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All over the world, beliefs and myths about the afterlife often manifest as ghost stories tied to specific locations. In the United States, hundreds of historic hotels lay claim to purported hauntings, often by former guests who checked in… and never checked out.
An article for Fox 40 by Amber Coakley and Addy Bink highlights the most haunted hotels in America, according to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. “The oldest on the list is Concord’s Colonial Inn in Concord, Massachusetts, which has been serving guests since 1716. Part of the hotel served as a hospital during the Revolutionary War, and it is rumored some of those 18th-century patients never left the inn.”
Other prominent hotels on the list include San Diego’s Hotel del Coronado, which regularly appears in stories about haunted lodgings. The list also includes hotels in Prescott, Arizona, St. Augustine, Florida, New Orleans, Louisiana, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. “Of course, not every reportedly haunted hotel could make the list. Notably missing are Timberline Lodge, the historic Oregon hotel featured in Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining,” and Milwaukee’s Pfister Hotel, a property so spooky even professional athletes like Los Angeles Dodgers star Mookie Betts decline to stay in it when their teams come to town.”
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