October 31, 2022 • 27 mins
Happy Halloween! It's episode 106 and Reclaiming My Crime is back!
Sit back and relax and listen to how we almost died not once, not twice, but maybe three times in LA!
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Ghost Penisy. And you know what, maybe that's why my voice is so
crackly. You've been taking so muchdick in your throat. Hey guys,
Happy Halloween, And as you couldtell, I'm a little sick, so
bear with me. Welcome to anotherepisode of Reclaiming My Crime with your hosts
(00:27):
Evangeline, Evangeline and Blake, andthis special Halloween episode, we're taking it
to La and Boy. I havea tale to tell y'all regarding the Hotel
Roosevelt and one of its most famousunsolved mysteries. And V has a story
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from our favorite restaurant out here,which I gotta be honest with y'all.
California food is trash garbage, Like, I don't know who told people in
California that they're eating good. Unlessyou're eating ethnic food, you're not eating
good. No, you're not avocadosand fucking brownies anyway. And y'all have
been begging to hear about how avacation went last month, and we are
(01:11):
here to tell y'all we had atime and a half. And as you
know, we've been looking into themysterious dess of old Hollywood starlett Amelia Gredanna
and her husband James, at theRoosevelt Hotel on the night of December twenty
third, nineteen forty nine. Ilove that he doesn't have the last name,
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just James, her husband, missusand mister as it should be,
As it should be. Story hasit that on Christmas Eve nineteen forty nine,
Richard Matthews, a bellhop at theat the hotel, alerted management when
their door was unanswered for their morningtea, a ritual so to speak,
when they stayed and then fail torespond to calls for Christmas packages at the
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desk. Management went up to thethird floor suite where the couple resides did
three months out of the ear andknocked before entering. To get in,
they had to push the heavy safeout of the way, which was propped
against the door, which they boththought was strange because security at the Hotel
Roosevelt was paramount and no guests,especially those as dignified as them, would
have to worry about their door beingjimmied open whilst they were sleeping. He
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and Matthews found the couple in thebed. They were holding each other's hands.
The only hint that something was wrongwas the blue tint to their lips
and the ash and color of theirskin. The two immediately called for security
and the police came to investigate.Given how good forensic science was in the
late forties, the coroner could onlysurmise that they were smothered, as their
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eyes showed particular hemorrhaging, as wellas the delicate skin around their eyes and
their mouths. But who killed him? The windows were locked and there was
no access to fire escape from thatsuite. There was no maintenance hats that
connected to the room to the inside, to the outside to another room,
and the suite had no conjoined rooms. The door had the safe pushed against
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it. There was no way foranyone to have exited that room the way
it was found. The killer apparentlyvanished in the thin air. So to
this day their deaths remained a mystery. Who did it? How? Why?
And that is where we came in. Why, Because you know,
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we ain't shit, we not.We decided to splurge. On one night
the Hotel Roosevelt and the now namedGiordana Suite, we heard about the various
sightings of Amelia and James. Theyhave been sighted in the ballroom whilsteeing to
a piano that could only be heardin the breeze. They have been seen
interacting with a little girl on theirfloor. The little girl, maybe five
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or six, in a period sleepinggown, runs up and down the hall
every now and then and then runsinto a guest, cause a temperature drop
and a nudge their bodies. Shehas been seen by a few guests and
employees that have run into them aswell. Several guests who have stayed in
the now named Jordana Sweet have heardrustling like something heavy being pushed across the
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carpet and a muffled please at aboutthree am. You know what three am
is, So you know what ourasses had to do, right, We
had to stay in this room,yes, of course, so we know
what's up exactly. So you knowme, I believe in the ship,
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and it's so incredibly interesting to me, like I have no reason to not
believe that ghosts exists, Like ifGod could exist, why can't ghosts.
I mean, I showed you thevideo of the fucking ghosts coming up to
my ring the other day. Thatship was wild. No for real,
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it's fucking crazy. So ghost absolutelyexists. Fucked us if you want to,
period, and none of us knowswhat happens when we leave this life
to go into the next, andy'all no v. She's a skeptic through
and through, although she did caveinto my peer pressure and brought a small
video recorder with tape. Yes,yes, I know, who actually would
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have thought that these still existed.Well, the expectation is at the fun
period because it sucks out all thejuice. We've all seen Zach Baggins.
