August 5, 2025 • 19 mins
Ghost Stories about the Haunted Marlborough Hotel - Episode 213
We've ALL heard the stories of the notoriously haunted Malborough Hotel located downtown Winnipeg. Heck, we've even done an episode or 2 on the antics of the afterlife there ....so many stories.
On today's episode, we interview Jason, a former employee at the Marlborough Hotel, who pulled me aside (Jas) after last week's 'Spirits with Spirits' at the King's Head Pub.
His spooky stories do not disappoint!
In fact he told some ghost stories, that we had not heard of before, as he had some first hand accounts....teaser .....listen for 'The Blue Lady'.
Enjoy this week's new episode!
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If you have a local paranormal story of Winnipeg or in Manitoba, please email us at giivinguptheghostpodcast.@gmail.com - or if you just want to say 'Hi'!!!
We've ALL heard the stories of the notoriously haunted Malborough Hotel located downtown Winnipeg. Heck, we've even done an episode or 2 on the antics of the afterlife there ....so many stories.
On today's episode, we interview Jason, a former employee at the Marlborough Hotel, who pulled me aside (Jas) after last week's 'Spirits with Spirits' at the King's Head Pub.
His spooky stories do not disappoint!
In fact he told some ghost stories, that we had not heard of before, as he had some first hand accounts....teaser .....listen for 'The Blue Lady'.
Enjoy this week's new episode!
Music by Ruesche-Sounds https://www.youtube.com/channel/USqXO
Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tiktok & Redditt
If you have a local paranormal story of Winnipeg or in Manitoba, please email us at giivinguptheghostpodcast.@gmail.com - or if you just want to say 'Hi'!!!
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Speaker 1 (00:40):
Hi, this is Jazz and it is Giving Up the
Ghost Podcast. Thanks for coming back. So this week I've
been very, very busy. Last week was an amazing week.
Thank you to all you creepy, cool, beautiful people that
came to our Spirits with Spirits co hosted by us
slash Me and the lovely ladies from the Winnipeg Paranormal
(01:02):
Group Kelly and Ashley. We had a special guest, we
had Matthew Kumas. Thank you to Matthew for coming out
and sharing some of his perspective on the haunts locally
here in Winnipeg as well. We then opened up the
mic for our Spirits with Spirits Liquid Courage, a segment
where you come down to the mic and tell your
own personal paranormal stories. Thank you so much for everybody
(01:24):
who opened their hearts and scared us with their personal tales.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
That was awesome.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
It's always awesome, Like my God, a lot of stuff
to take in, you know, when people have to deal
with this kind of shit. So we're glad to be
there for you. We're glad to hear the stories and
if you ever want to share, please certainly email us
at giving Up the Ghost Podcast at gmail dot com
in saying that I also want to thank our sponsor
for last week and also for next month. We did
(01:51):
get some beautiful glassware from the Dead Horse Cider Company
and to Marcus and it's crew, thank you so much
for being our sponsor with some shwags some prizes. Hopefully
we can get more sponsors on board for lovely prizes
for all you beautiful spooky people. And also thank you
again to the King's Head Pub. They're amazing for having
(02:13):
us have this little venue. I think we had around
seventy people this time, so not bad, not bad at all.
Next turnaround it's going to be August twenty seventh. Not
sure what the theme or the guest is at this point,
stay tuned for that. And also we were honored to
be Canada's best paranormal podcast by feedspot dot com. That's
pretty crazy, hey, so we don't take that lightly. Thank
(02:36):
you so so much. We are hoping to get some
more new material out for you. I haven't edited last
week's episode yet, however. Jason, who is actually the partner
of Aaron from Anya's Oddities, came up to the mic
at the end of the segment before we're packing up
and he shared his spooky adventures as being a front
(02:57):
desk auditor with the more Hotel. Now we've covered the
Marble before, there is a lot of creepy shit going on.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
There are a.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Lot of history like hotels and hospitals. Man, I tell you, like,
you know, just because there's just so many different people
coming and going, like, yeah, stuff's gonna happen. So Jason
tells some of his personal stories of things that has
happened to him and things that he has heard of
while he worked there for his time at the Marlborough Hotel.
