If I got a chance to stay at this particular hotel again, I’d want to stay for longer! It was so pretty. I’d love to do some photo shoot stuff, more tiktoks... it was — so fitting to the fantasy vibe. ♥️✨🧚🏻‍♂️ #fae #Faerie #FaeQuix #Orignalcharacter #Fantasy #CaledoniaCalls #Portland #ShiloInn #Fountain #sparrowatheartcosplay #sparrowatheartoc https://www.instagram.com/p/B1uhvyqnW_a/?igshid=uwizid5ygony

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On this episode, (recorded on March 22nd of 2014) Shaun and Shep host a night of paranormal investigation with listeners of the It Just Is Podcast at the Shilo Inn Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah, in the exact rooms where the infamous Shilo Inn murders took place back in 1978. We listen to some of our listeners as they talk about their experiences with the paranormal before doing an investigation in the rooms.

What Happened at the Shilo Inn?

Rachel David and her seven children had been living at the hotel, on the 11th floor for more than year. Rachel, who was recently made a widow just three days earlier, was the wife to the late self-proclaimed God and prophet, Immanuel David. Immanuel David had taken life in his car three days prior to this warm August morning because the authorities were closing in on his fraudulent cult activities. His cult was under investigation by the FBI for fraud and embezzlement. It is rumored that the Feds were close to making an arrest before his apparent suicide. He died in his car of carbon monoxide poisoning after running a hose from his tail pipe to his driver’s side window. Immanuel’s passing from this world would seem peaceful compared to the fates of the rest of his doomed family.

On this particular morning, Rachel was busy preparing her children to be with their father once again. One by one, six of the children, and their mother Rachel all fell 11 stories to their grisly death. The oldest of the children survived. She has been bound to a wheelchair and brain damaged since the horrific event occurred. She is still firm in her belief that her father is the almighty God and his resurrection is nye. The details of the event on that fateful morning are not exactly known. Some say that Rachel threw each one of her young children from their 11th story balcony to their deaths, while the lone surviving member of the David family, maintains that the children voluntarily jumped. All that remains to this day are the questions why and supposedly the spirits of the young children!

No longer the International Dunes Hotel, the now named, Shilo Inn is still the home to the disembodied children that met their end just outside their hotel home. Guests check into the 11th floor and quickly learn that they are intruding on this ghostly playground. People hear children playing, laughing, running down the halls, and knocking on the unassuming guest’s doors at all hours of the night. When management receives complaints, they are forced to reveal the truth of their residual residents. Now the childish tomfoolery is not limited to the 11th floor. They young ones are quite at home in the hotel swimming pool. Their splashing, laughing, and wet footprints are often present.

This is not where our ghostly tale ends. It is a common knowledge around Salt Lake city that legendary musician Danny Elfman is a frequent visitor of the 11th floor! His love affair with the hotel and it’s occupants started in 1984, when he was with the up and coming band, Oingo Boingo. In fact, his first visit inspired him to compose the 80s classic hit, “Dead Man’s Party”! It is also believed that he was so fond of his young friends, that he came back to stay at the hotel while he composed the music and lyrics for “The Nightmare Before Christmas”.

Mass murder, displaced spirits, and artistic history all converge in the not so quiet halls of the now infamous Shilo Inn, the question remains, will you?

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