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The Hauntings of the Biltmore Hotels · Ghost stories and the Unusual Paranormal podcast

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Speaker 1: This Unusual Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, where we
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Speaker 1: am Indeeder's booky host. For now it is the fourth season.
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Speaker 1: I am Joe the ghost Guy. Yes, you heard me correctly,
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Speaker 1: it is our fourth season. Seems so long that, you know,
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Speaker 1: we're back on for a fourth season. So where are
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Speaker 1: we going to do today to kick off our fourth
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Speaker 1: wonderful season? I think at first, you know, let's up
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Speaker 1: on Oh, you know, let's go drive into Denver or
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Speaker 1: wherever the local airport is, and we're gonna fly. We're
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Speaker 1: going first go to Miami International Airport. Take a car
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Speaker 1: and we're gonna go to Miami and hy Miami. Well,
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Speaker 1: day's first stop. We're gonna go to Miami's Biltimore Hotel
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Speaker 1: or the Biltmore Hotel or just the Biltmore as the
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Speaker 1: luxury hotel in the Coral Gables of Florida. The hotel
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Speaker 1: was designed by Schultz and Weaver and built in nineteen
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Speaker 1: twenty six by John m mcint bowman and George Merrick
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Speaker 1: as part of the Biltmore Hotel chains. The hotel tower
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Speaker 1: are inspired by the the medieval Tower and Cathedral Seville, Italy.
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Speaker 1: When completed in nineteen twenty six, Biltmore became the tallest
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Speaker 1: building in Florida at three hundred and fifteen feet or
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Speaker 1: ninety six meters, holding the record as Florida's tallest building
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Speaker 1: until nineteen twenty eight, when the Day County Courthouse was built.
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Speaker 1: At one time, the pool was one of the largest
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Speaker 1: pools in the world and employed swimming instructor and later
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Speaker 1: tarzan actor Johnny Wisan was a miller. It served as
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Speaker 1: a hotel during World War Two and as a veterans
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Speaker 1: administration hospital and campus the University of Miami Medical School
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Speaker 1: till in nineteen sixty eight. The hotel was then bennon
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Speaker 1: for many years before again resuming operations as a hotel
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Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty seven, nineteen eighty six, a Miami Biltmore
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Speaker 1: Hotel was designed. As net was designated and National Historic
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Speaker 1: nineteen twenty five, and developer Georgie Merrick joined forces with
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Speaker 1: Bowman Biltmore Hotels president John Mcatnee Bowman at the height
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Speaker 1: of the Florida Land Boom to build a grand hotel
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Speaker 1: which would only serve as a hosty to the crowds
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Speaker 1: which were more thronging to the chloral gables, but also
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Speaker 1: would serve as center of sports and fashion. In January
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Speaker 1: nineteen twenty six, after ten months of construction at least
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Speaker 1: the cost of ten million, the hotel debuted with the
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Speaker 1: inaugural that brought people down from northern cities on trains
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Speaker 1: marked Miami built more specials. Visitors included Ginger Rogers, Judy Garland,
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Speaker 1: Bing Crosby l Scarface Capone, Yeah, the Mobster, and a
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Speaker 1: sort of Roosevelts. Well mean, you know, I'm sure a
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Speaker 1: lot of Roosevelt's Teddy and all the cousins and all that,
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Speaker 1: and the Duke and Dutch. It's a Windsor and this
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Speaker 1: in Duchess. A Windsor was the king of England at
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Speaker 1: the time. King Edward the eighth was also known Duke
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Speaker 1: of Windsor. He was a king where the British to
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Speaker 1: the British and the Empire of India from nineteen th
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Speaker 1: six until uh until the till December of the same year.
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Speaker 1: And also this is where he met his girlfriend or fiancee,
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Speaker 1: the person that he was in love with, which made
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Speaker 1: the Duchess of Windsor uh. She was American solicited socialite
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Speaker 1: and was she later became the wife President Edward, Prince Edward,
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Speaker 1: the Duke of Windsor their initiation to marry. At the
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Speaker 1: time they were not allowed to be married because she
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Speaker 1: was a divorcee and at the time it was not allowed.
