Ep. 644 - Amargosa Hotel and Opera House
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind
Diane Student
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🗓️ 2 July 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Out among the bleached bones of Death Valley National Park sits a quirky little building known as the Amargosa Hotel and Opera House. Death Valley features salt flats and ancient lakes with jagged rock formations and several ghost towns. It really resembles a place where things go to die. And thus, it is a haunted landscape. Join us as we explore the haunted Amargosa Hotel and landscape of Death Valley. The Moment in Oddity features 40 Acre Bog Island. Our location was suggested by listener Anna Frias.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, you sputacular people. |
| 0:01.9 | Welcome to this 644th episode of the History Ghostbump Podcast. |
| 0:06.6 | Ghost tours for The Theater of the Mind. |
| 0:08.2 | I am your host, Diane. |
| 0:09.5 | And this is Kelly. |
| 0:10.4 | Kelly, on this episode, we're going to need a lot of water. |
| 0:13.2 | Uh-oh. |
| 0:14.0 | Why? |
| 0:15.0 | We're going to the desert. |
| 0:16.0 | Oh, okay. |
| 0:17.2 | And we're going to a desert area that sounds kind of ominous. |
| 0:21.6 | All right. |
| 0:22.6 | What are the temperatures like? |
| 0:24.6 | Death Valley, so for you, yeah, it could get up to like 120 degrees. |
| 0:29.6 | But it is a dry heat. |
| 0:32.6 | That's that shift really does make a difference. |
| 0:36.6 | Now that I live in Florida, it's a real thing. |
| 0:41.2 | Well, there is this haunted hotel and opera house there, Armagosa, and we're going to be talking about that. |
| 0:48.6 | And maybe some other things that are haunting Death Valley as well. |
| 0:51.8 | Very nice. |
| 0:52.6 | Looking forward to it. |
| 0:54.6 | History tells the story of the world and of our lives. |
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