 48:58Because like the old lady in a rocking chair, the woman playing this organ supposedly from a brothel
- 49:04The little boy, I'm not sure where he came from it could have been anything
- 49:08But I also didn't see that there was any like fireman spirits around and there totally could be I just and that's a damn shame
- 49:15I know right
- 49:16I'm like can we get some firemen up in you?
- 49:18Like a firehouse. Can you imagine an old tiny fireman?
- 49:23I just picture them with an axe
- 49:25Oh, because I'm like all old firemen used to carry axes, right?
- 49:29I mean presumably I'm just trying to like put the lumberjack image on that
- 49:34She's like listen, we said we were nasty at the top, so we warned you
- 49:41We have another gingerbread house in town
- 49:45It is called the red castle in and it was built in 1860
- 49:50Isn't it the cutest? I want you to scroll and you're gonna look at some of the pics and then
- 49:58Does it have a dollhouse of itself?
- 50:02Well hold on we're gonna talk about that in a minute
- 50:05So
- 50:07First off, it's it's called the red castle in so like the building is a bread
- 50:11But it has the white like gingerbread trim so it really looks like it's frosting
- 50:16It really does
- 50:18Like frosting trim and it's kind of like on the on the roof it kind of like dripping down to like you would do
- 50:25Like icicles yeah, it's so freaking cute
- 50:28Oh and like just the shape of the windows
- 50:32I love this place
- 50:34We're going through these about do you see the one?
- 50:37So we're looking at the inside down the inside is like very interesting the walls look pink
- 50:42I'm not sure if they're red or if they're supposed to be pink
- 50:44They're definitely like a pinkish color that was of the time for sure
- 50:48There's one that looks like the window is like below part of the room
- 50:54Do you see that picture it looks so weird to me?
- 50:57I don't understand and I can't you can't really like make it bigger bigger
- 51:02I guess we just have to go to my new house
- 51:07Well actually it's closed which is very sad
- 51:11I feel like you're taking me on the worst zelo tour
- 51:14I know I was really sad when I found out that this one was closed because it's so beautiful
- 51:21And I'll talk I'll talk about it in a little bit too
- 51:24I'll talk more about it but is it closed because they're preparing for me to move in?
- 51:29Yeah
- 51:33I don't know I really don't know why they're actually closed
- 51:37It's a pity
- 51:38You did scroll down and you did mention what looks like a dollhouse
- 51:44Yes
- 51:44And I have some information on this so in this little blog post that we're looking at
- 51:49They have amazing pictures. It was called gold country girls
- 51:52They do like blogs
- 51:54They do like blogs
- 51:56We can cut that part out
- 52:00No leave it I'll do like a playground care flip
- 52:03I don't know why I said it like that but um
- 52:06So this is called it's a little like replica of the red castle in
- 52:12And in this blog post they called it ghost ghost house
- 52:16Which I thought was like interesting and I was like what's a ghost house I look it up
- 52:21So these are miniature wooden rec replicas of real historic houses
- 52:26And they're made by Sheila Thompson in the 90s
- 52:30And this is like the 1990s not the 1890s because I know we were talking about like the 1800s
- 52:35So don't get confused
- 52:36Okay, I mean I was but now I'm good
- 52:38So if you go to that site I sent you
- 52:40It just shows like kind of better photos of what these things actually are
- 52:45So they're really really small and
- 52:47So cute
- 52:48Yeah, they're just like little wooden kind of they're kind of like 3D almost
- 52:53But not quite and they actually all of them have like little hidden skeleton keys
- 52:59Like in the artwork
- 53:01That's how you know it's like an original because she would hide like little keys and in all of them
- 53:06Are you seeing like the other ones? They're so cute. Oh my god
- 53:09Oh, I was like it's like a wears Waldo type of thing
- 53:11I must have it
- 53:13And then written on the back of these is all kinds of the info about the
- 53:17The house that it was
- 53:20Representing or the house. It was ghosting
- 53:22This one this one looks like um
- 53:24Um, oh god
- 53:27Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, the one we went to with Christina that was on ghost
- 53:33Other man rasa. Yes
- 53:35It could be it looks like the man rasa
- 53:38It could be they they had one of like the Winchester mystery house. Oh
- 53:43Yeah, there's a bunch of cool ones and I don't they're like on eBay still now
- 53:48I don't think they're that expensive
- 53:50I guess it might depend on like which house it is
- 53:52But so we should like get one of each all of them
- 53:56We should we should look I really it makes me want to go and teaking because I found
- 54:00So many cool like old weird antique things just like doing research for the podcast and I'm like it makes me feel like
- 54:07I would be like a better antique or because I would go and like
- 54:10Look at something I'm like, oh, I know what this is
- 54:13Oh my god, I want them all I need them really can find out why they were called ghost houses though
- 54:20And I mean like maybe for like the obvious reason because it was like kind of like a shadow of the home
- 54:24Like it's just like a little piece of it's a little piece of the house's soul
- 54:29Ah, I don't think it a bad way. I don't think that would but I don't think it has to be in a bad way
- 54:35But anyway, so that was cool like why are they called ghost houses though? I want to know and it took me forever to get
- 54:41Search it because I searched
- 54:43Ghost houses and it was like
- 54:45All these haunted houses paranormal hot and like that's not what I'm looking for
- 54:48Are you sure though?
