HGB Ep. 146 - The Lowe Hotel and Mothman

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

Travel, History, Places & Travel, Paranormal, Haunted, Society & Culture, Ghosts

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2016

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

At the corner of 4th and Main in Point Pleasant, West Virginia stands the historic Lowe Hotel. This hotel dates back to the early 1900s when it was built by two brothers. The hotel was needed to serve the heavy traffic and trade from the nearby Ohio and Kanawha rivers. Across the street from this grand structure is a peculiar statue. Rather ugly. It features a creature known as the Mothman. Point Pleasant is home to the legend of the Mothman. There are legends about the hotel as well, including many rumored hauntings, one of which might be a member of the Hatfield Family who was involved in the Battle of Matewan. Join us and our listener Katie Dunlap as we explore the history and hauntings of the Lowe Hotel and explore the legend of the Mothman! The Moment in Oddity features urine turned into beer and This Day in History features the birth of Edgar Rice Burroughs.

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0:00.0	Society 13 Podcast Network. Redefinite Podcasts.
0:07.0	Redefinite Podcasts. Society-13.com. I like to listen. History tells the story of the story of the world and of our lives.
0:38.0	Sometimes that history goes bump in the night.
0:44.0	Broadcasting from the center of Oddity and the supernatural in Central Florida,
0:56.0	it's the History Goes Bump Podcast. Hello you sputacular people welcome to this 146 episode of the history
1:10.6	ghost bump podcast ghost tours for the theater of the mind I-fump podcast. Ghost Tours for the Theater of the Mind.
1:14.0	I am your host, Diane, and this is Denise.
1:16.0	And on today's episode, we have a special guest joining us,
1:20.0	listener Katie Dunlap.
1:22.0	How are you doing, Katie? I'm fine. How are you guys? We're doing
1:25.3	fabulous and it was really interesting when you first suggested this location
1:30.3	that we're going to be featuring today which is the low hotel.
1:33.0	You had first had said I wish you guys would do somewhere in West Virginia
1:37.6	there's this thing called the Battle and is it is it Mattawan or Mattawan?
1:41.6	We've always pronounced at mate one because a lot of the places around here are
1:45.2	named from Indian places like I live in Canal County and I've heard it pronounced Canaw
1:49.9	but we've always called it Canal so you might be right I guess it just depends on on how you how you feel like
1:56.5	Pronouncing it and of course we all know that our pronunciations are perfect
2:02.4	Well, since you guys say mate one, that is what we'll say as well.
2:05.9	So you had suggested this battle of mate one and so I was looking it up and I'm like, well, there's
2:10.4	really no hauntings involved with it.
2:12.3	It's a really interesting point in history.
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