The Crescent Hotel | Morbid | Podcast | Forensic Files

Hey weirdos. I'm Elena. I'm Ash. And this right here, it's morbid. It is. [Music]
It is. It's morbid. Facts. facts and figures. So, I don't know about that. Oh, no.
That that transported me back to math class and I started twitching. Oh, man. I'm sorry I made you twitch.
Thanks. I apolog She's literally twitching. I wish you could see. Her eye is twitching. She's She's just losing it.
Um, so we're we have a spooky episode today which I'm very excited about because
it's um this well and we'll get into it. Obviously Ash is going to tell us the story, but
I will. Uh, this it's the Crescent Hotel in Arkansas. In Arkansas and you got Boston and then Southern
Arkansas. I think I was trying to do both accidentally or I was trying to do Southern and Boston came up.
Boston is who you are. It's just in my soul. But what's funny about this is I have been following the
Crescent Hotel on Tik Tok forever. Like since the since I got on Tik Tok and they followed me back and they were
like, "Oh, we always listen to more." But like the staff is like, "Holy [ __ ] you got to come." And I was like, "Oh my
god, I love this. I love that this hotel and us are friends. And when you brought
it up, I was like, "Holy shit." Like, "We got to go there now." Oh, I'm going to go there.
So, I think we're going to try. We're going to figure out when we can. But we got to go.
We must. We got to go. It looks so And just wait until you hear. And honestly, shout out to the staff of
the Crescent Hotel because you guys are hilarious on TikTok and I love you. It's true. I started following them.
Yeah. See, and they'll love it. And speaking of recommendations for who to follow on Tik Tok, you should follow the
Crescent Hotel. And we're always giving you like recommendations, you know, like
we were talking about, you know, Richard Chismar's book, Widow's Point the other
day. Talked about Grady Hendrick. We we're always telling you like, "Hey, this is
what I'm doing." And they're all genuine because if I like something, I want you guys to to
like it, too. And there's one that just came about that we would like to throw your way,
but I think is a really really good one. Yes, I agree. Um, so this begins, so this is a podcast. It's a podcast that
was created um by a family member of a true crime case, a very close family member of a true crime case.
Um, so I'm going to give you a quick little background of the case and then we're going to show you a quick little
short trailer for their new podcast. And I really think you should give it a listen.
Definitely. So the case comes from July 9th, 1993 when Stephanie Wasalian died from a gunshot wound to her neck. They
she had two daughters and her daughter Nikki is a fierce advocate for her mother's case now, which has
unbelievably gone cold for over 30 years. Yeah, I think it's 32 years now. And when you hear the the details of this
case, the 911 call alone, which you will hear part of it during this trailer, um
it's and it's not like graphic, so don't worry. This trailer, um but when you hear the details of this case, it's
unbelievable that it has gone cold. It's wild. I totally get why Nikki is like, "Let's get this [ __ ] open again." Um
we're going to be covering this case on an episode of Morbid. Um, but we really want you to take a look at um Nikki's
new podcast cuz she has launched a podcast about her mother's case. So, she has, I think, a few episodes out by the
time this comes out. There's a few like a little mini uh bonus episodes right now, but the first
episode Yeah. is premiering on July 9th and it's going to premiere on July 9th at 8:00
p.m. And there's a very special reason why it's going to premiere at that specific time on that specific day cuz
that is the last time she and her mother said good night which is heartbreaking literally shatters my heart into a
million different pieces. I can't even like the the ball in my throat is just like
Yeah. Uh, but honestly in this podcast, you're going to get a firsthand perspective from Stephanie's daughter,
which like you can't you can't get a closer perspective than that. Um, Nikki's a badass. I fully believe that
she's going to get this case solved, I think. And I think with everyone's help and with everyone's ears on the case and
people spreading the information and getting it looked at again, that's that's what this is all about. These
things go cold and it's because no one's willing to look at them again. So, um, make noise. Exactly. Make some noise.
Put your ear to it. Just listen and spread it. Uh, here's a quick trailer for her podcast, Poppy Killed Mommy.
911. What's your emergency? My mother's death was ruled a homicide. The man who called 911, he admitted he
might have killed her. I don't know who. You don't know who shot her? I might have. She might have shot
herself. But the county attorney said there wasn't enough evidence. No trial, no
charges, no justice. I'm Nikki. I'm the daughter of a murdered woman and I'm done staying quiet. Join me for the
launch of Poppy Killed Mommy, a true crime podcast premiering July 9th because if the system won't fight for
her, I will. So, yeah, just that the trailer alone chilling. Yeah, she's done an amazing
job with it. I know that she's um she's been working on it with Sarah Turney as well with help. We love Sarah. um
couldn't have a better person helping you with this. And yeah, we highly recommend. You can follow Nikki on Tik
Tok. Um we'll share her handle and stuff in our show notes so that you guys can follow along because she's always
updating. So yeah, definitely. And then look out for our coverage on the case after she does a couple
episodes. Yeah. And thanks thank you to Nikki for trusting us with the trailer and to do
an episode. Yeah, we appreciate that a lot. Yeah. And when this goes wide, uh, check
out our socials because we'll share, you know, Nikki's key art, a link to the episode, her episode. So, we'll we'll
send you that way. Yes. But without further ado, let's talk about the Crescent Hotel, man.
Yeah, let's go. This is a crazy ass place. It is. Let me just tell you that. It is. I've
said this many, many a time. It is said to be one of America's most haunted hotels. I think it's America's most
haunted hotel. I think this one stands on business. Facts. I really do think it does because I I do
I really do think it does is what I just said. That Why does that sound so wrong?
I really do think it does. I don't know why that sounded weird when it came to the do and does, but that's a that's a
uh but I I noticed it when I went like through their Tik Toks. Yeah. That they were like, you know, most
haunted hotel in America. And I was like, I'll be the judge of that. And then you said,
I started seeing things they were talking about. They were going through the history and all that good stuff and
talking about different and people were coming out with their different experiences and I was like
I think they're right. The history is bonkers.com there. I did actually end up getting a
lot of information from a documentary that was just uh released I want to say last year. Uh it came out two years ago,
2023. I'm still in 2024 in my mind, you know, aren't we all? But it's Tales from the Crescent Hotel. It's on Prime.
I think I rented it for like four bucks. I might buy it cuz I want to watch it again. It's a really cool. I recommend
it. Another recommendation. But yeah, so I got a lot of information from there. I got a lot of information
from their hotel's website. Their hotel's website has almost everything you need to know.
