The Most Haunted Hotel Rooms in America You Can Book
These are 28 specific haunted hotel rooms in America, from Room 217 at the Stanley to Stateroom B340 on the Queen Mary, with the story behind each one and exactly how to book or request it.
A haunted hotel is one thing. Sleeping in the room the stories are about is another. We went through every hotel in our state guides and picked out the rooms with the strongest stories that you can actually book or ask for. They fall into three groups. Some hotels sell the room by name, so you can book it like any other room type: Room 217 at the Stanley, Stateroom B340 on the Queen Mary, Rooms 315 and 412 at the Copper Queen, the King Ranch Suite at the Menger, the Lady in Red Suite at the Mizpah and every room at the Lizzie Borden House. Most take a request by room number, which the front desk notes but cannot promise. And a few are out of reach: Room 18 at the St. James in Cimarron is kept locked, and the Driskill does not say how to book Room 525.
Each room is listed with its hotel below. The Booking the haunted room line on every card says how to get it, and the full list of rooms, stories and booking notes is after the hotels. Ghost stories are reported as stories; where the records disagree with a legend, we say so.
$$$ · Over $300Haunted room bookableGhost tours or eventsHotel embraces its ghosts
Address 333 E Wonderview Ave, Estes Park, CO 80517
Where to look Room 217, the fourth floor, the Concert Hall, the Music Room piano, the grand staircase and the old staff tunnels
Reported ghosts Head housekeeper Elizabeth Wilson, F.O. and Flora Stanley, Paul and Lucy in the Concert Hall, children on the fourth floor
Booking the haunted room Book Room 217 online as the Room 217 Spirited Grand King, or choose one of the fourth-floor Spirited rooms.
The Stanley opened on July 4, 1909, and is the hotel that gave Stephen King the idea for The Shining after he and his wife spent a night here in 1974, in or near Room 217. It is the most famous haunted hotel in the country, and it leans into the reputation: several rooms are sold as “Spirited” rooms, and its own guides run nightly ghost tours.
Guests describe Flora Stanley’s piano playing itself, a former housekeeper who unpacks suitcases in Room 217, children laughing on the empty fourth floor, and a night watchman called Paul who tells people to get out of the Concert Hall after curfew. Book Room 217 as far ahead as you can; dates open about a year in advance and October goes first.
Haunted Rooms tip: Room 217 can be booked online as the Room 217 Spirited Grand King. Dates are released roughly a year ahead, so set a reminder.
$$ · $150 to $300Haunted room bookableGhost tours or eventsHotel embraces its ghosts
Address 75 Prospect Avenue, Eureka Springs, AR 72632
Where to look Room 218, Room 419, the basement morgue, the Crystal Dining Room and the third floor
Reported ghosts Michael the stonemason, Theodora, Norman Baker and a nurse with a gurney
Booking the haunted room Ask for Room 218 (Michael) or Room 419 (Theodora) when you book by phone; they are in demand, especially around Halloween.
The Crescent opened in 1886 as a luxury resort on a mountaintop above Eureka Springs, then spent decades as a college for young women before Norman Baker, a radio huckster with no medical training, turned it into a cancer “hospital” in 1937. Baker went to federal prison for mail fraud in 1940, and the basement morgue from his era is still part of the hotel’s nightly ghost tour.
No hotel in the South talks about its ghosts more openly. Staff say they have heard thousands of guest reports. Room 218 belongs to Michael, said to be an Irish stonemason who fell during construction; Room 419 to Theodora, linked to Baker’s clinic. Guests also describe a nurse pushing a gurney, Baker himself in the lobby and Victorian dancers in the Crystal Dining Room.
Haunted Rooms tip: Book the ghost tour that ends in the morgue for your first evening, then ask for Room 218 or 419 when you reserve; both go fast in October.
$$ · $150 to $300Haunted room bookableGhost tours or eventsHotel embraces its ghosts
Address 1126 Queens Hwy, Long Beach, CA 90802
Where to look Stateroom B340, the first-class pool, engine room door 13, the Queen's Salon, the third-class playroom
Reported ghosts Little Jackie, the swimmers of the first-class pool, the young man at door 13, the Lady in White
Booking the haunted room Stateroom B340 (the Paranormal Suite) and the Paranormal Passage staterooms B326, B328 and B334 are sold through the Queen Mary's own reservations.
Permanently moored in Long Beach since 1967, the 1936 Cunard liner Queen Mary is now a hotel with original wood-paneled staterooms, and it is one of the most famous haunted places in America. The stories center on Stateroom B340, the closed first-class swimming pool where a little girl called Jackie is said to play, and watertight door 13 in the engine room, where a young crewman was crushed during a 1966 drill.
The ship leans in to its reputation. B340 is sold as a themed paranormal suite, three more “Paranormal Passage” staterooms joined it in 2026, and the ship runs its own ghost tours every day, from the one-hour Haunted Encounters walk to the after-midnight Graveyard Tour for ages 16 and up. Stay overnight and you can explore the decks long after the day visitors leave.
Haunted Rooms tip: Book a ghost tour for the evening you stay: the after-hours Paranormal Ship Walk goes into areas day visitors never see.
$$$ · Over $300Haunted room bookableGhost tours or eventsHotel embraces its ghosts
Address 1500 Orange Avenue, Coronado, CA 92118
Where to look Room 3327, Room 3519, the Victorian hallways, the beach stairs
Reported ghosts Kate Morgan, the 'Beautiful Stranger' of 1892; a maid linked to Room 3519
Booking the haunted room Ask for Room 3327 (or Room 3519) when you book directly with the hotel. It is the most requested room at The Del and cannot be guaranteed, so book months ahead for October.
