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Hello, goblins and ghouls, and welcome to my haunted life podcast.

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I'm your host, Angela Hartshorn, and today I'm telling you the history of a

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very creepy haunted hospital turned boutique hotel.

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But thanks to the ghosts, they can't seem to ditch the spooky reputation.

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Music.

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Good morning, my darklings. How is everyone doing today?

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I hope you are awesome, because you are awesome.

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You might be able to tell, but allergies are kicking my butt right now,

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so I sound a little scrungier than usual.

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I don't know, maybe it's sexy vocal fry, cry like Phoebe on Friends that time.

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Maybe that's what we're going to go with that.

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I just got back from Tulsa and spending a very long weekend with the wonderful

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Shell and her family from The Boutique by Shell. I think that's how it is on Instagram.

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And of course, the Tulsa Oddities and Curiosities Expo. We had so much freaking fun.

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I was a little worried about it being Mother's Day, but y'all came out and it was wonderful.

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I was amused how many of my fellow artist friends I had to remind it was Mother's

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Day, so that was rather amusing, but otherwise it was all good.

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Chelle and I then did a tour of haunted places in Tulsa.

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Apparently everything is closed on Tulsa on Mondays.

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So we didn't actually get to go in anywhere.

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So we didn't get to do much investigating or anything, but we went around,

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checked things out, that kind of thing.

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We couldn't do too much because we had a three-year-old with us.

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But definitely look for like upcoming Tulsa.

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I'll probably do like a bunch of the stories pretty quick.

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Although there's one really cool one I really want to delve into out there.

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You can't go anywhere because the house has been demolished.

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So we went to a lot. Anyways I think my next show for anyone local is the flower moon market and

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you can find that at the Colorado Springs moon market on Facebook and I think

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that's still a name on Instagram as well,

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and I think that's about it I don't have a whole lot of housekeeping keeping

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other than allergies are killing me and you might be hearing some chirpy little

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birds outside because I'm recording the podcast quite early today.

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So they might be making appearance. I don't, I'm not sure. They're pretty loud.

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But yeah, I don't, I don't think there's anything?

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Yep, I don't think there's anything. We're going to go with that.

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So on this week's episode, I'm telling you all about the Hotel Park Central

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in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was a hospital for railway workers that turned into a psychiatric hospital

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for children and teens and has since been renovated into a boutique hotel with a hospital theme.

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Yeah, it's a little odd. But it's a really nice hotel.

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I really enjoyed my stay there.

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But I can't help but think, though, that it might confuse the hell out of the ghosts.

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It definitely holds on to its history and we'll go into that.

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So let's get into it, shall we?

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Grab yourself a cup of tea, make sure the doors are locked and the hatchet is close by.

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I have a story to tell you.

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Music.

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The Hotel Park Central is a bit of a contradiction.

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It feels like a really weird location.

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It's a very residential area surrounded by highways.

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And then suddenly there's a very large, several-story beige building, really out of nowhere.

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Honestly, with it being so close to the highway, it's not the best location for a hotel.

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It's a perfect location for a hospital though.

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We were in Albuquerque for the Oddities and Curiosities Expo last year,

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and I always love to try to stay in haunted places.

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Usually I do more research before going in,

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but I wanted to go in to this one

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with as little knowledge of the hospital

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and the hauntings as possible

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it's like I

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didn't want any of my experiences to be

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you know what's the word colored by already knowing an information bias basically

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I usually don't do that but you know I I hate to say it,

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a hospital haunting is kind of cliche,

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but, you know, I wanted to see

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as blank slate as possible if I experienced anything out of the normal.

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It's pretty obvious the Hotel Park Central used to be a hospital.

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There wasn't much renovation to the outside of the big beige concrete building, and huge, It's huge.

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But they decorated the hotel and even the rooms with items left over from the

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hospital, including lights,

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hospital signs, and the rooftop bar even has mortician.

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Gurney. There's a gurney for a table in the VIP area.

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I have been in hospital and morgue-themed restaurants, but since you are actually

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in a hospital-turned-hotel with hospital-themed details, it creates a weird vibe.

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Like, at times I wondered if it was respectful or not.

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Probably because the energy in that place was, honestly, it was different.

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I'm personally not a hospital person.

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My family never went to the hospital unless it was an absolute emergency.

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So it was always catastrophic for us to be in one.

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Since the Hotel Park Central retained so much of its hospital identity,

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I wondered if that was what was making me uneasy.