Love that. And then just like some local news outlets. Um, but this hotel is in Eureka
Springs, Arkansas, which hundreds and hundreds of years ago was discovered by Native Americans. And in Eureka Springs,
there are more than 60 natural occurring springs within the city limits. Damn. Which is just [ __ ] bonkers.
Eureka. Maybe that's why they named it that. And for all those hundreds of years, people
believed that these springs had healing properties. Like the water, if you drank
it, if you put it on a wound, if you sniffed it, you'd be healed. Stand next to it,
good things would happen. Hell yeah. So word started spreading once English settlers started coming over here. And
soon everybody was trying to get out to Eureka to be near these springs, get a drink of them, the whole nine. Now
Powell Clayton, one of the earliest governors, I think the ninth governor of Arkansas. Obviously, he knew all the
legends cuz he was living out there. Hell yeah. And he knew about the springs, their
healing properties. So he and his associates formed the Eureka Improvement Company, and they really decided they
were going to start building up the town. They had railroads built to bring in more people in and really got the
downtown area together. They built up different shops, really nice buildings. He was hoping especially that wealthy
people wealthy people. He was hoping that he was hoping especially wealthy people would see all the work going into
the area. Obviously, he knew that they had extra money to spend. And that's kind of where he got the idea to get a
wellness retreat up and running. Wellness retreats were kind of like just starting to become a bigger thing. the
cool hip thing. Yeah. And obviously wealthy elite people were all about them. So he was like,
"Okay, well that's the perfect place for them to spend their money." Yeah. So his idea was put into motion um and
the hotel started being built in 1884. Architect Isaac S. Taylor built the hotel in a romanesque revival style,
which I think you would love. Oh yeah. I started kind of looking into the characteristics of that and I said,
"Elena, Elena, Elena, Elena." I was like, "Can I live in that?" Yeah. picture like lots of just like for
you guys, Elena is already picturing it. Lots of round arches, brick and stone towers, and then I saw this asymmetrical
designs. That's your middle name. Let's go. Whenever I try to make anything symmetrical in this room, she's like,
"No, asymmetrical. Doesn't need to be balanced. I don't like always balancing." But the building sits on top of Crescent
Mountain, and it really like towers over the area, which makes it somehow look even more majestic. Yeah,
from all the angles and everything and of course leads to beautiful views from essentially every room on the property,
which is pretty badass. It is badass. It was and still is to this day stunning. By the time the hotel
was complete in 1886, it cost in today's money $10 million. Damn. But because it cost that much, it
offered some of the finest luxuries at that time. Electricity. Edison light bulbs were everywhere.
Oh [ __ ] I love an animal. It had steam heat elevators running water. Get the [ __ ] out of here.
And not just regular schmegular running water. It was the water from the healing
springs being pumped into the hotel. Oh, so you're getting fancy water. So, of course, that was only bringing in
more tourists cuz they said, "Heal me." Yeah, heal me. Let's go. Let's [ __ ] go. So, the grand grand
opening the grand opening grand opening was held on May 20th, 1886. And most people had actually been
personally invited to come stay. I was. It wasn't just like anybody could go stay. Elena in a past life was invited.
I I guess I wasn't. But there was people from all over the country that rode the train into Eureka
Springs. When they got to the train station there, they were met with a band that was like, "Let's [ __ ] go party."
And then Yes. And then they were transported up the mountain to the hotel. The Daily Times Echo reported
that day, "With the opening of the grandiose Crescent Hotel, Eureka Springs enters a new and exciting era. Notables
from afar are arriving in our fair city, and soon many others will follow. The Crescent Springs, built by Eureka uh
Springs Improvement Company, and the Frisco Railroad, is America's most luxurious resort hotel. Featuring large,
airy rooms and comfortably furnished, the Crescent offers the visiting vacer an opulence unmatched in convenience and
service." They continued, "Tonight's opening ball will find in attendance many leaders in business and society,
including me." Including that sounds badass. Sounds opulent as [ __ ] That sounds so opulent.
I love the word opulent. That's not only does it like bring forth images that are very
pleasant. Has a great mouth feel. Great mouth feel. Opulent. Opulent. It's that like op and
thenulent. I love it. I really like it. I'm obsessed with it. I really like it. This
place kind of looks like um the Stanley. It does sort of look like the Stanley vibes to it.
I've been to the Stanley. It's [ __ ] freaky. Yeah. But there was a big welcome party in the
Grand Ballroom, which now is the Crystal Dining Room. And the governor himself interviewed a lot of notable guest
speakers who were like political people at the time. Things went beautifully for
years and years. But by 1908, they were having some money problems. It's a big place. It had a lot of accommodations
that it was offering. So obviously it cost a lot to run and people weren't coming out as often and especially the
winter months were pretty dead. That makes sense. So to bring in some extra money and keep
things up and running, it was decided that during the winter months the hotel would be run as a women's college like
during that off season and then in the summer months it would go back to being open to the public. So they invited the
Crescent College and Conservatory for young ladies to stay there. M. Now, apparently the program that they were,
you know, offering for these women was very ahead of its time cuz remember this is 1908. Women were not being taught
like the same as men were back then. Yeah. But at the Crescent they were. Some of
the courses that women took there in 1908 are still being taught in curriculums today.
Holy [ __ ] which is actually wow. But that also seems to be when the first reports of hauntings started, which
actually does make sense because during the original construction there was already tragedy and a few more followed
throughout the college years. Uh so one of the masons working on the building like when it was originally built was
believed to be an Irish man named Michael. And apparently while he was constructing his little section of the
hotel, he fell to his death. Ooh. Yeah. Ooh. I knew I I had a feeling something like that was going to happen.
Yeah. Yeah. Legend has it he specifically haunts room 218 and he really favors the
ladies. Oh yeah. He's a honkah honka burn in love. Oh, look at this. So imagine how happy he was when this
building became an all girls school. Oh, he's like hell yeah. He said I am living again. It's great.
People that especially women who have stayed in room 218 uh which is the most requested room by the way.
I I get it. I don't think I would request this room. I would. Don't speak too soon. They say that they
get tapped on the shoulder. Okay. Or that the shower curtain has been pulled back while they're showering in
the room completely alone. Okay. Not cool. Okay. Not cool. Michael, there's something
called consent. Michael, there sure is. I would be pissed. I would put them up. Put them up.
