This was the First Execution I Ever Witnessed – God Grant That it May be the Last!

Published Jan 3, 2024, 8:01 AM

Often referred to as "The Jewel of Placeville" - the Cary House hotel has been in operation since the gold rush days. Today, along with the living guests, there seems to be a colorful cast of very active ghosts.

Special Guest: Charlotte Kosa

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This episode of Haunted Road is extra special to me. It takes place in a town where many of you know I lived for a time, and many of my families still call it home, so I'm there at least a few times a year. It's quaint yet eclectic, and the whole main street is very, very haunted. Today's location is a bit elusive to me, though I've been inside it many times, and I've glided my hands across the rich wooden railings in the lobby, wondering what stories they could tell. But I've never investigated it, never even had a paranormal experience there. And let me tell you, after the stories and history we will discuss today, I am determined to change this asa. Come with me to Placerville, California, otherwise known as Old Hangtown, and let's visit the Carry House Hotel. I'm Amy Bruney, and this is Haunted Road. Nestled in the Eldorado National Forest just east of Sacramento. There's a small city called Placerville. It's a colorful community, literally pink and blue buildings line the streets with old fashioned facades that feel like something out of a technicolor Old West. One brick structure on Main Street sticks out. It's four stories tall, so it towers over its shorter neighbors. Brightly lit and welcoming, A second story balcony is encircled by a wrought iron railing strung with lights, all under a green awning. More lights dot the roof, illuminating a sign that identifies the property as carry House. On the side of the building. Another sign special Hotel inside the lobby boasts green carpet with a swirling circular pattern reminiscent of leaves. The stained glass windows depict the four seasons. According to Jerry Beard's article with Style Magazine titled in History, carry House Hotel in Plastererville, the forty or so guest rooms are all upstairs, and visitors ascend an ornate mahogany staircase to reach them. Each chamber has furniture and decor appropriate to the eighteen hundreds, elegant nightstands, decorative moldings, and windows draped with white curtains. While the building originally had shared communal restrooms, for guests.

These days, each.

