Murfreesboro lands a security company headquarters in a new development. Downtown Nashville is set to demolish an old building soon, but which building is being demolished, and and how soon will it take place? Plus, we recount some of Nashville’s most haunted stories. All of this and today’s events on Nashville Daily.
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00:00 Happy Halloween, everybody. This is the Nashville daily podcast. I'm Stuart Deming and haunting you today is Erin Pennington. Murphysboro lands a security company headquarters and a new development downtown Nashville is set to demolish an old building soon, but which building is being demolished and how soon will this take place? Plus we recount some of Nashville's most haunted stories. All of this in today's spooks on Nashville daily.
00:34 Well, traffic today, there is a word for that and it's called haunting. You think Connie houses are scary? Sit in some national traffic for a while and you'll be scared to your widths. Yes. So sit back and enjoy this episode. We'll try not to terrify you too much, but if we do, please tweet at ESSA X. PLR underscored. Nash. Actually, if you have a test Tesla,
00:56 You can or you can use Siri to tweet.
00:59 Yeah, you could. You could use Siri tweets, I'm sure. Whoa. That's mind blowing series. Like, I'm sorry, I can't, I don't use Twitter. That's too old. So happening today, you have streets starting at 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM. That's on Diedrich streak in downtown Diedrich streak in downtown Nashville. Yeah, we're just, we're having streakers that's haunting to downtown Nashville. So this is from 11 to two and this is the best food trucks and the website is best food trucks.com. I wonder how much they had to pay to get that one. That's pretty
01:31 Cool. That's really cool. We also have whiskey jam at winners bar and that is going to be indoors from now on.
01:39 They had the rest of the winter season. They had their last out
01:42 Door and record breaking attendance last week. So whiskey jam checked their Facebook page. Ooh. Is this an actual website now?
01:52 Yeah, so they have whiskey jam.com and may tells you like the history of whiskey jam. It gives you interviews with all the artists. It's actually a pretty cool website. Yeah. So you can actually check with their eventPage@whiskeyjam.com as well. They had their Facebook event page. They have event pages on every, make a lot of announcements on their Facebook page, essentially. Like because whiskey jam, the artists change every single Monday. And for Thursday so people would come on out. So you know, they don't make announcements. You just coming in two weeks. Like they probably make it pretty soon. They like the surprises and everything. Yeah. Happening at the Ryman auditorium is the Opry country classics that Ryman has a switch officially switched starting tomorrow on Friday, November 1st the Opry will be at the Ryman, sorry. So the opera will be there. But they, you can also listen to the Opry country classics at the Ryman Thursday two night at 7:00 PM make sure to go listen to that. Also happening at the Ryman. This is part of our tip of the day. You have the haunted Ryman history tour starting at 10:30 PM to 12:15 AM the prices are also a little bit haunting $40, but you get a drink including, I guess you get a photo. The cool thing about this tour that I'm super excited about, Aaron and I are going on this tour is we get to go beneath the Ryman stage. I've never experienced that.
03:19 A rare event. And Stewart, you've taken people there, hundreds of people who have, you know, bought out the place and done private tours there and they don't even get that [inaudible]
03:28 Nope. I've like, we've, I've had clients spend a lot of money at the Ryman auditorium and they have never had that access so I'm super excited about seeing this. Yeah.
03:37 This is, this is really cool. What do you expect to see?
03:41 I think it's the workings behind stage, like type of some of the stuff I've never seen. Maybe there's some ghost stories from down there. I don't know. I've never, I have really have no idea what to expect.
03:51 That's going to be really cool. To get tickets. Visit the Ryman auditorium. The only like two slots left. Yeah. [inaudible] to get tickets. Now if you are listening to this at the, the 5:00 AM time slot, when we release this, if you didn't know we released this at 5:00 AM you're, you're not a morning person. But for those of you who know we released this at 5:00 AM and you get that notification you might be one of the only ones left to purchase a ticket. Chances are though they're going to be sold out.
04:20 Yeah. So there's still some tickets available for the 1115 that's the tour we're going on a, there's tickets available last I checked at 12:00 AM and 1215 as well.