- 54:53So yeah, so this place is now sadly closed and I don't know what they plan to do with it
- 54:58I
- 54:58I can look it up. I didn't because I just like didn't have time to keep going into stuff. I'm on page nine
- 55:04So my gosh
- 55:07But I do know it's closed and
- 55:09It is a historical house too. It's like the oldest brick home in Nevada city
- 55:14So I feel like it has and it's gorgeous like why would you I hope they do something with it
- 55:19She's beautiful. Maybe it's just a private residence now
- 55:23It could be I actually I didn't I really didn't google it because I was like I there's more stuff
- 55:27I need to talk about but
- 55:29This is a paranormal podcast. I don't need to keep going into who owns homes here like I did last episode
- 55:36I know probably some other nerd egg you want about that. I don't know whatever. I mean I I do want to know
- 55:46But I did watch a YouTube story
- 55:49There's like a new story about it and it was posted on YouTube 15 years ago
- 55:53But the footage looks really old so it looks like it could be older than 15 years old like it ran as a new story
- 55:59Oh, and in it the the owners are in it and they look really old so my assumption is they just like passed away and the house changed
- 56:08Oh, and that like they no longer because they ran the end for a little while
- 56:12and
- 56:15Uh
- 56:17So the owners at the time are in this new story and
- 56:20He says it's a husband and wife and so the husband says when they first got the building
- 56:27They would just get like kind of odd feelings about it like not bad just kind of like weird
- 56:32Okay, oh probably like ooh like something watching me or yeah, just like that kind of feeling
- 56:38And escalated into like a bunch of stuff being misplaced like they would leave something somewhere
- 56:45And all the sudden it would be like in a different spot
- 56:47Which is very common for hauntings too. Okay. I feel like that is one of the cruelest ways to haunt someone
- 56:55It's like gaslighting. Yeah, I feel like we've talked about this
- 56:59Yes, that's exactly what I was gonna say. I literally feel completely crazy. I'm like is it a ghost?
- 57:07Am I throwing my own belongings away?
- 57:10Yeah
- 57:13And how can you know to like exactly? It's
- 57:17Unknowable and I know a thing
- 57:20I hear a noble thing. I hate everything that's unknowable
- 57:25And they have this super cute courtyard. It's like a little like garden
- 57:30They call it the garden area, but looks like a little courtyard like it has a couple benches
- 57:34And he said he was out there one night and he heard a bugle being played from inside the house
- 57:42Which is like I had to look up what a bugle was. It's a brass instrument similar to a
- 57:47Trumpet a trumpet. Yeah, I was trying to say tunnel and I don't know why
- 57:54A brass instrument similar to a trumpet and
- 57:59So he was hearing that yeah
- 58:02He was hearing that coming from like inside the house and that's like I think it said one of the instruments they use for like military stuff
- 58:09I was doing trumpet things. I don't know what I mean
- 58:12The rusty trombone
- 58:16Don't earn a dictionary that kids
- 58:21So anyway, here's this rusty trombone playing from inside the house and he's like what the fuck?
