Hotel↕ | Location↕ | Year Built↕ | Famous Ghost↕ | Known For↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
The Stanley Hotel | Estes Park, Colorado, USA | 1909 | F.O. Stanley and his wife Flora | Inspired Stephen King's The Shining, Room 217 is the most haunted, Flora's ghost plays the piano, REDRUM vibes |
The Langham | London, England | 1865 | A Victorian-era doctor (Room 333) | Room 333 is Europe's most haunted hotel room, BBC cricketers refused to stay, ghostly figure walks through walls, Napoleon III's spirit |
Fairmont Banff Springs | Banff, Alberta, Canada | 1888 | The Bride (fell down staircase) | Castle in the Canadian Rockies, ghost bride dances in the ballroom, phantom bellman Sam McAuley helps guests then vanishes |
Hotel & Fairmont Queen Elizabeth | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | 1958 | No confirmed ghost, but John Lennon's energy | John Lennon and Yoko Ono recorded Give Peace a Chance in Room 1742, guests report hearing music and voices |
The Crescent Hotel | Eureka Springs, Arkansas, USA | 1886 | Michael, a stonemason who fell during construction | America's most haunted hotel, was a fraudulent cancer hospital in the 1930s, bodies found buried on grounds, ghost tours nightly |
Hotel & del Coronado | San Diego, California, USA | 1888 | Kate Morgan (found dead in 1892) | Beautiful beachside Victorian, Kate Morgan checked in but never checked out, Room 3327 has unexplained breezes and flickering lights |
The Myrtle Plantation | St. Francisville, Louisiana, USA | 1796 | Chloe (a former slave) | 12 ghosts reported, built on a Tunica burial ground, Chloe appears in a famous photograph, one of America's most haunted homes |
Dragsholm Castle Hotel | Horreby, Denmark | 1215 (castle), hotel since 1937 | The White Lady, The Grey Lady, Earl of Bothwell | Three well-documented ghosts, 800-year-old castle, skeleton of the White Lady found bricked into a wall during renovations |
The Russell Hotel (The Adelphi) | Sydney, Australia | 1888 | A woman in Victorian dress | Heritage-listed haunted hotel, guests see a woman in old-fashioned dress walking the halls, cold spots and strange sounds |
The Skirrid Mountain Inn | Abergavenny, Wales | ~1100 AD | Hanged criminals (over 180 executions) | Oldest pub in Wales, beam used as gallows still visible, rope marks on the staircase beam, over 180 people hanged inside |
Taj Mahal Palace Hotel | Mumbai, India | 1903 | W.A. Chambers (architect who died before opening) | Architect supposedly committed suicide when the hotel was built facing the wrong way (likely myth), guests report his ghost on upper floors |
The Don CeSar | St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA | 1928 | Thomas Rowe (founder) | Pink Palace on the beach, founder's ghost reunites with his lost love Lucinda in the lobby, Art Deco masterpiece |
Château Frontenac | Quebec City, Quebec, Canada | 1893 | Louis de Buade, Count of Frontenac | Most photographed hotel in the world, ghost of the Governor of New France roams the halls, iconic castle silhouette on the St. Lawrence |
The Pfister Hotel | Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA | 1893 | Charles Pfister (founder) | MLB players refuse to stay alone, visiting baseball teams report haunted rooms, Charles Pfister watches over his hotel from the balcony |
Ballygally Castle Hotel | County Antrim, Northern Ireland | 1625 | Lady Isobel Shaw | Lady Isobel locked in a tower room, threw herself from the window, knocks on guest doors at night, her room is now the Ghost Room |
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