31 Days of Halloween: Haunted House of the Day

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If you were going to build a medieval house of horrors that would one day become one of the most haunted places in the world, you'd be hard-pressed to come up with a more prescient name than today's Haunted House of the Day, for few places in the world have seen so much bloodshed...



In the beginning, the Chillingham Castle (so named because it sits in the village of Chillingham in of Northumberland, England) was used as a monastery and it was the home of the Grey family from 1246. The original manor house was destroyed by a Scottish raid in 1296. By 1298, the new manor house was built, though more fortified. The foundations of the castle as we know it today were created then. This is also when King Edward I visited Chillingham Castle on his way north to fight William “Braveheart” Wallace at The Battle of Falkirk. Wallace was defeated at that battle. He managed to escape, but for many other Scottish people, the terror had just begun.



Alongside the Grey family, Chillingham Castle was also owned by the Bennet family. No less than 18 family members belonged to the Most Noble Order of the Garter. The main purpose of this order was to connect the most powerful nobles to the King. Even though the family was noble, it was also quite rebellious. Eight family members were executed. They were hanged, drawn and quartered and their heads impaled on the city gate as a warning. Some members were lucky and only lost their heads. When the Scottish-English war (1296 – 1346) was over, the castle lost its defending task. A beautiful forest was created around it where up until today the special “Chillingham Wild” cattle is kept.



Chillingham Castle has a very bloody history. Many Scottish people have met their end here. Most of them by the hands of a man named John Sage. He was nicknamed “John Dragfoot” or worse “The Butcher of the Scots”. John Sage was a cold-blooded and ruthless torturer and executioner who had the time of his life in his torture chamber. He hated the Scottish and he was a frustrated man. As a lieutenant, he got badly injured. As a result, he wasn’t able to fight anymore. He tortured more than 50 people each week for the period of three years. It's estimated he tortured and killed over a thousand people at the castle. The Torture Chamber which is open to the public contains all of Sage’s toys. However, you need to bear in mind that this is not the original torture chamber. The real torture chambers are located underneath the Tea Room. They were sealed off for the public after a seance was performed there. The seance had a pretty terrifying ending, so to keep the danger inside it was closed up. Many human remains are still down there.



At the end of the Scottish-English War, the English needed to get rid of the remaining prisoners. They made a huge fire at the Courtyard and burned all the men, women and older children alive before the eyes of the younger children. After this, the children were taken back into Chillingham Castle where they were hacked to their death in the King Edward’s Room. John Sage was later publicly hanged. Because he was deeply hated, the public cut off his fingers, toes, nose, lips and genitals while he was still struggling for breath. Disembodied voices and full-bodied apparitions have been seen wandering the courtyard. Even the ghost of John Sage is said to haunt the Courtyard.



The Blue Boy is the most famous ghost of Chillingham Castle. His hauntings are associated with the Pink Room. Witnesses have reported seeing blue flashes or a blue halo near a bed in the room, accompanied by a loud wail or cry. The legend says that the ghost is that of a young boy who was discovered bricked up inside a wall in the castle, along with bones and fragments of blue clothing. During renovations, the bones of a boy were indeed found inside the wall, lending some credence to the ghost story. Lady Mary Berkeley is another well-known ghost at Chillingham Castle. She was the wife of Lord Grey, who abandoned her for her sister. Heartbroken, Lady Mary remained at the castle, where she eventually died. Her ghost is said to roam the halls, and visitors have reported hearing the rustle of her dress and feeling an inexplicable cold chill as she passes by.



I first became aware of Chillingham Castle many years ago when my wife (GF at the time) and I would watch Scariest Places on Earth. A show where families would be sent to famous haunted places with cameras and be tasked with spending the whole night there while completing tasks. It was fun to watch the families run and panic, and to listen to the show being narrated by Poltergeist actress Zelda Rubinstein who made sure to say everything extra creepy. The show was hosted by Linda Blair and the onsite host was Alan Robson. The show ran for 3 seasons on the Family Channel from 2000-2003.



