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I see the person from last week stepping out the shower has to throw clothes on this time. We all thank you for that one. Just in case I'm not able to get an episode out next week. If you celebrate Easter, Happy Easter. I know Jerry and Tracey have a rule no politics or religion, so we'll just leave it there, Happy Easter. I will be attendant to Easter sermon with my wife and afterwards she'll be heading over to the grandchildren, and I will do what I always
do work. I was really hoping to go because I printed these cute large melted chocolate eggs for their Easter baskets. Okay, quick pause there. You probably didn't notice, but I did. I stopped recording and posted the Easter egg basket on the group, so check it out if you're interested. If you haven't joined the Facebook page, it's still around and it's still just as active now. As it has been in the past. It is still act. We are still
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about death Knocks. Now that is actually something I'm very interested in. And at the very end they interviewed the Haunted Explorers from Las Vegas. That sounds like a pretty good show this week, So I'm gonna let y'all go and you go enjoy the show.
This is Dakota, and you're listening to my grandma and grandpa and Hillbilly Horror Stories.
All right, everybody, and welcome to a very special thirtieth edition of Hillbilly Horror Stories. I'm Jerry and that's Tracy beside me.
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I'm not sure that meant anything, but.
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I'll take your word for it. Some of some of our Hispanic listeners can tell us if that's what that actually meant.
Be ready to be amazed.
The introduction you heard us from our adorable little granddaughter, Dakota, and and she did a fantastic job. We've got another granddaughter, and I tried to get her to say a little something, but I can only get one word out of her. And after you hear it, you will definitely know she's a member of this family. And here she is poop. That's right for all of you keeping score at home. She said poop. She could have said any word in the world, and she chose poop.
She likes to talk about poop for some reason. I'm not sure just why. But we still love her.
And in case you have any declarations about Tracy being country as I was gonna say fuck, but that was a bad word, but she said poop, she said. Guys, you're probably wondering why are we playing Tony Orlando in the beginning with the knock three times, But it's because we have a really cool story to tell you about the night. It's actually more of a I guess you could say a superstition than a story, but we've got a bunch of little stories to go along with it.
But it's called It's about Death Knight because I don't know how many people are familiar with it, but we're going to tell you about that, and then we're going to talk about the Stanley Hotel, which has several ghosts and a famous book that came from it. We also have an interview with the Haunted Explorers. They're a ghost hunting crew out of Las Vegas, and we're going to tell you a story about sleep paralysis from a listener who just found the show and heard our episode and
had a really cool story. So we have a jam packed episode for you tonight.
Exciting. I can't wait, So.
Let's go ahead and jump right into it. I want to do a couple of shout outs first, because I know we've been doing them kind of at the end of the night, but I want to go ahead and do some of these in the beginning. First one, this was when I overlooked she interacts with us on the Facebook page all the time, and I don't know why I haven't done it yet. It's just an oversight on
my fault. So Priscilla Gordon. Thank you so much for being so active on our Facebook page and being a great listener, and sorry that took me so long to get you a shout out.
Hey, Priscilla.
Another one that I've probably should have already done, and I think we've done a shout out, but I want to give some extra recognition is Robert Burton. Robert actually has taken it upon himself to volunteer and do some research on a bunch of different stories from around the world, because we've got a listeners from around the world and I want to try to get some kind of story
at least close to home. Last week we did the Japanese suicide forest and that gives something for our Japanese, but we've got several other countries such as Australia, India, Canada, and Robert is actually helping us locate some cool stories from all around the world that we can start using.
That's amazing. Thank you so much. I can't wait to hear what you got.
I've got This is kind of funny. Amanda de Grasse. I hope I'm doing that right. But Amanda actually reached out to me on Twitter because I sent her a request and said, hey, listen to the show and she's like, Hey, I already listened to the show, bitch. Well she didn't say that, but she said she was already a listener. So I had some cool conversation with her yesterday.
Nice.
That's if you guys join us on Twitter, I'm in that, so I respond. I get several direct messages every day and tweets, and we respond to all of them. But I highly advise everybody to join our Facebook page. It's not a group, it's just a page, but we do a lot of fun stuff and we interact with you guys a lot on there. So if you want to talk to us and send suggestions or just talk about what's going on in sports or whatever, we talk to
everybody who wants to talk to us. So it's a cool way to interact with the show and know what's coming up for upcoming shows. With that being said, I do have one request, and this is something that I do last couple of shows. If I hear a podcast that I really like, especially if it's an up and coming podcast, I try to get the word out there. I did it last week for Don't Break the Oath. Them guys were very thankful for you guys that gave them an opportunity, and we're going to do it again
this week. I got a couple of young ladies, Am and Christine, and they have a podcast. They're only on their I think the sixth episode came out today, maybe the fifth, and it's called and That's Why We Drink. These young ladies are very funny and they're they're getting their feet underneath of them. They're starting to get listeners and they're really a fun listen. So give them an opportunity and I think you'll be surprised, and uh, let's grow with them. I think as they go on, they're
gonna get better and better. You can already see it if you listen to episode one and listen to the last one. It's been noticeable improvement. It's tough when you're first starting out doing this, and it takes a while to get used to having a microphone stuck in front of your face and get that comfort level. But they're doing a fabulous job and I hope all you will give them a listen and see what you think.
And I like the name of their show too, it's pretty pretty awesome.
They have some their their graphic, their logo is awesome. It's made like a Oiji board, but it spells out and that's why we drink. So it's if nothing else, it's worth checking out just for the graphics.
It's got blood and guts all over it.
It does not have bloody. Tracy's one of those moods today. So there's no telling how this is going to turn out. So let's talk a little bit about death knocks.
Now.
I wanted to talk about this subject because I've actually known about this for a very long time, several years. But when I talk to people about it, it seems like nobody that I've talked to has ever heard of this before. And you know, we're gonna start off with the way I've always understood and I've learned as I've started researching this. But I've always had situations to where and just think about this and see if you've been in this same situation.
