The Spirits of the Grand Midway Hotel, Part Two | Grave Talks CLASSIC
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🗓️ 2 March 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Blair Murphy, an independent filmmaker, and his friends found themselves embarking on a journey into the unknown when they bought the Grand Midway Hotel in Windber, Pennsylvania, all thanks to a unique eBay listing. What they didn’t realize was that the hotel came with more than just history—it brought with it ghosts.
The Grand Midway Hotel, though no longer operating as a hotel, still plays host to restless spirits, including Martha, a young woman who tragically lost her life on the balcony during a 4th of July celebration. From unsolved murders and human bones discovered within the walls to the tragic tale of a child buried in the basement, the hotel’s dark past has left a permanent mark.
Adding an air of mystique, the hotel is home to two Guinness Book of World Records: the largest Ouija board on its rooftop and the world’s largest Tarot card on its ceiling.
This is Part Two of our conversation.
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. |
| 1:33.0 | I didn't have a date or name or any of that kind of stuff. |
| 1:34.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:35.9 | You need a place to start. |
| 1:37.3 | So I think Martha's there. |
| 1:38.1 | Absolutely. |
| 1:38.8 | But then like the guy that got killed in 49, the unsolved murder. I don't think he's there. We don't get any EVPs on it or anything like that. The bones in the wall in the monkey room, that's, that I mentioned earlier. That seems to be a dead end as well. I don't know who they are. No, no EVPs or any kind of energy off of it. 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 |
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