Travel with me and my friends to weird and historic places to witness first hand the amazing places history has forgotten in America. Some travels will be very different, some exciting, some boring, but the nostalgia, for what we have have become as a nation, will stay. Come with us on these adventures and enjoy it through a different way of traveling. I am in no way a historian, a lot of our adventures I am seeing for the first time and by a whim, I decide to set into motion a video. Come with me, The Mad Nomadder, Gypsy Lynn and friends to venture into America. We will go on adventures to roadside America, desert dwellings, National Parks, and State Parks. Anywhere that will let us film to bring the fun and excitement to you! Videos are NOT created for KIDS on this Channel!
You'd lose your head if it weren't attached lol. You were hoping the ghost took your keys. Our tour guide was funny. So glad we scared the other group from our room lol. Boo it's just us lol. Now woman snapping those fingers at me, what were you thinking lol.
I didn't care for the road but quiet up there on the hill. Pretty grounds. I made a friend. I saved the kitty who escaped. I can't resist a cute kitty.
In the late 1960's we sold off our property at 701 Penn. ave. and moved to Rivesville, and a short time later a mall was built across from the Belview Inn. And the rest of the property was wiped clean from all the water run off from the mall roof and the paved parking area. They just let it run off over the hill into Buffalo Creek. I think it was called Hills. I hope it failed.
I barely remember the Hills that was there. I know where it was, but I don't know whats there now. I could be wrong, but I thought there is a grocery store and maybe a dollar general type store there now. I remember the Hecks in Fairmont. We really didn't go to Fairmont that much when I was younger. When Meadowbrook came (I do remember when that was built and there was nothing there), my folks never seemed to leave Harrison County as much.
@@PAPATexas Yeah…..a few days before we got sick…..we stayed all night in fort smith, hot springs, and Shreveport (that’s where I got really sick)….next video is where I show the room more and a lot of the “ghostly encounters.” We still think we caught something the day before in Branson, but who knows….touching gas pumps, money, elevator buttons, doors…coulda been anywhere. It wasn’t the trip we hoped for, but made the best out of it. Hopefully next year. I really enjoyed fort smith area.
I have lived a block from the prison for 77 years. Never heard anyone say the prison was haunted. Also i have been inside many times and never heard or saw anything unusual.
I think it was mostly from tv shows on history channel and Travel channel when they went there a few years back that has drawn some interest in the haunted realm of it. I wanted to go because of the Harry Powers connection since my grandparents lived next to him in Quiet Dell.
My 6 Grandkids would love this place, but I fear they would wreak havoc running all over the place knocking things over & breaking stuff... GOOD GRIEF!!!
The original plans for this was to do some of the filming locations of the 1970's movie I watched as a kid, but I ran out of time trying to research movie locations and I'm not sure how much is on private property. The museum was neat to see. I'd like to one day go to the skunk-ape one in Florida.
I rewatched it very recently.It's still pretty decent for a horror movie that old. I believe the guy who made that movie also did a movie, The town that dreaded sundown, (Texarkana murders), that movie was the inspiration for Jason Vorhees.
This reminds me of "Cadillac Ranch" in Amarillo, Texas.... I noticed it when driving by on the highway back in 1996, and I turned around for a closer look, however, there was a highway barbed wire fence, like a cow fence, but since I didn't see a sign, I crossed the fence and hurried over to get a close look & a picture.
This place definitely reminded me of Cadillac Ranch too. I never thought we would end up here, its really in the middle of nowhere. We decided to hit it up on the way back home from Fort Laramie in Wyoming. I wonder how long Cadillac Ranch has been opened now....so it was closed off in 1996?
@@TheMadNomadder .... In the future, I will return to Nebraska again because I've always wanted to visit Scottsbluff to see Chimney Rock , So I'll also check out that place in Alliance, Nebraska.
Sometimes I have to ask myself that question all the time....I guess they wanted something to bring in tourists. The only other gas station I can even think of like this one would be Bucee's.
Here's a bit of video camera advice.... Don't pan, swing , zip & wiz the camera around so fast because it's not pleasant on the eyes when people try to watch what you are filming, plus, moving the camera all around so incredibly FAST doesn't give the camera a change to focus, causing blurry video recording.... Perhaps watch some other peoples youtube recordings for examples on the importance of moving the camera slowly....
Thanks! I've learned a lot since this video was uploaded. Everything is now stabilized and now I have the perfect camera for low light. I had to look...yeah my wife recorded this one before i even started youtube. This video came out in 2016. We recorded it in 2015. I just overlayed audio since she doesnt talk.
@@TheMadNomadder ... Ok, so I'll go to your youtube site and view them.... I really like those old places and been to many, including Ghost Towns too.... I'm in Florida, so it may take awhile to plan another Van-Camping trip out west again.... I visited all those National Parks in Southern Utah, but never been to Salt lake, so that's next on my Bucket List, but I would also like to re-visit Southern Utah again.
