S3E4 Tonya Webb

On this episode we chat with the co-owner of the Old Hospital College Hill Tonya Webb!!

Episode Transcript

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Welcome everyone the Life Beyond six Feet. We are your host, Damian Christie
from r KB Paranormal Kelly Shaper fromK two Paranormal Research. Kelly, welcome
back. What I came back,And I'm glad and I'm glad you have
power in order to come back.So yes, yes, yes, So
I know that's been a crazy fewdays for you. So five days.

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Oh goodness. I can tell youthough that Samsung refrigerators, the brand new
ones. We'll keep your stuff frozenfor like four Oh nice, that's very
cool. I didn't start losing stuffuntil day five. Nice. So so
this week, So this week we'recontinuing the trend of having owners of haunted

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locations on and this week I'm veryexcited to have on the co owner of
the old hospital on College deal andWilliamson, West Virginia, Miss Tanya Webb.
Tanya, welcome to Life Beyond sixFeet. Thank you guys for having
me. It's a pleasure excited tobe here. Really, we absolutely are

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glad you're able to come on.I'm glad you were able to bump your
original date up. We had her. We didn't have Tania schedule for another
few weeks and I had a cancelationthis week, so I reached out to
see if she was available and itall worked out. So hopefully you've been
doing and hopefully your power stays on. As you said, you've been dealing
with some storms too, so hopefullywe can get through this thing before anybody

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loses electricity. Yeah, so's gonnasay. If you see lights flickering on
and off, you know, justgo with it. Ye. Yeah,
I had a disco ball into myhouse. It's never fun. So like
like like we always do, likewe always do, We're just gonna dive

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red into this thing. So,Tanya, have you always been into the
paranormal? Well, you know,I get asked that a lot, and
I'm gonna have to be on itand say, and I know this probably
won't make a lot of sense.Yes and no. I've always been,
ever since I was a little girlkind of attracted to spooky and horror things.

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I mean, my favorite things werehorror movies and and all of that
growing up. But if if Iwere to say strictly paranormal, I'd probably
have to say no. Um.I think I was always fascinated with it,
I just didn't really fully understand it. Um. And I was kind
of drawn to it, but Ijust really didn't know, you know,

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that my I needed to be educatedon it more than what I was.
So it's kind of a tricky questionbecause I feel like I was always drawn
to it. It just I stuckmore with the horror side of it and
the spooky side of it, ifthat makes any sense at all. But
now that I've got this hospital,um, is kind of turned me more
into that field than you know,the horror field. So right, but

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right, Well, speaking of horror, you know, I'm a big horror
fan. I've got quite a fewhorror tattoos. So, like, what
was your favorite horror movies growing up? Um? You know, the first
recollection that I have it was probablywhen I was around five years old,
and it was the original Halloween.I'm a huge Halloween fan. Um.
I love all the franchises. Halloween, Wanted Two are probably my favorites.

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Um. But I can remember beinga young kid and going trick or treating
and then my parents, you know, it would be on pretty much back
then, it was on TV ona lot of stations, and I would
dump my candy out of my bucketand just sit there and watch Michael people,
right, you know, my sistersscreaming in the other room, and
I'm just sitting there, going,who this is awesome, you know.

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And I'm only five years old,but I grew up in the you know,
the Michael Myers and the Jason Borheesand Freddy Krueger. Um. But
I also love the classics as well. I love franken Stein, I love
The Mummy. I just always lovedthat top of it. And I don't
know, you know, my parentsthink I'm a little weird, or they

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did anyway, So I don't knowwhat led me for that, but I
just always thought they were so fascinatingand I and I just and I still
think this today. I think thatthe horror movies back in those days were
so much better, um than whatthey are today. There are some good,
yeah, but there are some reallygood ones, but it just doesn't

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have that same feeling as the onesfrom the eighties, and they really don't,
you know, It's almost like Hollywoodjust recycles everything now. So I
could watch I could watch the originalTracula I think, you know, like
a hundred times and never get tiredof that. So, um, I
just I was always kind of attractedto that, and I know that's kind

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of a weird thing to say,but so you know that kind of field
and just hunted houses in general andspooky stories in general and never scared me.
I was just always kind of drawnto him. So it's kind of
strange. Um, if you wouldhave told me twenty years ago I was
going to own a creepy hospital,I probably would have laughed at you.
Thought it was crazy. But youknow, it kind of my theme.

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So I'm a happy camper now.So it's okay, that's awesome. I
think I ran into you. Didyou go to the West Virginia Pericon?
I did, Yeah, I raninto you up there. Yeah that's where.
Yeah, I remember hearing about thehospital and the running into you up
there. Yeah. I was gonnaswing by and I was just way too
tired to drive out there. Ohit's okay, Yeah, that was a

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Yeah. We went last year.We went this year as well. Good
good. I think they're doing thisyear or anything. I think so as
far as I'm yeah, at theBlack Blatin. What's the name of the
hotel, Leonard Hasset maybe there's yep, Yeah, that's the one. Yep.
We're gonna try. I'm not onehundred percent sure we can make it.

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We only, um, Charlie andI only. We don't have a
lot of help running the hospital,so we try to select so many a
year. But UM, I'm notsure we can make it, but we're
gonna try. But we try todo at least three or four cons a
year. We're getting ready to hearthis week to the Gettysburg one. I've
always Oh, there's so many peoplegoing to that one. I've never been,

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so this is my first time.So we're going as vendors, but
you know, to help advertise forthe hospital. But I'm just excited myself
to see the area because so muchhistory and so much Yeah, I'm really
excited about that. But we tryto do about three or four cons a
year, especially if they're in ourhome state. We really try to promote
in our home state. So,so we got the Tennessee Haunts coming up

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in October. Yeah, October,Yeah, like mid October. We still
hadn't committed to it yet, butyou know, we we we still got
some time. Yeah, not thatfar off actually. Yeah, So obviously
you know this this episode is aboutyou being a co owner of a very
haunted hospital. How how did thateven come about? How did how did

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you get a hold of this place? You know, Um, the only
thing that I can tell you is, um, probably heavenly, you know,
something was looking out for me andum luck. Um. I've always
been just just a total history onthe hospital. I was actually born in

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that hospital, and so it's umtotal was born there as well. I
was always fascinated with the two buildingsthat we purchased, which was the hospital
on the nurses college beside of it, and I have been trying for years.
I went away and left the areafor a little while, went off
to college and lived in different places, and then I moved back, and

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you know, I'd been trying foryears to try to get access to the
building. But the hospital was ownedby so many different people over the course
of the time. Because the hospitalthat I now owned was tied in with
the newer Williamson Memorial and they werenot severed, so it was like a
package deal. And then you know, it was long story short, COVID