Oh, but the dukes would come right up with me. Oh, no. Cuz I'm in a zone in the shower,
so like don't [ __ ] it up. Yeah. Also, people have said in this specific room, there's been reports of an apparition of
hands coming out of the mirror in the bathroom. Okay, Michael. Like, [ __ ] that.
Um, people also have reported hearing a man scream in this room or around this room.
And if you're in this room, people say they've seen Michael's ghost like basically fall through the ceiling and
then just completely dissipate. Okay, I want that. Yeah, I want to go to there. I'm not
going to shower there. I'll I'll I'll hold my hand on the shower curtain. I'm not going to n in that room.
No, you give me a glass door instead of a shower curtain. Maybe. There you go. But so yeah, that's
wild. Damn. The falling through into the room and then disappearing is shaking me to my core.
And hearing a man scream. I feel like haunts are usually like a shrill woman scream, you know,
and like an angry bride or something, you know? Yeah. A man screaming. Yeah, that's a
whole different That's I can't even picture that. It's like, "Wow, you nailed that." It's scary. I
thought there was a man in here screaming. Maybe there was. Well, people doing ghost tours know what the famous
rooms are and the ghosts that go along with each one of them. So, they try to catch a glimpse of these ghosts if they
can, which is exactly what we're going to do. Hell yeah. Um, on one ghost tour, a
woman knew about Michael and she really wanted to make contact with him. So, she
and her group went into room 218 and they started playing Irish folk music, you know, just to get him cuz why not?
Get him in his happy place. They also poured shots of Irish whiskey. And everybody in the room suddenly saw one
of the dresser drawers slowly being pulled open as they were like prompting him with questions.
Holy [ __ ] And they tried to see if they could recreate it, explain it away. They like
jumped up and down. They were like banging the sides of the dresser and it didn't happen again.
Ooh. Yeah. Weird. That's spooky. It is. Now, in the early 1900s, the college was being run by uh President
Richard Breenidge, who was a teacher there for many years before he became president. And his wife was also a
teacher there. She taught French and hygiene and hygiene. French and hygiene. All right.
I don't know. She knew a lot about a lot. Yeah. Wash the bottom of your feet. Yeah. always.
You know, people don't do that. I learned I wondered why you specifically said that.
Yeah, I'm You know, that's who I am. Some people don't think like they just are like, "I'm in the shower. There's
water." No, I heard this discussion somewhere and I can't remember where, but I was
like, "You don't wash the bottom of your like what?" Like, that's wild. Do you wash the bottom of your feet?
Of course. Yeah. Of course he does. You wash yours obviously. I wash mine. Yeah. You No,
there's a lot you need to do. Actually, Beach Gem gives a really good um Does she?
Yeah. Beach Gem. Dr. Beach Gem on TikTok. You think the bottom of your feet is bad?
It's going to get explicit in here real quick. Oh, no. Some people don't wash their bum holes.
Don't. Beach. Be said. said, "I saw a video and she was saying you need to explain to like your kids
that they have to watch their bum hole." That's wild. I like how you're whispering that.
It's a weird thing. It's such a like this is so a naughty word. So random, but it is so random.
How could you not wash your bum hole? You should wash your whole body in the shower. Everybody
thick lather. It feels great, too. If you do a pre-crub with like an exfoliant like maybe it changes your life once
twice a week and then you follow that up with your scrub, you're going to feel like a brand new [ __ ]
Yeah. And then make sure you moisturize afterwards and you're going to feel great.
I remember when I was little like knowing that I had to wash my feet because if you don't wash your feet and
then dry them properly like in between your toes, you can get gang green. Ooh. Or like something.
Well, it's just yucky. Yeah. So, wash your feet. So, yeah, wash your feet. That's a She
was teaching hygiene. Go wash the bottom of your feet. The original beach gem. She's like,
"Wash your feet. Wash your bum hole." So they She also whispered it. She did. Oh, she didn't even say but
hole. She said, "You're behind." She said, "You're you're your end parts." Yes, that's what she said.
Everybody said, "What?" Well, anyway, they had a four-year-old son, Clifton, who they taught good
things like that. And everybody called him Brekie, cuz their last name is Breenidge.
That's cute. Um, but unfortunately Breckie passed away at the hotel after complications with appendicitis.
No, Brekie, it's so sad. But ever since then, and even to this day, people say that they
see a little boy, especially in the hallway on the second floor, and they always see him playing with a ball.
Oh my goodness. And hotel guests who have children, their kids will come to them and be
like, "I played with this little boy, and he says he lives here, but like he was dressed so differently." And they'll
ask their kids to explain what he was dressed like. And he's dressed like a Victorian child.
Oh my goodness. And that's when you return your child. Return your child. Return to send.
Oh man, I would that would that would be something. That would [ __ ] me up. That really would.
I'm so sad. I hate it. There's also the ghost of Dr. John Fremont Ellis, who served as the
in-house doctor during the very early hotel days. People staying in room uh 212 will smell cherry scented tobacco,
which sounds nice. Huh. I like it. All right. I can take that. My My grandfather smoked a pipe.
Yeah. Like a tobacco pipe. Yeah. And uh it was always a comforting smell when I was little.
Definitely. So cherry is an interesting. Yeah. Well, room 212 used to be his office
where he was known to smoke his pipe a lot. So, it makes sense. Um, people also see him kind of like out
and about in the hotel and they say if you see a man in a top hat and very nicely dressed, chances are it's
probably Dr. John uh Fremont Ellis. He sounds like a handsome guy. He kind of does.
If you see him, don't hit on him. He's a ghost. Kind of sounds like a zi. Hey, ghost
should get hit on, too. Go. He should feel good about himself, too. You know what? I take it back. You
know, he's a ghost. So, it's very likely obviously even with just those few spirits that the girls at
Crescent Conservatory had experiences of their own. One of the hotel workers who was
featured in the documentary, she actually said that girls would send postcards to their family asking their
family to send their Ouija boards to school so that they could try to figure out like who they had seen or who they
were talking to. Hell yeah. Girls down back in the early 1900s. Yeah, that that's just girls
being girls, you know? And again, like I already said it at the top, but def definitely go watch the
documentary because they feature a ton of photos throughout from back then. Like there's tons of photos of when it
was a woman's college and like just the old timey girls. It's like crazy. I love that.
