Speaker 1: Welcome to Haunted Road, a production of I Heart Radio
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Speaker 1: In two thousand and six, a visitor to Laurel Grove
Speaker 1: Cemetery in Port Towns in Washington noticed something strange. The
Speaker 1: tomb of Charles Eisenbeis and his first wife Elizabeth was open.
Speaker 1: It had cracked and the stone fell into the burial vault,
Speaker 1: leaving it wide open to the elements, and a startling
Speaker 1: discovery was made inside. You see, in March nineteen o two,
Speaker 1: when Charles Eisenbeis died, he was a prominent figure in
Speaker 1: the community. As such, the whole town turned out to
Speaker 1: see his casket carried down the steps into the subterranean
Speaker 1: vault and placed next to the coffin of his first
Speaker 1: wife after the vault was sealed. And that was that
Speaker 1: until two thousand six, because when the family went to
Speaker 1: investigate reports of this broken vault, they found the stone
Speaker 1: had fallen in such a way that it flipped over
Speaker 1: Elizabeth's coffin and shattered the Victorian viewing glass on the top,
Speaker 1: but it also smashed the coffin of a child. This
Speaker 1: small coffin had been sitting atop Charles's casket, a small
Speaker 1: coffin that certainly had not been there in nineteen o two.
Speaker 1: Descendants of Charles and Elizabeth have no idea who this
Speaker 1: child is, and the identity of the child remains a
Speaker 1: mystery to this day. But at Manresa Castle in Port Townsend,
Speaker 1: a castle that Eisenbeis himself built, there have long been
Speaker 1: reports of the ghost of a child playing and giggling
Speaker 1: within its walls, though no child has been recorded as
Speaker 1: having died. There sounds like the perfect place for us
Speaker 1: to explore, shall we. I'm Amy Bruney, and this is
Speaker 1: haunted Roe. On July tenth, eighteen thirty two, Charles Eisenbeis
Speaker 1: was born. We share a birthday. Well. I wasn't born
Speaker 1: in eighteen thirty two, clearly, but sometimes I feel like
Speaker 1: I was. His parents were Johann George Valentin Eisenbeis and
Speaker 1: Katherine Crone of nun Kirschen's Saarland, Germany before it was Germany.
Speaker 1: Of course, his ancestry is noted as Prussian. He was
Speaker 1: the third of many children and was preceded by an
Speaker 1: eldest sister and his brother Frederick. His very close companion.
Speaker 1: They were a family of millers. When Charles was twenty four,
Speaker 1: he and Frederick set off for America. They settled in Rochester,
Speaker 1: New York in eighteen fifty six. Two years later they
Speaker 1: were attracted to California and landed at San Francisco. Soon afterward,
Speaker 1: they came north, Frederick starting a bakery in style of
Speaker 1: whom while Charles embarked on the same business in Port Townsend.
Speaker 1: In fact, Charles did very well. He prospered and eventually
Speaker 1: became a leading member of the group of five five
Speaker 1: residents who dominated Port Townsend's economy. Charles acquired much of
Speaker 1: his wealth by supplying bread and crackers two ships and
Speaker 1: sailors who stopped at Port Townsend to restock their foodstuffs
Speaker 1: for their next voyage. Charles married his first wife, Elizabeth Bargamer,
Speaker 1: in eighteen sixty five. They had four children, Charles Jr. Frederick, Sophia,
Speaker 1: and Louise. In eighty two, Elizabeth died. Charles remarried within
Speaker 1: a year of Elizabeth's death, this time to young Catherine
Speaker 1: Elizabeth Marsh. They also had four children, bringing the Eisenbeiss
Speaker 1: total to eight. Lillian, Otto, Hilda, and Josephine. In its
Speaker 1: early years, Port Townsend, Washington benefited from the business acumen
Speaker 1: of Charles, who was quite a jack of all trades.
Speaker 1: He found himself in baking, brickmaking, lumber milling, brewing, banking,
Speaker 1: and had some role in a hotel as well. In
Speaker 1: eighteen seventy eight, when Port Townsend became the first incorporated
Speaker 1: city in Jefferson County, its citizens elected Eisenbeis as the
Speaker 1: first mayor. Port Townsend held a lot of promise for
Speaker 1: Charles and his contemporaries city leaders. Banking that the railroad
Speaker 1: would terminate at the seaport spurred a development boom that
Speaker 1: raised most of the buildings that today make up the
Speaker 1: downtown and uptown corps, as well as many of the homes.
Speaker 1: And that hopeful boom of the early eighteen nineties, Charles
Speaker 1: embarked on a new effort to construct a marvelous home
Speaker 1: for his family, a home that would be known as
Speaker 1: Eisenbei's Castle. Having a mass of fortune in several businesses,
Speaker 1: including the manufacture of bricks, lumber, and banking, Eisenbeis built
Speaker 1: the largest private residence in town using bricks from his
Speaker 1: own factory. Twenty five thousand bricks were used to construct
Speaker 1: the home. The bricks came from his own brickwork. Tiled
Speaker 1: fireplaces and finely crafted woodwork were installed by German artisans.
Speaker 1: The home boasted thirty rooms spread out over four floors.
