176: The Deadly Belvedere Hotel
Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal
Ghost Town
3.7 • 938 Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
This historic Baltimore hotel has a long history of deaths, haunts, and unsolved mysteries.
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| 0:00.0 | Baltimore's unsolved mystery. I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Leib. And this is Ghost Town. |
| 0:19.6 | Did Ray fall? Was he pushed? Police found no one who could place Ray inside the |
| 0:24.9 | Belvedere that night. Alison hired an expert who determined Ray would have had to get to a |
| 0:30.0 | running speed of 11 miles per hour to make a jump from the roof of the building to reach the |
| 0:36.0 | location of the hole. We recap the first episode of Netflix's unsolved mysteries reboot about |
| 0:41.1 | Ray Rivera. We talked a little about the Belvedere hotel, but honestly, I was doing research and |
| 0:47.2 | that is just the tip of the iceberg. This hotel is so much more haunted, strange shit that we just |
| 0:52.7 | had to do an episode on it. Buckle up, we're going back to the Belvedere hotel in Baltimore, |
| 0:57.5 | Maryland. The Belvedere hotel opened in December 1903 and it's considered one of the most haunted |
| 1:02.9 | and glamorous places in Baltimore. Throughout more than 100 years of operation, it's been the |
| 1:07.8 | go-to celebrity party hotel and at one point it was even the tallest building in Baltimore, |
| 1:12.3 | standing at 188 feet. To get a sense of the Belvedere, you have to get a sense of how big of a deal |
| 1:17.9 | it was for Baltimore to have a luxury hotel at the turn of the 20th century. It was a destination, |
| 1:23.3 | staying there was a status symbol. The Belvedere was designed not only to show off the city, |
| 1:27.9 | but also its high society, the 400 of Baltimore's blue book, who gathered there in a regular basis, |
| 1:33.5 | and it thrived. According to the Sun, one night at the hotel hosted all of the season's |
| 1:37.6 | Debbie Tons with their own parties or as the guests of others. The main dining room and six |
| 1:42.0 | private dining rooms were filled to capacity and it was estimated that over 1000 people dined that |
| 1:47.0 | evening. Also according to the Baltimore Sun, Wallace Warfield Simpson, the famous Baltimore |
| 1:51.9 | socialite, whom King Edward the Eighth abdicated the British throne to Mary, was a regular guest. |
| 1:57.8 | Others include F. Scott Fitzgerald, Clark Gable, Carol Lombard, Rudolf Valentino, Gloria Swanson, |
| 2:03.8 | John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Cecil B. DeMille, Gratio Marx, Kenny Rogers, |
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