As the nights would go on, the tasks would become darker and more frightening as the families had to split up and go to separate locations within the castle.



The King Edward’s Room is the room in which many young children were hacked to their deaths after the Scottish-English War was over. They killed the children because they were afraid they would retaliate later. A dark, malevolent spirit resides in this room. The spirit is very violent and aggressive and has attacked several people.



One of the rooms where you can spend the night is the Still Room. It is connected to the Dungeon, and thus a very interesting place. The Still Room was used to keep the castle’s treasures. Each night, a guard was locked in here to guard them. One night, a guard who was locked in, was alarmed by an old, frail looking woman who was inside the Still Room with him. She asked him for water. When the guard went to get it, he was confused: he was supposed to be there all by himself! When he returned with the water, the old woman was gone. She is now known as the Pantry Ghost. She was most likely poisoned inside the Still Room and still haunts it, asking for water. A Spanish witch was also killed in the room. Right before she died, she cursed the castle. Anyone who would take anything from the castle would experience bad luck.



During the Second World War the castle was used as a barrack. The beautiful forest was then burned down. After the war the castle deteriorated. All the lead was taken out of the roof so it started to leak heavily everywhere. In 1982, the castle was bought by Sir. Humphrey Wakefield. His wife is a descendant of the Grey’s. They renovated the castle completely and created holiday apartments in it. You can spend the night there if you like, but I wouldn't be caught dead there. However, odds are pretty good you might just catch something else.

[BrandonDaCollector]

Wow, I never knew about Chillingham Castle. Is all I can is that was historical, spooky, scary, awesome and a great entry Packer once again

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Yes, Scariest Places on Earth was one of the first paranormal shows like that. It even predated Ghost Hunters. I still like to say things like Zelda Rubinstein did in those narrations. It was a great combination of scary and amusing watching families in these haunted places.

This, was not one of those places. In Harrisville, Rhode Island, sits an idyllic looking old farmhouse where the Perron family once lived on a property known as the Old Arnold Estate.



Ed and Lorraine Warren had been investigating paranormal activity since the early 1950’s. During their decades-long careers, they investigated over 4,000 hauntings, including the well-known Amityville Haunting where they were recognized as the first psychic investigators to step onto the scene. Known variously as the “Harrisville Haunting” or the “Perron Family Haunting”, the Warrens would say that their investigation of the Perron family’s haunting was their “most intense, compelling, disturbing and significant investigation” of their careers. Roger Perron, his wife Carolyn, and their five children Andrea (Annie), Nancy, Christine, Cindy, and April endured a decade of torture from the spirits that occupied their country home. Now this house is more commonly referred to as The Conjuring House.



Seeking to move the children to a quieter home life in the country, Roger and Carolyn Perron purchased their dream home in the winter of 1970. The Old Arnold Estate was 200 acres in size and one of the original plantations in the area surveyed by colonist John Smith in 1680 and deeded to Roger Williams for the formation of the state of Rhode Island. Located on Round Top Road in Harrisville, Rhode Island, the 10-room “lovely, charming” country home was built in 1736 on a beautiful plot of land with plenty of room for their five children, all girls, to roam about and play. Nancy and Christine Perron shared one room, Cindy and April another, and Andrea had a room all to herself – except on nights when, as Andrea put it, the sisters “came crawling into bed with her, trembling and crying in terror”.



The Perron family began to notice something was amiss from the first day they stepped into their lovely new home. Later it would be learned that eight generations of families had lived, and died, in the Old Arnold Estate including Mrs. John Arnold who at the age of 93, hung herself from the rafters of the barn. Other unfortunate losses of life on the estate included several suicides (hangings, poisonings), the rape and unsolved murder of eleven-year-old girl Prudence Arnold (later presumed to have been murdered by a farm hand), two sudden drownings in the creek located near the house, and four men who mysteriously froze to death on the land. It did not take long before the Perrons’ understood why the previous seller advised them on the day that they moved into the house, “leave the lights on at night.”



