Haunted Roadtrip: West Virginia Edition!

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We did. We were craving a spooky episode. And we, what? This one has a legitimate true crime. Oh, you do? Part of it. Like most of mine is true crime. Oh, so it's definitely got spooky. It's true crime. But I have a true crime. You have a true crime, that's it. Yeah. That has weight for us. It doesn't. And the person who knows who they are, and you know who you are. They're not listening. Oh, anyway, mine is just purely haunted. Well, but it involves air in birth. Oh, sir. So yes,

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we ending on like purely haunting. I think it's the way to go. Yeah. So it's going to be, I West Virginia. Oh, yeah. West Virginia. What I think is. Yeah. I saw that you were doing something from West Virginia, so I said, I saw a Lena or a heart for a search on things about West Virginia. No, I thought I started for a search on how to things in West Virginia. I love that a lot, perdi. And it just makes me think of Hannah Bollector saying to Clarice Starling in your accent,

which you've tried so hard to shed. It's pure West Virginia. Oh, ooh, a read. It makes me think of it. I haven't seen talents of the lambs in so long. I feel like I might have said that on every episode, but it'll last three fucking months. But I need to watch that movie again. It's one of my favorite movies. It's such a good movie. It is. It's fucking genius. It is. The way it shot is unbelievable. It's chilling. The performances. Oh, my God.

Me and Drew went to this museum in LA when we were there, and they had like a whole recreation of the cell area. It was sick. If we can ever get your awesome on a plane, we got to bring it up. You can ever get yours right now. I can't believe when we went to Disney, like me and Drew and we came back that we were able to get back in a timely fashion.

“I think you slipped through that right before. No, we literally did. And I'm talking right before”

because we turned around. And I was like, oh, like, as we got through security, I was like, oh, fuck, yeah, you're just in time. They literally slipped through. I'm not trying to try to test the fates like that. Yeah, I'll just be road trip in for a while. Yeah, I'm just been staying on ground for a while. Yeah, we'll see how it shakes out. Yeah. So we grabbed it. Brothers, stay grounded from an earth sign. So today I'm going to be talking about what happened 13 in Babcock State Park in West Virginia.

See, that's the thing. 13 is a spooky number. The, I think it's almost, I always think of 13.

It's like a fake spooky number. I don't like, I don't look at it. It is like a thing. That's crazy because you're Irish. I know. Like in Irish culture, we see it as bad luck. Ma will not see the team people on a table. Yeah. And she instilled that shit into me. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe it's been hard for it. It got instilled into me that I like rebel against it. Yeah, you're right. I always just think of it as, because like, I don't know. 13 doesn't really bother me. So I think I look, whenever it, she, it's showing up in a place like this or something really bad. Actually didn't happen. Yeah.

Like, oh, because I was like, oh, because I always look at it. It's like fiction a little bit. So when it translates into reality, it's like, oh, it really is cabin 13. Yeah. I do this. So cabin 13 in Babcock State Park in West Virginia is said to be wildly haunted. Ooh, want to go. And yeah, because you can stay there. You can stay there, my friends. There's lots of this. People have done a lot of investigations in this place. Oh, so I've already, I've already, I thought about it.

We've already, we've already contacted a couple of friends. We've already reached out to some friends to say, Do you want to go to West Virginia in that far away? Do you want to go to that? You can stay grounded and go there.

But it's the last one in the series of cabins. Oh, that makes you even spooky. Yeah. It's on the end of a very, at the end of the road.

“It's very isolated, very secluded. It's in particular. The staff is like this cabin is the most secluded.”

You're all of them. Freaky. So there was a real, very confirmed murder that happened there in 1996 in that cabin. 1996. Yeah. For some reason, I thought you were taking me way back. Oh, I'm just taking you back to your birth. 29 years ago. Yeah. That year in the middle of the night on April 30, Cheryl Flippo, a 46-year-old wife and mother, who was devoted to her family and her church, was killed in cabin 13, brutally. Now, Cheryl was a beautiful loving and, again, by all accounts, dedicated member of her church.

