Inside Montana’s Haunted History with Chilling Paranormal, Part Two | Guest Addison Gerstein
The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural
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🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
This is Part Two of our conversation.
Montana’s frontier history left behind more than old buildings and fading legends—some believe it left behind spirits that never moved on.
For the team at Chilling Paranormal, exploring haunted locations isn’t just about searching for evidence. It’s also about protecting the history tied to those places. Led by Addison Gerstein, the Montana-based group hosts paranormal investigations that give people the opportunity to experience historic sites while helping support their preservation.
Today, Addison takes us inside two of Montana’s most infamous locations: the Old Montana State Prison and the Dumas Brothel.
The prison operated from 1871 to 1979, witnessing riots, brutal conditions, and decades of inmate violence. Today, investigators report shadow figures, unexplained footsteps, and chilling EVP recordings echoing through the empty cell blocks.
We also explore the Dumas Brothel, the longest continuously operating brothel in the United States. Built during Butte’s mining boom and partially constructed underground, investigators say the building still carries a powerful energy tied to its complicated past.
Sometimes history leaves behind more than stories.
For more information, go to their website, chillingparanormal.com, find them on Facebook, TikTok, or Instagram.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on The Grave Talks, we continue our conversation about Montana's haunted history with Addison Gerstein. |
| 0:09.3 | Now, speaking of places, because the way you just brought that up about people never wanting to go back, the Duma's brothel... |
| 0:18.0 | Let's talk about that location because I find that fascinating and you did mention your poor wife and going there and whatever happened there. |
| 0:27.1 | But this is interesting to me. |
| 0:29.5 | As you said, it was the longest running brothel in U.S. history. |
| 0:35.4 | Yeah, not just in Montana. |
| 0:37.3 | Is it in Butte? It is. Okay. Montana. Yeah, not just in Montana. Is it in Butte? |
| 0:39.1 | It is. |
| 0:40.0 | It's up on Mercury Street in Old Town Butte. |
| 0:44.8 | So it was established around 1890s? |
| 0:49.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:50.0 | So it opened in 1890 and closed in 1982. And it was a brothel the whole time. They never, it never changed into like another business fronting as one. It was just a brothel. And a lot of cops were paid off. And it continued running for a long time. It wasn't as big back uh in 1982 as it was uh in |
| 1:13.9 | heyday but it was it was still going was it was a legal brothel yeah at one point in the history |
| 1:21.3 | all the brothels were legal you know the butte is a huge mining community if you take all the copper that they actually found out here, |
| 1:31.0 | it's, and you put it into square blocks, |
| 1:33.9 | it's actually bigger than the Empire State Building. |
| 1:36.3 | And it's actually 10,000 miles worth of tunnels underneath your feet when you go into Butte, |
| 1:41.8 | which is just astronomical. |
| 1:43.7 | If you want to give a good |
| 1:45.3 | example of that, you could go to the UK and back twice. Wow. And that's how many miles of tunnel is |
| 1:51.1 | underneath your feet. So with the mining community out there, it was a huge mining town. And when you had a |
| 1:57.3 | whole bunch of miners that constantly worked and had no hope of finding love, what do you do? |
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