At first the ghosts, or demon spirits as the Warren investigators thought of them, were harmless. Described variously as opaque or somewhat solid in appearance, there were many spirits present in the old homestead. One ghost smelled of flowers while another would gently kiss the girls goodnight in their beds. Another appeared to be a small, young male that the girls would watch push toy cars around. The Perron’s would often hear sweeping noises coming from the kitchen. When they entered the room, they would find the broom had been moved to a different spot in the room with a neat pile of newly swept dirt sitting in the middle of the floor, waiting to be deposited in the trashcan.



In addition to ghostly entities, the Perrons’ witnessed many other odd and unexplained phenomena. Beds would levitate several inches off of the floor, telephone handsets would hover in the air and slam down onto the phone base when someone entered the room, and various household objects would glide about the house on their own. Often chairs would be pulled suddenly from beneath an unsuspecting guest and pictures would tumble from the walls. The Perrons’ once reported seeing an orange ooze blood and a wall dissolve into nothingness. One of the spirits was so evil, the Perron family to this day will not disclose what it did to them. Andrea Perron, who authored a book about their experiences in the home (House of Darkness House of Light), hinted that the unmentionable spirit may have molested some of the young girls. When asked about this spirit during an interview, she avoided the question, telling the reporter: “Let’s just say there was a very bad male spirit in the home – with five little girls.”



The most horrid ghost in the home targeted Mrs. Perron specifically. Known as Bathsheba, the entity was thought to have been the ghost of Bathsheba Sherman, a practicing Satanist and witch who had lived in the home in the early 19th century and died there after hanging herself from a tree behind the barn. The Perrons’ were not a religious family. Weak in faith, it was theorized to be a primary factor for the particularly violent and active nature of Bathsheba’s treatment of the Perron family. Bathsheba was a vile, hideous creature described as having a face “similar to a desiccated bee hive” covered in cobwebs with no real human features other than vermin crawling from crevices etched into the wrinkled skin of her face. Her head, round and gray, sat “leaning off to one side” as if her neck had been broken and an evil stench permeated the room when she was present.



Over time, the attacks grew harsher. Once, Carolyn was lying on the couch when she felt a sharp pain in the calf of her leg and found a large, bleeding puncture wound that looked “as if a large sewing needle had impaled her skin”. Later, after threats failed to motivate Carolyn to leave, Bathsheba took a different tack and attempted to invade Carolyn from within. Believing that Carolyn had been possessed, the Perrons’ called in psychic investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren to assist them. Ed and Lorraine Warren are often thought of as “the original paranormal investigators”. For decades they had helped investigate hauntings and demonic possessions across the country. In many of their cases, they were able to convince the Vatican to provide exorcisms of the spirits that they found. The Perrons’ heard of the Warrens after one of their many public speaking engagements and pleaded with them to help save their mother. By this time, it was believed that Bathsheba has physically possessed Carolyn Perron, an assessment that Ed Warren could not disagree with.



Unfortunately, the true story of the Perron family’s haunting ended differently than The Conjuring movie portrayed. In reality, the Warrens were not successful in ridding the Perron family of their hell-bent tormentors. Carolyn Perron recalled that “dreadful night” and explained that even though the Warrens’ intentions were good, they essentially found that things “got worse around them”. As the situation spun out of control, Roger Perron demanded that the Warrens leave the premises immediately.



The Perrons’ soon learned that every occupant of the old Arnold Estate had reported supernatural phenomena on the homestead. In fact, the owner just prior to the Perrons’ had hired a contractor to renovate the house. The contractor had been busily renovating the home when he suddenly stopped work and fled. It was reported that he had left the home screaming leaving behind his tools and his car. The owners never moved in and the home sat vacant for several years before the Perrons’ discovered it was on the market. Despite their unfortunate circumstances, financial constraints kept the Perrons’ rooted in place for 10 long years. Unable to flee, they endured the inconvenience of the “friendly” spirits and the torture the malevolent ghosts bestowed upon them. Finally, in 1980, at the insistence of Carolyn, the Perrons’ were financially able to vacate the home. They moved to Georgia.

