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The Ghosts of the Strater Hotel · Ghost stories and the Unusual Paranormal podcast

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  Speaker 1: There are stories everywhere you go, some mortal reply than others.
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  Speaker 1: We're here to investigate the stories. This is Ghost Stories
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  Speaker 1: and the Unusual Paranormal Podcast with your host Joe the
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  Speaker 1: Ghost Guy.
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  Speaker 2: Least time on Ghost Stories and the Unusual Paranormal Podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Joe the Ghost Guy told us about the haunted Lebanon
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  Speaker 2: Schoolhouse and how some places are haunted because of residual
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  Speaker 2: hauntings of the past. The children that went there and
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  Speaker 2: at all places are not squary haunted because out of
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  Speaker 2: fear or terror, but for the pure good reasons like
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  Speaker 2: pure joy and friendship and love. What is he going
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  Speaker 2: to tell us about next? Tune in on this episode
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  Speaker 2: up Ghost Stories and the Unusual Paranormal Podcast with your
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  Speaker 2: favorite neighborhood ghost investigator Joe the Ghost Guy.
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  Speaker 3: M Morning, Good at Nudity where we are pross country
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  Speaker 3: and around the world. You are listen the Ghost Story
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  Speaker 3: and the Unusual Printible Podcast. I am your favorite neighborhood investigator.
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  Speaker 3: Joe the Ghost Guy. Hey, I hope you everyone had
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  Speaker 3: a wonderful weekend. I know it's Monday, start up a
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  Speaker 3: new week. I hope everything is start out pretty good
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  Speaker 3: and not too bad. Nothing's really happening right now and
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  Speaker 3: watching Little League Baseball and nothing really happening, just working
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  Speaker 3: as well, doing little research, and I think tonight we
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  Speaker 3: have a wonderful story for you today and no further Ado.
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  Speaker 3: That's turned down the lights, snuggle up, but that loved
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  Speaker 3: one on the chair or couch, grab that bag of
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  Speaker 3: popcorn because it's time. Four lights out everybody as we
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  Speaker 3: start today's episode. There are hotels where you sleep, and
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  Speaker 3: then there are hotels where you wonder is something else
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  Speaker 3: sleeping with you? Tonight we're traveling deep into southwestern Colorado,
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  Speaker 3: into the historic town of Duringle, Colorado, a town built
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  Speaker 3: around the railroad, a town that remembers the footsteps miners, gamblers, businessmen, travelers, outlaws,
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  Speaker 3: and people who never quite seemed to lead. Standing in
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  Speaker 3: the heart of downtown Durango is a building that has
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  Speaker 3: watched more than a century past through its doors, The
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  Speaker 3: Strata Hotel. Built in eighteen eighty seven, the Strata become
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  Speaker 3: one of Durgo's most recognizable landmarks. Its Victorian architecture is
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  Speaker 3: very beautiful, it would. It's woodwork is elaborate, its rooms
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  Speaker 3: carry the atmosphere of another century. But according to stories
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  Speaker 3: passed down through the years, some of the hotel's former
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  Speaker 3: occupants may still be checked in. Tonight, we're going inside,
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  Speaker 3: and after the doors closed, we may not be alone.
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  Speaker 3: Imagine duringo in the late nineteenth century, the railroad has arrived,
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  Speaker 3: steam engines, filled the air with smoke, horses pole wagons.
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  Speaker 3: Through the dusty streets. Miners, merchants, travelers, gamblers and adventurers
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  Speaker 3: ar riot looking for opportunity, and in the middle of
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  Speaker 3: it all stands a brand new hotel. The Strata when
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  Speaker 3: it was when it has opened its doors in eighteen
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  Speaker 3: eighty seven, it represented luxury and sophistication for a growing
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  Speaker 3: frontier community. Guests walk through beneath its irate ceilings. They
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  Speaker 3: climbed wooden staircases. They entered rooms illuminated by the technology
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  Speaker 3: of the age. But hotels are strange places. They are
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  Speaker 3: temporary homes. People arrived carrying their secrets, celebrate, they argue,
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  Speaker 3: they fall in love, they become sick, they die, and
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  Speaker 3: then they leave, Or at least that's what they're supposed
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  Speaker 3: to believe, because according to local legend, the Stratter Hotel
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  Speaker 3: has accumulated something over the decades that doesn't appear on
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  Speaker 3: any reservation list, stories, whispers, footsteps, and of course ghosts.
