Heinous Hotels

<p>If you grew up in Alabama, you have probably been told the legend of Noccalula Falls. Many people do not know that this is a made-up story that is harmful to indigenous people of the United States rather than being a...

<p>Miss Baker was a squirrel monkey who is buried just outside the Huntsville Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL. Miss Baker was the first mammal to survive being launched into space. </p> <p>**Trigger warning...

<p>Today's short episode is about a weird cocktail from "long time ago days" when people added ammonia smelling salts to coca-cola as a health tonic. It was very popular in the US and some people still enjoy it...

<p>After Roselind Nadine Earles passed away a week before Christmas, her parents honored her memory by building a permanent playhouse structure as a mausoleum over her grave site. Her parents are buried beside her in...

<p>In the South, we do things a lil bit different. Especially when it comes to weddings. Is burying a bottle of bourbon an ancient pagan ritual passed down from generations to curry favor with the gods that control the...

<p>The Mothervine is a muscadine wine grape vine that is the oldest in the United States. It has been getting people lit, turnt, and crunk for hundreds of years. Was it planted by the Croatan tribe or maybe even by the...

<p>No slugs were harmed in the making of this bonus content.</p>

<p>While researching the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles I came across this case and decided to research it further. It opened a can of worms about Raymond's family, but I ended up making a full episode about it for Patreon...

<p>This episode is about the famous Pumpkin House in West Virginia. </p>

<p>Is this pre-war brownstone haunted by 22 ghosts? Is Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain one of them?</p> <p>https://gvshp.org/blog/2019/08/06/how-one-building-turned-greenwich-village-into-an-artists-mecca/</p> <p><br /></p>...

<p>Another article read with commentary by me. This article drew my attention because of the large illustration, which was not very common at the time. This article is about a woman who was arrested and charged with...

<p>As I was researching Hotel Majestic for an episode on the main feed I came across an article that I wanted to share with listeners but would not make sense in the episode, because I thought it was funny. </p> <p>I...

<p>Another minimally edited episode for those who are interested in my pet research project, the city of Anniston and the Victoria Inn/Hotel Finial. This episode never made it on to the Patreon feed as life was so...

<p>This episode was very minimally edited and was meant to undergo more editing and then go onto the Patreon feed but I left it a bit rough. I decided not to keep editing and to go ahead and post it. On my Patreon feed...

<p>Donated to the anti-segregationist Methodist congregation by industrialist Henry Flagler in 1886, this church is both beautiful and historically significant. </p> <p>My apologies for how breathy this episode is. I...