It's so cool. Oh, I can't I We're going here. Yeah, we're going. Yeah. I never thought I would go to Arkansas.
I never really had a reason to go to Arkansas, I don't think. But apparently Eureka Springs is cool as
[ __ ] Yeah, let's go. Their town motto is um like where where misfits go to fit.
Oh, I love it. Eureka Springs. Like where even misfits fit. It's something like that.
Oh, see this makes sense. I love it. This way because the staff of that hotel sounds like a bunch of [ __ ] awesome
peeps and Yeah, I was trying to think of a peeps and sectors and spectrals. Yeah, peep peeps and ghouls.
Ghouls. There you go. Yeah. Well, unfortunately, sorry to bring this down a notch. By 1934, pretty
well into the Great Depression, people obviously didn't have a ton of money to spend and they definitely weren't
sending their daughters to college anymore. Woman educated. We don't have the money for that.
No. So, the college closed down and the Crescent kind of stayed in limbo for the next 3 years.
But in 1938, a very wealthy man with a very checkered past decided that he was going to buy the hotel and turn it into
a hospital specifically for cancer patients. who he said he could cure without surgery, radium, or X-ray, which
were all what cancer was treated with at the time. Yeah. And as we know, in 2025, he
didn't. No. Um, so this this is probably not going to end well. Uh-uh. But he said he could cure cancer
with the power of a determined mind and something called Formula 5. He would have been an excellent grifter
on social media. Yeah, he essentially was the OG grifter, the AUG, if you will. Yeah.
Uh, but more on Formula 5 and all that in a minute. Let's get into who this guy was and where the [ __ ] he came from.
Who the [ __ ] is this guy? This guy is Norman Baker. He was born in Musketone, Iowa, but by all accounts, he
was a really smart kid. He had really big aspirations from the time he was little little. Um, even from the time he
was really young, he had a great mind for engineering, which made sense cuz his father was an inventor. Actually, I
guess his father had something like 126 patents throughout his lifetime for just
different inventions. Yeah. And his father also owned a machine shop. So Norman would go in and learn about
all the different machines, how they worked, all the ins and outs. And the older he got, he would go into factories
to show them how to improve their production. He'd be like, "Redesign this layout, move this over here, put this
here, and everything will work for me." He had a lot of promise. And it did. And like he was just this
kid who would walk in like that. Damn. But the one driving force in his life was that he did not want to end up poor.
So in his late teens, while he was still kind of figuring out his path in life, how he was going to make all this money
and what he really wanted to do, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis. Oh, damn. The doctors actually didn't expect him
to live long at all. They thought maybe he had a very limited amount of time, like possibly years, maybe even not.
Wow. But somehow he defied the odds and he survived. And during the time he was sick, he was reading a lot of books
about how your mindset can cure you of an ailment if you, you know, just think positively.
Yeah. And really, really work your mind on getting better. Yeah. That's all it takes.
That's it. Yeah. Modern medicine. Who's that? Yeah. So when his condition improved, he
accredited the improvement to that and only that, a positive, determined mindset.
So now he had shown himself that he could avoid death with just the power of his mind. and he knew that he could make
money the same way. And there is no denying that he did in fact make a lot of money. The first of that money came
when he came up with his own vaudeville act after watching a performance and kind of becoming fixated on it. He
learned how to hypnotize people and do all kinds of different magic tricks. And he actually spent the next year uh 10
years doing that with a troop of people who banded together and just went around
the country doing this vaudeville act. No matter who the performer was, he always had a woman uh who was like a
quote unquote mind readader and she always went by the name Pearl Tangley. Pearl Tangley.
Pearl Tangley. Okay. And he himself went with the name Charles Welch. And he spent
Charles Welch. 10 years doing that. Okay. He briefly married one of them, but they
ended up anulling the marriage a short time later. One of the pearls. One of the pearls. And he just moved on
to the next pearl. uh he was actually making a decent amount of money, but obviously he wanted
more and that's when he started working on his invention called the Kophone. It was an instrument that was kind of
like an organ. It ran on compressed air, but you could like ride around with it like on the back of a bicycle or
something. Okay. So, it became really popular at fairs and circuses cuz you could kind of like
drive it around and the air would make it make different sounds. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I feel like I've seen this kind of
vibe. Yeah, we'll post a picture of it because it's hard to describe, but once you see
it, you can kind of get an idea of what it was. Yeah. So, he came up with that using the like
that specific kophone using compressed air. Previously, they had used steam and it didn't make a lot of sense. Like
exploded a lot. Yeah. You know, that could happen. So, he ended up making a [ __ ] ton of
money on that because it was really in demand for those kind of performances. But then by the end of his vaudeville
days, radio broadcasting really started to take off and he wanted in on that. He
saw a lot of money in that future. Kind of like what we're doing right now. Radio broadcasting.
Radio broadcasting. It's a little different though. But he thought it was going to be a
lucrative business. But the problem he faced was that you needed to get back then certain equipment from the
government if you wanted to start your own radio station. Okay. So he went to these different people and
was like, "Hey government, can I have approval?" And the government said no. Uhhuh.
Which is tough. It that it can happen. It's tough when the government says no. When the government just is like, "No,
no, you can't have that." No. I think they didn't love his ideas. Yeah. They said, "Not cool."
But he said, "Fuck y'all." And he figured out how to make the equipment on his own.
Wow. Like he made his own radio broadcasting equipment. Cuz you asked for forgiveness, not
permission. Exactly. You know, not only did he create his own equipment, but he also literally just
built his own radio tower on some random hillside in Musketone, Iowa. Jesus. There's pictures of it. You got to look
it up. He named his controversial radio controversial radio station KT NT which was short for know the naked truth.
We all know who this kind of guy is. In the beginning he was mostly talking about like small town issues going on
within Musketine and you know he's going after other radio stations but then he started talking and ranting like it was
just him on this radio station. He would rant for hours and he started ranting about, you know, more broadly like
different political and social issues like vaccines, boine TB testing, obviously,
and the upcoming 1928 election where he was backing Hoover. Here we go. He actually even ended up meeting Hoover
and they like kind of bro out. Whoa. Yeah, it's wild. Damn, this guy. Yeah. He also like ran for Senate at one
point. Oh [ __ ] He lost thankfully. Yeah. But eventually he started denouncing real medical doctors.