Speaker 1: Taking one look at the exterior, it's easy to believe
Speaker 1: that Charles had the home designed and the style of
Speaker 1: Prussian architecture. Located at six five one Cleveland Street in
Speaker 1: Port Towns in Washington, now, Manresa Castle has bluff top
Speaker 1: views of the Puget Sound. However, the hopes of Port
Speaker 1: Townsend's leaders did not pan out. The railroad didn't make it.
Speaker 1: Rail lines ended on the east side of Puget Sound,
Speaker 1: and then a nationwide depression hit in eighteen ninety three,
Speaker 1: triggering significant fall out in the region. As the city's
Speaker 1: glory waned, things got tough for some. One of the
Speaker 1: victims of the downturn was Charles Junior. As one of
Speaker 1: the local papers put it, it was reported as he
Speaker 1: was missed from his place of business at nine o'clock
Speaker 1: this morning, and although a search was instituted immediately, it
Speaker 1: was not until nine o'clock tonight that his body was
Speaker 1: found lying on the ground underneath the Mount Baker Block
Speaker 1: owned by his father. The Mount Baker Block building was
Speaker 1: and is still in the busiest part of Port Townsend's
Speaker 1: downtown district, but no one heard the fatal report of
Speaker 1: Charles's pistol. Charles's wife, Natalia Selma phillips Iisendvice, survived him,
Speaker 1: as did their young daughter dar Latta. His closest friend
Speaker 1: was a judge named j. A. Coon, who wasn't surprised
Speaker 1: by the news, which, as he said, was the result
Speaker 1: of several months despondency. In nineteen o two, Charles died
Speaker 1: at the age of seventy. Charles's death was due to
Speaker 1: Bright's disease. It's not clear if he died in the
Speaker 1: castle or at a hospital. Charles's death was a curious coincidence,
Speaker 1: though Frederick seventy had expired nearly at the same moment
Speaker 1: as Charles. When a member of the family of Charles
Speaker 1: Eisenbis was in the telegraph office sending news of the
Speaker 1: death of Charles, he received a message announcing the death
Speaker 1: of his brother fe Eisenbis. After Charles's death in nineteen
Speaker 1: o two, Kate stayed in the house until nineteen o six,
Speaker 1: when she remarried. At that point, the castle remained empty
Speaker 1: for almost twenty years, looked after by a single caretaker.
Speaker 1: In nineteen according to Manresa Castle's website, a Seattle attorney
Speaker 1: bought the castle as a vacation place for nuns teaching
Speaker 1: in Seattle schools. This plan did not work out well,
Speaker 1: and in nineteen seven the Jesuit Priests purchased the building
Speaker 1: for use as a training college. The priests spent their
Speaker 1: sixteenth and final year of training here, studying ascetic theology.
Speaker 1: In nineteen twenty eight, the Jesuits added a large wing
Speaker 1: housing a chapel and sleeping rooms. They also installed the
Speaker 1: elevator an otis, at a cost of thirty four hundred dollars,
Speaker 1: a substantial sum in those days. As when their addition
Speaker 1: was complete the Jesuits this hurts my heart. The Jesuits
Speaker 1: stuck out over the bricks of the original portion to
Speaker 1: give the building a more uniform look. They named the
Speaker 1: complex Manresa Hall, after the town in Spain where Ignatius
Speaker 1: Loyola founded the order. The Jesuits left in nineteen sixty
Speaker 1: eight and the building was converted into a hotel. The
Speaker 1: elements of Manresa and Castle were taken from the two
Speaker 1: previous owners to create the current name. As with any
Speaker 1: large spooky castle, there's lots of lore surrounding Manresa, and
Speaker 1: that includes many, many unverifiable stories. One such is reported
Speaker 1: by investigator and author Jeff Dwyer. Although this rumor is
Speaker 1: connected to a bartender in the nineteen nineties, the story
Speaker 1: is set in nineteen twenty one, when an english woman
Speaker 1: named Kate allegedly arrived at Manresa Castle. The rumored spirit
Speaker 1: who isn't Charles's wife but a guest who spent several
Speaker 1: months in Room three oh six after Charles's death, She
Speaker 1: supposedly received news that her bow had perished while on
Speaker 1: a ship out to sea. Grieving, she died by suicide
Speaker 1: when she jumped from the window of Room three oh six.
Speaker 1: Apparently her information was wrong, though the ship carrying her
Speaker 1: lover had indeed sunk, but he had survived and was
Speaker 1: rescued by a passing vessel. In order to get Kate's attention,
Speaker 1: Dwyer used some less than traditional tactics. According to his book,
Speaker 1: he says he made derogatory accusations, insults, and challenges, all
Speaker 1: built around words that could not be included in this book.
Speaker 1: He says the spirit named Kate was reportedly very angry
Speaker 1: and very active, sharing with Dwyer that she was not
Speaker 1: faithful to her fiance while he was on the long
Speaker 1: and fateful voyage to Alaska, resulting in pregnancy. After news
Speaker 1: of his ship sinking, she mourned for weeks until she
Speaker 1: received news that he had been rescued and was en route.
