You paid for a sleepover with a ghost?!

A well to do hotel, with a ghostly past.

Not to mention a ghost who messes with musicians 

https://youtu.be/09c5yoczP20?si=1Ely-sfoRXJPjviq

Transcript

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Good evening listeners. How are you doing tonight? Me? I'm doing okay. I don't know if you can tell lately, but my voice just sounds real scratchy. So, um, drinking some hot fluids. It's vanilla latte. And hoping it doesn't keep me up all night because I have some very special plans tomorrow. I'm gonna go help a friend celebrate one year of being in business with her wonderful floral company. It's called Bloomendales. And if you're not getting your flowers from her, you're wrong. Alright, so let me get some, I guess they call it housekeeping out of the way. I would love it if you would subscribe. That would just make my whole year, it really would. By the way, if you if you're a paid subscriber, you get to tell your creepy story. You record it, send it in, and it will be included in an episode. And I think that would be really exciting because I know there's a lot of us out there who have weird things that they've experienced or gone through. If you become a founding member, which I lovingly call founding adoers, because you know I'm always saying without further ado, so I lovingly call them founding a doers. You get to collaborate on guest interviews, you get to ask the questions and get credit for the questions. You also get to pick a subject for the next podcast. Remember, it must be of supernatural origin, scary, ghostly, mind-bending, somewhere along those lines. Um, keep it in there and we can have lots of fun with it. I love the research part of it. So my wonderful listeners, without further ado, let's get into the Driscoll Hotel. Now before we start, here's a fun fact for you. Lyndon B. Johnson met his wife, Ladybird Johnson, at the Driscoll Hotel. So there's a ghostly history of the Driscoll Hotel. Welcome to Austin, Texas, where the historic Driscoll Hotel stands as a grand symbol of Southern hospitality and a vortex of supernatural terror. Built in eighteen eighty six, the Driscoll has been home to countless guests and infamous events. Yet beneath its opulent decor and ornate halls, the hotel harbors dark secrets and chilling legends. Many believe that some souls have never checked out. As dusk falls, shadows flicker in the candlelit corridors, and icy whispers echo from rooms abandoned long ago. Visitors claim the temperature drops after midnight, as if invisible hands brush against their skin. Footsteps are heard pacing behind guests, only for them to turn and find themselves completely alone, except for the lingering feeling of being watched. The most renowned ghost at the Driscoll Hotel is Colonel Driscoll himself, the hotel's founder. Guests frequently report seeing his apparition wandering the halls, inspecting his beloved establishment. Room five hundred twenty five is infamous for unexplained cold spots and ghostly apparitions that appear late at night. Shadowy figures are said to drift across the room, and soft, mournful crying echoes from nowhere, probably from the bride that was jilted at the altar when her husband, fiance actually, refused to marry her. And so she ran to room five hundred twenty five, where she took her own life. And that's probably who we're hearing. Room four hundred twenty nine is believed to be haunted by the spirit of a former guest. Chilling footsteps are often heard pacing the hallway after dark. Some visitors recount doors slamming on their own and belongings mysteriously moving, as if watched by unseen eyes. Among the eerie tales is the spirit of a young girl haunting the grand staircase. While chasing a ball, she tragically tripped and fell down the stairs and passed away. Now people swear they can hear her still chasing that ball as they listen and the ball bounces and bounces, and she giggles as she chases it. Other unexplained phenomena include flickering lights, sudden cold drafts, and the aroma of cigar smoke lingering in areas where none should be found, considering the hotel is non smoking. A rock musician's encounter at the Driscoll Hotel. Some experiences are frightening because of what they show you. Others are more unsettling because of what they suggest. Jeanette Napolitano Napolitano, lead singer of Concrete Blonde, described such an experience during her stay at the Driscoll Hotel. Alone in her room, she noticed a face in the glass of the shower door, clear enough to see. Clear enough to see, human enough to recognize. The image had an old fashioned cowboy like quality. It remained motionless and silent, vanishing suddenly without any trace. Afterward, she noticed objects in the room were not where she had left them. These subtle changes suggested intention, not chaos. Nothing was broken, nothing was taken. But the quiet message was clear. Something had been there and moved freely. This encounter lingered with Napolitano long after she checked out, inspiring the song Ghost of a Texas Lady's Man, which is a really cool song, by the way. The lyrics echo the moments of stillness, intrusion, and unseen proximity she experienced at the hotel. Her story stands out for its unsettling certainty. The hotel acknowledged her presence and chose to make itself known. Annie Lennox from the Arrhythmics also had a Texas cowboy spirit pick out her concert clothes while she was in the shower. Those familiar with the Driscoll's legends note a chilling connection between these accounts and the spirit most often associated with the hotel, Colonel Jesse Driscoll. He is said not to announce himself loudly, but to leave behind the unmistakable feeling of being watched by someone who never truly left. Whether you seek luxury or a brush with the unknown, the Driscoll Hotel offers both. Staff and guests regularly share occurrences, from doors opening and closing by themselves to whispers in empty corridors. This combination of history and haunting has made the Driscoll a must visit for ghost hunters and curious travelers. If you're brave enough, take a tour or spend the night the next time you're in Austin. I got my information from the Driscoll Hotel official website, The Haunted Driscoll Hotel by Texas Monthly, Ghosts of the Driscoll Hotel, Austin American Statesman, The Driscoll Hotel, Austin's Haunted Landmark by The Atlas Obscura, The Driscoll Hotel Ghost Stories, the Travel Channel, and of course from let me find it for you. Austin Ghost Stories, The Cattle Baron and the Rock Star. That was on Reddit. Some of my information also did come from Wikipedia. So as we close this session out tonight, I know it's not long, none of my episodes are.

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