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5 min read“I’ve loved and been loved. The rest is none of your business.” That line, from Tim Curry’s posthumously published memoir, captures the spirit of this episode of OBITCHUARY — a freewheeling tour through Santa Fe’s haunted hotels, buried archbishops, and one legendary “Queen of Sin” who ended up in a cathedral crypt.
Hosts Spencer Henry and Madison Ray just returned from Spencer’s bachelor party weekend in Santa Fe, and they devote most of the episode to the ghost stories and historical oddities they picked up on a haunted walking tour. The throughline is that Santa Fe’s visible charm — adobe plazas, green-chile comfort food, turquoise jewelry — sits on layers of strange, violent, and often contradictory history. The hosts dig into three major sites they visited, each with its own kind of haunting.
The Drury Hotel, Marian Hall, and the St. Vincent Sanatorium
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:17) **Welcome Back & Santa Fe Bachelor Party Recap** - Spencer and Madison return from their Santa Fe trip and share highlights from Spencer’s bachelor party weekend.
- 2 (11:08) **TSA Travel Woes** - Spencer and Madison share frustrating and funny airport security stories from their trip home.
- 3 (14:50) **Am I the Asshole? Wedding Venue Edition** - The hosts read and debate a listener’s dilemma about telling a friend her wedding venue is ugly.
- 4 (18:06) **Am I the Asshole? Funeral Wishes Edition** - The hosts discuss a listener who honored their grandmother’s religious burial wishes over their atheist father’s desire for cremation.
- 5 (21:13) **Listener Follow-Up: The Devil’s Chair** - A listener sends in a story about a devil’s chair in Congress Park in Saratoga Springs, New York.
- 6 (23:01) **Side Bitch: Tim Curry’s Obituary** - Spencer honors the late Tim Curry with a reading from his NPR obituary.
- 7 (28:22) **Coffin Spinner: Marian Hall & The Drury Hotel** - Madison kicks off the Santa Fe ghost tour deep-dive with the history of the St. Vincent Sanatorium complex.
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Show Notes
Happy Thursday Geoffs! This week we’re taking you on Spencer’s bachelor party ghost tour! We had so much fun in Santa Fe, NM and we’re giving you a deep dive into some of Santa Fe’s haunted history! We’ve got some obituaries for ICONS, and of course, we’ve got some dumb.ass.criminallllls!
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Sources:
https://www.cbsfa.org/our-parish-history
https://www.thetravel.com/scary-churches-world-creep-out/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Daeger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_Gerken
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Sheehan_(archbishop_of_Santa_Fe)
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