So that's tonight's episode. It's a shorty, but it's a goodie.
(03:27):
And also keep eyes open. We will be appearing at
Fort Lorraine for the s'mores and ghost story segment coming
up at the end of August. I think it's like
Labor Day weekend, August Saturday, August thirtieth, Does that sound right.
So I'll be back from holidays and we'll be out
there interacting, schmoozing with schmores and ghost stories and all
(03:49):
that good stuff. So anyway, so here's tonight's episode. Thanks
again everybody for your support. Love you all. We love
people that share the ghost Love you know how that goes,
and as always remember or to live every day like
it is your last, but never give up the ghost
show for now.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Nice to meet you, Jazz, Thank you. Sure you can see.
Oh yeah, I don't mess when it comes mess around
it comes to My brother's a musician too, So yeah,
I think my brother's band actually recently played up here,
(04:29):
not too long ago. Men and kilts. I used to
work front desk at the Marlborough back in two thousand
and eight, so I used to do the audit shift
there and okay, so okay. So the place is very haunted,
(04:53):
incredibly haunted, the Fashion Moll side more so than the
newer side that was built in the nineteenth sixties. The
old side of the hotel was completed back in nineteen eighteen.
The original hotel was built in nineteen fifteen, was completed
in nineteen fifteen and basically they ended up using it
(05:16):
as barracks during the First World War for soldiers. Then
they expanded it to the ad the additional eight the
additional floors to bring it up to eight floors. But
there's a lot of history in that place. So my
experiences were with the woman in Blue in Churchill's on
(05:37):
the main floor. You never heard of the woman in blue?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
All right?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Yeah, yeah, I heard that music too. So the woman
in blue is this specter. I don't know other how
else to put her. But she appears once or twice
a month. Yeah, and so's she's fairly frequent. She only
(06:09):
appears late at night, so usually around three four o'clock
in the morning. And if you're working at the front
desk and she shows up, the room glows blue just
for a few seconds, and then you'll see her go
from one end of the room through and disappear into
(06:31):
one of the walls. And the first time I saw that,
I almost ran out of the building. I was told
later on by my manager that there are permanent guests
in the hotel. That's the word, the exact words he used.
And we have permanent guests, yeah, and we're not to
(06:51):
talk about the permanent guests to the regular guests because
we don't want to freak them out and it's bad
for business.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Yeah, no hotel for a time.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah, So that was my first encounter with anything weird there.
Then I also experienced the piano music from up on
seven that is the direct result of a woman who
had been renting. She was a very wealthy woman and
she loved her. She had a grand piano up there
on the up on the seventh floor. She used to
(07:25):
rent that. It was her apartment. It was like a
private condo up there, and so she was up there
until about ninety seven when she finally passed away. And
there's no more grand piano up there, but you can
still hear the music occasionally when you stick your head
(07:47):
in the stairwell, and then when you go up there.
It gets louder as you go up the stairwell, but
then when you actually get up there and open the door,
it stops and there's nothing there. I had had encounters
with a spirit up on the second floor of the
Old Fashioned Mall, not a direct encounter, but I was
(08:12):
working the night shift and I got a call from
a transit bus driver who had been taking a break
in the alley beside the Marlborough and he said that
he saw a little girl staring at him from one
of the rooms up on the second floor of the
Old Fashion Mall side. And I'm thinking that's impossible, because
(08:34):
that side hasn't been occupied or used in years. The
only time that anybody ever stayed up there was when
the gold Eyes were in town and they would rent
that side. Maybe, yeah, And so he called in to
us at the front desk, and of course, you know,
being concerned, I sent my security officer up there. He
(08:58):
got up there, opened the door. He said, there was
nobody in the room. There's no furniture in the room,
there was no phone in the room, there was nothing
in the room. And I'm like, oh, okay, cool. A
few months later, I started getting phone calls from rooms
(09:18):
on the fashion Mall side that weren't occupying. That freaked
me out. Every time I'd send my guard up there
to go check it out. Dead air or you'd hear
what sounded like the best way I can describe it
as static but pitch static, if that makes any sense.
