Today on the Grave Talks, we continue our conversation about the Black Monarch Hotel with owner Adam Zimmerley.

It's so interesting to me, too, to think about that community's history because you just think about the energy that's left behind, you know, because at one time, that would have been such a bustling place with so much activity and so many people around it.

And then for to, in a short amount, relatively short amount of time, go to, I don't even know what percentage, you know, like 90% of its population.

Right.

You know, it just makes you think with all those empty buildings, does the whole town kind of

have that haunted feeling to it?

Yeah, very much so.

And I would say almost every single building has some sort of a ghost story associated with it or, you know, all the owners

have a little bit of a ghost story, you know?

I was reading that your building, the ghost story was a woman in an upstairs.

And is it kind of on the corner of the building?

There's a window.

That's one of the hauntings that people will experience here and was reported in years

before I ever even got here, definitely.

And it's a woman they see in the window.

I'll tell you.

Yeah.

And so that had been reported for really years before we ever came here, I ever came here.

And then I'll tell you, so the haunting that I really have experienced here, so like I said, the bank initially warned me that the building was haunted.

And so I believe I started construction. I think it was in October of 2018 at the end of

2018. And the summer before that, I have a friend Ray, who's actually a retired homicide detective.

And so he's kind of a tough guy and Ray was here

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