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Hey guys, welcome to episode 206 of Hibbaly Horror Stories. I'm Jerry. And I'm Tracy.

This week we're actually on vacation or just should be coming back from vacation. But we have decided that on this particular episode we are going to go way back into the vault and give you one of our very best Patreon episodes.

This one, most people haven't already, even people who are Patreon didn't go back because as I looked, it didn't even have a name on it. It just said, June Patreon bonus. So I had to click on it and even find out what it was. So some people probably didn't click on it because they didn't know what it was.

This is a really good setup. So what this is, at the beginning, you're going to get a couple of paranormal stories, one of which is on the Wabashah Street Caves up in Minnesota. This place is awesome. It's got some gangster true crime and hauntings and stuff in it. And they just recently closed those things down for COVID. And I don't know if they're going to completely open up again. They were talking about maybe not opening up again after COVID. So hopefully that's not the case.

But then we in the episode, at least on the Patreon episode, was some true crime. This is the story of the chicken coop murders that happened back in the early part of the century. But this was the, I guess the basis for the movie changeling, which I think had Angelina Jolie, not to be confused with the changeling, which had George C Scott in it, very good movie on its own, right? But this is different. And like I said, this is actually a fascinating story.

So we've got that. And then we're going to end the night with something new. We've got Jesse Embry, who worked in a haunted house in Lawrence, Burkin, Tucky, not like, you know, like a haunted house, you go to a Halloween, haunted attraction.

But it legitimately is haunted. It was haunted back when it was a hotel. And it's haunted now. And they tell us some stories that went on during the town that they read the haunted house.

So let's go ahead and listen to that real quick. But it won't be real quick. It's like an hour. Let's do it like an hour. Okay. And then we'll listen to Jesse Embry.

So we got three stories. We put it up on the Patreon page. Since you guys are the one paying for the shows, I thought I would let you decide what you wanted. And I gave you a choice of either doing paranormal, several paranormal stories or several true crime stories or a mixture of both.

And you guys pretty much overwhelmingly said you wanted both. So that's what we're going to do. I've got a couple of stories. I've got a paranormal story. I've got a true crime story that's got some paranormal mixed with it. And then I've got a true crime story. So it really is a true mixture. Yeah.

Yeah. Sounds like it. Cause once half and a half.

Okay. Well, um, so we can keep your story straight.

But we're going to start off with the half and half one. Okay.

It's the Wabashah street caves and Julie Carlson, one of our listeners actually had suggested this literally three months ago. Yeah.

And I kept trying to find a place for it, find a place for it. It never really fit with a regular show. But I think it fits perfect in what we're doing here.

And what I like about this story is it's got a lot of history to it. And it's got a mixture of mobsters and it's got a mixture of paranormal. And as people heard when we did the Al Capone story the other day, that was a good mixture when you mix.

Yeah. And paranormal. So let's jump into this. The Wabashah street caves are it's actually seven caves that are put together.

They're not real caves. They are man made man made. So they they they were in St. Paul, Minnesota, and they were used for what he called silica, which is, which you used to make glass.

That's what they primarily used to for about the 1840s. That's that's when the mining actually started back in the early 1900s.

A French family of immigrants came over and used it to grow mushrooms. Like oh wait, grow mushrooms inside it because they found the conditions were perfect with a damp and dark. Yeah.

Perfect temperature maybe. They thought that this would be something that they would use just for the St. Paul area. It turned out to be so successful. They were shipping mushrooms all over the country. Oh wow. Good for them.

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