AMERICA'S MOST HAUNTED RESORT HOTEL?

Get Ready for Halloween: Spend the Night in a "Morgue"

Millions have now seen the incredible footage of the full-size male paranormal apparition caught on thermographic videotape by the Sci-Fi Channel's "Ghost Hunters." Thousands more have actually visited "the morgue" where it was "captured." And during October, a few can have the opportunity to sleep in these lower-level series of rooms that are said to be one of the most active areas here in "America's Most Haunted Hotel," The 1886 Crescent Hotel and Spa.

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Nightly Ghost Tours in October at the 1905 Basin Park Hotel

Never Been One to Believe

Steve Garrison, a cook for the hotel's Crystal Dining Room restaurant for the past fourteen years recounts, "I've lived here (Eureka Springs) all my life and I have never been one to believe this stuff." That all changed two different mornings in the restaurant's kitchen.

Morning 1: Garrison was "slicing and dicing" vegetables when he looked up and saw a little boy with "pop bottle" glasses, dressed in very old-looking clothes such as knickers, who was skipping around the kitchen.

Morning 2: When opening that same kitchen early one morning he flipped on the lights only to see "some or all of the pots and pans come flying off their hooks." He was quick to add, "I don't drink on the job. In fact, I don't drink... period."

A Late Night Customer

A former gift shop employee vividly remembers a late night "customer" she encountered, "One slow evening, I was leaning gently against the display case, kind of looking downward, but not really at anything when I looked up. There in the store's doorway into the hotel lobby stood a man, looking out of place in time. He was dressed in a long, black cutaway coat with a tall shirt collar and ascot-like cravat, top hat and his face was adorned with mutton-chop sideburns. His trousers were gray striped but as I continued to gaze down his image ended around the middle of the lower leg. It didn't go all the way to the floor. His image was there. It was very complete and lifelike, not at all wavy or wispy.

I blinked and said, "Whoa!?!" and in that instance he disappeared. I sped into the lobby toward the Crystal Dining Room then back toward the Governor's Suite but he was absolutely gone. I never saw him again."

It is stories like these that adequately intrigued the producers of the Sci-Fi Channel's "Ghost Hunters" program to spend nearly a week in the hotel this summer to investigate, film, and discover stories of their own. Although those individuals involved in the production of the Crescent Hotel episode have taken a pledge of secrecy until the show airs sometimes this fall, all indications are that the show will reveal even more titillating tales of the plethora of precocious poltergeists that have been checking in but never leaving this Historic Hotel of America since 1886.