Date of Establishment The Geiser Grand Hotel was originally opened in 1886 in the height of the gold frenzy in Oregon. The Grand still operates to this day even after a few reopenings and change of owners, the latest of which was in 1993. Name/Name & Location The Geiser Grand Hotel opened in Baker City, Oregon, which was known as the “Queen City of the Mines,” due … [Read more...] about Geiser Grand Hotel

Date of Establishment             The Golden North Hotel was built in 1898 to provide accommodations to ‘gold-rushers’ making their way through the city of Skagway every week. In 1908 the hotel was moved, then another story was added to it, as well as the dome. Name Golden North Hotel is also known as the Golden … [Read more...] about Golden North Hotel, Skagway, AK

Date of Establishment After the construction of the Central Washington Railway in 1889, Govan was the spot to be. The town boomed in 1890 and sand extraction was a bustling business to support this railway town. Govan was a small farm town, with merely two churches, a post office, one school, and a handful of businesses. Even once the town boomed a disastrous fire claimed … [Read more...] about Govan, WA

Date of Discovery First discovered in the 1890s, the Great Spider has been sighted as recently as 2014. The first sighting of the J’ba Fofi by a western observer was in the 1980s near Lake Nyasa when British missionary Arthur John Simes and his men stumbled upon one of the creatures. Having gotten themselves tangled in the enormous web, a male and female spider came out of … [Read more...] about Great Spider

Date of Discovery The first records of the Grootslang come from a rock painting in a South African province which has yet to be dated correctly. The first sightings started around 1867 and continued to multiple through the last 1890s. In 1963 newspapers began reporting the sightings sending locals into a frenzy. Name Grootslang, Grote Slang, “Great Serpent”, Kayman, … [Read more...] about Grootslang