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hit in twenty twenty the Williams MemorialHospital that was functioning at the time.
You know, our little area issmall and the rural hospitals were really struggling
to stay afloat, and sadly oursdid not make it. So when that
happened, it severed the ties betweenthe newer hospital and then the hospital that
I now own, so I wasable to step in and get that and

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the nurses college as well. Iwas just kind of I know this might
sound weird, but just kind ofdrawn to it. I just felt like
I didn't want someone to step inand just knock it down because there's so
much history. We're talking about aninety five year old hospital. It's where
my life started. I lost twograndparents in that hospital that I never met,

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and so many people from around theUnited States that we're finding out was
actually born in that hospital. Soit was such a hub for this area
for so long. And you know, I'm a big history buff and I
love you know, I think tounderstand the paranormal, sometimes you have to
understand the history of where you're atand what's located there. So I just

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didn't want someone to come in andeither knock it down and make it a
parking lot or just buy it upand let it rot. And that's what
a lot of people do just fortax rout off. So I bet the
bo it took the chance. Ireally didn't think that I would get it
because I was, you know,up against some really big hitters, and
I was a little scared. ButI just had the mentality, if it's

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meant to be, it's meant tobe, and here we are, absolutely,
so keep going up. I'm hereyou are. So what kind of
activity do you have up at thehospital? Oh? Gosh, um,
you name it, we probably hadit. Um. If you're talking about

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personal experience as far as I'm concerned, Um, everything from voices to U
shadow figures, to doors shutting ontheir own that they should not shut on
their own. Um, lights goingon and off. You know, children,
You know that that one probably freaksme out more than anything as hearing

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little kids running or giggling. Notthat they're scary in anyway, but it's
just, you know, it's alittle it's I agree with you, it's
a little creepy. It's a littleit's I think Children of the Korn did
that for us. But I thinkso there's some culture gods and some of
the movements that we watched. Butyou know, the history, the history

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of this hospital is you know,it's sad and in some ways because if
you think about it, it wentthrough the Great Depression and went through all
those diseases, and then sadly,a lot of the victims were children.
And if you were to visit thelocal cemetery here that's kind of close to
the hospital where a lot of peoplewere buried, um a lot of them,

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I would say at least seventy toeighty percent of its children's graves.
So it's just it's really sad,you know, it's just sad and unfortunate.
And I feel that when I getin the hospital. And then when
the hospital shut down as a hospitalin eighty eight, they turned it,
thankfully, they saved it and turnedit into a clinic and they put the

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pediatric in the basement. So whenyou go to the basement, it's literally
still got the children's borders on thewalls, and it's still when we first
purchased it, you couldn't walk downthe hallways without seeing children's pictures classed all
over that Also, it was alittle creepy for us, you know,

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knowing that all those kids in there, and knowing that a lot of children
had passed away in that hospital.But a lot of children had been born
in the hospital too, so youknow the good thing about hospitals. And
I think what's fascinating for me isyou know, life starts there and life
ends there, so you've got allthose connections. It kind of comes full
circle. So it's been pretty fascinatingand pretty interesting for me, and it's

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taught me a lot. I'll behonest with you. It goes back to
the question how long you've been intothe paranormal field, Probably more so now
than I ever have. But untilyou experience it yourself and you get that
first, Oh my god, thatwas really that really happened, right.
Um. You know there are peoplethat are skeptical about it, and I
wouldn't say that I was skeptical,but I really wanted something to happen to

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me, for me to be ableto really relate more to the paranormal investigators
and to the field. And whenit did, it kind of blew me
out of the waters. Because youknow, your mom just it takes you
a minute or two to process it. For me, it took me a
couple of day. So I'll begone. That just really happened because I

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asked myself every time I asked myself, did that really happen? Did that
really happen? And I look atit from nine million different ways to say
if there was anything that says no, it didn't. But yeah, And
it's not that I was trying todebunk it or anything, but I was
just sitting here going, did Ijust make that up? Did I just
hear that? You know, itwasn't my mom playing games? But there

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are some things you just cannot explain, and then when it happens to you,
it just you know, it makesyou really think, Wow, there's
there's stories that need to be told. There are people here that really want
to tell them. Um. Soit helps me knowing that we're trying to
keep the building a love and keepthese spirits alive. So, you know,
it's been a learning experience. We'regoing into our third year this year,

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so we're still kind of the newkids on the block in a way.
But um, it's been Um it'snever a dull moment, I can
tell you that. So, UM, it's been a it's been a learning
experience for me, but I've enjoyedit. I've never come across anything that
I would feel or describe as evil. Um, just basically spirits that want
to reach out and talk to youor maybe has something to say. UM,

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I didn't handle it the right waythe first couple of times. Better
I'm getting better, so you know, thanks to wonderful paranormal investigators that we've
had. UM, you know,it's a lot to any and I don't
want to mess it up. Iwish I could have a couple of doovers
with some of the things that havehappened to me up. But UM,

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it's a lesson and it's a teachingand it takes time. So it's UM,
it's it's pretty wild. And whenI think about UM, I don't
know if you've seen some of thepictures that people have called images and shadow
figures. Um, one of themost popular ones is the nurse that Never
clocked out. Um, there wasa great image of her that was caught
and UM, you know, youjust you just can't explain those things.

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You just can't. And it wasn'teven by it wasn't even buy an investigator.
It was a lady that was takenone of our tours and she called
it our phone, and UM,we put it on our website and our
Instagram and Facebook, page. Butis that the one where they actually keptured
it outside the building? Yes,she was outside the building going in.

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Yeah, when she she was actuallygoing into the first up floor, which
which would have been the er atthe time. So, um, she
had her iPhone and we had justfinished a tour and she was actually um
in between the hospital on the nursesCollege. She was just trying to get
a picture of the city of Williamsand at night, she wasn't even trying
to capture anything, right, Andshe took two quick pictures with her iPhone

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and the first picture absolutely nothing,but the second picture caught that image and
as soon as she called it,she ran back to us to show it,
so we know she didn't doctor orauthor in any way, she didn't
have time. So it was apretty amazing capture. You can see what
we think looks like a nurse goinginto the building, and she's got the

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white dress with the red sash whenher hair's pulled back in a bun,
so probably would have been around itaround the fifties or sixties are around that
time, So it was a prettyamazing capture. It was pretty pretty neat.
I'm still I'm gonna need to lookfor it. That would be awesome
to see, right. Yeah,Now, before you became, you know,
the co owner of a haunted location, did you ever have any kind

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of personal experiences or did they allcome once she started owning this high hospital.
Um, probably not personal experience asfar as the paranormal goes. I
mean I was always I don't wantto, I don't want to say it
was sensitive to things, but Icould pick up on things pretty easily,
if that made sense. But thestuff that really escalated when I bought the