Room has its very own bathroom. Some of the more sizeable suites have kitchenettes as well. The business was built in nineteen fifteen, reportedly constructed from the bricks of another hotel with the same name that previously stood at the same address. Before that, a saloon beckoned customers to the same spot, called the Eldorado Hotel and Saloon. It was founded in the rough and tumble Old West era, which is when European prospectors first settled in the region. The California gold Rush began in the mid nineteenth century just a short distance away from Placerville, which was originally dubbed Old Dry Diggins. According to the City of Plasarville's Plasarville City History website, the name was a very literal description of the process miners would follow to try to recover gold from the area. They'd dig up carts of dry dirt, then dip the soil into running water to wash away the sediment and sort out small bits of ore. Life in Old Dry Diggins could be brutal. Buyers often swept through town, and because the buildings were made of wood and built close together, a small spark could easily burn the whole outpost to the ground. The settlement ignited three separate times in eighteen fifty six alone. Additionally, communities like Old Dry Diggins were often lawless, and it was common for citizens to take justice into their own hands. According to a journalist named Edward Gouldbuffem, a vigilante mob was moved to violence in January of eighteen forty nine. That month, five men, none of whom spoke English, were caught attempting to rob a man named Lopez. They were arrested and sentenced to be publicly whipped thirty nine times. However, after their punishment was dealt, another accuser came forward, claiming the five had been involved in another attempted robbery and homicide. It's hard to say if the accusation was credible because the men weren't granted a fair trial. As local historian and reporter Doug Noble reported in an October two thousand and nine issue of The Mountain Democrat, they were too weak from the recent lashing to get to the courtroom, so while they recovered in a nearby house, the locals threw together a makeshift jury and weighed their guilt without taking the accused robber's statements or giving them a chance to defend themselves. Edward Buffum was present for them trial, and he watched as the townspeople were roused into a violent frenzy. One person shouted that the five men should be hanged, and many others cheered the idea. When Edward tried to calm them and make them listen to reason, the crowd turned on him until he quieted. Edward watched in horror as the rest of the mob dragged the condemned men out of the house. It's possible the accused didn't even know what was going on. They repeatedly asked for an interpreter, but the locals refused even this mercy. Edward writes that the five were blindfolded, bound, and placed atop a wagon with nooses around their necks. When the wagon pulled forward, the newses tightened, and the men met their fates hung from a white oak tree. In an article titled Criminal Annals, Part three, Buffem's version of the hangings, Doug Noble quotes the article. Edward later wrote about the event. He said, this was the first execution I ever witnessed. God grant that it may be the last. Sadly, this proved to be far from an isolated incident. Another extra judicial hanging occurred the following year. In eighteen fifty, the Eldorado Hotel and Saloon had recently been erected right across the street from the Oak Tree, and one day at the hotel a brawl broke out over a card game. The fight escalated until a man named Richard Crone nicknamed Irish Dick, stabbed another person three times. Sadly, his victim did not survive the attack. When Irish Dick was tried for the murder, a huge crowd of almost two thousand angry locals assembled outside the courthouse. A judge determined the killer should be sent to jail, and apparently this was too lenient for the townsfolk. When Irish Dick was led out of the courthouse, the crowd swarmed over him. Doug Noble writes that they tossed a lasso over Irish Dick's head and used it to haul him over to a nearby white oak dad tree, the same tree the five accused robbers were hanged from the year before. Like them, Irish Dick died suspended from its boughs in spite of the fact that he never received a formal death sentence. Thanks to incidents like these, the community earned the nickname Hangtown. For fifty years, the official town logo featured an image of a tree with a dangling noose, and the oak that was used for these hangings became a tourist destination in its own right. After it was chopped down, a bar was built around the stump, called appropriately the Hangman's Tree. Today, you can still trek to three to zero eight Main Street and view what remains of the old oak in the basement. Local lore aside, it can be tricky to speculate on just how common these hangings were, as record keeping at the time was less than thorough. That's not only true of vigilante activities, but also the day to day operations in Hangtown. For example, there were many rumors which are almost impossible to verify, of a front desk clerk who worked at the carry House Hotel at some point in the nineteenth century. His name was Stan Levine. It's hard to say if he was an employee at the Eldorado Hotel in Saloon, which operated from eighteen forty nine to eighteen fifty six. Or the carry House hotel, which was built at the same location after a fire burned down the initial structure. Either way, there are no records of Stan or his tenure, but rumor suggests that when he was alive he had a terrible cough. The visit El Dorado website also says he was prone to drinking to excess, and when he was inebriated, he tended to get belligerent and hansy. He had a reputation for grabbing his customer's bottoms when he was drunk. It said that he died in the hotel where he worked, but again this is difficult to verify. Accounts of his death very wildly. In some stories, he was murdered after making a pass at a male client while they both stood at the top of a staircase. The customer was reportedly so enraged by the same sex flirtation that he drew a knife and stabs Stand twice in the chest. Wounded, Stan fell down the stairs and took his last breath at the bottom. In other accounts, the killer was a jealous husband who flew into a murderous fury after Stan flirted with his wife once again. It said the deadly confrontation took place on the stairwell, but in this version, the husband shot Stan at the bottom. In her book Haunted Hotels of the California Gold Country, author Nancy Williams writes that Stan dragged himself from the stairs to the parlor, where the woman he'd been flirting with watched in horror. Stan died as he stared at her tear filled eyes and still. Other narratives described Stan simply succumbing to alcohol related illness after years of excessive drinking. However, he died, it said his spirit remains in the carry house. When visitors approached the base of the staircase, they say, a wave of great sadness comes over them, and it seems like he it never got over his propensity for pinching people's bottoms. Guests, men and women alike sometimes feel his touch on their backsides in the hotel's lobby and in the alley and sidewalk outside the building. Others here stands familiar cough or a whistle inside, and when strange mists form in the lobby it could be evidence of his presence. Stan seems prone to wandering out of the hotel. It's reported that the front door often opens on its own, and in a bookstore that sits near a bar stand used to frequent books often go flying off the shelves. Linda Baucher wrote in gold Rush Ghosts of Placerville, Colomba, and Georgetown that Stan tears the books down in frustration after finding there's no liquor in the shop. However, Stan is believed to be equally destructive in a local winery tasting room, how Dare.

