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[ghostghoul]

7 Haunted Places in Wyoming

7 Haunted Places in Wyoming

Wyoming is renowned for its wild beauty and rugged train. It’s also home to a host of spirits. From a entombed laborer to a headless bride, here are seven of The Cowboy State’s most infamous ghosts.

Old Faithful Inn – Yellowstone National Park

A number of chilling tales surround Yellowstone’s Old Faithful Inn, but the most famous involves a headless bride who lingers in the crow’s nest.

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[ontariohockeyleague]

Return for More: Buffalo, Wyoming and the Occidental Hotel

Return for More: Buffalo, Wyoming and the Occidental Hotel

After leaving Canada at the border of British Columbia and Idaho, the bulk of our 2016 summer road trip journey was winding down. For the other three in the vehicle, it was a quest for home. For me, I was pretty focused on getting to the Devil’s Tower in Wyoming. The Old West With so much stuff to see along the journey back east, why the Devil’s Tower? Well, I’ve already seen mostly all the other…

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[karmaalwayswins]

Vintage Thanksgiving Menus

1. Occidental Hotel, San Francisco, California (1891)

2. Occidental Hotel, San Francisco, California (1891)

3. Griswold Hotel, Detroit, Michigan (1899)

4. Griswold Hotel, Detroit, Michigan (1899)

5. Norfolk House, Boston, Massachusetts (1900)

6. Norfolk House, Boston, Massachusetts (1900)

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Source: New York Public Library

[thebullitimes]

After 60 Years Old Ballina Hotel Closed

After 60 Years Old Ballina Hotel Closed

  Occidental Hotel, Ballina 1933

THE Occidental Hotel, after more than 60 years as a licensed house in Ballina, has now been closed, and the license surrendered. On the water front, the Occidental in early days was the gathering place of seamen of the then numerous sailing vessels which entered the Richmond, and many of Ballina’s present public bodies were formed at initial meetings held on the…

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[classifiedhumanity]

The old Occidental Hotel makes an appearance in this rather humorous story.  The Occidental Hotel once stood where the infamous "sinking ship" parking garage is now.  Historylink has a brief slideshow of the site through the years.  Danny Westneat of the Seattle Times has a story about a man who believes the site is cursed and wrote a book about it.

"It's as if a single piece of real estate contains a version of every bad Seattle story ever told.

For starters, the land was more or less stolen from the Indians. So was everything around here. Andrews argues this affront was worse. Based on old maps of when Yesler Street was a tide flat, he theorizes it was the site of the main fishing camp of the Suquamish leader, Chief Seattle.

Later, it was part of a sawmill skid road. Then its two maple trees were used for the town hangings — including, in 1882, a lynching. After which the sheriff, who had owned the property, mysteriously dropped dead.

For a time, Seattle's finest hotel was there, the Occidental. But it was destroyed in a fire, rebuilt and then neglected into foreclosure due to bitter family lawsuits. By the 1940s, it was called the Seattle Hotel — grand architecture but the "mother of all flophouses," Andrews writes."

January 9th, 1900