Hi, I'm Holly and I'm Haley. Welcome to Mountain Mysteries Tales from Appalachia. Okay, we are live. I have a few minutes.
Welcome back friends. Well hello there. If you missed us, I'm yeah, you probably didn't. I was telling Haley earlier, I listened back to last week and I was like, what the hell?
The question of if Holly was on drugs did arise. Yeah, I was like, I just babbled on for like seven minutes about my Grammy that I will never win. Right. But you know what?
It was hilarious. It was very funny. It was super fun. I'm glad you listened back to them because I don't.
Yeah, especially when I Haley was judging my whole music video concept and I told her that it should be jealous. I have done clearly, obviously. Obviously she was. So, well, I've died a little bit this week.
I think you have too. We've both been in the illness realm again, but your insides are my insides are freaking out. So long story short, had a weird like incident with pain and nausea and all the things and went to the doctor and turns out, after all the scans and everything, that my colon is inflamed. So how do you get an inflamed colon?
I don't really know. Okay. I'm unsure, but I have one. Interesting.
That is inflamed. One day too. Like are there food triggers? Probably.
I'm assuming I'll learn more when I follow up. Probably. But meet with a dietician. You cannot eat anything.
You can't eat anything. Really, pretty much. So yeah, but I have been experiencing some watery stools. How exciting.
It's just been really, really fun, especially when you are like, I'm going to put my pants and then you do. Well, were you working at the time? Yeah, once. Well, you know what?
Sometimes it happens. I think that if the children have you on a pedestal, they shouldn't. Well, no, this is this like, it should bring you down if you're not just. It should not bring you down.
It makes you just more relatable. Like, oh my gosh, I've crap myself too. Yeah, I have. Yeah, most of us have.
I think all of us have in tough situations. Yeah, happens. So yeah, but now I've taken enough emotium that I may never poop again. So, so now you're happy.
Obviously, I don't have the opposite issue. But you know, it's fine. I've had two days of no pain. That's fantastic.
So I feel like we're on the mend. Okay, good. We're doing well. When I texted Haley tonight and said, Hey, I think I'm going to make Philly cheeses.
What do you think about that? And she was like, um, sounds good, except I probably really won't eat that much because my insides are angry. Exploding. What?
Well, I think the initial question was asking if I was pregnant. Yeah, yeah, I did center a pregnancy emoji, which is actually an emoji of me. It's a cute little like blonde pregnant woman. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. No, um, are you pregnant? I'm not actually good.
But you know, just my colon is exploding currently. I mean, sometimes if you compare that to motherhood, it's like, well, I might take a cold one. Yeah, after tonight's. Yeah, I'm cool with the colon.
Yeah, and I'll just hang out with my swollen colon. I love that. I'm a swollen colon. That could be my song.
That's your song. Oh, yeah. I mean, do we have enough shelves available for all the Grammys? No, man.
Seriously. Looking around. Seriously. Enough space.
I mean, I feel a collab coming. Yeah, for sure. I don't know what it is, but it's like, I ship my pants. I ship my pants.
Everybody will love it. It'll be one of those stupid songs for like, this is like the new oombob. Yeah. Or Friday, Friday.
That song was wow. So what was your health hazard? You know what? It's funny because I had my so my son over the course of the last few months has had everything you can imagine.
He has had strep throat. He has had chronic ear infections. He's had flu A. Yeah, like just nonstop sickness.
And I was like, look at that. I haven't gotten a darn thing. I was so proud. Like, look at the good job immune system.
And then lo and behold, last Saturday, we laid down to like take a nap and I woke up in my throat was so sore. And I was like, okay, it's not the it'll go away. I know it's worse and worse and worse. And it kind of turned into like a cold.
I think it was going to be more, but I tried to, you know, take all the precautionary stuff that I think kind of helped knock it out. But anyway, by Tuesday, I had complete their injectus. I could not speak at all. So, and I was still working because I have full schedule.
There was just no way I could stop working. And so somebody called me and I was like, eh, like, are you okay? And I was like, yeah, really? I mean, it's kind of like a crank call.
So I was really concerned that by tonight, I would have my voice back. It's not 100% obviously. I'm still cracky. Yeah, but it's what you'd understand.
But it's yeah, here. My son did baseball practice on Tuesday, Tuesday. Yeah. And I was trying to like encourage him.
And he was, he hit the ball, but he was running to the wrong base. And so I was like, base. And it just it sounded like I was a demon possessed. I was gonna say it's very reminiscent of the demonic possessions that we talked about.
It's true. It's true. But yeah. So here's the question.
