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Whispers in the Walls
by Jessica Herman
History has a way of sticking around. Join Jessica on Whispers in the Walls as she explores the chilling, true histories and haunted halls behind America's most iconic buildings. She’ll dig into the blueprints, uncover the forgotten lives, and share a themed drink along the way. New episodes drop every Thursday—keep your ears open.
Episodes
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Episode 10: The Cecil Hotel — Gilded Dreams, Broken Glass, and Hotel Death
Rising fourteen stories above Downtown Los Angeles, the Cecil Hotel opened in the roaring 1920s as a beacon of Beaux-Arts opulence—a grand destination of marble lobbies, stained glass, and brass elevators. But as the city around it shifted and the shadow of Skid Row crept toward its marble...
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Episode 9: The RMS Queen Mary — The Grey Ghost of Long Beach
Step up the gangway, bootleggers. Today on Whispers in the Walls, I am taking you aboard an 81,000-ton floating labyrinth of steel where high-society royalty once sipped champagne by night, and wartime horrors turned the bowels of the ship into an inescapable iron tomb: The RMS Queen Mary. Long...
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Episode 8: The Lemp Mansion — Bitter Brews and Limestone Vaults
Beneath the red-brick pavement of South St. Louis lies miles of hollow, prehistoric limestone caverns. In the late 1800s, that cold, subterranean underworld wasn't viewed as a void—it was viewed as an empire. It became the natural cold-storage engine behind the Western Brewery, a sprawling...
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Episode 7: 1886 Crescent Hotel: The Quack and the Morgue
Perched high atop the foggy ridges of the Ozark Mountains sits the "Grand Lady of the Ozarks"—the 1886 Crescent Hotel. Built as an ultra-lavish mountain retreat for Gilded Age travelers seeking the valley's supposed healing springs, this massive limestone fortress eventually became the hunting...
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.Patreon Perk Pitch: Welcome to the Back Room
Step Behind the Velvet Curtain: Welcome to the Back Room Hey bootleggers! Today, I’m stepping away from my regular weekly investigations to invite you into the space I built specifically for my most dedicated listeners: The Back Room. On my main feed, I keep a focused weekly schedule—but some…
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Episode 6: The Congress Hotel: Chicago’s Haunting History
Beneath the glittering crystal chandeliers of Michigan Avenue lies a dark, subterranean maze where the liquor flowed, the bodies vanished, and hotel management literally drywalled over their problems. This week on Whispers in the Walls, I am checking into Chicago's legendary Congress Plaza Hotel....
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Bonus Episode 1: The Nebraska Dinosaur: How a 1920s Typewriter Fooled the World
Deep in the Nebraska Sandhills sits Walgren Lake—a quiet, 50-acre body of water where families fish for crappie and pelicans drift through the reeds. But in the 1920s, it went by another name: Alkali Lake. And for a few unhinged years, local ranchers, big-city investors, and international...
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Episode 5: Waverly Hills Sanatorium: Shadows of the White Plague
Step past the heavy stone threshold of one of America’s most notoriously haunted landmarks. Looming high above Louisville, Kentucky, Waverly Hills was constructed as an impenetrable bat-wing fortress to quarantine victims of the deadly White Plague. Tonight, we unearth the true horrors trapped...
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Episode 4 - The Plains Hotel: Cheyenne’s Most Haunted Jewel
Beneath the glittering Italian marble and the high-society glamour of the Wyoming frontier lies a building soaked in over a century of human trauma, heartbreak, and uncontainable rage. This week on Whispers in the Walls, I am driving into Cheyenne, Wyoming—the "Magic City of the Plains"—to check...
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Episode 3: Winchester Mystery House: The Truth Behind Sarah
Stairs that end at the ceiling. Doors that open to sheer drops. A 160-room Victorian labyrinth built with an ocean of blood money. For a century, the Winchester Mystery House has been sold as the ultimate American ghost story—the tale of a crazed, reclusive widow building 24 hours a day to outrun...
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Episode 2: The Stanley Hotel: Secrets of Room 217
Perched high in the Colorado Rockies, The Stanley Hotel holds over a century of grand ambition, architectural elegance, and chilling lore. In this episode, we step inside the historic 1909 estate to uncover the true history and mysteries hidden behind its grand facade. Inside this episode: The...
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Episode 1: Eastern State Penitentiary: The Solitary Shadows
Behind the towering, gothic stone walls in Philadelphia lies Eastern State Penitentiary—a radical 19th-century experiment in total solitary confinement that quickly spiraled into a waking nightmare. Designed to force absolute silence and spiritual isolation, its crumbling radial cellblocks still...
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Episode 0: Welcome to the Darker Side of History
Pull up a chair, order something strong, and step through the hidden door. Welcome to the inaugural episode of Whispers in the Walls. In this pilot episode, we pull back the curtain on the legends, tragedies, and lingering echoes embedded in the foundations of the world’s most storied places.…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
History has a way of sticking around. Join Jessica on Whispers in the Walls as she explores the chilling, true histories and haunted halls behind America's most iconic buildings. She’ll dig into the blueprints, uncover the forgotten lives, and share a themed drink along the way. New episodes drop every Thursday—keep your ears open.
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Jessica Herman
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History has a way of sticking around. Join Jessica on Whispers in the Walls as she explores the chilling, true histories and haunted halls behind America's most iconic buildings. She’ll dig into the blueprints, uncover the forgotten lives, and share a themed drink along the way. New episodes drop...
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Whispers in the Walls is created and hosted by Jessica Herman.
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