She was married to the Reverend James Michael Flippo, and they were happy. Okay. Outside, it looked like,

like, but nothing to be. Nothing to be. Nothing to be shocked about. But from the outside, you're like,

okay, nothing that I can see. Okay. In the 1980s, though, something started happening to them. They found themselves being stalked. Oh, fuck. They were getting letters, and they were sent in that, like, classic magazine letter cut out. Kind of a ransom note, kind of, and they would say, shit, like, you're next, and I'm going to get you and just like, scary shit. And it freaked them out, especially Cheryl, who obviously was like, well, the fuck is doing this. But they just kind of went on

with their life because they couldn't figure out who sent them, and they also couldn't figure out when they were coming or why they were coming. Like, they would just get my reason. Yeah, it was very willy-nilly. So they were like, we don't even have like a pattern here. I'm not even sure why they're coming. Okay. Very strange. Now, she and her husband, Reverend James Michael Flippo, decided to take a spontaneous trip to the park to Babcock State Park in 1996. This was after Reverend Flippo had taken

a man named Joel Baudjuss to the park to baptize him in the water. He liked performed a baptism in the, in the creek, in the creek, a crick-tism, and a crick-tism. He was doing a crick-tism. And that he was doing that on April 27th, 1996. Okay. So he apparently loved the place when he was there because he made reservations that day or in his wife to go stay. He said, "This place is the tits, and I would like to study." He said, "Let's go." So the reservation was for April 29th, and they arrived a bit later

“than expected that day, according to Michael Flippo. So they didn't pick up a key at the office. They”

just went to the cabin anyways, and the cabin was unlocked, so they were like cool. Everything was chill. Although James Flippo did use a pay phone at some point during the evening to make a phone call. Okay. At 21-11 a.m. that night, that morning. I was like, as soon as I said it out, I was like that night. It still feels like the night because it's so late. So I'll give you that. So at 21-11 that morning, a night-room-one call came from the pay phone. Okay. It was James Flippo. He was absolutely

panicked, and he said that he and his wife Cheryl had been attacked in the middle of the night by a home invader, and they were both hurt. He didn't know if Cheryl was okay, like he was frantic. Okay. They sent police out immediately, and so the Fayetteville County Sheriff's Department

arrived very quickly. Deputy C. Bryant was the first one on scene, and he noted that James

Flippo appeared to be bleeding only a little bit though, and he was only wearing underwear. Okay. And he had to drive there. He said because when he came out of his house, like out of the cabin, his car was gone. Oh, he's like someone stole my car. Like the person who came in must have

“stole my car. So he had to like run to the pay phone. That's why he was like just in his underwear.”

Like, well, okay. So he, the police officer was like, I'll drive us back to the cabin, and we can figure out what happened. So he gets there, and there's a red Camaro parked in front of the cabin. And so as is protocol, Deputy Bryant was like, is that car yours? He's due to that your car? And James Flippo was like, no, that's not my car. He was like, I don't know who's car that is. And he said he had driven his wife and him to the cabin in a green Cadillac. And this

was a red Camaro. Who the fuck is just leaving a Camaro? So he was like, what? And he was like, I think like this person stole my car. I don't know who that car is. And he was like, so did he like, so this person stole your car and left his like, why would he just trade out your car? Treatsees. Like what? And so he was like, what the fuck? So James Flippo said that his wife was still in the cabin very badly hurt. Again, didn't know if she was alive. Like, any, when asked if

she had, if he had like actually done anything to see if she was alive, he was like, no, I didn't. That's weird. I just ran out of there, which is like, okay. What? So leaving James Flippo in the car, Deputy Bryant made his way into the cabin. And immediately he took notes that there was no signs of force entry in the cabin. Okay. He was like, I don't know if it was like the doors unlocked or

ground was very squishy and muddy. And he said there was absolutely no footprints anywhere around the cabin

“besides theirs. And he said when he went into the cabin, he was like, there was no mud. There was no water”

on the floor. Like, certainly come in. Like, Mr. Flippo. So he was like, which obviously is not like, smoking gun, but it, it made his radar go up a little bit because he was like, it's a pretty big deal. He's like, I guess if I'm, if you're thinking like an investigator, you're going to go, okay, maybe they cleaned up. Maybe they wiped out there. They're muddy footprints. And I just don't see them right. But like, somehow there are no tracks in the mud as well. That's the things like, but how does that

happen? So making his way into the cabin, he found Cheryl Flippo after a lot of searching because he

couldn't find her at first. She was in fact very deceased and was laying between the wall in the bed

with a role of duct tape near her that appeared to have been used or attempted to be used on her. Okay. There was a ton of blood everywhere. And her skull had been completely crushed. Oh, wow. He even noted and it's noted in court documents that there was brain matter exposed

“and it was brain matter on the wall. Oh my God. That's how brutally she had been beaten.”

Later, it was discovered that she had been horrifically beaten with firewood and fire, like like basically firepokers, like holy shit. Yeah. That's really brutal. So paramedics declared Cheryl dead as soon as they arrived and they brought James to the hospital where he was treated for literally a bruise on his head and scratches on his legs. Uh-huh. That's it. So he was taken to the police station to give a statement to Detective S. Kessler.