(09:45):
It was, it was so so it had a pitch
to it. And then so again I'd send my guard
up to go investigate, and he'd come down and he'd
be like, there's not even a phone in there. So
we got things like that, I can remember. And then
(10:10):
a few years later I stopped working secure. I stopped
working in the front desk, and I had worked a
couple other jobs, and then I got into security and
one of my security gigs happened to be at the Marlborough,
So now I had Yeah, so now i I'm back
in the Marlborough and I have unrestricted access to every
(10:31):
single corner of that hotel. There are multiple cold spots
throughout the building if you go up to the fourth
floor on the new side of the building. The fourth
floor had a very violent history in that hotel. Yeah,
(10:57):
that moon of Sumph yep. Yeah, so it's there, but
it's not there.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Yeah, kind of like when.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
They removed the thirteenth floor. It's like, you know, that's
fourteen fourteen, the thirteenth it's like the same.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Idea, right now, it's a superstition amongst architectures, right, yeah.
So but uh so, Yeah. We actually had a group
of college students who were in town for I think
it was a basketball game, okay, and we had them
all up on the fourth floor because that was the
floor with rooms with suits and so they were all
(11:34):
staying there, and about two thirty in the morning, one
of the rooms calls us frantic, frantic, absolutely frantic.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
They said that there was a man standing at the
foot of their bed staring at them. And when they screamed,
he disappeared into thin air.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Oh my god, these are like, you know, seventeen eighteen,
nineteen year olds, And so they were very freaked out
and they came downstairs.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
They actually refused to stay in the room any longer.
Had a similar incident with a rabbi who was in
town performing a wedding up on the eighth floor in
the Skyview Ballroom, and it is it is, but he
was staying on the fifth and he came down at
(12:28):
about two o'clock in the morning and refused to go
back up to his room and said, this place is,
this place is haunted, and I don't want any part
of it. Get me out of here, give me a refund.
Get Yeah, apparently there was. He had gone up to
(12:48):
his room and all of a sudden, the faucets all
came on by themselves, the TV turned itself on by itself,
the lights started flickering, and at first he was just like, okay, whatever,
bring it on. But then at around two o'clock in
the morning, things started flying. Oh and his luggage was
(13:09):
thrown off of the shelf, his coat was thrown out
of the closet, the alarm clock was thrown off of
the bookshelf or off the nightstand, and so that that
shook him up and let him know that, Okay, I
shouldn't be here, so he left. We used to get
cold spots. I would go and do patrols upstairs in
the top floor and they used to be the old
(13:30):
carpenter's closet on the on the top floor that leads
out onto the roof.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
There was some one of the floors I can't remember,
used to have the printing presses from the Winnipie Press
and used to like after they moved out, and some
of the machinery was that mon they left at the
Hound because they.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Could just I was in the basement, was in the
basement next to the print they.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Could machinery went like something was still printed a.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Necessary yeah occasionally. Oh. The other one was the press gallery,
the Winnipeg Free Press press gallery that used to be
in the basement. That was like an old like an
exclusive members only bar kind of area, very very posh
down there. Occasionally you'd go down there and there'd be
nobody there, but you'd hear the sounds of people having
a good time. You could hear people yelling and talking
(14:20):
and drinking and yeah. Yeah, so sometimes late at night
if you had to go down there for whatever reason,
like when I would go, I'd go down as part
of my patrols, and occasionally I could hear what sounded
like people having a good time, and then as soon
as I opened the door, it's quiet.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
That's the one that scared me the most, So the
one that legit me legitly, I didn't like going there.
I didn't like going to that section of the hotel
was the carpenter's closet up on the top floor. I
did not like going up there. Apparently the carpenter was
a mean son of a bitch and he had I
(15:00):
guess he had been in an abusive relationship. He was
abusing his wife and kids, and his wife left him
and took the kids and he went upstairs and I guess,
being all distraught, got really drunk and hung himself up there.
