The Ghosts That Never Got Out of Dodge, Part Two | Guest Andi Roe
The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural
Ghost Stores, Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural Stories
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🗓️ 2 July 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
This is Part Two of our conversation.
Dodge City has long been known as one of the Wild West's most legendary towns—but many believe its most enduring residents are the ones who never left.
While Hollywood painted Dodge City as a nonstop frontier battlefield, the real history is just as compelling. Built along the Santa Fe Trail and transformed by the arrival of the railroad, it became a place where cowboys, buffalo hunters, gamblers, soldiers, merchants, and lawmen all collided. For a few unforgettable years, it stood at the center of the cattle-drive era, leaving behind the kind of history that seems to invite ghost stories.
Paranormal investigator Andi Roe of Road Trip Paranormal explores some of Dodge City's best-known haunted locations, including the Boot Hill Museum and its historic Hardesty House, as well as the Santa Fe Depot Theatre. From ghostly children and phantom footsteps to unexplained voices and lingering spirits, we explore why so many believe the echoes of Dodge City's frontier days can still be experienced more than a century later.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the Grave Talks, part two of the ghosts that never got out of Dodge, a conversation with Andy Roe. |
| 0:09.9 | The Depot Theater, back in the day, there was the railroad station, a hotel. |
| 0:15.7 | Yes. |
| 0:16.3 | Was there, restaurant, railroad offices, obviously. |
| 0:22.0 | They had, and this is like 125 years of history in this building, but they also had the |
| 0:27.3 | Harvey girls. |
| 0:28.6 | Yes. |
| 0:29.0 | Can you kind of explain the Harvey girls? |
| 0:31.9 | Yes. |
| 0:32.4 | And this was a very respectable job. |
| 0:34.7 | I know when you hear Harvey Girl, it kind of sounds like they might have been working at |
| 0:38.1 | the brothel, but they were more like waitresses and they lived on site. Yeah. Places within the depot that |
| 0:45.6 | they actually lived. There's a little place to the side of the depot. You know, when you think back into the late 1800s, |
| 0:57.4 | jobs for women would be school marm. |
| 1:00.8 | There was very few jobs. |
| 1:02.8 | And so, you know, a lot of women did need to work |
| 1:06.1 | to help their families, |
| 1:07.2 | and this was a very respectable job for them. |
| 1:09.7 | Yes, it was. |
| 1:11.0 | The depot was built in 1898, and the Harvey house was there from 1898 to 1948. |
| 1:21.4 | Oh, so a long time. |
| 1:22.8 | Yeah. |
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