Um that's where you you know you fall out of line there. Yeah. And he also denounced the American
Medical Association. O Yeah. And that was when he heard that a man in Kansas City had come up come up with his own
cure for cancer. Now this was like the very first time that he had heard about this.
Oh boy. So he himself said he would sponsor essentially five patients to go to Kansas City and try this miracle cure.
He would pay for all of their whatever the cure cost because of course the cure costs money and whatever expenses they
would inquire in incur while traveling down there. He'd cover all of it. Okay? Just to kind of see what happened.
He gathered them all up. He sent them all down there and they all got the cure and it did not cure them. Unfortunately,
every single person within that study passed away after not being cured at all. But this didn't phase him.
Oh. Instead, he started publishing his own paper claiming the cure as his own and this like crazy medical advancement
in science and medicine. Wow. Yeah. Okay. I see what you mean with the grifter. Yeah. And it didn't stop there. In 1930,
he just said, "You know what? I'm going to open up my own hospital cuz I have this miracle cure.
I'm super qualified to do that. Let's go." Even though I don't have a medical license. Um, so yeah, he opened the
Baker Institute using the paper in his radio station. He had a paper at this point, too, and a radio station to
promote it. And again, he didn't have a license to practice medicine or any kind
of medical experience at all. But in big letters on the side of this Baker Institute, he advertised cancer is
curable in like huge letters. Wow. Mhm. Wow. The conditions within his hospital were terrible. Of course they
were. The documentary really goes into it, but it was not a hospital so much as just an
old building with too many patients and too little resources. Just leaving them to
Yeah. Like they were washing themselves with bed pans. Nothing was sterilized properly. It was
overcrowded. There also weren't real [ __ ] doctors that worked there. That's the thing. And you're going
thinking that this is this miracle cure. Yeah. And of course, like I can't imagine being diagnosed with cancer. You
would do, especially back then when we didn't have a lot of information on cancer, you would do anything to be
cured, of course. And this guy is saying he has the cure. You're going to go there.
Yeah. But instead of hiring actual doctors, he hired people with what were called
eclectic degrees, which this is when you go to two terms of medical school. And in some states,
they allow you with this degree to diagnose, write prescriptions, and death certificates.
Oh. But certainly not treat cancer patients. Yeah. That's a whole different level, I
would say. But this is who he was bringing into the hospital. Damn. So the whole time he's, you know,
sitting there claiming to cure cancer at the Baker Institute, he was also going against the American Medical Association
on his broadcast and in his paper. So they were getting rightfully pissed. Yeah.
And eventually things escalated to the point where the American uh medical association went to the Federal Radio
Commission and was like, "You need to shut this down. He's sitting there saying he has this miracle cure to
cancer doing this nonsense. like this is illegal. You can't be doing this. So Baker's radio station did shut down
in 1930 and that's when the American Medical Association started going after the hospital, quote unquote hospital,
quote unquote. So now he was going to be facing uh charges of practicing without a medical
license. So he shut down the hospital and ran away to Mexico for like a couple years.
Holy [ __ ] Yeah. He went full send. He went full send. He spent this time in Mexico and he figured out how to make a
radio station there as well. Of course he did. Which was also broadcasted like throughout the world somehow.
Waste of a brain. That's the thing cuz he you can't argue. He's a very smart guy.
Yeah. That's what's upsetting. He could have done great things if he actually did great things.
He could have. Yeah. But so he builds a radio station there. People are listening all over the world. And he's
still claiming that he knows this cure. People are writing him from all over the
world. Wanting to know what it is. How do they get it? Yeah. but he's facing these charges in
the US. So, he's kind of stuck where he is. So, things in Mexico were getting kind
of bad at this point. They were facing civil war. So, he came back and really had no choice but to go clear things up
in Musketine if he wanted to start over somewhere else. So, he this whole big trial happened.
The judge ordered him to pay $1,000 fine and spend one day in jail and he was free to go.
Are you kidding me? Yeah. Which also he had been charging people for this cure like absurd amounts
of money. He's completely ripping people off. He's not only is he completely ripping
people off, $1,000 was nothing to him. Yeah. Like that was he could easily do that.
So that is how he ended up picking up and moving to Eureka Springs. Where he purchased the then in limbo
Crescent Hotel. Eureka Springs actually seemed happy to have him. They knew he was a wealthy
man. They knew he was going to bring money back into the town. So they kind of took everything that they heard about
him with a grain of salt. Oh, don't do that. Yeah. And Arkansas, at least back then,
was one of those states that allowed people to practice with an eclectic degree. Eek. So this was perfect for
Norman. Oh, yeah. He loved this. So he moved into the hotel. He renovated the entire place. I think it took him
like 6 months. And he moved all of his patients from Musketine into the hotel that was now, you know, renovated. and
he started advertising to cancer patients in Eureka Springs saying he could help them with no surgery, no
x-rays, no radium. Now, instead, like I mentioned earlier, he had this miracle cure that he called
formula 5. Yes. So, this formula 5 was a mixture of glycerin, watermelon seeds, corn silk,
carbolic acid, and spring water now from the local springs. He would have patients and staff. I
won't even say medical staff cuz they were just staff inject this mixture into their bodies up to seven times a day.
What the [ __ ] And he specifically recommended that it be injected into their chests.
What? He also there was no balance like there was no certain amount of carbolic acid or watermelon seeds. Everything
varied from tincture to ture. Whatever your vibe was that day. And carbolic acid is incredibly dangerous.
Oh my god, it's insane. Yeah, it's wild. And having them injected into their chests
and up to seven times a day. Up to seven times a day. And then on top of that, because there weren't any
actual medical doctors working here. And because he didn't really believe in prescription pain medication, there was
no pain medication. So these people are going through cancer. Like you see photos of some of
these people with like massive growths on their body who should be being treated in an actual medical
facility and they believe that they are but they're not at all. They're just injecting
whatever this is basically poison into their system. Holy [ __ ] And other than quote unquote formula 5,
patients were given a list of mental exercises to go through to keep their mind fighting.
Yeah. Cuz that's the important one. Yeah. Um cuz you just have to be positive. Yeah. So needless to say, a lot of
people died under his quote unquote care. At least 42 people were picked up by the mortuary, but there were
countless more whose deaths went undocumented. Holy [ __ ] Yeah. And he dark. He really didn't keep any medical
records, but he didn't. Any that he did were destroyed in a fire. Oh, convenient.