We would love to get back to Utah. I got red rock fever the first time we ever seen it. Its just a haul being from West Virginia and working, so we try and do a little something every summer I'm still editing videos, but we focused on Fort Smith Arkansas and a lot of outlaws and gangster sites this year.
How do the Bathrooms hold up to Buckee's ? Just asking for a friend ? Never Mind Gypsy Lynn just told me. You can have cool stuff but if the toilets are like a regular truckstop I am gonna pass. Gypsy Lynn said I'm leaving with this guy because his truck is bigger LOL.
I didn't go to the bathrooms here. I finally made it to a Bucee's bathroom this year in Tennessee. I didn't like it lol It was too open for me. I was shy lol There is one truckstop I went to in Texas/New Mexico Border once that seemed like something out of a horror movie. I wish I filmed that. I saw my first actual glory hole there lol The bathroom had crap all over it, in it, it looked like something from Texas Chainsaw Massacre lol
It was something to see...wish we were there in the daylight hours....maybe next time. This was the first time we've been to Iowa in maybe 10 years lol
LOL You'd think lol Who knows...lol Yeah we've never been to one before. T&L Hot Dogs is our hot dog joint in these parts. Well we both know why things are so dang high anymore. I didn't mind the dogs we got.
I went here from 1996 until 2000. I was there when they sold the bricks for the front driveway. I lived very close, right across the street from the abandoned glass factory there (the now Save-A-Lot). I would explore it all the time with my friends. They actually just sold the school about 2 years ago for what a cheap house would normally go for. Thanks for the vid!
No problem! I didnt hear about them selling the school. I probably havent been inside the school since 96/97. Used to play basketball on the courts in the back near Adams Ave years ago.
Its a shame how the malls have went. We went to the new Morgantown mall a few months back and it looked like it was on its way out too. Not sure if we just went on an off day.
Whaohhhh wait... i went and played magic the gathering in D and S too... i was in...mayne 7th grade at the time. Back in 2001...2002? I know this is an old video but my name is Zach Gobel...look me up if you read this comment. I unfortunately sold all of my magic cards a few years ago to pay rent...i regret it until this day. But i had sooooo many good memories in DS on Saturdays playing and trading magic cards
Hey there! I'll look ya up on facebook and we can chat on there sometime. I'm Buster! Yeah I was probably 19-20 at the time when I played down there. It was a lot of fun. Yeah this video is a lot older, you can tell by the quality :) but its something and shows people how things were.
It's been awhile for us too. I think when I did this video was the last time we were there. We're not too far away in Clarksburg,area so we "could" go back anytime.
Gooday is my family ❤❤❤ Janice padacony is my grandma buried out there also I’m balling seeing the talbert Gooday that’s all I’ve been looking for is my grandmas grave Janice
Are you from the Lawton/Fort Sill area? We may try to go back here and I can get better video of the cemetery area if you are not. Can't promise, cause we live on the east coast, but if weather and time goes well, we plan to be back in this area soon. I know this is an older video and camera technology has improved greatly since then.
@@TheMadNomadder yeah I was born at the Comanche Indian hospital I live in Tulsa area currently haven’t been back since late 2019 Janice padacony is my grandma Vera Gooday is my great grandma and her headstone is shared w my great grandpas
Unfortunately we didn't make it to Lawton. We got sick on the Louisana/Texas border of the trip and drove straight home from Shreveport. Planning to drive straight to OKC next year and continue where we left off.
Molly Schuyler did it in 4 1/2 minutes. But that's just insane. Randy Santel did it in 20 minutes. But he's a professional. Doing it in 30 minutes for the average guy is at the least conceivable. In my father's younger and more reckless days, I think he would have liked to have given this a try.
That is unbelievable that someone could do that in 4 and a half minutes. Props to Molly for pulling that off! I may be able to finish it in the time allotted, but I guarantee you I would have to go right back to the hotel afterwards. I think I would be miserable and would just want to lay down for a couple days. I don't know if I've ever eaten that much food in 2 days time lol Thats a lot of steak.
@@TheMadNomadder Well, obviously, those are the extremes. 🤔 If you want the mathematics, about 1 out of 8 people who try it are able to pull it off. 🤔 End results can vary. I've heard of people who won it, but said how stupid it was. 🤮 And I've heard of people who did it and said: "That was fun. Now what's for dessert?" 😃
It definitely was one of the more interesting grave sites we've stopped at. I want to go back and stay at the hotel in town if we are ever back in the area.
Yep. I can't recall, but I think this may be the first "warning" I've had to put on a video. I wasn't going to show the entire drive from the cemetery to the town, but its not something I've seen much on youtube, so decided to leave it. That hotel there where I stopped recording is a very historic and haunted hotel. The Eklund. We should have stayed there. This was a part of New Mexico I never thought we ever make it to since its at the northeastern part of the state by the OK panhandle. Never thought we would drive the entire panhandle either lol Never know where we may end up.
