Second Guess Everything

Alex Underbakke

Welcome to Second Guess Everything - the podcast that dives deep into the strange, the unsettling, and the unexplained. Each season explores a range of dark topics from true crime, the paranormal, disturbing historical events, and more. Hosted by Alex Underbakke, proud member of the Cultiv8 Podcast Network. Show art by John Consignado.

  1. 1 DAY AGO

    Haunted Hotels: The Russel Hotel, Sydney (Season 2)

    Never discredit the haunts from Down Under. Enjoy this episode? Please consider leaving a rating & review on your podcast player. For inquiries and feedback, please email sgepodcast@outlook.com. Resources:  Wikipedia - “Russell Hotel, The Rocks” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Hotel,_The_Rocks Amy’s Crypt - “Most Haunted Hotel in Sydney: Ghosts of the Russell Hotel” - by Amy - Wednesday, August 28th, 2019 - https://amyscrypt.com/most-haunted-hotel-sydney-russell-hotel/ The Rocks - “The Russell Hotel” - https://www.therocks.com/the-spooky-hunt/the-russell-hotel-(1) 24 Hours in Sydney - “Room 8 in the Russell…sleep There If You Dare” - December 10th, 2020 - https://24hoursinsydney.com.au/room-8-in-the-russell-hotel-sleep-there-if-you-dare/ Daily Mail - “Strange creaks, flashes of light and pressure like someone is gripping your chest: Spend an eerie night inside Australia's 'Haunted Hotel'... where the ghost of a murdered sailor roams the halls” - by Lucy Thackray for Daily Mail Australia- August 14th, 2015 - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3198478/Strange-creaks-flashes-light-pressure-like-gripping-chest-Spend-eerie-night-inside-Australia-s-Haunted-Hotel-ghost-murdered-sailor-roams-halls.html Elle Decor - “13 Hotels Around the World Notorious for Their Hauntings—And Their Hospitality - Room service, turndown, and maybe a few chills at 3 AM.” - BY JULIA CANCILLA - SEP 19, 2025 - https://www.elledecor.com/life-culture/travel/a67952528/haunted-hotels-around-the-world/ Secret Sydney - “Sydney’s Most Notoriously Haunted Hotel Is Tucked Away In The Rocks” - Ria Lawrence - October 31st, 2023 - https://secretsydney.com/the-russell-hotel-sydney/  Wikipedia - The Rocks, New South Wales - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rocks,_New_South_Wales  The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica (2025, February 18). Samuel Terry. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Terry  Dictionary of Sydney - “Bubonic Plague Epidemic 1900” - https://dictionaryofsydney.org/event/bubonic_plague_epidemic_1900  Traveller - “A Sydney hotel has become an unlikely mecca for Japanese visitors” - by Jane Richards - July 30th, 2025 - https://www.smh.com.au/traveller/travel-news/a-sydney-hotel-has-become-an-unlikely-mecca-for-japanese-visitors-20250711-p5me9m.html  Daily Mail - “Strange creaks, flashes of light and pressure like someone is gripping your chest: Spend an eerie night inside Australia's 'Haunted Hotel'... where the ghost of a murdered sailor roams the halls” - By LUCY THACKRAY FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA - August 14th, 2015 - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3197422/Strange-creaks-flashes-light-pressure-like-gripping-chest-Spend-night-inside-Australia-s-Haunted-Hotel-ghost-murdered-sailor-roams-halls.html

    13 min

  2. 10 MAR

    Haunted Hotels: The Fairmont Château Laurier, Ottawa (Season 2)