You, which he also visits.

Accounts say he shatters wine glasses and interferes with electronics. On one occasion, he cranked the tasting room's music up to round out the sound of a customer talking. When the bartenders snapped at stand to knock it off, the sound abruptly cut out and wouldn't start again for the rest of the day. When the wine tasting room is supposedly empty, security cameras capture balls of light that have been attributed to the deceased desk clerk. In addition, there have been accounts of piano music playing at the top of the carry houses stairs, disembodied footsteps, and an unseen woman crying. The elevators run without being called smelling strongly of cigar smoke. Items move on their own, including breakfast food, which is sometimes found tossed around the dining area in the early hours. Numerous spirits have been spotted in the hotel, but many of their identities are unknown. Accounts describe a pretty woman in a blue dress and a young girl who have each appeared on the staircase. Some suggest a former kitchen employee is responsible for the sounds of dishes being washed when the kitchen should be empty. That staffer may also be the culprit when the breakfast food is disturbed. On the carry House page of Haunted Houses dot Com, Julie Carr writes of one occasion when an employee stepped onto the balcony only to find a man in Old West style clothing sitting at a table playing cards. While the workers stood unsure of how to react, the prospector's spirit slowly faded until no evidence remained to suggest he was ever there. Perhaps the most famous specter to appear in the Carrey House Hotel may be Black Bart, an infamous outlaw who stayed at the hotel during his life. Rumors suggest his spirit still lurks in the building. In addition to these sightings, strange things happen in the hotel that defy explanation. According to author Linda Boucher, on one occasion, a woman checked into the carry house and was assigned to stay in room two o seven. She was in her room when it came time to sign the guest book. She pulled out her black inkpen, pressed the tip to paper, and everything she und wrote came out blood red. Disturbed, the woman paused in confusion. Then she tried to write again, and once more, scarlet letters splattered across the page. This was so upsetting she ran out of the room with the guest books still in her hands, and didn't stop until she reached the front desk. There, the woman handed the pen to the clerk, but when they tried to write, the ink came out and standard black. Another account, one more from Linda, describes two women who were spending the night in room three oh seven in April twenty twelve. One of them woke in the middle of the night because her friend was shouting, help me. I am terrified. When she rushed over to check on her friend, the one who'd cried for help said she'd seen a man in a plaid shirt lying in bed with her. When she tried to get away, she found herself unable to move until her friend ran up to help. Many accounts feature Room two twelve, said to be the most haunted room at the Carey House hotel. It's often chilly, even when the rest of the building is toasty warm. Electronics lose power rapidly, a rocking chair sways on its own, and visitors detect an ominous ticking noise that doesn't have any clear source. In this room, paranormal investigators have made contact with the man they've identified as Arnold Widman, a teamster who stayed there sometime in the eighteen hundreds. It's said he fell ill with influenza and died in the chamber. Since then, numerous people claim they've seen him in the room. Sometimes he has a long beard, other times witnesses can only see him from the chest down, an apparition of blue jeans, a flannel shirt and boots, but no shoulder, arms or head. His devastated widow is also said to haunt the carry house. When she passes through Room two twelve, you can tell because the whole area smells of lavender. She's also been seen in nearby rooms like two O nine, which is also often unseasonably chilly. All these stories are just the tip of the iceberg. Some believe the entire town of Placerville is haunted.