Have you ever been asleep you hear three pounds on the door? It sounds like just think about like what it would sound like on a castle door with the echo, you know, the boom, boom boom. Have you ever heard that and just woke up in the middlenight thinking there's somebody knocking on a door and then there's nobody there. I've actually had this happen two or three four times and then actually went to the door because it was that realistic to realize there was nobody there. So was
it something I I was just imagining. I don't know, because when I started looking into it, I found out that there's actually a phenomenon called death knocks. And now this goes all the way back to the eighteen hundreds where people would swear that if you hear three knocks on the door or anywhere, and it doesn't have to be in the middle of the night, this could be while you're awake. But they call it the three knocks of death or death knocks and what that supposedly say.
There's different different variations of the story. But a lot of times people will hear this and within sometimes minutes, they hear that somebody they know and love have passed away. It could be friend, family member. Sometimes it's you know, some people will tell you that it's either three days, three weeks, or three months to the day you hear it, somebody's going to pass away. So there's the different variations.
But I've got a bunch of stories that actually collaborate with this, and I thought i'd share these with you guys. So here's the first one. This is actually from a gentleman named Hensex in upstate New York. But he says, when I was fifteen years old in nineteen sixty five, I lived out in the country in a small town called GasPort. One cold and very snow evening, we all were gathered in the living room around the television when we suddenly heard a loud pounding on the front entry door.
The door was sealed with weather stripping for the winter, and we never opened it. It was in a dark place, didn't have any kind of lighting, so nobody goes there. The pounding was so loud that my mother went out to the side door to see whoever was knocking to walk over to the side door tell them to come over the side door whatever. She called again, and there was no answer. She turned on the outside of light over the front door and peered out the window, and
there was nobody there. She went out and looked. There was no marks in the snow where anybody had been walking over there, so it seemed very odd that somebody could be out there since there was no footprints in the fresh snow. My dad, being a skeptic, he suggested the noise was windblowing something against the door. The next morning, we got a call that our uncle Charlie had passed away unexpectedly. That's one of those stories. Here's another one. As a child, at the age of eight, I was
in care of my German grandma. I'd been drawing at the kitchen table my grandparents farm house during the summer break. My grandmother was drawing preserves and when we were both startled by three loud knocks that seemed to come from nowhere and yet everywhere, all at the same time. My grandmother had turned and said nothing for a few minutes, she quickly took me outside of play. Nothing was ever
said about it, and you know, the only remained. It only remained in my memory because of the first being startled and then being angry that I was taken away from my drawing. What a gritty little punk. I later learned many years that my grandmother's sister passed away that evening from a heart related ailment. Years later, my dad had called when I was home with my partner. My brother suffered from a long term substance abuse addiction and
had extremely hard to deal with that evening. My father went on to add that not only that he had that situation to deal with, but he thought the whole house was going to come down too, because he had three or four large bangs within the walls. My brother died from a cocaine overdose just hours later.
My gosh, that's crazy.
The last instance took place after my long term companion pet dog fell violently ill very quickly one day. I had no car, but I phoned and requested a VET ambulance to come and get us. As I lay on the floor with her, there were three sharp knocks on the apartment door. I rushed to open it, but there was no one there. The vets arrived approximately fifteen minutes later, but my baby girl passed away in my arms less than an hour later. That's from Christopher.
That's terrible.
So Christopher had a couple of experience.
I don't want to hear no knocks.
Here's a couple more. My story begins back in the twenties when my grandmother was in the kitchen and heard three large, loud knocks on her front door. There was no one there, but three days later learned that her mother had died. Back in Germany. In seventy three, my parents were awakened by three loud knocks on the front door. Upon inspection, there was no one there, but received a phone call about an hour later that my uncle had
passed away. This was never brought up again until I was telling my uncle about the story at my father's funeral in nineteen seventy nine. He and his wife froze and said that they had heard three loud knocks on their storm door about the same time my father had passed away. They lived in Arizona, which was three hours away. Now. Two weeks ago, my mother awoke the three loud knocks
or bangs on the front door again. She got up and found nothing at the front door and was immediately scared because of it reminded her of the nineteen seventy three incident. Three days later, my brother was murdered in Louisiana in the early morning. The strangest fact is that all the times a family member heard the knox, it corresponded with a time of death, give or take an hour of the family member. That's from Neil tack one.
Oh, that's so creepy.
Here's another quick one. My mother and her mother have always been gifted by omens. We live in a little town, Saint Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, November tenth, twenty eleven, and my mother heard three knocks. She always said that means it takes three days, three weeks or three months right to today that something bad was going to happen, usually a death. Well, three days later, her cousin shot himself in a hunting accident while hunting with his seven year old son.
That is amazing. I better be not hearing no damn knocks anywhere. And don't you be getting up in the middle of the night and knocking on the door either, because that's how you roll.
Well, here's one from nineteen seventy nine. Miss Hughes of England heard three knocks at eleven pm. Now she said that she went and looked at the door, but it was surprised her that it didn't surprise her that nobody was there, because she's got a really squeaky gait and she can hear when somebody comes to the gate. Thirty minutes later, two policemen told her that her husband had been killed. He got struck by a car and was
killed in the road. In nineteen eighty two, Miss Hughes and her daughter heard three knocks on the kitchen window. Fifteen minutes later, she found her brother dead of a heart attack at the front door, but he hadn't made it to the door to be able to be the one that knocked. Had two incidentss There's another incident where a guy named Frank had three knocks on his living room wall and then he found out surely later that his ex wife committed suicide. But you can see there's
a lot of different stories. I mean, I can literally find probably fifty more stories almost instantly with these same things. Here's one with a mister Hannaby that two days before her dad died. I'm sorry, miss Hanniby. Two days before her dad died, she told her mom that she heard three knocks, and her mom said it was a sign of death, and her dad died two days later.