Oh shit, and he's still there. Oh yeah, he's never left,
and he's angry, and he doesn't like it when anybody
(15:21):
goes up there. He has a tendency to make the
room very cold. It could be middle of summer, went
like forty degrees out, and you'll walk up there and
you feel like you're in an ice box.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Yeah, I heard it.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
I went on one of my first ghost tours that
I went on late nine, early two thousands. They had
said at the Marlborough that I guess they had done a.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Big renovation in the game.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
He's like totally squashed everything up yep.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
And they had brought a sidekick in because there was
things because renovations tend to make him go funny, right,
they don't like jus. What they were saying was with
the psychic, they rot the psychic in and she kind
of could interpret, like she would embody the spirit or whatever.
And she went through the kitchen and she goes to
(16:14):
the kitchen and she turns and she what you saying?
When the tikes to they embody.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
The spirits, so you know, possess yeah, like you know.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
And then she said she goes, in this Russian accent
or a thick act, goes, where's my sup plot, where's
my soup pot? So apparently I guess for twenty years
there was one cook in the kitchen and all she
was responsible was for making the soup and that was
where her pot was, and nobody knew like they were
like all regivations were done and we don't know, so
(16:43):
they went back into the body that's where as she
pot was, you know, so so really some cool.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Stuff, Yeah you think that. Yeah, there's a very violent
history in that hotel. There were gangsters, there were the
multiple murders the body, multiple murders over the years, name of.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
The Lobster founidly. But when they ran it from like
the thirties to the sixties.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Apparently, yeah, yeah, and that's when at least three major
murders went down in there. One of them was a
young woman up on the fourth She had been found
out to be cheating on her husband, I guess, or
having an affair on him, and he gunder her down
in the hallway. Another one was a guy who hung
(17:30):
himself on the fourth floor, right by the elevators. Actually
as bad as well. Fourth, fifth, seventh are the three
most haunted hotel. Three more most haunted floors in that hotel.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
How do people work there?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Like how you get used to them? They don't like
after a while, like they're they're not really there to
hurt you, They're just there. They just want to be known,
They just want to be respected. And from what I
can tell they're just it. It's like a it's like
(18:08):
an image stuck in time, like a loop. Yeah, it's
like residual energy that's stuck in time. Yeah. And from
what I understand, especially in the case of the murder
of the young woman up on four, that murder, if
you've ever seen the movie High Spirits, okay, it plays
(18:29):
out just like that, where it's, you know, every night
on the anniversary of her death, you know, she just
shows up and she dies and then she falls to
the ground and then that's it. And it happens on
the anniversary of her death every single year.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
So yeah, well, thanks for sharing Jason, like this, sister's awesome.
I'm glad I got that from him.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I've got one more interesting ghost story from Nova Scotia
if you're interested.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Well you know what, we'll say that for another.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Okay, I still suffers, alright, fair enough, alright, bankwise, have
I think so? Yeah, Jazz right, yes, alright, awesome, Well.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
We'll see you again. I do want to do the
fairly in October. I just got figure out my schedules.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Okay, awesome, thanks Jason.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I watch your seventh
Hi, this is Jazz and it is Giving Up the
Ghost Podcast. Thanks for coming back. So this week I've
been very, very busy. Last week was an amazing week.
Thank you to all you creepy, cool, beautiful people that
came to our Spirits with Spirits co hosted by us
slash Me and the lovely ladies from the Winnipeg Paranormal
(01:02):
Group Kelly and Ashley. We had a special guest, we
had Matthew Kumas. Thank you to Matthew for coming out
and sharing some of his perspective on the haunts locally
here in Winnipeg as well. We then opened up the
mic for our Spirits with Spirits Liquid Courage, a segment
where you come down to the mic and tell your
own personal paranormal stories. Thank you so much for everybody
(01:24):
who opened their hearts and scared us with their personal tales.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
That was awesome.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
It's always awesome, Like my God, a lot of stuff
to take in, you know, when people have to deal
with this kind of shit. So we're glad to be
there for you. We're glad to hear the stories and
if you ever want to share, please certainly email us
at giving Up the Ghost Podcast at gmail dot com
in saying that I also want to thank our sponsor
for last week and also for next month. We did
(01:51):
get some beautiful glassware from the Dead Horse Cider Company
and to Marcus and it's crew, thank you so much
for being our sponsor with some shwags some prizes. Hopefully
we can get more sponsors on board for lovely prizes
for all you beautiful spooky people. And also thank you
again to the King's Head Pub. They're amazing for having
(02:13):
us have this little venue. I think we had around
seventy people this time, so not bad, not bad at all.
