Haunted Places in Las Vegas: 17 Haunted Sites and Hotels to Visit
A museum full of cursed objects, Bugsy Siegel’s hotel, the showroom Elvis made his own and a 1913 saloon with bullet holes in the wall. These are the Las Vegas Valley’s best-known ghost stories, with what is true, what is legend and how to visit.
Las Vegas is a young city that tears down its past, so many of its ghost stories live in the casinos that survived: the Flamingo, the Westgate, the El Cortez and the old MGM Grand tower, now the Horseshoe. Downtown has The Haunted Museum and the Old Mormon Fort, Henderson has the Clark County Museum and a playground legend, and Boulder City, Hoover Dam and Goodsprings make easy day trips. Several places on older lists are demolished, closed or dangerous, so we list them separately with the facts. We have checked every place against current sources and say plainly where a story has no record behind it.
Address 3555 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89109
Where to look The Presidential Suite, the Wildlife Habitat garden and Bugsy Siegel memorial, the wedding chapel area
Reported ghosts Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel; whispers and a dark figure at the foot of the bed
Visiting A working hotel; public areas, bars and restaurants are open to visitors
The Flamingo opened on December 26, 1946, and is the oldest resort still operating on the Las Vegas Strip. Billy Wilkerson, founder of The Hollywood Reporter, started it, but mobster Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel took over, ran the budget up to about $6 million and was shot dead in Beverly Hills on June 20, 1947. Siegel’s original low-rise hotel was demolished in 1993, and today’s Flamingo is a 3,460-room Caesars resort with a four-acre wildlife habitat.
Almost every ghost story here is about Siegel. In 1999 the Las Vegas Sun reported ghost researchers saying dozens of guests had seen him in the Presidential Suite, and that the sightings followed the suite when the old one was torn down. Guests also describe a figure near his memorial plaque in the garden by the wedding chapel, and whispers or a dark shape at the foot of the bed at night. The hotel does not promote any of it.
Haunted Rooms tip: Walk the free Wildlife Habitat after dark to find the Bugsy Siegel memorial plaque near the garden chapel.
Address 3645 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89109
Where to look The upper floors of the original Resort Tower, stairwells and hallways, the casino floor
Reported ghosts Victims of the 1980 MGM Grand fire; a weeping and coughing presence; a ghostly dealer
Visiting A working hotel; public areas, bars and restaurants are open to visitors
Horseshoe Las Vegas opened in December 1973 as Kirk Kerkorian’s MGM Grand, then one of the largest hotels in the world. On November 21, 1980, a fire that began in a closed deli off the casino killed 85 people, most of them from smoke on the upper floors of the hotel tower. The resort was rebuilt with sprinklers and reopened in July 1981, became Bally’s in 1986, and was renamed Horseshoe Las Vegas by Caesars in December 2022.
The 1980 tower is still in use, and the ghost stories all lead back to the fire. Guests describe the smell of smoke where no one is smoking, screams from stairwells, and weeping and coughing in empty halls. A long-serving dealer told the Las Vegas Advisor she saw a dealer called Robert, who died in the fire, at a nearby table. These are guest and staff stories, told with respect for the real people who died here.
Haunted Rooms tip: Ask for a high floor in the Resort Tower, the original 1973 tower where the fire stories are set.
Address 600 E Charleston Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89104
Where to look The Dybbuk Box room, the Demon House staircase and the basement
Reported ghosts Objects said to carry curses; stories of rituals in the basement that have no record behind them
Visiting Guided tours only, about two hours, groups of up to 12; everyone signs a waiver and needs proof of age
Tours The Haunted Museum tour and a Late Night Flashlight Ghost Tour that includes the basement
Hours and season 10 AM to 8 PM Wednesday to Monday; closed Tuesdays
Tickets From $54 general admission; $88 RIP All Access
Ghost hunting No private investigations; the guided tours are the way in. Ages 12 and up only
Ghost Adventures host Zak Bagans opened The Haunted Museum in October 2017 in the Wengert Mansion, a 1938 Tudor Revival house built for banker Cyril Wengert and his wife Lottie, which his company bought from the State Bar of Nevada in 2015. Its 30-plus rooms hold the Dybbuk Box, Peggy the Doll, Bela Lugosi’s mirror, the staircase from Indiana’s Demon House, the Devil’s Rocking Chair and Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s van.