- 58:29I mean the bugle
- 58:31Oh, it's all like the chip that you put on your fingers the bugles
- 58:36Yeah, bugles are yeah, it's that why it's called like a bugle
- 58:41Is why what I know because of like the instrument. I don't know because it look it has like that horn it that horn shape. Oh
- 58:49maybe
- 58:52shower thoughts
- 58:54But he's like okay, no one inside is like playing a bugle like what is happening but he goes and looks anyway and like nobody's there
- 59:02And then he hears a story later about how the original owner son like to play his bugle up on the balcony
- 59:11I was gonna say was he a bugle boy
- 59:13He was a bugle boy and he liked they said
- 59:16How did they put it in the video?
- 59:19He liked to
- 59:22I don't know how they put it a really weird way in the video like he liked to put on the town or something like that
- 59:28And they meant like he'd like to like go up and like serenade the town with those bugle because he would do it on the balcony
- 59:35Well, yeah, I mean if you you know if you're doing it out on your balcony and it's a fucking bugle so yeah
- 59:42This is weird is it was weird the way they worded it though
- 59:47Yeah, I wish I could remember the specific I don't have the YouTube video right in front of me now so that's neither here nor there
- 59:56Oh neither here nor there
- 59:58But then he says one time he saw someone with a long gray skirt
- 1:00:03Kind of like walking into another room so he was like in a room
- 1:00:06I think he saw out of like the corner of his eye
- 1:00:09He said he saw like the flash of
- 1:00:11Someone's skirt like going into different room
- 1:00:15Okay, so he called out to his wife thinking it was her
- 1:00:18And she answered from the floor above
- 1:00:22So it's clearly she was not on the same floor as him and did not just walk into the other room. Do they have a daughter?
- 1:00:29No
- 1:00:32Yeah, and I think if they had had guests or whatever they would have maybe mentioned that but yeah, I think no nobody was there
- 1:00:40Maybe they forgot maybe maybe they forgot
- 1:00:43Totally totally
- 1:00:46Totally the small town with probably not a lot of guests in the hotel these two people taking care of the inn
- 1:00:54They forget about a guest right
- 1:00:56I'm so cold and itchy right now
- 1:01:00I'm just
- 1:01:03It was kind of like a bed and breakfast so like they would know I think if they had guests
- 1:01:09probably probably
- 1:01:11Not like a standard like hotel where there's just like a bunch of guests and you don't know you know
- 1:01:16You don't know who's who this is like a smaller type deal
- 1:01:20So this is apparently known as the gray lady
- 1:01:24And they think she is a nanny that used to look after the original owners 11 kids
- 1:01:32Jesus Christ that's
- 1:01:35It's a lot of kids seven of them were adopted
- 1:01:41So like it's still a lot of kids, but like at least you know, she wasn't pushing 11 of them out or cooter, you know
- 1:01:47I just yeah, that's that's a lot. I don't like your odds
- 1:01:52Um in this era of like surviving childbirth 11 times. Yeah. Yeah
- 1:01:59So only four four
- 1:02:01Yeah, four of them were that's still a lot
- 1:02:06That's a lot
- 1:02:09My dad is one of eight
- 1:02:12So many it does kind of make sense though like why they built because this was originally built as a family home
- 1:02:19So now it like kind of makes sense why they needed such a big house with so many rooms that now it can be an in yeah
- 1:02:27Uh
- 1:02:30Because they have a literal gaggle of children
- 1:02:33Yeah, so like 13 people theoretically like plus a nanny and like whoever who knows how many other like
- 1:02:40Mades and stuff I mean had so I would hope you have a live in nanny with a live in children
- 1:02:47So they did but sadly the nanny passed away very suddenly and they think that she like might not have wanted to leave the kids
- 1:02:56Because they were all very close. I know it's really sad
- 1:03:01Um they they said that they all loved each other
- 1:03:04Well, that's so sad
- 1:03:07Yeah, I know so she like stuck around to like kind of look after them
- 1:03:11But now obviously all the kids are gone. It's decade what is it decades later? Yeah, how long is the decade? I don't know 10 years
- 1:03:20Okay, yeah, it's decades later. Famously 10 years long
- 1:03:24Uh, not just a hat right
- 1:03:31Now she'll like kind of well back before it was closed obviously this was when it was running as an in but she would kind of check on and care for the guests as if they were the children