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I felt uneasy almost the entire time we were there, especially in the hallways.

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It was uncomfortable and you felt like you were being watched when you were in the hallways.

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We were on the third floor, which is is supposed to be one of the most haunted.

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I swore at one point I heard footsteps outside our room.

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And, you know, I was thinking it was my husband bringing our bags up or something.

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I opened the door for him and there was nothing there.

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It was a little strange. range.

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The other thing is I heard these steps very clearly, like on a tile floor.

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Everything's carpeted. So I just went and sat in the room, just listening for

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anything else until the hubs came back up.

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I didn't hear anything. Like I didn't hear him come in because of the carpeting.

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Like, it was so strange because in the room, the energy was fine.

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No creepiness whatsoever.

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The rooms are lovely.

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Oh, my God, the shower. Oh, my God, the shower. Even with the old hospital pictures everywhere.

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Like, it's really interesting how they incorporated the history.

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History and locally the history isn't always the best.

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So it's interesting that it's so incorporated into everything.

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Now, as soon as I went into the hallway, however, immediate uneasiness.

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It felt like I was unwanted or somewhere I wasn't supposed to be and that somebody

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was watching me because of it. You know when you like sneak around in places and you know you're not supposed

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to be there and you're trying to be sneaky? It felt like that.

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But I wasn't trying to be sneaky. It was strange, and it definitely kept my anxiety up.

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I will say it was kind of fun, though. In the mornings, the dining room for

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breakfast in the mornings, which was the hospital cafeteria,

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played like 1940s music, like the Andrews Sisters and Bing Crosby.

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So it, everything felt like it was kind of having an identity crisis.

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And it seemed, it, it made it almost creepier, in a way.

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Because like, what was this hospital doing in the 40s kind of thing.

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But that being said, breakfast was amazing.

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So a little bit of background information before we get into the hauntings.

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The Hotel Park Central started construction in 1926.

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It was originally called the Santa Fe Hospital.

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It opened on September 5th, 1926, and Albuquerque held week-long festivities to mark its opening.

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And I know I've said it a couple times already, ready.

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But it is a huge, big, beige building.

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I think I'm used to the Santa Fe adobe color.

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This isn't that. It is beige beige. So I feel like it definitely stands out.

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It also has this gorgeous, like, Italian architecture in it.

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So it's different. But it's really, it's honestly a really beautiful building.

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The hospital was originally designated for employees of the Atchison,

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Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway companies who worked on the railway that cut through the city.

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In the 1980s, the building was converted to a private psychiatric hospital for

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children and young adults. The building then fell into disrepair in the late 1990s and sat vacant for years.

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Now, this time is when a lot of the stories start about the hauntings.

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A lot of them have to do with the psychiatric hospital, whether they were kids

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seeing things or people seeing things after they were vacant,

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the hospital was vacant, and they associated the sightings they were seeing

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with the psychiatric hospital. That being said, the reports do go back further than that.

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The hauntings in this building date back to the time it served as a hospital.

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Patients would report seeing apparitions, hearing voices, seeing objects move,

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and shuffling in the stairways.

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And the feeling of a presence of other beings when nobody was there.

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Patients also reported waking up

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with scratches a very common

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experience patients reported was having

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their sheets violently pulled off of their hospital beds by an unseen force

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this freaks me out our fifth grade teacher used to tell us scary stories it

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was the 90s and And shit like that was okay.

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Like, we would take a break from schoolwork.

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All gather around, sitting on the floor, in the dark.

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And he would tell us different stories about him growing up and stuff.

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And different local legends and creepy shit sometimes.

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There was this one. I won't tell the whole story. But it was about a guy terrorized

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by an unknown shadow creature that would pull the blankets off the man as he would sleep.

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And as he pulled the sheets down, the creature would be pulling the man's soul out of his body.

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So anytime I hear of bed sheets being pulled off, I think of this story.

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So, I'm convinced there's a malevolent spirit involved right there.

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There is no good reason for a spirit to be pulling off blankets.

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Just there's not. One family told how they had been awoken to sudden commotion and bedsheets being

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physically pulled off of them as they sleep, as they slept.

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A whole freaking family.

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Now, I don't know if they were in separate beds or if they were all in one bed,

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but multiple people experiencing this is even more terrifying.

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I always like to think like when I have my husband with me, things won't mess with me as much.