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  Speaker 3: Picture yourself standing in one of the hotels, always right
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  Speaker 3: after midnight, the lights low, The building is quiet. There
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  Speaker 3: are no voices coming from the lobby, no luggage rolling
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  Speaker 3: across the floor, no doors opening, nothing, just silence. Then
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  Speaker 3: don't it. Son comes somewhere in the hallway. You wait nothing,
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  Speaker 3: You take another step, don't closer, You stop, and then
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  Speaker 3: you hear it. Footsteps, slow, measured approaching, They grow louder,
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  Speaker 3: one footstep, two, then four. You look towards the end
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  Speaker 3: of the hallway. Nobody's there. Let the foot of footsteps continue,
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  Speaker 3: and suddenly they stop right outside your door. You stare
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  Speaker 3: at the doorknob. It doesn't move. You wait ten seconds,
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  Speaker 3: go by twenty thirty. Then you freeze, another and another.
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  Speaker 3: You reach for the handle, You open the door. The
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  Speaker 3: hallway is empty, comes to empty, but on the wooden
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  Speaker 3: floor you hear one final sound, a final step behind you.
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  Speaker 3: The Statter Hotel has developed a reputation for strange occurrences
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  Speaker 3: over the years. Guests and visitors have reported hearing unexplained footsteps.
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  Speaker 3: Doors have reportedly opened or closed on their own. Some
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  Speaker 3: people claim to have her voices, then nobody else was nearby.
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  Speaker 3: Others describe the unsettling sensation that someone was watching them.
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  Speaker 3: And then there are the store of apparitions, figures appearing briefly,
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  Speaker 3: only to disappear at moments later. Now are these stories
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  Speaker 3: proof of ghosts. No, there are no scientific evidence establishing
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  Speaker 3: that the spirits inhabited the hotel. Old buildings make strange noises,
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  Speaker 3: what expands and contracts, Pipes rattle when moves through the walls,
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  Speaker 3: People can misinterpreted shadows, and the human brain is especially
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  Speaker 3: good at turning unexplained sounds to something meaningful. But that
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  Speaker 3: doesn't stop the stories. And some of these stories are
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  Speaker 3: remarkably present. Are there remarkably persistent? Imagine checking into a
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  Speaker 3: room at the stratter. You unpack your bags, You admire
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  Speaker 3: the historic surroundings, you take photographs. Everything seems perfectly normal
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  Speaker 3: until bedtime. You turn off the lights, you lie down,
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  Speaker 3: and then you notice it. The room feels different. Not cold,
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  Speaker 3: not necessarily frightening, just occupy. You hear something move, a
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  Speaker 3: gentle rustle, You sit up. Nothing, You lay back down,
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  Speaker 3: thinking nothing of it. Then the floorboards, look towards the door.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing another then this time from another side of the room.
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  Speaker 3: You turn on the lamp. Silence, turn it off. Then
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  Speaker 3: you hear something that makes your heart stop. A voice,
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  Speaker 3: not loud, not clear, almost someone is whispering from the hallway.
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  Speaker 3: You sit up, you listen nothing. You convince yourself it
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  Speaker 3: was just a plumbing Then a whisper comes again, this
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  Speaker 3: time closer. You reach for the light, and the lamp
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  Speaker 3: turns on by itself. Among the types of the stories
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  Speaker 3: commonly associated with the old hotels are sightings, are mysterious
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  Speaker 3: women dressed in clothing from another era. The stratter is
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  Speaker 3: no exception to that atmosphere. Imagine welcome through the hotel
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  Speaker 3: late at night. At the far end of the hallway,
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  Speaker 3: you notice a woman. She's standing completely still. Her clothing
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  Speaker 3: appears old fashioned. She looks as though she belongs another century.