- 1:03:42Oh, that's so so
- 1:03:44It is very sweet so she would come and like you know middle of the night like sit on the end of your bed
- 1:03:50Okay, well, that's over over you watching you sleep
- 1:03:54No, I could she might even
- 1:03:58gently brush a hand over your forehead as if she's like
- 1:04:02Checking for a fever. Maybe she's just you know like all so cute
- 1:04:07Bitch unless that gets rid of wrinkles you better get your cold dead hands off me
- 1:04:12She's just trying to you know be there is comfort sweet stuff sweet stuff
- 1:04:17I knew I would get you with that I
- 1:04:24I do think the intentions are sweet, but it is creepy to have someone come and sit on the end of your bed
- 1:04:29I mean or have her over you or touch your forehead in the night
- 1:04:32I listen
- 1:04:36You know how I feel about unsolicited touch
- 1:04:39Yeah
- 1:04:42Yeah
- 1:04:43But she's manny she just her
- 1:04:45Her goal in life and afterlife is to care for other people so you get it even my mom will tell you
- 1:04:53If you're gonna go in for the hog you better say I'm I'm gonna hug you
- 1:04:57I always go are you a hugger? I'm a hugger. Are you a hugger if you're not you're telling me right now because I'm coming in
- 1:05:03And I'm like hey, I'm not normally like a super huggy person, but when somebody's like I'm a hogger
- 1:05:12Do you want a hog and I'm like
- 1:05:14Okay
- 1:05:17You can't say no
- 1:05:19No, I usually get excited because I'm like it's nice of people to ask if you're a hugger to ask and then I'm like that hug has a good vibes
- 1:05:27And now I want the hug
- 1:05:29That makes sense. Yeah, it's kind of like a reverse psychology
- 1:05:32One guest was staying in the nanny's old room and woke up at the witching hour 3 a.m
- 1:05:40And looked out the window to that cute little courtyard
- 1:05:44And saw a woman in a Victorian dress
- 1:05:49And she woke up her husband and was like come look at this
- 1:05:52But she disappeared before the husband could go witness it
- 1:05:56But I'm like she's since they're in her room. I was like was she just like wandering around like oh there's people in my room
- 1:06:02Like I'll go to the courtyard
- 1:06:04Maybe maybe
- 1:06:06I wonder she'd checked on them too. That makes me wonder yeah, it was her room. So maybe she wouldn't have checked on them
- 1:06:14Oh, yeah, maybe yeah
- 1:06:17She's like you're not children
- 1:06:19Yeah, or maybe if she was like she made her rounds checking the kids at 3 a.m
- 1:06:24She's like oh, I gotta go like have a sig down at the courtyard
- 1:06:27I feel like relatable. I don't know
- 1:06:34So I think there is still ghost tours you can go on in this town and they have like a self-guided audio tour for purchase
- 1:06:44I think it was like after 2020 they started doing the self-guided ones
- 1:06:48So I'm not sure if they do like the actual guided tours anymore
- 1:06:52The guy who started at all Mike Leon, he wrote a book
- 1:06:58And it was all about like the hauntings in these two like neighboring towns and it's called haunted Nevada City and grass Valley
- 1:07:06Oh
- 1:07:07And we are definitely revisiting grass Valley at some point
- 1:07:13Oh
- 1:07:14Okay, that sounds really familiar and I feel like from my
- 1:07:19Research and oh, I can't put my finger on why so now I'm really intrigued
- 1:07:26I don't either because I kind of skimmed and I was like oh, and I'm gonna save this for like some something different
- 1:07:32So yeah, we'll come back to that city, but there's also a ton about Nevada City that I like a ton that I didn't even touch on
- 1:07:42So we might have to revisit that again too. I might have to get the book, but it was like 20 bucks and I was like well
- 1:07:47$20 for this little book right now. Maybe not
- 1:07:50See
- 1:07:53Maybe someday
- 1:07:55Well, that was all I had for Nevada City for now
- 1:07:58For now
- 1:08:00But should we do some tarot about it? Yeah
- 1:08:03We're doing tarot for Nevada City obviously it's a different day. Yeah
- 1:08:11Um
- 1:08:12And I'm different out the
- 1:08:14Also, we wanted to be together to do the tarot and then uh, hi, it's me sick again. So I'm stuck in my bedroom
- 1:08:23Yeah, so anyway, we are using the tattoo deck because it remind it gave us Lola vibes
- 1:08:35Lola the spider dancer Spanish dancer
- 1:08:39Italian spider
- 1:08:40Trenchla. Dancer.
