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Basin Ghost Guests

Basin Ghost Guests
Editor Posted on Saturday, July 13, 2002

The 1905 Basin Park Hotel, known as “the hub of Historic Downtown Eureka Springs,” has become the center of the latest in ghost sightings in this quaint Ozark community. Located just 45 minutes southwest of Branson (MO), spirits of the paranormal kind have become the most recent local stars of the late night shows at this lodging facility.

“The sightings and reports of encounters have become too frequent and too compelling to overlook,” said Jack Moyer, hotel general manager. “It seems, therefore, that we have new permanent guests here at The Basin Park Hotel and we welcome all new guests... even if they’re ghosts.”

Some of the more frequent sightings include the following:

-A translucent young woman with “cotton candy blonde hair and steel blue eyes” dressed in turn-of-the-century clothing and seen floating on the third floor.

“Other reports have been by employees working late in our seventh floor ballroom who have reported cold ‘passings’ as they clean up after a function,” added Moyer, “and in our Rooftop Billiards Room where the pool ball rack has been seen flying off the wall and landing between our two tables with no one standing anywhere close. This has happened on numerous occasions.”

Moyer said these unexplainable reports that the hotel has received have been by guests, current employees and past employees. He has pledged to keep a log of such experiences, saying, “When people feel like others have seen ‘something’ too they are more comfortable in reporting what they have experienced.”

“Therefore our concierge has been given the responsibility to record all similar reports,” Moyer concluded. “She is not trying to debunk just determine if there are similarities in reported sightings and encounters.”

For more information one may contact Moyer by writing The 1905 Basin Park Hotel, 12 Spring Street, Eureka Springs, AR 72632, or by phone at 800-643-4972. The hotel’s web page address is www.basinpark.com.