The museum says the house itself has a dark past, with rumors of rituals in the basement in the 1970s. A 2019 Casino.org investigation traced that story to one unnamed witness, found no earlier newspaper or city record of it, and noted that law firms and the State Bar occupied the house for decades. The Wengert family has said they knew of nothing paranormal there. The objects are the draw: visitors sign a waiver and many come out with stories.
Haunted Rooms tip: Book ahead for a weekend visit, and take the late flashlight tour if you want the basement; there are jump scares and graphic images, so it is not for everyone.
Where to look The International Theater and its balcony, the backstage elevator, upper-floor hallways, the Tuscany villa on the old Elvis suite site
Reported ghosts Elvis Presley
Visiting A working hotel; public areas, bars and restaurants are open to visitors
The Westgate opened on July 2, 1969, as the International Hotel, then the largest hotel in the world, and became the Las Vegas Hilton in 1971. Elvis Presley made it his Las Vegas home from 1969 to 1976, playing hundreds of sold-out shows in the showroom now called the International Theater. Westgate Resorts bought the property in 2014, and a bronze statue of Elvis has stood on site since 1978.
The hotel is happy to talk about its most famous ghost. Wayne Newton has said that while singing an Elvis tribute here soon after Presley’s death in 1977, he saw Elvis smiling down from an empty balcony. Guests and employees report glimpses of the King on the casino floor, in upper-floor hallways and near the backstage elevator, and guests in the Tuscany villa, on the site of his old suite, say they have heard his music with no radio on.
Haunted Rooms tip: See a show in the International Theater, where Elvis played, and look up at the balcony where Wayne Newton says he saw him.
Where to look The bullet holes in the tin wall, the end of the bar and the Lombard memorial room
Reported ghosts Paul Coski, shot over cards in 1915; an old prospector at the bar
Visiting Working saloon and grill, open daily; all ages, dog-friendly patio
Ghost hunting No organized investigations; visit as a bar and restaurant
Southern Nevada’s oldest bar opened in 1913 in the mining town of Goodsprings, about 35 to 40 miles southwest of Las Vegas. Its walls are pressed tin and its cherrywood back bar was made in Maine in the 1850s. In January 1942, after Carole Lombard’s plane crashed into nearby Potosi Mountain, the search was run from here, and Clark Gable is said to have waited at the bar; a back room is a memorial to them, with a piece of the wreckage.
In 1915 Paul Coski was shot dead for cheating at cards, and the bullet holes are still in the tin wall. His ghost is said to appear in the dark corners bleeding from his side, and a bartender described an old prospector sitting at the end of the bar before dawn. The current caretaker told 8 News Now that someone sometimes walks past the dining room and is gone when he turns. Ghost Adventures spent a night here.
Haunted Rooms tip: Go for lunch on a weekday, sit near the bullet holes, and read the clippings on the wall; parties of 15 or more need a reservation.
Visiting A working hotel; public areas, bars and restaurants are open to visitors
El Cortez opened on Fremont Street on November 7, 1941, and is the oldest continuously operating casino in Las Vegas. Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky and partners owned it briefly in 1945 and 1946, and Jackie Gaughan ran it from 1963, living in the tower penthouse until his death in 2014. It was the first hotel-casino listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and it has been 21 and over only since 2022.
Ghost stories here lean on the mob years. Local legend says Siegel’s henchman “Fat Irish” Green still guards a briefcase of cash in the old wing, and that the basement once held the ashes of former employees. Ghost tour companies describe staff seeing pale hands reach out of the dark, and guests in the Cabana Suites report loud knocking when nobody else is on the floor. You can sleep in the Original 47, the hotel’s renovated 1941 rooms.
Haunted Rooms tip: Book one of the Original 47 rooms above the casino for the 1941 building, and note the hotel is 21 and over.
