Mizpah Hotel

Nevada · United States · Hotel

Mizpah Hotel — Nevada · United States · Hotel

A desert hotel haunted by the Lady in Red. Guests find pearls left on the pillow.

The Mizpah Hotel in Tonopah, Nevada is a five-storey stone hotel built between 1905 and 1908, raised when this was one of the richest silver camps in the world. It was for a long time the tallest building in Nevada, with the town's first lift. The hotel closed in 1999 but was restored and reopened in 2011.

It is famous for the haunting of the Lady in Red, said to be a prostitute murdered on the fifth floor, and guests report finding pearls left on their pillows. That story is not documented, and nothing is asserted about it here.

What was filed in January 2007 is better than the legend. On two separate occasions, two separate witnesses heard somebody in great physical distress in the first stall of the ladies' lavatory in the hotel restaurant. Both were concerned, and both were slightly embarrassed, because the obvious thing to do was to ask whether the person was all right. That reaction is the mark of a genuine report: neither of them thought they were hearing anything but a woman in trouble.

Tonopah's silver made and unmade fortunes, and the mines killed men steadily. In 2018 USA Today named the Mizpah the most haunted hotel in the United States. The hotel is open.

Source: Wikipedia.

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Mizpah Hotel is in Nevada, United States.

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