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hospital. Um, my first experienceat the hospital, I hadn't had it
maybe two months, two to threemonths when things started happening. And you
know, one time I could walkin that building and not be afraid of
anything. And then when my firstexperience happened, I was like, oh,
I need to take this a littlebit more serious. So I need,
you know, I need to beon alert because, believe it or

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not, my my previous job,I was this pribation officer for my county.
So you know, my mind,my mind triggers back to you know,
oh, somebody's broken into the buildingor something's going on. I need
to be real careful, you know, that kind of thinking. So UM,
it's it's it's been a learning experiencefor me for sure. I got
better now two years ago, right, And so how how was the community

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in general accepting that now there's thisparanormal hotspot that these people are coming to.
Well, you know, honestly,Um, at first we had some
that wasn't real receptive to the idea. Um. If you know anything about
our location at all, we're inthe middle of the Bible Belt. So
I had a fabul you know that. Really, I think it was just

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honestly misunderstanding what paranormal was. Ithink in there what we were we were
taught around here was when you heardthat it was always associated with demonic stuff.
And I think it was just lackof education, I really do.
And then we were fortunate because whenwe first opened up, we were discovered

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by Destination Fear, the group thatwas on the travel and they were kind
of the one watched us. I'mjust dropping him, sorry just about that
happens, But they they discovered us, and it aired in December of twenty
twenty and we opened in twenty one. And I think when our community watched

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that, they didn't seem so umnegative anymore. I mean, I you
know, you still you've always gotone in every crowd, you know that,
especially when you live in a smalllittle city like we do. Um.
But overall, I think most peoplehave been really receptive and supportive of
us. So it's it's been okay. Every now and then we'll have that

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might trigger some issues, but mostlyit's it's been okay. Right, And
I imagine that's how a lot ofpeople originally found out about the location is
Throod Destination Fear and and you knowthat that crew, because I mean I've
never heard of it until then,and now it's up there. Now it's
up there on on my on mybucket list, so it's, uh,

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get up there. Yes, wedidn't have you, they really would be
that would be a trip. I'dtell a lot of people. We owe
a lot to them, because whenthey contacted us in twenty twenty, UM,
I was kind of blown away atfirst. I thought it was a

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joke because I didn't, you know, I don't even know how they found
us, to be honest with youdon't know they found us on the internet
or our Facebook page. I forgotwhat they told us, but they told
us that you know, there's thisshow on the travel channels called Destination Fear,
and we're looking for a season twofinale. And I had heard a
Destination Fear, but I hadn't reallywatched all the way through, so I

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was kind of limited on my knowledge. But I knew a little bit about
Dakota. I knew about the investigators, so, um, when's she.
When they called, they said,well, you're in the running. You're
up against three other places for thefinale. I thought, will shoot,
there ain't no way. We're brandnew, were the new kids on the
blog. This is a little hospitalon a little town. And within three

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days they called back and they saidDakota fell in love with the hospital.
He liked the fact that no onehad been in there before and no one
had investigated it before, and thecreepy history of it all and the fact
that it was ninety some years oldat the time really fascinated him, so
that they chose us. So theygave me a heads up. They said,

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listen, once this air is inDecember, you better be ready to
go, because you know you'll beon everybody's radar. Yeah, they should
be ready for the phone calls andall that stuff. So I already had
the website and all that worked out, but we were still tweaking our social
media and all that. So myfirst goal was not to even open until

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spring of twenty one, but becauseDestination Fear hit in December of twenty we
opened up in February twenty one.So it was exactly like what they said
it was. It was a blessing. It was. It was a great
way to open, but at thesame time, it was also kind of
hard for us because we had peopletrying to break in, people dropping from

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all over, and it was youknow, it was hard to manage it
first. Plus we were brand new, but we we worked through all of
it and and like you said,to this day, we still give people
come because they watched the old DestinationFear show on the Discovery Plus or Traveler
Channel if they replay it, andthey still help us out. And they

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were just here. You know,they're not on travel Channel anymore, their
Project Fear on YouTube, and theywere just here a few months ago and
our show just dropped for them onYouTube yesterday, so Friday, so they
came back. They called us letus know that unfortunately the Travel Channel had

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canceled their show. And they lovedthe hospital. I believe we were Chelsea's
pick and um wanted if they couldcome back, so we were happy to.
I hated that their show got canceled, but we were you know,
I think you two will do reallywell. They could be I think they
could be more of themselves, youknow. Yeah. The only thing,

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the only thing I me and mywife haven't liked so far is they leave
you on a cliffhanger until the nextweek. Well, you know, they
they wanted to. I didn't realizethey were going to make it two episodes
and and what I think that's goodbecause on Destination of Fear, they only
had an hour to cram everything inand you felt like, you know,

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they miss a lot of stuff.So you know, it's it's pros and
cons, but they do leave youhanging up. I can't wait till make
Friday's episodes because they have to dosome one of them has to do something
really wild. So I'm excited tosee how that turned out. I think
I think I have a guess onwhat what the whoever it is has to

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do. But like, of course, I think I think they Canada on
their YouTube channel. Yeah, anduh, I'm like and whenever. When
it came acrossing and I was like, I told him if I was like,
I bet what I'm just gonna haveto do that. I was like,
would you do this? He's like, hell no, I wouldn't do
that. So if if it's ifit's what I'm thinking of, but and

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I mean I would do it.So and and actually we could actually talk
about it because this episode will comeout after the episode comes out next week.
So yeah, okay, So Ithink I think they're gonna be putting
somebody in one of the uh whatis the body boxes or something in the
morgue from THEE. Yeah, that'sThat's what I'm thinking it's gonna be.

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And I'm like, man, Iwas like, I would do that.
I was like, but I wouldgo into panic, would being afraid,
like the door wouldn't open back upor something. Well, and I think
that's kind of what happened. Ithink he was in there for quite a
while, and then when we metbefore they left, he told me it
kind of freaked him out a littlebit and they didn't let him out.

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But the bad part was he droppedhis walkie talkie so to try to get
him, it dropped all the wayto the bottom. So he was freaking
out and begging for them to comeand get him, and he was right.
I don't know why I did that. Um, I haven't got to
see you know, exactly what happenedwith him, but I do know he

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was in there for quite a while. I don't know if I could do
that. I don't know if Icould be in cla I don't know if
you could do it, Damian,I don't know if you could. I
mean, I'm not really claustrophobic thatI know of. I take bets on,
i'd take bets on how long ittook for the screen. Well,
you know, shit, you're lockedinside of something like that and you're hearing
stuff, You're gonna get spooked alittle bit. I'm not doing I don't.