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I know that's not true, but it's

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one of the things I tell myself so I can sleep in some of these places.

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I'm so glad I did not see that before I went.

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Several of these incidents occurred during the time the building was known as Memorial Hospital.

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And I believe that's when it was a psychiatric hospital.

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Many patients have their own experiences, including the sightings of apparitions.

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Many have readily witnessed sightings of full-spectrum apparitions which manifest

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as former patients, fully-uniformed doctors,

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railway workers, and very young children, all appearing in very real distress,

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desperately roaming shadowy hallways.

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Which to me that makes sense it's

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a hospital like we were talking about earlier you

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don't go to hospital for fun that that

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to me kind of sounds very residual i don't know what do you think some even

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claim to interact with these entities and have been physically followed down corridors by them.

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A lot of reports come from the third floor in the right wing.

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This is where we stayed.

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And again, I didn't know anything about the hauntings. Like,

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I described my experiences with you guys.

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I wrote them down in this document for the podcast before I started doing research.

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And when I discovered this part, I...

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I got a little like, oh my God, that makes sense.

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So third floor, right wing. Several guests have seen a female apparition.

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People report seeing her watching them in the hallways, the freaking hallways, you guys.

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A woman's ghost is said to stand in one of the hallways, silently watching those going by.

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Patients would mistake her for an employee on a few occasions,

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and when they turned away, she'd disappear suddenly, with no explanation for

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her departure or where she went.

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Now, guests of the hotel see her peering around corners, wondering if she's

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just a very strange guest. Now, I didn't see anything when we were there, but I definitely felt it.

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Like I said, I felt like I was being watched and I was somewhere I shouldn't have been.

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So that to me is very interesting.

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One of the theories I came across was that she might be a nurse who once worked there.

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And maybe, you know, she's just keeping an eye on things, trying to figure out

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why in the hell these other people who don't really seem like they need help are there.

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But this has been reported a lot. And...

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It appears she is not a guest, and when she's seen, she just disappears pretty quickly.

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Now, in my research, I think I have a theory about who this lady might be.

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Across the street from the Hotel Park Central is the Albuquerque Press Club.

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We sadly didn't get to visit there, but apparently it's very haunted.

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The vast majority of reported phenomena are auditory in nature.

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The sound of high-heeled shoes has been heard by several witnesses walking across

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the floor of the bar and lobby area.

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Noises have also been associated with the pool table in the room downstairs. stairs.

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Voices and balls moving about on the pool table on their own.

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The piano in the lobby has been played three notes, apparently, by an unseen presence.

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I feel like one note is, you know, cool, but three?

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That's pretty... That one's, I think, a little bit harder to explain away. way.

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But what is important is that the apparition of a woman in a black shawl has

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been reported on several occasions in various locations throughout the building.

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Bar staff have a ritual of leaving the ghost a shot of gin on the corner of the bar.

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Also, cats at the club have been observed watching and hissing at an unseen presence.

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So I thought this was really interesting that just across the street,

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there is a woman in a black shawl running around.

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And I also thought it was really interesting, the sound of high-heeled shoes

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being heard, because that's very similar to what I heard on the carpeted floors

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that should not be making that sound.

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So I found a local news article about a local paranormal group out there.

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And it reads, according to Zachary Kluckman, the lead investigator for Horns

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Paranormal, greets the spirits at the Albuquerque Press Club every time he walks through the doors.

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Kluckman says Mrs. M is the former owner of the cabin.

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He explains she was a nurse at the old old sanitarium, now the Hotel Park Central.

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Kluckman claims she often used the cabin as a place for her patients to stay.

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There have been several deaths associated with the place.

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You know, tuberculosis patients who had moved on, said Kluckman.

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So maybe Mrs. M is also keeping an eye on her patients at both the Hotel Park

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Central and the Albuquerque Press Club.

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That's my theory. Do I have any evidence for that yet?

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No. I think it just means I have to go to the Albuquerque Press Club the next time I'm there.

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Anytime people go into a hospital, it's a stressful event.

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But checking into the Santa Fe or Memorial Hospital might have been the most traumatizing.

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Some patients, after being discharged from the hospital, reported nightmares

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and panic attacks from their ghostly experiences in the hospital.

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Patients were not the only ones to experience things that they couldn't explain.

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The staff of the hospital did as well.

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They would would often report having the sensation of being watched as well

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as hearing something whisper in their ear and seeing nothing around to explain it.

