Hello, you spectacular people. Welcome to this 607th episode of the History Goes Bump podcast. Ghost Tours for the Theater of the Mind. I'm your host, Diane. And this is Kelly. Kelly, on this episode, we're heading over to Nevada. You know, that is like Mining Central when it comes to history. Indeed. And this particular location does have something to do with mining. It's the Mizpa Hotel. Don't you love that name? I do. Ms. Pa. I just feel like we should be going on, Miss Pa, Miss Pa! With jazz hands. Yeah, something. I don't know. Anyway, we're going to talk about the history and hauntings of this fabulous hotel.

History tells the story of the world and of our lives.

Sometimes that history goes bump in the night.

Broadcasting from the center of oddity and the supernatural in central Florida. It's the History Goes Bump podcast.

And now this month in history.

Music In the month of October on the 21st in 2009, National Hagfish Day was established by the nonprofit marine conservation organization, Whale Times.

Hagfish, which sounds delicious, are a strange-looking, jawless, slime-producing fish

that live deep on the ocean's floors. Found around the globe, the peculiar fish play an important

role as scavengers, cleaning the ocean floor

and recycling nutrients. They prefer silty, muddy bottoms that they can burrow into. Similar to the shape

of an eel, the hagfish has also been likened to that of a giant pink worm. The extreme slime threads

produced by these unique creatures can be used as ultra-strong fibers

for clothing. The slime can be spun into threads similar to spider silk or Kevlar. The purpose of

creating National Hagfish Day is to appreciate the less charismatic creatures of the ocean,

the important role they play in the marine ecosystem, and the threats they face such as overfishing

and pollution. National Hagfish Day is celebrated annually on the third Wednesday of every October.

So, the takeaway is that slimy hagfish hot couture may be coming to a store near you.

Who doesn't want to wear slime, Kelly? Wow, this was like a history and oddity all wrapped up into one.

Yes, it was. Ew. Who was the first person to grab the slime and go, look, we could make something out of this?

And then somebody went, how about clothes?

The Mizpah Hotel has been voted the number one haunted hotel by a couple of publications,

not surprising for a hotel that has stood for 120 years.

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