Let's change the subject. This is depressing.
Well, let's talk about the Stanley Hotel.
Okay, Yeah, let's do that.
We'll talk about the Stanley and then we'll do our interview with Haunted Explorers, and then we'll come back and We'll do the listeners story because that's a really cool story, so we'll save that for last. As alls I.
Can say is I hope you guys none of you all have any Three Knocks anywhere, because that's that got me all paranoid and stuff.
What if it's three knocks and it really is Tony Orlando at the door?
I mean that would be awesome because I could get down with.
That, but not better not happening late at night. I'll be playing a yellow ridbond around his throat. Oh, waking me up. No way I can take him. He's like old now, he's playing his seventies.
I don't know if he still got a stash.
He might have a fun if he shows up at dawn. Our younger listeners won't get that. Oh, Stanley Hotel. A whole bunch of cool facts about the Stanley, And normally we would have led with this, but I didn't have any Stanley Hotel music, but I had Three Knocks music, so we led with the door with the death Knocks. Stanley Hotel. It's in Estes Park, Colorado, which is right
at the foot of the Rocky Mountain National Force. And actually that actually had a lot to do with it because back when it was built, it became kind of a touristy town. If it hadn't been for that hotel being built in the touristy town being there, they probablyrobably wouldn't have that park right there. So that's all part of it. Let's talk a little bit about how it came to be right now. It's got four hundred and twenty rooms.
It's huge and white, really really white.
Yeah, it's got four hundred and twenty rooms. It was built by Freeman Freeland. I'm sorry, I don't want to mispronounce the man's name, Freeland Stanley. He opened it on the fourth of July nineteen oh nine. Now Freedland had a twin brother named Francis, and they actually made a lot of money. These kids were very smart. When they were kids. They would build whittle tops, you know, like the little spinning tops. They would whittle tops and sell
them to their friends. So they were entrepreneurs from the from the very beginning of their time for them, and they created a product caught Stanley dry plate, and that was actually a I guess a photography product that they ended up making a lot of money off of because mister Eastman from Eastman Kodak bought it from them for
a fortune. It was the equivalent of something like fifteen million dollars back then, and he used that for what became mostly the way photography has done today, as far as it used to be a really long process with taking a picture, and it shortened the process tremendously. So that's how they made their money. Then they invented the Stanley Steamer.
Well, who knew you could make so much money cleaning carpets.
This is a different Stanley Steamer. Maybe most people probably think of Stanley Steamer their carpet cleaning company, But the Stanley Steamer back then was an automobile and it had a steam engine. And so when you think of like the Model T forwards and stuff like that, it's kind of like that, but it had a steam engine instead of a combustible engine, and they made a lot of
money off of that. Unfortunately, they were kind of stubborn and they didn't want to change with the times, and as automobile companies kind of got more complex, they kind of stayed with where they were and that was the end of that. But they made all their money and
it was it was no big deal anyway. But Freedland had a situation back in nineteen oh three where he contracted TB and back in the day, there was no cure for TV, so they advised a lot of people to move out west, and Colorado because of the high altitude and the good clean air was a place that a lot of people were advised to go to. Well, they were from Maine, and there was a doctor that originally from Maine that was now in Colorado on that area, and he said, hey, come on out Freeland, this will
be the place for you. He came out there. They got out there in March of that year, him and his wife Flora, and they loved it. They just thought it was absolutely fantastic. And in June they decided to spend the rest of the summer there and it did wanders for him. His TV started getting a lot better, and within like three years later he was completely cured.
Wow weeks.
Yeah, he ended up living to be ninety one. Three years. About three years he was completely cured. I'm sorry if I said three weeks.
I I was gonna say dad gone.
Well, back then three years was still pretty miraculos. But yeah, he ended up living to be ninety one years old.
That's amazing. What place is so beautiful to so.
What he decided because he liked it so much he wanted there was nothing here. There was nothing here. He actually bought the land from the very first person that lived there that had bought it, which was the Earl of Dunraven. He was the fourth Earl of Dunraven. He was from Ireland. He came over and he actually by a trick got a lot of that land because from being from Ireland, he wouldn't allow it to get that land.
They had like homesteadying acts for as long as you made an improvement on the land, you could get all these lands. But he would and didn't qualify because he wasn't a US citizen. So he basically paid all these people to go out there and sit long enough to get the land, and he'd buy the land from them. Then he ended up getting like, you know, six thousand acres by doing that. Wow. But the Stanley actually bought the land from him in nineteen seven and decided to
build this hotel. It took two years, but he wanted to make it like the top of the top. This was going to be the place where anybody that had money was going to come to me.
It had everything, isn't it kind of like in the middle of nowhere.
Yeah, it was. It's in the middle of nowhere, and uh it's but it's a beautiful place. And he decided he wanted to make the town a resort town. And by doing that, or by putting that hotel there and making it, you know, the Krim de la Creme, you know, this thing and everything. I mean, he built a hydro electric plant so it could have electricity, which not a lot of places had back in the day.
Wow.
But yeah, I mean they had running water, they had everything. So this was a place where the rich people could come and enjoy it. And he eventually went back to Maine and he would come there for some of the time, but he, you know, he pretty much just left it for others to run. But he loved the place. He loved it when he when he would come up there. And uh, he's one of the people that that they say that still today haunts the place. So you can see him and his wife.
To be able to haunt it. That was pretty amazing what he did.
Yeah, but yeah, it's it's pretty pretty incredible. With what this guy was able to accomplish in his time. Now, when he originally opened up in nineteen oh nine, it was only forty eight rooms. Keeps in mind, it's four hundred and twenty rooms now, so they've really added on to it since then. Now, the Stanley Hotel is extremely famous for one main reason, and it's because they had a famous author that came to stay there. Do you have any guests who that author was and what the book was?
Ummm, doctor sus.