Yeah, what you got there? We are going to talk to you in demonic possessions. Yes. We're going to talk about, we're going to talk about a haunting at the Reed Hotel in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
You guys are beautiful. It is really pretty. I think I've been there like once or twice when I was younger. I haven't been there.
I think I've been there at all as an adult. He's really lovely. So that would be at some of this. We have a lot on the list.
Yeah. Okay. So, the Reed Hotel, it's actually called the Reed House Hotel. So before it was the Reed House, the property was actually the old Crutchfield House.
It's at 827 Broad Street in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Hey. So the Crutchfields constructed the inn just across the street from a new railway station in the mid 1800s. So smart move.
Like heck yeah. But the hotel where the people are getting off the train. Brilliant. Makes sense.
So there was an interest in railroads that really spiked early on in Tennessee around the year of 1827. The train station didn't hit Chattanooga until the 1840s, which you know there were other states around that were really encouraging Tennessee to build a railroad of their own so that their own trains could go through you know their scenic mountain landscape. Yes. So all these other places had trains already.
And also went a pain in the butt to try and do a railway through the mountains. Yeah. It's a it's a whole problem. Yeah.
Okay. So George is Western and Atlantic Railway already aimed for the Tennessee River. So train station in Chattanooga meant not only increased traffic, but also increased revenue due to the imports and exports that were going to become in and out by train. So by 1850 Chattanooga found itself in the midst of an industrial revolution.
Which is exciting. Yes. Yeah. The National Chattanooga Railroad launched in Chattanooga in 1854.
There were you know different branches that you know shot out over the years. And by 1857 the Memphis and Chattanooga were also running regularly through the self-proclaimed River City, which Chattanooga. Right. So the church field families saw you know opportunity to build this hotel right near the railway station and decided yeah they were like let's do this.
Stitching? Yes. So obviously things are going very well. It's right by the railway station.
People are getting off the train. They're like I'll just stay here. This is great. And then the thing happened.
Oh. Called the Civil War. Oh. I thought there was like a good old murder there.
Well there was several. Civil War. Well. Okay.
Civil War. Well you know. Yeah. That's me.
Yeah. So we hadn't put our tavern there yet. Right. No.
No. No. No. So do you know what you know about Jefferson Davis?
Jefferson Davis. He was uh wasn't he uh Colonel or something in the South? Sure I think so. Yeah.
Like he was the general. Yeah. He was involved. Yeah.
Okay. Yeah. Because he was part of the secession. Not the secession but the um waiting the white flag at the end.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Good job.
Excellent job. Thank you. So Jefferson Davis steps down from his position in the US Senate and was recruited for the Confederacy on his way home to Mississippi. He decided to stop and stay at the old Crutchville house on the way home.
But that now that he wouldn't. Right. So it's not known whether he actually launched into a political talk at the dinner table or perhaps over at Randy. But he did.
Um regardless. Oh he's nicey. Yeah. And he was um you know talking about the merits of southern states succeeding from the Union and for the Crutchville brothers this was not a great topic.
For the A.K. Doodles. So William Crutchfield was a firm Union supporter. Unlike his brother Thomas.
Interesting. Upon hearing Davis talk. William whips around and points a finger at you know this would be Confederate general. Right.
And says calls him a traitor and a military despot. Oh. So um angry about this Davis demanded satisfaction as they do in the day in the form of a duel. So we have to do it.
Yeah. So thanks to Thomas Crutchville the brother though. Neither William nor Jefferson Davis died that day. Thomas snagged his brother by the arm and from the room.
William calmed down. Only somewhat. But the dispute really you know highlights the difference between um like the Union and the Confederacy within the Sanitian. Yeah.
So which was very similar in North Carolina as well. Very very. So I mean they had their guns ready. They were ready.
They're ready to duel it out and the brothers like hey whoa whoa maybe maybe let's not. Were they they were still in the hotel? Like they didn't even like yeah they didn't make it outside. Yeah they were like well I don't know if guns were like a drone but they were like what we gonna do.
Did they say cash me outside? Yes. Yes. That was that we're going to a field.
We're gonna get a doctor just in case. We're gonna duel it out and then the brothers like no let's not do that. So they didn't. Um so then we were there and we were like let's do this.
Me and Haley dueled it out without the Stalays because that's not our jam. Right. We just pulled each other's hair out. Old school.
