The Move

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🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

We can all agree that moving is no fun. But these Nevada families interacting with the infamous Kelsay House had to deal with some very opinionated spirits in the process, so just remember: it could always be worse.

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Hosted by Laurah Norton

Researched by Bryan Worters and Maura Currie

Written & Produced by Maura Currie

Engineered by Brandon Schexnayder

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0:00.0	I'm Lauren Norton, and this is one strange thing, the show where we search the nation's and let's be real, the displeasure, of moving from one house to another.
0:35.4	You'll understand what we mean when we call it a universally
0:39.4	sucky experience. Whether you pay someone else to do the physical labor or you do it yourself,
0:48.1	whether your home and your future home are 15 minutes or 1,500 miles apart, whether it feels more like an ending or like a beginning,
0:58.1	there's just no getting around the hassle of it all. The sea of cardboard, those bulky tape
1:06.1	guns, all the bubble wrap. Maybe something delicate breaks, despite your best effort. The moving truck
1:14.3	ends up in the wrong state. Maybe once you've signed the paperwork, right on cue, a pipe burst
1:21.3	somewhere in your new basement. Or, if you're the kind of person featured on this podcast, the ghostly apparitions you were
1:30.6	trying to get away from, decide to invite themselves along for the ride. If that last part applies to
1:37.7	you, please drop us a line because we have some questions. And if that's not you, well, it is the situation of the main characters of our story today.
1:50.1	So, either way, buckle up.
1:53.6	As with all stories about moving, this one really starts in the house being left behind.
2:00.4	That house was on the edge of Reno, Nevada.
2:04.2	In the late 1970s, Nevada's cities were expanding, but their outskirts remained very rural. And if you
2:12.0	imagine the whole state as a fear and loathing-esque desert hellscape, think again. Reno is functionally the mountain west.
2:21.7	Drive a few minutes out of that brand new shiny suburb, and you'll easily find yourself at the
2:27.8	edge of the wilderness. Cities like Reno, cropped up in the mid-19th century, mostly as mining towns.
2:36.2	And around that time, as part of that industry development, this particular house was constructed.
2:43.0	Per the Review Journal, that little cabin-like abode was built in 1860 in Virginia City, just south of Reno.
2:51.6	Virginia City was a silver mining boomtown, and its population would peak at around 25,000
2:58.6	residents in the 1870s.
3:01.6	But as was the case for many mining towns, the silver ran dry and the residents left in droves in the decades
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