I'm one of them.

While the carry House is a hub for the city's spectral activity.

To help me.

Make sense of the many, many supernatural activities here, I'm talking to Charlotte Cosa. She heads up a paranormal team in California called California Haunts and has investigated the carry House on multiple occasions. That's coming up after the break. I am now joined by a blast from the past for me, and we'll go into that a little bit shortly. But Charlotte Cosa is joining me, and she is the founder of California Haunts in California, a longtime paranormal team that I've known of for years, and so it's so great to kind of catch up with you.

Charlotte. Thanks for joining well, thank you for inviting me.

I appreciate it.

Yeah, it's ironic that, like I'm talking about the carry House and I've never investigated there because my whole family lives in Plasterville and the Bay Area, and like I'm in Plasterville multiple times a year, and I've always wanted to investigate it, and so I kind of knew it was like, I know, I know someone who's investigated this place, and your name popped up immediately.

So I've been around.

Yeah, Well, I've investigated a lot of places in Plasterville.

I love Plasterville, by the way, I feel like.

I mean, I moved there my senior year in high school, so that was a long time ago, and it just really was so charming. And back then it was still kind of artsy and rednecky, and nobody really knew about it. But now everybody knows about it, and it's really blown up, so the secret's out. But it's a great little town. But it used to just be like where you stop to go to McDonald's and use the bathroom on the way to Tahoe, right, right, right.

So it becomes so much more.

Yeah, and then Main Street, I mean, every building practically on Main Street is haunted every.

Practically everybody exactly. I've investigated a number of buildings on Main Street. I have not gotten my hands into the carry house, so I know the stories, I know the history. And now you investigated with your team a few times, right, yes, yes, just kind of off the top of your head, Like, what do you say is probably the activity that people encounter at that hotel most often?

I think it's Stan. Stan used to be Stan was at a disc clerk.

Yeah, that's what I heard too, And like that because like there's a laundry list of activity that is attributed to Stan. And so did you have any interaction with who you think could be him when you investigated there?

We did, in fact our psychic who was with us at the time, who you might know, Oh, probably, Yeah, she's the one you know that was talking to you. And then I haven't right in front of me right now, she did she she only whispered, as she says, she envisioned it with a mustache, a lot of gray hair, and he had a beard. He would have been the one who would come back to herself maybe somed she's talking about. And then she made the way up the stairs. She stepped first up. Yeah, Stan, she encountered all the stairs.

That's likes right in the live area, like the lobby is. You walk into that hotel and it's clearly historic. There's like stained glass, it's all dark wood, it's very original. Looking and so yeah, I could definitely, I could definitely see Stan being a culprit for some things.

So what she picked up was that he would have been a permanent fixtator. She didn't know any information about the hotel at all, Okay, so she says that he's the one that looks after the building, because that's exactly what it is, because he was like the hotel death clerk manager, you know, at the hotel when all this went down. But he also had and I think you know the history, he also had an eye for the ladies. Yes, so he was forever flirting with people and whatnot, and that's what ended his life. And there's conflicting things about the way he passed away too, because some you know, some like like my team when we were out there, came up with the fact that he was stabbed, okay on the stairs there, but there's other people that say he was shot.

Yeah, So it's kind of conflicting, right.

He is, he's been there for a long time, and I understand from hotel employees that I have talked to during pre interviews for the investigations that he will also let them know if there's something wrong and be related to like fire.

Oh really, so he's kind of like he's kind of watching over the building.

How does he let them know? What does he do?

Well?

I just did think they hear whispers, and I think that's pretty much what's going on, because people hear voices in there. They can hear whispers, and I think he'll talk to the front disc clerks and tell all the stuff.

Oh okay, yeah, I mean do you know?

