Ep. 463 - The Blennerhassett Hotel
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind
Diane Student
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🗓️ 1 December 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The Blennerhassett Hotel is the oldest hotel in West Virginia and is located in Parkersburg. The hotel was named for a couple who first settled the nearby Blennerhassett Island. Their story is one mired in political persecution, scandal and conspiracy. They eventually were forced to flee the area, but their name remains an imprint here. The hotel became a place for the millionaires of the time to find lodging. On opening day in 1889, the hotel featured both gas and electricity. Today, the hotel still offers elegant accommodations with modern amenities and a few ghosts. Join us as we explore the history and hauntings of the Blennerhassett Hotel. The Moment in Oddity features sax during surgery and This Month in History features Christopher Columbus arriving in Hispaniola. Our location was suggested by Rylee Burkman.
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| 0:00.0 | History tells the story of the world and of our lives. |
| 0:21.8 | Sometimes that history goes bump in the night broadcasting from the center of |
| 0:35.1 | oddity and the supernatural in central Florida. It's the history goes bump |
| 0:41.6 | podcast. |
| 0:45.2 | Hello, you spooktacular people. Welcome to this 460th episode of The History |
| 0:53.0 | Goes Bump Podcast. Ghost tours for the theater of the mind. I'm your host, Diane. |
| 0:56.8 | And this is Kelly. Kelly, on this episode we have a location suggested by our |
| 1:01.4 | listener, Riley Berkman. I had never heard of this hotel. The Blender has it |
| 1:06.4 | hotel. It's in West Virginia and I can't believe we haven't heard of it because |
| 1:10.2 | this thing is loaded with spirits. Oh, very cool. |
| 1:14.5 | Looking forward to it. I mean, I couldn't believe it. I was like, oh, and it has a |
| 1:17.8 | few spirits there. And then I started looking at stories and I was like, and there's |
| 1:20.7 | another one and another one and another one. There's probably over a dozen spirits |
| 1:25.1 | here. And I believe in 2023 they're going to have the inaugural Appalachian |
| 1:30.3 | Paracon hosted there. Oh, very cool. So this is a hotel that embraces all the |
| 1:35.5 | weird and creepy. So that's a plus in our book. Before we get into that, we want to |
| 1:39.7 | welcome into the spectacular crew, Joanne Tyra. This is the second Tyra in two |
| 1:44.3 | weeks. That's pretty unusual. It is. I was like, I was asking Kelly earlier. I'm |
| 1:49.8 | like, didn't we already welcome Tyra in? And then I went, wait, we have another |
| 1:52.9 | one. Christy, who spells her name with a K and an IE, Rebecca, Abigail and |
| 1:57.9 | Courtney. Thank you so much for joining us on our Facebook group. And now this |
| 2:02.3 | moment, Naughty. |
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