No, why not unless the book was Horton. Here's a who the hell are those two creepy ass kids in the hallway? Which I don't think it was. It was actually Stephen King, ah, and that is where he got the inspiration for the shining.
Oh my gosh, you're kiddy.
Now.
It was kind of funny because Stephen King came to stay there. It was like the end of the season, the last day of the season, so that virtually was hardly anybody there. He may have been the only person staying there, and they stayed in room two seventeen. It was him, His wife is three year old little boy, and Stephen King said he woke up in the middle of the night after a horrible dream. He dreamt that his little boy was running down the hallway and he
looked over his shoulder. A little boy looked over his shoulder, and he was being chased by fire hose. But I think we've all had that dream, or if not.
Bro, I feel like I've seen that dream somewhere on TV somewhere.
But that's what he said, a dream was. But he said he couldn't go back to sleep, so he sat looking out the window and he lit a cigarette. And by the time he was done with a cigarette, he had the whole basic bones of the book.
The Shining, you know, that's you know, when you think about that, that's pretty amazing because the place is so beautiful. I mean, it's just gorgeous. And to think what it was like on the Shining.
Well, but Keeping the Shining wasn't actually shot there, Oh no, they actually used a hotel. There was The outside of the hotel was up in Oregon. Is what they used for the outside of picture for a hotel up in organ is what they used for the pictures for the outside in the in the movie. And then there was a hotel in Yellowstone or Yosemite. I'm sorry Yosemite Park.
You can tell I don't write this stuff down, But in Yosemite Park there's a hotel that they used for the inside, but they actually recorded it in England and all this was done on a set. The inside of the hotel was the inspiration from the one in Yosemite, but they actually rebuilt that on a set in England and that's where it was filmed.
There's a lot of trouble now.
They redid the movie a couple of years ago for a mini series that they did, and they actually filmed all of that at the Stanley Hotel.
Well, how cool. Guess what other movie was there?
What?
Dumb and Dumber.
That's right, Dumb and Dumber was So those of you who are sitting there saying I want it, this place looks like if you've ever watched Dumb and Dumber, that was the hotel that Jim Carrey and h which brings me to a good story after this. But Jim Carrey and what's his name, what's the other guy's name?
Dummer?
Dumber? Jim Carrey and Dummer what's his name? But this the it's the hotel where they stayed at. Because remember they pulled up in the what was the Lamborghinia of the Ferrari or whatever, but they pulled up there in the front. You see the big, beautiful white hotel with the red roof. That's it. Yeah, I don't know, Uh, that's what I am DB's for. And we'll get that later. Everybody out there knows who we're talking.
Yeah, Jeff, Jeff, Yeah.
Yeah, Jeff, yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't think that's his name. Yeah, Daniels, Daniel, Jeff Daniels. There were some Jack Daniels. And this is why we drank. I just get drunk show. But no, but that was you know, even the upstairs when when he goes to the bar area, that's the bar in.
The comes down the big staircase and.
Stand when he comes down the staircase, that's right, it's the main entrance to the Stanley. So yeah, that a lot of that footage exactly shot in the Stanley Hotel. So pretty cool. But the story we got about Jim Carrey when they were filming, he wanted to stay in room two seventeen and two seventeen obviously as the room Stephen King stayed in, and there's some hauntings that go on there due to a young lady by the name of Elizabeth Wilson. But we'll get to her in a minute.
So let's talk about Jim Carrey. So he stays there. In the middle of the night, he comes running down the stairs to the front desk. He's in his pajamas. He says that he demands to be moved to another room immediately, and he even runs outside in a panic. And to this day he's never told anybody what he saw, what happened, what the problem was. He just demanded to be moved to another room. Wow, what a pus So. Yeah, I've seen some of his movies, talk about scary.
He's great.
He's great in some stuff until he tries to be serious. But Room two seventeen. What's the story with Room to seventeen. Well, there was a young lady who worked there by the name of Elizabeth Wilson. And Elizabeth Wilson was basically the head I guess you could say made for lack of better term. And there was a situation. We told you they had electricity in the place. Well, there was a real bad storm in twenty eleven, nineteen eleven, and it
knocked the electricity out. Now they had backups each room had a sedlene, which is a type of gas. They had acetylene lamps. Well, room two seventeen, she walked into with a lit candle to light the lamps, and there was a gas leak. And back then the gas you know, most people, I don't know if you know this or not. Natural gas does not have a smell to it. They add that smell that smells like rotten eggs, so you can tell if there's a leak. It doesn't naturally have
a smell less. It's colorless and odorless. And back then they weren't adding anything to it, so when she walked in, she couldn't smell anything. There was no way of knowing.
Yeah.
Now she walks in with the candle. It blows up and it blows the whole big hole in the floor and she falls down two levels, two stories to the dining room, to which they said, okay, now fix me a sandwich. You no, she falls in there. She broke several bones. They took her to the hospital. She did
a full recovery. And you know, of course, mister Stanley, being the generous man and not you know, wanting to adhere to workers' comp laws, he went ahead and paid for everything, and he also no, and uh, yeah, you screwed my hotel up.
Uh.
It burnt ten percent of the hotel down, the original hotel, and they said it was a type of flame. I can't remember the uh uh, it's like a non combustible type fire that kind of puts itself out. And had that not happened, most most of the hotel would have probably been lost. But they only lost ten percent of the hotel.
Her hair off, I don't know.
I have no clue about her hair. They didn't go into that kind of detail. I don't know she still got eyebrows or any of that stuff.
That's amazing. She lived through that.
Yeah, she lived through that. And some of the stories I heard is because she was wearing, like you know, the people wore corsets back in the day, that her corset was so tight that actually helped save her. I don't know how that, no idea, no idea, unless she bounced, I don't know. But he was. He actually gave her a job for life, and she actually worked there until in the fifties, until she was in her nineties.
Oh my gosh. So she was like there for like forty years or something.
Then Yeah, she was there for a very long time.
Wow, that was very awesome of him to do that.
