Ep. 187 - Congress Plaza Hotel

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

Travel, History, Places & Travel, Paranormal, Haunted, Society & Culture, Ghosts

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Chicago's Congress Plaza Hotel is said to be the city's most haunted hotel. Chicago hosted the World's Fair in 1893 and the hotel was built to help provide more accommodations, so it has been around for more than a century. World leaders, US Presidents and the rich and famous have all stayed here. There are rumors that the hotel was used during Prohibition by Al Capone. And similar to the inspiration The Stanley Hotel provided to Stephen King when writing The Shining, the Congress Plaza Hotel inspired him when writing his short story 1408, which eventually became the movie of the same name starring John Cusack. There seems to be many spirits at the hotel to help provide haunting inspiration. Join us as we explore the history and hauntings of the Congress Plaza Hotel! The Moment in Oddity features the Moon Mausoleum and This Month in History features Julius Caesar assassinated. Our location was suggested by listeners Matthew Hirons and Kristin Swintek.

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0:00.0	Society 13 Podcast Network. Redefining Podcasts. Do you like to listen?
0:10.0	Hey spook-tacular people, this is Stephen Pappas and I'm an executive producer of the
0:15.0	History Goes Bump podcast this episode is entirely listener supported if you'd like to
0:20.1	support the show check out the support the show tab at history goes bump.com.
0:24.0	Did y'all hear that? I'm sure it's nothing.
0:29.0	Okay here's the thing.
0:30.0	We're going to need to split up and I know that's not usually a good idea, but I really don't think that there'll be any sort of problem so I'm going to go over here and I'll just
0:39.1	Stephen are you there? Stephen,
0:42.8	there? there?
0:43.8	Uh, Stephen?
0:46.1	Denise, cue the music, quick. History. History tells the story of the story of the world and of our lives.
1:09.0	Sometimes that history goes bump in the night.
1:14.0	Broadcasting from the center of Oddity and the supernatural in Central Florida,
1:27.0	it's the History Goes Bump Podcast. podcast.
1:36.0	Hello, you sputacular people,
1:38.0	welcome to this 187 episode of the History Ghost Bump Podcast.
1:42.0	Ghost Tour's for the Theater of the Mind. 7th episode of The History Ghost Bump Podcast.
1:42.7	Ghost Tours for the Theater of the Mind.
1:44.7	I am your host, Diane, and this is Denise.
1:47.3	On today's episode, we are going to Chicago.
1:50.4	We're going to be covering a location that was suggested to us by our listeners
1:53.7	Matthew Hearens and Kristen Swintec and that is the Congress Plaza Hotel
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