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Ghost of Armbruster Pike, Nevada

The Ghost of Armbruster Pike is a legendary figure said to haunt the area near Pinedale, Nevada. The ghost is said to be the spirit of a man who was murdered along the pike in the early 1900s.

The story goes that the man was a miner who was traveling along the pike when he was attacked by bandits. The man was killed, and his body was left along the pike.

Sometime later, a group of travelers were camping near the spot where the man was killed. They were awakened in the middle of the night by the sound of a man's screams. The travelers went to investigate, but they found nothing.

The next night, the same thing happened. The travelers were awakened by the sound of screams, but they again found nothing. This happened several nights in a row, and the travelers became convinced that the ghost of the man was haunting the area.

The ghost is said to appear as a man wearing a miner's hat and clothes. He is often seen walking along the pike, or sitting by the campfire. Some people have reported hearing his screams, or seeing his apparition in the trees.

The Ghost of Armbruster Pike is a popular legend in the area, and there are many different stories about him. Some people believe that he is the spirit of a real man who was murdered along the pike, while others believe that he is a figment of people's imagination.

Whether or not the Ghost of Armbruster Pike is real, he is a fascinating part of the local folklore. His story is a reminder of the dangers that early miners faced in the area, and it is a reminder of the sacrifices that they made to build a new life in the West.

Here are some of the other details about the legend of the Ghost of Armbruster Pike:

The ghost is said to be a man wearing a miner's hat and clothes.
The ghost is said to be seen most often at night.
The ghost is said to be a harbinger of death.

If you ever happen to be in the area near Pinedale, Nevada, be sure to keep an eye out for the Ghost of Armbruster Pike. You never know when you might see him.
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Mizpah Hotel in Tonopah, Nevada

Mizpah Hotel and Casino, Tonopah.

In 1907, Mizpah Hotel opened as one of the first luxury hotels in Nevada. With a rich history and elaborate decor, the hotel is best known for its legend of the “Lady in Red.” While the date remains unclear, the story goes like this: A woman was murdered in her room on the fifth floor. Some say it was a jealous ex-boyfriend, while others say the Lady in Red had been caught cheating by her husband and he killed her in a jealous rage.

Those who’ve stayed at the hotel say the Lady in Red whispers in men’s ears and leaves pearls from her broken necklace on guests' pillows. Guests can stay in the Lady in Red suite to experience it themselves, and if that’s too much for you, the Red Lady Bloody Mary at the hotel restaurant should suffice.
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Goldfield Hotel – Luxury in the Nevada Desert

In the almost ghost town of Goldfield, Nevada is the historic and reportedly very haunted Goldfield Hotel. The town of Goldfield was born when gold was discovered in 1902 and within just a few short years, it became the largest city in Nevada, as millions of dollars in ore were extracted from area mines. Like other cities, whose only reason for being was its mining industry, when the ore played out, so did the town. In addition to its numerous saloons, the city once boasted three newspapers, five banks, a mining stock exchange, and a population of nearly 35,000.

However, just eight years after Goldfield was founded, the volume of ore began to decrease and many of its residents began to move on to more prosperous claims.

By 1920, the gold was almost gone and the town was reduced to just about 1,500 people. Three years later, a devastating fire wiped out 27 blocks of homes and businesses. Today, this once-thriving city supports a population of less than 500, but still provides a number of views of its prosperous past, with its centerpiece being the Goldfield Hotel.

In 1908, the Goldfield Hotel, designed by Architect George E. Holesworth, opened amidst an array of fanfare. Built on the former site of the Nevada Hotel, which had burned down in a fire in 1905, the hotel was first owned by J. Franklin Douglas and several other investors. The four-story building of stone and brick cost over $300,000 to build and included 154 rooms with telephones, electric lights, and heated steam. The lobby was paneled with mahogany and furnished in black leather upholstery, beneath gold-leaf ceilings and crystal chandeliers. The hotel imported chefs from Europe and boasted one of the first Otis elevators west of the Mississippi River. Considered to be the most luxurious hotel between Chicago and San Francisco, it appealed to society’s upper crust, making it an immediate success.

However, shortly after the hotel was built, it was sold to mining magnate, George Wingfield, the primary owner of the Goldfield Consolidated Mines Company, and hotel entrepreneur, Casey McDannell, who created a new hotel corporation called Bonanza Hotel Company. After paying $200,000 cash and stock valued at around $250,000 for the hotel, the Goldfield property was merged with existing hotels owned by McDannell into the new Bonanza Hotel Company.

Though George Wingfield owned a majority interest in the Bonanza Hotel Company, his principle partner, Casey McDannell, managed and operated the hotel. As the owner of the Goldfield Consolidated Mines Company, Wingfield was a multi-millionaire by the age of 30 and became a political powerhouse in the State of Nevada. After making his fortune in the goldfields, he went on to own a chain of banks, numerous ranches, and several Reno hotels, in addition to his interest in the Goldfield Hotel and the Bonanza Hotel Company. Active in political party circles in the 1920s, he became the reputed boss of both the Democratic and Republican parties. George Wingfield’s power was legendary in his own time and was publicly demonstrated when the collapse of his twelve banks in 1932 almost led to the economic ruin of the state.