04:29 Yeah. So get those quick. And just down the street from the Ryman, we have the Nashville, Nashville predators playing the Calgary flames that has happening at 7:00 PM just like the Opry country classics. So [inaudible] dot com for tickets for that one. That's going to be a pretty interesting to see all of that going on downtown. If you want to move away from downtown, you have the Herman itch goes tours, which is probably sold out at this point on Halloween. It's definitely sold out. Oh, for sure. For sure. But a call and grab your tickets in advance. And go to hermitage.com the hermitage.com/events. You'll be able to see everything for the ghost tours there. This is running another weekend, so you'll be able to still get this if you, if you don't get that kind of tour for Halloween.
05:20 So this article is found on the Nashville business journal that says trailblazing development scores, HQ splashy tech jobs and they city not known for either. And so we wanted to just mention this a, they're doing this huge development down in Murfreesboro and supposedly a security company is moving their headquarters there and another tech company, we have no idea who it is, but they're moving their headquarters, I assume from California to Murphysboro.
05:45 Yeah. so the name of the security company is called Saltworks security. A tech company based out in Atlanta. They signed a lease and plans to hire 25 engineers for their company.
05:59 So I, I believe this development is 31 acre development until we'll be called fountains at gateway grants development in Murfreesboro. So it's not even fully built yet. And a tech hub has already kind of signed into it. So that's pretty cool to see. Murphysboro really kind of of getting into, into that industry. Yeah. And it's close to downtown Murfreesboro. Murfreesboro is an area of middle Tennessee. I really do not know. Well, I know, I know Eastern city really well. I know Franklin and Nolan's Ville really well. I'd say, I even know I have a good understanding of Clarksville, but Murphy's borough is a town that I'm not really familiar with. Well, you know, we'll need to spend some time down there to get to know Murphysboro better. I think really the only time we went there was to go to the roastery of just the love of just fluffy coffee.
06:48 There's not too much if you're, if you don't go to NCSU games down there. There's a little civil war history, so there's a battle of Murfreesboro that happens, but there's not as many attractions and things to go and see a Murfreesboro. It's definitely a very residential area. Oh, absolutely. But part of the reason for this mixed use development is they're saying that a lot of people are sick of commuting because the traffic is so haunting here in the city of Nashville. And so they're tired of com commuting. I think it's what, 43 miles to Murphysboro from downtown Nashville. Maybe less, maybe less. I think a little bit on, but they're just tired of commuting and could cause that commute can take two hours, maybe three hours depending on what tractor trailers on fire at the interstate site, depending on why it goes through all the a [inaudible] waiting for that day.
07:39 Yeah. So we talked about this a couple weeks ago and this was a building that's found in downtown Nashville. This is on the Nashville post and it's a building. If you're on third Avenue and you're entering the pedestrian bridge, so you're walking up the pedestrian bridge, it's right there on second Avenue. I call this the pigeon building. Yes. And that's the only way I knew it was. Yeah. This is the, like the only building in downtown Nashville that may have a hundred pigeons hanging out on top of this building. And like you've see some big pigeons on this building. So if you guys know exactly the building we're talking about, this is called the trail West building and it's on second Avenue. It's like if you're walking up the pedestrian bridge from third Avenue, it's the big pigeon pigeon building. If you guys know what we're talking about, you know what we're talking about.
08:23 If you don't, you have no idea. You're confused. Check the link in the description to see, to see a picture and the Google map a wink. But this is set for demos, so they're going to be demolishing it. We talked a couple weeks ago about how they are trying to get this on the historic registry of national places, but that's not happening. It's going to be demoed. It's right. Going to be right next to where the brand new four seasons is. So I have no idea what's going to go there. It's not going to be as pretty of a demolition as the a Lifeway was. Oh no, absolutely not. This is probably going to be like a little Jack or wrecking ball type situations. So it might be fun. Go watch it. When, when it, does it say when that demolition is going to take place? No, but it does say that the permit is valued at $51,000.