Speaker 1: This catalyzed the decision to jump from the window. Again,
Speaker 1: absolutely none of this is documented or substantiated, so if
Speaker 1: anyone finds record of this, please let me know. But
Speaker 1: I have looked pretty extensively, and let's not go after
Speaker 1: Jeff Dwyer though, since I don't know him, but I
Speaker 1: know how many of my listeners hate the idea of
Speaker 1: any spirit being provoked. So maybe we can use this
Speaker 1: interest in Manresa to get the story correct and the
Speaker 1: history correct back to it. Apparently, the spirit attributed to
Speaker 1: this Kate, is often seen in room three oh six.
Speaker 1: She has long, dark hair and wait for it, a
Speaker 1: white gown. She's spotted by the window where she supposedly jumped.
Speaker 1: Kate seems to be mischievous and messes up belongings that
Speaker 1: guests have organized. She'll sit on beds when people are
Speaker 1: in them, and there are reports that her singing emanates
Speaker 1: from the bathroom overnight. Now again, Jeff Dwyer claims that
Speaker 1: a young Jesuit died by suicide in the attic in
Speaker 1: early nineteen thirties after rumors about his relationship with the
Speaker 1: nun began circulating. Often, third floor guests report hearing a
Speaker 1: rope stretching and the beams groaning, as if a body
Speaker 1: is swinging in the darkness of the huge attic. I
Speaker 1: have found no trace or whisper of verification for the story.
Speaker 1: Another source attributes the event and haunting to the attic
Speaker 1: space that's just above room three O two. The claim
Speaker 1: that a priest died by hanging in the attic space
Speaker 1: above room three O two seems to be traced to
Speaker 1: father John Alden Murphy, who drowned in the Puget Sound
Speaker 1: on September two, ninette. In a clipping from the San
Speaker 1: Francisco Examiner from August thirty one, nineteen forty three, we
Speaker 1: learned that father John Alden Murphy likely drowned while swimming
Speaker 1: in the Puget Sound near Port Townsend. The thirty three
Speaker 1: year old teacher worked at Saint Ignatious High School in
Speaker 1: San Francisco, but had been taking special studies at Manreesa Hall.
Speaker 1: After he didn't return to Manresa, a search began in
Speaker 1: his clothes were found in a pile on the beach.
Speaker 1: So let's talk the hauntings. Obviously, Manreisa is haunted, or
Speaker 1: we wouldn't be talking about it. But it's difficult to
Speaker 1: pin down who could be haunting it exactly since there
Speaker 1: are no verified deaths or traumatic events attached to it.
Speaker 1: Although I do want to point out the mysterious coffin
Speaker 1: appearance in Charles's vault we talked about in the beginning,
Speaker 1: because if there was ever a cause for a ghost
Speaker 1: to be hanging around, I'd say that's a pretty good one.
Speaker 1: Activity wise, the doors are known to open and close
Speaker 1: without anyone around. Rooms three O two, three oh four,
Speaker 1: and three oh six are supposed to be the most haunted.
Speaker 1: Daniel Demy referenced an article by James Barnett from two
Speaker 1: thousand four, where the latter dated stories of hauntings at
Speaker 1: Manresa Castle to a bartender's imaginative storytelling in the early
Speaker 1: to mid nineteen nineties. DeMay is a Port Townsend local
Speaker 1: and his father was a housekeeper at Manresa Castle in
Speaker 1: the late seventies. His father told him that while wrapping
Speaker 1: up in Room three oh six, a key ring he
Speaker 1: placed on a dresser floated in midair about eighteen inches
Speaker 1: off the wood top. As he stared at it, the
Speaker 1: ring crashed down on the table with a clatter. In
Speaker 1: the front desk manager Kimberly Smith told a journalist that
Speaker 1: although the latest owners don't play up the paranormal as
Speaker 1: much as previous ones have, they have received accounts of
Speaker 1: a sad unseen violinist that's a new him, as well
Speaker 1: as a giggling child and a woman named Natalie. The
Speaker 1: dining room is supposedly haunted by Kate eisenbeis Charles's wife.
Speaker 1: She is seen sitting in the dining room in a
Speaker 1: long Victorian gown. An e v P of a female
Speaker 1: spirit has also been captured in that space speaking German.
Speaker 1: What's now the banquet hall was the Jesuits Chapel. Glasses
Speaker 1: that have been properly placed on tables are found upside down,
Speaker 1: and sometimes they will be shattered with no explanation. Staff
Speaker 1: members have also reported feeling watched in this space, but
Speaker 1: don't take it from me. We're going to shift gears
Speaker 1: here a bit. Usually we speak with someone who has
Speaker 1: investigated a location, but we're actually about to speak with
Speaker 1: the night front desk agent. Amber Don is her name,
Speaker 1: and she spends just about every night, sometimes very alone
Speaker 1: in the heart of Manresa Castle. And to say she
Speaker 1: has some stories is putting it lightly. So stay with us.
