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102. [Texas] The Tremont House · Bless This Mess: A Southern True Crime Podcast

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Hey everyone, I'm welcome to Bless This Mess and the True Crum Podcast.
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I'm Kara here. We're Stu. Say hey Stu. Hey, all right,
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so we're back. We are going to Texas. This episode, we're
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doing kind of a special episode. This is going to be a shorter episode,
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so don't write into us. Okay, We've been very, very busy.
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I've been on a work trip and then we're literally recording this and then
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then tomorrow we're heading to Galveston to stay at the subject of our episode.
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And what would that subject? That would be the Tremont House in Galveston,
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Texas. It's supposedly haunted. So I just happened to book that hotel and
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then I on it was haunted. Would mean lucky, mate, you believe
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in this? Yeah? Did you see the light's just flicker? That's just
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our old house. It what did just flicker? Anyway? So, uh
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so, yeah, we're just gonna do a little overview of the hotel,
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just a little bit of the back history of it, and then a couple
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of the ghosts that are supposedly living there. And it's it's seen a lot
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to do. This place is seen a lot. Yeah, it's about to
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say yes tomorrow. I know it's fixing and see a lot more. But
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so yeah, so it'll be a short episode. But then we're gonna go
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on vacation and then we're gonna come back and we should have time to record
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to get you guys an episode the next week. Yeah, like a normal
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episode, but between there I did last week we didn't have an episode,
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like I said, I was out of town for work. But I did
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us on the on Instagram and Facebook. Like I've said the last last episode,
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we are going on a cruise and I've never been on one. Be
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flour so I looked up all the tips. And we are traveling with a
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with two small children, so I looked up all the different tips. So
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I'm gonna like try out the things and then I'm gonna post about them and
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see what worked and what didn't. So if you want to check that out.
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But all right, Stu, do you have anything to say? No,
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I think you've said plenty. Okay, whatever, Stew. Anyways,
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all right, so let's get into this week's episode out of Texas. So
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the Tremont House is a four star hotel. That's right, Stew. I
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treated us to a four star hotel. Yes, it is a very nice
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looking hotel. I got it because let me just explain, why, why
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why I did pay as much as I did for this hotel. It's not
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like crazy expensive, but parking for the cruise is really expensive, and so
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we were going to go the night before and stay in Galveston. So actually
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the hotel was just a little bit more to stay there, which is across
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the street from the pier. And then they they you can park your car
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there for the week, so it I know, right really So anyway,
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so it came out about the same price as if we were to book a
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hotel on the beach and then pay for parking, and then pay for parking,
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but we would have had to drive, you see, how oh oh,
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what ever? Need to understand how little men go and planned these vacations.
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All this is probably news to Stewart as is. Everything that was packed
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in those suitcases is news to Stewart, except for what he packed for himself.
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But everything packed for myself and the children and to make our lives easier
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on the cruise ship was all me. All the scursions, all the research,
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all of it was all me. So all the women can understand where
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I'm coming from. So this is a podcast about murder, mayhem and mystery
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and pat and Caraself on her own back no, and just saying women know
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how how it is. You're you're the one that does all the guys just
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the men just show up and they're like, Oh, we're going on vacation.
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Sounds like fun. Oh you planning this? This is really cool.
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Oh this is a nice zdown. It's like yeah, yeah, I did
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so. Anyways, So yeah, so we're staying at this hotel. So
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it's a four star hotel located within the Stree and district of downtown Galveston.
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So it's not on ocean front. It's on the other side of the streeand
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close to the pier in the I guess that's a harbor. What is that
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stue? I don't know. I don't know anything about Galveston another in the
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beaches, So it's not on the beach, it's on the other side because
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I've I've always we've always learned to the beach side. I don't think I've
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ever even been on the other side with like the piers, because I so
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we've never been on a cruise. But anyways, it occupies the former Leon
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and H. Blum building. Blum Bloom, I don't know. They were
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brothers who owned and operated a successful general mercantile store in the late eighteen hundreds.