Next turnaround it's going to be August twenty seventh. Not
sure what the theme or the guest is at this point,
stay tuned for that. And also we were honored to
be Canada's best paranormal podcast by feedspot dot com. That's
pretty crazy, hey, so we don't take that lightly. Thank
(02:36):
you so so much. We are hoping to get some
more new material out for you. I haven't edited last
week's episode yet, however. Jason, who is actually the partner
of Aaron from Anya's Oddities, came up to the mic
at the end of the segment before we're packing up
and he shared his spooky adventures as being a front
(02:57):
desk auditor with the more Hotel. Now we've covered the
Marble before, there is a lot of creepy shit going on.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
There are a.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Lot of history like hotels and hospitals. Man, I tell you, like,
you know, just because there's just so many different people
coming and going, like, yeah, stuff's gonna happen. So Jason
tells some of his personal stories of things that has
happened to him and things that he has heard of
while he worked there for his time at the Marlborough Hotel.
So that's tonight's episode. It's a shorty, but it's a goodie.
(03:27):
And also keep eyes open. We will be appearing at
Fort Lorraine for the s'mores and ghost story segment coming
up at the end of August. I think it's like
Labor Day weekend, August Saturday, August thirtieth, Does that sound right.
So I'll be back from holidays and we'll be out
there interacting, schmoozing with schmores and ghost stories and all
(03:49):
that good stuff. So anyway, so here's tonight's episode. Thanks
again everybody for your support. Love you all. We love
people that share the ghost Love you know how that goes,
and as always remember or to live every day like
it is your last, but never give up the ghost
show for now.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Nice to meet you, Jazz, Thank you. Sure you can see.
Oh yeah, I don't mess when it comes mess around
it comes to My brother's a musician too, So yeah,
I think my brother's band actually recently played up here,
(04:29):
not too long ago. Men and kilts. I used to
work front desk at the Marlborough back in two thousand
and eight, so I used to do the audit shift
there and okay, so okay. So the place is very haunted,
(04:53):
incredibly haunted, the Fashion Moll side more so than the
newer side that was built in the nineteenth sixties. The
old side of the hotel was completed back in nineteen eighteen.
The original hotel was built in nineteen fifteen, was completed
in nineteen fifteen and basically they ended up using it
(05:16):
as barracks during the First World War for soldiers. Then
they expanded it to the ad the additional eight the
additional floors to bring it up to eight floors. But
there's a lot of history in that place. So my
experiences were with the woman in Blue in Churchill's on
(05:37):
the main floor. You never heard of the woman in blue?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
All right?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Yeah, yeah, I heard that music too. So the woman
in blue is this specter. I don't know other how
else to put her. But she appears once or twice
a month. Yeah, and so's she's fairly frequent. She only
(06:09):
appears late at night, so usually around three four o'clock
in the morning. And if you're working at the front
desk and she shows up, the room glows blue just
for a few seconds, and then you'll see her go
from one end of the room through and disappear into
(06:31):
one of the walls. And the first time I saw that,
I almost ran out of the building. I was told
later on by my manager that there are permanent guests
in the hotel. That's the word, the exact words he used.
And we have permanent guests, yeah, and we're not to
(06:51):
talk about the permanent guests to the regular guests because
we don't want to freak them out and it's bad
for business.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Yeah, no hotel for a time.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah, So that was my first encounter with anything weird there.
Then I also experienced the piano music from up on
seven that is the direct result of a woman who
had been renting. She was a very wealthy woman and
she loved her. She had a grand piano up there
on the up on the seventh floor. She used to
(07:25):
rent that. It was her apartment. It was like a
private condo up there, and so she was up there
until about ninety seven when she finally passed away. And
there's no more grand piano up there, but you can
still hear the music occasionally when you stick your head
(07:47):
in the stairwell, and then when you go up there.
