Get ready for a good, solid dose of American industrialism! In Canada. That's right, on the advice of J.P. Morgan, Charles Melville Hays is going to bring American grit to the Canadian railway, and how do you think that'll work out for the 51st state?

This is the story of Charles Melville Hays, Railroad King. Come for the ghost, stay for teeny tiny knuckle workout, the most Midwestern person, the last days of Blockbuster, moose harvest, pool skimmers, the whole deal with the Titanic, and ghosts have no friction.

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Sources:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Melville_Hays
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_Laurier
• https://www.chateaulaurier.com/accommodations/hays-suite/
• https://michaelkleen.com/2018/10/24/fairmont-chateau-lauriers-invisible-guests/

The Great Salt Lake does not have any whales. We want to be clear about that. We DO take a departure here and talk about whales for a surprisingly long time, but please understand that we realize that there are no whales in the Great Salt Lake. Allegedly.

This is the story of the Great Saltair. Come for the ghosts, stay for a race to the spike, D-coin, I’ll keep adding wives until I love myself, I’m eating nine ice creams, normies love salt, they’re a minor whale, Coney Island with half the condoms, and EDM with Mormons.

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Sources:

• https://greatsaltlakenews.org/latest-news/salt-lake-tribune/heres-how-the-great-saltair-became-a-relic
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltair_(Utah)
• https://www.deseret.com/entertainment/2024/10/29/great-saltair-haunted-history/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Nikole_Bakoles

It's time to talk about Mercy Brown, not to be confused with Murphy Brown. One is a fesity single mother who endeared herself to us by shaking up the workplace in the '80s, and the other is a vampire. So try to keep them straight.

This is the story of Mercy Brown. Come for the ghost, stay for Prince would hate that, they called it a curse and in some ways it is, snort it, you fool!, thicken up them walls, two is fine; four is greedy, we have a pool going, oh no did he catch it again?, and just let them take off your head.

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Sources:

• https://www.ripleys.com/stories/the-curious-case-of-mercy-brown-and-the-new-england-vampire-panic
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_tuberculosis
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis
• https://quahog.org/Attractions/Brown_Mercy_Grave_of

We're wrapping up our Ozarks suite with the crown jewel of holler haunts, the most haunted hotel in America! And as the most haunted hotel in America, you won't be surprised to learn that its roots are in shystery and chicanery. It's a story that feels WAY too familiar in these, our modern times.

This is the story of the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Come for the ghosts, stay for the big building trifecta, the worst tone poem, aluminum and medical bigotry, “Does that feel like cancer?”, the donkey is drowning under the weight of the bottles, it smells like the kitchen, and best friend pontoons.

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Sources:

• https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-haunting-history-of-a-hucksters-cancer-cure
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescent_Hotel_(Eureka_Springs,_Arkansas)
• https://www.historichotels.org/us/hotels-resorts/1886-crescent-hotel-and-spa/ghost-stories.php
• https://crescent-hotel.com/blog/ghostly-legend-at-americas-most-haunted-hotel-enhanced-in-2019/

Get out your pencils, ghost lovers! We've got 100 people with 200 names, so you're going to want to keep a list.

This is the story of the Castle House in Brumley, MO. Come for the ghosts, stay for $GHOST, nobody doesn’t like childless witches, rabbit DNA, in my merchant era, nobody has feet now, it’s either on the skin or it’s not, the Boaty McBoatface of children, and you've ruined my beautiful stairs.

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Sources:

• https://hauntedcastlehouse.com/history
• https://www.ozarksfirst.com/frightly-news/the-ghosts-of-the-haunted-castle-house-in-brumley/
• https://dailyyonder.com/qa-believing-the-unbelievable-in-rural-missouris-haunted-castle-house/2022/10/31/
• https://www.centredaily.com/news/nation-world/national/article68556742.html

The Ozark suite continues with a visit to the Devil's Pool holler! That's where you'll find the leavings of Harry Worman, one of the more unfortunately named men in history.

This is the story of the Worman House. Come for the ghost, stay for Mo-wanna get a lawyer, Jesus takes January off, poor Frisco, look who’s in the club tonight, what am I gonna do with this, it’s all wet, she lives in the floorboards, the Clayton Memorial Cocktail, and an RPG glass chapel battle.

Sources:

• https://bigcedar.com/2023/history-big-cedar-lodge-worman-house/
• https://www.explorebranson.com/profile/worman-house/3829
• https://www.exploresouthernhistory.com/bigcedarghost.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis%E2%80%93San_Francisco_Railway

Welcome to the Ozark suite! It's weird down here. Did you bring moonshine? You're going to need it. This one gets messy!

This is the story of Jake Fleagle. Come for the ghost, stay for the surplus equine problem, cows bang, a cool story about brothers, f*ckin Houdini over here, he does not need to be inseminated, like snowflakes, ladies and gentlemen, and we’re more of a Shoji Tabuchi family.

Sources:

• https://www.legendsofamerica.com/fleagle-gang-loot/
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9152314/jacob-harrison-fleagle
• https://thegreathighhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleagle_Gangprairie.com/the-fleagle-gang-and-the-fingerprint-that-proved-their-guilt/
• https://www.branson.com/haunted-tales/

This time we're going to take about the Drake Hotel, WE PROMISE. Welcome to the second half of our no-holds-barred live show with guest host Megan Phillips.

This is the continued story of the Drake Hotel. Come for the ghosts, stay for: Their kids are super weird; find one bear that’ll eat a pig; the 1870s EpiPen; that screams to me "West Edmonton Mall"; Canadian seconds; and now the gun is useless.

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Additional audio:

• "Zombie Hoodoo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sources:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Drake_(1826%E2%80%931895)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremont_House_(Chicago)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_Hotel_(Chicago)
• https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-hauntings-drake-hotel/
• https://mysteriouschicago.com/the-woman-in-black-at-the-drake-hotel/
• https://mysteriouschicago.com/the-woman-in-black-at-the-drake-hotel/