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Now. Galveston, Texas, for those who aren't familiar, is a
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coastal city located on Galveston Isle Island, one hour southeast of Houston, Texas,
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and it's named after Bernardo Day Galvez, a Spanish military leader who led
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Spanish forces against Britain during the Revolutionary War. This is a this is some
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history. I just lost like half of our listeners raved they're like, oh,
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so this is a history podcast now, and who died, So don't
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worry. There's a lot of people that died, like a lot. Uh,
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we might talk about them in a different episode, but there was a
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lot of people. Some of the ones that are haunting supposedly this hotel or
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died in this in this incident. So today Galveston is like a centered around
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tourism and the shipping industry. Like we said, we're we're going on a
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cruise which ships people, but it ships other things as well. It's a
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port. Now. The original Tremont House, which first opened its doors in
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eighteen thirty nine, the same year Galveston was founded, has had a very
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interesting history now, starting in eighteen sixty one where they hosted General Sam Houston,
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who years before had led the Battle of San Jacento. Now, if
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you went to school in Texas, grown up, you did your Texas history.
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So all this ship's helping somewhat from them, at least the names.
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You're like, oh, yeah, that rings a bell. I don't know
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what they did, but yeah. If you're like me, like, yeah,
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I know that name, Battle of Sanjacento. Yeah, isn't that in
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that song, we clap too. Yeah. If you're from Texas and they
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started singing the stars and strikes are big, Papa deep in the I can't
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sing at all. I just lost the other half of the listening. You
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did, But it's so true. If you start singing that song anywhere,
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you'll get every Texan, every person that was raised in Texas. We'll start
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clapping. So that's how you find out how many Texans you got around.
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Yeah. Now, in this battle, General Houston's army defeated the Mexican army
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in just eighteen minutes, paving the way for the Republic of Texas to be
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born. In eighteen forty six, Texas officially joined the United States, but
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not for long. Now. In April nineteenth, eighteen sixty one, the
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Tremont Hook Tremont House hosted a grand ball in honor of the anniversary of Texas
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independence. Now, General Houston, so he's the one that's won this,
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you know, independence for Texas. He comes back, he makes this like
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real controversial speech from the balcony of the Tremont to a very hostile crowd.
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Stu. He warned of the horrors of the imminent civil war would bring upon
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the US. Now, this whole speech was for not because only a year
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later, the Governor of Texas, Francis Lubbock, gave a speech from the
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balcony on the other side of the like there was two balconies. There was
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like an east or west or something, so he staged up on the other
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side of the balcony. I mean, they weren't there at the same time.
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I guess he just wanted to make it like symbolic that he's on the
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other side of the boy, yeah, of the building. And so he
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gave a speech from that balcony of the Tremont telling citizens to lay waste to
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the city so Union soldiers would not be able to use any of the available
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facilities. And now during the Civil War, Confederate soldiers occupied the Tremont as
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well as Union soldiers, so it was passed in between the two armies many
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times as they were fighting over control of Galveston. In eighteen sixty five,
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it was destroyed in a fire started by a foundry's furnace that was accidentally left
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a light. That fire swept through the strand strict, destroying more than forty
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blocks. In eighteen seventy one, the Galveston Hotel Company began plans to build
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a new Tremont Hotel, and the grand four story hotel was completed in eighteen
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seventy two, and this new hotel attracted dignitaries and elite from around the world,
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including Karen Stewart, including number one podcasters USA in this House, including
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five US presidents as well as General Sam Houston and his wife Clara Barton,
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and nineteen hundred to devastating hurricane barreled across the Gulf of Mexico and straight into
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the island. Anybody that lives around a Gulf coast knows about the ones that
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have hit Galveston. There was also one that hit Cameron Parish that wiped that
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one out. So these are the big ones. So if you live around
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here for long enough, you know about these big hurricanes that have wiped out
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some major populations and major areas. And this one it's the worst natural disaster.
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And the yeah, I mean this one wasn't even name, but the
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one that hit Cameron Parrish was Camille. But back then and they weren't even
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named because I didn't know if they were coming at this time. So well,
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there is there is questions as to whether they knew it was coming,
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but we'll get into that later. Oh there, yeah, yeah, there
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was somebody kind of knew about barometric pressures at the time. And yes,
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I'm listening, so I'll just tell you guys. So we're going to touch
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on the Galveston hurricane just real. Briefly, we're going to tell you one
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story out of there, because there's like it's like a horror show out there
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with the Galveston hurricane because nobody knew it was coming, because there was a
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whole There was this guy's name, Isaac the scientist and everything that. But
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I'm reading a book called Isaac storm By Well, shoot, it's the guy
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who wrote Devil in the White City, which is about H. H.