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I don't think I could do itthere. I don't mind looking at
it, looking at the Georgs openit up, No, but to think
of how many people were actually inthere. It still got the last date
it was certified. It just yeah, I can't. I don't. I
don't know if I would have itin me to just spend hours in there,
or even probably five minutes with thedoor closed, So yeah, I

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don't. I don't think I could, and so to do I actually just
get the elevator up and running.Two Well, we did when they were
there, but then, you know, lovely West Virginia and our weather.
We had a bad storm about amonth and a half ago and it took
out the power. We have powerto certain areas of the hospital. Of

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course, the elevator is one andeverything came back on except the elevator,
right yeah, right now the elevatordoes not work. But we're hoping we
can find somebody to help us fixit, because you know, it's kind
of hard to find somebody to fixthe ninety five year old elevent it's hard.
They don't make them like that anymore. So we got to try to

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find someone to help us get thatup and running because it's definitely a big
part of our hospital. Where weoriginally was not going to get it fixed
because they are very expensive to fixand very hard to find people to do
it. But we just felt likeit's part of the original hospital, it's
part of our history. But thenwe had some paranormal teams who had contacted

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us and who had some disabilities andcouldn't climb steps. So we did whatever
we could, pitched in whatever wecould to get it certified so that way
people, you know, if theywere in wheelchairs or if they had any
kind of disability to where they couldn'tclimb steps, it would give them the
ability to go to all the floorsas well. We thought that was only

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fair. No, that's awesome.Yeah, I'd like to see more locations
start catering to the disabled, right, Yeah, who don't you know,
have very good knees or something.They don't want to climb up a bunch
of steps, you know, that'dbe a good thing to happen back.
Yeah, it's and our steps arenot too bad honestly, but you know,
I feel bad when people that aremaybe confined in a wheelchair or maybe

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have a cane and they can't climba lot of steps. They really want
to come in and they're just limitedto the first floor. I feel like
they miss out on a lot.So really, one of the first groups,
and I always talk about this whenwe do our tours, one of
the first groups that visited us UM. I think there was like six or
seven of them, and one ofthem he was in a wheelchair, and

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the only thing that he could move, if I recall correctly, were his
hands and maybe his head. Andhe was a super great guy. His
personality, they were taught Lodge.The team was just wonderful. And I
kind of panicked when they when hegot there because I didn't know if I
had advertised that it was a handicapaccessible at the time, because we are

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just literally just open and we didn'thave the elevator work and listen, we
didn't have me have bathrooms. Wehad quorta potties outside. Though it was
kind of bad, but he wassuper sweet. He read my face and
he was like, don't worry aboutit, Tanya, it's okay. My
team's got me covered. They carriedme from Florida floor and I watched them
do that, and Charlie helped aswell. Now he didn't get to make

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it to all the floors, butthat team pulled together and they lift him
and took them took him up allthose steps and stuff, and it just
I told Charlie when we come backdown, I said, you know,
I don't care if we have togo in dat for ten years. Let's
let's try to get this working andso he can come back and enjoy it,

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and I hope they do. Ihope the team comes back. Right
now ain't working, but we're hopingit'll get fixed in the next little while.
But I just felt like, youknow, for people, it just
didn't seem fair. And I knowsome locations don't have or not able to
do that, and I respect that, completely understand that. But we have
the ability to do it. Sowe're going to try our best to keep

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it going if we can. That'sawesome, That's totally awesome. Yeah,
So if you're moving forward with this, what are your plans for the hospital?
Are you gonna, like just keepit as a research center. Are
you going to do historical renderings ofit and maybe have it certified as a
historical location? What are you goingto do with it? Right now?

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We don't have any plans for thehistorical society part of it. We do
want to keep it as true tohistory as we can. We want to
Right now, we're kind of focusingon the addition that was kind of built
all that was not part of theoriginal hospital. We're working on a gift
shop slash museum to kind of payhomage to some of the old idea you

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know, we found some old equipment, old doctors bags, old needles,
you know, just artifacts that youcan't find anymore. We've got those locked
up, but just somewhere where wecould show case that and maybe like a
little lobby area to where someone couldcome in and set and listen about the
history of the hospital for the ninetyfive years that it's been open. That's

(31:10):
our goal. That is really great. Yeah, we just you know,
I'm a big history buff and Iwant to keep it as true to history
as possible. The Nurses College isthe building beside of it, and that
that might be a route we gowith a historical society because that buildings has
had so much damage done to it. The ceiling has actually collapsed on it.

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So but it was one of thefirst nurses colleges in the state of
West Virginia and people have caught somereally cool apparitions in those windows as well.
But it's a beautiful building. It'sseven stories. I would love to
take it back to the way thatit used to look in the twenties and
thirties, and I would love tomaybe turn it into a mini hotel or

(31:52):
a bed and breakfast or something.Yeah, that way when teams come.
They could investigate the nurses college tostay there as well, but that that's
going to take us a long time, just because the buildings in such poor
condition. But I feel like it'spart of history and we should save it
because it goes along with the hospital. Honestly, if you think about it,

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I mean it was kind of astate in art hospital at its time
because you didn't really hear teaching hospitalsback in the twenties, and that's what
this one was. Williams Memorial hadthe college to go along with it,
so the nurses would go over tothe college, they would study, their
stay there, and then they wouldgo over to the hospital to work and
train. So it was pretty neatthat those two buildings were still standing.

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And I hope we can preserve thembecause I you know, they're just they're
beautiful buildings and I don't want tosee it get any worse than it is.
But as with anything, you know, with old buildings, it takes
a lot of time and money.So we may get there, we're hoping
to. We're thinking about maybe somefundraisers to do, maybe even like ARRACAN

(33:00):
in the future, to help tohelp get that started. So we're thinking
about it, trying to come upwith some ideas, but right now we
just want to preserve the hospital,keep it. It's ninety five years old.
Honestly, to be ninety five,it's still in pretty decent shape.
So we're hoping we can just makeenough to maintain it until we start working

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on the nurse of College. Sobut we do we do things. We
do historical trips, we do tours, We even do field trips for kids.
We've had several schools calls about historicaltours. Even if you're not into
the spooky stuff, when just intothe history because this hospital played such a
factor in our area. It wasan important fixture for the community and a

(33:45):
lot of neat history that surrounded it. So Mingo County in general and Williamson
in general has a lot of history. Anytime people come in the paranormal teams
or if they just come in fortours, we always tell them, you
know, hey, while you're here, go visit this place, go see
this place, because there's just somuch history, and it's one of those

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things it's like wow, did thatreally happen, Like, yeah, yeah,
it really did. So you know, it's just full of adventure and
just different. You know, ifyou're into the history stuff and the paranormal
stuff, this county really can keepyou busy for quite a while. Well.
For me, history and the paranormalgo hand in hand. So absolutely,
I've always said that I think youknow, to really understand where you're

(34:30):
investigating, I think you got toknow the history of Yeah. Yeah,
I think you know just walking intoand there are teams that do that and
I respect that, but I thinkto understand, you know, the spirits
that you come in contact with,you really got to know. You know
who what this hospital did and whodidn't serve, and how long was it
and what kind of patience walk throughthese doors and and that kind of stuff.

