The historic Mizpah Hotel was once the most luxurious and modern hotel in the southwestern United States. Built in when the central Nevada town of Tonopah was at the height of its silver boom, it opened its doors to provide a place to amaze and woo potential investors from the East.
It went on to spend the next 10 years with its doors chained and windows boarded. However in the owners of several Sonoma wineries purchased the hotel, renovated it back to its former Wild West glory, and reopened it in October of the same year after a 2 million dollar renovation. The Mizpah has since gained a reputation for its fair share of ghosts, recently being recognized as the number one haunted hotel in the U. Several of the suites are named for some of its supposed permanent guests who haunt the room or its surroundings, with a plaque outside each room providing the macabre details.
Among the various paranormal phenomena include an old out-of-commission elevator that randomly opens and closes its doors, objects which mysteriously move, and sightings of laughing children who run through the hallways on the fourth floor. The basement is also supposedly haunted by two miners. The most popular is the infamous Lady in Red, which is not the same found on Egypt plantation in Mississippi!
This purveyor of companionship at the Mizpah resided on the fifth floor and met an untimely and brutal demise outside her suite, when she was strangled and stabbed by a jealous lover.
She was born in Baltimore in and died on January 2, During this time, prior to the restoration that took place in , her suite was comprised of the entire upper street-facing corner of the fifth floor, while today it has been split into three rooms: The Lady In Red themed room in is very beautiful beyond doubt, but the allegedly haunted room is just down the hall, and is the Moreover, If she is fond of a guest, she is known to leave pearls in his bed.