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Speaker 1: It was against the law for any uh, anyone that
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Speaker 1: was a divorcee to be married. When he or she
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Speaker 1: he loved her so much when he married her, he
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Speaker 1: felt the pressure of the crown that he gave it up,
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Speaker 1: give it to his brother, which later became King George.
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Speaker 1: Then later, you know, after King George passed away, then
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Speaker 1: you know Queen Elizabeth the second and now King King
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Speaker 1: Charles the third, and you know the lineage after that,
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Speaker 1: you know it will later become a Prince William and
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Speaker 1: you know, and all that and uh so they were
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Speaker 1: there at the time. And of course, and if if
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Speaker 1: you do everything perfectly and you're so prestigious and unique
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Speaker 1: and pretty much the cream of the crop, you may
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Speaker 1: also get visited, which they did by the vendor Bit,
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Speaker 1: the Vanderbilts, which was at homes you can't that was
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Speaker 1: that's the cream of the crop. I mean, if you
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Speaker 1: invite them, I mean you're you got did something right now.
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Speaker 1: Of course, as a frequent guest, you got the President
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Speaker 1: Franklin de Leanor Roosevelt. He also at the time of
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Speaker 1: Miami had a temporary house or off house, you know,
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Speaker 1: a vacation house like President Trump has from mar Lago.
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Speaker 1: Fdr had it, and the Vendorbilt his temporary White House
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Speaker 1: office set up at the hotel when you vacationed up
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Speaker 1: twenty six. That happened to be a on September eighteenth,
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Speaker 1: a tragedy sort of struck. Happened to be a big
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Speaker 1: old hurricane struck. While the struck and the hotel wasn't
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Speaker 1: was not damaged, it was undamaged, providing shelter for over
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Speaker 1: two thousand survivors. The disaster singled the end of the
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Speaker 1: Florida land boom. Hurricanes of wipe that out real fast.
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Speaker 1: Eric's Coral Gables Company declared bankruptcy on April thirteenth, nineteen
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Speaker 1: twenty nine. A Merrek's steak in the hotel was bought
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Speaker 1: out by his partner John mcte Bowman in November nineteen
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Speaker 1: twenty nine for two point one million dollar. Bowmen we
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Speaker 1: sold the hotel in September nineteen thirty one two millionaire
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Speaker 1: Henry lengthen Doherty. A large part of the hotel's revenue
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Speaker 1: in nineteen thirties came from aquatic guilas. As many as
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Speaker 1: three thousand people would come out to see and watch
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Speaker 1: the synchronized swimmers, bathing beauties and alligated wrestling. Johnny Weston
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Speaker 1: Miller before he was known for the Rule of Tarzan.
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Speaker 1: It was like the first Tarzan. He broke the world
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Speaker 1: record in the pool. With the onset of World War TIP,
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Speaker 1: the War Department took over the hotel, converting into a
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Speaker 1: one thousand, two hundred bed and hospital in November nineteen
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Speaker 1: forty two. The building was transferred to the Army nineteen
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Speaker 1: forty six and renamed Pratt General Hospital. Many of the
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Speaker 1: windows were sealed with concrete and marble floors were covered
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Speaker 1: with government issue. The hospital was transferred from the Army
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Speaker 1: to the Veterans Administration or the VA in nineteen forty seven. Also,
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Speaker 1: the early site of the University of Miami's School of
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Speaker 1: Medicine at General Hospital remained a VIA hospital of four
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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty beds until Newark Facility opened nearby in
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Speaker 1: May nineteen sixty eight, and the building was vacated in
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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three. Through Historic Monument Monuments Act and Legacy
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Speaker 1: Parks Program, the City of chloral Gables was granted ownership control.
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Speaker 1: The building remained unoccupied for almost ten years, then in
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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty three, the city oversaw its full restoration and
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Speaker 1: we opened to the Grand Hotel has reopened on December
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Speaker 1: thirty first, eighteen eighty seven as a luxury hotel resort.
