Lurid History - "Penny Dreadfuls" for the Modern Age!

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This collection of short videos focuses on startling, but true old hotels in St. Paul, Minneapolis and Chicago.

Some 1890's hotels can be more dangerous than others. Although over 130 years too late to actually help anyone, these true stories will doubtlessly prove entertaining to today's travelers.

Nighttime fires, surprising criminal activities, and smallpox outbreaks provide an abundance of startling fodder. The selected hotel stories are arranged by street where they actually happened.

Petty crime historian, Paul R. Gold, wrote two books about Twin City hotels, which form the backdrop for the long-forgotten hotels, The story behind the making of hotel story videos can be listened on Philip Anthony's AM950 radio program.