The Haunting
by Marnie Patchett
Title
The Haunting
Artist
Marnie Patchett
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Photograph - Photograph
Description
The hotel is said to house a ghost deemed "the Lady in Red" by hotel guests who have experienced her presence. Legend says that the Lady in Red is the ghost of a prostitute who was beaten and murdered on the fifth floor of the hotel by a jealous ex-boyfriend. Another widely accepted description of the events is that The Lady in Red had been caught cheating by her husband at the hotel after he had missed a train, who then proceeded to kill her in a jealous rage. The Lady in Red haunting of the Mizpah was featured in season 5, episode 2 of Ghost Adventures on the Travel Channel.
The Mizpah Hotel is a historic hotel in Tonopah, Nevada. The five-story Mizpah was the tallest building in Nevada until 1929.
It was named after the Mizpah Mine and was the social hub of Tonopah. The hotel was pre-dated by the Mizpah Saloon, which opened in 1907, and was the first permanent structure in Tonopah.
According to legend, Wyatt Earp kept the saloon, Jack Dempsey was a bouncer, and Howard Hughes married Jean Peters at the Mizpah. But Wyatt Earp left Tonopah before the Mizpah was built, Hughes was married in Tonopah, but not at the Mizpah, and Dempsey asserted he was never a bouncer. The hotel nevertheless features the Jack Dempsey Room and the Wyatt Earp Bar.
The hotel had been shuttered since 1999, however, in early 2011, the hotel was purchased by Fred and Nancy Cline of Cline Cellars, Sonoma, CA who renovated and reopened the building to the public in August 2011.The newly renovated hotel features 47 rooms, a bar, and two restaurants; The Pittman Cafe and the more upscale Jack Dempsey Room. There are plans to renovate further rooms in the hotel annex and to add a small casino to the property.
Mizpah Hotel is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
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