We know how this works. Fatmotherfucker. So we set up for a
night in and we didn't turn onthe TV or anything. Honestly, we
didn't even unpack me because I'm apunk and if I got scared, I
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was gonna run and be Because shedidn't want to, she didn't want to
waste her time because we would onlystay in the night. We stayed awake
as long as we could, inthe dark, with nothing but the normal
creeks and groans of an old buildingthat size, and the ambiance sounds of
TV's in the other room and laughterfrom the hall. Unfortunately, jet lag
and old age got the best ofus and we passed out well before midnight,
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well before midnight, but woke upjust before three because the room suddenly
got cold. We also got thison recording. Shit, and myga,
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so your bitches were fully fucking awakenthis time. I'm freaking out. I'm
like, I gotta go to thebathroom before I pee my pants. And
this bitch is over here, like, if you don't get your dumb ass
back to bed, you're over herewaking me up. So I creep back
to the bed, and obviously Ihave to tuck my feet under the covers
because I'm not stupid, right,And so we just sat in the dark,
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waiting for something, anything, toexplain in noises, but the once
boisterous hallway was now silent, theoccupants long asleep, and eventually, in
the quiet room we fell back asleep, only to wake up in the morning
with our hands clasped together in thesame position which the bodies were found in,
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and we immediately got up, grabbedour bags and left. No thank
you. So moral of the storyhere is we still have no idea who
killed them, because we weren't fitto be next. No never the end,
dundunt du mystery solved. That's thestory of our lives, as we
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ain't s three Alimos died exactly,and we actually almost died quite a few
times during our trip. This isnothing new to us. If you ever
have been on a vacation from acity that is not one of our own
cities, you know that there isat least generally one instance where we almost
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died. There was the time wealmost got sex trafficked in DC. There
was the time we had to likejump over that fucking wall at that hotel
to get to the train in NewYork, YEP, because the fucking Cabby
left us for fucking dead, exactlyexactly. So generally, when we were
out and about, we are,um you know, right on the cusp
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of being dead. And so Idon't know if that ghost decided that,
you know what, they're always,you know, this close to death.
So maybe we just give up onthat. But you know, we're generally
right there on death's doorstep in somany ways. And we actually that was
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the second of two near death experienceson our trip to Los Angeles. M
So I'm gonna tell you guys thestory of the first instance where we almost
died. Two for fucking two,two for fucking two. Um LA might
be off the map for us fora while, because we're getting too old
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to be almost dead, especially notfar away from home, especially that far
away from home. Can you imagineour families trying to send our bodies back
like we need if we're gonna befucking around and finding out it needs to
be somewhere where my husband can driveto exactly while crying. Yes, yes,
because the thing about our husbands isthat they are not going to come
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before the trauma happens. It's afterward, because we also will call them before
the trauma happened. Either, yeahwe're stupid. Um. Oh yeah that
that not because we don't want totalk to them. But I'm gonna telling
you guys about our first trauma.So I cannot remember if in the last
episode we talked about the fact thatour flights were just fucked for the day,
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so they were so fucked. Um. We essentially started at the airport
at the same time, and Winder'sflight was supposed to leave before mine because
she had a layover, and ultimatelymy flight left and landed. I want
to say, before your first flightleft, I might know, yep,
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yep, yep, And it wasbecause of a storm that was headed per
way. Fun factor. I gotthe storm on my way back so you
know, we both really screwed thefucking pitch on that one. But Windor's
flight was late. We were supposedto get to the airport at basically the
same time, and Windor flight hadnot left yet or was midair by the
time I had actually gotten there,And so this left me to go get
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our rental car, so low somethingI was absolutely petrified to do, absolutely
afraid. Had not rental car.And when I say that we used,
we did not use a major rentalorganization. We also did not we did
use their shuttle. So we absolutelyand we always will get the walk out
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of here, like we will neverstop doing that. But we opted for
something more person to person because ofcost restraints. Because went to a car
in LA it's fucking expensive as fuck, as fun as fuck. So I
went. I got our rental car. And the second thing that I was
petrified to do was drive in LosAngeles, in or about the city.
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It scared the shit out of mebefore I actually did it, and it
is because I often in my ownreal life in my car, I tend
to lag behind any type of GPS. So wherever like my car is sending
me, my brain is like thirtyseconds behind this, and so I was
like, that is fucking scary ina place that I don't know. So
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I get the car. Everything endedup being fine, you guys, Like
it wasn't as pressing as it feltlike it was gonna be, with the
exception of our trip to the hotel, because I don't know what ghost intervened
in that moment, but we almostdied. So we're driving to all that
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dick you're sucking is why you can'tsee right now. So you watch your
mouth, young lady, You watchyour mouth. So we're driving. We've
got ways on Ways is my triedand true? Does it always work?
Now? Does it work at thetime? Now? Can I not quit
her? Absolutely? That is theonly reason that we use ways. I'll
have ways on and Apple Maps on. And that is honestly what I've gotten
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to in this point in time.Whenever I'm somewhere I really don't know.
So I really feel like I shouldjust cut out ways because they're clearly the
problem. Like they're clearly the problem. If we've got to use too,
what's wrong with it? It's betterthan tom Tom? Oh, how dare
you? So we're driving in ourrental car. We are trying to go
to the hotel, and this isgoing to be an hour drive. And
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it's not scary. At first.Things are going well, turn left,
turn right, go straight, andthen our ways starts to change. She
has altered our path. We weregoing in another direction. As somebody who
does not know how to use acompass but can navigate a map pretty well,
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it felt like this direction was notin the direction that we should have
been going. But if GPS saysit, I'm not a map, I'm
not a map quest, I'm notI'm a map, I'm the map.
I'm not tru Mama, I'm notthe babysitter. I don't watch these kids.