Yeah. Small fire. And there were also people that he said were cured who just got sent home, but
obviously were not cured. Yeah. And there was also people like they would come in and think they had cancer.
There were people who didn't even have an actual cancer diagnosis that he would diagnose with cancer and then treat
start injecting them with this [ __ ] Yeah. Holy. Yeah. So when people He's diabolical.
He is diabolical. When people died at the hotel or at this time the hospital, they were taken down to the basement
where there used to be a kitchen and he turned it into a morg and used the walk-in freezer to store the dead bodies
of these people. Wow. So now when people go on ghost tours of that specific area because the
morg is still like sort of intact like you can go down there. That's awesome. It's wild. They will feel everything
from lightadedness, a tightness in their chest to feelings of just like fear and
dread. Yeah. People see crazy [ __ ] in this area. People staying overnight usually hear
the sounds of wheels squeaking around around midnight or later. They say gurnies
and that's because this was usually when bodies were taken down to the morg. It makes sense. He was trying to hide
it. He was trying to hide it. Exactly. Like sneaking them past. So people will wake up in the night and hear wheels
squeaking past their room and it's the sound of gurnies, dead bodies being carried down to the morg.
And people have even claimed to see a nurse wheeling a gurnie down a hall. Holy [ __ ]
And think like, oh no, like a medical emergency happened. Very like silent hill.
And then they'll ask and someone will be like, "Oh no, like there was no medical
emergency luckily, but you saw a ghost." Like you saw an early 1900's nurse wheeling a gurnie down the wall.
Isn't that nuts? That's so scary. So, he did a lot of damage, but he was he only
ended up running the Crestston Hotel as his hospital for about 6 months before the mayor at the time got fed up with
what was going on for him. And he basically set up a take down. He's like, "Fuck this guy."
Norman kind of started going into like different political circles. Yeah, it sounds like it
cuz again, like even back when he was in Musketine, he wanted to run for like Senate and all this stuff. He stepped on
the toes of the mayor and was basically being like, "Oh, you don't need the mayor. You have me." Like he said that.
He also at one point said the town wasn't big enough for both of them. So he's like, "Oh my god."
Pissing off the wrong people. Yeah. So Claude Fuller, uh, the mayor of Eureka Springs in 1930. He had a brother
who worked at the post office and basically they found out and sort of set up Norman. He was writing all these
letters to prospective quote unquote patients or really clients promising to cure their ailments for a fee. So, they
were able to get him on mail fraud. Oh, because you can't make you can't like send out all these letters promising to
cure someone's cancer for a price. I love when they can get somebody on that smaller charge just to get them in.
Yeah. Technically, I don't like I don't think they'd probably be able to get them on
this because they set up a kind of scheme, but it worked out. But it worked then. So on September 1st,
1939, he was arrested by the FBI because mail fraud is a federal crime. Yeah, sure is.
So he ended up being sentenced to four years in jail and got a $4,000 fine this time. I think he spent a little more
than 3 years in jail this time. Wow. And he ended up going to Levvenworth prison. And when he got out of prison,
he retired in Florida where he spent the rest of his life on a yacht that he bought.
Okay. until he died in 1958 of cerosis of the liver. Oh, but many people wonder if it was
actually liver cancer. Oh yeah. [ __ ] Yeah. Now, strangely, someone lays purple
flowers at his grave every single year. What? On his anniversary. And I forgot to
mention in life he was obsessed with the color purple to the point where he drove
a purple car. Wow. He wore at least a purple tie, but sometimes a full purple suit.
Interesting. He wrote in a purple pen. And when he renovated the hotel, almost everything
was painted purple. You can actually still to this day on the side of the chimneys of the hotel see that they were
painted purple. Shut up. Like the purple paint. Oh, that's so cool. Like the paint has worn away, but
underneath is the purple thing. Is the original purple that he put Oh my god, that's creepy.
And nobody knows who this is that leaves the purple flowers. Yeah. Who are you? I don't know, but I want to.
Why? Why do you do that? Why do you do that? So, now fast forward to 2019. Susan
Benson, the grounds manager and head gardener at the hotel at that time, was just overseeing some landscaping on
the backgrounds. She's an incredible landscaper. She's won like countless awards
for just her work. Just keeping grounds. Just keeping grounds. Like planting like
these beautiful gardens and everything. Yeah, there it's gorgeous when you look at it. Like look at pictures of it. It's
crazy. So she had somebody kind of like pushing dirt back in an area in the back of the
hotel and they were just like using some kind of landscaping vehicle. So as that
person was finishing up and driving away, she was kind of looking in the area just to see what got done that day.
And she said something shiny in the dirt caught her eye. So she got down closer and she was like, "Oh, it's like a jar.
Like what the [ __ ] is this?" So she pulled it out and when she did, she saw that it was a jar, like a small jar
filled with a clear fluid and some kind of tissue. Oh, like not Kleenex tissue, like like
tissue. Like tissue, like bodily tissue. Bodily tissue. So pulling out that jar loosened up the
earth around it. And within an hour, she had pulled out a hundred more jars filled with weird ass [ __ ] just like
that. What? Uh so they called the police and that led to an archaeologist coming out
to the property where they discovered more than 500 bottles like this and also an old bone saw that they believe Norman
Baker used to cut tumors and god knows what else what else off of these people. My god.
Meanwhile, he claimed not to do any surgeries. No knives, no nothing. [ __ ] He was absolutely doing some crazy [ __ ]
Wow. Yeah, that must have been astounding. Yeah. And eventually archaeologists determined that at least some of the
bottles contained alcohol and human tissue. Holy preserving these in in Oh my god.
My god. I can't imagine finding those. Yeah. There was various tumors found that had been cut off of patients. Um
Susan even found a man's scrotum in one jar. Holy [ __ ] Yep. And she ended up leaving the hotel
like she and she said she was like, "I loved this job. I was going to retire here." But this [ __ ] haunted her.
She started having awful dreams where hands would come up through her mattress and cover her mouth and grab at her,
like pulling her down into her bed. And she said she never knows when she's going to have them, but she has them
every single week at least. It could be like two times a week or four times a week. And she said she's worried somehow
that she upset spirits by moving them from their final resting. I know. I hope that's not it. I hope she
had no idea. Well, she was she was trying to help. Trying to do the right thing and they
got all buried in like a better place. Yeah. Like she was just trying to help. Yeah. But it really messed her up.