    Sometimes a quick visit to a haunted hotel is all you need. Are you ready for the Fairmont Château Laurier? Enjoy this episode? Please consider leaving a rating & review on your podcast player. For inquiries and feedback, please email sgepodcast@outlook.com. Resources:  YouTube - ‘We Spent the Night in Ottawa’s Most HAUNTED Hotel – Fairmont Château Laurier’ - uploaded by Hauntingly Krista - March 24th, 2025  Landsby - ‘Haunted Hotels of Canada’ - by Lillia Smichenko - https://landsby.ca/northernsoul/haunted-hotels-of-canada/ Historic Hotels - “History: Discover the Fairmont Château Laurier, which was once the one of the leading hotels for the historic Grand Trunk Pacific Railway” - https://www.historichotels.org/hotels-resorts/fairmont-chateau-laurier/history.php  Wikipedia - Charles Melville Hays - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Melville_Hays  Haunted Walk - Secrets of the Château Laurier – Hotel Tour - https://hauntedwalk.com/experience/secrets-of-the-chateau-laurier/  CN website - https://www.cn.ca/en/about-cn/history/  The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. "How many people died when the Titanic sank?". Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 Jun. 2025, https://www.britannica.com/question/How-many-people-died-when-the-Titanic-sank - Accessed 26 August 2025  Chateau Laurier - “THE ROARING LION RETURNS” - https://www.chateaulaurier.com/explore/the-roaring-lion/  Haunted Rooms - ‘The 8 Most Haunted Hotels in Ontario’ - https://www.hauntedrooms.com/canada/haunted-hotels-in-ontario?utm_source=chatgpt.com Tim Holtorf Wordpress - ‘Ghost Stories: Ottawa and the Hill’ - by Tim Holtorf - October 20th, 2009 - https://taholtorf.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/ghost-stories-ottawa-and-the-hill/ Compass News - ‘Ottawa’s haunted hotspots: where things go bump in the night’ - by Sarah MacFarlane - October 31st, 2024 - https://compassnews.ca/ottawas-haunted-hotspots-where-things-go-bump-in-the-night  Moon Mausoleum - ‘The Mysterious Haunted History of the Fairmont Chateau Laurier in Ottawa’ - Posted on October 20th, 2023 - https://moonmausoleum.com/the-mysterious-haunted-history-of-the-fairmont-chateau-laurier-in-ottawa/

    9 min

  3. 3 MAR

    Haunted Hotels: The Read House, Chattanooga (Season 2)

    Did Al Capone stay in a haunted hotel room? Tune in to find out. Enjoy this episode? Please consider leaving a rating & review on your podcast player. For inquiries and feedback, please email sgepodcast@outlook.com. Resources:  The Read House website - https://www.thereadhousehotel.com/hotel/  YouTube - ‘Exploring the Haunted Room #311 at The Read House, Chattanooga, TN’ - uploaded by The Traveling Tennesseans - May 3rd, 2024  YouTube - ‘Atlanta couple believes in ghosts after spending night at Read House’ - uploaded by Local 3 News - October 7th, 2019  YouTube - The Spirit of Annalisa Haunts Room 311 at the Read House in Chattanooga’ - uploaded by Southern Ghost Stories - August 22nd, 2021  YouTube - ‘Overnight in Most HAUNTED HOTEL /The Read House (Room 311) Chattanooga Tennessee’ - uploaded by AK Explorations - August 19th, 2020  Reddit, from r/Chattanooga - ‘Is The Haunted Room at the Read House Rigged?’ - OP: Then-Mountain-9445 - posted 2 years ago Ghost City Tours website - ‘The Haunted Read House Hotel’ - https://ghostcitytours.com/chattanooga/haunted-chattanooga/read-house-hotel/  US Ghost Adventures website - ‘THE READ HOUSE HOTEL’ - https://usghostadventures.com/chattanooga-ghost-tour/the-read-house-hotel/  Conde Nast Traveler website - ‘The Read House’ - https://www.cntraveler.com/hotels/chattanooga/the-read-house  Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/112788692/john_thomas-read: accessed July 7, 2025), memorial page for Dr John Thomas Read (2 Dec 1825–12 Jan 1900), Find a Grave Memorial ID 112788692, citing Forest Hills Cemetery, Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA; Maintained by bioengineer (contributor 47026824). Wikipedia - The Read House Hotel - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Read_House_Hotel  Wikipedia - Jefferson Davis - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Davis  Smoky Mountain Living Magazine - ‘Chattanooga’s Read House Celebrates Milestone Anniversary’ - by Aaron Tanner - October 1st, 2022 - https://www.smliv.com/stories/chattanoogas-read-house-anniversary/  Visit Chattanooga - “Hidden in Plain Sight: Chattanooga's History is Everywhere - The Read House” - by Laura Bellucci - November 30th, 2023 - https://www.visitchattanooga.com/blog/post/hidden-in-plain-sight-chattanoogas-history-is-everywhere-the-read-house/#:~:text=The%20Hotel%20continued%20to%20host,pause%20in%20his%20tumultuous%20journey  CL Thomas - “The Read House: A Tragic History and Legend” - June 18th, 2020 - by CL Thomas - https://www.clthomas.org/post/the-read-house-hauntings-and-legends?srsltid=AfmBOoowzpnZVELvMvp2MyrdWOqfu4INmkq8s7GxjgRrqHZvsQtohz_E  Chattanooga Ghost Tours Inc Facebook - EVP Room 311 Read House - https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=337337546935415  Homespun Haints - The Haunted Read House in Chattanooga - Kristy Lytle - May 17th, 2022 - https://homespunhaints.com/haunted-read-house-chattanooga

    15 min

  4. 24 FEB

    Haunted Hotels: The Mermaid Inn, Rye (Season 2)

