Stories from the edge of explanation.
About 6 min readFirst built in 1845 and rebuilt after a fire in 1895, the Shanley Hotel in Napanoch, New York, carries a century of real family tragedy — and a reputation as one of the most haunted hotels in the state.
About 6 min readSince 1893, the Pfister has been Milwaukee’s grandest hotel. It is also the hotel that visiting baseball teams dread: players report footsteps in locked rooms, electronics switching on by themselves, and clothes moved overnight. Some now refuse to stay at all.
About 6 min readIn November 1892, a young woman checked into the Hotel del Coronado under a false name, waited five days for a man who never came, and was found dead on the beach. Her room — now numbered 3327 — is said to be haunted still.
About 4 min readThe Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, opened in 1886 as a luxury resort, became a girls’ school, then a fraudulent cancer hospital run by a man with no medical training — a history that made it famous as ‘America’s Most Haunted Hotel.’