Life with Hundreds of Ghosts: The True Story of the Mason House Inn, Part Two | Grave Talks CLASSIC
The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural
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🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 25 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. This is Part Two of our conversation.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the Grave Talks, a family of spirits, part two of our conversation about the Mason House Inn in Benton Sport, Iowa. |
| 0:15.0 | I was going to ask you, since you have documented this for so long, have you gone back and looked at the journals |
| 0:25.1 | and seen some similarities or some connection between different entries over the years? |
| 0:33.9 | Maybe something you've put together because you looked back through the journals and went, |
| 0:37.8 | aha, I never thought of that until I reread this. |
| 0:41.9 | No, because once I write it, I don't rewrite it. |
| 0:45.7 | You don't go back and reread. |
| 0:47.0 | I just keep going. |
| 0:47.8 | I just keep going. |
| 0:50.9 | The early ones where we didn't know what was going on. |
| 0:56.1 | And so we were just kind of guessing and making names up for people like Frank. |
| 1:02.7 | We called him Mr. Foggy Body because he would just be ahead in this column of fog. |
| 1:09.4 | So we called him Mr. Fuggy Body. |
| 1:12.0 | And then later, one of our grandkids saw him in a picture. |
| 1:17.9 | And he says, that's the man I saw. |
| 1:20.5 | Well, then we could research who that was in the picture. |
| 1:23.6 | And it was Frank Clark. |
| 1:25.3 | And that was Mary Mason Clark's husband. |
| 1:28.7 | And I've personally seen him 14 times over the years. |
| 1:33.0 | Really? |
| 1:34.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:35.2 | He'll just be walking down the hall or sitting in a chair or lounging in the parlor. |
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