Holy [ __ ] So, and this is the thing. Apparently, when Norman was still operating out of
the hotel, even though he claimed that he was curing cancer with no surgery, no removal of these tumors or whatever, he
would display these jars in the lobby as proof that he was curing people. And he
also featured them in some of his publications. Wow. So, you can go and look back and see
that there was at least like drawings of jars like this in his publications. Oh [ __ ] And then people from like word
of mouth who had been to the hotel back then or the hospital saw these jars featured in the lobby.
What the [ __ ] And then something happened when after he got arrested or before maybe he knew
he was getting arrested, they got buried in the back. Holy [ __ ] Yeah, that's crazy.
Yeah. And it's actually not very far off to think that he might have been doing experiments on people to make this cure
work. Yeah. I wouldn't be surprised by that. I wouldn't be surprised either. Apparently, there was a restricted area
in the hotel where the more sick patients were sent. And Sharon Clemens Tepen uh told a reporter in 2024, she's
a worker at the hotel. She said he boarded up the windows, made it even more soundproof, put steel doors with a
lock from the outside outside, and he designated this as his pain asylum. They could scream and yell and do whatever
they wanted to do, but that way they didn't disturb anybody else. His pain asylum. Pain Asylum.
First of all, awesome band name. Band name. Great band name. I call it Pain Asylum is an amazing
name. Yeah. Scariest thing I have ever heard in my life and just gave me full chills all the way
into the core of my very being thinking about the fact that he was just locking away the people that are in the most
pain so they don't deserve um disturb the rest of the hospital. Finding anything that belonged to this
man would be like changing. Like it literally would be like, "Holy shit." Like I have touched
something cursed that has been touched by a diamond. Cursed. Like finding those jars. You'd be like, "He
he did that." That's the thing. And I think that's why is so messed up by that. Like it's just
like can't can't get over that. How do you get over that? Yeah, that area today, that pain asylum, what
was the pain asylum back then, is the honeymoon suite today, and people who stay there report seeing
some pretty disturbing [ __ ] Sharon told that same reporter, "There's a woman who's sometimes seen standing at the end
of the bed. She's wearing a white night night gown, probably from the 30s, we think, and is probably one of those
cancer victims because she appears not to have a jaw or a chin." And she doesn't do anything or say anything to
hurt anyone. She's just there in the middle of the night. You wake up and she's there standing at the end of the
bed. That is horrifying. Can you [ __ ] imagine the fact that the pain asylum is the honeymoon suite
now? Like you have to marry a cite for that to make sense. You do. Like you sure do.
That's wild. Yeah. To be like I hate it. We're going to we're going to stay in the pain of silence.
Yeah, I don't know about that. And also knowing go now that I know that I'm not going anywhere near there.
That's a lot. That specific room. Do I want to see it? Yeah. Like low key. Yeah. But I don't think I
could staying there. No, not in that room. That's for sure. Now, obviously the darkest entity of all
at the hotel is, say it with me, Norman Baker. Oh, absolutely. So, one of the servers and ghost tour
guides at the hotel, Aaron Davidson, told ABC7 back in 2024, "He seems to be the apparition that is the most
unfriendly. you might say. And you do not want to provoke him. We know that much. He has been provoked in the past
and it wasn't good. Oh, please do tell. That's the most ominous [ __ ] I've ever
heard. What the [ __ ] do you mean it wasn't good? I think we have to go there to find out.
We have to go to there. But people know Norman when they see his ghost because he's still dressed in one
of either his purple suits or a purple tie. And a lot of times people will say that, especially after the jars were
found, a lot of people started seeing him in the lobby. But the manager of the nighttime ghost tours, Deborah the
Duchess, said there was an uptick in the activity in the morg after those jars were found. There were more cold spots
than usual, and for the first time, a dark figure was seen in the morg that hadn't been seen previously
after the jars discovered popped off. Mhm. Yeah. One of the nicer and I would say more
helpful ghosts, though, is Theodora. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And she usually stays in room 419. People think that she's
possibly one of Norman Baker's patients. Um or maybe a nurse that was running the
hospital, but more often I saw a patient. She really likes things uh neat and tidy. If you leave anything
scattered around your room, you're going to come back to have everything neatly folded in one spot.
Okay. I like that. One couple was arguing in that room and they were like unpacking as they did it and just kind
of left [ __ ] everywhere. And they came back to their suitcases packed standing
by the door. So they stayed in a different room because they were like, I think we upset
that spirit. She's like, "You know what? Don't argue in my room. You're [ __ ] up my vibe, so why don't
you guys go figure this out in a different room?" Because she said, "Get out of here.
We We don't argue in here." No, we don't. Good for her. There's also been people who stayed
overnight in the room. Um, and they will go to sleep with scattered change on the
dresser and then they wake up to find it neatly stacked and organized. Oh, a lot of people have said that.
I would do that. And people see her outside of uh room 419, and it looks like she's fumbling
with a set of keys. So, if you see that, that's Theodora. Uh 419 is the second most requested room.
Now, the final ghost that I saw mentioned, and I have to say I think it would probably be my favorite ghost of
all, oh, is Morris the cat. Morris the [ __ ] cat. In 1973, Morris walked his ass into that hotel
one day and he never left. Good for him. And for the next 21 years, he chilled there in the lobby and they all referred
to him as the general manager. I imagine you're a cat. Yeah. And you are just living outside.
Yep. And then you come across this [ __ ] opulent hotel and you're like, I'm going to, you
know, what do I have to lose here? I'm going to take up I'm going to I'm going to take a risk
and I'm going to walk in here and I'm going to see if they tell me to walk my ass back out or not. You walk in there
and that entire staff goes, "What's up, Morris? What's up, Morris? You want to be a GM?
What's up? You want a job?" And he's like, "Yeah, I do." And for 21 years, you get to live
in the life of luxury. Yeah. What a [ __ ] like talk about the jackpot. Obsessed.
Like absolutely obsessed. That's amazing. He also had his own special cat door to come and go as he
pleased. And when he passed away in '94, 1994, more than 300 people attended Morris's
funeral. Yeah. He is buried on the property on the east lawn. You can go visit him.