09:13 I saw that. So that's pretty interesting to see a permit for demolition. So did that call you that 51,000 companies pay $51,000 to get that permanent or that somebody paid them $51,000 just to go knock it down? That's my guess is whoever wanted that land to be demolition paid for the, they either they either paid demo plus who's going to handle it or they paid for that permit directly. Interesting. I have no idea how that works either. So that's very interesting. It's says it's, it's, it's being D demoed to the physical condition of it. It's deteriorate, deteriorating. And I know they are running into like foundational issues. Yeah. And this is approved by the Metro historic zoning commission. It opened in 1905. It's got big letters on it for American steam feed company. I guess that's what it used to be downtown.
10:15 But good buy another building in downtown. Hello. Skyscraper or a brand new hotel. Good for you. So every single day we'd like to give you explorers, Nashville tip of the day, and we've mentioned this earlier when we were talking about the events, but if you guys can make sure to get tickets to the event at the Ryman tonight, it is the haunted Ryman tour. I honestly think this is the first time they've ever done this. I've never seen advertisements for this. And I was, I've been downtown Nashville for a lot of Halloweens, so I'm not sure. Yeah. So I try to get those tickets. If not. I, like we said, we believe the interjection Hermitage is probably sold up, but it doesn't it doesn't hurt to call a what other downtown activities do you think there would be for Halloween? There may be some arrows tours.
11:02 So there's plenty of events. There's Halloween parties at all of the boutique hotels on fourth Avenue. There's some of those Halloween parties. You have to be 21 plus to enter a, there's numerous Halloween parties happening over onto Mummery and the Hill over in the Gulch Midtown. Anywhere you go, there's going to be some type of Halloween party. And there's going to be some type of traffic. Yes. And a Halloween is terrible. I have a lift story if you don't mind me sharing. Yeah. And so I picked up, I was driving for Halloween once cause I'm like, Oh yeah, it's gonna be a very profitable night. And it like, it was when I first started and some I was picking up, I think it was called a collides on church. I don't know if it's still there. It's on church streets. Yes. so I picked up a four people and they're all dressed up and I'm like, okay, this is going to be a really interesting ride because they are literally drunk as skunks.
12:00 And so one was dressed as like a native American and another was dressed like as a cop. I think they were going like off the [inaudible] MCA type theme. And then we're driving through Midtown and then all of a sudden this girl in the back seat, she's like, I gotta throw up. And she just rolled down the window and just threw up all on the interior of the car and outside the car. And it smelled like nachos and bourbon. It was one of the most disgusting smells I've ever smelled. So that's my terrible Halloween story for driving car sense. Oh yeah, you had a different, like it took me, I think it took me four hours to clean that car. I got some money from, I got like $350 from Lyft, but it took me four hours and I think it took two days to get the smell out of the car. It was, it was, it was rough. So yeah, if you guys are drinking two nights, make sure to throw up in a gallon size, like zip lock bag or just outside or outside or just don't drink like I th I think that's a good option, isn't that all the problems? There you go.
13:00 Okay. So if you are going about Nashville today and you are wondering if there's a great place to eat. Stewart and I recently ate again at rise and this was with their new menu, their new extended hours.
13:16 This is found in the five Oh five in downtown Nashville.
13:18 Yes. Just just down the ways a bit. It's still in that same building technically, but it's kind of at the bottom. Not directly on the five Oh five entrance just down on fifth street a little bit. But I had the Southern biscuit, which had a fried chicken and a biscuit with pimento.
13:37 Your biscuit look amazing. It looked good. It was better than the first time. Oh man, I'm so jealous. So I had their brand new Buffalo chicken sandwich and I'm from New York, like I'm near Buffalo, New York, like where the Buffalo sauce was developed. So I'm very biased when it comes to my Buffalo. So the sandwich, the chicken was good. The Buffalo sauce was in, in the bun was rough. Like I didn't like the, like the right biscuit. Right. It was a wheat bun and I'm like, why? I probably ask for a biscuit. Why are you putting a wheat bun on a Buffalo chicken sandwich? Like that's just doesn't make sense. Like from a taste standpoint. So the chicken was fantastic. They, celery on the chicken was great. The Buffalo sauce was, but I still love that chicken salmon. You gotta put up a biscuit on there next time. Yes, but I think next time I'm on the get the Southern biscuit with the bacon and pimento cheese and slap some Buffalo sauce on it. There you go. I think that's how I'm with it.
