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In southern California, just outside Hollywood, there is a most unusual hotel. A hotel dedicated to the golden age of cinema and the departures of its most influential and notorious players. It is a destination that spotlights the manners in which these men and women of Hollywood perished. The rooms are decorated with an array of evidence and clues, unique to each death, and fitted with a cast of department store manikins which stand in for the major roles involved - Forensic precision made kitschy and accessible to all. Each episode we will present to you one of these rooms, and rouse your im
A hotel room holds mannequins and a death story; your appetite for Hollywood tragedy decides the booking.
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A rejected writer's Hollywood dream curdles into smoky evidence, looping dialogue, and a grim room 813 display.
Room 813 treats Simon Herschel's Hollywood rejection as a slow, smoky chamber piece about a writer being pushed to reshape his work before anyone has properly read it. His efforts to satisfy Mr.
A bus ride toward Hollywood glory takes a strange detour into the Swan Hotel's darker movie-world shadow.
Vern Angle and Crispus Gray set out on an 11:50 bus from Penn Station chasing Los Angeles possibility, only for the ride to bend toward the present-day Hollywood Hills and the Swan Hotel.
Dice, divine mysteries, and the trouble with good intentions.
Tales from The Swan Hotel's 'Room 813: Cut To Black' centers on Simon Herschel, a 20-year-old screenwriter in 1950 Los Angeles, as he keeps trying to sell 'Blood Mountain' from Hotel La Costa.
Tales From The Swan Hotel's "Room 519: \"Deck the Halls\"" follows Vern Angle, a Hollywood talent scout, and Crispus Gray, a battered boxer called Topper Gray, on a Christmas route to Los Angeles.
A fictional audio drama set in a hotel dedicated to Hollywood deaths, where a man is injured on set and a cover-up begins.
A podcast that explores a hotel dedicated to the deaths of Hollywood's most notorious figures, blending true crime with cinematic history.
Tales From The Swan Hotel presents “Room 623: The Midnight Pendulum,” set in Seattle's Donovan Hotel on December 31, 1933, where salesman Hume Hawkins meets hypnotist Sidney Carlyle.
Room 508 Part 2 follows detective Cole Spence and opera singer May Emmers as they investigate the Catchman, a jewel thief linked to the name Gordon Mills.
Tales From The Swan Hotel’s “Room 508 Part 1: To Catch A Catchman” follows opera singer May Emmers and detective Cole Spence as they investigate a European jewel thief called the Catchman.
Martin Levy covers Lucille Wessler's thirty-cent hot dog bill with a ten-dollar bill, and she suspects a flim-flam.