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Haunted Oatman Hotel · Ghost stories and the Unusual Paranormal podcast

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  Speaker 1: There is things that go bump in the night. Welcome
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  Speaker 1: to ghost Stories of the Unusual Paranormal Podcast with your
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  Speaker 1: Where we are across the country and around the world,
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  Speaker 1: you are listening to Ghost Stories and the Unusual Paranormal Podcast.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you continue to like them. And today I
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  Speaker 1: think we're gonna be close to home. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: take you to a place where I have been many
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  Speaker 1: a times, and I never knew that this place was
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  Speaker 1: count it, but I've been through and very very much there,
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  Speaker 1: and and uh, I'm gonna take you a time where
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  Speaker 1: it was different. And as you go there, you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be going, well, now it would be I forty and
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna be going to I forty. Then when you
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  Speaker 1: get to maybe about about the little small town called Seligman,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna take Gold sixty six route and you're kinda
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  Speaker 1: cut off the I forty and travel down Old sixty
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  Speaker 1: six down towards the backway the king in Arizona. And
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  Speaker 1: as you go back to the back way King Mi
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  Speaker 1: in Arizona, you're gonna hit little towns in between. You're
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  Speaker 1: gonna first hit Peach Brings, Arizona, then followed by Truxton Valentine,
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  Speaker 1: then finally our destination. We're gonna write. Before we get
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  Speaker 1: to Kingmen, there's a little town called oat Min, Arizona,
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  Speaker 1: and that's where we're going to be there today. And
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  Speaker 1: there's a hotel there, it's called the Oatmen Hotel that
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  Speaker 1: is on the historic site of and it's and it's haunted.
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  Speaker 1: Oatmn was first established as a tense city in the
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  Speaker 1: early nineteen hundreds, and the historic hotels was called the
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  Speaker 1: Dirlin Hotel and was built in nineteen oh two. Eight
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  Speaker 1: room hotel did a brisk business to area miners, especially
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  Speaker 1: after two miners struck it rich a vein that would
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  Speaker 1: end up being a healthy wealth of ten million dollars
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  Speaker 1: of goldfind in nineteen fifteen. Before that time, the town
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  Speaker 1: was being a little more than a mining camp. To
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  Speaker 1: the rich gold discovery brought hundreds of new settlers, and
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  Speaker 1: within one year's time, Oatman had grown into more than
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  Speaker 1: three thousand, five hundred residents. Oatman suffered three major fires
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  Speaker 1: and almost was destroyed the whole town in just a
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  Speaker 1: few short years. However, the town was rebuilt and the
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  Speaker 1: old hotel was repaired in nineteen twenty, continuing to host
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  Speaker 1: its many guests. However, both the population and the mining
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  Speaker 1: boom were very short lived. The largest mining company, the
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  Speaker 1: United Eastern Mines, shut down its operations in nineteen twenty
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  Speaker 1: four and the town almost died, but with the event
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  Speaker 1: of Route sixty six, the old town and the hotel
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  Speaker 1: hung on, ce bringing and catering to the mini travelers
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  Speaker 1: along the new highway. According to the hotel, on March
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  Speaker 1: twenty ninth eight, nineteen thirty seven, actor Clark Gable and
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  Speaker 1: actress Carol Lombard spent their wedding night after having been
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  Speaker 1: married in Kingman, Arizona. Remembering this memorial memorable night, the
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  Speaker 1: will often returned to the hotel for the peace and
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  Speaker 1: solitude it offered them. Clark was known to spend many
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  Speaker 1: a night's playing poker with the miners. Sadly, Carol ben
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  Speaker 1: Lombard was killed in a plane crash in January of
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  Speaker 1: nineteen forty two. Though devastated, Clark continued his life and
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  Speaker 1: career and later remarried again. After the years, the old
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  Speaker 1: hotel carried several names, but has changed into the Oatman Hotel.
