The Haunted History of Virginia City and The Mackay Mansion with Halen Dessaussois
Ghost Bunny
Bridget Marquardt
4.8 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode, Bridget Marquardt interviews Halen Dessaussois, who shares his profound experiences with death, spirituality, and witchcraft. Halen discusses his early encounters with the paranormal, including non-human entities and celestial beings, and how these experiences shaped his understanding of witchcraft as a healing and educational practice. The conversation goes into the haunted history of Virginia City, where Halen grew up, and the significance of the Mackay Mansion, a historical site that has survived the test of time. The discussion delves into the mansion's haunted history, featuring stories of playful spirits, the infamous Shadow Man, and the charming little girl ghosts.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Ghost Bunny podcast. I'm your host, Bridget Marker, with a brand new episode for you guys. My guest today is Halen de Sousa. His story with the paranormal began the moment he was put on this earth. His formative years were filled with lots of death and tragedy from the beginning. Growing up within the vicinity of Virginia City and the |
| 0:37.7 | Comstock, he has always been sensitive to the paranormal. His mother showed him the ropes of |
| 0:42.5 | paranormal investigating, taking him on many investigations as a young child. It was also during this time |
| 0:47.9 | he realized he had a gift to communicate with spirits on his own. Things took a turn shaping him |
| 0:53.0 | when he realized that witchcraft was in his true nature. |
| 0:56.4 | In his teen years, his family got the wonderful opportunity to help operate the Mackey Mansion. |
| 1:02.0 | This evolved into them being full-time caretakers slash docents for one of Nevada's most haunted buildings. |
| 1:09.0 | The Mackey Mansion is indeed a character of its own |
| 1:12.4 | because she has many secrets. Not only does he help run paranormal investigations at the mansion, |
| 1:17.7 | he can say the spirits inside are like family at this point. Along with his activities at the |
| 1:22.8 | mansion, he is consistently giving people personal tarot readings and helping people with his gift. |
| 1:28.0 | This is not a life he chose for himself. |
| 1:30.1 | It's the life that chose him. |
| 1:32.3 | Hey, Lynn, thank you so much for doing the show today. |
| 1:34.8 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:36.1 | I'm honored to be here. |
| 1:38.8 | Yes. |
| 1:39.3 | So I was looking at your bio and I had a few questions when I was looking at it. |
| 1:43.4 | And I was wondering if you would clarify a couple things on here. |
| 1:47.8 | The first thing was, and if you, if you're not comfortable talking about this, it's totally fine. |
| 1:52.7 | But it said that your formative years were filled with lots of death and tragedy from the beginning. |
| 1:57.1 | Can you tell us a little bit about that? |
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