Great grandfather Walter Doty was assistant deputy warden for decades and his name is etched in the limestone at tour entrance. I have several pictures of him along with inmates taken inside the prison and with other staff members.
It was a nice tour and learned a lot while we were there. I was mostly interested in the Harry Powers portion since my grandmother lived next door to him in Quiet Dell back in the 1920's/30's. So growing up I would hear about the stories and knowing a little bit about that history of WV. Do you know if any pictures of your great grandfather is in the museum portion of the penitentiary? I sent the museum copies of pictures of some Harry Powers photos of the farm and such, but I have not been back to see if they used them.
@TheMadNomadder yes I last visited the pen in September of 2022. My aunt and uncle lived directly across the street from the visitors' entrance on Jefferson Avenue. Are family visits to Moundsville at least 4 times a year as a young boy and teenager were awesome. I bet I ran up the steps of the mound a thousand times as a young boy, and best of all was getting ice cream from Marshall Dairy store on the corner. It's funny that the local newspaper would print our visits in the paper....you see, we lived in Northern Virginia, and my mother worked at the Pentagon, so I guess it was a big deal for a small town like Moundsville. On my last visit to Moundsville, I took a "Woolrich" type shirt that famous serial murderer William "Holly" Griffith made for my dad back in the early 50s Holly ran the tailor shop in the prison and was so successful that he at one point was making uniforms for the WVa. State Police and prison staff. In fact, he was so successful at tailoring that he had at one point over $45,000 in his bank account. So, the Commissioner of the Department of Corrections decided to close down the tailor shop and wasn't too keen on inmates becoming wealthy while incarcerated. In the movie "Fools Parade," Jimmy Stewart's character was based on Holly Griffith, who escaped on numerous occasions and was responsible for murdering law enforcement during his capture. If you Google his name, you will see his complete biography. There is a picture of him standing on the front steps of the administration building holding his pet Jack Russell dog, and the man behind him is my great grandfather. I remember my grandmother telling me when she was a young girl that pop-pop would bring Holly home for lunch, and my great grandmother would freak out.... My great grandfather would just say..." Oh, he's ok... it's only when he breaks out that he's dangerous" I was lucky enough to have known him, and he passed away when I was 12. I took the shirt to the prison to donate it along with the original picture of him with Griffith on the front steps. Unfortunately, the person who manages the prison now was not working that day, so I was uncomfortable leaving the shirt and other items with them until I spoke to her. I finally contacted the staff supervisor, and they are excited to have these items and want to display them in the museum. I am going to visit again soon, and hopefully, one day, I'll see the items displayed in the museum.
That is fascinating. Loved hearing about this. Personally, I'm interested in crime history. We focus our vacations when we go to the old west trail. I try to focus on lawmen and the outlaws equally if we can. Going to Tombstone, AZ really made an impression on me. This year when we travel west, we are going to Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. I was surprised to find so much in Arkansas. Fort Smith area has a Lawmen Museum and that will be an adventure to learn more about Judge Issac Parker and Bass Reeves. I got a video I have yet to release on Black Jack Ketchums grave and a little bit about the history and the town of Clayton, New Mexico. Hopefully when you return they will have the items displayed. I look forward going back (I want to go back to see the Mound, it was closed by the time we did our tour of the cemetery) and seeing the items as well.
The state fair is down the street. And.... near the movie theater, across the street is the College Inn bar. It's very western and actually once had a library for the kids at the entrance. I remember having a beer with a ranch hand and listening to his ranching stories about Lightning Creek. There is also an interesting pioneer museum at the state fairgrounds.
I'd like to go back one day. I loved the scenery around the route we took that year. We left Douglas and headed toward Lander. I can't recall, but I think the Pionner Museum was closed by the time we got to Douglas orit wasnt opened that day of week. Definitely would like to check that out. Thanks for watching!
@@TheMadNomadder I've only seen brief graphic images of them in other discovery channel and the RU-vid videos, kind of like a walking portal to hell entity creepy makes me want a light saber or a claymore change, I think you can Google the image
I will have to deep dive this a little more....I see one thing very similar the Blenmyae. I'm seeing stories about it. They are describing it a few different ways....seeing the picture on some sites looks similar to the Grafton Monster, but I'm also recalling seeing something similar on Monty Python flicks during their scene changes too.
Stayed there last week. 4th floor room. Lots of doors banging; heard children in hallway, when I looked in hall, no one was there. I felt the presence of spirits who have made the Elms their home (not joking at all). Pool has alot of stairs and outside pool was being worked on. Just FYI
This hotel was a pleasant surprise for us. We never heard of it until about 30 minutes before we got here. We definitely will go back one day. I can't wait to get back to Missouri so we can get more Shatto Milk. That had to be the best milk we've ever had. We got it at this hotel and I believe its only sold around stores in the western Missouri area. I'd love to go on the actual ghost tour they offer here the next time we go back. This hotel has a lot of history.