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Holmes in Chicago and everything I had to look up. Anyways, I'm reading
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right now because I got into after researching this tree want House. I got
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interested in the Galveston hurricane because it was so deadly, and so I'm reading
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that. So after I get done with that, I think I'll do a
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little episode about the Galveston hurricane because we do Murder Mystery Mayhem Stewart and we
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make up the rules. So that's Mayhem yep. We Yeah, it's our
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podcast, so we can do whatever we want. It's her podcasts, so
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anyway, so yeah, so we're going to get more into that on a
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later episode after I finished that book. But yeah, so there was a
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guy named Isaac I forget his last name already but now, no, Stewart,
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he did. He did have an understanding like st set of pressures and
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things like that, and he might have foreseen something happening and did not.
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He just wasn't quite sure what it meant. Well, but he told everybody
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to hang around, and they're all out there standing on the beach like,
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oh, look at the pretty pink sky and everything like that. And the
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next thing you know is like like hell, anyways, go on to do
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anyway. But not everybody know. Everyone thinks of like really bad hurricanes.
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Yes, Katrina was really bad, but they don't realize this was really I
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mean, this was worse. I mean a lot of people probably think Hurricane
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Katrina is like the worst hurricane and that was a levee breach that caused most
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of that devastation. Well yeah, but I'm saying that like death toll and
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stuff like that, but people don't realize it's something that took out yeah,
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one thousand people. Yeah, because this was the winds and the storm surge
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that took him out. This wasn't a levee breaking or anything. That was
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just like sheer storm surge, heavy winds, flying debris everything. Yeah,
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and they just washed people out back out to see a lot of people ended
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up missing it. So anyway, I don't know if I said it before
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Kara interrupted me. Shut up, Stair, but it is estimated that between
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six thousand and eight thousand people died during this hurricane, and it left the
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island in ruins. The hurricane brought winds of about one hundred and twenty miles
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an hour and teen feet of water washing over the entire island. Now Over
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thirty thousand people were left homeless and dead bodies pretty much littered the streets.
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Once the water receded, any buildings that were left standing were turned into makeshift
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morgues, and this included the future home of the current Tremont Hotel, Tremont.
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She wants to get all fancy and French with it, Trey. He's
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like, is it Tremont? And I'm like, no, I think it's
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Tremont. It's Galveston, Texas, for God's sakes. Now, yes,
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So this would be the Leon and H Bloom Mercantile building. So this is
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where we're going and staying where there was it was a morgue like dead bodies
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just piled ups too. And then once they got the bodies out of there.
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The Tremont was used to house the homeless residence after the hurricane as well.
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So and so this all happened with this building and everything that. And
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then in nineteen eighty one, George and Cynthia Mitchell took the Leon and H.
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Bloom buildings and over the next four years they transformed them into the hotel
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that is known today as the Tremont House. So death has not been a
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stranger to the Tremont House. It's history, like we've talked about just briefly,
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is filled with tragic events occurring in its halls. Now throughout the years,
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many people staying at the Tremont have reported unusual occurrences due to these lingering
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spirits. Do is this life the one that we stayed at in Arkansas?
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Arkansas? Yes? Yes, he that one had like that. Well he
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was he wasn't. I don't know if you classified as a serial killer,
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but the old Baker Hotel where he was saying he could cure cancer. But
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he's really just experimenting on the bodies and trying. He was a flim flam
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man stud. He was just trying to make some money. So you got
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a hustle. So I'm going to read some of these. Do you want
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to read any of them? Do because you think they're stupid? I don't
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think they're stupid. No, I think you're stupid. Stude doesn't think any
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of this. I don't know if I believe in ghosts, but I'm not
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gonna say I don't because I don't want to anger any of them in case
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they're out there. You know what I'm saying, Well, I've said I've
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said it at Saint Francis Fell, at the Myrtles, I said it at
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in Eureka Springs, and I'm gonna say it again tomorrow. What I don't
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believe in the ghosts? Oh god, Now this is how we're going to
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get one of our children possessed. Okay, I know that one anyways,
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Uh, I did have that one. Whenever I was in doing that little
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meter at the Eurekas the Crescent Hotel or whatever, they said something was following
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me. But I told him I had enough problems back in my room.
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I don't need you were all asleep. That was the most I mean,
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I do. I like the Crescent Hotel because it was like old and everything
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that, but those were the most uncomfortable beds. They haven't. I guess
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they don't make enough money to or don't put the money into updating it to
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make it more like. I understand, like keeping the aesthetic of the old,
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creepy kind of hotel, but like we could maybe have an updated mattress.
