Draft:Grand Midway Hotel
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The Grand Midway Hotel is a reportedly haunted hotel in Windber, Pennsylvania. It is home to 33 unique rooms and is owned by Blair Murphy.[1]
World Records
[edit]The Grand Midway Hotel is home to the world's biggest Ouija Board, standing at 121.01 m² (1,302.54 ft²). It is also home to world's biggest Tarot Card. All of these have been certified and confirmed by Guinness World Records.
Pop Culture
[edit]The award winning film, Zombie Dream, was filmed in the Grand Midway Hotel, It was also the set for the book, The First Noelle. Numerous Youtubers have visited the Hotel. [3]It was also got an episode on the hit paranormal show, Scared!. This episode won CORE Films an Aegis Award.[4] It was also a feature on season 2 episode 11 of the paranormal show, Haunted Collector, which features famed demonologist, John Zaffis. A family member of Ed and Loraine Warren.
Martha Selinsky
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Born Martha Selinsky, she was a resident of Windber in the early 1900s, in 1911, when she was 18 years old she was celebrating 4th of July on the Grand Midway Hotel's front balcony. She suddenly died by a freak accident, the fireworks were shot out of a steel tube, but one of the fireworks was faulty and refused to shoot out correctly, leaving a large chunk of it to fly onto the balcony and struck the right side of her neck, killing her. The 10,000 people celebrating failed to notice and continued celebrating. a little more than a hundred year later, while giving a group tour, the owner, Blair Murphy, looked out the balcony window and saw a woman. That woman is believed to be the ghost of Martha Selinsky. One of the tour takers Chip Coffey claimed to see a woman in the upstairs window of the building. “I just saw a woman look out and pass in front of the window.” He identified the woman by a picture, without even hearing her tragic story.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Grand Midway Hotel". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved 2024-09-17.
- ^ "Grand Midway Hotel". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved 2024-09-17.
- ^ "Grand Midway Hotel | Windber, PA". www.golaurelhighlands.com. Retrieved 2024-09-17.
- ^ "Aegis Awards for Video Production Excellence". 1998-12-02. Archived from the original on 1998-12-02. Retrieved 2024-09-17.
- ^ "Martha Ghost |". Retrieved 2024-09-18.