So I don't know, Like I feel like I don't know how long the most recent owners have owned the hotel, and I know that they had Jack and Katrina in there not too long ago. So I know that there was an episode of Portals film there, and I think that's the only paranormal show that filmed there, or maybe maybe Ghost Adventures did, I can't remember. But do you know, like, do they embrace their hauntings there now or are they kind of shying away from that.

No, they're willing to tell stories, but to have groups come in, it's a little more difficult to have a team come in because you know, it's just kind of hard to tell with them whether they they're all forded with, like you say, whether they're embracing it or not. Obviously they're racing it because the history draws people in, but as far as investigators going in, it's you know, it's still few and far between you and there to investigate.

Well yeah, and it's difficult too because it's a it's a working hotel. So unless you want to like buy out the whole place, you know, it's which I guess if you're a TV production with a lot of money you could do that. I am not that person. So yeah, so okay, now there. I know there are certain rooms that are haunted. Did you encounter any activity like in any of the hotel rooms in particular?

Yes, Okay, how did that go?

It was interesting. You know, there's a lot of people, you know, over the years of those old tails and you probably know this is there was a lot of disease rampant back then, you know, like we talk about COVID, but I mean you look at the colun you look at the flu, you know, because people died from the flu back home, and the hotel does have a history of several guests dying from the flu. And the thing is the two main guests, the Weederman's the husband and wife. They're still they haven't gone anywhere, and so they like to appear by your bed. You'll be sleeping and then you look up and there's a guy with a beard staring down at you.

Yeah, I mean that would be disconcerting, you know, you know, especially if you're you know, you're up in Plasterville just visiting and going wine tasting or something, and then you wake up to that in your bedroom, which probably not what people are looking for.

His wife, Missus Edelman, she appears to people in rooms two Eleana two eleven. Yeah, she just shows up wearing a blue glove, a flowing blue gown, and I guess she emits them from what we could smell. We could smell lavender when when she came in the room.

That's interesting, and so her apparition is seen as well. And now is there anything like that's kind of I mean, I don't know if you encountered that or maybe just what they reported to you. Has there ever been anything there that frightened people. Have you heard of guests kind of running off in the night or anything like that there?

I have heard that. Yeah. In fact, just recently one of my investigators told me that she she lives up and or family loves a Plasterville. So she was up on and she told me that she was told by employees that, you know, just within the last maybe six months, there's been people that have gotten up during the night and taken off and not come back.

Yeah, I mean I could see that happening. I'm honestly shocked that I haven't stayed there. To be honest, maybe next time I'm in town, I'm gonna have to just get a room and do some investigating. But I was waiting for them to invite me. But I could be waiting forever, so maybe I just need to take it upon myself.

So okay, well I went in.

You know, we went in because I worked for the newspaper there at that time, and so we went in for the newspaper article. That's how we got in with the team.

Oh, the Mountain Democrat. That's right. I really I was able to.

Buy a newspaper article about to carry out. So you know, that's how we got the other couple times in the same way.

Yeah, because I know what it is.

It's just that they want to embrace it. But on the other hand, they want to go they're trying to keep it to themselves, just to draw people in and what But I mean, I'm not saying anything against them because it's a beautiful place, but it is hard to get in there for a full investigation.

Yeah, okay, so we clearly we have apparitions, we have whispers and like beyond varitions, did you guys encounter like any shadow figures or did you get any vps in particular?

Oh, please tell me all about it.

As far as EVPs go, we can get a lot of good stuff, but we didn't counter shadow figures in the there's like there's like a meeting room. You walk straight as through the doors in the back doors this meeting room, and we were encountering shadow figures as well as a downs there's a empty room like a dance floor, you know essentially, but that's that room. And but and all my investigators saw dark shadows in the corner of the bar in there.

Yeah okay, and then now that area the bar and where was that again?

Is the bar like on the main floor or is it downstairs?

Yeah? When you walk in and you go straight through the lobby, and then that room is back there, and that's was where they hold their weddings and all that stuff back in.

