The Spirits of the Grand Midway Hotel, Part Two | Grave Talks CLASSIC
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🗓️ 25 January 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! PART TWO
An unusual eBay listing led filmmaker Blair Murphy and his friends to an unexpected purchase—the Grand Midway Hotel. What they didn’t anticipate was that the building came with far more than history. Though no longer operating as a hotel, the Grand Midway is widely believed to be home to restless spirits that refuse to leave.
Blair joins us to explore the hotel’s dark and unsettling past. From reports of unsolved murders and human bones discovered within the walls to the tragic story of Martha, a young woman who lost her life after falling from the balcony during a Fourth of July celebration, the building’s history is steeped in mystery. Adding to its strange legacy are two Guinness World Records—a massive Ouija board on the rooftop and the world’s largest Tarot card overhead. Are these merely curiosities—or invitations to what still lingers inside?
If you’d like more information on the hotel, check out their website at grandmidwayhotel.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on The Grave Talks, we continue our conversation about the spirits of the Grand Midway Hotel with owner Blair Murphy. |
| 0:11.5 | The hotel has a very interesting past because you mentioned the murder in 1949, the woman in the fireworks, and both those seem to have kind of been covered |
| 0:22.7 | up. |
| 0:24.0 | Like, nobody really wants to talk about what happened. |
| 0:27.4 | So do you think that's added, like, with those two in particular, we'll start there |
| 0:33.8 | with those two. |
| 0:35.0 | Do you think that their spirits are still there or activity in those |
| 0:39.5 | locations? So the woman from 1911 that killed by fireworks, her name was Martha Serwinski. |
| 0:48.8 | And a lot of people in town mentioned to us, some horrible death happened there that the whole community saw, but no one knew any |
| 0:56.0 | details. They just kept hearing this rumor, and it was so tantalizing. It drove us nuts. And about a year |
| 1:01.9 | into living here, two women from the Swinski family showed up, and they had this photo, |
| 1:08.2 | which I had found one of those, the same photo in the building and they said this is our |
| 1:12.1 | great aunt Martha who uh was on a porch up on the third floor and she died when um some fireworks |
| 1:18.6 | knocked her throat off and um she and so so sudden so suddenly now we had like the details and |
| 1:25.5 | i ran i found the newspaper so uh these stories, they're in old papers, but, but, but we didn't know it at the time. I didn't have a date or name or any of that kind of stuff. Yeah. You need a place to start. So I think Martha's there. Absolutely. But then like the guy that got killed in 49, the unsolved murder, I don't think he's there. That we don't get any EVPs on it or anything like that. |
| 1:46.7 | The bones in the wall in the monkey room, that's what I mentioned earlier. |
| 1:51.3 | That seems to be a dead end as well. |
| 1:53.3 | I don't know who they are. |
| 1:54.9 | No EVPs or any kind of energy off of it. |
| 1:59.4 | And I even called the Carners office. And they weren't even, |
| 2:02.3 | they were like, yeah, we're not going to bother with that. And I thought, what are you talking |
| 2:07.1 | about it? But I'm kind of perceived a little bit like PT Barnumish. Like, I think they thought I was |
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