14:31 There you go. Just keep on adding to it. It's going to be good. Yeah.
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15:35 All right, so let's make your Halloween day a little bit more haunting by talking about some of the most famous and verified ghost stories throughout Nashville. And we're going to start one start with a story that is most recognizable, not only in the Nashville and Tennessee area, but world wide nationwide. And this is the story of the Bellwood
16:04 Sh. So you have the bell, which which took place or it's, she came from a cave, the Pell, which like lived in this cave up towards like Adams, Tennessee. This is what the story is. And so this is the early 18 hundreds, I'll say like 18, 15 to 1820 is when you have this story of this haunting. And so basically the bell family moved to Adams, Tennessee to start farming that land. And what they didn't realize, and I don't think anyone realized this, but they did find a native American burial sites near the cave that was on part of their land. There's like a, there's a pretty large,
16:46 Hey, that's their they have rooms in this cave that are the size of, of small events spaces. Oh really? Yeah. And above the, above the cave was this burial mountain that's tens of thousands of years old.
17:04 Yes. And they don't know how many native Americans are buried here, but, and they didn't know that this burial ground was on part of their property. Right. And so the, the story is one of their kids went into this cave or near this cave and was digging a little bit and they found a skull. And then him and his friend took the skull and brought it into the house of one of the native Americans. And supposedly from that skull, a tooth fell out onto the front porch of their cabinets.
17:33 Yeah. And kind of fell in between the cracks of the floorboards and you know, kind of remained on, on the property of their other house.
17:40 And so the, the story was after that happened there, they started to experience really weird things happening around the house. So Aaron, do you talk about that for a second?
17:50 Yeah. So some of the hauntings extended to, you know, very violence slapping, hitting of I believe the, the daughter in the house as well as John Bell himself. Yes. and so there ended up being a, you know, the, the haunting started to get very personal and violent. And this is actually, I believe the only recorded haunting that has actually resulted in a murder. And that's no right. That's known. And this is also one of the only state investigations into a haunting from the Stanton, from the state of Tennessee. As well as it resulted in the the actual cause and the result of it was said to be a haunting. Yes. And was said to be paranormal through as a result of the investigation. And so John Bell was said to be found lane dead in his bed with a black a vile of black liquid sitting beside the bedside table. And it was believed that the bell, which I can't remember the exact quote, but she said something like I fixed old fixed old Jack with a this one or something like that. And so you know, that was audibly heard by the family when they were saw him dead. Yeah. So
19:32 That happened. And there was another story of a guy named Andrew Jackson who actually went on property. He was friends with John Bell. Yeah. You guys know introduction, you guys know interjects and he was the seventh president of the United States. Some consider him, he may have been the best president of the United States. That is definitely a conversation that people have. And he was friends with John Bell and there were stories of him taking close to a dozen soldier, soldiers from the Hermitage and going up to Adams, Tennessee, which is not, it's not an easy trip cause this, it's like an hour away from Nashville. So I'm arriving try so on a horse and buggy, like it could be a 12 hour trip trying to get up there to Adams, Tennessee from Hermitage. And so it said that he went up there and they they experienced some things with the bell, which to the point where they're sitting around a fire and the guy's like, I don't believe in this.
20:28 Which it wasn't injury Jackson, one of the soldiers. Yeah. And he's like, I don't believe in this, which I'm a witch Hunter. I'll, I'll capture this. Which, and then the, which like spoke audibly in open air and like scared, terrified this guy, and he ran away like screaming. Yeah. So there's, there's numerous stories. I'll, I'll say this is the most hurt story that I've heard about the belt, which I've heard it from a lot of different people. There's a lot of resources about the bell witch. There's movies made about the bell witch and the experience that happened there.
21:01 The, there's a, a diary written by a family member. There are still descendants of both the Belle family as well as William Strickland who was, I think he's William struck on the third, the William Strickland in 18 in the 18 hundreds was the son in law. He was the son of [inaudible]
21:26 All the same William Strickland that designed the Tennessee state Capitol. Cause we're going to talk about that here in a second.