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The movement of objects, including very heavy ones, flickering lights,

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and a general sense of heaviness was felt throughout the buildings.

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There are even reports of the staff,

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the staff, also having nightmares and panic attacks after leaving the hospital,

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to the point that they resigned due to feeling traumatized.

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Now, I feel like some people immediately would explain a lot of these experiences

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away with the stories coming from patients because, you know,

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traumatic events are happening. There's a good chance you might be on some kind of drug. Right.

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You know, you're not in your right state of mind.

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You're already anxious and things come up.

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But for the staff to report almost the exact same thing that the patients are

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reporting, you know, hopefully they're not on drugs.

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Folks, they're the ones who are the ones the patients are counting on to protect

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them and keep them safe and to help them.

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So if they're feeling traumatized by something in the hospital and not,

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you know, the hospital work itself, that's very strange to me.

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Other phenomena Reported includes unexplained running footsteps,

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objects spontaneously moving across tables, disembodied voices,

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doors suddenly opening unaided, and the truly disturbing sounds of phantom babies crying.

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Again, hospital, these are all things that could be residual that doesn't make it comfortable.

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I didn't hear anything about like babies or stuff, but that's never, never a good thing.

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Now, the fact that people have reported hearing whispers directly into their ears during the night.

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That, that, that's, no, that's too much.

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So there are many stories related to paranormal activity at this location,

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with several incidents occurring during the time that the building was being

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occupied as Memorial Hospital, the psychiatric hospital.

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The following excerpts are apparently from an internet blog regarding the activity.

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I found it on a website that had old PowerPoints uploaded to it.

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I was very confused by it.

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It's definitely certainly old PowerPoints, but it was almost like this paranormal

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group was coming forward to be like, this is what we found.

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And I believe these were collected by Los Muertos Spirit Seekers,

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which is a local paranormal group.

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So, I spent over a year in that place as a patient.

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Memorial Hospital is in my nightmares. They would move the units around yearly.

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Each time I was there, I was in a different section in the hospital.

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I spent four to five months on the second floor, which in my opinion was the

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least haunted to say the least.

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On the top floor, right wing is where children would see a woman apparition lurking the hallways.

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That's also Also where I would wake up in the middle of the night having my

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blankets jerked off of me. Or to wake up with scratches on me with cracking and clicking sounds circulating through my room.

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There were countless suicides in the building, not to mention the deteriorating

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psyche of thousands of children.

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For example, the second floor bathroom right next to the elevator,

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a boy hung himself, which led to us having everything of ours taken away.

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We used to be able to use Nair until a girl drank a bottle on the second floor.

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Another child also killed himself with a bed sheet in the quiet room on the

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second floor. Now, I'm going to throw this out really quick.

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I could not find anything to substantiate these stories.

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I looked through newspaper archives. I couldn't find anything.

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So, I don't know. I am going to throw that out there.

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Take it with a grain of salt, but at the same time, this is somebody's experience.

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So, I don't know. I also don't think children's suicide deaths would be widely reported,

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reported and I don't think that would be something like you could find publicly

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too much. I could be wrong. I don't know.

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I could not find anything though. So if anybody finds anything, let me know.

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Another story from this account or from this PowerPoint.

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My name is Robert C.

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I was a patient at Memorial as well. I am anxious to see what kind of complaints

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you will get from people unfamiliar with the hospital.

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I still have the nightmares I had in that godforsaken place.

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I hope you will begin to believe.

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I have always been a practical person, But after my discharge from the hospital,

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I looked at life differently.

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Sometimes you have to see it to believe it.

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And to the gentleman that was in Memorial as well for a year,

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I know and will never forget.

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I now go to church, but once in a while, they visit me.

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I was in the hospital when I was 13 for jumping in front of a truck.

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I know now that suicide is not the way, but the stories are true.

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So, I don't know. Like I said, the PowerPoint seems to be a debrief of this

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paranormal's group of their time at the hospital. I think debrief is probably a good explanation.

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It's interesting because, again, first-hand accounts, always wonderful to have.

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So it's really interesting. And there's actually more from the debrief other

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than just these stories they had previously collected.

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And I thought it was really interesting, so I included it here.

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During an investigation in January 2011 by the Los Muertos Spirit Seekers,

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three team members experienced unexplained voices slash whispering close to their location.

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They also reported distinct coolness near their bodies and a sense of being watched.

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After reviewing their evidence, some of these experiences were captured on digital voice recorders.