His statement said that he had arrived at the cabin with Cheryl, gone to the payphone to call a sick friend who was in the hospital just to check on them, written them and they made a fire. They ate some ice cream. They played cards. Like sounds like a nice night together. Yeah. And he said after they went to sleep, nothing out of the ordinary. No fights or anything like that. And he said at some point in the middle of the night, he heard a noise and he woke up to see Cheryl

on the ground next to the bed and a person with something over his face and a rope. And when he described what was over his face, I have to say this because I felt like a dingus. He said a toboggin over his face. A toboggin does it to the sled. Okay. I'm really glad that you thought that as well. Up nearly a toboggin is also like a hat of some sort of. I pictured somebody with a toboggin strap to their face. And I said, I said that's horrifying. No. It's not a toboggin.

Like I'm laughing at this part of this because I need you to picture somebody with a toboggin like the sled. I need you to figure out to their face. A sled face. Yeah. I need you to picture that.

I'm trying to understand. I'm trying to look at the hat. A toboggin is basically like a ski hat.

“I think. So yeah. I didn't know what's called that. I was just like a beany. And when I saw it”

in the court documents, I was like, what the fuck? And I looked it up and I was like, oh, oh yeah. That's funny. Oh, it's because that's the hat that you were to go to toboggin, toboggining. See that makes sense. Okay. See it all makes sense. And later you would say like you would change a story with this. It was like a hat, a hat with eyes cut out, a hat with the mouth cut out, a hat. Like you know, like you would change it up. Yeah. So like I think you killed your wife.

He wakes up. He sees this person. He said before you could do anything. He was wall up to with a piece of firewood and when he woke up because he knocked out. The stranger was sitting on him, cutting his legs with a knife. That's ridiculous. Just cutting his legs with ridiculous. He said he was knocked out again and when he woke up, the stranger, the killer was gone. He checked Cheryl. And this is when he said, I checked Cheryl. And I laid my head on her chest.

And she had a heartbeat. So I ran to the pay for him previously. I thought he said you'd check it on her thing. Yeah. So meanwhile, a detective, and they're noting all of these things. And meanwhile, a detective at the scene has called now and said that there was clearly no source entry. And also that this was a very sloppy stage scene in his opinion. Yeah, I would say so. No forced entry. No evidence of anyone else being there. And things that were even put in

strange places. Like they were trying to make it look like a scene. Furniture was just like weirdly overturned. Like things that wouldn't make sense. Yeah. This along with the brutality of Cheryl's injuries and his surface level scratches that he's claiming he got from a knife. It was clear something was off. Okay. So James Slipo was immediately told he was a suspect. And soon after

he was indicted on first-degree murder for his wife. Okay. During his trial, some of the evidence

that came out was it was discovered that 30 days prior to that within 30 days before this, he had taken out an $100,000 life insurance policy. She was aware of this. Okay.

Like a lot of married couples take these out. Yeah. But yeah, he had done it less than 30

“days before that. Like he was also an overspender. Oh. She had complete control of the finances”

because he couldn't handle having control of the finances. Yeah. She would also like she took his credit cards away because he had maxed them all out and she like cut them up and was like, you can't have credit cards. Oh my God. Yeah. Like he was like ruining their finances. So she was like. She was trying to take control of it. Yeah. But also Cheryl had recently accused Flipo of having an affair with a man who attended the church. Oh, sure. So that had caused some tension in the

marriage as well. So there was things going on bubbling under the surface, obviously. Big time. Further investigation showed that Flipo wasn't just bad with money. He was a thief.

He had stolen $12,000 from a fund that the church had set up to help us sick child.

Oh, this guy's skull. So he's just a piece of shit. He scum. Yeah. Literally scum. So Dr. Irvin M. Sofer, a former chief medical examiner, testified that James Flipo's injuries were not enough to even render him unconscious. I like that he said that the killer was just cutting his legs. Yeah. Which like what? Well, they were scratches. They discovered that they were self-inflicted. Yeah, obviously. Like it was very obvious to see. Why would a killer just sit on

top of you and cut your legs? Because you can also see the direction where the scratches start and if he's doing it from his angle, it's clearly he's scratching his own legs. It's like brother. People are not dumb. People go to medical school for this. Yeah, get a grip. And in the nine one one call like I said before, there was the discrepancy between him saying he didn't check to see if she was alive and then later saying he put his head on her chest to see to hear a

heartbeat. Yeah, that's you would remember. Yeah, that's a big deal. He later said that he had to use the

