Ep. 132 - The Occidental Hotel
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind
Diane Student
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2016
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The Occidental Hotel is a historic hotel in the town of Buffalo, Wyoming. The area is a place that has seen gold diggers come through during the Gold Rush and people making their way West on the Oregon Trail. Outlaws have been through as well as heroes of the American West. And a well known battle of class warfare took place here during the days of cattlemen. The town is also the setting for A & E's drama "Longmire." The Occidental Hotel was in the middle of much history, but after a steady decline for the town, it almost was lost to the wrecking ball. Today, it has been restored to a grand hotel once again, giving guests a chance to go back in time to the old west. And just like so many tales of the West, this one has a ghosts story or two. Join us as we explore the history and hauntings of the Occidental Hotel! The Moment in Oddity is by Bob Sherfield and features The Williamson Tunnels and This Day in History is by April Rogers-Krick and features the Winnie Mae's Round World Trip. Our location was suggested by listener Sarah Gunther and our Research Assistant was Steven Pappas.
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| 0:00.0 | The History tells the story of the story of the world and of our lives. Sometimes that history goes bump in the night. |
| 0:26.0 | Broadcasting from the center of Oddity and the supernatural in Central Florida, |
| 0:39.0 | it's The History Goes Bump Podcast. |
| 0:53.8 | Ghost Tours for the Theater of the Mind. |
| 0:55.9 | I am your host Diane and this is Denise. |
| 0:58.4 | And on today's episode we are featuring a location that was suggested to us by our listener Sarah Gunther. We're going to Wyoming Denise |
| 1:06.4 | Yehau! Buffalo Wyoming to be exact and we're gonna visit the Occidental hotel. Yeah, I've never heard of Buffalo, but we have visited some areas of Wyoming. |
| 1:16.0 | I've actually visited almost the entire state. |
| 1:19.0 | Have you been to Buffalo? |
| 1:20.0 | I don't think I've been to Buffalo though. |
| 1:22.0 | Oh. We had research assistance from |
| 1:24.2 | Stephen Pappas on this one. Before we get into that we'd love to have you guys check |
| 1:28.1 | out our website at historygoz bump.com. Denise if people want to send us an |
| 1:31.3 | email where can they do that? They can do that at History GoesBump at gmail.com. |
| 1:35.6 | And Denise on today's episode there are a couple of men who have stayed at this hotel |
| 1:40.3 | by the name of Phil Sheridan and Teddy Roosevelt. |
| 1:44.0 | Both of their names recently came up for us because we have a |
| 1:47.5 | correction to make to our correction on last episode. |
| 1:51.0 | We always like a correction to a correction. We had a listener tell us that |
| 1:55.6 | Teddy Roosevelt had said the only good Indian was a dead Indian or something like that. |
| 2:00.3 | I remember. Well anyway, Teddy Roosevelt never said that and we were told |
| 2:04.5 | that by both Mark Reed and Brent Warren thank you to you gentlemen for getting that |
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