The Garnett House Haunting, Part Two | Grave Talks CLASSIC

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🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE!

Garnett, Kansas, was once the Wild West’s version of a truck stop: everyone from Wyatt Earp to Jesse James chugged a drink, grabbed a bed, and—if local legend is true—sometimes forgot to check out. Today the Garnett House Hotel is better known for its midnight soundscape of disembodied screams, with EVP mics repeatedly capturing the cries of an unseen child. No one knows who the youngster is—or what they still want. Saddle up as The Grave Talks revisits a frontier way-station where even the outlaws obeyed checkout time… but a child spirit never did. This is Part Two of our conversation.

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0:00.0	Welcome to part two of our interview about the haunted Garnett House Hotel for everything it has been.
0:10.2	A school, doctor's office, brothel, hotel in many different periods of time where some of those things mean very different things than they do today as far as what
0:21.3	would have gone on in them. Just so much, so much energy there. Let's go back for a moment and talk
0:30.3	about, you had mentioned, the Underground Railroad in the area is a part of the property there.
0:36.8	For folks who don't understand or don't know what the Underground Railroad is,
0:41.1	why don't you give us a quick crash course on it,
0:43.8	and also what would have been going on with the Underground Railroad being a part of the property?
0:50.5	Well, the Underground Railroad was kind of a network set up by abolitionist movement to move slaves, African Americans, out of their slave properties, and steal them away from their masters, or help them escape from their masters.
1:07.0	And what they would do is they would hide these folks in different locations
1:12.9	as they move them on to freedom in the northern states or as far away as Canada.
1:17.6	A lot of them did go to Canada because once you got to Canada you were beyond the reach
1:22.6	of any kind of legal system that could bring you back to your master or overseer or anything
1:31.3	like that. So these the Underground Railroad was pretty much run by the abolitionist movement and
1:38.3	like-minded Northerners and some Southerners, especially in this area, that were helping these people escape and move on.
1:47.2	Now, as far as the Garnet House being the center of the Underground Railroad,
1:51.7	we think that they were probably meeting there, not only as being an active participant,
1:57.5	but I'm pretty sure it was pretty much, as for what I read in the history books,
2:01.6	it was a place where they would meet to put in plan as far as where they would take the slaves,
2:08.6	wherever they would get the slaves from, where they would move them to, that sort of thing.
2:13.6	And John Brown, for those who don't know, was a gentleman who was very much a part of that movement, especially here out West,
2:22.6	and eventually decided to do his own raid on a federal armory at Harper's Ferry, where he failed miserably and was hung for the crime.
2:33.5	And not too long after being in the region I'm in.
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