And there loss is your gain, if you have the intestinal fortitude. And a lot of green!

[BrandonDaCollector]

Oh now I'm very familiar with that one especially the Warrens I had posted a special in My Horror Topic about them. I knew them way long before the Conjuring movies was ever a thought. Before today's raving of that franchise, people need to look back in the past (they need to do on so many things) because a great TV movie on Fox had a world premiere in 1991. It featured the Smurl Family which is a tremendously haunted house with a big story. I recall it like it was yesterday in 1991 when I saw the previews on KDNL FOX 30 which I have show rather recently how wonderful they in the other Topics. I couldn't wait for the premiere and neither could My Grandma because she liked stuff like this too and keep in My mind, I'm only 10 years old and I'm a veteran of Ghostbusters and the Poltergeists franchise already so this was something new for Me Here's My quote from My Horror Topic a while to refreshify you because I believe it got over looked

1991's The Haunted

Here is the Wikipedia page ---> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Haunted_(1991_film)

OK, I posted this a bit over at PB's 31 Days of Halloween so here is this. Are you familiar with the Haunted that aired on Fox back in 1991



If you seen the Conjuring movies about the Warrens (real life Ghostbusters & Demonologists) and know them then you'll be thrilled to know that their first depictions are in the Haunted...it was a big deal back then 1991 Me & My Grandparents were quite excited about this new movie and We recorded it on VHS during it's world premier and I have seen this movie many times. Here is a brief ad about it + a short scene




I used to watch it all the time back then in 1991 and later on. Sally Kirkland is the star but she isn't at her usual good looking classy seductive self as she is a mother & family woman but has a great performance. Jeffrey DeMunn plays her husband and he is really good which he is known to show up in a lot of horror stuff. I really liked how it was, parts of it made Me feel good especially the scenes with the neighbors as it was during the time when you could actually have good ones, be friends with them and count on them for something decent. In fact the film just has a really good atmosphere about it. NOTE: The Little girl in The Monster Squad is in this too

Here is pic of them and their play family compared to the actual Smurls



And here is a comparison of the real life & Haunted Movie depictions of the Warrens



Now here is the actual movie, like I said, it's one of the best ones and if you already seen it back in the day then you know how cool it was back then and I am quite thankful that I experience it during those good times

Now, keep that in mind as you can see the movie free right above but if you can see it on your big screen TV, please do so as you'll get more effect that way. For the people asking for good Halloween movie recommendations, 1991's The Haunted is a must really. Nobody ever said to Me that they seen the film which I originally posted that in 2022 so maybe this season is the time for you The Haunted was The Conjuring before TC was TC Now, here's this special video I found about The Smurls

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I was not familiar with tat movie before you posted nor the Smurls. That sounds like a made up last name, but it's a true story, lol.

Since I had fun reminiscing about Scariest Place on Earth, let's continue with another stoney nightmare from that show.



There are varied accounts as to when exactly the main tower/keep was constructed, ranging anywhere from the 13th century to the late 15th century, but most likely around 1250 AD. It was built by the O'Bannon clan and was originally called "Léim Uí Bhanáin" or "Leap of the O'Bannons". The O'Bannons were the "secondary chieftains" of the territory and were subject to the ruling O'Carroll clan.



Following the death of Mulrooney O'Carroll in 1532, family struggles plagued the O'Carroll clan. A fierce rivalry for leadership erupted within the family. The bitter fight for power turned brother against brother. One of the brothers was a priest. While he was holding mass for a group of his family (in what is now called the "Bloody Chapel"), his rival brother burst into the chapel, plunged his sword into him and fatally wounded him. The butchered priest fell across the altar and died in front of his family. According to reports, the ghost of the priest has been seen lurking in the stairway near the chapel. Apparently, many people that pass the castle after dark have seen a bright light pouring out of the upper windows of the Bloody Chapel.