21:31 Was it? I'll have to look that up. Maybe it's not William Strickland up. Maybe I'm getting my,
21:37 Okay. I think we're good. Yeah, we're good. I think we're getting the Williams [inaudible] something. Yeah.
21:40 William something. But his, his family members down the line, they, one of them actually captured the bell, which in a blanket and started walking it to the fire to try to extinguish the bell witch and with every step, the bell, which continued to become heavier and heavier and heavier, so heavy that that this person had to actually just let the belt, which go out of its clutches. That's crazy. Yeah.
22:10 So this is an Adamson, Tennessee. They're open. Their seasoning is going to be opening back again, I think in may or late spring. And then you can go visit the cave and then they do special events where you can go only on Saturdays and Sundays to see the cave. So that's an Adam Sensi and that as a verified ghost story. Aaron, what are your thoughts on the bell? Which
22:32 This is something that I am excited to go there and learn more about myself. There was an episode if anybody watches like ghost hunters or ghost adventures or anything like that. There's a show called ghosted ventures, which is the only paranormal team that is actually been granted access. To go inside and investigate the bell, which caves and you can find that I believe on. Yeah, I saw the episode is on YouTube that you can buy. There's probably pirated copy somewhere, but it's pretty interesting to hear all of the different accounts from people who either have family members who are a part of the story or eye witness accounts that have been written down by historians and everything. It's just, it's all very, very interesting to hear and how it plays a part in even Tennessee history with Andrew Jackson. It's really hard to say, Oh no, we can't believe this story of a president. Like that's how much more verified can you get with that?
23:36 Yeah. Verified with that. And then the hundreds of eyewitnesses accounts and the stuff that happened on the ghosts of ventures, a television show. So there's a lot, but let's switch our ways down to downtown Nashville. We have a few place in downtown Nashville that I have haunted stories and these stories that we're going to say are also verified. And so let's start at the one that I find that I think it's really funny. So this is at the Tennessee state Capitol and you have a guy named William Strickland. We've talked about him just a second. He was just getting ahead of myself. So William Strickland was an architect. He was also the architect behind the tower of independence hall in Philadelphia. And so the state of Tennessee commissioned him to build the Tennessee state capital. So he moved to Nashville and he didn't realize it was going to take I think 14 years to build this thing from the 83, 1843 to 1859.
24:31 Yeah. Well that's a long time. And so he actually, he, he designed the Tennessee state capital and he died during the construction of the Capitol. But inside the Capitol there's historical documents of the treasurer of the state of Tennessee and William Strickland arguing about the costs and to treasurer of the state of Tennessee. It was named Samuel Morgan. And there was historical documents of them arguing about the costs. Like, no, you're spending too much money here. Nose, cut your costs probably, you know, meetings and everything. The meeting were well-documented, so well recorded. Right. And so at the Tennessee state Capitol, they actually built two tombstones. So why? Because that's how William Strickland won that he, he realized that the construction was going to take this long. He may die and he wanted to be buried in his glorious buildings. People at work who just said, Oh kill me now.
25:24 And just very in here. [inaudible] But he really did. So he built two tombstones. So on the North side facing bicentennial mall, Capitol state park. Did he have anybody in mind? No, I had no idea in mind. Like he just, he's like, I'm just going to build this and they go and bury whoever they want to stay, can bury whoever they want there and, but he knew he was potentially going to die during the construction of this. Maybe they were saving it for James K. Polk maybe. Yeah, possibly. That's definitely a realistic possibility. He's varied off to the side. We got buried off to the side with his wife, Sarah, but William Strickland got buried on the North side in the tombstone on the Northeast side. And then there was another tombstone on the South East side. And guess who is buried there? Let me guess. Could it be the man that he was arguing with? Samuel Morgan? Yes, he is buried there too. How fitting? I don't think he saw that. I don't think he saw that coming. But there's eye witnesses, accounts of police officers patrolling that area. And then here these two old men bickering back and forth inside the Tennessee state Capitol. And there's been sightings of two old men literally like arguing on the stairs of the Tennessee state Capitol. And is that believed to be William Strickland and Samuel? Yes,
26:44 Because they're just old men bickering at each other. And there's actually historical evidence that is inside the Tennessee state Capitol of them talking about the cost because they had to write the notes of every single time they met because they got so heated in that room.