Where to look The basement, the museum offices, the dark hallways
Reported ghosts A presence in the basement; a woman who enters the old office; Hoover Dam-era workers
Visiting A working hotel; public areas, bars and restaurants are open to visitors
The Boulder Dam Hotel was built in 1933 for visitors coming to see Hoover Dam, then called Boulder Dam, under construction nearby. Boris Karloff, Shirley Temple and Norway’s Crown Prince Olav stayed here. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is now owned by the Boulder City Museum and Historical Association, with about 22 guest rooms and the Boulder City/Hoover Dam Museum inside.
Its ghost stories come from the people who work here. In 1998 the Las Vegas Sun reported that the museum curator felt someone standing behind him in dark halls and found things moved on his desk, that a past owner complained of a woman who walked into her office, and that a psychic refused to go into the basement. The hotel’s own manager said she had never seen a thing. Travel Nevada adds guests who felt cool hands on their shoulders.
Haunted Rooms tip: Visit the Hoover Dam museum inside the hotel, then drive 10 minutes to the dam itself.
Address Hoover Dam Visitor Center, US 93 near Boulder City, NV 89005
Where to look The tour tunnels, the powerhouse and the crest after dark
Reported ghosts Construction workers in old work clothes; spirits linked to the drowned town of St. Thomas
Visiting Dam open 5 AM to 9 PM; visitor center and tours 9 AM to 5 PM
Tours Guided Dam Tour ($40, on-site only), Power Plant Tour ($25) and self-guided Visitor Center ($15)
Hours and season Dam 5 AM to 9 PM daily; tours 9 AM to 5 PM, last tour 4:10 PM
Tickets $10 parking in the Nevada-side garage
Ghost hunting No: a federal facility with security screening
Built between 1931 and 1936 and dedicated by President Roosevelt on September 30, 1935, the 726-foot dam tamed the Colorado River and created Lake Mead. The Bureau of Reclamation counts 112 deaths connected with the project, 96 of them at the dam site, from falling rock, falls, heat and blasting. A bronze plaque honors the men who died.
Ghost stories say men in old-fashioned work clothes are seen in restricted areas and that workers hear noises and lose tools, and ghost tour companies link spirits to suicides from the rim and to St. Thomas, the town flooded by Lake Mead. The most famous legend is false: no one is buried in the concrete. Reclamation says every worker who died was recovered, and the concrete was poured in shallow blocks that could not swallow a man.
Haunted Rooms tip: Take the Guided Dam Tour for the tunnels and inspection galleries, then walk the crest at dusk; the dam stays open until 9 PM.
Where to look The surviving adobe wall and the ranch house rooms
Reported ghosts A gaunt old man said to be rancher Archibald Stewart
Visiting State historic park with visitor center and reconstructed fort
Hours and season 8 AM to 4:30 PM Tuesday to Saturday; closed Sunday and Monday
Ghost hunting No ghost hunting
Thirty Mormon missionaries arrived in June 1855 and built a 150-foot-square adobe fort beside the creek from Las Vegas Springs, the first permanent non-Native settlement in the valley. They left in 1858. Octavius Gass later ran it as a ranch, then lost it to Archibald Stewart, whose widow Helen sold the land to the railroad in 1902. The Bureau of Reclamation even used it as a concrete lab for Hoover Dam. One adobe remnant is the oldest building in Las Vegas.
Paranormal author Janice Oberding told the Review-Journal that a gaunt old man is often seen here, said to be Archibald Stewart, the rancher killed in 1884. That is the only ghost story we found, and it comes from her rather than park staff. The park itself tells the story of the Paiute people, the missionaries and the Stewarts, and holds a family Halloween event.
Haunted Rooms tip: Visit on a weekday morning and look for the original adobe wall inside the reconstructed fort, the oldest building in Las Vegas.