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And they were there since the Civil War. They were there from the
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beginning too. Yes, that's mattress like you like laid down on just like
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sank to one side and it just felt like you were about to roll off
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the bed the whole ninth And then we had to share the bed with the
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well, we had two beds. And then the toddler she she ended up
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in my bed. I think she slipped in your and you just took the
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bed to yourself next to the act. Oh. Yeah. The ac wasn't
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the best either, And then so I so I oh that's right, I
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remember. Yeah, I left stewing the room with the baby and the toddler
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to get them to sleep. Well, I went up to the bar and
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had a drink and then went on a ghost tour. Yes, And then
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I snuck back in the room and I slept in the full the queen bed
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all by myself, next to the act stupid to sleep with the child anyways,
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So probably how it's gonna go down to morrow time? Yes, no,
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I well I got a one bedroom, but yeah, she'd probably have
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to sleep. She's a we have we have raised independent sleepers. They sleep
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in their own space. I don't like that. That's not my I know
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some moms like to do co sleeping and all that stuff. I need my
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space. I need you to get away from me so I can sleep comfortably.
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So they have a hard time, not like the toddler. She has
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a hard time not sleeping in her own bed. When we travel, it
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set's only drawbacks. So anyways, let's start with the I got these from
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ghost city tours dot com. I guess it's like a ghost City ghost tours.
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So the first one is the Civil Mative Stewart's sting these contexts closed.
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Oh my god, now stop being annoying. It's late. We gotta get
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We got still got stuff to probably do. It's probably eight o'clock in the
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morning. I know, but it's not for me. The Civil War Soldier.
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Now Tremont's most popular Poulter geist is the Civil War soldier. Guest witnessed
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this armed apparition marching throughout the front lobby, rhythmically stepping past the elevator shaft.
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You're gonna laugh about the word shaft, Stewart. He turns towards the
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front desk, then back again. Now whenever he isn't seen, he's heard
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his boots clack and clatter across the floor. Employees have seen the Civil War
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soldier in the bar, dining in office areas. Stewart, shut up,
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you're so annoying. Okay, here's the next one. Sam the Salesman.
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Sam the Salesman is another infamous inhabitant of the Haunted hotel. Now Lucky Man,
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as he's called, Sam returned from the Belmont boarding House after a night
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of gambling. He packed his pockets with his prize. Yet Sam's grand slam
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was short lived. He was murdered in his sleep, but the same nights
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do for his winnings. Someone stole them from him. There is rumor as
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to what he how he died. Some people say that he was bludgeoned in
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the hallway rather than killed in his room, but either way, he supposedly
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has a limp, and he drags himself across the hotel with one foot,
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so he's like sounds like, yeah, that was just drunk anyway. So
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mixed up is the ghost of the Great Galveston Storm. So of course there's
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going to be ghosts from that storm because there were so many people that died
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in it. Now, like we said there was, there was over six
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thousand people killed during this time and during storms. They claim whenever there's a
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storm coming to Galveston, I guess the ghosts remembering that they died in a
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stormy They say that the television's turn off and on again, and no one's
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touched him, done anything. Selling fans, they turned themselves on and off.
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One guest witness strange lights followed by three low, deep moans in our
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room, very close to our faces. And then the guests continue to claim
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that they felt an unusual pain, like a knife stabbed into my rip cage.
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St Now, the ghost had never believed in ghosts before, so this
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could be happened to Stewart. Let's hope I'd be like, it's a appendicitist,
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don't run this cruise for us. Anyway, So the guests said that
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after this happened to him, after that he was like a believer in ghost
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and everything like that, and now he owns this ghost city tours thing.
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I'm kiddy. He just said it changed him forever, and he now he
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believes in ghosts. So that could happen to stew It could, and then
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I could start a ghost tour company and Galliston, well, that's not really
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what happened. I just said that. Stewart just well, I just had
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to be clear. So the last one is a ghost of a young boy.
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Now this is young Jimmy. Employees of the Tremont House hotel often witness
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a young boy at the front desk. Attendants mainly see him during their first
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month of work, as if he's their introduction to the property. Poulter Geist
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attendants say that they can sometimes catch his small silhouette from the corner of their
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eye. Even though they say they see amount the corner of their eye,
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they say that he does disappear whenever they turn around, and one of his
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most popular pranks is overturning cups on the tabletop. So he's just like a
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kid. Yeah, he's just being silly. Silly little ghost run around.
