The Pfister Hotel is one of the grandest and most historic hotels in the United States. Situated in beautiful downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Pfister has faithfully served its guests for over 130 years. However, several of those guests have reported strange noises, bizarre happenings, and even apparitions while staying there. Who are the ghosts of […]
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Staying in a haunted hotel was never part of the deal Michael Young agreed to when he joined Major League Baseball. Michael started playing professionally in the minor leagues in 1997 and by 2000 had worked his way up into the majors. His first team was the Texas Rangers, and then later the Philadelphia Phillies
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Strawberry Point is known for being home to the world’s largest strawberry. But what many people don’t know is that it’s also home to the Franklin Hotel, a 150-year-old hotel and event venue that has the spirit of a 1920’s prostitute still wandering the halls. Sources Franklin Hotel, Strawberry Point. Haunted Iowa, hauntedrooms.com Rasdal,
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When I rolled into Strawberry Point, Iowa, last summer, I was looking for one thing: the world’s largest strawberry. To be clear, it’s not a real strawberry, as my daughter constantly points out to me. It’s a 15-foot-tall fiberglass replica of a strawberry, the brainchild of an ad agency in the 1960’s. It’s been a
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When it was built in 1903, the Claypool Hotel was designed to be the best and brightest of Indianapolis’ hotels. And, for forty years, it was. Then, starting in 1943, a serious of tragic events that included two murders and a fire led to the Claypool’s dramatic destruction in the 1960’s. But does something of
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Bates House had to go. It was beautiful and famous, but it had faded. There were modern amenities that it couldn’t offer, not to mention the fact that it just wasn’t big enough to accommodate the growing number of people that were coming into the city. The owner, Edward Claypool, knew that. When he
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Lillian McNamara wondered how many times she had checked these rooms. It was part of her job as a housekeeper to make sure that the guest rooms were clean, presentable, and didn’t need any repairs. The Claypool Hotel was the go-to event venue in Indianapolis, and the people who stayed there expected a fresh
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Maoma Ridings had joined the United States Army during World War II to aid the war effort. A professional nurse turned physiotherapist; she was a young woman who enjoyed a good time. On August 30, 1943, she was found murdered in an Indianapolis hotel room. Who had ended the life of the well-liked nurse from
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George Whitbeck pointed to the patch of grass where he had found the body that morning. The photographer for one of the local papers had asked him to pose for a picture, indicating the place where it had been. He did his best, standing still, feet together, pointing. When he had driven onto Credit Island
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In 1921, 18-year-old Marie Wick checked into a Fargo hotel while travelling to visit her aunt. What happened that night in Room 30 would become one of the most vicious murders to ever occur in North Dakota. Sources Girl Murdered In Fargo Hotel. Grand Forks Herald, 6/7/1921 Clothing of Murdered Girl is Examined. The Bismarck
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