There got it now.

I had also heard through the grapevine actually that the activity has even kind of spilled out from the hotel itself, like meaning that people encounter things like in that little there's a cheese Okay, so just really quick for the audience, this is like my dream place. By the way, there's literally it's this haunted hotel and it has a wine shop and a cheese shop attached to it, so I could I would never have to leave if I was there. So but that, but have you heard that I had heard the activities actually spilled into some of those little shops.

And I'm sure we're part of the hotel in the past, right, Yes.

It is. In fact, even the Gentleman, although I was throwing some extra history here, even the hangman will hang out in the hotel, the original hangout.

I've heard that he gets around.

Yeah he gets around too. But yeah, it has spilled out. And I mean, you know what people don't understand about Plastoville is, you know, compared to the East Coast, old for us is young for you guys out there. But when these ghosts hang out, they want to hang out. I mean they've been partying coming out of the mine so their mindset, they're still there partying, and so main Street is just insane with energy. I remember my first day on main Street not realizing how much energy that it was, and I was having visions all over the place, just driving up and down Main Street. I mean they're everywhere.

Yeah, And I think if people visit Plasterville, like it's important to note, like, for example, there is a cafe a little further down Main Street. It used to be the Cosmic Cafe. I don't know what it is. I seet my hair done next door and stuff. But like literally there is a mine in the back of the building. You can just I don't know if it's open now, but like you used to be able to just walk into this mine all the way back into the mountain. You could have your coffee back there. I've investigated there a few times, and it's like that all over main Street. Like there's the bookstore. There is like a piece of like the mine and a cave underneath the floor. They have like a plexiglass over you're walking over it looking down. I think most recently they had a fake skeleton down there last time.

That right now the guy has a such you know where the bookstore, but they're.

All attached and these build are like that hardware store on Main Street. It is the oldest operating hardware store, what is it east or west of the Mississippi. There's a lot of little claims to fame like that in Placterville, and it's just the history there is insane, even you know. I obviously I'm I live there for quite a while and I still go there all the time. I think I'm even listed on their Wikipedia page as a notable resident. But I mean, I just I'm in love with that town. And even though all the history here in you know, New England where I live now, I still like, I don't think people realize everything that happened in these kind of gold rush towns.

So Carrie House.

Hotel or not, I think a lot of that is in that hotel still.

And then plus you have the underground caverns, you know, the tunnels out of there were well even for the carry house. That's how they got the men folks, the ladies of the night. Yeah, without without going like mains the main stream, as they say, because they could go on pass underneath the streets and everything and then go over the world those places and everything.

That's what I love.

Everywhere you go in uh In, like those gold rush towns, everything was a former bordello.

It was they all used to be bordello. Everywhere you go.

You could go to like you know, Taco Bellma, like this used to be a bordello. But I love that about it.

Okay.

So now we've talked about shadow figures, we've had whispers. What other things did you guys encounter there that you found like fascinating? The cat a cat okay, I don't remember.

In the hotel that likes to halt the hotel and people will be staying it could be any room in the hotel and people will be staying in these rooms at night and they'll feel this cat jump up on the bed, okay, and they could actually pet the cat. It's it's it's it's been dead for years. This cat, it just like to hang out there.

This is like a documented cat that the hotel had at one point, I guess.

So at some point, Yeah, that was something I could tell you that was unique because it was a saloon, you know salon, Well you had the history. Yeah, so we were in that back room and you'll have been for the newspaper article, and I actually picked up the sound of a chakla, you know how when people will like to take a drink and turn the glass over and slap it down on the heart on a wood surface. Yeah, I actually picked up the sound of that happening.

That's so like that they're back there still, you know, taking shots in the extra life.

That I love. But also like going back to the cat.