Where to look The Beckley House attic and stair, the building moved from Goldfield
Reported ghosts A little girl with curls on the Beckley House stairs; a face in the attic
Visiting County museum with outdoor Heritage Street
Hours and season 9 AM to 4:30 PM daily; closed Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day
Tickets Free
Ghost hunting No investigations
The county museum opened in 1968 and now has a main exhibit hall and Heritage Street, a row of historic houses and businesses moved here from around southern Nevada, from a 1912 Las Vegas bungalow to mid-century homes, a print shop, a wedding chapel and a railroad depot. Visitors can walk inside most of them, furnished as they were decades ago. Entry is free.
Paranormal author Janice Oberding has called Heritage Street the most haunted site in Las Vegas. The 1912 Beckley House is the focus: a little girl with curls is reported on a closed-off stairway, a weekend supervisor described a face in the attic, and clothing is said to have vanished from a sealed closet and turned up upstairs. KTNV also notes a building brought from Goldfield, one of Nevada’s most haunted towns.
Haunted Rooms tip: Walk Heritage Street first while it is quiet, and ask staff about the Beckley House; it is free and open daily.
Reported ghosts Mr. Petri (or Petre) in the theater; an unseen teenage pianist
Visiting A working public school; view the building from the street or attend a public performance
Ghost hunting No: a school campus. Do not enter without permission
Las Vegas High School’s two Art Deco buildings went up in 1930 and opened in 1931 on the site of the city’s first high school; they are on the National Register and are the best 1930s Art Deco buildings in town. The school reopened in 1993 as a magnet school for the arts and has been the Las Vegas Academy of the Arts since 2014, with several theaters including the Lowden Theater.
Students tell of Mr. Petri, blamed for noises during late rehearsals, things flying off the walls and an uneasy feeling in the old theater. Who he was is unclear: a janitor, a teacher, or a man whose house stood where the school expanded, and none of the versions has been verified. Another story says an invisible pianist is Will Lowden, the teenage son of school benefactors. It is a working public school.
Haunted Rooms tip: See the Art Deco front from 7th Street, or buy a ticket to a student show to sit in the theater legally.
Address 2880 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89109
Where to look Guest room hallways and the poker area
Reported ghosts The "Room 123" mother and son legend; cries for help; "Help Me" on mirrors
Visiting A working hotel; public areas, bars and restaurants are open to visitors
Circus Circus opened as a casino on October 18, 1968, with circus acts over the gaming floor, and added its first hotel tower in 1972. It is now owned by Phil Ruffin, has more than 3,700 rooms and includes the indoor Adventuredome theme park, which makes it one of the few Strip resorts built for families.
It also has one of the most repeated ghost stories in Las Vegas: a mother who shot her young son and then herself in Room 123, with guests hearing a child’s cries for help and seeing “Help Me” written on steamed bathroom mirrors. Casino.org checked and found the hotel has never had a Room 123 and there is no record of the crime. The story is a legend, but it is still what ghost tours tell.
Haunted Rooms tip: Enjoy the Adventuredome and the clowns, and treat the Room 123 tale as campfire lore.
Reported ghosts Redd Foxx, said to play pranks on women working there
Visiting A private business; view from the street only
Ghost hunting No: private property
Comedian Redd Foxx, star of Sanford and Son, lived in this ranch house on Eastern Avenue for about 22 years. On November 28, 1989, IRS agents raided it over almost $1 million in back taxes and took cars, guns, cash and jewelry, including a watch from Elvis Presley. Foxx kept the house on a payment plan and died in 1991. It has since become a business, recently a handyman’s office.
Later occupants said doors opened and closed by themselves, lights switched on and off, and cold spots moved through the rooms. After it became an office, Foxx was said to tease the women working there, and KTNV says he promised to stick around after he died. The Nevada Paranormal Task Force investigated in 2016. These are owner and investigator stories; the building is private.
Haunted Rooms tip: Look from the sidewalk only; someone painted a small red fox on the sign out front as a tribute.