And the funny thing is she's the type of ghost they say she's there and that's that's the ghost of two seventeen for the most part. But she does stuff like when they have guests check in and they'll come and just leave their suitcase and stuff on the bed and they'll go out and do something. They'll come back and everything's put away, and then they'll call and say, hey, thanks for putting the stuff away. That was nice. And they're like, no, we didn't do that.
Oh my god.
That's kind of miss Wilson's signature trademark. She doesn't like a messy room. So if you leave your room messy, she tidies it up. Isn't she nice?
No?
I wish she'd come humped this house for a while.
Agree with you there, But so cool.
She And the fun like. The other thing is, I think it's kind of funny is if you stay in that room and you're a man and a woman and you're not married, supposedly she kind of gets in the middle of you and yeah, she don't want you to spoon or spork if you work for KFC. I was dating this one fat girl one time. She was so big we couldn't spoon. We had a ladle anyways, So yeah, supposedly she gets in the middle and she'll try to prevent anything from happening, because you know, back in her
day that was something. I don't think that's gonna happen. This isn't a Chris Brown story or who is that not Chris Brown? Oh, Bobby Brown. Yeah, Chris, Chris Brown just knocked the hell out of her. But that's the story with Room two seventeen. Now what about some other ghosts at the Stanley Hotel. Well, the fourth floor is
supposedly haunted by children. I mean, first of all, we talked about the owner of the original owner of the land and the fourth orle of Dunraven, and that sounds so much like a damn Tim Burton movie or something.
Oh, I was just this just a weird word.
Coming Memorial Day, the fourth World done. It's a weird word. But so he supposedly haunts room four oh seven, and they people said they can sit here, you know, still smell his pipe smoke and a couple other things. So I don't know if he was the only person that ever smoke a piper. Not where they just assume it's him.
But oh, you mean that was his room.
I don't know if that was his room, but that for some reason, that's the room they say he haunts.
Oh, but the children has a different.
The children have room four eighteen. They hear laughter and stuff like that all down the hallways.
Oh that's nice, yep.
So nothing like having a bunch of dead children laughing in the hallways to make your trip more memorable.
I mean, it's better love and laughing than like evil and like I'm going to kill you.
Well, that's the whole thing, is that everything everybody says that the ghost that they have there that none of them are you know, mean ghost. They're all happy, happy.
Ghosts, just saying no, that's okay, Wi's okay.
Which brings us to Lucy. I don't know how she's a happy ghost. But Lucy was a young girl, approximately thirteen years old and back. They never really gave a day for this, so who knows how true any of this is. But she was a runaway and she was staying in the basement. The basement has kind of made like a cave area there's tunnels and stuff like that, and some maintenance men found her down there and even though she was young, even though it was cold outside,
they gave her the boot, kicked her out. It dropped blow zero that night, the temperatures dead and they found her frozen dead. So she died of exposure. And now supposedly she haunts it haunts the hotel, and she likes to close doors and open doors and shut and closed cabinets, and supposedly she can be seen in a pink dress.
And there's actually a picture floating on the internet. Look up, look up Lucy picture from Stanley Hotel and you'll actually see a picture of her in the pink dress and that somebody caught just I think it was last year. It wouldn't have long ago, but it's a pretty cool picture. But that's that's pretty much our story on the Stanley Hotel, so you can kind of be your own judge. Those rooms are all available if anybody wants to rent them. I'm sure they're pretty costly, but it's a pretty cool
ass story. And to know that that's where the shining came from the inspiration, and there's several ghosts that haunt the place. Yeah, let's go Yeah, let's.
Don't we got friendly ghost.
Yeah, I don't see no Casper there. Let's go ahead and we're gonna do a little interview. These gentlemen are pretty cool. I'm gonna give you a heads up that the sound quality is not as great on this interview. There was a little bit of problems in the beginning, but it does get better as it goes, so just kind of stick with it. These guys are out of Las Vegas. They've got about thirty years of ghost hunting
experience between them. They go by the Haunted Explorers. They sell merchandise, they've got a Facebook page, they're on Twitter, they've got a website. But they've been to some of the coolest places. We'll eventually probably get them back on again when we have our Virginia City show, which we'll do somewhere down the line, because they've all been there and it'd be cool to have some insight. But right now, let's listen to the guys from the Haunted Explorers. All right, guys,
welcome back to Hillbilly Horror Stories. I've got something cool for you tonight. Because as you know, we very seldom ever do interviews but when we do, it's usually something I think is really going to bring an added dimension to the show. And even though what we've interviewed in the past has been podcast hosting some of the good ones out there, tonight's going to be a little bit different because we actually have a group of I guess, for the lack of better term, we'll say ghost hunters.
I know not everybody likes that term, but it's the Haunted Explorers out of Las Vegas. And I ran across these guys and they seemed very interesting to me, and I thought, if they're interested in me, you guys are gonna like it too, so I wanted to bring them on the air. So who I've got with me tonight is Steven, Tim and Moorad. Did I get there right, Marod? Yes? Okay, awesome, guys.
Tell me a little bit about your group, how many members you have, how long you been doing this, and what got you into it.
Well, I started the Haunted Explorer is almost it's we're going to be getting up to our fourth year in March, and so I started about four years ago because I really was just looking into starting a group that just got rid of all the whole politics of the other
groups that I was involved with. So I really just wanted to start from scratch and just really get out there and just start you know, investigate, and then just you know, enjoying the process involved in investigating instead of you know, every kidfit that needs.
To be you know, dying, you know, trying to keep.
The politics out of it, and just sticking with investigating. And my full background of investigating was I'm I'm the type of person that just never had a personal experience. I've just always been fascinated by the paranormal and I never really did anything or went about try to investigate or anything on my own, but finally just decided, hey, what the heck, let's just I'm just gonna go out
and start trying some places around town. And from there I got involved with another team in Vegas and worked them for several years, and just one day it just came to me and you know, uh, you know, Pawn Explorers just popped in my head a purpose and I just need to just follow this and go with it, because I don't know, just something from it just pop popped up and I.
