St. James Hotel Redux

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

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

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🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The Old West in America is filled with stories about cowboys and Native Americans and outlaws and lawmen. This was a time when a man could die in the streets with his boots on or at the poker table holding the Dead Man's Hand: a pair of aces and a pair of eights, all black. Cimarron, New Mexico was a prominent place in the Old West and the St. James Hotel was built there in 1872. Cimarron was a wild town that played host to a veritable who's who of old west gunmen, lawmen, gangs and famous performers like Buffalo Bill Cody. The hotel itself was witness to at least twenty-six deaths. And now the hotel seems to be playing host to spirits. The hotel is reputed to be quite haunted with at least seven identified spirits. Join us as we share the history and hauntings of the St. James Hotel!

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Main Theme: Lurking in the Dark by Muse Music with Groove Studios

Outro Music: Happy Fun Punk by Muse Music with Groove Studios

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Title: "Ghost Town"
Artist: Tim Kulig (timkulig.com)
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0:00.0	History tells the story of the world and of our lives.
0:21.5	Sometimes that history goes bump in the night.
0:32.5	Broadcasting from the center of oddity and the supernatural in central Florida.
0:39.2	It's the History Goes Bump podcast.
0:47.9	Hello, you sputacular people.
0:50.1	Welcome to History Goes Bump Redux.
0:52.3	I'm your host, Diane.
0:53.4	And this is Kelly. Kelly, on this episode,
0:56.1	we're going to go back to the Old West, to the St. James Hotel. We first covered this, I think, back in
1:01.8	2016. There are a ton of stories here. On the original one, we were joined by a listener named
1:07.3	Richard Kuttshaw. And I was tempted to pull that audio and throw it in here because
1:12.6	he had some great stories to tell. But this is back in 2016 when we were doing it over Skype and he
1:18.5	was on a cell phone. And so the audio was just not very good. So I just went through and basically
1:24.6	did my own little transcript with it. So we'll share what he shared on that original story. Are you ready to go back? I'm ready.
1:54.4	Okay. The Old West in America is filled with stories about cowboys and Native Americans and outlaws and lawmen.
2:01.4	This was a time when a man could die in the streets with his boots on or at the poker table holding the dead man's hand. A pair of aces and a pair of eights, all black.
2:08.8	Simaron, New Mexico was a prominent place in the Old West, and the St. James Hotel was built
2:13.7	there in 1872.
2:22.6	Cimarron was a wild town that played host to a veritable who's-who of Old West gunman,
2:26.9	lawmen, gangs, and famous performers like Buffalo Bill Cody.
2:33.0	The hotel itself was witnessed to at least 26 deaths,
2:36.3	and now the hotel seems to be playing host to spirits.
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