    What happened a century ago, may explain what's happening today. Enjoy this episode? Please consider leaving a rating & review on your podcast player. For inquiries and feedback, please email sgepodcast@outlook.com. Resources:  Youtube - ‘Most Haunted Unseen - The Mermaid Inn’ - uploaded by most haunted vids - September 17th, 2012 Youtube - ‘Eerie Encounters: Inside Mermaid Inn - World's Scariest Hauntings - S01 EP6 - Paranormal Documentary’ - uploaded by Banijay Documentaries - September 22nd, 2023  The Mermaid Inn website - https://www.mermaidinn.com/  Wikipedia - The Mermaid Inn, Rye - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mermaid_Inn,_Rye  Wikipedia - Wattle and daub - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wattle_and_daub  Historic England - Mermaid House The Mermaid Hotel - https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1251961?section=official-list-entry  Wayback Machine - The Mermaid Inn, Rye - https://web.archive.org/web/20110815231924/http://www.mermaidinn.com/history.html  Little House of Horrors - THE MERMAID INN  - By Sonja - June 14th, 2025 - https://thelittlehouseofhorrors.com/the-mermaid-inn/ The History Press - Hawkhurst: The story of smuggling in the 18th Century - by Joseph Dragovich - April 13th, 2023 - https://thehistorypress.co.uk/article/hawkhurst-the-story-of-smuggling-in-the-18th-century/  The Novium Museum - ‘The Hawkhurst Gang’ - by Portia Tremlett - https://www.thenovium.org.uk/article/28843/The-Hawkhurst-Gang  Rye News - ‘The fascinating history of the Rye’s Mermaid Inn’ - by Michael Montagu - December 19th, 2024 - http://ryenews.org.uk/culture/the-fascinating-history-of-ryes-mermaid-inn  Pellicle Magazine website - ‘Cinque Ports - How Medieval Law Shaped the Pubs of Rye, East Sussex’ - by Fred Garratt-Stanley - April 2nd 2025 - https://www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/3/21/cinque-ports-how-medieval-law-shaped-the-pubs-of-rye#:~:text=%22The%20cellars%20here%20are%20nearly,States%20to%20secure%20the%20deal Haunted Rooms - “ALL ENGLAND HOTELS: The Haunted Mermaid Inn, Rye, East Sussex” - https://www.hauntedrooms.co.uk/product/mermaid-inn-rye-east-sussex  Exploring Great Britain - “The Mermaid Inn, Rye: One Of Britain’s Most Haunted Inns” -  https://www.exploringgb.co.uk/blog/the-mermaid-inn-rye-haunted

    17 min

  5. 17 FEB

    Haunted Hotels: The Driskill Hotel, Austin (Season 2)

    The Driskill Hotel took the phrase “Keep Austin Weird” a little too literally. As mentioned in the episode: Shadowy Figure Pictured on r/Paranormal by -shadynasty666 - https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/1bn2t54/took_this_pic_at_the_driskill_hotel_in_austin Enjoy this episode? Please consider leaving a rating & review on your podcast player. For inquiries and feedback, please email sgepodcast@outlook.com. Due to character limits for today's show notes, please reach out directly regarding resources used.

    17 min

  6. 10 FEB

    Haunted Hotels: The Fort Garry Hotel, Winnipeg (Season 2)

    Was it the wind, or a former guest at the Fort Garry Hotel? Enjoy this episode? Please consider leaving a rating & review on your podcast player. For inquiries and feedback, please email sgepodcast@outlook.com. Resources: newspapers.com  Landsby website - “Haunted Hotels of Canada” - by Liliia Smichenko - https://landsby.ca/northernsoul/haunted-hotels-of-canada/#:~:text=The%20Fort%20Garry%20Hotel%2C%20built,the%20death%20of%20her%20husband  The Fort Garry Hotel website - https://www.fortgarryhotel.com/  Manitoba Historical Society Archives website - “Manitoba History: Visionaries and Risk-Takers: The First Hundred Years of the Fort Garry Hotel” - By Giles Bugailiskis - Fall 2013 - https://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/mb_history/73/fortgarryhotel.shtml  The Star - “A night in Fort Garry Hotel’s ‘haunted’ Room 202 in Winnipeg: Legend has it that the Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg is haunted. Maybe Room 202, maybe the second floor, maybe the whole place. We spend a night to find out” - By Jennifer Bain, Travel Editor - April 13th, 2017 - https://www.thestar.com/life/travel/a-night-in-fort-garry-hotel-s-haunted-room-202-in-winnipeg/article_67d91872-d2d6-5b12-860b-e1fdbb6e642d.html  Haunted Rooms America - “The Haunted Fort Garry Hotel” - https://www.hauntedrooms.com/canada/haunted-places/haunted-hotels/fort-garry-hotel-winnipeg  YouTube - “Winnipeg, Manitoba: Fort Garry Hotel Haunting of the Lady in Blue” - uploaded by Documentify TV - January 16th, 2024  The Globe and Mail - “Liberal MP reports curious encounter in Winnipeg hotel” - by Shawn McCarthy - September 2nd, 2000 - https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/liberal-mp-reports-curious-encounter-in-winnipeg-hotel/article4167108/  The Winnipeg Sun - “Strange Bedfellows: I’m Never coming back, Liberal MP vows after creepy encounter at hotel” - by Greg Di Cresce - September 3rd, 2000 - https://www.newspapers.com/image/736154605/?match=1&terms=Brenda%20Chamberlain Encyclopedia Enigma website - Fort Garry Hotel - https://enigmati.ca/f/fort-garry-hotel/