Speaker 1: We'll chat with Amberdon after this. I am sitting here
Speaker 1: now with amber Don, who is the front desk staff
Speaker 1: at Manresa Castle. And what's interesting is she works the
Speaker 1: night shift. So normally we're chatting with paranormal investigators or
Speaker 1: teams who have investigated, but I think amber Don is
Speaker 1: in the thick of it at Manresa and she's got
Speaker 1: some stories to tell when she's say, oh, yes, was
Speaker 1: definitely here. I love that you picked the night shift
Speaker 1: on purpose because you wanted to experience the ghosts at
Speaker 1: the castle. Like what drew you to Manresa in the
Speaker 1: first place. Well, honestly, Um, I was working for another
Speaker 1: company for about six years and um we used to
Speaker 1: have our annual Christmas party here and I always thought
Speaker 1: that it was a really neat place just because of
Speaker 1: the history. And that was before I knew that it
Speaker 1: was so incredibly haunted. And I'm a huge fan of
Speaker 1: the paranormal and like a horror movie fanatic, but I've
Speaker 1: never actually experienced anything until I came here at work. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, I will start this off by sharing a
Speaker 1: quick well it's not really quick, but a story that
Speaker 1: I have at Manresa that just kind of sticks out
Speaker 1: for me. So Manresa Castle was the site of the
Speaker 1: very first Strange Escapes event. I own a company called
Speaker 1: Strange Escapes, where we take people on haunted tours all
Speaker 1: over the world, and Manresa was our first one. I
Speaker 1: think we did it two or three years in a row,
Speaker 1: and it was conducive. An environment is very conducive to
Speaker 1: that because it's very intimate, like there's forty rooms, but
Speaker 1: there is this kind of meeting space downstairs, and it's
Speaker 1: just gorgeous. It's in close proximity to downtown. Anyway, I
Speaker 1: digress as usual. I was there one year and I
Speaker 1: had brought my daughter, who I believe she was about
Speaker 1: three at the time, and I brought my sister with
Speaker 1: me to help me take care of my daughter, Charlotte,
Speaker 1: and Charlotte got very sick. Um she was running a
Speaker 1: crazy fever. She was throwing up all night like. It
Speaker 1: was incredibly stressful. We ended up having to take her too.
Speaker 1: There's like a either an ear or an urgent care,
Speaker 1: like almost across the street from Manresa. We took her
Speaker 1: there and they were able to give her some like
Speaker 1: meds and everything, but she was just out of it
Speaker 1: that whole trip. And this event was all adults. There's
Speaker 1: forty rooms. At that time. Kids weren't coming to these yet.
Speaker 1: And I'll never forget there was one morning I went
Speaker 1: down to breakfast and I saw buch of women there
Speaker 1: and they were, you know, having coffee and whatnot, and
Speaker 1: they said Charlotte sher was having fun this morning. And
Speaker 1: I was like, what are you talking about? And they
Speaker 1: were like, we heard her just giggling away and running
Speaker 1: up and down the hallway at like six thirty this morning.
Speaker 1: Can't believe you woke up that early. And these were
Speaker 1: a number of people who were staying in different rooms
Speaker 1: where they had come together. And I was like, no,
Speaker 1: Charlotte has been throwing up all night and been fast
Speaker 1: asleep all morning. She's definitely not playing. But they had
Speaker 1: heard a child running up and down the hallway and
Speaker 1: giggling and there were definitely no kids present. So is
Speaker 1: that something that you have heard of before happening there? Oh? Yes,
Speaker 1: Actually when I very first started the front desk, and
Speaker 1: also the housekeepers told me that when it was real,
Speaker 1: real quiet, and there was like maybe one or two
Speaker 1: rooms you know that had people in a through the
Speaker 1: whole entire building, they would consistently hear children running up
Speaker 1: and down the hallways and giggling and thing, you know,
Speaker 1: and they would go out there and there's absolutely nobody around,
Speaker 1: and they knew for a fact out of those two
Speaker 1: rooms that were in the building that there was no
Speaker 1: children at present whatsoever. There is said to be a
Speaker 1: little girl right around nine or ten years old that's
Speaker 1: supposed to be frequently here, and some of the kitchen
Speaker 1: staff and our restaurant have seen her right on that
Speaker 1: end of the castle down by the restaurant is supposed
Speaker 1: to be the most original part of the castle where
Speaker 1: the front desk sits in like that on And I've
Speaker 1: actually personally seen that little world during a power outage
Speaker 1: one time, because I thought, you know, when I very
Speaker 1: first got here and I was like, ah, you know,
Speaker 1: what's the hyball about? Is this place really haunted. But
Speaker 1: even though I had heard a couple of experiences from guests,
Speaker 1: but you know, nothing had happened to me yet. And
Speaker 1: we had this power outage and it stayed off for
Speaker 1: probably about two and a half hours, and there's no
Speaker 1: you know, burning of candles of any kind in our
Speaker 1: rooms or anything like that. And so I was, believe
Speaker 1: it or not, out and about handing out blow sticks
Speaker 1: and I'm whatever on the third floor. Yes, now, I
Speaker 1: mean now with the lights off in this place, boy,
Speaker 1: oh boy, does it add some allbance to the place. Yes, Iran,
Speaker 1: I was. Yeah, I was up on the third floor,
Speaker 1: and at the corner of my eye, I thought I'd
Speaker 1: seen somebody standing down in the middle of the hallway
Speaker 1: and down by the attic stairs. And as I shined
Speaker 1: my flashlight down there, I've seen a little girl just
Speaker 1: kind of dart around the corner, and I've seen probably
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of inches of her dress go
Speaker 1: around the corner. And when I walked down there and
Speaker 1: I was like hello, and I knew that there wasn't
Speaker 1: any kids up on the floor that I had personally
Speaker 1: checked in, So you know, it was very very interesting
Speaker 1: and probably about a week or so later, this lady
Speaker 1: comes to stay and she it was a birthday gift
Speaker 1: to herself. And she'd stay in like for probably about
Speaker 1: nine days in three oh six, which is supposedly yes,
Speaker 1: where the innkeeper jumped out the window at and she
Speaker 1: told me, you know, and she was like medium and
Speaker 1: she was really really sensitive to energies and she could
Speaker 1: converse a little bit with the spirits. And I had
Speaker 1: not told her anything whatsoever about this little girl about
Speaker 1: seeing this spirit. And she comes down a couple of
Speaker 1: days later and tells me that she's experiencing somebody going
Speaker 1: through her belongings at about three or so ish in
Speaker 1: the morning. And so she finally asked, you know, it
Speaker 1: went on for a couple of days in a row.