In 1923, the Goldfield Hotel was sold to Newton Crumley, another hotel entrepreneur who owned the Commercial Hotel in Elko, Nevada. Crumley, who evidently also aspired to make to profit from the gold in the area, dug two mine shafts beneath the hotel in 1925. However, both resulted in “dry holes.”


Vintage Goldfield Hotel Lobby

When Goldfield was in its heyday, the hotel entertained all manner of affluent guests. However, as the gold began to play out and Goldfield’s population diminished, the Goldfield Hotel began a gradual decline. By the 1930s, when the town supported fewer than 1,000 souls, it had become little more than a flophouse for cowboys and undiscriminating travelers. During World War II, it housed Army Air Corp personnel assigned to the Tonopah Air Base 25 miles north of Goldfield. After the soldiers checked out the hotel in 1945, the hotel closed its doors forever. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 as a contributing property in the Goldfield Historic District.

Over the years, the hotel has changed hands numerous times, with each new owner promising to restore and reopen the old property. In 1985, the building was bought by a San Francisco investor named Lester O’Shea whose plans looked as if they might really come through. However, after a few years when his restoration project was about 85% complete, his company went bankrupt and the property reverted back to the county. In 2003, the county auctioned off the old hotel, as well as nearly ninety other parcels of historic land. A rancher from Carson City named Edgar “Red” Roberts was the only bidder and bought the hotel for $360,000.


Goldfield Hotel Interior

Reportedly, Roberts has plans to finish the refurbishing of the bottom two floors, spending an estimated $1 million, to reopen the historic hotel to the public. The restoration project would include 40 guest rooms, a casino and a café. The dying town of Goldfield is pinning its hopes on Roberts, knowing that the reopening could revitalize the town with new jobs and tourism. However, they’ve heard it so many times, they’re not holding their breath until they see it complete. When updating this story in September of 2015, we couldn’t find any indication of major progress. What we did find is that work has been hampered by vandalism over the past few years, and that is likely due to it’s spooky history and attention it has attracted.

Reportedly there are several ghosts at the old hotel, the most famous of which is a woman named Elizabeth*. According to the legend, Elizabeth was a prostitute that George Wingfield visited frequently. When she turned up pregnant, she claimed the child was Wingfield’s, who for a while paid her to stay away, fearful of how the scandal might affect his business affairs. However, when she could no longer hide the pregnancy, Wingfield was said to have lured her into room 109 of the hotel, where he chained her to a radiator. Supplied with food and water, she was left there until her child could be born. Reportedly she cried out over and over for mercy, only to be met with silence. Some say that Elizabeth died in childbirth, but others contend that Wingfield murdered her after the child was born. Her baby was then thrown into an old mining shaft. Afterward, rumors abounded that Elizabeth continued to visit Wingfield and the sound of a crying child could sometimes be heard coming from the depths of the hotel.


Goldfield Hotel Interior

This legend; however, has a few problems that don’t “mesh” with the history of the old building. The legend actually asserts that Elizabeth died sometime in the 1930s, at which time Wingfield no longer owned the hotel. It also alleges that the baby was thrown into one of the mining shafts beneath the hotel, which were built by Newton Crumley some two years after he purchased the property from Wingfield in 1923.

Is the legend confusing Wingfield and Crumley, or did it occur years earlier? Of this, we will never know.

In any event, the legend persists and when the apparition of Elizabeth has been sighted, she has been described as having long flowing hair, wearing a white gown, and looking terribly sad as she paces the hallways, calling out to her child. Others have reported her being sighted in Room 109, which is often described as being intensely cold, and on one occasion a ghostly figure appeared in a photograph of the room. However, most people report that while their cameras function normally everywhere else in the hotel, they refuse to work in room 109.

Two more ghosts who reportedly committed suicide in third-floor rooms of the hotel have been sighted by more than a dozen people. While their identities are unknown, one is said to be a woman who hanged herself, while the other is said to be a man who jumped to his death from the hotel.

In what was once the main dining room, called the Gold Room, a malevolent spirit, familiarly named “The Stabber,” is said to randomly attack those who cross the threshold with a large kitchen knife. Though the Stabber has never harmed anyone, he is said to have frightened many before immediately disappearing after the “attack.”

Near the lobby staircase, linger three small spirits including two children and a midget that are said to be pranksters, sneaking up behind people and tapping their backs before giggling and dancing away.

Finally, George Wingfield himself is said to haunt his old hotel, making his presence known by his cigar smoke. Others have reported finding fresh cigar ashes in his first-floor room. His presence has also been sensed near the giant lobby staircase. This legend too, has some problems with the history of the old hotel, as Wingfield was not known to frequent the hotel, as it was managed by his partner, Casey McDannell, and Wingfield’s interest was only as an investor. Additionally, Wingfield died in Reno, Nevada in 1959. Why would his spirit continue to linger at the Goldfield Hotel?