26:58 And so is there are these police counts like verified and everything. How, how can people, you know, go and hear more about these, these stories?
27:08 Your best way is that a haunted Nashville goes tours. Okay.
27:12 The stories. I didn't know if the tours of the Capitol, right,
27:16 So you talk about, you could ask about them at the Tennessee state Capitol tours [inaudible] but they may say no, that doesn't exist. That's just a rumor. But there's been I think 25 different police officers that have verified like hearing something at night, like in two men, old men bickering. I just think of like those old, like old movies. I think they are called grumpy old men. Do you know the movies I'm talking about? No. They were like from the eighties or nineties, and it was just these two men bickering at each other. So that's what I think of. So I think that's just a funny ghost story.
27:49 Yeah. And you know, I, I've said this before, I think ghost stories in these unusual type of tours that you can take really give you some historical context into the city. And this one, this one definitely does. And our next example also gives us a little glimpse into some Nashville history. We're not gonna tell you about the full story yet. The history part has to do with, there was a campaign, a presidential campaign that actually hosted itself inside of this hotel. This hotel is the Hermitage hotel in downtown Nashville,
28:28 Which is right across the way from the Tennessee Tennessee state cup.
28:32 Yeah. So Stuart, before we get into the story of what's going on inside the Hermitage hotel, what is the history behind this very very famous hotel?
28:47 Yeah, so I don't remember the exact building dates. It was late 18 hundreds, early 19 hundreds when it was built and it was supposed to be this like presidential hotel. And they built that with the intention of being that and so they made this incredible lobby. It's one of my favorite lobbies in the entire city of Nashville for one of the most famous bathrooms, famous bathrooms. Have you been in that bathroom? Still haven't. Okay. So when you enter into the hermit H hotel, you take a right and then you go down the flight of stairs right next to it's the capital grill restaurants. And then you walk into the men's bathroom. It's like these black, like black walls with like this lime green neon green, like design around. It's hard to describe. You physically have to see it yourself to understand. Okay. It's very interesting bathroom.
29:35 Like I understand why it's been voted like the best bathroom in the United States, even though right now the zoo has the best bathroom because they have those little finger monkeys inside the one of the female bathrooms. Yeah. But the Hermitage bathroom is cool. I know. I don't know. I don't want who gets paid to go around and rank the ratings of bathrooms. I have no idea. I don't know. They probably will never reveal themselves. Yeah, that sounds kind of like a terrible job. What do you do? Well, I go around the country and look at bathrooms and their toilets and their pipes. And you're a plumber. That's why you get paid to do. But so the Hermitage hotel is just this absolutely gorgeous hotel. I think technically it's still the only five star five diamond hotel right now in the state of Tennessee. That's probably going to be changed soon. But so when they built this hotel as an early 19 hundreds, late 18 hundreds, and supposedly the story is, is that there used to be this room that was formerly room nine 10. So I believe that's on the ninth floor and it was room nine 10. And that room no longer exists. What's the reason for that?
30:41 It's reported that there was a child or a toddler, an infant, that had I guess passed away during the stay and it said to, you know, quote unquote, never have left the building. And what I mean by that is guests will complain that there's a baby crying constantly in room nine, 10. And when hotel staff comes into check on that room, door opens immediately. There is no sound, no crying, nobody's in the room, and it's an unoccupied room. And that pattern continues. And it's also it's also said that the room nine 10, no longer exists because there was a, a wall in between two of the rooms near there. It was knocked down to build a larger suite. And now that's room nine 12. And that's where those same occurrences happen is for what is now room nine 12. There's also been sites of a woman dressed in white who is flying around the hotel. Okay.
