EP 403 - Hotel San Carlos and Daniel Halseth

A Paranormal Chicks

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Donna checks into the historic Hotel San Carlos, where ghostly sightings, tragic tales, and eerie encounters have kept this Phoenix landmark on every haunted-hotel list. She digs into the hotel’s chilling past, from mysterious apparitions to the resident spirits who supposedly never checked out.

Kerri covers the horrific murder of Daniel Halseth, a father whose life was taken in a brutal plot carried out by his daughter and her boyfriend. She unpacks the timeline, the investigation, and the disturbing attempts to cover up the crime that left the community stunned.

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0:00.0	Hey all, I'm Donna.
0:20.4	And we are paranormal chicks. Episode 403. Hey y'all, I'm Donna. And I'm Carrie.
0:21.3	And we are a paranormal chicks.
0:23.3	Episode 403.
0:25.4	Y'all, Thanksgiving just happened.
0:27.9	And what a damn Thanksgiving it was.
0:31.5	We hit a damn dear.
0:32.8	Oh, I was like, what happened?
0:34.8	I couldn't remember anything like, but yes.
0:38.2	Yeah.
0:39.6	Thankfully, it's not totaled.
0:41.4	We hit it in Colby's truck, but we hit a deer.
0:45.0	That motherfucker jumped out of there from nowhere.
0:48.5	It's so scary.
0:50.3	Poor Allie, my niece, she's eight.
0:51.9	She was in the truck with us, and she wants you to give her like. It sounded like you said the trunk with us. They did not kidnap her. She was in the truck with us. But she needs a play by play of exactly what happened, like with everything, like literally everything. Like so what happened? And then what happened? And then you said what? And then you did what. And then, like, she couldn't understand why she couldn't get out of the truck to go look at it because it's dark and we're on the side of a two lane highway where people are whizzing by it, like 70 miles an hour, you know, and she can't understand why she can't get out you know it's just like poor thing very
1:28.5	traumatic for her yeah and then poor thing she fell off my exercise bike wacked her hip
1:35.7	whacked her teeth whacked everything i felt so sorry for her i was like this girl's had a
1:39.3	stressful weekend she has we talked about that on some episode. Oh, maybe at Patreon. Maybe, but because Colby found a bag and he said, oh, it's her tooth bag. And I was like, wait, what? Explain. But it was just where she had, like, the water. The ice on her teeth. Yeah. Well, enough about you. I don't know why McDonald's does not sponsor us.
2:07.9	Can y'all just reach out to them and be like, biggest fans here? Because, you know, we've gotten the
2:12.9	comment that, like, y'all talk about McDonald's too much or whatever no there's no y'all in this i know
2:19.2	but they said me well they didn't say me they don't know which one it was because apparently they
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