Back in the day when ‘Coal was King’ here the Grand Midway Hotel, along with a few of the other local hotels, was a brothel! We’ve had endless ghost stories pop up about prostitutes working here as well as ghost coal miners still hanging around here. It must have been a hard life. Old timers describe the start of Windber like the Wild West.
Often psychics when visiting the hotel the first thing they mention is the sexuality. It is in the air. It is in the woodwork.
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OUR FIRST COAL MINER GHOST STORY
Hotel royalty Videssa D. placed flowers in the hotel dining hall. She just wanted to do something nice for the building, as was her way. This was during our first season here. Then she flew home, back to California. That next morning she work up shocked to see a man dressed as a coal miner standing at the foot of her bed. She described him as seeming nice, that he simply seemed to be saying ‘thank you’ to her for her flowers gesture. Then he vanished.
