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Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

176: The Deadly Belvedere Hotel

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib

True Crime, Paranormal, Weird History, Social Sciences, History, Science

3.7928 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. Get 10% off your first month by visiting our sponsor at BetterHelp.com/ghosttown The Candyman Killer: https://youtu.be/2AijF3vyyRs Haunted Merch: http://bit.ly/ghosttownstuff Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/ghosttownpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghosttownpod Sources: https://bit.ly/3vBtRDn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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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