And so when Wayte told us toturn a different direction, we did
it. And we turned and weturned and we turned. And one of
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the things that I noticed, andI don't know if you noticed this while
we were driving, but it almostseemed like as we were turning and getting
further away from our location, ourdestination, ultimately it appeared that it was
getting darker outside. It also feltlike I'm was moving in this weird like
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space where we're still turning, butwe're not getting any closer to our location,
and We're still making all of theturns with the expectation that we're going
to get their studer. But itwas almost like time was elongating. It
was I was a really long drive. It was a really long drive.
It felt like it was six hoursNew Slash everybody. It was only one
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hour. Yes, it takes onehour to get twenty miles in Los Angeles.
It really does, It really does. This part is actually very true.
But then the GPS made us makea turn that it ultimately, in
my opinion, shaped the course ofour entire trip because we were going to
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the Roosevelt Hotel, Hotel Roosevelt,you know whatever, put the word wherever
you feel like it works best.I actually don't know the name of is
it Hotel Roosevelt Roosevelt. I thinkit's a Hotel Roosevelt. Okay, so
the Roosevelt Hotel. Um. Sowe're trying to get here, and our
GPS tells us to take this turn, and I'm like, Okay, this
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is gonna be the last fucking turn. But it wasn't. The turns kept
coming and coming and coming, andit's getting darker and darker and darker,
until we reached that dead end atthe top of this what I perceive as
a mountain. I live in avery flat area, so it's probably just
a hill. But we reached theend. We were at the top of
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this mountain and there's nowhere else toturn and fucking ways apple Mats, I
don't know. It says turn leftand left, it's gonna take us off
the side of this fucking mountain.And I don't know about you, but
that definitely freaked me out. Thatwas definitely a moment where I decided that
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a bitch was ready to get outand walk. Well, maybe it was
time to go back home. Maybeit was time to go back home because
Alexa is trying to not Alexa Alexawhen we don't even talk about her,
because my Alexa hasn't worked since I'vebeen back from this fucking vacation. She's
listening to everything she's unplugs because she'snot fucking working right now. But when
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Waves decided to try to send usoff the side of that cliff, I
knew we were in for a wildride. And so the events in the
hotel room did not feel as umdamning as they could have felt um because
we already had a precursor and thatwas the event on the road that took
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us up to the top of thatmountain where we almost died. Yeah,
and then yeah, then like laterthat like not that night obviously, but
later we're more finally settled into anon haunted hotel. But apparently, um
that site a school bus like wentdown the mountain there like ten years ago.
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I remember that. Shit, thatwas crazy. We found that out.
You were trying to kill us withsome fucking kids. That was fucking
crazy because kids are ultimately petrifying.But also, do you remember the restaurant
what the waiter told us about therestaurant? Bitch? You know what?
I just think we can never goback to California. But why don't y'all
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tell them what happened? So wehave been to this restaurant before. We're
not going to name the restaurant justin cases podcast i've ever becomes super famous,
and um, we don't want toput them out of business or anything.
But if the food is so good, you can get haunted for food.
No form, But there's a reasonI think that the food is so
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good. Anyways, So it's onSunset Boulevard. It's Chinese restaurant, it's
actually it's it's not what we onthe East Coast think of as a Chinese
restaurant. It is a California Chineserestaurant. It's what I'm gonna say.
But we'd go there every time.We love it. Once upon a time,
they had some pineapple rice that windsorcould not live without. I had
some seafood noodles. The ship wasfucking banging. Anyways, I think it
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was seafood. So we park,we get to the restaurant. We're waiting
for the waiter. Some guy thatlooks like Tommy Hill Figure might have been
Tommy Hill Figure justin. I don'tknow if you heard him, but that
motherfucker eats there every day. Probablythey knew his fucking order, so he
clearly had been around the block.Anyways, we're talking to the waiter,
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we're trying to figure out what we'regoing to eat, and out of nowhere,
this motherfucker says, did you knowthat more people go missing in front
of this restaurant every year than anyother space on this fucking road, street,
boulevard, whatever you want to callit. And I said what?
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And it was the most out ofpocket out of nowhere, said chance that
anybody had said to me, probablyall day, but it's something that sat
with me. And then he continuedby saying, like, you know,
we're always full, and it's justsomething that people have noticed, is that
more people go missing in front ofthis restaurant, in this little space,
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which is pretty wide open, Ithink, considering the nooks and crannies that
we'd been to throughout our time onEarth. But more people go missing there
than any other place on that entireroad in each year. So it's something
like twenty seven people go missing eachyear. So I did some research because
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it was just such a wild factI couldn't let it go. And in
my research, I pinpointed each ofthose people that went missing, and then
I looked to see if it correlatedwith anything. And it looks like,
and this is just me speculating,every time somebody was missing right in front
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of this restaurant, they have likeeither a really good business day or like
something major happens there, like acelebrity shows up or whatever. So I
don't really know what the tea isabout the restaurant, but I do have
like a little theory that either we'reworshiping some type of demon, and that's
why the food is so busting andwhy they're always busy, because a bitch
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will wait in line. A bitchhas waited in line to get inside mum
or there's people in the food.Well you know what, a bitch tastes
good bands FA fantastic, You tasteamazing. But oh, I absolutely think
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it's a demon because I don't knowif you remember when we parked in the
back because yeah, free parking,and we needed something to be free at
that point, but we parked inthe back, and so when we were
fucking in the back, there wereall these people in these like trucks and
fucking busses and stuff, and thepolice were there and we were like,
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it's something wild happening here, likeit's somebody famous here or something. But
we couldn't find like a reason ora rationale based on what we saw.