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Speaker 1: In June nineteen ninety two, multinational Consortum led by Seaway
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Speaker 1: Hotels Corporation, became the new operators of the hotel under
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Speaker 1: a long term management lease for the City of chloral
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Speaker 1: Gables and again made it extensive referbiations to the property,
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Speaker 1: new lighting and telephone systems, repairs to the pool furnishings,
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Speaker 1: complete guestroom renovations, programs and SPA were completed. In February
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Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, the hotel opened that they've built
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Speaker 1: more culinary academy and recreational hands on cooking school. It's
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Speaker 1: classes for adults and children taught by the hotel chefs.
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Speaker 1: April twelve or April eighteenth, twenty twelve, the AIA's Florida
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Speaker 1: Chapter placed the buildings on its first of Florida Agriculture
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Speaker 1: one hundred years, one hundred places That's Pristine. The hotel
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Speaker 1: has been used as a sit in various movies for
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Speaker 1: the Miami One and television programs, including the movie Bad Boys,
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Speaker 1: Will Smith and the Other Guy, The Specialist, Shock Waves, CSA,
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Speaker 1: Miami Poppe, and of course eighteen eighty's Favorite Miami Vice.
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Speaker 1: The hotel has an eighteen hole par seventy one championship
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Speaker 1: course designed by Donald Ross. Reopened in November two thousand
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Speaker 1: and seven followed a five million dollars investment. The course
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Speaker 1: was restored and opened by Brian Silva. The original nineteen
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Speaker 1: twenty five routing was retained, but all the greens, teas
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Speaker 1: and bunkers were reconstructed and grass to come to comfromary standards.
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Speaker 1: The property again contracted Silva to provide additional improvements to
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Speaker 1: the golf course to the summer twenty eighteen most recent
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Speaker 1: and of course finally hosted the Junior Orange Bowl International
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Speaker 1: Golf Championship. There's a little credit to your belt. The
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Speaker 1: hotel has a twelve thousand square foot or one thousand,
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Speaker 1: one hundred meters squared full service spa, which each member
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Speaker 1: of the Landing spas of the world. Wow. Okay, so
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Speaker 1: we have this luxury hotel. So what makes it onto
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Speaker 1: this today's program. Well, there's a little bit of history
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Speaker 1: behind that, of course, and we will find out why. Well,
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Speaker 1: a bit more. Hotels rich in tremendous history has given
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Speaker 1: rise to prethra of ghost stories and no more reports.
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Speaker 1: Over the years, guests and staff alike have reported aerie
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Speaker 1: experiences that defy logical explanations. Which hauntings can you see?
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Speaker 1: And a bit more. Well, you know, since the Bill
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Speaker 1: Moore was you know, started in nineteen twenty six through
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Speaker 1: the thirties, you know, they used to be prohibition and
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Speaker 1: of course you got mobsters like El Scarface Capone. You
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Speaker 1: also have another mobster or he was sort of disgrace.
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Speaker 1: His spirit was the mobster of Thomas Faddy, also who
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Speaker 1: he experience apparently lingers on the unlucky. Of course, in
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Speaker 1: my state, I love the thirteenth floor. I would love
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Speaker 1: to go see the thirteenth flour Maybe I could sneak
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Speaker 1: my wife to the thirteenth floor maker spooky ghostly soldiers
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Speaker 1: continuously marching around the halls. An old elevator operators still
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Speaker 1: working the lift. A sorrowful woman in white wandering the ground.