I like that because people ask me all the time if I've ever encountered the ghosts of animals. They want mostly people want to know, like do their animals come back? And remarkably, it happens pretty often, especially with cats. Strangely, like I've even investigated this is not the carry house. When I investigated a place that said they had a ghost cat. And this was in New Hampshire somewhere, and I remember, obviously as soon as they said that they had a ghost cat, I was like where, and they said in the basement, and I was like goodbye, and I went straight to the basement. So I went down there and I actually felt it felt like there was a cat rubbing against my leg and I got and vp of a cat purring, and so like they definitely I mean, I firmly believe that, and especially like can you imagine the life that a hotel cat would have, like everybody petting it every day and feeding it, Like why would they want to leave?

Right? Absolutely? And you know the Cosmic Well, I thought no one was called out, but the Cosmic Cafe also has a Fethom cat.

Oh, I didn't know that.

I have to find out what they're called that because I have been there since that was the old name. But I've been there many times over the years, like to see friends, bands and things, and it's a really cool space.

It is a really cool space. So I give you an idea the ghosts at the carry house, because that's what we're talking about right now. There's a little girl.

Into the right Okay.

The theory is that she was a weedman and she died of Weederman's their name is she died?

Okay?

And now did you encounter her at all in your investigations?

Yes, yeah, in fact we could hear We could hear her running up and now on the second floor hallway and she was giggling when we were up there. There's another entity that pans out in the meeting room right at the hotel and she she just likes to hang out in the much people walk by, just she's one of those looking.

Okay, that's interesting.

And so that's in that same meeting room where you saw like shadows and things too.

Yeah. Yeah, and she had been a prostitute from what she told us.

And now was this gathered like psychically or did you get like EVPs or psychically?

Yeah, delty rods.

Oh okay, because.

When we do go out, I'm a stickler for I don't put the evidence out through unless I have at least two to three verifications on it, right, right, So I'll work with dowsing rods and a psychic and then you know, cameras and EVPs you know, and all that stuff to confirm it.

That's nice, that's good.

Yeah. There's also a wagon driver. Oh but he's always seen. He only partially appears, so you get the bottom half.

Oh so it's not a fall, I've seen that before.

Yeah. Yeah, it's all for the waist down.

Okay.

And so is that like more of a residual spirit, like is he interacting?

I think it's where residual Yeah, I think it's where Okay.

I hadn't heard that one.

And there's also, of course, like all those other hotels, there's a cook in the kitchen that doesn't want to go. There's only one in the kitchen, and so they've got through share.

That's too funny, So that's prob I mean, that's a cast of characters in that place.

Yes, Yes, it's a really busy place. I know there's reports of people walking by, you know, because they have the balcony outside. I know there's reports of people walking down main street seeing people in period clothing up all that balcony.

Yeah, and it's funny because so one of the things Plasarpa likes to do is there are regularly period dressed people walking around because they do, especially during like the holidays and stuff, they do wagon rides through town. And there's a lot of like living history reenactors, and so you would really not know, you would. You could be looking at a ghost and you wouldn't know it. You would just think it was another reenactor come to think of it.

There's also a gambler of course, and there he's one of the main ones that hangs out on the balcony. He's out there playing cards.

So that balcony can you even go out there anymore. I feel like I don't know.

I don't know if they let people out there anymore. I know they did the ten years ago, but yeah, I don't know what. I haven't been out there. Well. I mean we've investigated probably every building on Main Street.

Yeah, yeah, there's a lot. I mean I've investigated quite a few as well. Back in the day. I think we even did some group investigations there once where we just went from building to building. But yeah, the balcony, I feel like I remember it being a little saggy, maybe not something you'd want to sit on or stand on. So if I saw someone up there, So if I saw someone up there now, I would be questioning whether or not they were living or not.

See, that's the main thing, kids, if your ghost other we want to hoot ghosts. We don't want to become.

No, no, you don't want to be you don't want to be another one of those casts of characters at the Carry House, except you're like the modern ghost.