Speaker 1: So she finally asked and reached out to the spirit,
Speaker 1: you know, who are you and what do you want?
Speaker 1: Why do you keep waking me up? And this little
Speaker 1: girl proudly announces that it was her tenth birthday and
Speaker 1: then she was looking for a birthday gift. And so
Speaker 1: after that happened, it immediately clicked in my head. I
Speaker 1: was like, oh my, that was definitely the spirit of
Speaker 1: a little girl that I see, because she was right
Speaker 1: around nine or ten years old, and she was wearing
Speaker 1: a very very old style little dress, and so it
Speaker 1: was just very very odd, you know. I mean, it
Speaker 1: is very odd just because when you go through the
Speaker 1: history of Manresa, there are not really any deaths tied
Speaker 1: to it. There was one priest who drowned. There was
Speaker 1: a very big rumor that someone had taken his own
Speaker 1: life at some point in the building, but no one's
Speaker 1: been able to find record of that. But they think
Speaker 1: it might be some confusion because there was a priest
Speaker 1: who did drown about that time, but that's the only
Speaker 1: death people can seem to tie to the building with records.
Speaker 1: So what do you think is going on here? Why
Speaker 1: do you think there's all these other spirits that people
Speaker 1: report there? Well, I was lucky enough to meet this
Speaker 1: young lady that she had bought in the book off
Speaker 1: of Amazon and had the whole entire history of Manresa,
Speaker 1: as well as going a little bit deeper into the
Speaker 1: ghost side of it. And this little girl is believed
Speaker 1: to be Ice and Vice's meets okay, and I guess
Speaker 1: apparently there was also a mysterious body of a child
Speaker 1: that was found in their crip too. That's what I
Speaker 1: was gonna say. There was a coffin because something happened
Speaker 1: with their Their coffin was glass and it broke, and
Speaker 1: so when they noticed this, they went in and they
Speaker 1: found the grave of a child that no one had
Speaker 1: known of, and even the descendants weren't sure who this
Speaker 1: person was. You know, it's funny that you were talking
Speaker 1: about the rearranging of things, because I do remember when
Speaker 1: we were there that a number of our guests were
Speaker 1: reporting that they would come back to their room and
Speaker 1: things were moved or things were put away. Does that
Speaker 1: happen a lot, Yes, And I've had it happened to
Speaker 1: me several times back when I very first started. That's
Speaker 1: kind of it was almost like a snowball effect. You know.
Speaker 1: It started with a little fickering lights here and there,
Speaker 1: and then odd things like I would come back to
Speaker 1: my office at night and I know that I'm the
Speaker 1: only one that's on shift, no main its person, nobody
Speaker 1: else has a key that gets in that of the office.
Speaker 1: In my office like to be all off. And speaking
Speaker 1: of things being moved around, one time I actually came
Speaker 1: in here and my keys, I had my register or
Speaker 1: Keith sitting here. And I mean I searched this whole
Speaker 1: entire office high and well, could not find them anywhere.