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I looked for this group like crazy. I'm just going to throw this out there real quick.

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I looked and everything seems to be defunct.

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Like the website doesn't work anymore, anything. So I don't know where these EVPs are.

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I even tried contacting the woman who's associated with it on Facebook.

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Never heard back. Anyways, they also carried out the flashlight technique,

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an attempt at communication with a spirit that involves the answering of questions

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through the turning on of the flashlight,

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which was a success and several responses captured on video.

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The LMSS team had the opportunity to tour the property on two occasions and

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spent an evening in November 2010.

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During the overnight stay, no known activity and or evidence was documented.

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I'm just going to throw this out there. I really appreciate a paranormal team

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that's like, yeah, no, we didn't get anything this time.

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I love that. That gives me hope. I feel like that gives a group cred, personally.

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The LMSS team performed the investigation at the hotel on Tuesday,

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January 4th, 2011, between the hours of 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., which,

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love a morning investigation. The team consisted, oh, I bet that's in between check-in and check-out times.

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Check-out and check-in times, I guess, technically. That would make sense.

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The team consisted of five members, two groups, researching,

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documenting, and recording the second and third floors of the hotel,

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as well as the residency buildings, formerly known as the Surgeon's Building of the facility.

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The residence building is located approximately 100 yards behind the hotel and

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is one of the original buildings to the site.

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This structure required minimal refurb and contained several guest rooms with

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a common area living room.

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During the course of the investigation, several employees, housekeeping,

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maintenance, were actively working in the hotel.

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So yeah, I bet this was in between check-in and check-out. I was literally just

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going to ask about housekeeping.

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Their location and presence during each session was identified and documented. minute.

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Equipment used during the investigation included Sony digital voice recorders,

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Sony digital video recorders, Nikon digital cameras,

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K2 meter, Gauss meter, temperature probe, laser grid scope, and mag light flashlights.

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Each group in their respective locations obtained base EMF readings,

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performed EVP sessions, observed slash photographed the area,

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and applied the mag light flashlight technique.

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The team members captured over 160 digital pictures, four hours of auto recordings

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on three digital voice recorders, and three hours of digital video recordings.

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While performing the investigation, at least three of the team members experienced

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some sort of unexplained activity.

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So this is the second time they went in, not the first time.

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Which, you know, that to me makes sense.

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Those experiences included voices and or whispering near their location,

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a distinct coldness near or on their body,

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and a sense of being watched after review of the digital photos,

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was determined that no anomalies were indicated via digital photography.

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After review of the digital voice recorders, there were several sounds and or whispers identified.

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Again, still sad, couldn't find it.

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So, however, LMSS was unable to quantify and qualify those episodes as paranormal in nature.

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There were no unexplainable incidences in the resident building.

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LMSS team members applied the flashlight technique,

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a procedure that requires an entity or spirit to directly answer questions in

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an affirmative manner by turning on a flashlight. light.

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There were several occasions when a positive response was indicated,

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and those responses were documented via digital video recording.

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These recordings were obtained on the second floor

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near rooms 213 and 214, as well as on the third floor near rooms 314 and 315.

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I don't remember what room we stayed in. No other anomalies were observed or

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recorded, i.e. EMF spike or temperature changes in either location.

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Saw this flashlight interaction cited numerous times on a lot of websites talking about the hauntings.

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I will work with the mini mag light that uses a twisting motion on the front

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element of the light to turn the device on and off.

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And real quick, this isn't me. This is still from the website,

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from the paranormal group.

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I have seen these sessions on television done with a small stand-up flashlight

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that use a switch to turn them on and off.

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However, I have never used these personally.

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Now here's the quote-unquote twist and the source of much of the controversy. see.

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Twist the top element of the flashlight so it is not quite on.

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This is done best by slowly turning the element until the light goes on and

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then slowly turning it in the opposite direction until it goes off.

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But by doing this, you now made the flashlight and all of its intricate inner

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workings, an extremely sensitive instrument.

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Sensitive to vibrations, electrical buildups, minute changes in atmospheric

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conditions, and perhaps the presence of a paranormal entity.

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Place the adjusted flashlight on a flat surface such as a table,

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preferably a solid steady one.

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I use a small bipod made with

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a twisted coat hanger that has

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a large loop enough to slide over the slim bottom end of the flashlight and

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small enough to come to a stop at the larger front end of the flashlight to

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ensure even steadier position and more separation from From the surface,

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paranormal investigators and others who refer to flashlight sessions as the

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flashlight trick have outlined a myriad of reasons why flashlights are either

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inaccurate or a complete sham.