“payphone because his cellular phone was actually missing. That's why he was using the payphone that”

day. Uh-huh. He said he arrived at the at the cabin and he didn't know where his phone was. That's why he had to use it right away to make that phone call to the sick friend. Next friend, they found his phone, his cellular phone in the fireplace. Brother, the role of duct tape in the water. No, in the fireplace. Like I'm glad you're done. Yeah, the role of duct tape found next to Sheryl's body. Only James's fingerprints were on it. Investigator is a fucking idiot. Investigators

also found that the blood that they had found on the bed was not there because of the attack someone had soaked up the blood on the floor and plopped it onto the bed to make it look like the attack it happened there. That's actually crazy that they could figure that out. Isn't that's cool? Yeah. But a weird thing to do that. Yeah. And that call he had said was to a sick friend was actually to Joel Bojas who he baptized in the park a couple of days earlier. Okay. And that

car outside the cabin. Yeah. That was also Joel's. He claimed he didn't recognize it. That was Joel's Joel's had Joel had let James borrow his car to go to the park that day. And to just like he planned to say, my car was stolen in a random man left his car here. And then I also just happened to baptize him two days ago. Well, that's he's a friend. Right. The literal friend and Joel was like,

“I let him borrow my car because it's convertible. And I think he was like going to be getting”

rid of it or selling it. So he had asked, like, oh, can I take the red convertible up to the park with Cheryl, because I wanted to be like a romantic weekend. And he was like, yeah, that's who had to think that she probably thought this was like a nice romantic. They were going to like try to like rekindle, especially after they were going through what they were going through. Yeah.

James had also claimed that he had never been in the park. But we know that's not true.

Do. And staff confirmed that he was there only two days earlier. They also spoke with witnesses who said that James claimed that this was a spur of the moment romantic get away. You went down two days before. He had not only made reservations two days before when he was baptizing Joel. But Joel said he pointed out specifically cabin 13. This cabin again is the last in the row very secluded. Yeah. He was like, I want to stay there. Right. Like, he like, I want

her why. Now, also that stalker we talked about was him. That was James. Yeah. I had a as soon as you started. Yeah. I was like, oh, that was him. He sent them to scare Cheryl whenever she would get close to like catching him and all his shit or probably leaving, stealing money or claiming like anything to keep her on our toes and like meeting support. Exactly. Now, there were some appeals, of course. And they tried to argue the police procedures,

searching the crime scene for too long without a warrant kind of thing. They did argue this well. You can look up the court case and they go like really, obviously thoroughly into like each of the appeals and how they argued them. And it's pretty interesting, actually. Okay. Um, his conviction, which was a life sentence without possibility for all good, was upheld. But out of this, there was a Supreme Court ruling that came out that did limit the amount of

Now, the clearly cursed energy that is probably pretty prevalent in cabin 13 at Babcock State Park

is definitely, it's definitely been experienced by people. Okay. People say they see a woman standing in the window when the cabin is vacant. She just stairs outside and sometimes she's wearing a night gown, like just looking outside. And they see her sometimes walking through the woods. And they all report that she just has like a very sad, grieving kind of look on her face awful. I hope that it's not Cheryl. I hope she's not stuck there. I really don't want her to be stuck

in that cabin. Yeah. Now, in the silence of the middle of the night, people here saw being or moaning coming from the cabin. Oh, and it'll be vacant. Yeah. Some visitors here are residual

struggle inside the cabin. Like almost like they hear thuds and crashing and thrashing. Like someone

is in a fight in the cabin. But it's empty. Oh, shit. Which feels like a residual like just reliving it. Which I really hope that's not it. Yeah. Now, investigators have noted that when they came towards this is interesting when they come towards cabin 13, the whole hollow around cabin 13 feels it just falls silent. Like they've entered a void. Oh, they said all insects stop making noises. Animals don't make noise. Like it reminds me of O'Kigahara. Oh, it's inside for a step.

And it's like how it just likes is like this womb of silence in there. And it feels very unnatural. It can feel very threatening. And that kind of silence because it happens in a Kigahara a lot,

“it can fuck with you psychologically. Yeah. Like we're just not meant to be that. I think like,”

you know, devoid of any kind of sensory. Yeah. You know, but people who stay in the cabin report that they wake and this is a report that happens a lot. That they wake up to see a shadow looming over them at the foot of the bed. Oh, yeah. Sometimes they give me such a big chill. Just like a shadow. And sometimes they see the shadow lurking in the corners of the bedroom. I don't like just like hanging out over there. No more. And others said that they've been shook awake by

something. And when they open their eyes, they hear a woman talking to them, but they can't understand what she's saying or she'll like ask for help or be crying. Oh, I have non stop chills right now. They will also hear knocking at the door and no one is there when they go check. Oh, I hate this so much. And they hear someone creeping around outside and they look and no one's around. I saw one report where a family stayed there and they woke up a few times to someone banging on the door

hard and hard enough that their father opened the door several times to like scream out there, go away. But no one was there. Several times brother pack up your family and get the fuck out of there.

“Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Several times where they eat on the door. Like that's that's”

some strangers type shit. Yeah. So that's yeah. I don't like the banging on the cabin door. I hate the banging. What are you doing staying in the cabin's folks? I have to. Don't stay in cabins like this. Nay. Unless you're going to investigate because I would like to know. I'm not staying there. I'm not staying there. I'm not staying there. Stay awake. Yeah. Stay awake. Keep those eyes on them. Red Bull. Let's go. Hello. Okay. Well, mine is significantly less sad and horrifying

to be honest. I mean, that's good. And some of my hunts are kind of funny, but some are scary. Oh, I love it. So there's hunts. We get a mix of everything. So mine's a hotel and it's the blender has it, hotel in Parker'sburg, West Virginia. West Virginia because like I said, I saw you research in West Virginia and then I said, I would like to research West Virginia. West Virginia. So the blender hasn't hotels one of the oldest hotels and it opened on May 6th, 1889. Damn,

that's like as old as me. No, it's older. No, cool. No, it's a little bit older. The hotel took six years to build and the whole entire project was managed by Colonel William Nelson Chancellor. The goal was to make this like the most opulent hotel in West Virginia. I love when they have that goal. They were like, listen, if anybody is traveling through this area, which there was a lot of trouble at this time because it was like an oil boom. And like a gas boom, it's just just booming.

Apple etch Apple etch, but they were like, if anybody is going to come and stay here, they need to stay at this hotel and no other hotel in the area. I think that's a pretty cool goal to be like, I'm going to be it. Yeah, that's it. Like the hotel. And I love when they,

they have, it's always the guy who says, this is going to be the most luxurious opulent hotel.

But yeah, I don't, I, I want to say, like, go into it that way, but now I'm like, should you?

“I think you should, like, sometimes it ends up poorly. This is, this is good. This is good.”

Yeah, this is fine. There's like fun hunts. Yeah. He said, I'm not building a hotel. I'm building

I mean, some of them are like a little bit sad. Okay. Nothing crazy. Oh, like that. So it was built

“in the Queen Anne style, which was all the rage of the Victorian era. Okay. Picture or Nate Trim's”

towers, large stained glass windows, all the above. Get it. Upon opening the hotel, uh, it had the finest luxuries that anybody could have enjoyed at the time. Electric and gas sliding. Get the fuck out of here. It was like, this thing were like electric and gas were like working together to, to make electricity or something. They, they were collabing. And they were, and they were working on a collab. Um, and this was literally just one year after the city had like started transitioning

over to using electricity. So this is a really big deal. Yeah. It also had steam heating. Whoa, both service and passenger elevators, which like that was huge at the time. Not having to carry all your suitcases up to your room was a big deal. Oh, yeah. And my favorite state of the art plumbing. Oh, I love good plumbing. We love it when you can shit and peace. Yeah, you know? Yeah, I do. Now according to the hotel's website, guests could enjoy leisurely strolls through double

parlors on the second level. Oh, one grace with an upright piano. A grand mirror stood in the lobby

shielded by a wire cage to deter any potential damage, stemming from the lively streets below. A majestic central staircase spiraled through all five stories, overlooked by public restrooms on each floor and offering privacy in all 50 guest rooms. I feel like we just don't make them like that anymore. We don't. We don't. We don't. We don't. We make that description. We don't see that there. I say, we make that ugly as shit now. Our buildings over here. I'm not speaking for any of you in any other

“place in the world, other than the United States, but our buildings, I'm like, they're ugly. Can we?”

And everything is just condos now. I just want, I want it to be back to like ornate, intricate carvings, Victorian, air-action. You look at some, some like cathedrals and shit, like Germany and shit. Oh, my god, there is one German cathedrals in particular, that every time I see it, I'm like Elena has to go in. Yeah, it's, is it the colon? Yeah, I think it is actually. I believe it is. It's the most gorgeous thing I have ever laid eyes on.