And though you know, yeah, you know, it's like, you know, we've done so many old hotels that I'm not saying that they're all to say because it's not fair to say that. But I mean, you're here. You have similar you know, ghosts in all.

These hotels, right, And I think that the history too, of just Main Street in general, because you know, Plasterville is still referred to as hang town because they did, you know, there were a lot of they hung a lot of people on the main Street. It was a big affair there. Yeah, and so, and I don't know if the hanging man is still hanging on Main Street. Last time I was there, he was there.

They closed that. They have torn down that building.

Oh okay, all right, they.

Moved it further down main Street, but I think they moved him too.

But there's still Yeah, I feel like he was still there. There's literally still a man hanging, a mannequin hanging on Main Street.

Yeah. The interesting thing about that place too is that it had upstairs and there was a lot of activity upstairs at that place.

Yeah.

Well it sounds like sounds like Plasterville is just as busy in the afterlife as it is currently.

So, I mean, I got these weird things with my ability is not realizing that I was in pathic really until I got to Plasterville. I remember, I would be seeing things like if I had an investigation skill somewhere I would see the ghost from that particular investigation the night before always.

Oh wow.

So I'm having lunch. I was supposed to go to I don't know, one of the buildings on Main Street. I'm having lunch one day and I see this man walk from one wall and go through another right in front of me.

Oh geez. Yeah, well that would be alarming and.

Things like that. Just you know, there was a build up to this investigation, just like Anna from from the Boys' school up there in I Owe.

Oh yeah, I did do an episode on that as well. Preston Castle.

I went in at the bat in the bathroom at my work.

Oh geez, so they're coming around.

I felt like I was being washed over my shoulder. There was this kind of white haired woman sitting there in one of those old timey smocks and it was Anna Corbin.

Oh jeez.

So, I mean, you know this stuff goes on. But yeah, I mean I highly recommend de mean, if you if you're out and about with your family or whatever, the Cailly House for the most part is safe to take your family and as far as entities, because they really harm. I mean, there are a couple there's always batties. You know, you always gonna run into that, but the majority of it is that you know, it's just a lost souls there.

Yeah, okay, well tell us what you're doing so you can kind of shout it out to the audience. So you are obviously you have your team. I know you have a podcast. How can people find you?

They can front me everywhere. I'm on Facebook, true California Hats. We also have a California Hots radio site there Shakra Minto sears s e E r S. And I'm over on Instagram as you know, as goes to Gael. I'm on TikTok as California Hats. I have California Hats on Twitter and kel hots on all the other one. I can do it now. But yeah, there's so many of them.

There's so many. Yeah, you're You're easy to track down. So it was really nice to catch up with you, and I do really appreciate you taking the time. And so I'll be out there soon next month, out there for Christmas and everything. So I'm just gonna go up to the carry house and be like, excuse me, let me in.

That would be cool. They were cool.

In the mid eighteen hundreds. Gold Rush towns like Hangtown represented both opportunity and ruin. The promise of glittering ore and the chance to strike it rich drew prospectors from all over the world, but these frontier towns were also hubs of injustice, disease, and violence. Today, the community now known as Plastovil, remembers its history. That's clear in everything from the nineteenth century style buildings that line Main Street, to the historic decor of the rooms at the carry House hotel, to the long dead specters that never left. I'm Amy Berney and this was Haunted Road. Are you tired of the same old vacation destinations and cookie cutter experiences? Do you crave a sense of mystery, wonder and adventure that can't be found in ordinary travel brochures. Do you listen to this podcast and think I'd like to visit that spooky place? Well that's why I started Strange Escapes, hair normal based travel company that takes you to some of the most haunted locations in the world. Frankly, it's my excuse to combine all of my favorite things, which is ghosts, beautiful hotels, food and wine, and other weirdos like me to be honest. If that sounds right up your alley and you want to learn more, then visit Strange Escapes dot travel and hopefully you can join us sometime.

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