Address 420 N Valle Verde Dr (at Fox Ridge Ave), Henderson, NV 89014
Where to look The swings at midnight
Reported ghosts A boy on the swings whose face is said to turn demonic
Visiting Public city park; follow posted park hours
Ghost hunting No: a public park in a residential area. Do not visit after posted hours
Fox Ridge is an ordinary neighborhood park in Henderson with a playground, lawns and paths. It is also the setting for one of the best-known ghost stories in the Las Vegas Valley: a boy, said to have been killed by a driver near the park, is seen swinging alone around midnight, and if you walk toward him his face is said to turn demonic before he vanishes. Swings are also said to move by themselves.
There is no record of such a death. A USC folklore archive collected the story in 2008 from a student who heard it from his mother’s friend and had read it in Weird Las Vegas and Nevada, and local ghost hunters who investigated told the Las Vegas Sun they found little. 8 News Now took a psychic there in 2022. It is a living urban legend, so treat the park as a park and respect the neighbors.
Haunted Rooms tip: If you go, go before the park closes, keep noise down and leave the swings to local kids during the day.
Address 3900 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89119
Where to look Pyramid rooms rather than the towers, the inner balconies over the atrium
Reported ghosts The 'Luxor blonde'; knocking at night; a morning clanging said to come from Room 30018
Visiting A working hotel; public areas, bars and restaurants are open to visitors
The Luxor opened on October 15, 1993, a 30-story black glass pyramid at the south end of the Strip with a 106-foot sphinx out front and a sky beam that can be seen from aircraft far away. Guest rooms line the inside walls of the pyramid and are reached by inclinators that climb at 39 degrees, and two 22-story towers were added in 1996 and 1997. It now has more than 4,400 rooms.
The Luxor’s ghost reputation rests on what ghost tour companies call the Luxor curse. A construction worker was killed in 1992, a woman died after a fall from an inner balcony in 1996, and a man was killed by a pipe bomb in the parking garage in 2007. Online stories describe a blonde woman seen in dreams, the feeling of hands at the throat and pounding on doors at night, mostly in the pyramid. The hotel itself does not talk about ghosts.
Haunted Rooms tip: Ask for a pyramid room rather than a tower room if you want the rooms the stories are about.
Address 3667 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89109
Where to look Upper-floor guest rooms and hallways
Reported ghosts Knocking and whispering at guest room doors
Visiting A working hotel; public areas, bars and restaurants are open to visitors
Planet Hollywood stands on the site of the Aladdin, which opened in 1966 on the bones of the 1962 Tallyho Hotel. Elvis Presley married Priscilla Beaulieu at the old Aladdin in 1967. That hotel tower was imploded in 1998, a new Aladdin opened in 2000, and it became Planet Hollywood in 2007. Today it is a Caesars resort of about 2,500 rooms in the middle of the Strip.
Its ghost stories are modern and modest. Earlier versions of this guide described guests woken by knocking at their door in the night and whispering voices in the hall, with nobody there when they looked. We have not found those stories in local press, so treat Planet Hollywood as a place to stay on historic ground rather than one of the city’s proven haunts.
Haunted Rooms tip: Pick it for location and the Aladdin history, not for a guaranteed ghost.
Address 3850 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89109
Where to look The 10th-floor corridors
Reported ghosts An unseen presence that follows guests; poltergeist-style activity
Visiting A working hotel; public areas, bars and restaurants are open to visitors
The castle-shaped Excalibur opened on June 19, 1990, with more than 4,000 rooms, and today has close to 4,000 rooms run by MGM Resorts. Its turrets are one of the Strip’s most recognizable sights, and it is one of the better-value big resorts on the south Strip, next door to the Luxor.
Ghost lore here is thin and recent. Haunted Las Vegas round-ups say guests on the 10th-floor corridors feel someone walking close behind them, and describe furniture that seems to move and electronics that switch on by themselves. No deaths or events at the resort are known to lie behind the stories, so this is a light-hearted stay rather than a serious haunt.
Haunted Rooms tip: Ask for a 10th-floor room if you want to test the stories, and walk over to the Luxor for its more famous legends.
These places appear in older lists of haunted spots. We keep them here so you know the facts before you go, but you cannot (or should not) visit them.