It's stunted. Like, it's stupid. It always goes on TikTok to that sound. That's like,

they're like, me, strong. It's like a Ramstein. A Ramstein. Yeah, that's an easier way to say it. That's an easier way to present the song. Colone cathedral. I think is one of the most gorgeous pieces of

“architecture I've ever seen in my entire existence, gorgeous. Also look up a picture of this hotel,”

because it's also very beautiful. So the hotel was named after Irish aristocrats, Harman and Margaret Blunner has it. Oh, I love that. And they lived on this gorgeous island on the Ohio River, which is also now named Blunner has it, Island after them. Now Harman and Margaret came to America from England for a couple of reasons. This was in 1796 and they had stirred up some trouble in England. Oops. One, because they were uncle and niece, and also husband and wife. Oh.

And two, because Harman was advocating for Irish independence and his political homies, we're not trying to get arrested alongside him for that. Oh, period. I'm just really focused on the uncle and niece of it all. Yeah, number two's not so bad. Number two's not about it all. Number one, bad, but one number one is really shaken me. Yeah, I was shook.

But apparently Harman was kind of always embroiled in some kind of scandal. Yeah, he actually had to

flee the island after it was discovered that he was involved with the Aaron Burr trees and conspiracy. Oh, no. Aaron Burr apparently traveled to the island quite frequently to work on his military plans, which were like fucked up. Harman was arrested twice on the US and financially ruined before he just eventually returned to England. But I mean, he still has a hotel and an island named after him. Yeah, I guess it all worked out. Now they weren't the only famous people involved

in the hotel's history. JFK came out there in 1960 and he stayed on two separate occasions and may have that year. Apparently he stayed in room 216 both times. At that time, 216 was the biggest suite that the Blender House had had to offer. Now it was officially added to the US National Register of Historic Places in 1982 and it has survived many feeds, fires, floods, renovation,

be the most haunted room in the entire hotel. This is the, I think it's called the cults necker

“suite or room 409. The Blender House at website alleges that this room is not just the most haunted”

hotel room that they have to offer, but they say it is considered the most haunted hotel room in the entire state of West Virginia. Dale, right? Now originally this part of the hotel is actually a separate building, which was the cult necker building built in 1889 by John Colt necker. Of course,

of course. The first floor back then was used as a saloon originally. Oh yeah, it was.

And then it became a popular restaurant years later. It wasn't until the moon. I fucking love a saloon. Oh, who does the love of swimming door? Let's go. Let's go. Now it wasn't until the 1985, 1986 major renovation that the buildings ended up merging. Now the suite is the only two story suite in the entire hotel. And it's marketed as being able to sleep 10 guests. Ooh, so like paranormal investigation. I mean, it looks pretty good to me. You want to? Yeah. If you did investigate

“this hotel, this suite is one of the places that you would be most likely to come face to face with”

the man in the bull or hat. Oh, let's go. People describe seeing him as a completely solid figure. They will wake up in the middle of the night and see this man standing in their room. Completely solid figure. Nicely dressed in early 20th century attire. And of course, a bull or hat, of course. He mostly appears to people in the upstairs bedroom of the suite. And then he

just vanishes like he was never there in the first place. I kind of love that. He's just like,

"Hello, goodbye." He's like, "Hello, do you like my outfit?" "Bye." "Do you like my hat?" "Oh, no." Now most people say he's pretty harmless and like they just see him in the knees gone. Cool. But one woman, not so cool, did your report, but she woke up in the middle of the night, saw the man and that he held her down by her neck and bed, and she was unable to move. That's rude. Some would say that is not as cool as do you like my outfit. Some people would say,

"That's paranormal assault." Yeah. I would say so. I don't know what you do about it, but fucked up. Now, no one's quite sure who exactly this man is, but because the hotel attracted businessmen during the oil boom in the late 1800s, people are like, he's probably just some kind of businessmen like stuck there. But some people also think he could be Colonel William Chancellor, who's the hotel's builder. But he, the William Chancellor, is more often accompanied by the smell or the

site of cigar smoke. Oh, people will just smell it, not see anything, but people have seen like

little cigar smoke plumes. Oh my god, that's cool. And he's more often seen on the third floor

mezzanine. So like, while he could be the man in the bull or hot, yeah, I'm not so sure. Yeah. Employees and guests have seen legit smoke rings coming out of his portrait, which hangs in the lobby. Oh my god, I love that so much. Like imagine you're sitting in the lobby, and then you're just like you to see a man blow out of his portrait. But he's a portrait. Now during renovations, that portrait was apparently moved. And when the hotel reopened to guests, one man had a

crazy interaction. He was getting ready to climb into bed. And as he sat down, he felt an impression on the other side of the bed. But he was by himself. He thought, and he looked over and he said he saw an older man sitting next to him, who just looked at him and said, I was here first. I love that a lot. What? And he thought that it was William Chancellor. I love that. Now, once the portrait was returned to the lobby, things seem to settle down a bit. But people checking out

will recognize, like they'll walk by the portrait. And they'll be like, I saw that guy smoking a cigar in the hallway. You know, like, yeah, you did. And they're like, yeah, you did. But he's dead. And they most often report seeing him in a three-piece gray suit. Oh, I like that. So it's nasty. Yeah, if you go to the blender house, then you see a man walking down the hallway and a nice suit spoken a cigar. He's a ghost. He's a ghost. And he was their first. And he was their first

