The Ghosts of the Grand Midway Hotel, Part Two | The Grave Talks
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🗓️ 21 December 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Blair Murphy, an independent filmmaker, and his friends found themselves embarking on a journey into the unknown when they bought the Grand Midway Hotel in Windber, Pennsylvania, all thanks to a unique eBay listing. What they didn’t realize was that the hotel came with more than just history—it brought with it ghosts.
The Grand Midway Hotel, though no longer operating as a hotel, still plays host to restless spirits, including Martha, a young woman who tragically lost her life on the balcony during a 4th of July celebration. From unsolved murders and human bones discovered within the walls to the tragic tale of a child buried in the basement, the hotel’s dark past has left a permanent mark.
Adding an air of mystique, the hotel is home to two Guinness Book of World Records: the largest Ouija board on its rooftop and the world’s largest Tarot card on its ceiling.
Join us as we explore the terrifying and strange stories of the Grand Midway Hotel, uncovering the secrets and spirits that still linger within its walls. This is Part Two of our conversation.
If you’d like more information on the hotel, check out their website at grandmidwayhotel.com.
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| 0:15.7 | Today on The Grave Talks, we continue our conversation about the spirits of the Grand Midway Hotel |
| 0:21.9 | with owner Blair Murphy. |
| 0:26.7 | The hotel has a very interesting past because you mentioned the murder in 1949, the woman |
| 0:34.4 | in the fireworks, and both those seem to have kind of been covered up. |
| 0:39.1 | Like nobody really wants to talk about what happened. |
| 0:42.5 | So do you think that's added, like with those two in particular, we'll start there with those two. |
| 0:50.1 | Do you think that their spirits are still there or activity in those locations? |
| 0:56.7 | So the woman from 1911 that killed by fireworks, her name was Martha Swinsky. |
| 1:03.9 | And a lot of people in town mentioned to us, some horrible death happened there that the whole community saw. |
| 1:10.3 | But no one knew any details. |
| 1:12.0 | They just kept hearing this rumor, and it was so tantalizing. It drove us nuts. |
| 1:16.2 | And about a year into living here, two women from the Swinsky family showed up, and they had |
| 1:21.6 | this photo, which I had found one of those, the same photo in the building. |
| 1:26.5 | And they said, this is our great Aunt Martha, who was on a porch up on the third floor. And she died when some fireworks |
| 1:33.7 | knocked her throat off. And she, and so, so sudden now we had like the details and I ran. I found |
| 1:41.2 | the newspaper. So these, these stories, they're in old papers, but, uh, but we didn't know it at the time. |
| 1:48.1 | I didn't have a date or name or any of that kind of stuff. |
| 1:49.7 | Yeah. |
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