Little Choo Choo Daycare
Older lists say a teacher took her own life here and a boy died after being caught on a toy train, and that a digging boy and a vanishing woman are still seen on the lot. We found no news report, record or even a reliable address for the daycare, and those lists say the building was torn down. There is nothing to visit.
Sandhill Road and Charleston Boulevard flood tunnels
The story says a young couple died here on a motorcycle and that whispers echo in the tunnels. We found no record of that crash. These are working flood control channels that can fill with fast water in minutes during desert storms, and people live in them. Do not go in.
Dell H. Robison Middle School
A schoolyard legend about a janitor with bloody hands who follows new students home. It is a working public middle school: there is nothing to see and you should not go onto the campus.
Bonnie Springs Ranch
The old western town and ranch at Red Rock Canyon, filmed by Ghost Adventures, closed in 2019. The site has been sold and redeveloped for luxury homes, so the buildings in the old stories are gone.
The old Liberace Museum, East Tropicana
Liberace’s ghost was said to watch over the museum’s dressing room and the Tivoli Gardens restaurant nearby. The museum closed on October 17, 2010, and the collection is now looked after by the Liberace Foundation and shown at the Liberace Garage. There is no museum to visit at the old site.
Changed from our older guide: Little Choo Choo Daycare, the Sandhill and Charleston flood tunnels, Dell H. Robison Middle School, Bonnie Springs Ranch (closed in 2019 and redeveloped) and the old Liberace Museum (closed in 2010) are now listed under off-limits or gone. Fox Ridge Park and the Las Vegas Academy stay, with their stories framed as legends. We added the Flamingo, the Horseshoe, the El Cortez, the Old Mormon Fort, the Clark County Museum, Hoover Dam, the Pioneer Saloon and other well-documented places.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the most haunted place in Las Vegas?
For a place you can actually visit, Zak Bagans’ The Haunted Museum downtown, which is built around objects said to be cursed. Among hotels, the Flamingo (Bugsy Siegel), the Westgate (Elvis) and the Horseshoe tower, the old MGM Grand where the 1980 fire killed 85 people, have the biggest reputations.
Is Zak Bagans' Haunted Museum really haunted?
Its fame comes from the objects, such as the Dybbuk Box and Peggy the Doll, and visitors’ reactions to them. The museum’s story about rituals in the house’s basement traces to one unnamed witness; newspaper and city records show law firms and the State Bar of Nevada in the house for decades. Read our Haunted Museum guide.
Which Las Vegas hotels are haunted?
The Flamingo, the Westgate, the Horseshoe (former Bally’s), the El Cortez, Circus Circus and the Luxor have the best-known stories, and the Boulder Dam Hotel is half an hour away. See our guide to haunted hotels in Las Vegas.
Are there bodies buried in Hoover Dam?
No. The Bureau of Reclamation says every worker who died during construction was recovered, and the concrete was poured in shallow blocks that could not have hidden a body. The project’s 112 deaths are real, and some people say the workers still walk the dam.
Is Fox Ridge Park haunted?
Fox Ridge Park in Henderson is the setting of a famous urban legend about a boy on the swings, but there is no record of a child dying there. Local ghost hunters who investigated told the Las Vegas Sun they found little.
What haunted places near Las Vegas make a good day trip?
The Pioneer Saloon in Goodsprings (about 35 to 40 miles), Hoover Dam and the Boulder Dam Hotel in Boulder City. Farther out, Tonopah’s Mizpah Hotel and Clown Motel and the abandoned Goldfield Hotel are a long drive north on US 95.
Sources and how we research
Every place in this guide is checked against its official website, historic register listings and news coverage, and we confirm whether it is open, closed, private or gone before we list it. Ghost stories are reported as staff, visitors and local historians tell them; we say so where records contradict a story.
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About the authors
The Haunted Rooms Team are paranormal researchers who write about historic haunted places across the United States. We research every place in our guides using official sites, historic registers, local archives and news coverage, and we report ghost stories as the stories they are. We review each guide regularly so you are not sent to a place that has closed, changed hands or banned visitors. Spotted something out of date? Let us know.
