Crescent Hotel
Top Ten Haunted Hotels in US
Eureka Springs, Ark

Investigation: April 20 - 22, 2007
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Our trip to Eureka Springs, Arkansas and the world-famous Crescent Hotel was great, though a little less exciting than last year.  The Team was able to perform several investigations including the "Autopsy Room", the halls of the Hotel and the outside grounds.  A huge hand of gratitude to Diana and Josh for getting the proper channels to agree to our investigation.  The general investigation of the halls of the Crescent showed some fluctuations in temperature in some of the more active areas such as the north-side third floor and quite a bit of orb activity in the hall of the second floor.  There were no EMF activations, however.

The Autopsy Room had some fabulous activity.  We were blessed to be able to work with a local psychic, Diana Clifton, who also leads the Ghost Tours of the hotel.  She was able to make contact with a female entity who she felt had passed in the hotel.  The EMF detector spiked during their interaction and several large orbs were present as well.  Gary was able to get a picture of an apparition in the "Parts Room" area of the basement in front of a locker.  This is the same area where the famous TAPS crew captured video of an apparition with an IR video camera.

The grounds of the Crescent, while very beautiful and moving, did not offer any other evidence.  The trip was wonderful and RIP Studies highly encourages anyone who is interested to visit the Grand Old Lady of the Ozarks and take the time to attend the Crescent Ghost Tour.

The Crescent Hotel, Old Lady of the Ozarks, is a fabulous trip for anyone interested in the paranormal.  The hotel was built as a world-famous spa for the elite in the 1880s; but when interested declined, it was turned into a college for girls in the winters.  It closed down for a few years and in the 1930s it was reopened by Norman Baker who promoted it as a hospital with a cure for cancer (and himself as a doctor).  After he was prosecuted as a fake, the hotel closed down until reopening a few years later as the Crescent Hotel.  Today, the halls, rooms and banquet halls are alive with the sounds of laughter and pain as the "residents of the past" who haunt the halls move among the living today.

The following are two pictures taken by a friend of RIPS, Sharon Jones of Lawton, while she and a group of friends were looking around outside the hotel one very late night/early morning.  She was taking pictures of fountains at the Catholic church on the hotel grounds.  After getting home and looking through them, she found this picture of what looks like a lady looking through the glass window in the upper left of the picture.  The second picture is an enlargement of the window.