Old school. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Okay so it doesn't seem like William Crutchville ever actually enlisted to fight in Civil War but he did serve as an honor and captain for the Union at the Chickamauga campaign as well as at the siege of Chattanooga. Interesting. So there's tension between these brothers and there's you know some information about kind of their relationship in a book that was written by Elizabeth Lyle Saxon who was a close relative of the Crutchville's. So she published this book in 1905 and it says quote Will Crutchville to whom I have been referred was then a major in the Union general general wilder staff and 20 off a number of his blood relations swept up in the gray cloud ranks of the Confederacy to meet death but he took no part in the hostilities after the first day for the reason that he had a serious illness which lasted a week.
Um it then says years after he learned that his wife whose sympathies were as strong for the south as his were for the Union he had drugged himself heavily and so prevented his taking further um in this like battle against his brother who was on the other side. So a little crazy. You know and I mean back then it's not like they had marriage counseling but you would think you know prior to saying I do you would like start talking about like some of your sympathy. Yeah like hey you cool slavery like that should probably come up maybe before you tie the thought.
I think that's important. Yeah like a conversation probably should have happened. What do you think about Lincoln? That's solid how do you feel about owning other humans?
If you're able to have a conversation with this general who stays at your hotel over dinner yeah you would think that someone that you're like spinning forever with you would have some kind of you would think so like oh dear lord you know we've been married 10 years it had 30 children and we just discovered she's a you know a confederate supporter. Yeah I don't think they're like they don't really talk back then. That's true he said woman get me pie and she's like yes sir. Yeah probably probably yeah that feels right but I think that it's interesting that he drug himself up.
Yeah he was like I can't deal with this so drugs it is. He's been to our time run. He's a you know coping not well but he was coping. He did not have the positive coping skills that we would want him to do that.
Right obviously yeah okay so all right so because since the brothers were very much against each other they decided maybe it's best if we just sell this thing. Let's all this don't tell. Get out of here. Right can agree so we gotta get out of dinner.
Yeah can't even have dinner. Yeah so gotta gotta get out all again. So they sell it and the new owners thought okay cool this is gonna be great we're gonna make some money did not because civil war is in full swing now and the property actually got converted into a hospital for union forces. Right yeah that was in 1868.
We're doing surgery in the kitchen. Yeah surgery in the kitchen. The bottom is in the bathroom. Who knows.
The bottom is in the bathroom. Yeah that's pretty crazy. Talk about leisure money though. So for the link of the war between the states the old Crutchville house served only union troops.
So no confederate. So it's only union troops yeah. Yeah so during this time frame many believe that this is what caused the hotel to be haunted because of all the union soldiers that died. There.
Makes sense. Yeah so they figured like this is probably a good bet on the weather. There's lots of ghosts here. Unfortunately though they in cut fire and burned to the ground.
When did that happen? 1867. Okay yeah so burned to the ground owners chose not to rebuild and just kind of we're like we're out. This is very common in this time period.
Yes things caught on fire all the time. Yep so burned down they said nothing's and left. I mean it's kind of like there's the answer to your question. Yeah so in 1871 the city of Chattanooga is starting to recover from the civil war and during that time Dr.
John T. Reed decided to do something with that lot where the hotel was. He decided to do something. He did.
So he and his son Samuel set out to build the finest hotel Chattanooga had ever seen. Okay that was their dream. Did they have tater sacks on the walls? They didn't.
No tater sacks. No that's not fancy. No but they they really succeeded and the Reed House Hotel was very luxurious and beautiful. It opened officially on New Year's Day in 1872.
The hotel was comprised of quote Taraso floors lined with marble. Okay that's easy. Had indoor paneling of quarter salt walnut, carved and gilded woodwork. And we're plumbing?
Mirrors. Yeah I don't believe it. Mirrors and arches and columns and all the things that just scream fancy. At 1800 Tolly and Haley would get invited there.
Absolutely not. We're in the tavern on the the the second day. That we're sharing that we're sharing. The straw mattress.
Yeah yeah yeah. Okay so in 1875 just a few years after it's opening, the Reed House got flooded. There was a massive flood in 1875 that really just ravaged all of Chattanooga. Water was two feet deep in the post office and there was a current running through the Reed House Hotel which you know kind of come up on the other side of Holene.
Yes we do. Yeah so yeah it just wasn't great. I think they did. It sounds like they cleaned out and you know kept going.
Okay afterwards. But by 1926 the hotel sends some pretty great need of restoration. So instead of going through the hassle of a Reed model, two architects from the design firm of Holbridge and Roche opted to have the whole thing just torn down and they start over and they did. So the final construction was a 10-floor Georgian style hotel that was very elegant and beautiful.
The architects really tried to incorporate some of the fine decor from the first round, the first hotel, into this second area. So pieces like the, they had this big mahogany bar. It wasn't able to be saved sadly. But there were two wall sconces that were being thrown out and Bellman actually saved them.
