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🗓️ 2 March 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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0:00.0 | Today on The Grave Talks, the Spirits of the Grand Midway Hotel, a conversation with Blair Murphy. |
0:17.0 | Blair Murphy was working in L.A. as an independent filmmaker when a unique opportunity was presented to him. |
0:24.3 | He and some friends had wanted to find some place to move to for about a year when they discovered a hotel on eBay for $11,000. |
0:32.9 | It was the Grand Midway Hotel. Despite never stepping foot in the town of Wimber, Pennsylvania, let alone stepping foot into the hotel, they purchased it. |
0:44.7 | The Grand Midway Hotel, though no longer operational as a hotel, is still inhabited by guests, numerous ghostly guests, including Martha, a young woman who met her |
0:57.4 | untimely demise on the hotel's balcony while watching fireworks on the 4th of July. |
1:03.6 | Legend has it that a rocket struck her neck claiming her life instantly. |
1:09.1 | Additionally, the hotel's bar was the site of an unsolved murder. |
1:13.3 | Human bones were found within its walls, and there are stories of a child buried in the |
1:19.0 | basement. |
1:20.5 | Adding to its mystique, the Grand Midway Hotel boasts two Guinness Book of World Records |
1:26.6 | for the largest Ouija board on its rooftop |
1:28.9 | and the largest tarot card painted on the ceiling. |
1:35.1 | Today on the Grave Talks, a conversation about the spirits of the Grand Midway Hotel with |
1:41.0 | owner Blair Murphy. |
1:46.5 | So Blair, thank you so much for joining me today. |
1:49.6 | I'm really excited to talk about the Grand Midway Hotel. |
1:52.7 | The more I dove into this, the more interesting it became to me. |
1:56.9 | And the way you ended up with this hotel is so interesting. |
2:19.7 | Yeah, I was in Los Angeles and I was working, I'm an independent feature filmmaker. And I started thinking, I guess I would just say magically, where I thought, I'm not here to do films for like a career, a business career. I'm here to be involved with, |
2:26.5 | I mean, here on the planet to be involved with magic and summoning certain things. And film is just a tool. And my whole world just kind of changed with this paradigm shift. And then this |
2:32.0 | hotel presented itself, a buddy mine and his wife and I were |
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