Ep. 572 - Seelbach 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

🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The Seelbach Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky was so beautiful and iconic that it inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby." Stepping inside the lobby, takes one back to an earlier time with its lavish decor. The Rathskellar down in the belly of the hotel gives flashes of the Prohibition era and it wouldn't be surprising to spy Al Capone sitting at a corner table. There are several ghost stories connected to this Louisville treasure that we will share with you here. Join us for the history and hauntings of the Seelbach Hotel.

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Main Theme: Lurking in the Dark by Muse Music with Groove Studios

(Moment in Oddity) "Vanishing" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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(This Month in History) "In Your Arms" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Outro Music: Happy Fun Punk by Muse Music with Groove Studios

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Gilded Music created and produced by History Goes Bump
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Transcript

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0:00.0	History tells the story of the world and of our lives.
0:21.4	Sometimes that history goes bump in the night.
0:32.4	Broadcasting from the center of oddity and the supernatural in central Florida.
0:39.1	It's the History Goes Bump podcast.
0:47.5	Hello, you sputacular people.
0:49.7	Welcome to this 570 second episode of the History Ghostbump podcast.
0:54.1	Ghost tours for the Theater of the Mind.
0:55.8	I am your host, Diane. And this is Kelly. Kelly, on this episode, we're featuring a hotel that we just
1:00.8	stayed in in Louisville, Kentucky, or should I say, Louisville. Louisville. The Sealbach Hotel. Oh, my gosh.
1:07.1	This hotel is a gorgeous. The minute I went in and saw what the prices were to stay there,
1:12.5	at least during the time that we were there, which is after Christmas and probably not a good
1:17.6	season for them because it's cold and everything, I was like, we can afford that. We're staying
1:22.7	at the seal block. I've always wanted to stay there. Yeah, it was less expensive than the
1:26.9	couple of little bitty hotels we stayed on the way up and the way back. Yeah, it was less expensive than the couple of little bitty hotels we stayed in all the way up and the way back.
1:30.3	Yeah, it was cheaper than the comfort inn or something.
1:32.3	I was like, okay, we're staying.
1:34.4	And apparently, it is quite haunted.
1:36.2	So we are going to share the stories of the hauntings here with you, which include the Lady in Blue and her story. Before we get into that, we want to welcome into the Spuctacular Crew,
1:45.8	Deb, Ruthanne, Diedra, who spells her name with Chewese, Sammy with O'I, and New England Legends.
1:53.7	Thank you so much for joining the Spooktacular Crew. And now this moment, Nodity.
2:07.1	Thank you. And now this moment in Audity. The moment in Oddity was suggested by Dewey Oxburger.
2:11.1	There is a lovely little Asian plant that blooms early to midsummer.
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