The Hotel del Coronado opened in 1888 on the sand at Coronado and is now a National Historic Landmark run as part of Hilton’s Curio Collection. Its most famous guest never left, according to local legend: Kate Morgan, a young woman who checked in alone under a false name in November 1892 and was found dead on the steps to the beach five days later.
Guests who request Room 3327, the room Kate is said to have stayed in, describe flickering lights, a TV switching itself on, footsteps by the bed and a woman in black in the corridors. Room 3519 on the fifth floor has its own reputation. The hotel embraces the story with nightly Haunted Happenings tours, so you can hear the official account before bed.
Haunted Rooms tip: Book the Haunted Happenings tour on your first evening, then request Room 3327 well ahead for October and late November, the anniversary of Kate’s stay.
$ · Under $150Haunted room bookableGhost tours or eventsHotel embraces its ghosts
Address 311 E Congress St, Tucson, AZ 85701
Where to look Rooms 242, 220, 214 and 212 on the second floor, and the lobby staircase
Reported ghosts The woman in the white dress, Vince the veteran, a Victorian gentleman and a locksmith's apprentice
Booking the haunted room Contact the hotel to reserve Rooms 242, 220, 214 or 212, which it lists as its haunted rooms.
Hotel Congress opened in 1919 for passengers on the Southern Pacific line, and it is still the heart of downtown Tucson with Club Congress, the Cup Cafe and Tiger’s Tap Room downstairs. Its most famous night came in January 1934, when a basement fire forced out guests including members of the John Dillinger gang; firefighters recognized them and police caught Dillinger within days. The fire destroyed the elevator, so you climb a flight of stairs to the rooms.
The hotel sells its ghosts openly. Its Haunted Rooms page lists Room 242 (a woman in a white dress, linked to a guest who died by suicide), Room 220 (Vince, a veteran who lived there from 1965 to 2001 and still hides butter knives), Room 214 (a gentleman at the window) and Room 212 (a door that unlocks itself). It also runs a 30-minute Haunted Hotel Tour on Friday evenings.
Haunted Rooms tip: Call the hotel to reserve Room 242 or 220, and join the Friday night haunted tour first.
$$ · $150 to $300Haunted room bookableGhost tours or eventsHotel embraces its ghostsNo pets
Address 204 Alamo Plaza, San Antonio, TX 78205
Where to look Menger Bar, King Ranch Suite, third-floor corridors of the original wing
Reported ghosts Chambermaid Sallie White, Captain Richard King, Teddy Roosevelt
Booking the haunted room The King Ranch Signature Suite, where Captain King died, can be booked on the hotel's own website. The hotel also sells a 'Room with a Boo' package that includes tickets for a local ghost tour.
Open since 1859 and standing right beside the Alamo, the Menger is the hotel most often named as Texas’s most haunted, with as many as 32 different spirits claimed over the years. The best known is Sallie White, a chambermaid shot by her husband in 1876. The hotel paid for her coffin, and guests still report a woman in an old-fashioned maid’s uniform carrying an armful of towels down the corridors at night.
Cattle baron Captain Richard King spent his final months in his suite here and died at the hotel in 1885. Staff say his figure walks into the King Ranch Suite through the wall where the door used to be. Down in the Menger Bar, where Teddy Roosevelt recruited Rough Riders in 1898, people report a man in period dress sitting at the bar who isn’t there when they look again.
Haunted Rooms tip: Ask for a room in the original 1859 building rather than the newer tower; that’s where most of the reports come from.
Sleeping in a haunted hotel is one thing. Investigating one after dark is another. On a Haunted Rooms ghost hunt our team takes you through the building with professional ghost hunting equipment, runs EVP sessions and lets you explore on your own during free roam.
$$ · $150 to $300Haunted room bookableGhost tours or eventsHotel embraces its ghosts
Address 214 Royal St, New Orleans, LA 70130
Where to look The 14th floor and Room 1462, the elevators, the lobby restaurant doors, the Carousel Bar, the rooftop, the lobby grandfather clock
Reported ghosts Maurice Begere, a toddler who died in the 1890s; a former employee known as Red; ghostly children
Booking the haunted room Request a 14th-floor room (Room 1462 if you can) by calling the hotel after booking. Floors are requests, not guarantees.
Family owned since 1886, the Hotel Monteleone on Royal Street is the grand dame of French Quarter hotels, home of the revolving Carousel Bar and a National Literary Landmark. It is also one of the most talked-about haunted hotels in America, and the hotel tells its ghost stories itself.
The best known is Maurice Begere, a toddler said to have died of a fever while his parents were at the opera in the 1890s. Guests report a small boy on the 14th floor (really the 13th), especially near Room 1462. In 2003 the International Society for Paranormal Research reported more than a dozen spirits here, and staff talk of doors that open by themselves and elevators that stop on 14.
Haunted Rooms tip: Ask for a 14th-floor room when you book, then have a nightcap at the Carousel Bar.
$$ · $150 to $300Haunted room bookableGhost tours or eventsHotel embraces its ghosts
Address 717 Orleans St, New Orleans, LA 70116
Where to look The Orleans Ballroom, Room 644, the sixth and third floors, the lobby
Reported ghosts A dancer in the ballroom, a nun, children from the old orphanage, a wounded soldier
Booking the haunted room Call the hotel after booking and request Room 644 or a sixth-floor room. Specific rooms are requests, not guarantees.
The Bourbon Orleans wraps around the 1817 Orleans Ballroom, where Creole society once danced, and the convent and school of the Sisters of the Holy Family, who owned the property from 1881 until it became a hotel in 1964. The hotel’s own history page names its ghosts: a Confederate soldier, nuns, children and a lonely dancer.
Guests describe a woman in a gown dancing alone under the ballroom chandeliers, children laughing and tugging at clothes on the upper floors, and a limping soldier in the halls. Room 644 is the room most often linked to a ghostly nun. It sits one block off Bourbon Street, behind St. Louis Cathedral.
