Today on The Grave Talks, the Hotel Josephine, a conversation with Christy Ayers, hotel manager.

Hotel Josephine is known as the most haunted hotel in Kansas. It was built by A.D. Walker in

1889 in Holt in Kansas, was named after Walker's daughter, Josephine, who was born

that same year. The hotel was in continuous operation until December of 2010 and has had some

very famous guests, including Grover Cleveland. The hotel was only shut down for one year and

reopened to welcome guests, including those who never left.

I'm Carol Hughes, in for Tony Brewski, and today on this episode of The Grave Talks, a conversation with Christy Ayers, hotel manager at the Hotel Josephine.

Christy, I would love to start with the history of this hotel, 1889, for a hotel in Kansas.

I live in Kansas.

That is an old hotel for these parts.

It absolutely is.

And it's still a hotel, and it's basically always been a hotel, which is even more amazing,

considering a lot of these old buildings, they go through so many phases and they never seem

to stay whatever they initially were. But it was built in 1889. It was built by 80 Walker. He was the

mayor of Holton in 1877. And then he got together with a couple of proprietors in town, and they put the hotel there.

So Josephine would have been four months old, so it didn't open until 1890, and that's when Josephine would have been four months old.

So sometimes in the history, you'll see discrepancy is between opening in 1889 and 1890.

So it opens in 1890 and it's basically just run as a hotel.

The downstairs was used as a lot of dining halls, convention halls, things like that.

The upstairs was 30 different rooms that held, they were small.

When you walk through, you can actually see like the size of the rooms.

There's a couple of the rooms that are still the original size.

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