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What did it stand for? Wasit evil? Was it good?
And you know that kind of stuff. So I agree with you. I
think, yeah, without the history, anybody can make up its history,
and that's not what you want.You want to do the true history of
the building. Yeah. And what'sfascinating about this hospital is the first one

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was actually in downtown Williamson and itwas just a three story wooden structure and
I think it was built around twentyfive twenty four and doctor Conley, who's
one of the co founders of thehospital. He was working there one day
and the hospital caught fire. Itcaught fire on the first floor. He
was hard enough to get everybody upto the third floor, and what he

(35:37):
had nurses do was throw mattresses outthe windows, and he would literally start
throwing patients and babies and nurses andeverybody out through the to try to save
their lives. Because of his quickthinking, the hospital burnt to the ground,
but nobody died in that fire,but there were a lot of as.

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So he teamed up with doctor Saltonand said, listen, we've got
to build a bigger and a betterone. We'll get the stores and the
you know businesses and all the youknow, major people who had money back
then to buy into this. Andthat's when they built the one that I
own. And it's made of concrete. It's been I mean, they built

(36:21):
it well, that's all I gottasay. They did a really good job.
But doctor Conley, you know,he was a I call him kind
of our superhero. It was becauseof him, um, And he teamed
up with doctor Salton and they justyou know, they were the two masterminds
behind it. So they did reallywell. It's awesome. Now, how
many how many floors does it have? Um? It has a basement and

(36:45):
four floors, so five total.Now, Now, is there any floors
that you absolutely hate being alone on? UM? I don't know if I
would say I hate being alone whatyou know? The one that probably gives
me more of the creepy vibes isthe basement, just because it's the biggest

(37:09):
floor of the hospital, but it'salso probably the most historic floor and probably
where where most of the deaths occurred. In my opinion, the basement played
different roles over a period of thehospital's time. When the hospital first opened,
it was very much your trauma,your er, your cu surgery.

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The incinerator is down there, themorgue was down there, all of that.
And then when they turned it intoa clinic, they turn it into
a pediatric flour So all of thathistory combined just kind of fascinates. Maybe
because your kids, let's throw youinto this, Yeah, I don't.
You would have to see. Idon't know if you've seen pictures of it.

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But I can be on every floorof the hospital and I feel different
on every floor. The flour flooralso for me, is little weird,
but when when you get to thebasement, you kind of feel like you're
not even in the same building.It's a it's a totally different vibe,
at least for me. May notbe for others, but it sometimes I
just get overwhelmed with a sense ofsadness because I just know there were a

(38:14):
lot of people that passed away downthere. So was it what was specific
about the fourth floor? Then thefourth floor for us, it's one of
those floors. It's kind of amystery, but it's the shortest floor of
the hospital, but it's kind ofgot the weirdest history part of the hospital.
The pharmacy was up there and therewere a lot of and I think

(38:36):
what's really neat about this hospital isthat there were paranormal activities and stuff going
on even when it was still ahospital. Some of the stories, Yeah,
some of the stories that we havereceived were actual from actual former patients
that were there or former employees thatwere there. Some of the best stories

(38:58):
we got were from them, andthey would tell us some of the stuff
that would happen on each floor.And the weirdest stories that we got were
usually from the fourth floor. Forinstance, the pharmacy. The pharmacy is
up on the fourth floor. Now, you wouldn't think the pharmacy would be
anything weird, but they had thehardest time keeping employees. Janitors did not

(39:21):
want to work past six o'clock.They didn't want to clean that floor because
they just felt differently up there.They would hear and see things that they
couldn't explain, so they were constantlytrying to find someone to work on the
fourth floor. The other kind ofrooms that were up there were the surgical
rooms, the observation rooms where thenurses were observed, where the surgeries were

(39:44):
taken place, and they would alsolet loved ones watch you being operated on.
So it's kind of a weird mixtureof you know, I don't think
I would be strong enough to watcha family member being operated on, But
back in the twenties and thirties theydid things a lot different. But you
could actually sit in there with anotherthose and what your loved ones being operated
on. So it's just such anodd floor and it's dark, wow,

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So it's just crazy. The otherend of the floor is um It was
like the doctor's lockers and their personaloffices and stuff. Their showers were there
just kind of like their own little, you know, area I guess to
hang out in. Yeah, that'sweird. That is weird that that that's

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kind of a floor with the pharmacyand that sort of thing you would expect
like maybe the geriatrics ward or thepediatride, the pediatrics ward or something like
that would be it. But that'sreally weird. Some of the best shadow
figures. We've had shadow figures calledon just about every floor that in my
personal opinion, the best ones thathave been caught so far, has been

(40:49):
on the fourth floor. And theyand it's almost like they're running to surgery.
You know, it's like it's it'salmost like there's something going on.
They got to get to it.But the images are just so amazing.
It's just you know, it's likewow. And some of them that caught
them wasn't even looking for They didit by accident, so that makes it

(41:09):
even better. But it's some prettycool images. Yeah, it's it's it's
definitely on there on the old bucketlist of me and I think Kelly's.
I think it's on Kelly's buocket listennow too. No, it's Virginia heard
about it. Yeah, that's Yeah, West Virginia is really blast with a

(41:30):
lot of um you know, appearingnormal places to investigate. Um. And
like I said, I was justthankful that we were able to to save
the hospital and not you know,let someone tear it down or knock it
down because I think, you know, again, it goes back to I
think the spirits in there just happyto see it active again and happy to
have people back in there and rightbecause it's been stacked for so long.

(41:54):
Oh yeah, so um of that, What do you have plan coming up
for any events? Do you haveanything that's going to be like a public
event or do you have any plannedparties or well we do. We do
a little bit of everything, honestly. We do historical tours, we do

(42:14):
paranormal tours, we do um flashlighttours, and we host public ones.
But we also do private ones aswell. So if you have a group
of five or more and if it'sjust you, your friends or your family
and you want to schedule a privateone, we do those, um,
so you don't have to worry aboutbeing with ten or fifteen other people.
UM. We also do weddings.We also do birthday parties and things like

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that. We had like thirteen weddingsin one weekend. About killed this,
but they were great. It wasfun. It was It was a lot
of fun. It was a lotof work, but it was to get
married in the pharmacy. Uh No, nobody got married on the first floor.
Most everybody got married out in ourcourtyard. And I tell you if
you if you saw the pictures,you would of her guests that that was

(43:00):
a hospital. We only had twocouples that did it on the inside,
and one did it on the firstfloor, and one actually did it in
the basement, and they were Itwas the funnest couple. They had a
blast with it. The groom waswheeled down, he was in a body
bag, so we got a freakinghilarious and the bride was dressed he was

(43:21):
all in black, and they hada lot of fun with it. They
had been married previously before, sothey wanted to have a more fun wedding
and they just it was great andwe had it, you know, decorated,
kind of creepy, but elegant atthe same time. So the pictures
turned out. You know, wewasn't sure how that would work, but
it actually turned out really well.So we do have some weddings coming up.