Haunted Rooms tip: Ask the front desk if you can peek into the Orleans Ballroom when it is not booked for an event.
$$$ · Over $300Haunted room bookableGhost tours or eventsHotel embraces its ghosts
Address 230 Second Street, Fall River, MA 02721
Where to look The John Morse room, the Andrew and Abby Suite, the sitting room and basement
Reported ghosts Andrew and Abby Borden, a weeping woman, a woman in Victorian dress tidying the house
Booking the haunted room Every room is booked by name on the house's own website, including the room where Abby Borden was found.
On August 4, 1892, Andrew Borden and his wife Abby were killed with a hatchet in this narrow house on Second Street. Andrew’s daughter Lizzie was tried and acquitted, and the murders have never been solved. The house has run as a bed and breakfast since 1996 and was bought in 2021 by Lance Zaal, whose company US Ghost Adventures runs the tours here.
There are two suites and four rooms, including the second-floor room where Abby was found. Guests and tour staff describe a woman weeping, a woman in Victorian clothes straightening up, doors opening and footsteps. The house calls itself America’s most haunted. Skeptics such as investigator Joe Nickell argue the experiences come from suggestion, which is worth knowing before you book.
Haunted Rooms tip: Book the Morse room or the Andrew and Abby Suite well ahead, especially for August 4 and October.
$ · Under $150Haunted room bookableHotel embraces its ghosts
Address 11 Howell Ave, Bisbee, AZ 85603
Where to look Room 315 (Julia Lowell), Room 412 (Billy's Room), the fourth floor and the main staircase
Reported ghosts Julia Lowell, a boy called Billy and a cigar-smoking gentleman in a top hat
Booking the haunted room Room 315 (Julia Lowell) and Room 412 (Billy's Room) are sold as named rooms on the hotel's website.
The Copper Queen opened in February 1902, built by the Copper Queen mining company (later part of Phelps Dodge) to impress investors visiting the mine across the street. It calls itself the longest continuously operating hotel in Arizona, and it still feels like it: real keys, a grand staircase, claw-foot tubs and rooms named after guests such as John Wayne, Teddy Roosevelt and Harry Houdini. It was listed for sale in 2024 but has kept taking guests.
Local guides say as many as 16 spirits share the building. The famous three are Julia Lowell, a woman of the evening said to have taken her own life after a client rejected her, a little boy called Billy, said to have drowned in the San Pedro River, and a tall gentleman who leaves the smell of cigar smoke on the fourth floor. The hotel now sells Room 315 as the Julia Lowell room and Room 412 as Billy’s Room.
Haunted Rooms tip: Book Room 315 or Room 412 by name through the hotel’s own site, then read the ghost journals at the front desk.
$$$ · Over $300Haunted room bookableHotel embraces its ghosts
Address 7000 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028
Where to look Marilyn Monroe's mirror, Room 928, the Blossom Ballroom, the ninth floor
Reported ghosts Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, a little girl called Caroline, a man in a white tuxedo
Booking the haunted room Room 928 is a regular guest room: ask for it when booking direct. The poolside suite tied to Marilyn Monroe can also be requested.
Opened in 1927 on Hollywood Boulevard and host of the very first Academy Awards in 1929, The Hollywood Roosevelt is Hollywood’s best-known haunted hotel. Its two most famous ghosts are stars: Marilyn Monroe, whose reflection people say they have seen in a full-length mirror that once hung in her room, and Montgomery Clift, who stayed in Room 928 while filming From Here to Eternity.
Guests on the ninth floor report a bugle playing, a pat on the shoulder from nobody and a pacing figure in the hall. Others describe a little girl called Caroline looking for her mother and a man in a white tuxedo in the Blossom Ballroom. The hotel itself says Marilyn “hasn’t entirely left,” and her mirror now hangs on the lower level where anyone can look.
Haunted Rooms tip: Marilyn’s mirror is on the lower level, so you can see it even if you are only visiting for a drink.
$$ · $150 to $300Haunted room bookableHotel embraces its ghosts
Address 123 East Broughton Street, Savannah, GA 31401
Where to look Fourth floor, Rooms 214, 314 and 414, the lobby and the former operating room (now an event space)
Reported ghosts Civil War soldiers and surgeons, yellow fever patients, phantom children, Mary Marshall
Booking the haunted room Request Room 414 (or 214, 314) by phone after booking; requests are noted but not guaranteed.
Savannah’s oldest hotel opened on Broughton Street in 1851, and its upper floors have seen more suffering than most. Union troops used it as a hospital after Sherman took the city in December 1864, and it served as a hospital twice more during 19th-century yellow fever epidemics. During the 1998 to 1999 restoration, workers are said to have found human bones under the floorboards, a find long linked to amputated limbs from the Civil War surgery.
Guests describe children’s footsteps racing down the long halls at night, marbles rolling, faucets that turn on by themselves and a one-armed soldier in the lobby. Most reports cluster on the fourth floor, with Rooms 214, 314 and 414 named again and again. The hotel itself keeps a page of guest ghost stories, which tells you how seriously it takes its reputation.
Haunted Rooms tip: Ask for a fourth-floor room when you book and mention Room 414 by name; it can’t be guaranteed, but the front desk is used to the request.
$$ · $150 to $300Haunted room bookableHotel embraces its ghostsPet friendly
Address 48 Monument Square, Concord, MA 01742
Where to look Room 24, the Liberty Room, the sitting room and front desk
Reported ghosts A gray figure at the bedside in Room 24, wounded soldiers, a nurse called Rosemary, a girl in a bonnet
Booking the haunted room Call the inn and ask for Room 24 in the 1716 Main Inn; it is popular around Halloween.