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  Speaker 3: You assume she's just another guest. You call out, no response.
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  Speaker 3: You walk closer, she doesn't move. You take another step,
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  Speaker 3: and then she turns. Her face is pale, her eyes
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  Speaker 3: seemed fixed directly on you. You blink. She's gone. No footsteps,
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  Speaker 3: no door closing, nothing, just an empty hallway, And perhaps
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  Speaker 3: the strangest part, you later discover that nobody matching her
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  Speaker 3: description has ever stayed on your floor. One of the
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  Speaker 3: most fascinating things about the haunted historic hotels is that
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  Speaker 3: the supernatural stories often seen connected to the building's past.
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  Speaker 3: You don't just hear random noises accorn a legend. You
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  Speaker 3: hear things that seem to belong in another time. Music, laughter, voices, footsteps,
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  Speaker 3: a distant train, a door opening, a glass breaking for
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  Speaker 3: a moment. As just as though hotel is in simply
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  Speaker 3: a building, it's a recording, a place where the past
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  Speaker 3: has somehow left in an impression, and occasionally someone claims
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  Speaker 3: to hear that the impression. Imagine standing alone inside the hotel.
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  Speaker 3: The clock reads to seventeen in the morning, then faintly
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  Speaker 3: hear piano music. You walk towards it. The music gets louder,
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  Speaker 3: turn the corn and the music stops. You look into
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  Speaker 3: the empty room. There's nothing there, but the piano is
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  Speaker 3: still moving, one key then another in silence. Every haunted
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  Speaker 3: hotel seemed to have a story about some one who
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  Speaker 3: never truly left. The stratter is no different. The legends
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  Speaker 3: grow from a simple and unsetting idea, what if there
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  Speaker 3: is Some of the hotel's former guests are still wondering
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  Speaker 3: that's halls to day. Think about it. The number of
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  Speaker 3: people who have passed through those doors since eighteen eighty seven,
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  Speaker 3: thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people who compte d
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  Speaker 3: wrangle for business, people traveling west, people working in the mines,
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  Speaker 3: people celebrating, people returning from something, people searching for something.
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  Speaker 3: Some arrived with families, others just arrived down on their
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  Speaker 3: own alone, and some never make it home. Over more
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  Speaker 3: than a century, countless lives interested with its building, and
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  Speaker 3: it's it is here where the legends begin. Now, imagine
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  Speaker 3: you're standing in beside an old elevator. It's late, very late.
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  Speaker 3: The lobby is nearly empty. You press the button, doors open,
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  Speaker 3: You step in the side, you press your floor. The
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  Speaker 3: doors closed. Eld water begins to rise first floor, second floor,
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  Speaker 3: third floor, and it stops. The door's open, no ways
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  Speaker 3: standing outside. You wait. The doors begin to close, Then
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  Speaker 3: a hand appears between them. The doors reopen again, but
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  Speaker 3: there's no person. Nothing. You stare into the hallway empty.
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  Speaker 3: The doors close again. The elevator begins moving. Then you
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  Speaker 3: feel something or someone standing behind you. You can since them.