Speaker 1: Walked around the corner where we keep all of our
Speaker 1: soaps and stuff, and there they were, tucked like almost
Speaker 1: in behind a cabin. Now, have you had anybody just
Speaker 1: kind of get fed up or scared and just leave
Speaker 1: in the middle of the night. Since I've been here,
Speaker 1: there was only one instance that I remember. Some folks
Speaker 1: they had checked in rather late at night, It was
Speaker 1: probably maybe about eight or nine o'clock, and by midnight
Speaker 1: they were gone. They turned in their keys and said, nope,
Speaker 1: we can't do it. Ohn or they in three oh
Speaker 1: six or somewhere else. They were actually in three oh two,
Speaker 1: which is the one that sits right below where the
Speaker 1: munk hung itself. So tell me about three oh six,
Speaker 1: because that that why is that room so notorious. Three
Speaker 1: oh six is supposed to be where Kate, the innkeeper
Speaker 1: had jumped out the window at okay, and the story
Speaker 1: that surrounds that is her husband. He left this place
Speaker 1: sit empty for probably about his wife ended up remarrying,
Speaker 1: and she left it sit empty for probably about twenty
Speaker 1: some odd years. I remember. Yeah, there was, yeah, and
Speaker 1: she had had a fiance that went out to see
Speaker 1: and she was told that he had died out the sea,
Speaker 1: and so she of course was convinced she was never
Speaker 1: ever going to find another love until she jumped out
Speaker 1: the window and he came home. So it's kind of
Speaker 1: like this tragic love story. And the most accounts that
Speaker 1: I honestly get from that room people report a woman crying. Interesting, yes,
Speaker 1: and ironically people have heard a baby crying in there
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, it's not rare for us to go
Speaker 1: into places that have a lot of reported activity that
Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily match up with the history, or are things
Speaker 1: that we can't find in the history. Like for as
Speaker 1: long as Manresa has existed, there's probably a number of
Speaker 1: things that have happened there over the years that we
Speaker 1: don't know about. But I do just love kind of
Speaker 1: the lore surrounding the building, whether or not we can
Speaker 1: verify it, and regardless of whether we can verify the history,
Speaker 1: it's haunted, like I can vouch for that. So honestly,
Speaker 1: you know, the few mediums that I have talked to,
Speaker 1: they kind of feel like it's more of like a
Speaker 1: crossroads or maybe a portal where thousands of spirits just
Speaker 1: kind of float on through and maybe there's something that
Speaker 1: draws them here. So I've also heard that side of it, too, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, I've heard, but maybe it's not just the
Speaker 1: spirits that we've been told about, you know, the few
Speaker 1: stories that we've been told about that are here. You know,
Speaker 1: there's maybe other spirits that come on through. So that
Speaker 1: being said, now, have you ever been truly fearful there?
Speaker 1: Have you ever been truly scared at any point? There
Speaker 1: was only one time that it actually got me and
Speaker 1: sent chills down my spot. It was a couple of months,
Speaker 1: and I'd only been here for maybe about four months
Speaker 1: or so. I had just walked up everything for the night.
Speaker 1: It was probably about quarter to eleven or so, and
Speaker 1: it was on a Monday night, which is the only
Speaker 1: night of the week that our restaurant and our lounges
Speaker 1: are closed, so it was really really quiet, not many
Speaker 1: people in the building. I didn't have me guests that night,
Speaker 1: and I was on my way out the back and
Speaker 1: as you walk down the hallway and you turn off
Speaker 1: all the lights, there's this one little spot back there
Speaker 1: that you kind of have to walk a couple of
Speaker 1: feet before the automatic lights kick in and I had
Speaker 1: just turned them off, and it was so dark back there,
Speaker 1: I couldn't even see my own hand in front of
Speaker 1: my face. And this female voice, almost in a whisper,
Speaker 1: just said hello into my ear girlfriend when I say,
Speaker 1: I ran out that door. So I guess it wasn't
Speaker 1: the fact that I was really scared. I guess it
Speaker 1: just kind of caught me off guard. You know, It's
Speaker 1: like my fight or flight kicked in. I was like,
Speaker 1: ohm out. Well, that's just so. As someone who does
Speaker 1: this a lot and it has experienced money to smbodied voices,
Speaker 1: they continue to be one of the scariest bit a
Speaker 1: phenomena of me because you're you hear a voice come
Speaker 1: from thin air where a mouth would be if someone
Speaker 1: was standing there, but no one is there, and your
Speaker 1: body it's that instinct of like something is wrong, and
Speaker 1: you do like you have to stop yourself because your
Speaker 1: instincts kick in, whether or not you're like a big, bad,
Speaker 1: brave ghost hunter like I am, clearly, but you who
Speaker 1: do have this kind of like I want to run
Speaker 1: away right now? Yeah, that probably would have gotten to me.
Speaker 1: I mean, she was saying hi, but she probably could
Speaker 1: have picked a more opportune moment. Yes, so you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you want to make friends, you should
Speaker 1: probably not sneak up in them, on them in the dark,
Speaker 1: right exactly? How is the pandemic affected things? Are things
Speaker 1: slower or things picking back up? Like? How is business?
Speaker 1: Is it affecting the haunting? I mean during this timing year,
Speaker 1: it's it's slow anyhow. This summer we actually were, We
Speaker 1: were full, full, full all the time, and especially on weekends,
Speaker 1: you know, which is more common. But we had quite
Speaker 1: a few people during week as well, so it looks
Speaker 1: pretty busy. Well that's good. I do feel like a
Speaker 1: lot of people are doing a lot of domestic travel
Speaker 1: right now. And I live in a tourist town. I
Speaker 1: live in Newport, Rhode Island, and the last two summers
Speaker 1: have been some of the busiest times I've ever experienced here,
Speaker 1: and I think it's because people didn't really want to
Speaker 1: go anywhere else. But what is it like there in
Speaker 1: the winter when it's slow, what's the vibe? Oh, it's
Speaker 1: so slow and so quiet. I find, honestly that I've
Speaker 1: had more things, more experiences, and more feelings in here
Speaker 1: of the paranormal activity, just because there's been some nights
Speaker 1: where there's been absolutely nobody in the building of me,
Speaker 1: and so that's very interesting vibe as well. That's an
Speaker 1: eerie feeling, you know. You know, there's just all these
Speaker 1: empty rooms basically just here to answer phones, you know,
Speaker 1: and there's nobody staying in any of the rooms. Have
Speaker 1: not got no check ins. And yeah, there was a
Speaker 1: couple of times where I decided, you know, to just
Speaker 1: get up and kind of do my own spiritual adventure
Speaker 1: and just go ghost hunting myself. And oh yeah, I've
Speaker 1: had I've had quite a few things happen, like radios
Speaker 1: come on all by themselves, clocks working when they're supposed
Speaker 1: to be broken. Oh yeah, yeah, that sounds fun to me.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's it's a blast. I absolutely love
Speaker 1: working here. It's like you need to get pe to
Speaker 1: do this, really, I do know. So Okay, so when
Speaker 1: we first had Strange Escapes at Manresa, they were very
Speaker 1: open about their ghosts and the paral activity. They were
Speaker 1: thrilled to have us. I think they've changed hands since
Speaker 1: the only reason we have not been back was not
Speaker 1: because of anything other than the journey for us was
Speaker 1: really difficult. Getting all of my speakers all the way there.