So there's like a scenic overview.If you go like all the way to
the back of the parking lot,there's like this scenic overview, and this
bitch fucking rolls up. Do youremember was it a blue It was it
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was like a blue or blue green, really expensive as suv. Yes,
And so it was a very wildcolor. But it was just like as
soon as she got out of hercar, there was like all the security
honor, which I mean, obviouslyit could have been somebody famous, but
it's just such a weird occurrence.It just seemed like, no, Bro,
the conversation we just fucking had withthe waiter coupled with the fact that
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there's all these police around but thereappears to be nothing going on. There's
literally nothing happened in this parking lot. We walk over to the scenic overview
and all of a sudden, allof these people are following this woman to
try to rush her into a location. I think she's eating all these people
that are going missing. She isthe demon they are worshiping, and it
is fucking but you know what theirbusiness. She slayed the house down boots,
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no for rell. She did becausethe food is fucking busting, bust.
It's busting busting. So we didn'talmost die in that instance. It
was only those first two instances becauselisten, oh we are we are too
um seasoned for them to use us. Oh we're it's all flavor, all
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this fat, all this flavor.We're too a hefty um. I don't
know if you guys know, butdeadweight is very heavy. Yep, And
I don't know. None of youhave seen me recently. Um, but
I'm still claiming pandemic weight. I'mstill claiming baby pandemic weight. So it's
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not going to be easy for anybodyto put us in the soup. Nope,
but boil us down to make somebutter. I know, some butter.
Some lord, Oh my gosh,Yes, I am lard shot manually
from shaw Tanning. Yeah, didwe als die any other places? I
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don't think we did, almost diedanywhere else. I mean, we had
a pretty good time. It's notthis true. Yeah, you know,
once we started minding our own goddamnbusiness. Um, the trip went pretty
good exactly. We hung out bythe pool. I read a book.
You guys don't know how many peoplereading that fucking book was to me,
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because I've been trying to read thatmotherfucker for a year. She only dropped
in the water once, and itonly fell apart once I fixed it.
I bought some binder clips on myway home, Thank you very much.
She's finished and found together for lifetill I read her again. Maybe I
don't know, but we didn't die. Of course at any bookstores might have
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died. Their toilets might have diedto the last bookstores toilet r ip baby,
Sorry, but listen, you knowhow it is when you go into
a bookstore, you automatically have totake a ship immediately. That's the true
horror. That is the true horror. Horror is having to take a ship
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the second you walk into a bookstorethe second. But I think that um,
obviously we should um before we endthis out, just put a disclaimer
that um any um any similarity,any similarities to people, places, thing,
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real or imaginary, our figments ofour imaginations and our purely coincidence.
Obviously, there's no one named AmeliaGeordana, there's no Danna suite at the
Hotel Roosevelt. So but the restaurantand ways those are Those are real.
Those are real. Those are real. Nobody can prove otherwise that there's a
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lot of demon running that restaurant exactly, because why is the food, why
is the food so good? Ifthere's not a period demon running that restaurant
and good across almost a decade.It had been almost a decade since the
last time we were there, andwe're still like Oh my god, I
can't wait to eat again. We'restill fucking thinking about it, yep,
and we will continue to do soas well, likely our offspring and family
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descent. Actually I did take myoffspring there, Oh you did, Yeah,
when we went on vacation. Ilove that. I need to have
enough money to take my it onbagage. Fuck I immediately, Yeah,
that was we went to um itwas the night before we went to Disney
with Disneyland. M M. Thatso. See literally every time in La
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I'm gonna eat there, whether it'sdemon or not, we don't even know.
Don't give a fuck. Special thanksto ways to a restaurant that may
not that shall not be named.Nope, to our imagination owns to the
Roosevelt Hotel or Hotel Roosevelt. Idon't care. We shout out who it
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truly is haunted, but just notby the Jordannas, and shout out to
us, and shout out to mefor not peeing my pants this whole time.
Please don't piss on yourself. Iwould appreciate that. This leather chair
I'm sitting in would appreciate it too, Yes, that too, And drink
your water. Remember that you're thatbitch. She'll forever be that bitch and
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stay safe and stay healthy until nexttime. Used to gps s, don't
just follow aways, She'll send youoff a cliff, Yes you will.
And guess what in Apple Maps showsyou stop signs? If that shows you,
shop Shrene, stop signs, shopShren, shut up, good night,
good night,
Ghost Penisy. And you know what, maybe that's why my voice is so
crackly. You've been taking so muchdick in your throat. Hey guys,
Happy Halloween, And as you couldtell, I'm a little sick, so
bear with me. Welcome to anotherepisode of Reclaiming My Crime with your hosts
(00:27):
Evangeline, Evangeline and Blake, andthis special Halloween episode, we're taking it
to La and Boy. I havea tale to tell y'all regarding the Hotel
Roosevelt and one of its most famousunsolved mysteries. And V has a story
(00:48):
from our favorite restaurant out here,which I gotta be honest with y'all.