Concord’s Colonial Inn faces Monument Square, half a mile from the North Bridge where the Revolution’s first shots were fired in 1775. The oldest part was built in 1716, part of the building stored the minutemen’s arms that spring, and Henry David Thoreau lived here with his aunts while at Harvard. It became a small hotel in 1889 and has carried the Colonial Inn name since 1900.
The haunted reputation centers on Room 24, said to have been Dr. Timothy Minot’s operating room during the war. In 1966 a newlywed wrote to the innkeeper about a gray figure that drifted to the foot of her bed. Guests since have reported lights switching on, whispers and the feeling of being tucked in. Historic Hotels of America lists it among its most haunted hotels.
Haunted Rooms tip: Book a Main Inn room and ask for Room 24; the Prescott Wing rooms are newer (1960s).
$$$ · Over $300Haunted room bookableHotel embraces its ghosts
Address 310 Mount Washington Hotel Road, Bretton Woods, NH 03575
Where to look Room 314, the Princess Room, the main staircase, the tower rooms, the dining room
Reported ghosts Princess Carolyn Stickney, the hotel's first lady, often seen in Victorian dress
Booking the haunted room Call the resort and ask for Room 314, the Princess Room; it is a regular guest room and not guaranteed online.
The Mount Washington Hotel opened in July 1902 at the foot of the Presidential Range, a white Spanish Renaissance palace with red roofs built for coal and railroad magnate Joseph Stickney. He died within about a year, and his widow Carolyn ran and summered at the hotel for three decades. In July 1944 it hosted the Bretton Woods Conference, where 44 nations created the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. It is a National Historic Landmark and has been an Omni resort since 2009.
The hotel’s ghost is Carolyn herself, known to staff as the Princess after her second marriage to a French prince. Guests in Room 314, which still holds her four-poster bed, report a woman sitting at the end of the bed brushing her hair. Others describe a lady in Victorian dress on the stairs and in the halls, light taps on doors and objects that vanish and return. Ghost Hunters investigated here twice.
Haunted Rooms tip: Ask for Room 314 when you book, and have a drink in the Princess Room, Carolyn’s former private dining room.
$$$ · Over $300Haunted room bookableHotel embraces its ghosts
Address 290 Macon Ave, Asheville, NC 28804
Where to look Room 545 in the Main Inn, the Palm Court atrium, the fifth-floor halls and the Main Inn elevators
Reported ghosts The Pink Lady, a young woman in a pink gown said to have fallen into the Palm Court around 1920
Booking the haunted room Room 545 is a regular Main Inn guest room. Call the resort to request it; it cannot always be guaranteed.
Edwin Wiley Grove and his son-in-law Fred Seely built this granite boulder resort on Sunset Mountain in less than a year, and it opened on July 12, 1913. Presidents from Taft to Obama have stayed, F. Scott Fitzgerald spent the summers of the mid-1930s in rooms 441 and 443, and in World War II it held Axis diplomats. Today it is a 513-room Omni resort.
Its ghost is the Pink Lady. The story says a young woman fell from the fifth floor into the Palm Court atrium around 1920. In 1996 the resort asked author Joshua P. Warren to investigate, and he collected accounts from nearly 50 people: chills outside Room 545, a pinkish mist, lights switching off in a closed inn and a gentle presence that sits on the bed.
Haunted Rooms tip: Ask for Room 545 in the Main Inn when you call; some guests request it and others ask to be as far from it as possible.
$ · Under $150Haunted room bookableHotel embraces its ghosts
Address 373 2nd Street, Cedar Key, FL 32625
Where to look Rooms 27, 28 and 29, the balcony doors and the basement
Reported ghosts Bessie Gibbs, Simon Feinberg, a Confederate guard and about ten more
Booking the haunted room Room 29, Bessie Gibbs's bedroom, and Rooms 27 and 28 can be requested when booking with the hotel.
The Island Hotel began in 1859 as Parsons and Hale’s General Store. Union troops spared it when they burned Cedar Key, Simon Feinberg turned it into the Bay Hotel in 1914, and Bessie and Loyal Gibbs bought it in 1946 and named it the Island Hotel. It joined the National Register in 1984 and is still a small, creaky hotel with a famous bar.
The hotel’s own website lists around 13 spirits for about 10 rooms. Bessie Gibbs is said to rearrange furniture and lock guests out of Room 29, her old bedroom, a woman visits sleepers in Rooms 27 and 28, and a Confederate private stands guard by the second-floor balcony doors at sunrise.
Haunted Rooms tip: Ask for Room 29, and read the ghost page on the hotel’s own website before you go.
$$ · $150 to $300Haunted room bookableHotel embraces its ghosts
Address 617 S Collison Ave, Cimarron, NM 87714
Where to look Room 18 (kept locked), Room 17, the second floor, TJ's Bar
Reported ghosts Gambler Thomas James Wright, Mary Lambert's perfume, the "Little Imp", a cowboy in the bar mirror
Booking the haunted room Room 18 is never rented. Room 17, Mary Lambert's room, and the named historic rooms can be booked; ask for Room 17 when you reserve.
Henri Lambert, who is said to have cooked for Abraham Lincoln, opened a saloon in Cimarron in 1872 and grew it into the St. James Hotel on the Santa Fe Trail. Local tradition credits the saloon era with at least 26 killings, and the bar’s pressed-tin ceiling is still full of bullet holes. New owners reopened the hotel in December 2024.
Room 18 has been kept locked for decades. The story goes that Thomas James Wright won the hotel in a poker game and was shot in the back on his way to this room. Guests leave him drinks outside the door. Next door in Room 17, Mary Lambert is said to announce herself with a waft of perfume.
Haunted Rooms tip: Look up in TJ’s Bar for the bullet holes, and read the 1880s guest ledgers on display before you head upstairs.