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Speaker 1: So let's discover this truly well, like I said, The
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Speaker 1: Prohibition era brought the darker clientele to the Biltmore. The
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Speaker 1: hotel became a hotspot forlicit activities. It is frequently by
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Speaker 1: the gangsters and bootleggers. Among these infamous gangsters was Thomas
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Speaker 1: Fatty Walsh, a mobster who used the hotel as his
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Speaker 1: base of operations. Well Walsh's rang at the Beltmore ended
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Speaker 1: abruptly when he was murdered in the hotel's thirteenth forth
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Speaker 1: suitet during a gambling dispute in nineteen twenty nine. His
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Speaker 1: death certainly marked the beginning the numerous ghost stories that
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Speaker 1: associated at the hotel. People have reportedly seen Fatty gallivanting
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Speaker 1: around his room. The ghost of Thomas Fetti Walsh is
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Speaker 1: perhaps the most famous of the Biltmore's spectacular residents. Many
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Speaker 1: guests reports seeing him seeing a portly man imperiod clothing
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Speaker 1: roaming on the thirteenth floor, apparently around the suite where
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Speaker 1: he was where he was murdered. Some claim to hear
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Speaker 1: disembodied voices and sound of laughter, remissing of the wild
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Speaker 1: parties that Walsh once hosted. Other particularly women who got
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Speaker 1: in the elevator, find their ride stopped unexpectedly on the
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Speaker 1: thirteenth floor, which was the elevator doors, refusing to shut
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Speaker 1: and close to let them off in their destinations. Other
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Speaker 1: folks have claimed that the lights have a bad habit
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Speaker 1: of blinking on and off of Fetty's floor. I think
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Speaker 1: it's just Fat. He's saying hi and welcome, and of
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Speaker 1: course he's trying to use electricity to show himself. But
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Speaker 1: it's probably him just saying hi, welcome, and welcome to
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Speaker 1: my floor. You know, let's have a party. Fat he
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Speaker 1: must be might be most prolific a legendary ghost a Biltmore,
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Speaker 1: but he's not the only one. Usually, the echoes of
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Speaker 1: the Biltmore Times Military Hospital lingers form of ghostly soldiers.
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Speaker 1: Apparitions of men of World War Two uniforms have been
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Speaker 1: cited in various parts of the hotel, particularly the area
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Speaker 1: that once housed the hotel wards. Some guests have reported
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Speaker 1: to hear sounds marching boots and distant gunfire. A ghostly
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Speaker 1: woman in a white dressed was often seen wandering the
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Speaker 1: halls of the grounds of the hotel. Gend has it
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Speaker 1: she is a spirit of a young bride who took
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Speaker 1: her own life after being jilted, or basically she was
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Speaker 1: left at the altar. Her mouthful presence is awful, accompanied
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Speaker 1: by chill in the air and scent of gardenias. Well,
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Speaker 1: hopefully she ain't a revengeful you know, you know bride,
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Speaker 1: because the old saying goes, he'll have no fury like
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Speaker 1: a woman's scorn. So hopefully she ain't too mad at
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Speaker 1: you know, whoever started her up, and hopefully she don't
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Speaker 1: take it out any other guests. Well. Over the years,
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Speaker 1: the Biltmore Hotel had attracted attention numerous paranormal investigators. Teams
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Speaker 1: equipped their advanced ghost hunting technology have conducted investigations capturing
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Speaker 1: unexplained paranormal evp his electronic voice phenomena or cold spots,
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Speaker 1: and anominalus e MF fields, which is electric magnetic field readings.
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Speaker 1: Pum Beach resident Linda Splitzer was the Biltmore's official storyteller
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Speaker 1: for over a decade or she never saw one of
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Speaker 1: the ghostly residents. She counts some of the presents of
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Speaker 1: the ghost in hotel, babies crying through the halls, noise
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Speaker 1: from the party, it wasn't happening. A man who came
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Speaker 1: through the front desk and the clerk, clerk, and when
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Speaker 1: he vanished, Thank you, Linda. That's why she told the
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Speaker 1: Miami Times that she heard babies crying through the walls,
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Speaker 1: noises from the party that wasn't happening. Fat he's having
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Speaker 1: his parties, and who came through front desk to clerk
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Speaker 1: when he was then he vanished. You know that kind
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Speaker 1: of sort of reminds you of you know, when we
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Speaker 1: talked about one another hotel in flag Staff, Arizona. You
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Speaker 1: know the Montevista where you know John Wayne was you know,
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Speaker 1: shooting his movies and went to checking his room and
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Speaker 1: he had the you know, the bellman. Uh asked him
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Speaker 1: if you want to carry his luggage? Well, when the
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Speaker 1: duke tossed his hat and missed the bed and hit
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Speaker 1: the floor, and when he turned around, the bell hop
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Speaker 1: was gone and didn't think nothing of it and found
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Speaker 1: his hat on the you know, on the bed. They
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Speaker 1: knew he hit the floor, or when he checked out,
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Speaker 1: he asked U, They asked the people. The front desk
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Speaker 1: asked him, you know, did you have a nice time
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Speaker 1: with us? He turned around says, yeah, but I think
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Speaker 1: your bell hop needs a little bit of a either
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Speaker 1: a break or needs to be a little more happier,
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Speaker 1: is a little hes a little you know, not not
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Speaker 1: so good. That's when they turned to each other and said,
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Speaker 1: since when did we get a bell hop? You know,
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Speaker 1: stuff like that sort of you know, connects and and
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Speaker 1: gives them a little more a which you call it
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Speaker 1: a two and two make four moment where one completes
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Speaker 1: to other. So it happens. And so I mean, if
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Speaker 1: you want to encounter normalless countless ghosts, and also if
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Speaker 1: you want to be part of Fatti's Fatty Washes phantom
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Speaker 1: parties or maybe we'll see a soldier or two, you know,
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Speaker 1: go to the Built Moore in Miami. You could also
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Speaker 1: book a ghost tour and see what you see. And
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Speaker 1: so that's Miami's built. More So, let's go back to
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Speaker 1: the Miami National Airport and yeah, fight into La Lax Airport.