Speaker 1: But we loved it, and I'm sure we'll go back
Speaker 1: in the future. But how are the current owners? How
Speaker 1: are they? Are they open to their haunts? Do they
Speaker 1: welcome people coming in and being curious about the paranormal?
Speaker 1: Oh very much so. We a lot of times encourage that.
Speaker 1: I see people come through that bring thousands of dollars
Speaker 1: in equipment to do little ghost hunts and and that's
Speaker 1: one thing that's wonderful about being the nighttime person and
Speaker 1: being by myself is I get to participate and take
Speaker 1: them places like the attic and them and kind of
Speaker 1: do investigations with them. I've been that several times. But yeah,
Speaker 1: we definitely encourage people to walk around after hours and
Speaker 1: see what they can find. Yeah, you know, my favorite
Speaker 1: time to go to haunted places is really the off season,
Speaker 1: and it's just because that's when you can really fully
Speaker 1: experience it, like it's obviously fun and beautiful. I'm sure
Speaker 1: to go to Port towns End in the summer, but
Speaker 1: my favorite time to go to places like that is
Speaker 1: when nobody else is there. And so I guess that's
Speaker 1: you know, that's why us paranormal investigators are good for business, hey, right,
Speaker 1: And that's exactly what I do want to if you
Speaker 1: want the full experience, come during the off season, or
Speaker 1: come during the week um, you know, like Monday through Thursday,
Speaker 1: you know, instead of on the weekends, because I feel
Speaker 1: like people don't get nearly as much of a reaction
Speaker 1: from the spirits when there's a bunches and bunches of
Speaker 1: people in the building. And also they add an additional
Speaker 1: bar too, so we have now two lounges in a restaurant,
Speaker 1: so there's tons of people around, and I feel like
Speaker 1: people don't get as much paranormal activity as when it's quiet, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, I've learned. I think sometimes it's actually happening,
Speaker 1: you just can't tell as often when there's people all
Speaker 1: around you and it's busy and you're not as contume
Speaker 1: looking for it. For sae, you might not know. You
Speaker 1: could literally have a ghost sitting right next to you
Speaker 1: and you wouldn't know at that point, you know. So
Speaker 1: I always tell businesses who have paranormal activity. I remind
Speaker 1: them that a paranoral investigators like to go during the
Speaker 1: slow season and be they want to come in and
Speaker 1: sit in the dark and be as quiet as possible.
Speaker 1: So they're literally the best customers you can have. Oh yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know when it's really quiet and versus
Speaker 1: when it's busy in here. Um, there's a cloth that
Speaker 1: sits on our wall in the lobby and I was
Speaker 1: told that it has to have the double keys to
Speaker 1: wind it up. Well, the keys have been missing for years,
Speaker 1: So this clock has been broken for years. And the
Speaker 1: girl that trained she had been here for probably about
Speaker 1: two years, and she's now the office manager. And she
Speaker 1: actually had a film of the hands movie and that
Speaker 1: was back when I very first started, you know, so
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, you know, I think you're just
Speaker 1: trying to scare me. Well, this one particular night, like
Speaker 1: I said, all the other times, you know, it's been
Speaker 1: real quiet. Well this night they had a jazz band
Speaker 1: playing and some kind of ballgame or something taking down
Speaker 1: on you know, downstairs in the bar, so it was
Speaker 1: fairly loud, and all of the sudden, the pendulum started
Speaker 1: swinging on the clock and it chimed three times. And
Speaker 1: that was the one and only experience that I've had
Speaker 1: that there's been a lot of people around, and of
Speaker 1: course there wasn't anybody in the lobby to see it,
Speaker 1: so it made me look like I was totally crazy pants.
Speaker 1: But wouldn't you know, it shocked me so bad I
Speaker 1: didn't even think to get my cell phone out. So
Speaker 1: now you know, of the group is a big joke
Speaker 1: around here. The crew is like, sure, Ambergon, sure that happens.
Speaker 1: I believe you. It's actually pretty We experience a lot
Speaker 1: where activity spikes either during or after things have been
Speaker 1: you know, jumping in some of these places, you know,
Speaker 1: like Adam and I have actually brought in on Kindred Spirits.