$ · Under $150Haunted room bookableHotel embraces its ghostsPet friendly
Address 100 N Main St, Tonopah, NV 89049
Where to look The fifth floor, the Lady in Red Suite (Room 502), the elevator, the third floor, the basement
Reported ghosts The Lady in Red (Rose); children on the third floor; miners in the basement
Booking the haunted room The Lady in Red Suite is a named room type on the hotel's own booking site. For other fifth-floor rooms, call 775-482-3030 after booking and ask.
The Mizpah opened in 1907 at the height of Tonopah’s silver boom and was billed as the finest hotel between Denver and San Francisco. Its five stories made it one of the tallest buildings in Nevada for two decades. The hotel closed in 1999, and winemakers Fred and Nancy Cline restored it and reopened it in August 2011 with 47 rooms, the Pittman Cafe, the Jack Dempsey Room and the Mizpah Club casino.
Its famous ghost is the Lady in Red, known as Rose, a working woman said to have been killed on the fifth floor by a jealous man. Guests report finding a single pearl on their pillow, and she is said to roam the fifth floor hallway and elevator. Children are heard on the third floor and a miner in the basement. The hotel named its Lady in Red Suite after her, and USA Today ranked the Mizpah first on its 2018 list of best haunted hotels.
Haunted Rooms tip: Book the Lady in Red Suite direct, or any fifth-floor room, and read the ghost book at the front desk.
$$ · $150 to $300Haunted room bookableHotel embraces its ghosts
Address 523 Sixth St, Rapid City, SD 57701
Where to look Room 812 and the eighth floor
Reported ghosts The Lady in White, Alex Johnson, a little girl who knocks on doors
Booking the haunted room The Ghost Adventure Package includes a reported haunted room, a K2 meter, a $25 dining credit and Vertex Sky Bar access; book by phone on 605-342-1210.
Railroad executive Alex Carlton Johnson opened this Tudor-style tower in downtown Rapid City in 1928, mixing German timbering with Lakota designs. Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint stayed here while filming North by Northwest, which name-checks the hotel as the Sheraton-Johnson. It is now part of Hilton’s Curio Collection.
This is South Dakota’s best-known haunted hotel, and it says so. Room 812 belongs to the Lady in White, a young woman who died in a fall from an eighth-floor window in the 1970s. Guests also report a little girl knocking on doors and Alex Johnson himself. You can book the Ghost Adventure Package with a stay in a reported haunted room and a K2 meter.
Haunted Rooms tip: Book the Ghost Adventure Package by phone if you want Room 812, then add your story to the ghost book at the front desk.
$ · Under $150Haunted room bookableGhost tours or eventsHotel embraces its ghostsHaunted Rooms ghost hunts
Address 520 East Main Street, Red Boiling Springs, TN 37150
Where to look Room 37, the White Hallway, Rooms 17 and 35, the dining room
Reported ghosts Sarah Cloyd, the Whistling Man, a boy named Edwin and R.V. Weston
Booking the haunted room Rooms, including Room 37, can be booked by calling the hotel, or as part of a Haunted Rooms ghost hunt and sleepover.
Zack and Clay Cloyd opened the Cloyd Hotel in 1890, when Red Boiling Springs was a busy mineral-water spa town. Fire destroyed it in 1924 and it was rebuilt in red brick in 1927; after the springs went out of fashion it became a boys’ summer camp, and in the late 1980s a group devoted to contacting the dead lived here. It reopened as the Thomas House in 1993 and is on the National Register.
It is one of the most talked-about haunted hotels in the South, featured on Ghost Hunters and Portals to Hell. Room 37 is linked to Sarah Cloyd, a child said to shake the beds and ask guests to play; staff also hear the Whistling Man in empty halls. Haunted Rooms runs overnight ghost hunts here.
Haunted Rooms tip: Join a Haunted Rooms ghost hunt and sleepover to investigate the whole building, including Room 37 and the White Hallway, with a team.
$$ · $150 to $300Haunted room bookableHotel embraces its ghostsPet friendly
Address 122 E Gurley St, Prescott, AZ 86301
Where to look The balcony suite under the bell tower (often given as Room 426), the kitchen and the hallways
Reported ghosts Faith, a young bride, plus a child and an old night watchman
Booking the haunted room Request the balcony suite (Faith's suite, often listed as Room 426) directly with the inn.
The Hassayampa Inn opened in 1927 as Prescott’s grand hotel, and the restored brick landmark still has the feel of a 1920s motor-age inn. It has 67 rooms, the recently renovated Peacock Room restaurant, dog-friendly rooms and a bell tower over the corner. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and stands in the downtown historic district, a block from the courthouse plaza.
The inn tells its own ghost story. In 1927 a very young bride, usually called Faith, checked into a balcony suite with her much older husband. He went out for cigarettes and never came back; after three days she took her own life. Staff and guests describe a young woman crying at the foot of a bed or walking the halls in a pink gown, the smell of flowers and kitchen burners going out on their own.
Haunted Rooms tip: Ask for the balcony suite beneath the tower when you book, and have breakfast in the Peacock Room.
$$$ · Over $300Ghost tours or eventsHotel embraces its ghostsPet friendly
Address 604 Brazos St, Austin, TX 78701
Where to look Room 525 (some accounts say 329), the grand staircase, the portrait of a little girl
Reported ghosts Colonel Jesse Driskill, a young girl known as Samantha, the 'suicide brides'
Booking the haunted room The hotel doesn't publish a way to book a specific room, so call and ask about Room 525. Sources disagree on the room number.
Austin’s grandest old hotel was built in 1886 by cattleman Colonel Jesse Driskill, and staff say he never really left: the smell of his cigar smoke drifts through empty corridors and lights in his old rooms switch on by themselves. The most requested room is 525, where, according to hotel legend, two brides took their own lives on the same date twenty years apart.