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We also have public events where youcan we do public ghost hunts,
but we also have teams like HauntedNights and Get Haunted and groups like that
that come in. If you're not, you know, an experienced paranormal investigator,
they will teach you how to investigate, which I think is really cool.
It's kind of like investigating one onone and they let your team up

(44:06):
with them and show you how touse their equipment and things like that,
what to purchase. So we havethat coming up in September, and then
that leads into our Halloween events andall that fun stuff. So it's a
busy schedule pretty much from here onout. But we do also our private
investigations. You know, our teamsran out the hospital. We do those

(44:27):
seven days a week. You know, we started out part time because I
really thought people would just want tocome on the weekends, but then we
started getting phone calls from Monday throughThursday, so basically basically, yeah,
some of them couldn't make weekends,so we just decided to open it up
seven days a week and let themcome and we allow them to check in

(44:49):
around four or five in the afternoonand the building is basically Thurs until eight
am the next morning. Do youhave in charge for the overnight into pends
on how many you have in yourgroup. For like, our base price
for one to five people is fivehundred, and you can split that up
into two payments, but anything overfive is basically one hundred dollars per person.

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Great, and we, like Isaid, we're pretty we want you
to get the full experience because likemy experience, my first experience, and
there was an eight fifteen in themorning. You know, I wasn't expecting
that. In my mind, Iwas expecting two or three o'clock in the
morning, you know. So that'sthe thing with hospitals, you just you
just never know. But if youthink about it, hospitals were probably more

(45:35):
active during the day because that's whenvisitors were coming, that's when doctors were
making the rounds, and you know, nurses were doing their shift change and
all that. So, yeah,eight fifty eight in the morning. I
was not prepared for that at all. So it was a little happened in
the morning. We had a teamthat had smith the night and I had

(45:55):
just come up there just to makesure they were I didn't know if they
had left jeddered on. I wasjust making sure everything was okay and everything
was locked up, and they hadalready left. But as I was walking,
I was on the second floor.The second floor is probably what I
would say the hot spot of thehospital, or really more consistently is what

(46:15):
I would say it consistent hot spot. I think most of the teams that
come there pick up at least somethingon the second floor. And that's where
I had my first experience. Iwas walking. There's a long hallway and
I was walking by one of therooms, and as I was passing a
door to the left of me,I heard a mail's voice, just as
plain as day, just say hey. And it stopped me in my tracks

(46:39):
because it was so clear and itwas so I mean, it made the
hair stand on my arms because itstartled me. I wasn't expecting anybody to
be in the building, and myfirst thought was, well, it's the
group from the night before, becausethey had two men in their group.
So I pulled out my phone andI started texting with them and I said,

(47:00):
Hey, are you all still inthe building, And they said,
no, Tanya, we left aboutan hour ago, but we need to
tell you we kept hearing a mill'svoice on the second floor, so you
know, I was convinced someone hadbroken into the building. I thought there
was a man in that building,so I started, long story short,

(47:20):
there was no man. I wishI could have a duover because I would
like to talk to him and handlea little bit better now, because I
wasn't prepared to hear that at eightfifteen in the morning. That was just
my mind, you know. Butthen when I got home and started processing
all of it, it hit me. I was like, well, Tanya,
you know, think about it.Hospitals were probably pretty active at eight

(47:42):
o'clock in the morning. Doctors wereprobably making the rounds, nurses were probably
doing a shift change, so itwould make sense. So it was.
It was a little a little crazy, right now. Is that we now?
Was that probably your craziest experience hereor is there something that top set
um. The voices are are hardto beat because they startle you. You

(48:06):
never know when they're gonna talk.The one that probably got me the most
was in the basement, and itwasn't a voice. It was a door
shutting. And I know that mightsound a little cheesy, but you would
have to see this door. AndI tell you when it was. It
was hallow. It was near Halloweenof last year, and we were doing

(48:28):
some of our Halloween events and wehad put a prop in the X ray
room. And this X ray roomis still true X ray room, and
it's an old fashioned X ray room. So if you remember how X ray
rooms were, they had really heavydoors and they also lay some carpet in
there, so it's not a swingingdoor. So this door should not shut

(48:51):
on its own. It's it's justtoo heavy, and plus there's a doorstop
behind it, so you know,it should just stay as it is.
But we we were at the endof the night. It was close to
midnight, and Charlie and I werein the basement just doing a wall through,
making sure nobody was hiding and allthat good stuff. And as we
turned to face that X ray room, that door just starts slowly shutting on

(49:15):
its own. Now, mind you, I've been in this basement for the
past three years, hundreds of times, and that door has always been opened.
I have never seen that door shut. So I just kind of took
a step back. I didn't knowwhat to do, I really did,
And Charlie was like, that's justone of our volunteers messing with us.
So he took his flashflight and heshined it behind the door and he slowly

(49:37):
opens the door and there's nobody there, and I thought, okay, maybe
something happened, maybe something wrong.So as soon as he let go and
took a step back, the doorstarts slowly shutting again. Now the door
does not shut by itself. Somebodyliterally or something has to be behind it
to shut it. Yeah, thatreally on. I see they had to

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because it's not you would just haveto see it. I feel it's so
heavy, and it's shut for thesecond time, and it's shut all the
way. He went to open itagain and I grabbed his arm and I
told him not to because here's whatI think happened. We had a prop
in that room, and what theteams basically had to do. It was

(50:22):
a dead body, but it lookedso real. I mean a lot of
people thought it was an actress thatwe had hired. The prop looked that
real, and what the teams hadto do was walk around this body and
tell us what they thought she passedaway from. And that's it. But
we left that body constantly in thereso I told him, I said,

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I think they think she's real andnormally what happens in an X ray room,
they asked you to leave because ofthe radiation. They don't want anybody
in the room. So I thinkthey thought they were working on her,
and we were not allowed in there. So I didn't want to piss anybody
off. I didn't want to makeanybody mad, so I just taught him