Was just like something promise to tell me to go for it. And so I did. Uh, the crew got out.
It's been awesome to me, you know, get them all involved and uh, places we've been going to and the places we're looking forward to going to, and it's just been awesome, awesome light so far.
Let me ask you a question real quick and jump because you've already intrigued me when you say when I'm getting too specific, because I know you don't want to step on any toes when you say the politics of the other groups, give me an idea of what you're talking about when you say politics, because most of us out here won't have any clue because we've not been involved in anything like that.
Well, I understand that, like each group needs to have structure and you know, and rulings to them. But when it got to a point to where there was there was just somebody was coming up with like a fifty eight page book and I'm not and I'm not joking about that. It was about fifty eight pages worth of ruling that.
Need to be done.
And and it's understandable that when you make a group that everyone.
Should be able to understand, you know, what your role is, what you're.
Supposed to do, you know, and as everyone starts coming together more of a family instead of friends. You know, you have each other's backs and there's no need to do all that nit picking and everything else like that. And so when it started getting to the point to where I was in a group, to where it was.
Just like everything was.
Just so rule oriented, it was just like, these rules are ruining the whole enjoyment of the process.
That's that's what it was.
I mean, it just wasn't too you know, I'm not saying that the Hunt Explorers are completely ruleless. I mean we still have, you know, rules that we tried to apply by you know, but it was just when it was get to that point to where it was just like, this isn't find anymore because the politics of it are just creating more disaster than anything, I mean, And so that's what I wanted.
I just wanted to.
Get back into the funt of investigating, and that's why I created the High Explorers.
Could you give an example of some of the rules that you're talking about, just so we can't have a guideline of what you guys mean by rules as compared to what you do well.
There was like if you missed like even one or two meetings you were automatically kicked out. I mean it's understandable, like if we all have our own personal lives. So I mean that's that's always been from the get go, from us start, and was the understanding that live, family, life, jobs, personal responsibilities. Those are always going to be number one. And then number two is when we can then we try to get together and we do an investigation. And if we all can get together, then some of us
can get together go off and do an investigation. So we don't stick to just the whole team thing. It doesn't have to be one hundred percent team oriented. We can split off and all to do our own things under the Hunt Explorers and they come back together. Can we talk to that, you know, everyone, everyone talks to the team. We share our adventures, we share our stories, We post what we find on the internet, you know,
on our website. You know, it's just it's just really just core function is just investigating.
That's what we do.
How do you get most of your investigations? Do you have a lot of people reaching out to you saying, hey, I feel like something's going on. Can you come out and take a look.
That's part of it. And then the other part of it is just us trying to figure out where we can go, you know, aside from the fact a lot of places just constantly keep asking for tons of money, which is kind of hard, Like I said, from us, you know, from the number one thing that we try to do is you know that your family and job and you know, life comes first, you know, and then your finances come first.
So it's so from there we had to plan out, you know, like.
What where's the money going to take us to get to a place, you know, and how you know, and we try to make sure we've worked everything out.
Okay, let me ask you this, So what's what What are some of you can just give me wonder you can give me a cup off, won't and make you narrow it down? What are some of the coolest places that you've been able to investigate that just stand out to you just.
Getting invited to you know, our most recent we got invited to go do the Railroad cas.
Casino, which was awesome.
We were the first official group to you know, to officially investigate the place. You know, We've been to Mandali Bay, the Foundation Room. That was an amazing place. You didn't think that things would happen there, but we did get evidence there.
You guys have some YouTube footage of that too, correct, Yes, okay, So how can people see that if they want to be able to see some of the footage of you guys, can you give your YouTube channel?
Yeah, just go to YouTube dot com slash the haunt Explorers.
Awesome. What about this? Let me ask you, so that's those are some of the coolest places. Let's talk about the Railroad Casino. I can't remember the exact name you gave to it. How it is that? Is that one of the real old casinos or is it a newer casino?
Yeah, that was one of the one of the first older casinos that was built.
They kind of built it.
I think it was back in the thirties, in the thirties when they were building the Hoover Dam. That is that casino is actually holding the number one business license in the state of.
The bat Oh wow, we're talking like number wise.
That was there was one prior to that, and I don't know the name of the casino off hand, but they they shut down and now Railroad Pass that is the actual number one holder.
What is the reason that that the Hauntings are going on there is that they got like a mobster passed, or or what seemed to be the rumors that float around there.
I think the biggest thing was it was built more or less for the Hoover Dam, so you had a lot of workers building the Boober Dam. So they needed a place to stay and eat and everything. So you had you had quite a bit of influx of the workers out there. You had some some Western people, there were some foreigners that stayed out there, but a lot of it was mainly built around that.
So let me ask you this, that was the coolest place. What are some of the creepiest things you guys have seen, either as a group or individually during your time of doing this, anything just kind of jump out at you, so to speak.
I think for me, I could say, like the previest thing I've ever walked into. You've probably seen it a lot of the clown hotel.
Yeah, you know, I'm not.
Scared of clowns, but you know, you just walk into like a hotel and it's a whole bunch of clowns.
So I just thought that was I don't know, it's not my type.
Another clown person I'm okay with clowns not a clown hotel though.
Is that? Is that a place that you guys got to investigate or just something that you just don't on your own just kind of ran into.
That's actually located on Panavata and you know, we've seen it on TV a few times and we wanted to go at least check it out. I don't believe that's someplace I would investigate. You know, the options are still there.
I think we would.
We would still do that afre Hast, but something that's on the bucking List.
I don't believe that was on pame No. But they have Degree Yard right next door to.
So what about you other guys, you got anything that stands at you?
I haven't like, Uh, what's the place called Aubert Hill in California?
There?