Then there’s Samantha. The story goes that a little girl, the daughter of a senator, fell to her death chasing a ball down the grand staircase in 1887. A portrait of a young girl hangs upstairs, and guests say her expression changes, or that they feel light-headed standing in front of it. Historians have never found records of the fall, which only adds to the mystery.
Haunted Rooms tip: Room 525 is small and books up fast in October. Reserve months ahead, or stay elsewhere in the hotel and visit the portrait.
$$ · $150 to $300Haunted room bookableHotel embraces its ghosts
Address 307 East President Street, Savannah, GA 31401
Where to look Room 204, the restaurant kitchen
Reported ghosts Anna (or Anne), a kitchen spirit, a boy called Thaddeus
Booking the haunted room Room 204 can be requested by phone; book months ahead for October.
Despite the name, this inn on the corner of President and Lincoln streets is made up of buildings put up between 1821 and 1888. It is famous for one room. Local legend says a young woman named Anna, heartbroken when the sailor she loved sailed away, threw herself from the window of what is now Room 204. Guests in 204 report belongings moving, sheets being tugged and crying after the lights go out, and the inn once asked guests in that room to sign a waiver.
Historians who have looked hard at the story cannot find an Anna who fits it, and the part of the building she is said to have jumped from was not built until 1888. The stories keep coming anyway. Kitchen staff talk about pots clattering in an empty kitchen and a presence that does not like women at the stove, and some guests say a little boy called Thaddeus leaves pennies behind.
Haunted Rooms tip: Room 204 books up far ahead, especially in October. Call the inn directly to ask for it, then have dinner downstairs in the tavern.
$$$ · Over $300Haunted room bookableHotel embraces its ghosts
Address 123 Habersham Street, Savannah, GA 31401
Where to look Second-floor guest rooms, Room 201, the cupola
Reported ghosts Kehoe children, William and Anne Kehoe
Booking the haunted room Rooms 201 and 203 can be requested when booking direct.
Iron founder William Kehoe moved into this four-story Renaissance Revival mansion on Columbia Square in May 1892 with his wife Anne and their ten children. After the family sold it in 1930 it spent decades as a boarding house and a funeral parlor, and football star Joe Namath owned it briefly before it opened as a bed and breakfast in the early 1990s.
The best-known story says two Kehoe children died in the house, and guests on the second floor say they wake to small hands touching them or hear children running in the halls, even though the inn takes adults only. The inn notes that the popular twins-in-the-chimney version is unproven. William and Anne themselves are said to appear most often in Room 201 and up in the cupola.
Haunted Rooms tip: Book a second-floor room, ideally 201 or 203, and ask about the house’s funeral-parlor years at breakfast.
$$ · $150 to $300Haunted room bookableHotel embraces its ghosts
Address 18 Washington Square West, Salem, MA 01970
Where to look Room 325, Room 612 and the sixth-floor hallway, the restaurant
Reported ghosts A woman in the sixth-floor hallway, a crying child in Room 325, the old sea captains of the Salem Marine Society
Booking the haunted room Ask for Room 612 or Room 325 in the booking notes or by phone; requests are not guaranteed.
The Hawthorne opened on July 23, 1925, on Washington Square, built by Salem residents who bought stock to give their city a modern hotel. It stands on the site of the Salem Marine Society’s old headquarters, and the society kept meeting rooms on top of the new hotel. The cast of Bewitched stayed here when the show filmed in Salem in 1970, and the hotel marked its 100th birthday in 2025.
It is the most famous haunted hotel in Salem. Guests in Room 612 describe a restless presence and a woman who lingers in the sixth-floor hallway; Room 325 has stories of a crying child, taps turning on and a hand touching the sleeper’s. Local legend links the scent of apples to Bridget Bishop, the first woman hanged in 1692, though that link is folklore. Ghost Hunters filmed here in 2007.
Haunted Rooms tip: Request Room 612 or Room 325 when you book; both can be asked for but are not guaranteed.
Address 520 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60605
Where to look Room 441, the 12th floor, the Gold Room, the eighth-floor elevator, the South Tower
Reported ghosts A shadow woman in Room 441; Peg Leg Johnny; the 'hand of mystery'; a mother and two sons tied to 1939
Booking the haunted room Call the hotel after booking and ask for Room 441 or a room on the 12th floor. Requests are not guaranteed.
The Congress Plaza opened in 1893 as the Auditorium Annex, built for crowds heading to the World’s Columbian Exposition, and it still faces Grant Park across Michigan Avenue. Presidents from Grover Cleveland to Franklin Roosevelt stayed here, Theodore Roosevelt spoke to a crowd from its balcony in 1912, and the Army took it over in World War II. With 871 rooms, it is one of the largest historic hotels in Chicago.
It is also the Chicago hotel with the longest list of ghost stories. Security is said to be called to Room 441 more than any other room, after guests report a shadowy woman at the foot of the bed. A room on the 12th floor is said to have been sealed, staff talk about a one-legged drifter called Peg Leg Johnny, and wedding guests in the Gold Room tell of bridesmaids missing from photos.
Haunted Rooms tip: Request Room 441 or a 12th-floor room when you book, and walk Peacock Alley and the Gold Room level in the evening. Rooms with a lake view look straight over Grant Park.
$$ · $150 to $300Haunted room bookableHotel embraces its ghosts
Address 701 Massachusetts St, Lawrence, KS 66044
Where to look Room 506 and the fifth floor, the elevator and Colonel Eldridge's old chair
Reported ghosts Colonel Shalor Eldridge, the hotel's founder
Booking the haunted room Ask for Room 506 when you book; it is a normal room you can request, not a package.