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Speaker 1: Get in your car, and we're gonna go to downtown
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Speaker 1: La which this built more mall is the Biltmore Hotel
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Speaker 1: and the Grand Old Dame of Los Angeles, and the
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Speaker 1: Los Angeles is famous across the world as far as
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Speaker 1: like the Miami one far as sun soaked beaches, liberty residents,
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Speaker 1: the glamour, the glamorous red carpet events. But away from
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Speaker 1: the Pacific ocean views and million dollar homes and endless
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Speaker 1: flashes of proparazzi cameras, the downtown Los Angeles also was
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Speaker 1: known fascinating history and true crime tales, famous movie locations, shoots,
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Speaker 1: and of course the haunting same as the one of
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Speaker 1: them in Miami. It this one was also built in
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Speaker 1: nineteen twenty three, but this one was just under nine
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Speaker 1: million dollars. As soon as built. The reputation a place
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Speaker 1: to see, to be seen and seen. From the mid
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Speaker 1: and nineteen thirties, it was host to the Academy Awards ceremonies.
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Speaker 1: Commun Lmeri's gloomeris such as Jack Wagner, Sebeatable. Among era
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Speaker 1: defining stars of the stage and screen, Cark Gable and
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Speaker 1: Rogers both won their Oscars there. Orkd Rall music filled
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Speaker 1: the elegant hallways and glittering ballrooms, while Simpress U seven
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Speaker 1: course dinners set the scene for dazzling entertainments of the
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Speaker 1: glitz and the glamour. The Presidential Suite was favored by
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Speaker 1: US leaders and gangsters like Al Scarfey's Capone and like
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Speaker 1: the hotel has even served as a speakeasy during the
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Speaker 1: Prohibition era, and when the world fell into a deathly
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Speaker 1: grip of World War Two, the Biltmore became a popular
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Speaker 1: place for reactation and rejuvenation for the war weary soldiers.
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Speaker 1: Well that's pretty cool because you know Florida, you're pretty
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Speaker 1: much you know, they got the hospital and you know
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Speaker 1: the death scene and everything, and if you uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: want to go in just for rejewalization and and everything else,
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Speaker 1: I go by lay. Well. This next one, the story,
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Speaker 1: if anyone is familiar with this story, happened in the
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Speaker 1: mid January nineteen forty seven. This starlet actress had an
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Speaker 1: untimely death. The most infamous events around in Beltmore without
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Speaker 1: a doubt was the broom murder of one Elizabeth Short,
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Speaker 1: a Hollywood deputante now nicknamed the Black Dahlia for her
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Speaker 1: dark blocks. She stepped out for evening of entertainment and
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Speaker 1: the Beltmore in the mid January nineteen forty seven, only
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Speaker 1: to be discovered the next morning in the field outside
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Speaker 1: of town. Warning it's might get a little bit russom.