Front of the Goldfield Hotel in Goldfield, Nevada

Many psychics who have visited the old hotel claim that it is a gateway into another world. The old hotel has been featured on a number of paranormal investigation television shows.
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Hell Dogs of Eldorado Canyon


Mining Shaft in Eldorado Canyon, April 2005, David Alexander

Man per man and mile per mile, Eldorado Canyon has a wider range of historical events than anywhere in the Wild West. This rich history, coupled with the turbulent events taking place in Eldorado Canyon in the 19th century has led to numerous ghost stories of dead miners, Indians, and pioneers who once roamed the area.

However, some of the most fascinating are the ghostly tales of canine spirits. Reportedly, during the rowdy mining days, many of the prospectors kept dogs at their claim sites to protect their property. Reared to attack at the slightest trespass by strangers, the dogs were often extremely vicious.

“Man’s best friend” or not, many of these dogs were shot, left chained at the claim site to die, or released into the wild, when the gold played out and the miners left the area. Over the years, numerous tales of sightings of these many spectral hounds have been told by exploring visitors and locals alike. A few even tell of being attacked by these ferocious canine apparitions.


Ghost Dog

One story told on the Shadowlands Website, describes two brothers who were compelled to test the validity of the canine tales. Exploring the area, they soon found an old mine shaft where they noticed an ancient weathered chain embedded into the rock wall near the entrance. Entering the old mine, they came upon a pile of bones that appeared to be those of a large dog. As the sun was quickly setting, they determined to camp near the mine shaft. Sitting around a small campfire, they listened to what sounded like coyotes yipping in the distance. Not alarmed, they ate dinner around the fire until both men began to feel uneasy as the atmosphere changed, seeming thick and somehow charged. Before long, they heard the sounds of large dogs panting in close proximity, followed by low and hateful growls.

With hair no doubt standing up upon the back of their necks, they then heard the sound of paws circling the campsite and scratching noises coming from the shaft where the chain was lying. Stealing a glimpse at the shaft, the chain began to move, seemingly being tugged away from the rock wall by an unknown force. As the pulling continued, harder each time, the brothers fumbled for their gear and stumbled to their feet. One of them pointed the flashlight toward the chain where scratch marks and bloodstains could be seen on the rock. Suddenly, the chain dropped and one of the brothers felt something brush against his leg before both were frantically running towards their car. As they drove as fast as they could out of the canyon, they could hear wild panting and canine footsteps as a pack of invisible wild strays kept pace with them for several miles.

Locals refer to these spectral hounds as The Hell Dogs of Eldorado Canyon.
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Boulder City pet cemetery - Boulder City,Nevada

It was built over 50 years ago, it is said that if you go to it at night a white cat will follow you through out the cemetery. if it likes you.
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Silver Rim Ele.School - Tonopah,Nevada

Charles M. Keller, principal from
January 1985 - June 1992, learned of strange happenings when he arrived
for duty - lights going off for no reason during the day and strange
things at night.  Teachers working late or at night would have
feelings that someone was watching them, strange rapping sounds, and
one teacher saw an apparition of a man. Mr. Keller wrote a ghost story
called, "Jake, The Ghost", as a Halloween story for the children,
teachers, and staff in 1985.  The story brought forth more reports
of strange behavior from the staff.  One teacher working late one
evening heard scuffing footsteps coming down the hall toward her
classroom. When she investigated she saw nothing but the steps were
still coming toward her!  She was so scared she climbed out the
window, ran across the street to one of the neighbors and called her
husband for help!  It was not until the summer of 2006 Mr. Keller
learned the identity of the ghost. He is a writer of children's poems
and stories and wanted further research on his story of the
ghost.  In September 1903 there was a Chinese race riot.  The
local labor union for some reason decided to run all the Chinese people
out of town.  During the riot a Chinese man by the name of Ping
Ling was badly beaten and hit over the right eye with a hatchet. 
He decided to walk out of town and leave the area.  He bled to
death on the road. That road now is the same one that is between Silver
Rim School and the Mormon LDS Church. Silver Rim School was not built
until 1980. Where the ghost of Ping Ling was until that time is
uncertain. Why he chose to take up residence of the school is another
mystery. Mr. Keller is certain Ping Ling means no harm to the people in
the building.  He is not seen or heard during the day when there
are activities in the school. But at night he is quite active and
curious. However, Mr. Keller made many trips back to the school at
night, especially during the winter, to check security and the heating
system. He never encountered Ping Ling on any of his trips. He could
only surmise Ping Ling respected him. 
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Goldfield Hotel - Goldfield, Nevada

Following the impregnation of a prostitute by the manager of the hotel many years ago, the manager became angry at the women for the incident and took her to his hotel. As her pregnancy became more obvious, he chained her to the radiator in one of the rooms., and when the baby was born, he killed them both. The hotel has been closed for many years with no power to any part of it, but on some nights there are several lighted rooms. Workers have been hired on several different occasions to do restoration on the hotel, and due to the many unexplained incidents, the hotel restoration has never been completed and has changed hands several times. There have been several ghosts seen in several parts of the hotel, including the prostitute, the original owner, and two other men. Paranormal experts have visited the hotel many times and have determined that it is one of the nine portals that connect our world with the spirit world.
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