(51:06):
leave it be, let's see whathappens tomorrow, and we'll take it from
there. And when we came backthe next day, the door was open
well, so so they not onlythey not only shut the door, they
opened it as well. Yes,and we were the only ones that had
access to the building. And againyou would have to know these doors in

(51:28):
that room to understand how big ofa deal it was. I hate that
we didn't get on camera. Isaid, you know, I always carry
both with me because that's the wayit is. I know, I know.
And then if you try, youknow you don't want the whole Well,
you're just the owners of the building. You're just making this crap up.
I promise you. We were bothI don't even know, we were

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specious. We didn't even talk forlike fifteen minutes because I didn't know what
to say. I told him,I said, they're busy with her.
I feel sorry for our prop,but I'm not going back in there.
I said, let go. Butyeah, I know about that not having
a camera thing I had. Mywhole team was at a location. Something
was happening to us, and assoon it was done, I turned around

(52:13):
and I looked at every single oneof them, and nobody had anything like
really, okay, that's the kindof luck I had. Yeah, it's
the way it happens every time,I know, and when you're not expecting
it, that's the thing. Yeah. We were literally down there, just
walking making sure everybody was gone.We were turning all some stuff, and

(52:35):
we both and it was so eeriebecause we both turned at the same time
and was facing that door and it'sthe X ray room to the right of
the hallway, and it's just whenit started shutting. I was like,
that door never shuts, It nevershuts, it has a doorstof it never
shut And when it did it twice, he wanted to go in and I

(53:00):
just grabbed it. I'm like no, no, you know, I was
like no, I said, it'sclose to midnight. They they're doing stuff,
they're busy, they think they're workingon her. Let's just leave things
be. So we walked out there. Um so that you know that to
me, even though it was justa door shutting, to have it happen

(53:21):
right in front of your face andthen to go back the next day and
it be wide open, that wasjust unreal. The second thing I would
think that probably sticks out in mymind the most is still in the basement.
Um, we found some old toysthat were left behind, and there's
this old duck. I don't knowif you all have seen it in the

(53:42):
videos or anything, but I don'tknow. This toy I'm guessing's probably from
the forties or fifties. I don'tknow, I've I've never seen it,
but it's creepy old duck. AndUm, we found it in the closet.
There was some old toys left behind. There was like a little Christmas
tree, some balls, a duck, and I think a rocking horse and
some other stuff. So we justkind of pulled it out and put it

(54:05):
as props, you know, justset it in the rooms for investigators to
use. They investigate. Well,somebody one of the teams had left the
duck in the hallway, and um, you know, of course when you're
coming down searching and looking for things, that kind of creeps you out seeing
a toy in the middle of thehallway and all I had was my flashlight.
Of course, I didn't have anyequipment, didn't have any records,

(54:28):
and I walked to the X rayrooms to check him out. And when
I turned around and came back,the duck had moved. Oh boy,
I was like, Okay, whatdo I do with this stuck? He
didn't know very far, but hehad moved far enough to know I know
he was going towards a room.And I was like, it's almost like,
you know, it's one of thosepull toys. It probably had a

(54:50):
string attached to its, not thatone, but it was kind of it's
a plastic one, but it lookslike one that possibly had a string that
you would pull. But it doesn'thave a string anymore. And I think
some I think a child probably wasplaying with it and either had rolled it
or was trying to pull it.And um, it had moved a little

(55:12):
bit closer to the um the roomthat has an incubator in it. It
was it was close to that,so I just I went over to it.
I tried to interact and try totalk, but it wouldn't move anymore.
So I just picked it up andput it on the shild that That
was a little a little weird forme too, So now I'm a little

(55:32):
bit more used to it doesn't freakme out as bad as it first did.
But well, it definitely sounds likeyou have it definitely sounds like you
have an active place in it,and it it's it's great what you're doing
to this building and trying to youknow, keep it up and and and
save it from being torn down.That's an amazing thing you did for for
that location and the community in generaland the community. Yeh yeh yeah,

(55:55):
it's I think once the community foundout what an impact it's made in our
economy and just you know, becausewhen they come here. We also have
two logic facilities that we now openup for our investigators to stay at.
Doctor Connedy's home is one of them. So I was just going to ask

(56:16):
if there's anybody from out of townthat they come up to investigate, where
do they have to stay. Well, we have some airvnbs and things like
that. The only hotel that wehad in our little town shut down last
year, so Charlie and I decidedto renovate doctor Conley's house. And then
while we were doing that, agentleman that owned a house right outside the

(56:37):
hospital's courtyard basically both just steps awayfrom the hospital thirty feet if that.
He came to us and said,hey, I don't want this anymore.
Would you be willing to purchase this? So we bought both of them and
we opened them up this year forlodging options. That's fabulous. Well,
I think you know, for doctorConnley's house, it's pretty cool to stay

(56:58):
in one of the co founder tomeHe built that home in the thirties.
Of course we had to we hadto remodel some things. I couldn't keep
it as true as to why hehad it, but it is. It
is pretty cool because he had amaid's quarters. They had a separate entrance
in it, and those buttons youknow how you would call for as there's

(57:19):
a still there. They don't work, but they're still there. But now
some of our teams who stayed thereum said that they've heard it go off
certain times, so they've also said, they've heard those steps. So that's
pretty interesting because nobody's lived in thathouse since the nineties, so we're not
sure what's going on with all ofthat, but to have one of the
original co founders home is pretty neatfor us. And that's also a part

(57:43):
of the history of the hospital.So um, doctor Colley did a great
job having that building. It's abeautiful If you follow us on Facebook,
I did kind of a brief walkthrough of it so people could see what
they were getting. But he dida great job. It's a beautiful home.
So people can rent those if it'savailable, they can stay there.
Literally, when you're done investigating,you can take a couple of steps out
of the back door and be you, Oh, that's just the best way

(58:07):
to do it right there. Yeah, well that's we felt really bad when
the hotel shut down. We justdidn't some of our investigators were staying like
thirty to forty miles away because that'sthe closest hotel. And yeah, when
when you get done investigating at threeor four o'clock in the morning, you're
exhausted, you don't really feel likedriving, So you know, some people

(58:30):
don't care to and that's fine,but we have it there as an option
and people want to stay so now, but back it just it helps the
economy, It helps our little city. You know, our city's lost a
lot, so we're hoping the hospitalcan help bring some of that back and
you know, kind of rejuvenate andkind of you know, it's a little
thinking outside the box in what ourarea is a little used to. But

(58:52):
I mean, our biggest attraction rightnow is probably um other than us,
is the Hatfield McCoy trail system theyput you know, we're in the land
of the half Field McCoy's. That'sa big brawl for a lot of people,
but they come in and put inan ATV side by side a trail
that you can ride and you cantake up tours through it and everything.

