It is said that Lady in Red is persecuted by the Mizpah hotel in Tonopah, Nevada. Murdered in her room, he whispers sweet words and leaves pearls to guests stopping at night. But what happened to her?
In the former town of Tonopah in Nevada, Hotel Mizpah is a striking relic at the beginning of the 20th century, when Nevady mining boom attracted seekers and travelers from distant and wide to silver state.
In the years 1901–1921 Tonopah attracted thousands of people working on obtaining about 121 million dollars mainly silver ore from mines – especially on the hills directly behind the Mizpah hotel. There were a lot of stories of rags to wealth, although it also left a few ghost stories.
History of the Mizpah hotel
Mizpah was opened in 1907, designed as a luxurious escape for tired miners and well -healed guests in Queen of the Silver Camps, as the city was called. Originally there was a living room and it was the first enduring building in the city. The hotel was named after the biblical term “Watchtower” and was to be a safe and sound marinade for travelers.
There are many stories about the hotel and how it is associated with the Wild West. According to legend, Wyatt Earp stopped the salon, Jack Dempsey was a goalkeeper, and Howard Hughes married Jean Peters in Mizpah. Although all these stories are most likely high stories, the hotel adapted them and the rooms and a bar after all of them were named.
This five -story hotel, known for its solid granite walls, Victorian furniture and the first electromagative Nevada, established the standard of Western wealth. After restoring the original glory, this is called the best stone hotel in the desert. However, it is known not only as a historic hotel, but also haunted.
The Lady in Red Haunting the Mizpah Hotel
However, among the size lies a darker, bloody story. The most famed legend associated with the Mizpah Hotel is Lea Lady in Red, a ghostly resident who believes many that he died on the fifth floor.
According to local knowledge, she was a woman of beauty and charm, known for the entertainment of guests in her elegant apartment. Because as soon as many hotels were, this hotel also acted as a brothel. At least working girls lived there, although the hotel was outside the Red Light districts in the city around Main Street. Mizpah was never officially a brothel, so could the lady in red be a “kept woman” and even a lover instead of a prostitute? In any case, she lived there and probably worked. And if we are to believe in legends, she also died there.
She tragically met with a violent ending when a former lover, or maybe a jealous patron, strangled her in a moment of rage, breaking her necklace, spilling pearls on the floor-and forever sealing the spirit to the hotel.
In some versions she was a wife who betrayed her husband in the hotel. He found out when he missed the train and returned to her. Finding her in the arms of another, he killed her furiously.
Her name is now lost if she ever existed. Some call her Rose and it was most likely her name of a prostitute. According to some, her names were called Evelyn May Johnston born in Baltimore in 1879 and died on January 2, 1914.
However, there are no official documents that support it and there is not even sure that a murder happened in the hotel like hers. Where this name and dates come from, it is uncertain. Some versions of this story say that she came to the city in the 1920s, so history is different.
But the stories about her bloom and grow, and those who stayed in the hotel check that they claim that it is still going on there.
Visiting the Mizpah Hotel
It is said that the lady in red transmits her presence in an incredibly but strange way. Men's guests often report that hearing a cushioned whisper in the ear, especially when alone in the elderly -fashioned hotel elevator, as if you are still escorting your guests to the chamber.
Some even found miniature pearls under the pillows, considered the remains of her broken necklace. Although disturbing, her spirit is described as heated, with a kind and amiable presence that reflects her rumor in her life.
The boudoir belonging to her was finally divided into three rooms. 504 is now called The Lady in Red Room, but in fact, most of the strange things have been reported in room 502.
Other ghosts haunting the hotel
Hotel Mizpah also contains reports of other spectral views, including revelations in corridors and icy places felt in the entire building.
Some say that they hear the sound of phantom children running in the hotel corridors, especially on the third floor. When they look at the room, there is no one there, and when they call the reception to complain about children, the reception tells them that there are no children in the hotel at night.
Employees also undergo stories about two men who remain in the basement. People speculate that they had to die when one of the underground tunnels in nearby mines fell. It is said that several miners are haunted by a hotel, they are still looking for silver.
Haunted night at the Mizpah hotel
Hotel Mizpah, now fully restored to their former glory, attracts visitors from around the world who come for both a luxurious atmosphere and a thrust. You can stay today in The Lady in Red Suite, and on the wall there is a portrait of ladies in red as a tribute to the legend at home.
And the guest book of the hotel says everything. Perhaps after staying here you will also have something that you will do in the Book of Ghosts.
References:
Mizpah Hotel Hotels in Tonopah, NV | Not very sporadic
Meet Lady in Red: Nevada's the most famed spirit
Lady in Red (Ghost) – Wikipedia
Spirit of a chance to survive paranormal in Tonopah Jane Ann Morrison News
Who was the lady in red? – Nevada Ghost Towns and Beyond
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