Haunted Hospitality

Happy Halloween! In this very spooky episode Zoey shares one of her biggest, and newest, fears: men dressed up in full Bunny fursuits. In this episode we cover the legend of the Bunny Man in Fairfax, Virginia. The legend is based on two real, and scary, stories of men in Burke Virginia in 1969 and/or 1970 who threatened locals while dressed like Bunnies. From there, the legend spread to outrageous...

Late at night in February 1946, Jimmy Hollis and Mary Jeanne Larey parked in a lovers' lane on the outskirts of Texarkana, a mid-size town that sat on the border between Texas and Arkansas. At 11:55 PM, a man in a white cloth mask approached the driver's side door and demanded they get out of the car, before attacking them. Both Jimmy and Mary Jeanne survived the encounter, but almost al...

Chupacabra literally means "goat sucker", and boy howdy is this cryptid aptly named. The Chupacabra is a vampiric beast with glowing red eyes, fangs, a long tongue with a sucker, wings, talons, and spikes. Or it might be a hairless dog. Who knows! In this week's episode, Zoey goes into the legend and the sightings of the infamous Chupacabra in her most popular cryptid to date. A bea...

On any given weekend, young locals will gather on the dirt road that stretches straight through Bear Creek Swamp in Autauga County, Alabama. They don't just go there to party — they also perform a Bloody Mary-esque ritual. Legend says if you say the words, "Bitch, I've got your baby," three times, the woman who haunts the swamp will attack you. And unlike your typical Bloody Ma...

For the Alday Family, the day was just like any other. The men worked on the farm, the women worked in the houses. They were a happy, church-going, good family that never got into trouble. But trouble found them, in the shape of Carl Issacs, Wayne Coleman, George Dungee, and Billy Issacs. These four men were recent prison escapees who targeted the Alday family for their gas. In this episode, Zoey...

At midday on Monday, November 13, 1961, an oil tanker crew spotted Captain Julian Harvey, a retired airman, floating on a dinghy in the Atlantic Ocean. With him was the body of seven-year-old René Duperrault, the youngest member of a family that had been traveling for the past week with Harvey and his wife on a ship called the Bluebelle. Once he was rescued and taken to the coast guard, Harvey tol...

True crime is back! In case you're new here, this is a True Crime and Supernatural show. It's been a while, but this week Zoey brings back the true crime element with the story of Tyler Hadley, a Florida teen with troubles.  Tyler's parents, Blake and Mary-Jo Hadley told him that by the end of the summer, they were going to put him into a drug rehab facility. Tyler made the decision...

The American South isn't known for its castles, but maybe it should be. In this episode, we explore three different southern castles and their spooky reputations. The Gassaway Mansion in Greenville, South Carolina is an interesting feat of architecture. This structure with its castle-like tower was built alongside the prosperity of the roaring twenties, just as its occupants felt the loss of...

We all knew it was coming, but it came too soon. This is the final part of Season Two of our Haunted College Tour Palooza. But fear not, it will make its return next year! Closing us out for August 2022, Zoey shares the ghosts of the University of Virginia, a college with many notable alumni including Mr. Spooky himself, Edgar Allen Poe. Here we learn about secret societies, odd music halls, and a...

For the ninth installment of our Haunted! College! Tour! Palooza!, we're heading to Arkansas. The University of Arkansas and Henderson State University are both filled with ghost stories that will make freshmen cower with fear into their Twin XL sheets. Henderson State University is truly one of a kind with its famous Lady in Black, who is known to chase terrified students down like a Scooby...

Here we are in the midpoint of our college tour-palooza! We hope you're learning a thing or two. In this episode, Zoey talks about the famous ghost of Roy Simms from Texas A&M, but don't worry, he's not the only ghost on campus. The spirit of dog mascot Reveille V is on Kyle Field and you can hear how she makes her presence known. Robin shares a few stories from Our Lady of the...

For the second installment of the second season of our Haunted College Tour Palooza, we're traveling (metaphorically, of course) to three colleges in Mississippi. The Mississippi University for Women, Delta State University, and Mississippi State University all come with paranormal encounters haunting their halls.  Listen to learn about Mary (a Civil War-era nurse who never left Callaway Hall...

