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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.
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A little girl of age three or four in a yellow
dress with long, brown pigtails seen skipping through the lobby and
the coffeehouse.
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A full-figured lady with curly, red hair who
“drinks milk and eats cookies” in the coffeehouse; one who was
“confirmed” by a visiting medium.
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An unseen apparition who frequents Room 408 and
“sexually charges” guests in residence.
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A tall, thin man with a brown beard wearing a
tan suit and hat seen in both The Grand Ballroom and Room 519.
“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.
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