California food is trash garbage, Like, I don't know who told people in
California that they're eating good. Unlessyou're eating ethnic food, you're not eating
good. No, you're not avocadosand fucking brownies anyway. And y'all have
been begging to hear about how avacation went last month, and we are
(01:11):
here to tell y'all we had atime and a half. And as you
know, we've been looking into themysterious dess of old Hollywood starlett Amelia Gredanna
and her husband James, at theRoosevelt Hotel on the night of December twenty
third, nineteen forty nine. Ilove that he doesn't have the last name,
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just James, her husband, missusand mister as it should be,
As it should be. Story hasit that on Christmas Eve nineteen forty nine,
Richard Matthews, a bellhop at theat the hotel, alerted management when
their door was unanswered for their morningtea, a ritual so to speak,
when they stayed and then fail torespond to calls for Christmas packages at the
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desk. Management went up to thethird floor suite where the couple resides did
three months out of the ear andknocked before entering. To get in,
they had to push the heavy safeout of the way, which was propped
against the door, which they boththought was strange because security at the Hotel
Roosevelt was paramount and no guests,especially those as dignified as them, would
have to worry about their door beingjimmied open whilst they were sleeping. He
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and Matthews found the couple in thebed. They were holding each other's hands.
The only hint that something was wrongwas the blue tint to their lips
and the ash and color of theirskin. The two immediately called for security
and the police came to investigate.Given how good forensic science was in the
late forties, the coroner could onlysurmise that they were smothered, as their
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eyes showed particular hemorrhaging, as wellas the delicate skin around their eyes and
their mouths. But who killed him? The windows were locked and there was
no access to fire escape from thatsuite. There was no maintenance hats that
connected to the room to the inside, to the outside to another room,
and the suite had no conjoined rooms. The door had the safe pushed against
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it. There was no way foranyone to have exited that room the way
it was found. The killer apparentlyvanished in the thin air. So to
this day their deaths remained a mystery. Who did it? How? Why?
And that is where we came in. Why, Because you know,
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we ain't shit, we not.We decided to splurge. On one night
the Hotel Roosevelt and the now namedGiordana Suite, we heard about the various
sightings of Amelia and James. Theyhave been sighted in the ballroom whilsteeing to
a piano that could only be heardin the breeze. They have been seen
interacting with a little girl on theirfloor. The little girl, maybe five
(03:53):
or six, in a period sleepinggown, runs up and down the hall
every now and then and then runsinto a guest, cause a temperature drop
and a nudge their bodies. Shehas been seen by a few guests and
employees that have run into them aswell. Several guests who have stayed in
the now named Jordana Sweet have heardrustling like something heavy being pushed across the
(04:15):
carpet and a muffled please at aboutthree am. You know what three am
is, So you know what ourasses had to do, right, We
had to stay in this room,yes, of course, so we know
what's up exactly. So you knowme, I believe in the ship,
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and it's so incredibly interesting to me, like I have no reason to not
believe that ghosts exists, Like ifGod could exist, why can't ghosts.
I mean, I showed you thevideo of the fucking ghosts coming up to
my ring the other day. Thatship was wild. No for real,
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it's fucking crazy. So ghost absolutelyexists. Fucked us if you want to,
period, and none of us knowswhat happens when we leave this life
to go into the next, andy'all no v. She's a skeptic through
and through, although she did caveinto my peer pressure and brought a small
video recorder with tape. Yes,yes, I know, who actually would
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have thought that these still existed.Well, the expectation is at the fun
period because it sucks out all thejuice. We've all seen Zach Baggins.
We know how this works. Fatmotherfucker. So we set up for a
night in and we didn't turn onthe TV or anything. Honestly, we
didn't even unpack me because I'm apunk and if I got scared, I
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was gonna run and be Because shedidn't want to, she didn't want to
waste her time because we would onlystay in the night. We stayed awake
as long as we could, inthe dark, with nothing but the normal
creeks and groans of an old buildingthat size, and the ambiance sounds of
TV's in the other room and laughterfrom the hall. Unfortunately, jet lag
and old age got the best ofus and we passed out well before midnight,
(06:06):
well before midnight, but woke upjust before three because the room suddenly
got cold. We also got thison recording. Shit, and myga,
(06:28):
so your bitches were fully fucking awakenthis time. I'm freaking out. I'm
like, I gotta go to thebathroom before I pee my pants. And
this bitch is over here, like, if you don't get your dumb ass
back to bed, you're over herewaking me up. So I creep back
to the bed, and obviously Ihave to tuck my feet under the covers
because I'm not stupid, right,And so we just sat in the dark,
(06:53):
waiting for something, anything, toexplain in noises, but the once
boisterous hallway was now silent, theoccupants long asleep, and eventually, in
the quiet room we fell back asleep, only to wake up in the morning
with our hands clasped together in thesame position which the bodies were found in,
(07:14):
and we immediately got up, grabbedour bags and left. No thank
you. So moral of the storyhere is we still have no idea who
killed them, because we weren't fitto be next. No never the end,
dundunt du mystery solved. That's thestory of our lives, as we
(07:40):
ain't s three Alimos died exactly,and we actually almost died quite a few
times during our trip. This isnothing new to us. If you ever
have been on a vacation from acity that is not one of our own
cities, you know that there isat least generally one instance where we almost
(08:00):
died. There was the time wealmost got sex trafficked in DC. There
was the time we had to likejump over that fucking wall at that hotel
to get to the train in NewYork, YEP, because the fucking Cabby
left us for fucking dead, exactlyexactly. So generally, when we were
out and about, we are,um you know, right on the cusp
(08:22):
of being dead. And so Idon't know if that ghost decided that,
you know what, they're always,you know, this close to death.
