Staying in a haunted hotel in Flagstaff AZ

[Magical Realist]

I'm in the middle of traveling halfway across country and am presently staying with my sister in Leaky Tx which is about 70 miles SW from San Antonio. On my way back to Oregon I'm goin to stay at the reputedly VERY haunted hotel of the Monte Vista in Flagstaff along Hwy 66. I will report my/any untoward experiences I have as they happen here online. I hope nothing TOO drastic happens. Just a whimpering voice or a darting shadow or two. Wish me luck!

https://ktar.com/story/1321982/hotel-mon...n-arizona/

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[C C]

Safe journey back. Anything near renamed and surviving remnants of Route 66 has got to be haunted in some way or another. And streets named like that, to boot.

Towering above the corners of Aspen and San Francisco Streets, The Hotel Monte Vista stands just off historic Route 66 as a true touchstone for all of Flagstaff and her citizens. With the mountains and nearby canyon countries, The Hotel Monte Vista is your place to relax while you explore all of the natural wonders Northern Arizona has to offer. https://hotelmontevista.com/about/

[...] "Among them is a man called the Phantom Bellboy, who is known to knock on doors in the late hours of the night announcing, in a muffle voice, “room service.” Some have seen the apparition standing outside of Room 210, and it is even claimed that the actor John Wayne had a close encounter with him during his stay."

[...] It was there in the early 1940’s that two female sex workers were working their shift, only to be picked up by a man who was staying in Room 306 of the Monte Vista Hotel and looking for some company for the night. The two women returned to his room ... and at some point during their visit, were brutally murdered and dumped out of the third floor window to the street below.

[...] In 1970, it is reported that three men robbed a bank in a nearby town ... the wounded man among them was more wounded then they had realized, and after a few drinks he soon bled to death at the bar.

[...] The most common report, which has been well documented, is of an elderly woman in the rocking chair by the window. https://ghostcitytours.com/flagstaff/hau...sta-hotel/

During the western movie boom of the 1940s and 1950s it became the go-to hotel for stars like John Wayne, Bing Crosby, Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable, Humphrey Bogart, Esther Williams, and Barbara Stanwyck.

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/qvfyAxdLryM

[confused2]

You should be OK. I don't think they can get you if you're entirely under the covers - never got me - mind you I've always been very very careful.

[Zinjanthropos]

I’d rather meet the Phantom Bell Boy than the Nashville Hyatt Toe Sucker.

[Kornee]

A recent posting elsewhere at SV jogged a memory. Let's see - Feb 20 - Jan 14 = 37 days give or take. And counting.
Then, 'wish me luck' was either a decidedly premature request - really drawn out return trip, or...nothing actually spooky happened at said hotel, and can't be bothered to say so?

[Magical Realist]

Didn't stop in Flagstaff. Had to hurry back because I was running out of antidepressants. The withdrawal effects of those are agonizing.

[Kornee]

One can only speculate as to whether a spooky encounter would have added to or cured a bout of depression. Guess it would depend on the details....

[Magical Realist]

I might've worried about spirits attaching themselves to me and affecting my mood, but it seems likely that the hauntings reported there are of the more residual type (events of the past stuck on replay) rather than real intelligent spirits. I suspect old famous hotels have alot of that kind of paranormal activity. I can't imagine a more boring place for a spirit to hang out in than an old hotel.