31:50 And then there's another woman who's dressed in like Victorian era clothing, who's seen around the first floor. And then there's this beautiful mirror on the first floor in the law. The have you seen this mirror? Oh, I've seen this mirror, this mirror, this mirrors. It's beautiful. It's stunning. It's not the Cheekwood mirror, but like, I can't wait to share that story with you guys. But it's a beautiful mirror. And the, the historical accounts said that this mirror has cracked and amended itself back together. Yeah. So it's reported that hotel staff guests have also, and we've had seen this firsthand, this thing crack amend itself. And we've met a couple of hotel staff that have, have said like, Oh yeah, that place is definitely haunted. Yeah. If you go in there, you know, STEM there, no Tanya, they're going to be like, no, this place is not on a, the staff that we talk to do,
32:38 You know, no longer works there. So I'm
32:40 Sure they feel okay to, to talk about it. But yeah, we we, this was last year we walked in to see if anybody would, would talk about this stuff and they deny any sort of haunting. They have a reputation, like they have to protect themselves. Yeah. They don't want hundreds of people being like, Ooh, there's ghosts at this hotel. Yeah. But now you guys know from the Nashville daily podcast that there is hauntings at the Herman H hotel.
33:04 Yeah. So this, it's, it's pretty cool. Just don't ask the staff about it or you won't get anywhere.
33:10 No, you don't get anywhere. So right down the streets from the Hermitage hotel you go down to this beautiful place called the Ryman auditorium. We've talked about the Ryman quite a few times and there's a couple of ghost stories that have come out of the Ryman auditorium. One is that there's this, it's called the gray man and he's dressed in complete gray and he just looks like a gray man. Yeah. Just an outline of a man, not really a full apparition kind of thing. Yeah. And so and this is from different bands and different, like people tear down and setting up that have confirmed this and they've said that like late night when they're doing tear down, like maybe two o'clock in the morning, one o'clock in the morning, they're doing tear down of a show. They'll see like something on the balcony and then they'll see dust move underneath the Belkin. Right. So you're these loud footsteps on the balcony.
34:03 Yeah. And so obviously, you know, they don't sometimes see anybody or they see this gray figure or like a white mist or something like that. It's, it's kind of reported to be maybe Thomas Ryman who is looking over his building. And you know, the, it said that he's also been there a little bit more often when there are shows that he disagrees with, he might disagree with. I'm wondering if he was there for [inaudible]
34:28 You might've been on stage with them for that one. But there's, there's also
34:32 I've been a white mist on stage that people believe is Hank Williams scene. And this is the one we hear about the most, I believe is, is Hank Williams. Because not only is he, you know, maybe seen as a white mist what is believed to be Hank Williams. You can hear a Hank Williams voice or some, not you, but you know, people have reported of Hank Williams voice being heard and sung throughout the auditorium as well as Patsy Cline's voice being heard about the auditorium, which we talked about Patsy Cline on our episode on Wednesday when we talked about the abandoned airport [inaudible] Cornelia for air park. So that's pretty interesting. Patsy Cline making her Mark.
35:11 And then there's a, there's also, there's also people that have said that that alleyway between the Ryman auditorium and Tutsis, that they would see this like shadowy figure. I think they're just too drunk. Will see this figure walking back and forth because in between their sets of the grand Ole Opry, they'll go get a cocktail or a beer at Tootsies. And so Willie Nelson has always quoted, this is it, this is not a ghost, but Willie Nelson has always quoted as saying, it's 17 steps going down to Tutsis. It's 35 steps or 36 steps going back up. That's a great quote. Yeah. So that's the Ryman auditorium. And the last one that has been verified is the Hermitage, Andrew Jackson's the Hermitage. And we went to that ghost tour. But I think it's almost two weeks now, which is crazy. A week and half ago, I can't remember. We went.
36:03 But this one is, it's very interesting because the, the story of Andrew Jackson is a very, very interesting, and I can't wait to dive deep into his life and this story of Andrew Jackson. But one of the ghost stories that's very common is that you hear this horse running through the house or you hear gravel, a lot of gravel moving outside of the plantation or the mansion. And it said that Andrew Jackson, every single day around a lunchtime from the morning of his wife, Rachel would ride around the property with his horse and his old dog following him. And, and they would ride up to the garden though right up to the garden and they, he would kinda park his horse there yup. Heavily into the garden. Yeah. The dog and president of Jackson would, would walk through the garden for about an hour. Yeah. And for about an hour. And then there was one day where the dog couldn't enter the garden any longer, longer.
