For the past few years now, Harridan Vodka has been celebrating Halloween with special “Paranormal Reserve” vodka, a limited edition batch of spirits aged in the real-life Conjuring House back in 2021 and the museum where the actual Annabelle doll resides in 2022.
Just in time for Halloween, Harridan Vodka has unleashed its third annual Paranormal Reserve Collection, this time around aged in two of America’s most haunted hotels!
The Reserve — consisting of 350 bottles split between the Anderson Hotel in Kentucky and the Crescent Hotel in Arkansas — is the spirit you need this Halloween. AVAILABLE NOW, this year’s collection of 350 bottles rested for one month inside the two hotels!
The Crescent Hotel opened in 1886 as a resort. After a brief stint as a women’s college, it eventually, and most infamously, became an unsanctioned cancer “hospital” run by Norman Baker in the 1930s. 175 bottles rested in what served as Baker’s morgue and autopsy room.
Considered by many to be America’s most haunted hotel, the Crescent is home to at least five identifiable ghosts – Breckie, Theodora, Dr. Ellis, Michael, and Morris the cat – alongside a host of unnamed entities. These have sometimes even appeared as full-bodied apparitions, as was the case when the morgue was investigated by SyFy’s Ghost Hunters. Using death records, the Crescent estimates that at least 40 people died at the location between 1937 and 1940 when it functioned as the “hospital.”
The Anderson Hotel was built in the 1930’s on the site of its predecessor, the Central Hotel, which burnt down around the turn of the 19th century. 175 bottles rested in some of the location’s most grisly areas. These include the closet where a guest hung himself in the 70’s, the room where the apparition of a man on fire has been seen, and the room where the bloody mattress on which a guest slit her wrists still resides. The hotel, which can confirm the death of 13 people on the premises from 1965 until its closure in the 80s, has had such violent paranormal activity that it was closed to investigators after a cameraman on Paranormal Lockdown was mysteriously bitten by an unidentified entity.
The limited edition bottles (750ml, 44% ABV, SRP $150), which are now available online at ShopHarridan.com and at select retailers in Massachusetts, are packaged in a bespoke case carved by a local New York woodworker. The set includes gloves for safe handling, an authenticity card, and hotel accessories from the location where it rested.
Each gold-foiled label is hand-numbered and denotes which haunted venue housed the bottle. Inside each bottle is Harridan’s award-winning, 88-proof vodka.
“It’s up to each consumer if they want to keep the bottle sealed or enjoy a drink,” says Bridgette Taylor, Founder and CEO of Harridan Vodka. “But after spending time at both The Crescent and The Anderson this summer, I can say that I, personally, am too afraid to imbibe this year’s Paranormal Reserve.”
This launch follows two prior bestselling Reserves: last year’s rested alongside the infamous Annabelle Doll at the Warren’s Occult Museum in Connecticut and the first rested at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, the Villisca Axe Murder House, and the Rhode Island farmhouse that inspired The Conjuring.
For more information, please visit www.harridan.com.
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