Ep. 274 - The Goldfield Hotel

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

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

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🗓️ 13 September 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Many consider the town of Goldfield in Nevada to be a ghosttown and with a population hovering around 200, it really does seem to be that way. This was once a boom town though and for several decades millions of dollars in gold was mined here. During that boom, The Goldfield Hotel was built. This building is one of the few to have survived fire and time. Today, the only guests that stay here are those seeking a connection with the afterlife and based on the experiences reported in the media and those that I have heard personally, the hotel's reputation for being haunted is well deserved. Join me as I explore the history and hauntings of The Goldfield Hotel. This location was suggested by listeners Anna Prado-Frias and Melissa Potter. The Moment in Oddity features Einstein's Brain and This Month in History features the guillotine falling silent.

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0:00.0	This podcast is part of the Dark Niths Collective.
0:05.0	Visit darkness.org to discover more shows like this one.
0:10.0	The Darkness awaits. History tells the story of the story of the world and of our lives.
0:34.0	Sometimes that history goes bump in the night. Broadcasting from the center of Oddity and the supernatural in Central Florida,
0:51.6	it's the History Goes Bump Podcast.
0:57.0	Hello, you spook-people people, welcome to this 274th episode of the History Ghost Bump
1:06.4	podcast, Ghost Tours for the Theater of the Mind. I am your host Diane. On this episode we're
1:12.2	heading out west to another old mining town which has
1:15.7	pretty much become a ghost town and this is Goldfield, Nevada. We're going to be checking out a location that was suggested by Anna Prado Freus and Melissa Potter.
1:26.4	And that's the Goldfield Hotel. This hotel has a reputation for being quite haunted.
1:31.8	Many of the ghost programs out there have visited and caught evidence.
1:35.0	The fact that it's been mostly abandoned and hasn't been used for decades
1:41.0	is hard to tell because it really is in fairly good condition.
1:45.0	It definitely needs restoration. It needs a lot of love and unfortunately a lot of people
1:49.8	have purchased the building in the past and promised to do all kinds of things with it
1:54.0	and then they haven't done anything with it.
1:56.0	Or they get started and then they go bankrupt and it only gets partially done.
2:00.0	Supposedly it's on its way to reopening sometime in the future possibly next year so keep your fingers crossed and maybe
2:07.1	You'll get to spend a night in the goldfield hotel in an actual bed and in a room and all that good stuff.
2:13.0	Before we get into that, we have some people to welcome into the spook-tacular crew.
2:16.0	We'd like to welcome Danny, Heather, Kathy with the C, Theodore, Allison with 1L,
2:22.0	Deborah with an AH, Ringo, Dina with an I, and Heidi with an Ie.
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