Speaker 1: We've actually brought in a band before to kind of
Speaker 1: get the energy up into some of these because they
Speaker 1: would say that they'd be closing at night and all
Speaker 1: of this activity would happen, but you know, we would
Speaker 1: be there for days with no one there, and so
Speaker 1: we'd bring in a band to kind of get that
Speaker 1: energy level up again. And it works. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: would keep an eye on that, you know, like really
Speaker 1: busy nights. I think that the spirit world feels that too.
Speaker 1: They get excited and more active. I do too, And
Speaker 1: being the fact that this used to be their home,
Speaker 1: I personally view it as you know, they're excited that
Speaker 1: we're bringing their place back to life, you know. More
Speaker 1: or less, That's kind of how I feel about it,
Speaker 1: because even during that same power outage, I had one
Speaker 1: um like, now, there's eight light bulbs in this shandelier
Speaker 1: that sits above in our lobby. And during that same
Speaker 1: power outage that I'd seen the little girl, there was
Speaker 1: one light bulb that stayed on the full two and
Speaker 1: a half hours, even though the rest of the entire
Speaker 1: castle did not have one smable light on. And I
Speaker 1: seen that, as you know, what are the odds that
Speaker 1: they would leave nothing but the entrance light on. It
Speaker 1: was kind of like, welcome to my home. You know.
Speaker 1: That's kind of how I feel too, because it seems
Speaker 1: like whenever it's busier, I feel like it kicks up
Speaker 1: that spiritual activity almost like they're excited. Hey people, you know,
Speaker 1: we're bringing their place back to life. I believe that,
Speaker 1: and I know that the last like three or four
Speaker 1: owners have been very dedicated to kind of keeping it
Speaker 1: the way it is, you know, being true to its
Speaker 1: roots and not doing any crazy renovations or anything. Like
Speaker 1: you do walk in and you feel like you're taking
Speaker 1: a step back in time. And it's gorgeous and the
Speaker 1: energy is just fabulous. Like I, I love it, and
Speaker 1: I'm incredibly jealous of your job. But particular owner that
Speaker 1: I worked for, he's had the place for probably about
Speaker 1: six years, and I watched him put a brand new
Speaker 1: paige job on the place and they just redid the
Speaker 1: groove and now he's working on an accent wall up
Speaker 1: on the second and third floor in the hallway and
Speaker 1: also adding some additional antique furniture to the rooms and
Speaker 1: just bringing the place back to life. It's just wonderful.
Speaker 1: I feel very lucky to work here and actually see
Speaker 1: that taking place. That's wonderful to hear, and I'm thrilled
Speaker 1: It's it's been a while since I visited. I want
Speaker 1: to get back again. So if people want to visit Manresa,
Speaker 1: is there a website they can go to any tips
Speaker 1: or tricks or times you think they should visit. Um, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're more the welcome to go to our Manresa Castle
Speaker 1: dot com or we also have the Castle dot com
Speaker 1: as well, which is a little bit more of the
Speaker 1: restaurant and the lounge side of it, and they can
Speaker 1: see what kind of live events we've got going on.
Speaker 1: Throughout the months. I think it goes like three months out.
Speaker 1: And also recently they've been rolling out some wedding packages too,
Speaker 1: so if anybody wants to have a wedding here and whatnot.
Speaker 1: So yeah, they're doing all kinds of stuff to bring
Speaker 1: the place back to life. I love that well. Ghosts aside,
Speaker 1: Man Raise is just a beautiful place to visit. Port
Speaker 1: Townsend is a great little town and it's well worth
Speaker 1: the trip. So I recommend it to everyone, and so
Speaker 1: go check it out. Yes, say hi to Amber Dawn.
Speaker 1: She'll be there in the middle of the night waiting
Speaker 1: for you. And I got lots and lots of stories
Speaker 1: to tell. I love it well. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for joining me. I super appreciate you taking the time.
Speaker 1: You've been lovely. It's been my pleasure. I probably sound
Speaker 1: like a broken record when I talk about how important
Speaker 1: getting accurate history is when it comes to a haunting,
Speaker 1: but I don't think the paranormal field or even me
Speaker 1: had this priority. In the past, we would walk into
Speaker 1: buildings and take every word of lore someone in this case,
Speaker 1: apparently a bartender, passed on to us as gospel, and
Speaker 1: we'd roll with it. Thankfully. Man Teresa seems like a
Speaker 1: very peaceful haunt whoever is there. But I challenge you
Speaker 1: to do some extra digging, not just on Manresa, but
Speaker 1: any potentially haunted location. Let's learn about their ghosts. So maybe,
Speaker 1: just maybe, next time we're huddled in the dark trying
Speaker 1: to capture that elusive e v P, we've at least
Speaker 1: got the ghost's name right. Maybe then they may be
Speaker 1: more inclined to respond. If you head to man Teresa,
Speaker 1: say hi to Amber Dn and I'd go visit that
Speaker 1: burial vault when you're in town. Inside lies the body
Speaker 1: of an unidentified child, and they may just need a
Speaker 1: bit of our love. Plus, that's a mystery I'm and
Speaker 1: I'm sure now you are very compelled to solve. Until
Speaker 1: next time. I'm Amy Bruney and this was Haunted Road.
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Speaker 1: please check out my company, Strange Escapes at Strange dash
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