Life with Hundreds of Ghosts: The True Story of the Mason House Inn, Part One | Grave Talks CLASSIC
The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural
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4.6 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
When Chuck and Joy Hanson set out to buy a quiet country property in Iowa, they never expected to end up as innkeepers to the dead. What they found instead was the Mason House Inn — a historic riverfront hotel built in 1846 for weary steamboat travelers, and one of the most haunted places in the Midwest.
From the moment they moved in, the Hansons realized their new home came with some long-term guests — including an elderly woman’s ghost who greeted them soon after arrival. But she wasn’t alone. Over the years, they’ve encountered hundreds of spirits, from mischievous children to Civil War soldiers to travelers who simply never checked out.
In this spine-tingling episode of The Grave Talks, Chuck and Joy share what it’s like to live, work, and sleep among the dead, and how they’ve come to see their spectral housemates not as intruders, but as part of the family.
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| 1:01.4 | Today on the Grave Talks, a family of spirits, a conversation about the Mason House Inn in Benton Sport, Iowa. |
| 1:20.5 | Music Mason House Inn in Benton Sport, Iowa. Chuck and Joy Hanson were looking to buy a farm in Iowa. |
| 1:24.3 | They ended up buying the Mason House Inn, |
| 1:29.8 | which is considered to be one of the most haunted locations in Iowa. They ended up buying the Mason House Inn, which is considered to be one of the most haunted locations in Iowa. The Mason House Inn in Bentonsport, Iowa, was built in 1846 as an |
| 1:37.6 | inn for steamboat travelers traveling on the Duboyne River. And more than 175 years later, it's still being run as an inn. |
| 1:48.9 | Chuck and Joy knew the inn had a ghost of an older woman, and they thought if they left her |
| 1:53.0 | alone, she'd leave them alone. Little did they know, they would experience hundreds of spirits |
| 2:00.1 | in the home. |
| 2:05.2 | Some might find that terrifying, but they feel like their family. |
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