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So anyways, that's our conclusion of the Tremont House. I told you guys
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this a short episode. We've been super, super busy. It's just super
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But Stu is going to read us one story pulled from the It's I found
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this article in Yesterday's America and just to give you guys a glimpse into the
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horrors of the a great Galveston Storm of nineteen hundred. He's gonna read very
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tragic story. Don't laugh care art, Yeah, it's anybody else like laugh
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an uncomfortable spot. So they just like they just you know, I didn't
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hear anybody say anything. No, I think I make people uncomfortable too,
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because like I deal with with difficult subjects with humor. I'm sure a lot
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of you guys do, because that's why you're listening to this podcast, because
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you can find like dark humor. So like a lot of you know,
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if you've listened for a long time, like my mom passed away. So
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I make like I make I'll make like jokes or whatever about it. And
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I'm sure people think I'm just like this, like awful, but it's just
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how I cope. Not for that for other things, he asked, probably,
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but not for that. Definitely for other things. But anyway, so
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okay, stud you wanna read this our story on the Tragedy of the Great
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Galveston Store. Yes, because I don't know if you can get through this
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without being weird. I'm like, clear off of a modern family. When
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she's like, I mean, we watch his modern family. She goes over
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and she's telling her son that the next door neighbor died, and she's like
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smiling, that's me, Like it's just uncomfortable. So I just like,
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it's just like, you're just being weird. Just be weird anyways, Okay.
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In this article from yesterday's America dot Com, it's called tragedy at Saint
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Mary's Across town. The nuns at Saint Mary's Orphanage led their charges to the
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safety of the newer girls dormitory as the boys dormitory succumbed to one hundred plus
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mile an hour winds just a few yards away. So knocked down their dormitory,
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singing hymns like Queen of the Waves. To distract the children from the
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tumult outside. The nuns tethered themselves to the children with a small rope around
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their waist. Sister Catherine held two of the smallest children in her arms,
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promising not to let them go as they finished tieing the knots. The winds
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destroyed the boys dormitory, sending de Breee battering against the orphans shelter. The
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impact impact collapsed the girls dormitory building and forcefully sucked the sisters and the children
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into the surging water. Yeah, because they tethered all of them together.
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I'm not sure if that was the right move. I mean, children,
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I know, I guess they didn't expect that to happen. But then once
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one of them went down, they all went down. Now yeah yeah,
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yeah, as we're about to find out. Okay, the impact spoiler alert
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sucked them out into the surging water. Back on the strand, Sarah continued
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to pull victims from the rising floodwaters. Those who were already dead were put
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on one side of the room, and the living were laid on the other.
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She stayed in the building for several days, carrying for the sick and
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injured, until she herself succumbed to the disease epidemic that followed the storm.
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Yeah, I'm sure, Yeah, I didn't even think about that. After
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all that, then it would have just been just feces in the street,
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dead bodies of all that, all that water mill doing stuff. Yeah,
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rust and everything like decay. Just terrible, just terrible stew. That's why
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you're not allowed to talk now today. Sarah ghost is spotted on the staircase
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of the building, close to where she and the others huddled for safety above
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the rage and storm waters. As for Saint Mary's Orphanage, where you will
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now find a Walmart store, only three boys survived by clinging to a tree
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throughout the night and the following days, the bodies of the nuns were found
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scattered across the shore, half buried in the sand. The heavy, coarse
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dresses and habits that they had worn made it impossible to stay above the water
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once they were wet. Each nuns group of children were still tied with them,
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and Sister Catherine was supposedly still holding and embracing the two little ones that
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she had foiled not to release. The Orphanage victims were buried where they were
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found in the Walmart. In the Walmart. Supposedly the Walmart on the sea
26:26
wall is haunted, and also the Hotel Galvez is haunted partially because of these
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these orphans, in these nuns, I'm questioning the I understand that they were
26:38
just doing what they thought was right in the moment. But tethering yourself to
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all the children, yes, and then you got these heavy like you might
26:45
as well like the lords. The Lord's weights on you. Yeah, I'm
26:48
wearing your habits. You should have taken those off, ladies like I think
26:52
they were wool or what. But it's not a good look for a trying
26:59
to make it through a swim party out there. So but yeah, I
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can say tethering yourself to the children. You don't want them getting sucked away.
