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Haunted places

Hotels and inns

In a hotel every room has its own history and thousands of people have passed through the corridors. Small wonder that some hotels are better known for their ghosts than for their comfort: the Stanley Hotel in Colorado inspired Stephen King to write The Shining, and many British pubs advertise themselves as 'the most haunted in the country'. Guests' accounts mix with marketing here, yet some stories go back to times when nobody had heard of horror tourism.

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18
years
1410–2026

Legend: 18

  1. 15th century

    1. c. 1410–present Hotels and inns · Legend The Weeping Duchess Anna of Ryn Castle Hotel Zamek Ryn, Ryn, Masuria, Poland In a Teutonic castle that is now a four-star hotel, the walled-up wife of Grand Duke Vytautas is said to weep at night – and meeting her supposedly brings luck.

  2. 17th century

    1. c. 1625–present Hotels and inns · Legend Lady Isabella of Ballygally Castle’s tower Ballygally Castle, Coast Road, Ballygally, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom Her husband locked her in the tower for bearing a daughter instead of an heir. Lady Isabella fell from the window onto the rocks – and now knocks on hotel guests’ doors.
    2. c. 1650–present Hotels and inns · Legend The Skirrid Inn – the Hangman's Tavern Skirrid Mountain Inn, Llanvihangel Crucorney, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom At an inn claiming to be the oldest in Wales, 180 convicts were supposedly hanged from a beam above the stairs – and guests say they feel a noose round their necks.

  3. 18th century

    1. 1750–present Hotels and inns · Legend Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor Jamaica Inn, Bolventor, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom A former smugglers' haunt on the Cornish moors, made famous by Daphne du Maurier's novel, has its own ghost – a stranger who never finished his drink.

  4. 19th century

    1. 1881–present Hotels and inns · Legend The Bird Cage Theatre in Tombstone 535 East Allen Street, Tombstone, Arizona, United States A theatre, saloon and gambling hall from the days of Wyatt Earp, its walls riddled with bullet holes. Guides say its old customers never left.
    2. 1892–present Hotels and inns · Legend Kate Morgan, the “Beautiful Stranger” of the Hotel del Coronado Hotel del Coronado, Coronado near San Diego, California, United States A young woman who checked in under a false name in 1892 and died on the steps above the beach is said to haunt the Victorian resort to this day.
    3. 1896–present Hotels and inns · Legend Bobby Mackey’s – the Country Bar on the “Gateway to Hell” Wilder, Kentucky, United States A country music bar in a former slaughterhouse on the Licking River is said to be haunted by the headless victim of a notorious 1896 murder and a dancer named Johanna.

  5. 1910–1919

    1. c. 1913–present Hotels and inns · Legend Room 202 at the Fort Garry Hotel, Winnipeg Fort Garry Hotel, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada In a 1913 railway hotel, the ghost of a bride is said to wait for a husband who never came back – Winnipeg's most famous apparition.

  6. 1920–1929

    1. 1927–present Hotels and inns · Legend The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel and Marilyn Monroe’s Mirror 7000 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, United States At the hotel that hosted the first Oscars, Montgomery Clift is said to still practise his bugle, and Marilyn Monroe’s reflection has been seen in her old mirror.
    2. c. 1928–present Hotels and inns · Legend The Ghost Bride of the Banff Springs Hotel Fairmont Banff Springs, Banff, Alberta, Canada A bride who fell down the stone stairs of this Rocky Mountain “castle” on her wedding day is said to dance there still – though the hotel admits there is no evidence.

  7. 1930–1939

    1. 1933–present Hotels and inns · Legend The Caribou Hotel, Carcross – the Ghost of Bessie Gideon Caribou Hotel, Carcross, Yukon, Canada The owner of a historic hotel on Lake Bennett died there in 1933. Guests see her in a third-floor window, sometimes with Polly the parrot.
    2. c. 1936–present Hotels and inns · Legend The “Princess” of the Mount Washington Hotel Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, United States The widow of the hotel’s builder, who married a French prince, is said to still sit on the edge of her bed in Room 314.
    3. 1938–present Hotels and inns · Legend The Crescent Hotel and Norman Baker’s Quack Hospital Eureka Springs, Arkansas, United States From 1938 to 1940 this Victorian hotel in the Ozarks was the “hospital” of a con man who promised to cure cancer. Today it bills itself as America’s most haunted hotel.

  8. 1940–1949

    1. 1944–present Hotels and inns · Legend The Lady in Red of the Hotel Vancouver Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada An elegant woman in a red gown is said to walk the 14th floor of Vancouver's most famous hotel and vanish through the elevator doors.
    2. 1945–present Hotels and inns · Legend The Diplomat Hotel on Dominican Hill, Baguio Dominican Hill, Baguio, Benguet, Philippines A former Dominican retreat house, a Japanese army headquarters in the war and later a faith healer's hotel – now the most famous haunted place in the Philippines.

  9. 1960–1969

    1. 1967–present Hotels and inns · Legend RMS Queen Mary – a Hotel on a Haunted Liner RMS Queen Mary, Port of Long Beach, California, United States The legendary ocean liner, a hotel moored in Long Beach since 1967, is said to have more ghosts than any other ship – in the engine room, the pool and the cabins.

  10. 1970–1979

    1. 1974–present Hotels and inns · Legend The Stanley Hotel – the Inspiration for “The Shining” The Stanley Hotel, Estes Park, Colorado, United States A night in an almost empty Rocky Mountain hotel gave Stephen King the idea for “The Shining” – and staff still tell stories about the founders' ghosts.

  11. 1990–1999

    1. c. 1990–present Hotels and inns · Legend The Hotel above Tequendama Falls Casa Museo Salto del Tequendama, San Antonio del Tequendama, Colombia An elegant hotel on the brink of a 433-foot waterfall near Bogotá stood empty for years. A place that for decades drew the desperate, it is said to be haunted.