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  Speaker 1: In the nineteen sixties, when the Route sixty six was
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  Speaker 1: replaced by the interstate and that be Interstate I forty
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  Speaker 1: or Interstate forty, oh Man again suffered steamed blow that
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  Speaker 1: derailed a few and and as it got derailed and
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  Speaker 1: it was bypassed, the town dwindled to a few gift
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  Speaker 1: shops and restaurants. Today it only has about one hundred
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  Speaker 1: people left that live in oad men all year round.
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  Speaker 1: The Old Man Hotel is one of the biggest attractions
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  Speaker 1: of the small village, as the word of its mischievous
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  Speaker 1: ghosts has spread far and wide. The first and foremost
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  Speaker 1: ghosts are of actor Clark Gable and his wife Carol Lombard,
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  Speaker 1: eventually evidently has so many fine memories of the old
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  Speaker 1: hotel that they simply refused to leave continue to celebrate.
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  Speaker 1: Guests and staff often heard the pair whispering and laughing
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  Speaker 1: from the room when as empty. According to one of
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  Speaker 1: the reports, when a professional photographer took a picture of
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  Speaker 1: the empty room, ghostly figure of a man appeared in
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  Speaker 1: his developed print. Clark and Carroll are not alone, as
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  Speaker 1: other spirits reportedly haunt the old hotel. The second floor
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  Speaker 1: houses a theater room museum that were direct outlines of
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  Speaker 1: the sleeping bodies have been found in the dust on
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  Speaker 1: the beds. Upon closer and inspection, none of the surrounding
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  Speaker 1: area has appeared to be disturbed. Staff suspects that the
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  Speaker 1: sleeping spirits is a former chambermaid who has often been
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  Speaker 1: spotted in the room. Other guest room is also haunted
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  Speaker 1: is by an Irish miner who once lived there. Distraught
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  Speaker 1: because his family had died When on his way to America.
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  Speaker 1: He had a habit of heavy drinking. One night he
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  Speaker 1: got carried away with the drink and passed out behind
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  Speaker 1: the hotel. He never woke up. It said that he
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  Speaker 1: has haunted his old room in the hotel ever since.
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  Speaker 1: The staff refers to the spirit as Odie, who often
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  Speaker 1: heard playing his back pipe around the hotel. Other common
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  Speaker 1: pranks include opening the window on the former room and
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  Speaker 1: pulling the covers off the bed. There have been reports
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  Speaker 1: of the room being very very cold and missed being
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  Speaker 1: in a hot desert day. Downstairs in the saloon, it
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  Speaker 1: appears that there are several playful spirits at work here.
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  Speaker 1: Two have been said to lift money off the bar
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  Speaker 1: and raise the glasses into the air. Other strange phenomena
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  Speaker 1: including lights turning on and off seemingly by themselves, and
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  Speaker 1: sounds of eerie voices and toilets that flush in an
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  Speaker 1: empty bathroom, and footprints that appear to have come from
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  Speaker 1: nowhere on recently clean floor. Luckily for Oatman Hotel, it
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  Speaker 1: seems as they were having a buffel of unusual guests
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  Speaker 1: are playful, friendly type and don't have a habit of
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  Speaker 1: scaring away of their guests. The Oatman Hotel is listed
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  Speaker 1: on the National Register of Historic Buildings. The hotel is
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  Speaker 1: filled with memorabilia of the past, and the Clark Gable
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  Speaker 1: Lombard Room has been refurbished to the period they that
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  Speaker 1: it was then. Today the Oatman Hotel no longer provides
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  Speaker 1: accommodations for guests, but still serves as a museum, restaurant,
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  Speaker 1: and gift shop and much much more. And I hope
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  Speaker 1: you'd be able to when you travel down Old sixty
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  Speaker 1: six and maybe put on your bucket list go see
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  Speaker 1: the Old Man Hotel. And who knows, you might end
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  Speaker 1: up taking a picture of Old Clark Gable and his wife,
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  Speaker 1: and you might be able to hear Odie singing and
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  Speaker 1: Bay in his bagpipes. And I hope you guys enjoy
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  Speaker 1: the story. And until then, I hope you have a
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  Speaker 1: blessed and nice day. This is Joe the Ghost Guy
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