So maybe we just give up onthat. But you know, we're generally
right there on death's doorstep in somany ways. And we actually that was
(08:48):
the second of two near death experienceson our trip to Los Angeles. M
So I'm gonna tell you guys thestory of the first instance where we almost
died. Two for fucking two,two for fucking two. Um LA might
be off the map for us fora while, because we're getting too old
(09:09):
to be almost dead, especially notfar away from home, especially that far
away from home. Can you imagineour families trying to send our bodies back
like we need if we're gonna befucking around and finding out it needs to
be somewhere where my husband can driveto exactly while crying. Yes, yes,
because the thing about our husbands isthat they are not going to come
(09:30):
before the trauma happens. It's afterward, because we also will call them before
the trauma happened. Either, yeahwe're stupid. Um. Oh yeah that
that not because we don't want totalk to them. But I'm gonna telling
you guys about our first trauma.So I cannot remember if in the last
episode we talked about the fact thatour flights were just fucked for the day,
(09:54):
so they were so fucked. Um. We essentially started at the airport
at the same time, and Winder'sflight was supposed to leave before mine because
she had a layover, and ultimatelymy flight left and landed. I want
to say, before your first flightleft, I might know, yep,
(10:15):
yep, yep, And it wasbecause of a storm that was headed per
way. Fun factor. I gotthe storm on my way back so you
know, we both really screwed thefucking pitch on that one. But Windor's
flight was late. We were supposedto get to the airport at basically the
same time, and Windor flight hadnot left yet or was midair by the
time I had actually gotten there,And so this left me to go get
(10:39):
our rental car, so low somethingI was absolutely petrified to do, absolutely
afraid. Had not rental car.And when I say that we used,
we did not use a major rentalorganization. We also did not we did
use their shuttle. So we absolutelyand we always will get the walk out
(11:00):
of here, like we will neverstop doing that. But we opted for
something more person to person because ofcost restraints. Because went to a car
in LA it's fucking expensive as fuck, as fun as fuck. So I
went. I got our rental car. And the second thing that I was
petrified to do was drive in LosAngeles, in or about the city.
(11:22):
It scared the shit out of mebefore I actually did it, and it
is because I often in my ownreal life in my car, I tend
to lag behind any type of GPS. So wherever like my car is sending
me, my brain is like thirtyseconds behind this, and so I was
like, that is fucking scary ina place that I don't know. So
(11:46):
I get the car. Everything endedup being fine, you guys, Like
it wasn't as pressing as it feltlike it was gonna be, with the
exception of our trip to the hotel, because I don't know what ghost intervened
in that moment, but we almostdied. So we're driving to all that
(12:07):
dick you're sucking is why you can'tsee right now. So you watch your
mouth, young lady, You watchyour mouth. So we're driving. We've
got ways on Ways is my triedand true? Does it always work?
Now? Does it work at thetime? Now? Can I not quit
her? Absolutely? That is theonly reason that we use ways. I'll
have ways on and Apple Maps on. And that is honestly what I've gotten
(12:31):
to in this point in time.Whenever I'm somewhere I really don't know.
So I really feel like I shouldjust cut out ways because they're clearly the
problem. Like they're clearly the problem. If we've got to use too,
what's wrong with it? It's betterthan tom Tom? Oh, how dare
you? So we're driving in ourrental car. We are trying to go
to the hotel, and this isgoing to be an hour drive. And
(12:54):
it's not scary. At first.Things are going well, turn left,
turn right, go straight, andthen our ways starts to change. She
has altered our path. We weregoing in another direction. As somebody who
does not know how to use acompass but can navigate a map pretty well,
(13:16):
it felt like this direction was notin the direction that we should have
been going. But if GPS saysit, I'm not a map, I'm
not a map quest, I'm notI'm a map, I'm the map.
I'm not tru Mama, I'm notthe babysitter. I don't watch these kids.