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I wouldn't have tethered. Okay, i'll take this back take, I'll
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take I'll say, okay, tether them. But they shouldn't have tethered.
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They tethered everybody together. They should have tethered in small groups. If you're
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gone, probably a bad movie. And then take off the habit okay,
27:22
whoop, be called bird style. Let's take it off sister, sister whatever's
27:30
uh no, not sister or sister. That's the show with Tea Tamara Maury.
27:36
Though I watched when I was growing up, all I can think of
27:38
was the second one where they could call it something back in the habit.
27:45
Shoot, Oh my god, nun's on the run. No, No,
27:49
that's got Hagrid in it. I think I don't know. I think Haggard
27:56
was in that OUTSI I'd known that from last podcast on the left. But
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sister or sister, No, it's you got a sister or something. Anyways,
28:06
Well, I know, but it's one of those things you want to
28:07
think of on your own. Someone's yelling it at their they're in their headphones
28:11
right now, going like you dumb asses. Oh well you're in the dumb
28:15
I don't care anyway, So yeah, I think maybe it's not the best.
28:22
Sister Act. I did it before I looked it up. Sister Act,
28:25
and then the second one is called Sister Act back in the habit anyways.
28:30
Yeah, so uh but that was tragic, Stu. It's very tragic.
28:33
Yes, I know. I read the story so anyway, So yeah,
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there's lots of stories like that out of the Galveston Storm. So I'm
28:40
gonna finish that book and then we'll get back to you guys. But on
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that one day, one day, Yeah, it's a lot, guys.
28:48
Okay, you're lucky you're getting this one this week because I've literally been home
28:52
one day and we did this and then that's our how dedicated. We are
28:56
storing. That's how dedicated I am. I had to prepring you in here,
29:00
drink, drag you in here. I started trying to get into convince
29:03
you. We're like, well, let's just take the equipment with this,
29:06
we'll do it at the hotel. And he's like, we're not going to
29:07
do anything. We're not doing anything at the hotel, and then all of
29:12
our equipment will probably get stolen out of our car. Something sparked. Anyways,
29:18
But all right, well, I guess that's it for our episode this
29:22
week. No, no, y'all need Jesus. Do you have a y'all
29:26
need Jesus? Of course I got a yall? Oh do we really want
29:29
one? I guess you can't make a short little episode. Okay, fine,
29:33
then are you ready? Yeah? I'm ready? Okay, you better
29:37
be because I'm tired. I want to go to bed. All right.
29:38
We got a seventy eight year old woman accused of robbing a bank, and
29:45
she is deceased, according to police court records. Would you like to guess
29:49
Florida or not Florida? Not Florida, Not Florida. We're talking about a
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Missouri woman robbing a Missouri bank. And this comes to us from k MBC
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News nine ABC. I'm guessing in Missouri. Updated August two, twenty twenty
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three, Online court records confirm a seventy eight year old woman who was accused
30:11
of robbing a pleasant Hill, Missouri bank, has died. In her file
30:18
on case net, Missouri's online court record system, Bonnie Gooch was listed as
30:23
deceased the Gooch. I feel she needs a middle name, Okay, Bonnie,
30:29
the kid, Gooch or something. I don't know. I don't know,
30:32
well, I mean, I guess you can't call a seventy eight year
30:33
old lady the kid, but whatever you want named a little little little Johnny
30:41
and he's you know, four hundred pounds, so you know, yes,
30:45
the irony and the nicknames, tiny whatever. Pleasant Hill Police confirm the remains
30:49
belonged to Gooch. Police said last week at body was discovered at the home
30:55
of the accused Gooch. A warrant was issued for Gooch after she did not
30:59
appear your Incast County Court as expected last week. On Wednesday, July twenty
31:04
six, twenty twenty three, around two pm, they tried to serve and
31:07
arrest warrant on her. That's when they located the body in a rear bedroom.