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Another spirit said to wander the halls of the castle is known as the Red Lady. It’s said that she was assaulted by a number of the O’Carroll’s and gave birth to one of their children. This displeased the O’Carroll’s who said that they couldn’t afford to feed another mouth. It’s believed that one of the clan murdered the child with a dagger. The mother was, understandably, distraught and is said to have grabbed the dagger and used it to end her own life. The Red Lady has been seen by a number of people over the years. She has been described as a tall woman dressed in red. It’s said that she moves through Leap Castle carrying the dagger that was used to take her child from her.



The oubliette is a small chamber located in one of the corners of the Bloody Chapel. Its original purpose was to store valuables, but it could also be used as a hiding place during the event of a siege. However, this oubliette had a more sinister use. The O’Carrolls modified the chamber and made it into a small dungeon where they would throw prisoners. Here’s where it gets worse… The name ‘Oubliette’ comes from the French ‘to forget’. Once the O’Carroll’s threw someone in the chamber, they were simply forgotten about. The chamber wasn’t discovered until the early 1900s when a renovation took place. Those tending to the castle discovered a hidden chamber that was said to be filled with hundreds of skeletons.





Finally, Leap Castle is said to be the home of an Elemental that roams the lands around the castle. An elemental is said to be a being or entity that never existed in human form. 'The Elemental' is said to make its presence known to people that provoke the entity, in the past a woman named Mildred Darby is said to have provoked this entity with her interest in the occult. Her endeavors with the occult are said to have included automatic writing and séances. Her occult practices coincided with the discovery in the Oubliette where the bones of approximately 150 bodies were found. It's said that shortly after this discovery people had a terrifying experiences involving 'The Elemental' entity.

[BrandonDaCollector]

Okay. I suggest you watch that movie anyway & anytime you can then. It's a true classic and it feels good to watch it too. Nope, not a made up name, many people's names can seem like that but many times that isn't the case.

I had no clue about "Leap of the O'Bannons" Castle. That was a super one

Okay, here's this special about The Undertaker and his Haunted House. This was when the WWF was on TNN when TNN was one of the many channels going against what made them what they are such as MTV & AMC This was during the original time of The American Badass. Kevin Kelley narrates during this original broadcast



Here's the same clip minus the climax from the WWE Vault in better quality

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I bet he could make a second living with Undertaker themed haunted houses.

Today's Haunted House of the Day may've been haunted before the first brick was even laid.




Before the building was built the grounds of what is now the Emily Morgan Hotel was where the Mexican Forces battled the Texans in the Long Barracks of the Alamo in 1836. Over 600 men lost their lives very close to the hotel. When originally built the location was the Medical Arts Building. It housed over 100 medical professionals from doctors to dentists. It was even believed to have a section devoted to the care of those suffering from psychological condition.



The Emily Morgan Hotel is no ordinary building in downtown San Antonio. Its majestic Gothic Revival structure has graced the skyline since the 1920s, but what sets this landmark apart isn’t just its architectural splendor—it’s the stories of the paranormal that fill its halls. From its early days as a medical facility to its current status as one of the most haunted hotels in the nation, the Emily Morgan Hotel has been a site where history and the supernatural meet.



From its inception, the Medical Arts Center operated as a hospital, with lower floors reserved for doctors' offices and the upper levels for surgeries and patient care. The basement housed the morgue, sealing the building’s connection to death and the macabre. Fast forward to 1984, and the site was transformed into the luxurious Emily Morgan Hotel. Despite modern renovations, the building’s chilling past still lingers.



The Emily Morgan Hotel has become synonymous with paranormal activity, especially on the seventh, ninth, and fourteenth floors, as well as the basement. These areas once served as the psychiatric ward, surgery rooms, and morgue, respectively. Guests have reported strange phenomena, from inexplicable cold breezes to the scent of hospital disinfectants.