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  Speaker 3: You don't want to turn around, but eventually you do
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  Speaker 3: nothing the elevator reaches your floor, ding, the door opens,
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  Speaker 3: you step out, and just before the doors close, you
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  Speaker 3: hear a voice behind you. Why maybe the ghosts aren't real.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe they are, But there's another explanation for wide places
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  Speaker 3: that the strattler feel so different. History has weight. Walk
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  Speaker 3: through a modern hotel, you may see the polished floors, televisions, phones,
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  Speaker 3: and brand lights. Walk through a historic hotel and you're
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  Speaker 3: surrounded by evidence that people live differently. The wood has
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  Speaker 3: been touched by thousands of hands. The stairs have been
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  Speaker 3: carried generations of footsteps. The doors have opened and closed
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  Speaker 3: countless and countless times. Every room has a story, and
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  Speaker 3: when the building becomes quiet, your imagination begins filling in
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  Speaker 3: the blanks. Its creaky foreboard becomes a footstep, a shadow
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  Speaker 3: figure becomes real, a distant voice becomes a whisper. But sometimes,
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  Speaker 3: even on the explanation doesn't completely remove the feeling, because
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  Speaker 3: there are stories that people remember, stories that get repeated,
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  Speaker 3: stories that become part of the identity of a place,
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  Speaker 3: and eventually the hotel itself becomes a legend. Now imagine
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  Speaker 3: yourself standing at the strata your final night. You've heard
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  Speaker 3: all the stories, the footsteps, the voices, the mysterious figures.
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  Speaker 3: You laugh about it. You don't believe in ghosts, at
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  Speaker 3: least you don't think you do. You go to bed
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  Speaker 3: and it passes one o'clock, two o'clock, three o'clock, and
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  Speaker 3: then footsteps. You open your eyes, Then another, then another
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  Speaker 3: footsteps you're coming from they're coming from the hallway. You
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  Speaker 3: sit up. The footsteps stop, You wait nothing. You lay
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  Speaker 3: back down, thinking nothing of it. Then you hear your
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  Speaker 3: door handle move slowly, very slowly, your handle turns. You stare,
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  Speaker 3: the door doesn't open. The handle returns to its normal position.
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  Speaker 3: You breathe again, and then you hear the footsteps again,
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  Speaker 3: but this time the inside the room. One footstep, two footsteps,
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  Speaker 3: three footsteps. They're moving towards the bed. You pull the
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  Speaker 3: blankets over yourself. The footsteps stop, silence, Then you fill
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  Speaker 3: the mattress sink. Right beside you, something has just sat down.
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  Speaker 3: The Strayler Hotel has stood in duringo for more than once.
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  Speaker 3: More than a century. Generations have walked through its doors.
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  Speaker 3: The world outside has changed, technology has changed, transportation has changed,
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  Speaker 3: even people have changed, but the hotel remains still standing,
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  Speaker 3: still watching, still carrying, the echoes from the past. Are
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  Speaker 3: the stories true? Are they really spirits wandering the hallways?
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  Speaker 3: Are the unexplained footsteps evidence of the dead, or are
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  Speaker 3: these simply the sounds of an ancient building setting beneath
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  Speaker 3: its weight of its own history. Perhaps we never will know,
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  Speaker 3: But there's something strangely beautiful about the possibility, because if
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  Speaker 3: ghosts exist, then maybe a place like the Strata it
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  Speaker 3: isn't haunted because the people died there. Maybe it's haunted
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  Speaker 3: because people live there. They laughed there, they loved there,
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  Speaker 3: They argued in there, they dreamed in there, and they
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  Speaker 3: waited in there, and maybe some part of those lives
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  Speaker 3: never completely have disappeared. So the next time you're in Durango,
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  Speaker 3: Colorado and you see the lights on a Strata Hope
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  Speaker 3: Tell glowing against the darkness, remember this. The doors may close,
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  Speaker 3: the guests may go to sleep, the streets may become silent,
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  Speaker 3: but according to legends, the Stratter Hotel never truly sleeps.
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  Speaker 3: And if you're walking through one of these old hallways
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  Speaker 3: after midnight and you hear footsteps behind you, don't turn
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  Speaker 3: around too quickly, because you might discover that you are
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  Speaker 3: not the only one walking down the hall. This has
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  Speaker 3: been your story of the Stratler Hotel. Until next time,
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  Speaker 3: keep your lights on, walk your and whatever you do,
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  Speaker 3: don't answer the knock. Mhmm.