- 1:08:42We're thinking Nevada City we're thinking I have to sneeze all of a sudden I don't know
- 1:08:49Um
- 1:08:52Yeah, oh we talked about the the firehouse and the gen it was like gingerbread style
- 1:08:57Yes, there was that red castle in that was gingerbread style
- 1:09:02So pretty
- 1:09:05Lola okay, I'm sending you all the vines
- 1:09:09Hopefully you have more vives than me because we know what happens when we get sick. Oh yeah
- 1:09:13I'm doing my best at least I'm not pulling the card
- 1:09:15Oh god
- 1:09:17So how do you want me to to pick this? I've just done like a real like 52 card pickup situation down here
- 1:09:24Feel or just put your hands and all over it get in there touch them all feel it out. I've chosen
- 1:09:30Oh
- 1:09:33What do we get? Okay, I'm gonna flip it right tight up
- 1:09:35Okay, I can't see it. Can you see it?
- 1:09:38Oh, is it a dancing woman? Oh, I guess she's not dancing, but she could be honestly
- 1:09:44She kind of looks like she is it's sort of a drop it low kind of a twerking. She's yeah, she's working
- 1:09:50She's got those spiders out of her hoo ha. Oh
- 1:09:53Oh, I don't like that for us. She's queuing the spiders out
- 1:09:58I think I'm in a fever dream right now
- 1:10:01Yeah
- 1:10:04I need to sip of my medicine ball
- 1:10:08Oh boy
- 1:10:09Okay, so we got the star, but in the reverse
- 1:10:13We got the star too. Oh my gosh. This is just such a low level vibes
- 1:10:18I think so in that song doesn't it say something about yellow feathers in our hair and we were talking about that song
- 1:10:25Yeah
- 1:10:26Were they yellow? I'll look up the lyrics. Yeah, you do your thing. Okay
- 1:10:30I was like
- 1:10:32So I have our keywords
- 1:10:35Happiness, hope, light at the end of the tunnel and good fortune
- 1:10:40This lovely card often portrays a nude female figure in or beside a pool of water
- 1:10:47In some decks she pours water from two jugs or chalices
- 1:10:52In the writer wait Smith deck she pours the contents of one pitcher into a stream and the other onto the ground
- 1:10:59Showing the connection between the two feminine elements water and earth
- 1:11:05Stars shine in the background sometimes in a circle or a halo-like formation around her
- 1:11:10She represents truth and purity
- 1:11:13The jugs contain the waters of life. We see shooting stars as harbingers of good luck
- 1:11:19We wish upon the star where the star is a universal symbol of hope
- 1:11:24Getting this card is like looking up at the bright starry sky on a clear night and seeing all of the magnificence of the universe
- 1:11:34Ah
- 1:11:35This is a time of fulfillment
- 1:11:37Good fortune creative inspiration and spiritual growth
- 1:11:42When you receive help from unseen forces and wishes come true
- 1:11:46I'm it's starting to remind me too. I think of the first story that we talked about the uh
- 1:11:52The national hotel where it was like
- 1:11:57It was like last night. I dreamt I was at the national hotel
- 1:12:02And then we got like the stars that just reminds me of like starry dream land
- 1:12:06But if I'm recalling
- 1:12:10So we did talk about quite a few females in this episode we talked about the
- 1:12:15That the firehouse there that's now a museum. There's a piano or an organ that used to be from a brothel and they've seen a woman playing it
- 1:12:25There's like the gray lady
- 1:12:28There's a lot of ladies in this one so
- 1:12:32Interesting we got a lady on the card. I think so
- 1:12:35Okay, I'm going to read you the interpretation
- 1:12:38trust life and its processes and yourself
- 1:12:42The reverse star can mean you're following your path in a private way instead of shining your light into the outer world
- 1:12:49The blessings you receive may be spiritual rather than material
- 1:12:54Which I hope I don't I don't want to interpret that as
- 1:13:00That means I'm not going to get to live in the firehouse
- 1:13:03I mean, I don't know it's a museum now
- 1:13:07Perhaps you feel devitalized uninspired or low on self-esteem at this time