It gets louder as you go up the stairwell, but
then when you actually get up there and open the door,
it stops and there's nothing there. I had had encounters
with a spirit up on the second floor of the
Old Fashioned Mall, not a direct encounter, but I was
(08:12):
working the night shift and I got a call from
a transit bus driver who had been taking a break
in the alley beside the Marlborough and he said that
he saw a little girl staring at him from one
of the rooms up on the second floor of the
Old Fashion Mall side. And I'm thinking that's impossible, because
(08:34):
that side hasn't been occupied or used in years. The
only time that anybody ever stayed up there was when
the gold Eyes were in town and they would rent
that side. Maybe, yeah, And so he called in to
us at the front desk, and of course, you know,
being concerned, I sent my security officer up there. He
(08:58):
got up there, opened the door. He said, there was
nobody in the room. There's no furniture in the room,
there was no phone in the room, there was nothing
in the room. And I'm like, oh, okay, cool. A
few months later, I started getting phone calls from rooms
(09:18):
on the fashion Mall side that weren't occupying. That freaked
me out. Every time I'd send my guard up there
to go check it out. Dead air or you'd hear
what sounded like the best way I can describe it
as static but pitch static, if that makes any sense.
(09:45):
It was, it was so so it had a pitch
to it. And then so again I'd send my guard
up to go investigate, and he'd come down and he'd
be like, there's not even a phone in there. So
we got things like that, I can remember. And then
(10:10):
a few years later I stopped working secure. I stopped
working in the front desk, and I had worked a
couple other jobs, and then I got into security and
one of my security gigs happened to be at the Marlborough,
So now I had Yeah, so now i I'm back
in the Marlborough and I have unrestricted access to every
(10:31):
single corner of that hotel. There are multiple cold spots
throughout the building if you go up to the fourth
floor on the new side of the building. The fourth
floor had a very violent history in that hotel. Yeah,
(10:57):
that moon of Sumph yep. Yeah, so it's there, but
it's not there.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Yeah, kind of like when.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
They removed the thirteenth floor. It's like, you know, that's
fourteen fourteen, the thirteenth it's like the same.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Idea, right now, it's a superstition amongst architectures, right, yeah.
So but uh so, Yeah. We actually had a group
of college students who were in town for I think
it was a basketball game, okay, and we had them
all up on the fourth floor because that was the
floor with rooms with suits and so they were all
(11:34):
staying there, and about two thirty in the morning, one
of the rooms calls us frantic, frantic, absolutely frantic.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
They said that there was a man standing at the
foot of their bed staring at them. And when they screamed,
he disappeared into thin air.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Oh my god, these are like, you know, seventeen eighteen,
nineteen year olds, And so they were very freaked out
and they came downstairs.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
They actually refused to stay in the room any longer.
Had a similar incident with a rabbi who was in
town performing a wedding up on the eighth floor in
the Skyview Ballroom, and it is it is, but he
was staying on the fifth and he came down at
(12:28):
about two o'clock in the morning and refused to go
back up to his room and said, this place is,
this place is haunted, and I don't want any part
of it. Get me out of here, give me a refund.
Get Yeah, apparently there was. He had gone up to
(12:48):
his room and all of a sudden, the faucets all
came on by themselves, the TV turned itself on by itself,
the lights started flickering, and at first he was just like, okay, whatever,
bring it on. But then at around two o'clock in
the morning, things started flying. Oh and his luggage was
(13:09):
thrown off of the shelf, his coat was thrown out
of the closet, the alarm clock was thrown off of
the bookshelf or off the nightstand, and so that that
shook him up and let him know that, Okay, I
shouldn't be here, so he left. We used to get
cold spots. I would go and do patrols upstairs in
the top floor and they used to be the old
(13:30):
carpenter's closet on the on the top floor that leads
out onto the roof.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
There was some one of the floors I can't remember,
used to have the printing presses from the Winnipie Press
and used to like after they moved out, and some
of the machinery was that mon they left at the
Hound because they.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Could just I was in the basement, was in the
basement next to the print they.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Could machinery went like something was still printed a.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Necessary yeah occasionally. Oh. The other one was the press gallery,
the Winnipeg Free Press press gallery that used to be
in the basement. That was like an old like an
exclusive members only bar kind of area, very very posh
down there. Occasionally you'd go down there and there'd be
nobody there, but you'd hear the sounds of people having
a good time. You could hear people yelling and talking
(14:20):
and drinking and yeah. Yeah, so sometimes late at night
if you had to go down there for whatever reason,
like when I would go, I'd go down as part
of my patrols, and occasionally I could hear what sounded
like people having a good time, and then as soon
as I opened the door, it's quiet.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
That's the one that scared me the most, So the
one that legit me legitly, I didn't like going there.