But in reality, the fourteenth floor doesn't even exist, Like many public buildings across the nation and in the world, the Emily Morgan Hotel has chosen to forego its thirteenth floor in name of what can only be superstition. Clamber into the elevator and you’ll find that the Fourteenth Floor is one floor above the Twelfth. But of course, the Emily Morgan has kicked it up a notch because not only have they eliminated the thirteenth floor, they have also cut out Room 1408. Room 1407 is seated adjacently to Room 1409, and it can only be because when the numbers are added together 1408 equals to thirteen. Those staying on the fourteenth level of the Emily Morgan generally have one thing to say: that the smell is acutely reminiscent of a hospital. Once the Medical Arts Building’s waiting area, it seems that this floor has been impressed with the residual energy of one of the surgical levels. Guests have reported to opening the doors to the hallways only to find a scene from a hospital waiting right inside. Their gazes widen, their fingers no doubt tightening on the doorknob as they grasp to comprehend the nearly tangible sight before them. In an attempt to organize their clashing thoughts, they shut the door. Taking a deep breath in the safety of their guest room, they then swing the door wide open again. The ghostly image has always vanished by this second peek out into the corridor, and the imprinted image from the past is nothing but a memory for the living.



The twelfth floor is no less haunted than the fourteenth, and was once the operating level for the Medical Arts Building. It is on this floor that guests have visibly witnessed their bathroom doors opening and shutting on their own accord. In the dead of night, guests are roused from their slumber only to hearing the trickling of water leaking. Feet hitting the floor as they right themselves up in bed, guests find themselves pulled to the bathroom only to find that the faucets have since been cranked open, the water freely flowing like a fountain. But then they cross the threshold into the bathroom, and everything returns to normal. The water clams up like a rubber stopper has been put in, and nothing appears out of the ordinary. Others have seen lights flashing in their rooms. And yet others have reported seeing actual apparitions of nurses in the hallways as they push rickety gurneys down the corridor. Then, as if the ghostly image was never there in the first place, the scene dissipates into thin air as if it never was. Interestingly—or maybe disturbingly—it is said that the the Emily Morgan’s swimming pool has been constructed out of the stainless steel from the medical center’s operating tables.



At this historic hotel in San Antonio, the elevators are known to ride up and down without a single rider on it. And when a guest does embark on it, they might as well be signing up for an adventure. The elevators will skip past the requested floor as though the guest never pushed their desired floor at all. Sometimes, even, the elevators’ doors will cling shut and remain closed for hours, effectively locking people within until help arrives on the scene. In an even strange twist of paranormal phenomena, front desk attendants often receive unlisted phone calls . . . from the elevators themselves, though no one is inside when the calls were made. And perhaps creepier than anything else? It’s common for the elevators to bring guests down, down, down to the basement level where the morgue once was.



According to staff of the Emily Morgan, the seventh floor of the hotel might just be haunted by a ghostly bride. Who is she, and why might have her spirit remained on the earthly plane? Your guess is as good as mine, but the seventh floor is reportedly one of the most haunted in the entire thirteen-story building. A woman’s unearthly shrieks carry in the dead of night, waking sleeping guests. For many, the activity is too much to bear. Apparitions have been sighted as their translucent frames dart through the rooms, often disappearing right into the wall itself. And on some occasions, those same apparitions appear along the living when the living peer into the mirrors to check their reflection. Those playful spirits never cause any harm, but even so, reports of guests leaving the hotel in the middle of the night or demanding to switch rooms is not out of the norm at the Emily Morgan Hotel. All this is why the Emily Morgan Hotel is considered to be the one of the most haunted hotels in the world!

[BrandonDaCollector]

Yeah, you'd think he would have done that by now then again look how Vinnie Mac was to Rusev when became gamer on Twitch and got moolah for it Wow, I've seen that many times but never knew what it's name was...the Emily Morgan Hotel Cool Packer

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It certainly has a unique look to the building.

Today's Haunted House of the Day is a place where you can get your kicks...



In Flagstaff, Arizone, sitting along the famed Route 66 highway, the Hotel Monte Vista first opened it's doors on New Year's Day 1927. Along with playing host to numerous famous figures over the years, such as John Wayne, Bing Crosby, and Harry Truman, it is apparently home to several unearthly figures.



