Malvern Manor: Where the Spirits Never Left, Part One | Grave Talks CLASSIC
The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural
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🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Tucked away in the small town of Malvern, Iowa, stands a building with a history as chilling as the activity that now fills its empty halls. Malvern Manor began in the late 1800s as a family-owned hotel, serving travelers from the nearby railroad. But when the age of the automobile took over, the guests stopped coming—and the building’s purpose took a much darker turn. Converted into a convalescent home, it housed patients suffering from addiction, schizophrenia, and other mental illnesses. Reports of neglect, abuse, and inhumane conditions plagued its reputation until it was finally shut down—its doors locked, everything left behind. Today, Malvern Manor is open once again, but not for healing. Paranormal investigators, skeptics, and thrill-seekers now visit to confront whatever still resides there. In Part One of this two-part conversation, we sit down with owner Josh Heard to explore the haunted legacy of one of Iowa’s most terrifying locations.
For information on Malvern Manor, tours, and paranormal investigations, visit their website at malvernmanor.weebly.com
For information on Josh Heard, visit joshheard.net
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| 0:00.0 | A Better Help ad. |
| 0:02.3 | Lewis Capaldi partnered with Better Help to get word out about how important therapy can be. |
| 0:07.6 | I struggle most weeks to get up, get myself up and ready and go to therapy or whatever. |
| 0:13.0 | Even like to open the laptop to talk to, my therapist sometimes could be really difficult. |
| 0:17.4 | But I do it because I realise how important it is for me to continue to feel good. |
| 0:22.0 | Because I felt the best I've felt in a long time through therapy. |
| 0:25.6 | Learn more about online therapy at betterhelp.com. |
| 0:29.5 | A better help ad. |
| 0:31.5 | Lewis Capaldi partnered with BetterHelp to get word out about how important therapy can be. |
| 0:36.8 | I struggle most weeks to get up, get myself up and ready and go to therapy or whatever. |
| 0:42.2 | Even like to open the laptop to talk to, my therapist sometimes could be really difficult. |
| 0:46.6 | But I do it because I realise how important it is for me to continue to feel good. |
| 0:51.0 | I felt the best I've felt in a long time through therapy. |
| 0:54.8 | Learn more about online therapy at betterhelp.com. |
| 0:59.6 | Today on The Grave Talks, a conversation about Malvern Manor. |
| 1:22.3 | In the late 1800s to early 1900s, Malvern Manor in the tiny town of Malvern, Iowa was a thriving, family-owned hotel. |
| 1:28.8 | But the railroad that kept it in business lost passengers due to the popularity of automobiles. |
| 1:33.6 | It was then converted into a facility for the troubled, |
| 1:39.9 | with patients who suffered from everything from drug addiction to schizophrenia calling it home. |
| 1:48.1 | The conditions were deplorable, and numerous horror stories circulated during Malvern Manor's existence. |
| 1:51.4 | The allegations led to it being shut down. |
| 1:58.8 | Many believe that the building's paranormal activity stems from the neglect and mistreatment of patients. |
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