31:12
The scene was processed and the body was taken by Frontier Forensics for further
31:18
examination. Gooch was charged in April with one count of stealing or attempting to
31:22
steal from a financial institution after allegedly holding up a bank in Pleasant Hill,
31:27
Missouri. This lady's dedicated court records claimed Gooch provided a note requesting thirteen thousand
31:36
dollars in small bills. She's seventy eight, and she wrote a note that
31:44
said thank you, Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you. Gooch was
31:48
previously convicted of robbing a bank in California in nineteen seventy seven. Oh,
31:53
I was gonna feel bad for Bes. I thought maybe she was just like
31:56
an old lady that got in its a really bad situation, and so she
32:00
was robbing this bank because she needed treatment for like her cancer or something like
32:05
money for cancer treatment. But this isn't just a criminal. She's okay,
32:09
this is just her. She was awesome convicted of robbing at a bank in
32:14
Lee's Summit in two thousand. Her probation for that conviction ended in twenty twenty
32:21
one. So she robs bank in twenty twenty, No. Two thousand,
32:25
No twenty twenty, and she's on parole, so why did she get to
32:31
go back Oh it was COVID timing. I guess she got to go back
32:36
home, probably instead of getting picked right up from her pro parole violation.
32:43
Well that's the end, that's the end of it. So we got it.
32:45
We got a bank robbin granny who is no stranger to robbing banks over
32:50
the years, robbed one just a couple of years back. And here we
32:54
are, poor lady unpassed. How did she die? I'm guessing natural causes.
33:00
I don't know. It wasn't in the story. They haven't updated.
33:04
They just said that they located the body because they went to serve a warrant
33:07
because she wasn't showing up for her bank robbing charges. Well, shell she
33:10
did was robbing bank. She didn't like kill somebody, so I guess I
33:14
don't even think she had a gun. I think she just robbed him with
33:15
a note, so simple, I know, all right, think, sorry,
33:22
guys, I'm robbing the bank. I don't mean it's scary, but
33:27
give me some money, I'll be all my way. And then she got
33:30
out of the bank how's this little away? Someone just tell her no,
33:37
I can tell you show me a gun. I'd be like, no,
33:39
you're not getting the money. I could lose my job. Yeah, I'm
33:43
like, no, I'm not I'm not doing that. And then if they
33:45
pulled a gun, I'm like, okay, fine, then you win.
33:46
You know, I'm Bonny the Gooch, right, Oh shit, here's my
33:50
money body. Anyways, all right, it's do well. I guess that's
33:55
a lighter note than the orphans in the Nun's Dying. Well you think I
34:00
don't even know why you had to bring that back up, Well, you
34:01
know me just I just want to bring it full circle. We see a
34:06
flower blowming, you just want to step on it, yes, Stewart.
34:13
Anyways, I just thought about this whenever I'm talking about how like, oh,
34:16
we're going to this thing. When you guys finally hear this episode when
34:20
it comes out on it's like regular date. We'll already be well passed,
34:24
go into the Tremont House and all that stuff, because and we'll be a
34:29
recording the act. Next episode, she'll be telling you whether it sucked or
34:34
not. Yeah. So, also, we are too cheap to pay for
34:38
the internet on the cruise, so we will be ma on our social media,
34:44
but I will post the crew stuff whenever I get back. That's when
34:49
I'll posted. So all right, well I guess that's it. No monkey's,
34:52
no sloths, no nothing. Oh well we're post about him. Yeah,
34:57
oh, I'm sure I'll do something like that. Well, you might
34:59
get update while we're there, because we got the international plan on thisself.
35:05
Why is that funny? I don't know, because you probably think of why
35:07
am I doing? Why am I talking about this? Because AT and T
35:12
does like ten dollars internationals you can use one phone. So well, usually
35:15
what happens when we do internationally if we go international some place, we pay
35:20
the ten dollars for one of our phones, which was usually mine, and
35:22
then Stu tethers to it. Why are you like anybody that's stupid, anybody
35:30
that's here this long then want to be abused here? This is of their
35:34
own volition. Anyway, tether to stew tethers to mine, and then we
35:38
can both use the phone for the same ten dollars. That's a travel hack
35:42
for you right there. Just make sure and turn it on on your cell
35:45
phone plan before. Yeah. So anyway, so all right, well,
35:51
check out the Patreon. If what I guess, I'll see you in bed,
35:54
young lady. Oh my god, I'll do those things that you like.
35:58
What is your Leave me alone, shut up and go to slant.
36:00
Yes, Stu's an expert at though, like he's so annoying. I'll be
36:06
sitting here the next hour, lay in a bed like thinking about all the
36:08
stuff we still need to get done and all this stuff. But anyways,
36:12
but all right, well, I guess we will see you next time.
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Bye, everyone, say bye stud from bye stud. Don't you know it's
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bye to be supersticious fun nothing else. It's working. It's really hurting sick
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on this work by Cambridge