(59:15):
So it's a really cool. Sobetween that and the hospital, it's really
helped bring in people that normally wouldhave never even found out where a little
area was. So, you know, and when people come, they stay
at your places, they eat atyour restaurants, they buy gas at your
gas stations. So it really reallyhelps all together. And I think once

(59:36):
our community started seeing that, youknow, it kind of changed their tune
a little bit, and we hadsome more people become positive. We still
have the ones that are kind ofshocked. They can't believe. Even to
my own mom, she's like,people really want to come see that old
hospital, Like, yes, Mom, it fascinates her because she grew up
there and that's where I was born. She had me in there, and

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then she lost some of her familyand there, and she just she she
thinks it's very um. You know. She's like, I can't believe people
would want it. And then whenshe saw it on destination Fear and she's
like, I can't believe that.I just can't believe that, you know.
So I hear that a lot too, But she thinks it's really cool.
She was a little bit younger,she'd probably helped me out with it.
There you go. She unfortunately couldbe So how big is your staff?

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Volunteer end paid? How big isthis staff? Unfortunately, we don't
have much of one where we're justkind of starting out. We really don't
financially, just don't have it rightnow to be able to pay anybody.
So Charlie and I do the bulkof the work, so we're usually it.
But we do have three great volunteersthat help us out when we need

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them. So we're hoping to buildon that as we go along and it
gets a little busier because it's reallyhard to kind of especially now that we've
added the two lodging, because Ifeel like Charlie and I feel like we're
maids and butlers and house penny andnow you know, doing all this stuff.
But we that we love doing it. It's just it's really hard for
two people. It's just hard fortwo people to manage. But so far,

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so good. What we're doing okay, and our three volunteers are awesome.
We you know, we couldn't beable to probably to do a lot
of it without them. So um, we're hoping at some point in time
we can actually start employing people.But we probably got a little way to
do that. Now you're only inthree year. You're only at year three,
right, yeah, yeah, yeah, we're entering. Um this is

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our third year. We opened inFebruary of twenty one. That's awesome.
That is so good. Well,I'm sold. We need to try to
we need to try to play aroad trip up there. Now. We
need to do a whole weekend thingand then we get to do this side
by sides and we get to dothe house and we get to do the
investigation. Yeah right, absolutely,listen, I can. I can hook

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you up to a lot of There'sa lot of cool places. People don't
really realize about a Mingo County untilyou know. All the teams that I
talked to, I tell them togoogle it. I mean, if you
google Mingo County, West Virginia,do you want to take a gas on
what our nickname is? M bloodyMingo. So yeah, so if you're

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looking for the gore, the battles, the massacres, the you know,
the call murders. Um, thereare several places I can send you to
for free that you can do.You can you can go look. You
know, I don't know if they'dlet you investigate, but you can definitely
go check it out so we cando it secretly. One of the areas
that I always send people to isa place called Dingis Tunnel. That's very

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fascinating. Um, if you googleit, it tells you a lot.
It was. It was a tunnelbuilt by the slaves in the eighteen hundreds.
Unfortunately a lot of them were killed. Um, so it's really neat
but it's all within like a tenmile radius, and you could spend a
whole weekend um just if you're intohistory and you're into the paranormal, just
so so much stuff that you couldreally and and Mao County is the youngest

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county in the state of West Virginia, but it's probably one of the most
historical wows. It's really really interesting. So impress I'm dying because you know,
West Virginia unfortunately gets a bad ratmost of the time. I mean,
people don't really. It's such abeautiful state and no matter what part

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of the state you go to,there's always something different. And you know,
there's so much history, and thecoal mining industry was huge, but
there's really there's a lot to thatand there's more to it, and there's
just so much to see and do. And you know, when they opened
the hatful McCoy trail system here forour county, it really opened the path

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for others to come in because theywere not allowed to ride their side by
sides or dirt bikes or four wheelers, and they're you know, like if
they lived in New Jersey or Pennsylvaniaor wherever. It was kind of like
a no, no, no,you had to go to a specific place
to ride. Here in Williamson,you can ark your truck and get on
an ATV and ride anywhere you wantto go. Like if you want to

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ride up to the hospital for atour, you can do that. If
you want to pull into a restaurantto eat, you can do that.
So they loved that. Tarl ridersloved that. So it's made a huge
impact for so you know, it'sit's something different, but absolutely I could
hook you up with some people thatrents a side by side else you go
visits home um that we got someawesome tour guys that will actually take you

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to the Hatfield, McCoy few sitesand graveyard stuff like that. So devl
Ans is Yeah, the historian enemyis just going nuts right now. It's
like it's um yeah, honestly,UM and the little town of mate One.
I don't know if you've ever heardthat. It's just ten minutes from
us. A lot of history inthat little town that I recommend people visit.

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The mate One massacre UM was reallyhuge. They made a movie about
it. I think James Earl Joneswas in that um. But just so
much histor. You're here if youif you're into history, you guys will
Yeah, there you go eat briefsleep. So if somebody wants so,
if somebody wants to book an investigationor just a tour or wedding whatever,

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hell, how do they do that? UM? Several different ways. They
can give us a call or textif they prefer to talk to someone in
person. UM. Our phone numbersare code three zero four nine five three
zero nine eight seven. If theywant to look us up on the web,
our website as a College Hill Hospitaldot com. I know you just

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got shocked. My wife opened thedoor and it startled me. I saw
the look I do. And thenwe're pretty much on every year is easily,
that's funny. Um, we're prettymuch on every social media side that
you can think of. Facebook isprobably our biggest following. That's where we

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tend to post most everything. Um. You can either find us at Old
Hospital on College Hill or College HillHospital. Okay, we're on Grand TikTok,
Twitter, all of that. LikeI said, I'm so, Like
I said, I'm I'm so.I just got to convince the wife to
drive vacation. I got hick.Let's just get a party bus. I'll

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drive. We should RV or something. Yeah, yeah, all right,
Oh Tony, I really appreciate youguys would find out how how much I
snore with Tony. I really appressyou you taking the time to this evening
to come on our show. Thankyou for having me. Absolutely it's been

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really fun and informative and like Isaid, we we hopefully fingers Crossed will
be seen you before its sports saidand done. That would be great.
You guys just message me or callor text or absolutely absolutely all right,
Well, everybody, I want tothank Tanya Webb, the co owner of
the Old Hospital on College Hill.Again. I want to thank Kelly for

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joining me again this week as mysecondary host whatever you want to call it.
Whatever you want to call it,we are the host of this show,
so there we go. Anyways,Kyley will catch you next time.
Tonya, thank you again, andwe'll catch everybody next time. Thank you
guys too, Thank you, rightbye. Medics for Paranormal PPF Investigations and

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