“that's important to remember. Yeah. Something else that happens in a sweet foreign. I'm just going”

back there for a second. Is that guess, we'll wake up in the middle of the night and hear furniture being moved around the room? Oh, shit. And they also will wake up to the sounds of a massive party. Like, it sounds like there's a party either in the room or like right next door. Like, great Gatsby style party. Yeah. It's like 20's party. Now, one guest told WBO I news that he stayed in the room right next door 407, which apparently you can book 409 and 407 together and then you could open

up a door and connect them. He was just in 407. And he actually booked it because he wanted like a quiet or stay. But he woke up in the middle of the night and it sounded like people were having huge party. So he was checking out the next morning and he told the front desk like,

And they were like, uh, you were the only guest on that floor. Oh, yeah. Fuck. Yeah, that would

“fuck me. Yeah, that would, especially, honestly here, I'm the only guest on that whole floor. I'd be like,”

what? Yeah, I would hit that. That would stress me out anyways. I'd be like, oh my god, I would hate that a lot. I mean, good to tell somebody upon checking out, not checking out. Yeah,

definitely. Uh, the elevators, which were a huge deal. Oh, yeah. They never seemed to open to the

correct floor, though, shit. A lot of times they open to the second floor, which is where guests most often reports seeing what any good location has that is haunted. Oh, a bride. Oh, woman and white. Yeah. You're so close. Guests report seeing her dressed in all white clothing from the 20s or maybe the 30s. And they say, she also wears a white cap pulled down to almost cover her eyes. Oh, I'm serious. Yes, she is. And she's a beauty. A man once saw her and he thought that she was like,

alive. And he asked her to hold the elevator door for him. And she did. But then when he stepped on the elevator, there was nobody there. Oh, damn. He was like, no, that woman literally just held

“the door for me. That would fuck me, right up. But what he did experience was a like overwhelming”

smell of lavender perfume as soon as he got into the elevator. And a lot of people associate lavender perfume with sightings on her. Oh, shit. Now, like that. Right. What a soothing scent. Yeah, I love lavender. Yeah. Employees who work in the kitchen are said to be visited by a little newspaper boy. Oh, my God. He used to work at the old newspaper stand in the back. And he will pull on their clothing. And when they turn around, they literally see an operation of him with his

like little news cap and his messenger bag. I was like, that's an experience that I like to have. Yeah. Now, there's a little bit of debate about who this next ghost is. Some people think that he's a sea captain. Oh. And others claim that he looks exactly like Harman Blunner has it. Oh, damn. Either way, the ghost is most often seen in the mirrors of the bar and the restaurant on the main

lobby. He's just living. But always in the mirror. Okay. According to haunted parkers bird tours,

this is weird because the mirrors were fashioned from windows and doors from an old apartment building that was torn down in New York City. Oh, it's right. So be weird if it was Blunner has it. Yeah. Like, maybe it's more likely to be a sea captain. A salty sea captain from New York City. Yeah. Now, one place in the hotel that you would assume would be quite peaceful, but is actually the complete opposite is the library. Yeah, I would assume that which I love that they have a library.

Oh, hell yeah. I don't know that I've been to a hotel with one. I know. Apparently guests will just be chilling in library and they will suddenly hear the appalling sound of a woman screaming bloody murder. Whoa out of nowhere. Now interestingly, there is a window in the corner of the library

that used to be the door to the first national bank of Parker'sburg and years and years and

years ago there was a terrible accident where a tractor trailer lost control and crashed into that doorway and killed a woman. Oh, wow. So people think that it's like some kind of residual haunting from her being struck. Oh, yeah. Also in the library, people report seeing books being thrown from the shelves, chairs being knocked over out of nowhere. Lots of people get touched in the library. A lot of people feel like tapping on their shoulder and then this one is just fucking weird. People will be

sitting there just like chatting or reading and all this sudden they'll look at an Ottoman like near them and they'll see the fabric getting pulled up on the Ottoman but nobody's pulling it up. What is that fucking weird? That's so weird in me. It is super, I don't think I've ever heard that in the haunted room. No. No. And I like, like, I would just be still like I knew it was a blanket going on. Yeah.