The Eldridge began in 1855 as the Free State Hotel, a base for the antislavery settlers who founded Lawrence. Pro-slavery men burned it in 1856, Quantrill’s raiders burned its replacement in 1863, and Colonel Shalor Eldridge rebuilt it each time. The present hotel on Massachusetts Street dates from 1925 and was restored to that look in 2004 and 2005.
Its ghost story centers on Room 506, where one of the original cornerstones sits inside the wall. Staff believe the friendly spirit is Colonel Eldridge himself, still looking after his hotel. Guests report doors that slam, curtains that move and a room once found deadbolted from the inside with nobody in it. Room 506 is booked most Halloweens.
Haunted Rooms tip: Request Room 506 early if you want October dates; staff say it is booked nearly every Halloween.
$$$ · Over $300Haunted room bookableHotel embraces its ghosts
Address 330 E Palace Ave, Santa Fe, NM 87501
Where to look Room 256 (Suite 100), the Staab House staircase, the bar
Reported ghosts Julia Staab, seen in a black Victorian dress
Booking the haunted room Request Room 256 (Suite 100), Julia Staab's former bedroom in the Staab House, when you book.
At the heart of this six-acre adobe resort is the 1882 Staab House, a three-story brick mansion built by merchant Abraham Staab for his wife Julia and their children. Julia died in 1896. The house was turned into an inn in the 1930s and is now part of a 157-room Tribute Portfolio resort and a member of Historic Hotels of America.
A janitor reported the first sighting in 1979: a woman in a black Victorian dress with her hair in a tight bun. Since then staff and guests describe gas fireplaces switching on, swaying chandeliers, a shelf of glasses crashing down and the smell of roses. Julia’s old bedroom, Room 256 (also called Suite 100), gets the most reports.
Haunted Rooms tip: Ask for Room 256, also known as Suite 100, which was Julia Staab’s bedroom.
Room 217, The Stanley Hotel, Estes Park, Colorado. Stephen King and his wife spent a night here in 1974, and the stay gave him the idea for The Shining. Guests describe a former housekeeper who unpacks their suitcases. How to get it: Sold by name online as the Room 217 Spirited Grand King. Dates open about a year ahead.
Room 218, 1886 Crescent Hotel, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Said to belong to Michael, an Irish stonemason who, the story goes, fell during construction. Room 419 is linked to Theodora, from Norman Baker’s 1930s fake cancer clinic. How to get it: Ask for 218 or 419 when you book by phone. Both go fast in October.
Stateroom B340, The Queen Mary, Long Beach, California. The most famous cabin on the liner, now a themed paranormal suite. Three Paranormal Passage staterooms (B326, B328 and B334) joined it in 2026. How to get it: Sold through the Queen Mary’s own reservations.
Room 3327, Hotel del Coronado, Coronado, California. The room Kate Morgan is said to have stayed in before she was found dead on the beach stairs in 1892. Room 3519 has its own maid story. How to get it: Request it when you book direct. It is the hotel’s most requested room and cannot be guaranteed.
Room 315, Copper Queen Hotel, Bisbee, Arizona. Linked to Julia Lowell, a woman of the evening said to have taken her own life here. Room 412 is Billy’s Room, after a little boy said to have drowned in the San Pedro River. How to get it: Both are sold as named rooms on the hotel’s website.
Room 928, The Hollywood Roosevelt, Los Angeles, California. Montgomery Clift stayed here while filming From Here to Eternity, and guests on the ninth floor report a bugle and a pacing figure. How to get it: A regular guest room: ask for it when booking direct. It is a request, not a guarantee.
Room 242, Hotel Congress, Tucson, Arizona. The hotel’s own list of haunted rooms puts a woman in a white dress here. Room 220 is Vince’s, a veteran who lived there from 1965 to 2001. How to get it: Contact the hotel to reserve Rooms 242, 220, 214 or 212.
King Ranch Suite, The Menger Hotel, San Antonio, Texas. Cattle baron Captain Richard King died at the hotel in 1885, and staff say his figure walks into the suite through the wall where the old door was. How to get it: The King Ranch Signature Suite can be booked on the hotel’s own website.
Room 525, The Driskill, Austin, Texas. Hotel legend says two brides took their own lives in this room on the same date twenty years apart. Some accounts give the room as 329. How to get it: The hotel does not publish a way to book a specific room, so call and ask. It cannot be guaranteed.
Room 1462, Hotel Monteleone, New Orleans, Louisiana. Guests on the 14th floor (really the 13th) report a small boy, said to be Maurice Begere, who died of a fever in the 1890s. How to get it: Call after booking to request a 14th-floor room, 1462 if you can. Floors are requests, not guarantees.
Room 414, The Marshall House, Savannah, Georgia. The old Civil War and yellow fever hospital’s reports cluster on the fourth floor: children running, faucets turning on, a one-armed soldier. How to get it: Request 414 (or 214, 314) by phone after booking. Not guaranteed.
Room 204, 17Hundred90 Inn, Savannah, Georgia. Local legend says a heartbroken young woman named Anna fell from its window. Historians cannot find her, and the room’s wing was built in 1888, but the reports keep coming. How to get it: Request it by phone, months ahead for October.
Room 201, The Kehoe House, Savannah, Georgia. William and Anne Kehoe are said to appear most often here, and guests on the second floor hear children in an adults-only inn. How to get it: Rooms 201 and 203 can be requested when you book direct.
Room 612, Hawthorne Hotel, Salem, Massachusetts. Guests describe a restless presence and a woman in the sixth-floor hallway. Room 325 has stories of a crying child. How to get it: Ask for 612 or 325 in the booking notes or by phone. Not guaranteed.
Room 24, Concord’s Colonial Inn, Concord, Massachusetts. Said to have been a doctor’s operating room in 1775. A newlywed wrote in 1966 of a gray figure at the foot of her bed. How to get it: Call the inn and ask for Room 24 in the 1716 Main Inn.
