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🗓️ 17 May 2023
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In 1997, during renovations to the Crescent Hotel, workers found a bizarre discovery. In the woods behind the hotel, they unearthed a glass jar with a mystery object inside. Local authorities determined that it was a cancerous tumor, preserved in alcohol. More than 400 more jars were soon found and...is it any wonder the Crescent Hotel is considered one of the most haunted hotels in America?
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Haunted Road, a production of I Heart Radio and Grim and Mild from Erin |
0:06.1 | Manky. |
0:07.1 | Listener discretion is advised. |
0:12.1 | When Norman Baker arrived in Eureka Springs, Arkansas in 1937, he brought along promises |
0:18.5 | of a miracle cure to cancer. |
0:21.3 | His methods he claimed combined with the power of the healing springs in the area would |
0:25.6 | be potent medicine against the disease. |
0:28.7 | Ailing patients flocked to the town deep in the Ozark Mountains, seeking treatment at |
0:33.4 | the Baker Cancer Curing Hospital. |
0:36.1 | Many were removed under the cover of night, having succumbed to their illnesses, with Baker |
0:40.6 | trying to hide their deaths and obscure the fact that his treatments were no more than smoke |
0:45.5 | and mirrors. |
0:47.2 | After Baker was run out of town as a fraud and a huckster, the building, which had been |
0:51.4 | previously known as the Crescent Hotel in Spa, fell into disrepair, sitting abandoned |
0:57.1 | for years. |
0:58.4 | Eventually, it was purchased by a hotel group and revived to its former glory as a Victorian |
1:03.9 | era escape for the well to do. |
1:06.8 | In 1997, during renovations of the property, workers found a bizarre discovery. |
1:13.4 | In the woods behind the hotel, they unearthed a glass jar with a mystery object inside. |
1:19.6 | Local authorities determined that it was a cancerous tumor, preserved in alcohol. |
1:25.2 | One of the very specimens that Norman Baker had used as evidence of the efficacy of his |
1:30.1 | miracle cure. |
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