“Now if you want to stop at the Starbucks nearby to get a jolt of caffeine after that horrifying”

interview. Yeah, I do. Just know that ghosts might be lurking in line. Oh shit. They're pretty chilled during the daytime hours but at exactly 4 a.m., staff have heard a series of three knocks on the door beside the Starbucks and when they open it up, no one is there. Why are they knocking on the door so early? Like, are you open? They like do you have the coffee bird? Please, I need a espresso. I mean, I get it. But then maybe they're just like, oh, sorry, it's too early. Yeah.

Now also, what would a haunted hotel be without ghostly children? Oh, yeah. Guests here, giggling children all over this place. Yeah. But the maids tidying up the hotel room seem to be the most familiar. They will be trying to put the toilet paper back on the holder. But the dispensers will just be spinning nonstop and they like can't get the toilet paper. Oh my god. And they'll hear kids laughing while it happens. I was going to say that's such a little kid thing to do. Yeah,

they've also seen children's footprints walking across computers. Yep. During the holidays, it apparently sounds like the kids were singing along with jingle bells as it played over the hotel speakers. Okay, that literally just gave me all the chills. I don't like that. Here's

of children's syndrome. Yeah, I just hate it. It's spooky as well. That would jingle bells, disembodied

“children's voices, singing jingle bells. Walk a whole bunch of them. Oh, I win. That is honestly”

the scariest one to me. I'd be like, can I get an early check out? Yes. Now here's the other weird thing with the kids. Women in particular will just like have this great night's sleep and then they will wake up to the feeling of being kissed on their faces and they say it feels like a child's kiss. Don't kiss me. That's really cute, though. Don't kiss me. What if it's like a little kid, though, and they think you're his their mom? I'm not your mom. Because that's really sad. That's

sad. That's the case. Like just like giving you mama kiss. Mama kiss? I mean, I don't want to go child's mama kiss. I just want to wake up to my alarm. I, okay, the children thing is is a little unsettled. No, no, no, no, no. It's the most unsettling. Here I am like this man in a bull or hat is just like materializing your room. Sometimes choking you and I'm like the kids thing is a little unsettling. Hate that the kids are singing all of a sudden. Like where's the bull or the kids are giving

me a kiss and singing all of a sudden. Please get out of here. Now, finally to end on my personal favorite paranormal report here, the ballrooms are said to be the most haunted rooms that blunder has set outside of room for a night. I'm good. There are weddings obviously in like different

events held in the ballroom all the time and setting up for these events is always wild because

like this staff will be setting like play settings and stuff and if they turn around for a second, everything is completely rearrange. Yeah. And they'll like misplace things and look for them in a certain spot over and over. Yeah. And then look back on that spot after checking several others and it will be in the first place they looked. But this is my favorite thing on the planet. According to haunted parkersburg doors, once when the employees were ready in a room, a microphone was set up.

That's when a cracking woman's voice came across the microphone saying, "How do you fellas?"

“She just said, "I'm ready for a good time." I love that woman. I love her a lot. That's what you”

should do with your after-law. You should jump onto my microphone to be like, "How do you fellas?" People think that she might be a local madam. Like just like this at around what she better be. I was obsessed with that. That's hilarious. But this is like a fully functioning, like gorgeous hotel. They have a spot on shit. I want to go. I want to go too. This is the thing. We'll go and check out your spot, cabin 13 micro-rific spot. Yeah, we'll do a haunted investigation there. And then we'll stay at the hotel

where things are chiller and funnier. And we'll just hope that children don't kiss us. Yeah. When I could do without the man in the bowl or hat, I'd be fine to see him as long as he didn't choke. Yeah, I don't want him to come anywhere. Yeah, please don't touch me. Please don't. But like you can show yourself. Yeah. Yeah, so that is the owner of the hotel. That was a good one. You're scary ass case. Yeah, mine is real scary. But that is haunted as hell. It is haunted as hell. And I love

it. I love that Aaron Burst, sir, made an appearance. Aaron Burst, sir. He's always showing up.

He is. People are going to be like, "You know his name is Aaron Burst, right? Not Burst, sir." We know. We are in Burst, sir. Come on. You know, watch the channel. Yeah, of course. All right. Well, thank you so much for listening to our haunted channels. We've been wanting to do one for a while.

“I know, and it's scratched the edge, partially, but I think I'd like to do more. Yeah,”

let's do another haunted episode. Yeah, we gotta do one soon, party. And in the meantime, we hope you keep listening and we hope you keep it weird. But that's where that you don't apparently invest in these places because you're missing out big time. And that's a word that in your afterlife, you don't just yell, "How do you fellas?" I love it so much. I love it. [Music]

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