    12 min

  7. 3 FEB

    Haunted Hotels: The Shelbourne, Dublin (Season 2)

    Irish charm and ghosts - what more could you need? Enjoy this episode? Please consider leaving a rating & review on your podcast player. For inquiries and feedback, please email sgepodcast@outlook.com. Resources: Dublin Directory; Freeman's Journal, 28 July 1832, 17 Jan. 1863; W. M. Thackeray, The Irish sketch book (1869), 6; Burke, LGI (1912), 87; C. G. Duffy, My life in two hemispheres (2 vols, 1898), i, 307–8; R. J. O'Duffy, Historic graves in Glasnevin cemetery (1915); Elizabeth Bowen, The Shelbourne Hotel (1951); King's Inns admissions; Michael Neenan, ‘Martin Burke of the Shelbourne’, Tipperary Historical Journal (1994), 113–14 Spooky Isles website - “SHELBOURNE HOTEL, DUBLIN: A GHOST GUIDE” - By Ann Massey McElroy - November 18th, 2018 - https://www.spookyisles.com/shelbourne-hotel-dublin/  Irish Central website - “Ghost of young girl haunts Dublin’s Shelbourne Hotel, claim guests and staff. Only the bravest of visitors opt to stay in one of the luxury rooms at the Shelbourne Hotel, which has a long association with poltergeist activity.” - by Nick Bramhill - October 31st, 2025 - https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/shelbourne-hotel-ghost Irish Hotel News website - “The Shelbourne – marking 100 years since the drafting of Ireland's first constitution: A step back in time to a private room at The Shelbourne, where Irish history changed forever” - author not listed - February 15th, 2022 - https://www.hotelnews.ie/articles/2022/theshelbourne/100-years-since-drafting-of-irish-constitution-the-shelbourne Dictionary of Irish Biography website – “Burke, Martin” – contributed by: Woods, C.J. - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3318/dib.001171.v1 - Originally published October 2009 as part of the Dictionary of Irish Biography, Last revised October 2009 - https://www.dib.ie/biography/burke-martin-a1171 The Shelbourne Hotel website - https://theshelbourne.com/ The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica (2024, December 2). Michael Collins. Encyclopedia Britannica - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Michael-Collins-Irish-statesman Geek Ireland website - Celebs You Didn't Know Stayed At The Shelbourne Hotel - by Seán Gilmore - August 8th, 2023 - https://geekireland.com/celebs-you-didnt-know-stayed-at-the-shelbourne-hotel/  Daily Passport website - 19 of the Most Haunted Historic Hotels Around the World  - By Daily Passport Team - https://dailypassport.com/most-haunted-historic-hotels/  Haunted Rooms website - Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin, Ireland - date & author not listed - https://www.hauntedrooms.co.uk/product/shelbourne-hotel-dublin-ireland  New York Times - ‘Hans Holzer, Ghost Hunter, Dies at 89” - by William Grimes - April 29th, 2009 - https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/books/30holzer.html  Book: “Lively Ghosts of Ireland” by Hans Holzer, Wolfe Publishing - https://books.google.ca/books?id=Dc8AEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT55&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false  YouTube video - “Short Irish Ghost Stories For Halloween: The Shelbourne” - uploaded by Spirited Isle - True Irish Ghost Stories - uploaded October 25th, 2024  YouTbe Video - “Lily Collins on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon 2013-08-05 (HD)” - uploaded by Nady B - October 16th, 2013

    11 min

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Welcome to Second Guess Everything - the podcast that dives deep into the strange, the unsettling, and the unexplained. Each season explores a range of dark topics from true crime, the paranormal, disturbing historical events, and more. Hosted by Alex Underbakke, proud member of the Cultiv8 Podcast Network. Show art by John Consignado.

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