And so when Wayte told us toturn a different direction, we did
it. And we turned and weturned and we turned. And one of
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the things that I noticed, andI don't know if you noticed this while
we were driving, but it almostseemed like as we were turning and getting
further away from our location, ourdestination, ultimately it appeared that it was
getting darker outside. It also feltlike I'm was moving in this weird like
(14:03):
space where we're still turning, butwe're not getting any closer to our location,
and We're still making all of theturns with the expectation that we're going
to get their studer. But itwas almost like time was elongating. It
was I was a really long drive. It was a really long drive.
It felt like it was six hoursNew Slash everybody. It was only one
(14:24):
hour. Yes, it takes onehour to get twenty miles in Los Angeles.
It really does, It really does. This part is actually very true.
But then the GPS made us makea turn that it ultimately, in
my opinion, shaped the course ofour entire trip because we were going to
(14:46):
the Roosevelt Hotel, Hotel Roosevelt,you know whatever, put the word wherever
you feel like it works best.I actually don't know the name of is
it Hotel Roosevelt Roosevelt. I thinkit's a Hotel Roosevelt. Okay, so
the Roosevelt Hotel. Um. Sowe're trying to get here, and our
GPS tells us to take this turn, and I'm like, Okay, this
(15:09):
is gonna be the last fucking turn. But it wasn't. The turns kept
coming and coming and coming, andit's getting darker and darker and darker,
until we reached that dead end atthe top of this what I perceive as
a mountain. I live in avery flat area, so it's probably just
a hill. But we reached theend. We were at the top of
(15:30):
this mountain and there's nowhere else toturn and fucking ways apple Mats, I
don't know. It says turn leftand left, it's gonna take us off
the side of this fucking mountain.And I don't know about you, but
that definitely freaked me out. Thatwas definitely a moment where I decided that
(15:52):
a bitch was ready to get outand walk. Well, maybe it was
time to go back home. Maybeit was time to go back home because
Alexa is trying to not Alexa Alexawhen we don't even talk about her,
because my Alexa hasn't worked since I'vebeen back from this fucking vacation. She's
listening to everything she's unplugs because she'snot fucking working right now. But when
(16:17):
Waves decided to try to send usoff the side of that cliff, I
knew we were in for a wildride. And so the events in the
hotel room did not feel as umdamning as they could have felt um because
we already had a precursor and thatwas the event on the road that took
(16:40):
us up to the top of thatmountain where we almost died. Yeah,
and then yeah, then like laterthat like not that night obviously, but
later we're more finally settled into anon haunted hotel. But apparently, um
that site a school bus like wentdown the mountain there like ten years ago.
(17:06):
I remember that. Shit, thatwas crazy. We found that out.
You were trying to kill us withsome fucking kids. That was fucking
crazy because kids are ultimately petrifying.But also, do you remember the restaurant
what the waiter told us about therestaurant? Bitch? You know what?
I just think we can never goback to California. But why don't y'all
(17:26):
tell them what happened? So wehave been to this restaurant before. We're
not going to name the restaurant justin cases podcast i've ever becomes super famous,
and um, we don't want toput them out of business or anything.
But if the food is so good, you can get haunted for food.
No form, But there's a reasonI think that the food is so
(17:47):
good. Anyways, So it's onSunset Boulevard. It's Chinese restaurant, it's
actually it's it's not what we onthe East Coast think of as a Chinese
restaurant. It is a California Chineserestaurant. It's what I'm gonna say.
But we'd go there every time.We love it. Once upon a time,
they had some pineapple rice that windsorcould not live without. I had
some seafood noodles. The ship wasfucking banging. Anyways, I think it
(18:12):
was seafood. So we park,we get to the restaurant. We're waiting
for the waiter. Some guy thatlooks like Tommy Hill Figure might have been
Tommy Hill Figure justin. I don'tknow if you heard him, but that
motherfucker eats there every day. Probablythey knew his fucking order, so he
clearly had been around the block.Anyways, we're talking to the waiter,
(18:33):
we're trying to figure out what we'regoing to eat, and out of nowhere,
this motherfucker says, did you knowthat more people go missing in front
of this restaurant every year than anyother space on this fucking road, street,
boulevard, whatever you want to callit. And I said what?
(18:56):
And it was the most out ofpocket out of nowhere, said chance that
anybody had said to me, probablyall day, but it's something that sat
with me. And then he continuedby saying, like, you know,
we're always full, and it's justsomething that people have noticed, is that
more people go missing in front ofthis restaurant, in this little space,
(19:18):
which is pretty wide open, Ithink, considering the nooks and crannies that
we'd been to throughout our time onEarth. But more people go missing there
than any other place on that entireroad in each year. So it's something
like twenty seven people go missing eachyear. So I did some research because
(19:40):
it was just such a wild factI couldn't let it go. And in
my research, I pinpointed each ofthose people that went missing, and then
I looked to see if it correlatedwith anything. And it looks like,
and this is just me speculating,every time somebody was missing right in front
(20:02):
of this restaurant, they have likeeither a really good business day or like
something major happens there, like acelebrity shows up or whatever. So I
don't really know what the tea isabout the restaurant, but I do have
like a little theory that either we'reworshiping some type of demon, and that's
why the food is so busting andwhy they're always busy, because a bitch
(20:25):
will wait in line. A bitchhas waited in line to get inside mum
or there's people in the food.Well you know what, a bitch tastes
good bands FA fantastic, You tasteamazing. But oh, I absolutely think
(20:45):
it's a demon because I don't knowif you remember when we parked in the
back because yeah, free parking,and we needed something to be free at
that point, but we parked inthe back, and so when we were
fucking in the back, there wereall these people in these like trucks and
fucking busses and stuff, and thepolice were there and we were like,
(21:06):
it's something wild happening here, likeit's somebody famous here or something. But
we couldn't find like a reason ora rationale based on what we saw.