- 1:13:14After you attune yourself to what your soul needs you'll feel more energized and in harmony with who you truly are
- 1:13:22Inner reading about money you may feel disappointed because a hoped for payment or payoff gets delayed
- 1:13:30Even though you're trying hard your efforts don't bear much fruit the time may not be right yet. Don't give up
- 1:13:37Well that red castle in you know was we were talking about it closed and how sad it was because it's like a historic
- 1:13:43It's like one of the only brick
- 1:13:46Or the oldest brick
- 1:13:49Building in that town, so it's like a pretty historic place, but it's closed and like we have no clue what they're gonna be doing with it
- 1:13:56So yeah, I have hope still that they'll do something with it like let me move in
- 1:14:01Yeah
- 1:14:04If the reading is about your job you may be hiding your light under a bushel
- 1:14:09Perhaps you don't realize your true abilities and thus aren't getting ahead as quickly as you could
- 1:14:16The star reversed can also represent disillusionment
- 1:14:21disenchantment or lack of inspiration makes me think of like Lola's earlier life too because she like
- 1:14:27I we I didn't really go into it
- 1:14:29But she like totally reinvented herself into this new thing
- 1:14:33That kind of makes sense then
- 1:14:36Like I feel like maybe she was feeling this way and then like had to totally reinvent herself to like get out of this feeling
- 1:14:42Yeah, that makes sense though that
- 1:14:45Hmm
- 1:14:46In a reading about love this card can mean your expectations are unrealistic
- 1:14:51You're searching for perfection which can never be attained or it can indicate you aren't seeing your partner or your relationship clearly
- 1:15:00That gives me like the nanny vibes like she's still wandering around trying to be this perfect nanny and like take care of all the kids
- 1:15:09But she's not seeing it for what it is like she's not here anymore, so she's just stuck
- 1:15:14Going through those motions
- 1:15:16Wow
- 1:15:18Yeah, like was taking care of the guests when all the kids were long gone and
- 1:15:23hmm
- 1:15:25Interesting, I don't know my brain's doing something hopefully
- 1:15:28I think so I think so
- 1:15:32I know you're doing your best and then I'm gonna
- 1:15:36Totally ruin your day
- 1:15:39As we record my next episode, so you know
- 1:15:45I know
- 1:15:47Oh, so I did look up the lyrics and it was yellow feathers in her hair, so and they were like can I see the card again?
- 1:15:52Oh, yeah, is she like wrapped in the snake or is that the water?
- 1:15:56Uh, it looks like a ribbon. Oh, okay, and it does look like there's like yellow in her hair
- 1:16:05Do you see that oh cool? Yeah, it almost looks like a crown, but I think it's like one of the stars
- 1:16:12It's just funny because like that wasn't part of the story at all the yellow hair
- 1:16:17But like then we associated it with that low-ass song and then like ended up pulling
- 1:16:22It's all connected me
- 1:16:25What can I say? Well, I feel like that totally worked out. I feel like every time we end. I'm like wow that really worked out
- 1:16:34Weird
- 1:16:37All right, should we do the thing?
- 1:16:39Have a creepy ass day. I hope we'll see you next Tuesday
- 1:16:45No, we'll be here. We'll be okay. We missed you already her name is Lola
- 1:16:52She was a showgirl with yellow feathers in her hair and a dress
- 1:16:58And a dress cut down to there. (Cassie mumbling wrong lyrics)
- 1:17:00It didn't even rhyme
- 1:17:06Yeah, because it's her dress cut down to there
- 1:17:09I was trying to
- 1:17:11Make it funny and it didn't happen. This is improv Caitlyn. "Yes, and" me. I thought I was doing that.
- 1:17:18Oh, derriere. I was trying to make a derriere joke. Oh, I was like I know
- 1:17:25There is something that rhymes with that and I can make it butt related because I know how you feel about butts right now
- 1:17:33All about the butts
- 1:17:36All about that booty. Okay, we yeah, should we stop? Yeah, we're done now