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New England Legends Podcast

The Haunted Mt. Washington Hotel

New England Legends Podcast

Jeff Belanger

Places & Travel, History, Society & Culture

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 266, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore the haunted Mt. Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. Built in the White Mountains in 1900 by Joseph Stickney, he didn’t live long enough to get much use out of the hotel. His widow, Princess Carolyn inherited the hotel and made a reputation for throwing lavish parties and always being the best dressed. In 1944, the hotel was home to a huge international conference that would give rise to the IMF, the World Bank, and conspiracy theories that suggest maybe darker forces infiltrated those meetings.

Transcript

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0:00.0

man the mount washington hotel is beautiful jeff yeah it is it's a grand hotel from another era

0:12.2

when we walked in it felt almost like we're stepping back in time to a century ago well that's

0:16.8

kind of what we do no matter where we go right that's a good point still i know what you mean. There aren't many big hotels like this anymore, and the views here are incredible. Yeah, they are. So Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, is nestled right here at the base of Mount Washington, which is New England's highest peak. So you've got the White Mountains, these open fields, the fall foliage. I mean, this is picture perfect New

0:37.5

England. And I can only imagine the famous people who have come and gone here over the years.

0:41.7

You don't know the half of it, Ray. The World Bank was born in this building, along with tales of

0:47.3

connections to international espionage and maybe even secret societies. And if that isn't enough

0:53.0

for you, they say the Mount Washington Hotel is one of New England's most haunted.

1:04.4

I'm Jeff Belanger, and welcome to episode 266 of the New England Legends podcast.

1:09.6

And I'm Ray Osier.

1:10.5

Thank you for joining us on our mission to chronicle every legend in New England one story at a time.

1:15.3

We're glad to have you in our community of legend seekers who are always on the hunt for

1:19.2

ghosts, monsters, aliens, and other odd history that makes New England the place that it is today.

1:24.5

If you've got a story you think we should check out, please contact us

1:27.6

through our website where you can also hear our entire backlog of episodes. There's video clips

1:32.3

from the New England Legends television series that you can watch right now on Amazon Prime,

1:36.3

and upcoming dates for my story tour and Ray's band The Pub Kings. Now before we go searching

1:40.6

for the ghosts of the Mount Washington Hotel and for the World Bank, we want to take just a minute to tell you about our sponsor, Nuadi Herbils. Ray, the Mount Washington Hotel, has a big spa attached to it. I saw that. But spas are expensive. Absolutely. Which is why I'm glad we have our friends at Nuadi Herbils. We've been telling you about so many Nuadi Herbal's teas for a long time now,

2:01.8

but they also have an entire line of all natural bath salts, balms, soaps, body, and massage oils.

2:08.5

Noadi Herbal has everything you need to have a day at the spa in your own home and at a fraction of the cost.

2:14.6

There's healthy skin bath salts or ease my pain away.

2:17.7

They have creams for after your bath like laughing coyote cream and cloud walking cream.

2:23.0

Plus bath bags for your bath salts and eye pillows with herbs and flaxseed.

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