So there's like a scenic overview.If you go like all the way to
the back of the parking lot,there's like this scenic overview, and this
bitch fucking rolls up. Do youremember was it a blue It was it
(21:26):
was like a blue or blue green, really expensive as suv. Yes,
And so it was a very wildcolor. But it was just like as
soon as she got out of hercar, there was like all the security
honor, which I mean, obviouslyit could have been somebody famous, but
it's just such a weird occurrence.It just seemed like, no, Bro,
the conversation we just fucking had withthe waiter coupled with the fact that
(21:51):
there's all these police around but thereappears to be nothing going on. There's
literally nothing happened in this parking lot. We walk over to the scenic overview
and all of a sudden, allof these people are following this woman to
try to rush her into a location. I think she's eating all these people
that are going missing. She isthe demon they are worshiping, and it
is fucking but you know what theirbusiness. She slayed the house down boots,
(22:15):
no for rell. She did becausethe food is fucking busting, bust.
It's busting busting. So we didn'talmost die in that instance. It
was only those first two instances becauselisten, oh we are we are too
um seasoned for them to use us. Oh we're it's all flavor, all
(22:37):
this fat, all this flavor.We're too a hefty um. I don't
know if you guys know, butdeadweight is very heavy. Yep, And
I don't know. None of youhave seen me recently. Um, but
I'm still claiming pandemic weight. I'mstill claiming baby pandemic weight. So it's
(22:59):
not going to be easy for anybodyto put us in the soup. Nope,
but boil us down to make somebutter. I know, some butter.
Some lord, Oh my gosh,Yes, I am lard shot manually
from shaw Tanning. Yeah, didwe als die any other places? I
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don't think we did, almost diedanywhere else. I mean, we had
a pretty good time. It's notthis true. Yeah, you know,
once we started minding our own goddamnbusiness. Um, the trip went pretty
good exactly. We hung out bythe pool. I read a book.
You guys don't know how many peoplereading that fucking book was to me,
(23:45):
because I've been trying to read thatmotherfucker for a year. She only dropped
in the water once, and itonly fell apart once I fixed it.
I bought some binder clips on myway home, Thank you very much.
She's finished and found together for lifetill I read her again. Maybe I
don't know, but we didn't die. Of course at any bookstores might have
(24:10):
died. Their toilets might have diedto the last bookstores toilet r ip baby,
Sorry, but listen, you knowhow it is when you go into
a bookstore, you automatically have totake a ship immediately. That's the true
horror. That is the true horror. Horror is having to take a ship
(24:33):
the second you walk into a bookstorethe second. But I think that um,
obviously we should um before we endthis out, just put a disclaimer
that um any um any similarity,any similarities to people, places, thing,
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real or imaginary, our figments ofour imaginations and our purely coincidence.
Obviously, there's no one named AmeliaGeordana, there's no Danna suite at the
Hotel Roosevelt. So but the restaurantand ways those are Those are real.
Those are real. Those are real. Nobody can prove otherwise that there's a
(25:22):
lot of demon running that restaurant exactly, because why is the food, why
is the food so good? Ifthere's not a period demon running that restaurant
and good across almost a decade.It had been almost a decade since the
last time we were there, andwe're still like Oh my god, I
can't wait to eat again. We'restill fucking thinking about it, yep,
and we will continue to do soas well, likely our offspring and family
(25:51):
descent. Actually I did take myoffspring there, Oh you did, Yeah,
when we went on vacation. Ilove that. I need to have
enough money to take my it onbagage. Fuck I immediately, Yeah,
that was we went to um itwas the night before we went to Disney
with Disneyland. M M. Thatso. See literally every time in La
(26:15):
I'm gonna eat there, whether it'sdemon or not, we don't even know.
Don't give a fuck. Special thanksto ways to a restaurant that may
not that shall not be named.Nope, to our imagination owns to the
Roosevelt Hotel or Hotel Roosevelt. Idon't care. We shout out who it
(26:37):
truly is haunted, but just notby the Jordannas, and shout out to
us, and shout out to mefor not peeing my pants this whole time.
Please don't piss on yourself. Iwould appreciate that. This leather chair
I'm sitting in would appreciate it too, Yes, that too, And drink
your water. Remember that you're thatbitch. She'll forever be that bitch and
(27:03):
stay safe and stay healthy until nexttime. Used to gps s, don't
just follow aways, She'll send youoff a cliff, Yes you will.
And guess what in Apple Maps showsyou stop signs? If that shows you,
shop Shrene, stop signs, shopShren, shut up, good night,
good night,
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