Room 314, Omni Mount Washington Resort, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. The Princess Room still holds Carolyn Stickney’s four-poster bed, and guests report a woman at the end of it brushing her hair. How to get it: A regular guest room: call the resort to request it. Not guaranteed online.
Room 545, The Omni Grove Park Inn, Asheville, North Carolina. Linked to the Pink Lady, said to have fallen into the Palm Court around 1920. A 1996 study for the resort collected reports from nearly 50 people. How to get it: Call the resort to request it. It cannot always be guaranteed.
Room 29, Island Hotel, Cedar Key, Florida. Bessie Gibbs’s old bedroom, where she is said to rearrange furniture and lock guests out. Rooms 27 and 28 have their own visitor. How to get it: Request it when you book with the hotel.
Room 441, Congress Plaza Hotel, Chicago, Illinois. Security is said to be called to this room more than any other, after guests report a shadowy woman at the foot of the bed. How to get it: Call after booking to ask for 441 or the 12th floor. Not guaranteed.
Room 17, St. James Hotel, Cimarron, New Mexico. Mary Lambert is said to announce herself here with a waft of perfume. Next door, Room 18, where gambler Thomas James Wright is said to haunt, is kept locked and never rented. How to get it: Ask for Room 17 when you reserve. Room 18 cannot be booked.
Lady in Red Suite, Mizpah Hotel, Tonopah, Nevada. Named for Rose, a working woman said to have been killed on the fifth floor. Guests report finding a single pearl on their pillow. How to get it: A named room type on the hotel’s own booking site; call for other fifth-floor rooms.
Room 812, Hotel Alex Johnson, Rapid City, South Dakota. Belongs to the Lady in White, a young woman who died in a fall from an eighth-floor window in the 1970s. How to get it: Book the Ghost Adventure Package by phone, which includes a reported haunted room and a K2 meter.
Room 37, Thomas House Hotel, Red Boiling Springs, Tennessee. Linked to Sarah Cloyd, a child said to shake the beds and ask guests to play. How to get it: Call the hotel to book it, or choose it as your room on a Haunted Rooms ghost hunt and sleepover.
Room 644, Bourbon Orleans Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana. The room most often linked to a ghostly nun, in a hotel built around the 1817 Orleans Ballroom and a former convent. How to get it: Call after booking to request 644 or a sixth-floor room. Not guaranteed.
Faith’s suite (Room 426), Hassayampa Inn, Prescott, Arizona. The balcony suite under the bell tower, where a young bride called Faith is said to have waited in 1927 for a husband who never came back. How to get it: Request the balcony suite directly with the inn.
Room 506, The Eldridge Hotel, Lawrence, Kansas. An original cornerstone sits inside the wall, and staff believe the friendly spirit is Colonel Shalor Eldridge himself. How to get it: Ask for it when you book. Staff say it is booked nearly every Halloween.
Room 256 (Suite 100), La Posada de Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Julia Staab’s old bedroom in the 1882 Staab House, where a woman in a black Victorian dress has been reported since 1979. How to get it: Request Room 256 when you book.
The John Morse Room, Lizzie Borden House, Fall River, Massachusetts. The second-floor room where Abby Borden was found on August 4, 1892. The Andrew and Abby Suite is the other room people ask for. How to get it: Every room is booked by name on the house’s own website.
How to get the haunted room
Book direct. Room requests made through third-party sites often never reach the front desk. If you book elsewhere, call the hotel afterwards.
Ask by number, then ask again. Put the room number in the booking notes, call to confirm a week before and mention it at check-in.
Be flexible on dates. Weeknights and the months away from October give you the best chance.
Have a backup. Most of these hotels have a haunted floor or wing as well as a single room, such as the fourth floor at the Marshall House or the 14th floor at the Monteleone.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the most haunted hotel room in America?
Room 217 at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, is the most famous: Stephen King’s 1974 stay inspired The Shining, and the hotel sells it by name. Room 218 at the 1886 Crescent Hotel, Stateroom B340 on the Queen Mary and Room 3327 at the Hotel del Coronado are the next most requested.
Can you request a specific haunted room?
Usually, yes. Book a standard room, then call the hotel and ask for the room number. Most hotels note the request but cannot guarantee it, so ask again a few days before you arrive and at check-in. A handful of hotels sell the haunted room by name, which is the only way to be sure.
Which haunted hotel rooms can you book online by name?
Room 217 at the Stanley (the Room 217 Spirited Grand King), Stateroom B340 and the Paranormal Passage staterooms on the Queen Mary, Rooms 315 and 412 at the Copper Queen, the King Ranch Suite at the Menger, the Lady in Red Suite at the Mizpah and every room at the Lizzie Borden House.
Is there a haunted hotel room you cannot book?
Room 18 at the St. James Hotel in Cimarron, New Mexico, has been kept locked for decades. You can book Room 17 next door, Mary Lambert’s room.
When should I book a haunted room for Halloween?
As early as you can. The Stanley releases dates about a year ahead, and Room 506 at the Eldridge and Room 204 at the 17Hundred90 Inn are booked most Octobers. For dates tied to a story, such as August 4 at the Lizzie Borden House, book months ahead.
Can I investigate a haunted room with a team?
Yes, at the hotels where Haunted Rooms runs ghost hunts. On a Thomas House sleepover you can choose Room 37 as your room and investigate the whole hotel with our team. See haunted hotels where you can join our ghost hunt.
Sources and how we research
Every hotel in this guide is checked against the hotel’s own website, historic register listings and news coverage. Ghost stories are reported as the hotels, guests and local historians tell them; we note where a story can’t be confirmed. Read how we rate haunted hotels.
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