So they were modeling the silver ballroom on the second floor and they found these and they looked like they were made of iron so they tossed them. At the Bellman Howard Johnson had worked at the hotel. Wait a minute Howard Johnson Howard Johnson. You mean like Howard Johnson Hotel?
Jane? I don't think so. Just a coincidence. Wow okay.
Yeah no. So Reed worked there for like 27 years and when he saw that these contractors were going to toss these conses out he said no don't throw them out you just need to polish them. It turns out they weren't raw iron after all. They were actually solid silver.
Wow. So he was like yeah yeah don't throw those away. Put those back. So they did they polished them out and they're actually still in the ballroom today.
Which is kind of cool. See I mean let's say they threw them out and you and I were like you know on our past life. Yeah we're as good as the double. And the double.
And the trash heap. We were not the restores back then. We had the thrift trash heap. But you know now we have on our dresses with only girdles no horses.
No horses. And we're feeling loosey goosey. And so we have the flexibility to jump into these you know. Like Haley give me a boost.
Yeah. And then look look what we found score. That's been hanging up in our home. Could have been.
But alas we're in this adult. Well so. Can't win them all. You know.
Okay so most of the ghosts. Now we're talking about ghosts. They live on the third floor. Well that's where the most park are ghosts.
Yeah they mostly stay on the third floor. That's interesting. Yeah I don't know I don't know why they just stay on the third floor. They're the ghosts from the Civil War right.
Oh there yeah and some other fun things that happened. Oh yeah so a lot of the reports are your normal ghosty things cold breezes shadowy figures strange noises in the dead of night that kind of thing. Orbs perhaps. One guess that was staying there came forward and said that quote an odd thing happened in the middle of the night in our room.
The toilet burgled and sounded like it was flushing when nobody was in there. I joke that it must have been the ghost. Turned out probably was that or or you know you've got a septic tank issue. Yeah that's maybe more likely.
I mean does mine does that sometimes and I'm like a mental note to self. Yeah septic tank pumped. My parents does that or you still a little when it was storm really bad. Interesting yeah well now my toilet does get clogged in my primary bathroom so I'm thinking that we probably need to do the septic temp.
I'm probably not really sure when the last time it happened. Yeah I would recommend maybe doing that. I'm not gonna do it myself but I might hire you to do it. I know nothing about it but I'll give it a whirl.
What do you feel about poop? I mean it's part of life. It may not just be mine. I mean it could be like you old owners.
So some historic poop might be in the store poop might. Okay we'll see. Okay it'll be fun. Ten dollars in it for ya.
Whoa what a steal. Okay so there are some other guests who you know have claimed to experience some similar activity and they actually see the soldiers that are on the fourth floor. So the soldiers live on the fourth floor. Of course.
Everybody else hangs out on the third. Yeah yeah the Yankee soldiers. So they hang out on the third floor particularly in room 311. That's where the party is.
Yeah so in the 311 the local lore is that Annalisa Nederley haunts room 311. So Annalisa's lover first brought her to the hotel sometime in the 1920s and some believe that she was actually a sex worker and she took up with another man like parade. She was doing her job. Yeah I mean but then she would like parade her new lover around in front of her old lover.
What was she you know. Was he really a lover? I mean he could have just been an employer. Maybe I don't know the rumor is that they but maybe he thought they were more than they were.
So then she is like up taking them to the party. That's how you have to you know define the relationship. Really put in the boundaries there. Yeah yeah so she's parading around with this new lover.
DTF. Yep so the staff though that attended to her room come in and find her dad in the bathtub. Oh that's not fun. Her throat's been slashed and she's almost decapitated pretty much like it's cut that.
I mean talk about that crying with passion. Yeah so they're thinking that jealousy or maybe revenge have been the cause. There's another version of this story though that Analisa and her lover set themselves up at the re-hotel and for a time they were really happy until it was the man who turned to other women and abandoned Analisa in the hotel. In this version of events she died of a broken heart in room 311.
Okay so there's this common denominator though that we know what the story is room 311 is haunted. So do people actually say in that or is that when a ghost like wait does like make it that or ghost? No people say there. So obviously she really doesn't like men and she doesn't like men who smoke especially so I guess her lover smoked.
I'm sure he did it. Oh yeah everybody did. There are reports of uncomfortable sensations of being watched and they hear loud noises that wake up at all hours of the night. There's another legend attached to room 311 that involves the famous gangster Al Capone staying in this haunted room during his federal trial.
