Episode 4 - The Plains Hotel: Cheyenne’s Most Haunted Jewel

Whispers in the Walls · Sep 10, 2026 · 20m

Beneath the glittering Italian marble and the high-society glamour of the Wyoming frontier lies a building soaked in over a century of human trauma, heartbreak, and uncontainable rage.

This week on Whispers in the Walls, I am driving into Cheyenne, Wyoming—the "Magic City of the Plains"—to check into the historic Plains Hotel. Built in 1911 as a luxury sanctuary for wealthy cattle barons and railroad tycoons, the grand opening was celebrated as an absolute triumph. But within months, the fourth floor became the bloody stage for a horrific honeymoon massacre that local authorities desperately…