This Haunted Hotel In Arkansas Will Make Your Stay A Nightmare

Eureka Springs is a popular resort town, and with its scenic setting and quirky personality, it’s no wonder that people love to visit. The entire city is on the National Historic Register. It is a beautiful place, and you should definitely go there - especially if you want to encounter the paranormal. You don’t get to be an old Victorian city set in the mountains without some kind of creepiness factor, and the biggest part of the creepiness factor in Eureka Springs is owed to the fact that both of the oldest hotels there are allegedly haunted, and one of them might well be the most haunted hotel in America. Could you spend a night at Crescent Hotel and Spa in Arkansas?

With well over 100 years of ghost stories under its belt, the 1886 Crescent Hotel & Spa refers to itself as "America’s Most Haunted Hotel", and probably for good reason.

First opened as a resort hotel in 1886, but experiencing a drop off in tourism around the turn of the century, the Crescent Hotel later functioned as a college and conservatory for young women, a junior college, and even a cancer hospital run by an infamous quack named Norman Baker, who claimed he could "cure" cancer. Many of the most chilling ghost stories spring from this "cancer hospital" era.

Some folks claim to have seen Norman Baker himself, often in the basement, and sometimes at the bottom of the first floor stairs. He is said to wear a white suit, purple shirt, and a look of confusion.

After 11 p.m., the time during which the cancer hospital moved the deceased to the morgue, you can sometimes encounter a nurse dressed in white. She appears in the third floor hallway, accompanied by the sounds of an old gurney, and disappears at the end of the hall.

If you wind up in room 419, be aware that you may meet Theodora. She will tell you she is a cancer patient, and then she will vanish into thin air.

Many other stories from the building's halls, however, have nothing to do with Norman Baker’s deadly scam.

Room 218 is said to be the most haunted room in the hotel. The spirit who lives there, usually called Michael, is said to have been a stone mason who fell from the roof to the second floor in 1885. Michael is fond of turning the lights on and off, messing with televisions, reaching out from behind the mirror, and screaming as if he is falling to his death over and over again.

You may see another man in Victorian-era clothes sitting in the lobby. You may try to talk to him, but most of the time, he just stares back and says nothing.

You can also sometimes see a waiter pushing a tray down the hallway.

Victorian-era apparitions sometimes appear in the Crystal Dining Room, often appearing to be dressed in dancing clothes. One year, they decided to move the Christmas tree to the other side of the room.

The dining room also hosts a man who sits near the windows, appearing to be waiting. If you speak to him, he will tell you, "I saw the most beautiful woman here last night and I am waiting for her to return."

He's certainly been waiting a long time, because this hotel is as old and beautiful as it is creepy and interesting. We're pretty sure she's never going to show, but that won't stop the male apparition from waiting.

If you’re up for a hair-raising getaway weekend, try the Crescent Hotel and Spa in Arkansas! You might just meet someone who is no longer of this world.