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Speaker 1: So if you're happened to be a little queasy, there's
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Speaker 1: nothing really, you know, it might be a you know,
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Speaker 1: just bear with it a little bit. Nothing really. You know,
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Speaker 1: I can't say glory because it was paraguidance suggested, so
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Speaker 1: be warned now. When they found her body, it was
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Speaker 1: sliced in half at the wrists. Her body was sliced
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Speaker 1: in half, and the wrists were completely drained of blood,
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Speaker 1: with her intestines removed and her faced carved from ear
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Speaker 1: to ear. Short had met with a gruesome and cruel death,
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Speaker 1: and in its case that remains open and unsolved to
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Speaker 1: this day. You know, no one knows what happened, almost
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Speaker 1: like at the time of you know, Jack the Ripper,
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Speaker 1: where when he took the uh, you know, the prostitutes
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Speaker 1: and did what he did, or HH Holmes who was
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Speaker 1: Jack the Ripper, and he uh, you know, before the
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Speaker 1: time he wanted to hone his skills for the major
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Speaker 1: crimes he did later in Chicago. But this one you
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Speaker 1: kind of wonder who did it, And I don't think
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Speaker 1: you want to know to this day, even with the
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Speaker 1: newest forensics. Of course, you know, I have to have
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Speaker 1: new evidence. I'm sure it's no new evidence or anything's
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Speaker 1: come by nowadays. Schwartz ghost is said to be haunting
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Speaker 1: the lobby and the tenth and the floors of the Beltmore,
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Speaker 1: perhaps where the party was held on the nights she
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Speaker 1: had disappeared and killed all those years ago. Visitors to
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Speaker 1: the Beltmore today can raise a glass in the Elizabeth
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Speaker 1: Short's name. The hotel bar serves a cocktail of vodka,
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Speaker 1: raspberry liquor and koaa, fitting the name of the Black Dahlia.
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Speaker 1: The grand Dame of the hotel was seen a few
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Speaker 1: ups and downs over the decades, from the roarranties to
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Speaker 1: Eli's decline to the seventies and beyond, but she always
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Speaker 1: be spectacular placed in the hearts of the city. Perhaps
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Speaker 1: for this reason and the tales and mysterious mysteries have
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Speaker 1: always surrounded the place, and the paranormal activity been reported
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Speaker 1: the Beltmore from the bowls the basement up to its rooftops,
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Speaker 1: and has said that the ghosts of the little Boy
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Speaker 1: has seen running around on the tenth floor, which is
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Speaker 1: one of the places that Black Dahlia Elizabeth Smart's spirit
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Speaker 1: ledgedly been seen. Other reports include sightings of a ghostly
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Speaker 1: nurse on the second floor who might possibly be associated
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Speaker 1: with the World War two soldiers, the ghost of the
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Speaker 1: young girl on the ninth floor. They faced this boy
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Speaker 1: in the hotel. Roof famous films that were shot at
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Speaker 1: the Biltmore. Of course everybody would notice this iconic scene
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Speaker 1: from Ghostbusters where they went to the Seduate Hotel to
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Speaker 1: the dining room where they encountered Slimer and they you know,
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Speaker 1: put them into their trap. Well, that was at the
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Speaker 1: Biltmore Hotel. It was at the lobby and it was
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Speaker 1: converted to the ballroom, to the ballroom dining area where
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Speaker 1: supposedly that you know today the ghoul A Slimmer or
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Speaker 1: the ghostly body of John Belushi was three scientists. And
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Speaker 1: also you had the Robert Redford movie called The Sting
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Speaker 1: a Chinatown and you got a Belly Hills Cop True Lies.
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Speaker 1: TV shows like Madmen Alias West Wing and Entourage have
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Speaker 1: always shot there, and of course Ghostbusters. Bill Moore is
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Speaker 1: far from only supernatural site from interests in Los Angeles,
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Speaker 1: so was certainly among the most fascinating. Of course, there's
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Speaker 1: other ones that there's a couple ideas that you might
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Speaker 1: do from for a couple other episodes. You got borders
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Speaker 1: on Cherokee Avenue in Hollywood, Los Angeles hunting this tour,
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Speaker 1: so that'd be interesting to look at next time. So
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Speaker 1: if you want to come to LA or in Miami
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Speaker 1: or who have been there, please drop us line at
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Speaker 1: the ghost at the Paranormal ghost Stories at gmail dot com.
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Speaker 1: Love to hear from you. And that's our story for today.
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Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed it. And until next time, my friends,
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Speaker 1: keep it spooky and until then I have a wonderfull
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Speaker 1: time space. Stay spooky my.
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