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Site in particular, the initial adjustment of the flashlight essentially causes it to malfunction.

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The mini mag lights are actually pretty delicate instruments filled with floating

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contact elements and other mechanisms that are constantly under tension from

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the spring at the base of the flashlight.

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As soon as the forward element is twisted, whether the light bulb is on or off,

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The critics point out that operating the flashlight while it is malfunctioning

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may cause it to be activated by even the smallest stimulus.

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And they cite elements such as moisture, vibrations, and electrical buildups

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within the instrument that cause the light to go on and off without the presence

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of any paranormal entity.

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There are even videos of people talking to ridiculous elements,

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such as their gym socks or the flashlight guide that show the flashlight going

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on and off in an apparent response to the questions posed to these elements. limits.

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Okay. So honestly, that's a lot of information.

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I really appreciate the thoroughness of this group.

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This makes me want to like present my findings now like this.

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This has totally inspired me. I love it. It's so thorough. And I love how they went into how,

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you know, the quote-unquote flashlight trick

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works and how they used it and why they why

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they used it but why they don't take it too seriously i i honestly like that

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a lot because i tried the flashlight technique a couple times not here i kind

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of wish i would have now because i think that would be

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interesting because like they talked about,

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you just, you find so many references to people doing the flashlight technique

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at the Hotel Park Central.

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There's so much of it and it's so commonly cited. So I don't, I don't know.

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I thought it was really an interesting, I love, I love the thoroughness of this group.

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I know it might be a little bit long and winded, but I love the way they broke

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things down and everything. So I thought that was very interesting.

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Music.

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The Hotel Park Central is a boutique hotel that offers both historic elegance

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and contemporary comfort.

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Guest rooms, of which there are 74, including 15 luxury suites and three spacious

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cottages, are each stylishly appointed. pointed.

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In your room, you'll enjoy high ceilings, large windows, rich fabrics,

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and custom-designed furniture that complements the inviting ambiance.

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You'll be able to enjoy the outdoor dining plaza, spacious garden park,

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and the rooftop lounge bar,

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which provides the most stunning panoramic views of the mountains,

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downtown city lights, and the southwest sunsets.

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A contemporary continental breakfast buffet is included in your stay,

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and you can choose to enjoy this

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in either the parlor or the relaxing surroundings of the outdoor terrace.

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I believe most of this comes from the website.

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And doesn't that just sound lovely? When we were there, it was too cold to sit

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out on the terrace, but it's honestly a very lovely place, and I would definitely go back.

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There are, again, as we have talked about,

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several rumors about ghosts roaming the halls,

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but developers said nothing unusual has been reported in the remodeling remodeled

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space i think that's very interesting,

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And my initial reaction to that is, of course they wouldn't.

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They're not going to say that there's unusual things. They want people to come.

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And a lot of what?

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They want to leave the dark history behind and just be this lovely boutique hotel.

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I just don't know if they can.

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That being said, I highly recommend staying at this place.

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Now, I'm not sure if I had any real experience at the Hotel Park Central,

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even with all the history. Sure, it was creepy, but part of that could have been because of my feelings

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about hospitals, of course. Hearing footsteps Footsteps in the hall honestly didn't make sense with how

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thick the carpet is outside, so there is a chance there was a noise that just

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sounded like footsteps, or maybe, you know, it was residual since I doubt the hospital had carpeted floors.

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Floors, the feelings of being watched and unwanted could have been weird EMFs in an old building.

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Honestly, that's kind of what it felt like.

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There was a weird air conditioner right outside of our room that was very loud

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and the noise it made was very off-putting.

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And that probably didn't help with anything.

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So honestly, I'm 50-50 on this one.

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I would love to go back, maybe bring some more tools, see how it goes.

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Anybody want to go to Albuquerque with me?

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So that's pretty freaking cool. thank you so much. I'm going to start going through those more.

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is by ghost stories incorporated and that's it for this week my loves i will

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see you in two weeks and it will be a surprise to all of us what,

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What the podcast will be. I'm hoping.

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I'm hoping to get an interview in. But we'll see what happens. We'll see what happens.

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Otherwise. We're just going to continue as normal. So I will see you guys.

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Two weeks from now. And until then. Stay spooky.

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