Opening during the prohibition era, this didn’t stop the Hotel Monte Vista Lounge from ignoring the law and running a profitable bootlegging operation out of Flagstaff’s most popular speakeasy. However, in 1931, the place was raided by local officials and shut down, only to resume business two years later when prohibition finally ended. For five years between 1935 and 1940, the hotel lounge and lobby also offered its many guests a wide range of slot machines to choose from, the only ones ever in Flagstaff.



In the 1940s and 1950s, Western movies became the choice of the American public, and more than one hundred movies were filmed in nearby Sedona and Oak Creek Canyon. The Hotel Monte Vista hosted famous guests like Jane Russell, Gary Cooper, Spencer Tracy, John Wayne, and Bing Crosby during filming. In one of the hotel rooms, a scene from Casablanca was filmed. In fact, John Wayne reported seeing one of the hotel’s first ghosts in the late 1950s. Describing the spirit as friendly, this benevolent ghost evidently appeared briefly in the movie star’s room.



In the 1970s, three men robbed a Flagstaff bank near the hotel, where one of the men was shot during their escape from the bank. Lying low and celebrating their successful robbery, the trio stopped in at the Monte Vista Lounge for a drink. However, the wounded man’s gunshot injury was obviously more serious than any of them anticipated. Before he could finish his first drink, he died in the lounge.



Today, staff and guests feel as if this dead bandit is one of the many spirits that haunt the building. One manager reported that he would hear an eerie voice that said “Hello” or “Good Morning” when he opened the bar daily. Others have told stories of feeling a ghostly presence while enjoying a drink in the cocktail lounge. All types of other strange phenomena are reported at the hotel by spirits who make noise, move furniture around, make sudden appearances, ring the lobby telephone, and knock things down. Both employees and guests have heard band music coming from the second-floor lobby when no band is playing. Reportedly, the staff has become so accustomed to the odd occurrences that it has become a joke to them.



In room 210, called the Zane Grey room, many guests have been awakened in the night by a phantom bellboy, who knocks on the door with the statement that room service has arrived. When guests open the door, they see nothing but an empty hallway. Others have reported seeing the image of a woman who wanders the halls outside this room. Supposedly, the hotel avoids putting guests with pets in this room because dogs go crazy with fear and tear up the room. This floor is a hub of ghostly activity, as all types of strange activity are reported just down the hall in Room 220. In the 1980s, this room housed an eccentric long-term boarder known to hang raw meat from the chandelier. He died in this room, and his body was not discovered for several days. Today, guests often complain of hearing coughing and other noises from the otherwise empty room. At one time, after a maintenance man had made several repairs to the room, he turned off the light and locked the door. However, returning just five minutes later, the light was back on, the bed linens were stripped, and the television was broadcasting at full blast.



In the Gary Cooper Room, many guests have reported being unnerved by the sure feeling that someone was watching them. Reportedly, two prostitutes were murdered in this room when they were thrown out the window. The two painted ladies have also been reportedly sighted in the pool hall and the lounge. In yet another room, number 305, the ghost of a female apparition is often reported as sitting in the rocking chair. Further, if the cleaning staff moves the chair, it will always reappear next to the window the next day.



In the basement, the sounds of an infant crying have often been heard. There is little explanation as to how this phantom child met their end, but any staff member unfortunate enough to hear the cries has been known to run the other way as quick as they can. Lastly, there are the ghosts of the Dancing Couple, a pair of ghostly lovers who are seen in the early hours of the morning dancing away in the hotel’s Cocktail Lounge. They are dressed in their formal best and are always smiling and laughing. Between them all, there is no shortage of ghostly encounters at the Monte Vista Hotel, making it by far one of the most haunted establishments still standing in the American Old West.

[BrandonDaCollector]

Oh yes, the Hotel Monte Vista, I know a bit of that one. the Old West was something else. Arizona has a lot of strange stuff going on there. This is only an example of what you posted really good here Packer