36:59 It just kept working, working in weird winds and weird things would happen. And it said that like, if you're walking on property by herself, you may hear some dogs on the, like a dog barking and like how willing on property, but there's no dog on property. And I believe a, I can't remember, was it an orange glow that they said you might see? Yeah, like an orange or Ray or near Rachel's grave and like people, people on driving on on Lebanon pike have seen like in the distance I've seen that red glow. And so that, that's been verified. There's also, when we were there, she the narrator, she pulled out an app and talk like it here's voices like ghost voices. Yeah. And so like names of the family members would be like said in the house. And I think the creepiest story was that doll story.
37:48 Do you remember that doll story she told? Oh yes. So apparently in one of the children's rooms upstairs and this is not, this is a happening, you know, during the, the tour stage of the hermit, the hermit issue had been open for tourists. Actually pretty recently. This has happened where there are two dolls that are in one of the kid's rooms. Very terribly creepy. Louise dolls are terrifying. Everything in that room is super green. These dolls are like, what nightmares are made from exactly and beyond. And one of the dolls is a wooden doll that I believe sits up, right? Yep. Completely within, like you can't move, like it's very heavy. Right. And there's another doll that sits in a small chair and one day I believe the cleaning the cleaning lady,
38:36 Yeah. She was in the room cleaning and the Dulce switch places she did. So she doesn't see them switch places, but she notices that the dolls have switched. And the, the only people allowed in these rooms is the curator and the cleaning people. Yeah. And so I, I believe she reports this and everybody says nobody's touched it that they know of. Nobody has touched these, these things. And if you saw these dolls, you would 100% believe that these are things that can can walk by themselves, probably switch slips places if they wanted to because they're terrifying. Like I may have had a nightmare about one of those dolls. So yeah, it's pretty bad. But yeah, like the, the movies that were made about dolls have nothing on these. Yeah. These dolls are, are scary. So this is this has been some of the ghost stories coming out of the city of Nashville and there's one more than we want to talk them about.
39:32 Yeah. There's, there's one more with, with Andrew Jackson. So not only do you hear the dog barking and see that CLO, but one of the things that the staff that are there present day have reported are, especially when they have to stay late just to kind of monitor the Hermitage. There are reports of the horse of Andrew Jackson stomping in the house, like actually kind of parading into the front door and stomping into the house that you can hear horses and you can hear like somebody in distress. Wow. Okay. Yeah. Huh. And be kind of terrifying. You're just sitting there and the door just randomly opens. You hear a horse and you know when they go to check on it, there's nothing there. And of course there are no horses that are there. There's no, yeah, there's a couple horses on property, but they're far away.
40:21 There's no way that horse is jumping all those fences again to that house. And you know, the, these are people who are in the house, they hear these noises, like a horse stomping in the house through the front door, glass breaking in the kitchen and the glass breaking what happens pretty often at the hermit. Yeah. And they walk up and because they're in the house, they hear this, they walk over, nothing there. Yeah. And so these are people who are actually giving the tours that are said, yes, we have been there and I've seen it. Yep. Yeah. It's pretty crazy. So and these are the ones, those are the ones that we have heard for ourselves, taking that tour, talk to people who have actually experienced these things firsthand. And so those are really cool to hear. So go next weekend, if you get the chance, you can get tickets, you can hold out for the rest of the season.
41:06 Yeah. So called the Hermitage not the Hermitage hotel, the Andrew Jackson Hermitage. You can call it Hermitage. You won't get anywhere. They're not giving those kinds of tours. Yeah. They're not giving us signs for us. Even if you pay the right person, they're not gonna give it those type of tourist. No, not at all. But I'm looking forward to next year to experience it. The bell witch cave. Yes. Actually I really want to make that a priority for next year to experience that. Yeah, that, that will be really cool. Let us know what your famous or your
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