So as the story goes Capone never mentioned how he could run in with the ghost but there were security bars placed on the window of 311 to ensure that he could not escape. Wow that's kind of cool history. Yeah so the bars were removed in 2004 during renovation. Capone had the syphilis and that's ultimately what he died of in prison.
But I don't think it was from the coast. I don't even have that beforehand. Yeah I'm pretty sure. Yeah so hooker ghost.
Yeah. All right so the retail is still in Acupo tell today you can still visit it. So we're booking 311. We're booking 311.
Look she likes women so yeah we're not men who smoke so I think we'll be fine. No so should we get a king or two doubles? I don't know I'm a thrasher. You know what I vote?
Two doubles. Absolutely. You don't even have to tell me you're a thrasher. I was like no no we've had the discussion.
Yeah I'd rush. We like our space. Yes not like my space. I will thrash about so yeah probably Ghost is going to be doing her stuff.
Yeah so probably better if I just you know we just will stay in our respective areas. That sounds good to me. We could live podcast from room three of us. Yes we're like hey ghosty how you doing?
Yeah I think we should reach out to them and be like hey let's do an episode for free. Yeah let us live one night in 311. We'll do a podcast about our time there and we'll go from the room service included. Yeah obviously drinks obviously.
Yeah yeah and come on and our flight. It's Chattanooga. Our flight. I'm not good in the car.
It's not that far of a drive. It's three hours? Ish maybe. Two and a half three hours.
Yeah yeah sure. Okay yeah we'll do it. Yeah we'll be ready. Okay all right well that's pretty much it.
I like it. I like it. I think you and I should open up like a Holly Haley B&B. Okay.
What do you think? In this economy? I mean people need something to look forward to. Where are we gonna where are we gonna put this B&B?
I think there are like railroad tracks. Oh okay go ahead. I mean like go old school. Yeah like haunted civil war soldier.
Yes yeah yeah. Gotcha. Gotcha. Okay yeah we could probably swing it.
I mean I've got some like some wood in my garage we could use okay. There's some there's some old barns on my family's property. Oh that's great. I don't really think it was for free right?
Yeah maybe. Okay so like we could have like it's called the loft. And it's just an old barn. It's just exactly haunted.
Little drafty. Uh-huh. Any of us? Animals.
Yeah pet yoga. Yoga with cows. Goat. Cows maybe a goat or two.
Lots of rats. A raccoon or two. Maybe some possums. Barn cats.
Maybe yeah. With a rat in their mouth. Yeah definitely. That feels very Asheville.
It actually does. I think it might actually do okay. It's just weird. Not deterring anyone.
Oh no even in this economy we will and people will say I stayed at that rat infested barn. Absolutely. I loved it. The time of our lives.
10 out of 10. Would recommend. Because the truth we told is there's no false advertising. No.
I mean we told you it is exactly what it sounds like. Exactly. It is charming. Rat invested.
Make sure your rabies is up to date. Up to date. Hey fever maybe a thing you get. Um the clap could also be a thing you get.
But it's not something we would provide. No but I mean if you're encountering you know some yeah maybe our ghosts. Yeah we don't know what's what's lingering. Looking around in there.
Well that is true. It's true. Also we don't have indoor plumbing. No you will need to bring your own travel.
Yeah. And toilet paper. Also if you want a degradable preferably. If you would like to dig a hole as long as you cover it up we're okay with that.
Yeah I would prefer if you did dig a hole. Place your biodegradable TP inside the hole. Correct. Cover it up.
Yeah maybe even mark it with a little flag. Like a cat. Just so we know. Yeah just so no one else digs there.
Exactly. And then you know all the little flags someone will come there without knowing. Right. Initially and be like oh wow is this some kind of like veterans.
Right. You know we could just do a big latrine. It's not bad idea. Dig a latrine.
Oh we could do a group bath. Wow. It'd be tough so we just have big washed up. Well like um just get like the trough.
Yeah. And just fill it with water. Yeah. I used to play in the water troughs on that kid.
I'm just saying. Yeah that sounds fun. Yeah. It was always a great time.
Not disease ridden. No not at all. I mean I survived. And the cab strength out of that one.
Oh my god. You also played in cow pies. I did. That's another fun activity for the children.
And only a part of my internal organs are rotting now. It's true. It's true. There's any correlation there but that's something maybe somebody should investigate.
I think we're past that at this point. I think we just have to plan one with what we have. You know and offer it to the community at large. Mm-hmm.
Ah tourists are going to love this. Yeah. Such are sites on the farm. Okay.
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Do you have a shout out Haley? Bet you don't. I sure do. Okay.
Bring it. Rome and Georgia. Yes. Well thank you Rome and Georgia and we'll see you next time.
Bye.