Welcome back to the 2nd annual Haunted College Tour-palooza by Haunted Hospitality! We'd like to remind everyone of our sole purpose in doing the College Tour - to scare incoming freshmen. So if you know anyone attending these colleges in the fall, be sure to send the episode their way! In this episode, Zoey covers what she has dubbed the most haunted college in Kentucky, Western Kentucky Uni...

Have you ever wandered into the woods by yourself only to feel like you were being watched? If so, you aren't alone. In this episode, Robin scoured the internet for first person accounts of paranormal experiences in the Southern US wilderness. Expect five true horror stories spanning Appalachia, involving an arsonist ghost, a dopplegänger, a potential cryptid, and more — including the possibl...

Robin is still out this week, so Zoey invited guest Brittany onto the podcast. Brittany is an equally southern friend of Robin and Zoey, the third in the trio, and Zoey's other Bridesmaid!  In today's episode, Zoey covers the Patreon requested story of the Yorktown Memorial Hospital (thank you Haley for the recc!) in Yorktown, Texas. This hospital has been shut down and left to decompose...

Hello, everyone! Zoey here. If you listen to the first five minutes of the episode, you already know this, but in case you haven't and are looking at the title saying "that isn't southern?" allow me to explain. For Robin's mental well being, we're not going to share all the details but it boils down to this. Robin got hurt in an accident, and while she's recoveri...

Say that five times fast! Robin did! In today's episode, Zoey brings us to the small town of Bladenboro, NC, population, 1,750. But this small town has a big story. In the year of 1932, the Williams family became the talk of the town when, over a four day span, over 20 mysterious, source-less fires erupted throughout their home.  Zoey goes over the details, or at least those still known almos...

Marie Laveau — AKA the Vodou Queen of New Orleans — is as much a mystery to us in death as she was in life. Newspaper accounts of the time ricocheted between love and hate, respect and fear. But who was this woman, a descendant of enslaved people, with her thumb on the pulse of Louisiana power? If anything, Vodou was and is even more controversial than Marie — a misunderstood religion castigated i...

Zoey brings us to San Antonio, Texas to visit the historic San Fernando Cathedral. As the longest standing continuously functioning religious communities in the state of Texas, it has a lot of history. And with that history comes ghosts. It also helps that there are supposedly people buried in the walls, it holds ashes of Alamo soldiers, and a horse that was buried alive in the town square. With s...

On Friday, June 13, 1980, Candy Montgomery dropped by her friend Betty Gore's house in Wylie, Texas to ask if Betty's daughter could go see The Empire Strikes Back that night with the Montgomery family. On the surface, it seemed that Candy and Betty were friends. They went to the same church; their children had sleepovers; Candy even threw Betty a surprise baby shower for her second chil...

On August 29th, 1994, the Hodges family died in their Virginia home, their bodies discovered by the fire department called to put out the fire that had been reported by neighbors. However, they had not died fire-related deaths. In fact, only two had been burned at all. Instead, the mother had been strangled, the two daughters had been shot at close range, and it looked like the father had taken hi...

In the Old Talbott Tavern's 243 years of existence, it's collected its fair share of famous visitors, legends, and things that go bump in the night. The first ghost stories you'll come across during a quick Google search are spooky for sure, but almost expected in a place like this: the outlaw Jesse James still roaming the halls, the former owner's wife hovering over guests in...

Are you currently hiding under your bed covers thinking you're being haunted? Well, you're in luck! This episode covers how to tell if you're being haunted (common ghost phenomena), how to scientifically prove you're being haunted, and what to do once you've determined you're being haunted. If that doesn't sound like a great thing, don't worry, we also have...

Have you ever sat there and listened to a ghost story around a fire and the story teller says something like it's a matter of fact, and you see everyone else nodding because, duh, everyone knows that, and then you have to play along like you knew that and you can't ask questions and your night is ruined because you feel stupid and you dropped your s'more and no one noticed so now yo...

Four-year-old Bobby Dunbar disappeared during a family trip to Louisiana's Swayze Lake in the August of 1912. Everyone from his family to friends to strangers searched the lake for a week, using dynamite to unsettle the water in case it would bring his body to the surface. When they couldn't find him in the lake, his parents were left wondering what happened — did he drown in the water o...