Grand Midway Hotel

10/10/2026

It's getting creepy in here. Happy Halloween Season everyone!

10/04/2026

Live right now on the roof!

10/02/2026

Notice to Our Guests and Visitors: For the safety of everyone at the Midway and our additional buildings, please be aware that a local individual has been engaging in disruptive and intimidating behavior near our properties. Local law enforcement is actively involved and aware of the situation. Important Safety Instructions: Do not engage with this individual if you see him on or near our properties. If you see him videotaping guests or acting aggressively, do not approach him. Notify management or call the police immediately at 814-445-1525. Thank you. Sorry about all this...

09/28/2026

This is an update about the Windber Demon Guy, and then I'm not going to post much more about him because it's just too much ugliness. So, he got a lawyer and got his court date for tomorrow postponed to October 20th. That's the date. Anyone may just show up if you've been harassed by him and speak out, and this is encouraged. The footage I posted last week has gotten some 310,000 views in Reels. If you read some of the comments for that video there's plenty of Windber residents who also had to deal with him. The Midway btw is NOT taking him to court. It's the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania vs this guy. But we are participating because it's gotten scary and enough is enough. Also, because children are involved. He actually did just show up out front again -as he does every day- recording us creepily on his phone, and then sent us this:

09/28/2026

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09/13/2026

This is the local demon screamer who shows up every Saturday and Sunday morning 9am to shout at the hotel, guests, investigators, tourists, and our family members. Last Fall he vowed shouting from Graham Avenue that he was going to "Charlie Kirk" us all. He's crazy but still these are serious threats. Last winter on a Thursday night guests started texting me at 11pm that he was on the side of the hotel in the shadows shouting at them through the side windows that they were all demons. This has been going on for two years. My 9 year old, the first one up, has been threatened and cursed at every weekend for two years. Her friends as well. He just curses and barks about demons and threatens. Neighbors have informed me how he brags to them the goal is to run us all out of town. Three weeks agoo he was so vicious and over the top vulgar to a young mom who was just sitting on my porch with her kids just behind her that the police had had enough. He's been served for harassment. Regardless, he's back right this minute out front my place. So, I turned a video on to ask him why. It's not like he is just harassing us though, many people in Windber have had to endure his vulgar raging. I've heard many stories. So if you'd like to speak up in court of you've endured from him, reach out to the Windber Police and you can add your say too Tuesday Sept 29 at 10 AM at 1510 Jefferson Ave in WIndber, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania vs Robert Alan Jurish.

09/07/2026

In our ever-growing expansion of the Midway campus as well as efforts to fix up and rescue historic old properties in Windber we are proud to announce we just purchased the Windber Builders House. Already in two weeks building cleared out, inside painted, water on, electric on, and a new metal roof...full speed ahead! (That makes 7: Holy Child Church, Old Radio Station, Midway Hotel, Shakespeare House, Anderson's Store, Windber Builder's House, and a parking lot!). ...Takes a bow.

08/26/2026

We are starting the official 2nd Midway Dungeons & Dragons Campaign (for little kids who were inspired by Stranger Things)! The first campaign went fantastic! What great adventures! We will be meeting starting this Saturday 1-4pm, three weekends a month. Snacks and dice provided. The campaign will go to about Thanksgiving. Playing will sharpen math skills, teamwork, communication, imagination, drama, friendship, etc. Ron will be our Dungeon Master again. We have open slots for two or three more kids, age 9-13 ish. If interested reach out ASAP to me privately.

07/31/2026

The legendary John Cassady (son of the legendary Neal Cassady who inspired the fantastic American character Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac's novel On The Road) visiting from California standing before the Alan Freed sidewalk star and Alan Freed Historic State sign. Many travelers make the homage to Windber to take their picture with the Freed markers. (This photo is a little wavy because it is just a jpeg plucked from digital video I shot of him visiting Windber in October for the Kerouacfests around 2004. Named after writer Jack Kerouac and poet Allen Ginsberg and counterculture, Beat muse, catalyst Neal Cassady, John told amazing stories! ...Like one teenage afternoon of his father snatching him out of high school to surprise him with the Merry Pranksters who then drove young John to a show at another high school where he met and after show got to play with Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead, among endless other fantastic, fun memories. He was like a cultural jukebox. John later came back three September weekend visits here to Windber for his birthdays. As I secretly watched him slowly walking up to read the Freed sign the words that came to mind to me in that moment were "intimate" and "epic".)