Oh the Albert Hill in Elementary school and Lake Elston, or California. Yeah, that was actually a good one for us. I actually, uh pretty much got touched. All I felt was this really ice cold like can And we actually had it on the camera when we saw the little fingerprints on my back. There's a video of it on on our YouTube page where we've we've gone at Albert Hill several times. And it's our second trip there. We were asking for the kids to come and go up to the chalkboard to do a.
Little bit of homework assignment. And upon that time we.
Were asking him, Uhd, Brod made like a like a oohs down, you know, and we looked over at him and he's like something just touched me or pushed me.
And we lifted up his shirt and he has.
Pretty much you can see the outline of the little child's hand on.
His on his back.
Oh, that is scary.
It was a nice cold though. It wasn't like a hop deal in so I just didn't know what.
It was for the moment there until they show showed it on camera. Who So that was pretty cool, having a handpin all like that.
That's that's always. That's always the things that freaked me out the most. When you see the videos of of when you you feel something and you raise your shirt and there's a scratch or there's a handprint or something that those are the things that just make you feel like that something's evil in the room as opposed to something you know, just a regular ghost.
Well, and when we've gone there, there's there's never been like anything that felt evil.
But still on one on essence, there's like the local kids or whoeveryone I don't know who it is, or adults I've been doing like their own fake satanic stuff within the school, so who knows, you know, what they brought forward or you know, or summoned or you know. So there's been times that we were in there and there's been some really weird.
Stuff that's happened, and it's.
You don't know if it's accounted to something that's they did or you know, or maybe just residual haunting that's there.
But you know, you always just try.
To, you know, make sure you're you're you know, you're well protected when you're out there as well.
Don't forget there's a lot of beats too in that place.
Bats always make things much creepier.
Yeah.
Yeah, I got a quick question for each one of you, and we'll start with you Steven. Okay, if you can investigate any place in the world, money wasn't an object, you could just go and set up and investigate, what would the place be for you?
Like one of the like one of my biggest places I'd love to get to is uh. I'm trying to think of what the name of this, it's an old supurriculo. Most is plenty, but it's what's what's that name on Waverley Hills, Yes, Weverly Hills. Yeah, there was no money, you know, money wasn't an option. I would love to just go to Waverley Hills and just spend the night there, just.
Hanging out, investigating.
It just just seems like that place and everyone's getting activity when they go there, and I would just it would be a dream for me.
I mean that, or for Myrtle's plantation. I would just.
You know, I had if somebody said, you know, you know, give give me your arm, I'll b I'll give you my arm so I can go to the place.
I mean, that's that would be huge to go to the place.
We've actually done shows on both of those, and as far as Waverley, I am sitting right now about an hour and ten minutes away from Waverley and used to live in Louisville where it's at, and I actually have spent the night in there.
That's cool.
Yeah, Wow, it's a I got some cool pictures I'll have to send to you guys from that we that I snapped up there. But uh, Yeah, it's a it's a really cool place. And uh actually if you listen to uh the podcast we did on Waverley, uh we actually uh actually got a little sexual activity going on up in there, so in the morgue, in the morgue. So a few people can say that. But so what about you, Tim, what is what's your one place if you had a choice?
Well, I guess it's it's a toss between two of them. I will have to say Burl's Plantation. My wife who was also on a team, she's not here either. Everybody's at part except for.
For of us. Brtle's Plantation is the biggest one.
And also I want to go back to Australia where I did Mainland outs.
That's interesting that one.
That one I would I don't prefer I would rather go to just because the time that we went was during an Australian parathon and we kind of got you know, free rom of the prison, but it was kind of locked down between like fifty people, and firston I'd rather do them, but the final because that was a that is a pretty hot place there.
See. That's I'm glad you brought that up because we actually have a lot of Australian listeners, and I've been trying to come up with some show ideas for some of our listeners overseas, and we're doing one next week on the Japanese Forest for our Japanese listeners, and then we're going to do one in Australia. And I've got a couple of our listeners that were coming up with ideas. But that sounds like a pretty cool idea on a
show by itself. Oh yeah, definitely, all right, Last, but not least, Mrad what's your place?
Actually, you actually said it.
It was in Japan with a haunted for us and one of the main places that I would always love to go, Nakotomy as I didn't know what is the name.
I've seen it a few times.
I can't think of the name of it, but it's the forest that the suicide force. Yeah, suicide Forest, that's the name, okay, and then Getty's birth, I know, the whole suicide forest thing. You might go in and not come out.
It's funny when you get to when you can get a microphone in front of you and talk to people all over the world. I put something on our Facebook page about doing a show next week about the Suicide Forest. I get a listener from Australia send me a message and say that her brother has actually been there and was telling me things about this that I won't go into detail about because she told it to me in private.
But how cool is it that you can put something on Facebook and fifteen minutes later you got a listener halfway across the world talking about she's got a relative that's been there, and then giving you details by a place. It's just it's unbelievable what the Internet is able to do for people.
Now, that's amazing.
Yeah, guys, I appreciate you giving me some time today. I know all of us have busy lives and we'd all love to be able to just do this for a living and not be able to do regular jobs, but we know that's not reality for most of us. Yeah, but that that does bring up an interesting question though, a lot of people see the big ghost hunter shows on TV and we all know the names. I'm not gonna throw all the names out there, but you see all of them, what do you guys know about that lifestyle?
I mean, these guys, for the most part, most of them still have regular jobs and stuff. Just the same as you do, am I correct.
Yeah.
A big thing with all those shows, you know they're they're doing like most other paranormal investigators would do, is they're spending you know, hours upon days, you know, investigating a place because everybody knows you just can't walk them into a place and get something.
And it's not everything's on command. I will tell you though, too, it's no as well as I do.
It's a lot of it's all holiday, so most of the stuff you will see on there is probably not really.
