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Haunted Road

The Sailor had Written One Word: “Help.” He Wrote it in his Own Blood.

Haunted Road

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

When it opened, the Alaskan Hotel was all glitz and glamour, a shining beacon in one of the territory’s richest gold rush towns. But, it didn't take long for things to take a dark turn. Special guest: Katrina Weidman.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Haunted Road, a production of I Heart Radio and Grim and Mild from Aaron

0:05.7

Manky.

0:06.7

Listener discretion is advised.

0:12.1

Just before midnight on May 19, 2007, police were called to the Alaskan Hotel to respond

0:18.6

to a disturbance in Room 315.

0:21.6

The room's only guest, a sailor from the USS Bunker Hill, was heard screaming through

0:26.6

the door, help, stop, he shouted, get me out of here.

0:31.9

He appeared to be trapped in the room.

0:34.7

Responding officers said they heard more than one person inside.

0:38.0

Later, a guest in the room directly underneath gave her account of the events.

0:42.2

I remember hearing yelling, but kind of just assumed that it was coming from the bar downstairs,

0:46.9

she said.

0:47.9

We hear glass shatter from above and within moments, our window within our hotel room

0:52.3

just shatters.

0:54.0

For anyone to get inside, the sailor jumped out the third floor window.

0:58.7

When the police broke down the door, officer Chris Gilford was met with a horrible scene.

1:04.1

The walls were covered in bloodgilford, said.

1:06.9

There was, it looked like something very bad had happened in there, and I didn't know

1:10.7

what it was, but it didn't look normal.

1:13.9

The sailor survived, but hotel owner Betty Adams said that when she entered the room,

1:19.6

she found something she never expected to see.

1:23.0

From the wall, the sailor had written one word, help.

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