Oh, and leave stuff for him. You can. And there's a photo of him in the lobby with a poem that says, "In
memory of Morris, the resident cat at the Crescent Hotel. He filled his position exceedingly well. The general
manager title he wore was printed right there on his own office door. He acted as a greeter and sometimes as guide.
Whatever his duties, he did them with pride. He chose his own hours and set his own
pace. The guests were impressed with his manners and grace. Upstairs and down, he
kept everything nice. They might have had ghosts, but they never had mice. [Laughter]
Iconic. I'm obsessed with this hotel and the people that run it to be quite honest. Like, this is amazing.
They're great. And people on tour say they have felt a cat brush up against their leg, but look down and there's
been nothing there. Oh, I love it. Yeah. And now the Crescent Hotel usually has one or more resident cats. They've
had tons of cats live with them and stay throughout the years. Um, and they're all mentioned on their
site. I think I mentioned all the ghosts, but to give a few more experiences or happenings before we go, the night
manager, Steven Kerry, told a reporter that he gets calls from rooms with no one in them. Oh. He said, "I send my
security in. They check and make sure there's no one in there, of course, and then I'll send my bell men up to replace
the phone, and then within an hour later, I'll get a call from that same room that there's no one in."
Oh, scary. That's scary. Another woman who stays at the hotel all the time, she was actually
featured in the documentary, her name's um Dana. She said that she was sharing a
bed with her daughter, just sleeping one night, and she felt the bed shift in the
middle of the night. So, she assumed that her daughter was like getting up or something.
Yeah. But then she saw someone standing at the foot of her bed and looked over and her daughter was still sleeping
beside her. And then she looked back and that shadow person at the end of the bed was still
there. Yeah, that would [ __ ] me up. Yeah, I'd probably die. Uh Dana didn't. She's a brave ass woman who went back on
another visit. Dana. Yeah. And this time they've stayed a few times, I think. So this time they got
upgraded to the penthouse suite. Hell yeah. Dana should guess it snaps for that.
Hell yeah. Uh she and her daughter Courtney were like just hanging out in their suite and Courtney all of a sudden
saw like lights flash and then both of them heard footsteps coming down the stairs and she said one of like they
were like with a big group of people and one of the people had a bottle of Tylenol with them. They heard the
footsteps stop and a pill bottle shake almost like somebody was like what is this?
What? And then they felt a sudden shift in temperature. It got freezing. So, they were like both terrified, but they
took they went around and took a bunch of photos. In Courtney's photo, like uh in at least one of them, there are
dozens and dozens of orbs. I was She showed me that. That was a crazy one. It's nuts. It's in the documentary, so
go watch it. And then in Dana's photo, you can see a whole [ __ ] woman in a Victorian style dress just sitting
straight up in a chair, hands folded in the lap just like clear as day. Full body.
It's one of the scariest things I've ever seen. Yeah. Yeah. Um there's also a portal on the third
floor. Yeah, of course. Yeah, there is. Yeah. Yep. Um, the hotel, it's in an area where the hotel connects to a
section built when it was a hospital. So, that that tells you everything you need to know.
And a lot of people on tours will faint in this area. Some have like completely passed out for
a minute. Oh. And people get super pale and feel drained or like panicked in that area.
Oh, I hate that feeling. Even before they know what that specific area is. Wow. Yeah.
Energy, man. The energy can hit you like a ton of bricks. It can. It It's happened to us. I got
mostly everything that I saw, but I'm sure there's more. Go check out that documentary. Go to their website. Um, in
2005, Ghost Hunters aired their investigation. I love Ghost Hunters. And they called the Crescent Hotel the
holy grail of ghost hunting. Holy [ __ ] I mean, that should tell you. Yeah. And after that, they got like a
whole influx of people who go now. Now, more than 35,000 people go there a year to ghost hunt.
Damn. And stay. Yeah. Holy [ __ ] Go Crescent. So, if you want to book a stay, you can head over to
crescent-hotel.com/stay or you can give a call to 855725-5720 and tell them Morbid sent you.
No, literally tell them tell them I'm trying to get in that penthouse. I know, right?
I want to go so badly. We have to go. I'm so excited. We got to go. We got to make this a trip
now. We do. We got to meet these people. We got to see this hotel. We got to meet these
ghosts. We're going to figure it out. We're going to do it. Norman Baker is such a dick.
Yeah. What a dick. Yeah. Truly. Yeah. [ __ ] you. Imagine just being like, "Oh, I can cure
cancer with watermelon seeds and carbolic acid that I put into your chest." Like, are you okay?
With a syringe. Yeah. Like, what the [ __ ] I think I said carbolic. It's not that
carb. No, carbolic. I was right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You said it right. Yeah, I said it right.
You had me second guess. Let me not second guess myself. Don't second guess yourself.
No, you were right. I was right. Norman was wrong. Norman was wrong. And with that, we leave you.
Yeah. And we hope you keep listening and we hope you keep it weird, but not so weird that you
claim to have a cure for cancer that is like five ingredients and that you're telling people to inject in their chest
because that's just super [ __ ] up. But do keep it so weird that you're a cool ass ghost cat named
Morris and that you go listen to Nikki's new podcast, Poppy Killed Mommy. Go listen to Poppy Killed Mommy and go book
a stay at the Crescent Hotel and tell him Morbid sent you. Hell yeah. Goodbye. None of this was an ad. It was really
not an ad at all. It wasn't. None. [Music]

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Brief Summary

The episode discusses the haunted Crescent Hotel, Nikki Wasalian's true crime podcast, and the dark history of Norman Baker's cancer hospital.

Key points

Nikki's Fight for Justice. Nikki, the daughter of a murder victim, launches a podcast to seek justice for her mother.
The Crescent Hotel: A Haunted Legend. Discover the eerie history of the Crescent Hotel, known as America's most haunted hotel.
A Spooky Encounter in Room 218. Guests report strange happenings in the most requested room of the Crescent Hotel.
The Tragic Tale of Brekie. A family's son, Brekie, tragically passed away, leaving behind a haunting legacy.
Norman Baker's Grift. Norman Baker claimed he could cure cancer without surgery, leading to a controversial hospital.
The Baker Institute's Dark Reality. Baker's hospital was a facade, lacking real medical care and filled with desperate patients.

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Elena's emotional reaction to the details of Nikki's mother's case.

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