Yeah, we we had that situation. Like I said, I was tied in close with a lot of the Louisville stuff and like Waverley when Ghost Hunters came there and did their show, I mean it was it was common knowledge that some of that stuff was set up. And it kind of sucks. And to be honest with you, and it's not against anybody, because I love what you guys do, and I love what people go out and do.
I just have a hard time watching those shows. And I used to love those shows, but you know now it just seems like they're more theatrics than they are of reality. And it's like you said, you know, some of these shows are twenty four hours and some of them are they stay for forty eight hours and what. But you know, it's like you said, how much can you really get to really prove anything in that time?
And it's just amazing somebody can walk in spend a night and they got all this stuff on tape and I don't know, it's just it really is hard to believe. I'm not going to say it's all fake because I don't. I'm not going to say that just because that's not fair to them of any of these shows, but it is kind of hard to believe you can just walk in, spend one night and get all this footage enough to
make a whole show. And it's just you know, I've seen enough to where I know that's not necessarily how things work.
Yeah, yeah, I mean you're right about that. But you know, some of these shows that if they spend you know, with there too, and sometimes they may film for a week just to get all that footage. You know, some days you may not have with any activity. I mean some other days you may just have way too much activity that you know, all you can do is just squeeze it in for thirty minutes, I mean, for what
we do. We've got a bunch of places where we've had no activity at all, and when we go back three months a year later, all kinds of activities have.
So yeah, you do have to throw in things for your.
Wait, it's amazing, but you know you're right. I mean, it's it's hit or miss most of the time. So, guys, tell my listeners out there how they can get in touch with you, how they can follow you. I know you've got a bunch of social media. What's the best way to get a hold of you, guys?
The best way We have our website, the Haunted Explorers dot or. Once you go to that age, all of the links to our social media is on the top right hand site. So we have Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, got the YouTube.
We also have a store on there.
We've got an offline store, so if they want to pick up any shirts, they've got that as well. They can send us by by email, which is info at the Huntredexplorers dot Org. Another way to get a hold of us. Another thing we do want to put out there. We don't do any home investigations. It's very rare that we do them. And if we were to do a home investigation. It's typically only for like somebody close because
too much liability. It's it's kind of too much time to work with somebody trying to find out for if they're loony or if it's a real thing that's happening and it's just something we're not currently interested in right now.
I can definitely understand that. I mean, it's it's uh, there's a lot of people out there with a lot of loose, loose heads, we'll say, and you can't always believe everything that's going on. It's it's a sad world we live in unfortunately. Yeah, guys, thank you so much for being on the show. And uh, I know my listeners are gonna love hearing from you and I appreciate it and I'll definitely keep following you guys.
Awesome, thank you for having us. Don't forget to subscribe and like this on YouTube.
Absolutely everybody go out there. Remember just google the Haunted Explorers. I know when you google it, most of that stuff, including the YouTube stuff shows up. So and they do got a pretty cool looking logo, so I'm sure their their merchants are actually pretty damn cool too. Thank you guys so much, and be looking forward talking to you in the future.
All right, very much?
All right, So those were the Haunted Explorers. Like I said, we'll probably hear from those guys down the road. We wanted to read a story now this is I saved this one for last because this is actually pretty cool. Josh Hopkins Hoskins, not the guy from Cougar Town's Josh Hopkins. Joshua Hoskins from Portland, Michigan sent us this and he's you know, basically, I'll let his words do the speaking on it. He said, Hey, guys, my name is josh and I found you about two weeks ago. I listen
to you every day while I'm working. I don't normally send messages, but I listened to your sleep paralysis episode last night and actually had an incident. I've had several times four but this one was a little bit different.
When I have an episode, that's usually I can't move anything and I feel a way, but I'm watching myself sleep from the side and a black mass floating over top of me, and sometimes I see a smile looking down at me at as I'm sleeping or awake, with a grip over my mouth so I can't move my mouth. Last night, it was different altogether. It was me sleeping, then feeling the heavy pressure of my whole body and unable to move anything, but I could open my eyes.
I did, and I was looking directly into the eyes of the black mass, and again the hand over my mouth to speak. I saw the smile and it seemed to last forever. All of a sudden, I hear you leave him alone. It was not my voice. As I looked to my left, I saw a board or something swing towards the mass. I felt a strange sensation on my nose, and the mass struck and dissipated. I felt free, and I woke up, got my bearings and was like, okay, that was a new one. Well, here is something that
really put this over the top. I felt my nose start running really fast, so I ran for a tissue in the bathroom and looked in the mirror and it was bleeding all over the place. I thought dry air or something, but I could not get it to stop. I kept putting the tissue in and it just wouldn't kept going. Anytime that it did stop, it would start right back up again as soon as I dozed off. This continued all night until the sun came up and it just stopped right when I said out loud, I'm
going to the hospital now again. I've had several episodes with sleep paralysis since high school, and if the nose bleeding hadn't happened, I wouldn't have given it a second thought. This afternoon, I remembered hearing your episode yesterday and I thought, what the hell, I'll see what he says. So thank you for your time, and I hope I didn't ramble too much. I love your show and I'm a bald man too, so we have that in common. The struggle is real to y'all, and if y'all know having any questions,
feel free to reach me. Josh, Josh, that is one screwed up story.
Yeah. I can't. I cannot even imagine what you must go through. I mean, if it's happened all these years, well, I don't know. I don't even know what to say about that. I just I want to say I feel bad for you because I can't imagine going through that and you, I mean, you really don't know what to expect next.
Yeah, I mean it does sound like you have a guardian angel, though, so that's a positive.
That's very true.
That's if you want my advice, that's what it sounds like. I would say, somebody's kind of looking over you, and that would explain the board or something flying. That would also explain, you know, the voice that wasn't yours telling you to leave you alone. So I think that's pretty cool. So I think you're probably in pretty good shape.
Let's let's hope for no more incidents than get any worse than that. But I'm like Jerry, I think you have a guardian angel looking over you. And thanks for sharing that story with the because that's pretty crazy.
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