I didn't like going to that section of the hotel
was the carpenter's closet up on the top floor. I
did not like going up there. Apparently the carpenter was
a mean son of a bitch and he had I
(15:00):
guess he had been in an abusive relationship. He was
abusing his wife and kids, and his wife left him
and took the kids and he went upstairs and I guess,
being all distraught, got really drunk and hung himself up there.
Oh shit, and he's still there. Oh yeah, he's never left,
and he's angry, and he doesn't like it when anybody
(15:21):
goes up there. He has a tendency to make the
room very cold. It could be middle of summer, went
like forty degrees out, and you'll walk up there and
you feel like you're in an ice box.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Yeah, I heard it.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
I went on one of my first ghost tours that
I went on late nine, early two thousands. They had
said at the Marlborough that I guess they had done a.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Big renovation in the game.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
He's like totally squashed everything up yep.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
And they had brought a sidekick in because there was
things because renovations tend to make him go funny, right,
they don't like jus. What they were saying was with
the psychic, they rot the psychic in and she kind
of could interpret, like she would embody the spirit or whatever.
And she went through the kitchen and she goes to
(16:14):
the kitchen and she turns and she what you saying?
When the tikes to they embody.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
The spirits, so you know, possess yeah, like you know.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
And then she said she goes, in this Russian accent
or a thick act, goes, where's my sup plot, where's
my soup pot? So apparently I guess for twenty years
there was one cook in the kitchen and all she
was responsible was for making the soup and that was
where her pot was, and nobody knew like they were
like all regivations were done and we don't know, so
(16:43):
they went back into the body that's where as she
pot was, you know, so so really some cool.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Stuff, Yeah you think that. Yeah, there's a very violent
history in that hotel. There were gangsters, there were the
multiple murders the body, multiple murders over the years, name of.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
The Lobster founidly. But when they ran it from like
the thirties to the sixties.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Apparently, yeah, yeah, and that's when at least three major
murders went down in there. One of them was a
young woman up on the fourth She had been found
out to be cheating on her husband, I guess, or
having an affair on him, and he gunder her down
in the hallway. Another one was a guy who hung
(17:30):
himself on the fourth floor, right by the elevators. Actually
as bad as well. Fourth, fifth, seventh are the three
most haunted hotel. Three more most haunted floors in that hotel.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
How do people work there?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Like how you get used to them? They don't like
after a while, like they're they're not really there to
hurt you, They're just there. They just want to be known,
They just want to be respected. And from what I
can tell they're just it. It's like a it's like
(18:08):
an image stuck in time, like a loop. Yeah, it's
like residual energy that's stuck in time. Yeah. And from
what I understand, especially in the case of the murder
of the young woman up on four, that murder, if
you've ever seen the movie High Spirits, okay, it plays
(18:29):
out just like that, where it's, you know, every night
on the anniversary of her death, you know, she just
shows up and she dies and then she falls to
the ground and then that's it. And it happens on
the anniversary of her death every single year.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
So yeah, well, thanks for sharing Jason, like this, sister's awesome.
I'm glad I got that from him.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I've got one more interesting ghost story from Nova Scotia
if you're interested.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Well you know what, we'll say that for another.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Okay, I still suffers, alright, fair enough, alright, bankwise, have
I think so? Yeah, Jazz right, yes, alright, awesome, Well.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
We'll see you again. I do want to do the
fairly in October. I just got figure out my schedules.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Okay, awesome, thanks Jason.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I watch your seventh
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