Deep Woods Paranormal Podcast | America’s Most Haunted Hotels: The Terrifying Top 5

🕯️ Would you spend a night in one of America’s most haunted hotels? In this chilling episode of Deep Woods Paranormal, Matt checks into five of the most terrifying hotels in the United States — where guests check in… but not all check out.

Featuring:
🏨 The Stanley Hotel — Colorado
🏨 1886 Crescent Hotel — Arkansas
🏨 Omni Parker House — Massachusetts
🏨 Hotel Monteleone — Louisiana
🏨 The Menger Hotel — Texas

Explore their tragic histories, eerie hauntings, and the paranormal activity that keeps investigators and thrill-seekers coming back for more. From ghostly bellhops to haunted elevators, you’ll hear the stories that make these places legendary.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Well, hello, my paranormal peeps, and welcome back to the
deep Woods Paranormal Podcast. I'm your host, Matt Harvey. I'm
an investigator, I'm a storyteller, and someone spent more nights
and haunted locations than I can count. So across the
United States, the historical hotels hold more than memories behind
those elegant facades and whispers of tragedy, lingering souls and

(00:39):
the kind of energy that make sure he hairstand on end.
So grab your room key, let's go explore the five
most haunted hotels is stolen by guests if you're brave
enough to spend the night. All right, guys, So let's
start with the Stanley Hotel. And this is an Estes Park, Colorado,
So let's start with the legend. The Stanley Hotel built
a Knight eight sorry nineteen oh nine. This beautiful hotel

(01:03):
with white white men are inspired Stephen King's the Shining.
But you don't need to be in Hollywood to find
chills here. Room two seventeen is the most famous room
in the hotel. In nineteen eleven, housekeeper name Elizabeth Wilson
was caught an explosion that caused by a gas leak.
She survived, but her spirit may not have moved on.

(01:24):
Guest still report their belongings being neatly folded, lights chain
turned off on their own, and a phantom footstep pacing
the hall. That's kind of creepy. I've actually been to
the Stanley Hotel. I'll talk about nine just a minute.
Others hear a piano playing softly late in the night
in the empty ballroom. Local say it's Flora Stanley, the

(01:49):
hotel's founder's wife, keeping her music alive. So I guess
she used to play music during the night. Cold drafts,
shadowy figures, and even laughter echoing from nowhere. The Stanley
isn't just haunted, it's proud of it. They run nightly
ghost tours for anyone daring enough to wander its long
corridors after dark. So if you remember in The Shining

(02:10):
the Little Kids, actually supposedly Stephen King supposedly saw that
something like that, and that's possibly what triggered that for him.
There's a lot of ghosts that actually haunt the location.
You want I understand, And you know, if you've seen
the shows, you know that there's quite a few paranormal

(02:30):
teams that have investigated there. So my question to you is,
have you investigated the Stanley Hotel a man? And I
don't think a man and I've ever actually stayed there.
But I stayed there with my parents when we actually
went skiing one year up there once one winter during
winter break or whatever. And I didn't really feel very

(02:52):
comfortable in that hotel. I was only like eight or
nine maybe at that point in time. I don't remember
a lot about it. I do remember that the hotel
just creeped me out. But it's a beautiful hotel. I
mean not every room's haunted and everything. But if you
get a chance, I would go check it out. All right.
So let's talk about the Crescent Hotel and Spa in

(03:13):
Urica Springs, Arkansas. This was built in eighteen eighty six.
So if the Stanley Hill Hotel is spooky, the Crescent
Hotel is a pure nightmare. Fuel in the nineteen thirties
and a man named Norman Baker bought it and turned
it into a cancer hospital. Oh boy. He claimed he

(03:35):
could curate anyone without medicine, without surgery, but patients never
left when investigating investigators have convded the ground, excuse me.
Later that year, they found jarge full with human remains
and tissue samples, horrifying proof of his crimes. So it
sounds like he was actually operating on people and probably

(03:57):
killing them and basically just doing a topsy Today guest
reports seeing operations of patients in hospital gowns, ghostly nurses
pushing journeys, and lights flickering in the old treatment room.
One guest left coins on a dresser overnight. By morning,
they were perfectly rearranged in a neat triangle. Interesting. The

(04:19):
Crescent calls itself America's most haunted hotel, and it might
just be right. So I've actually never been to the
Crescent Hotel. It sounds like a very creepy hotel. Imagine.
You know, I've spent unfortunately many nights in hotel rooms,
in not only hotel rooms, but also in old hospitals

(04:41):
where things have happened. You hear like people talking and
whispering and stuff like that. And you know, like I said,
I've been through many many hotels in my life, and
probably thousands actually through my paranormal journey. But yeah, I mean,
I can't imagine staying in a room where somebody was

(05:02):
being operated on, and imagine what was going through those
people's minds as he was basically doing what he was doing.
I'm not going to even get graphic here because of
my own kids listening, but imagine you're being basically autopsied
while you're probably either slightly asleep or hopefully not awake, right.

(05:23):
That would cause just automatic trauma and for somebody to
take your life so soon. It's just amazing. If I
remember right, he had all kinds of I've actually seen
a special on this. He had like trapdoors and stuff
like that, and he would do all kinds of horrible things.
He would put carbon monoxide into rooms to hurt people

(05:48):
and stuff like that. This was like if you ever
ever seen the show Saw. I mean, this was basically
not that crazy, but it was just basically a death house.
And so imagine going in there and staying in there.
Imagine if he's still haunting those grounds. So that would
be insane to stay there, but it would be really

(06:12):
cool to investigate. I think as a paranormal investigator, we
always want to go into the most haunted locations and
see if you can document anything for yourself. And so, anyways,
have you guys investigated the President Hotel and spa. What
did you experience live a common down below? We'd love
to hear about it, all right. So next location, Omni

(06:37):
park House in Boston, Massachusetts. Our next. So this is
where history hauntings walk hand in hand. Founded by let's see,
founded in the eighteen fifties by Harvey Parker, This elegant
hotel once hosted Charles Dickens, JF. Kennedy, and dozens of
other American icons. But it's not the famous living guests

(07:00):
that make it legendary. Floors nine and ten are home
to flickering lights, sudden temperature drops, and the ghost of
Parker himself checking on guests long after death. The creepiest
story is the elevator that keeps stopping on. It's on
the third floor, and no one win. No one's inside

(07:21):
staff says it's Harvey taking one last patrol. U add
in moving shadows, disembodied laughter, and precise persistent scent of
scar smoke from an are long ago gone, and you're
we've got a haunted haunting that blends class and chops perfectly.

(07:41):
So yeah, I mean, we've smelled like old cigar smoke
in locations and you know you're looking for a reason
for it. You go up to the wallpaper and you're
looking at the old furniture and you're trying to figure
out what's coming from, but there's no It's weird because
there's no actual smell coming from those things that you

(08:03):
can smell. But then you're you walk down the way
and then all of a sudden, you get like a
puff of smoke in your in your your nostrils, and
you're like, what the heck? And then you get a
cold spot, and then maybe you hear footsteps or something else.
That's happened to me a few times where I've smelled
the smell of of like potpourri or something like that,

(08:27):
like old perfume. So yeah, I mean, definitely cool. You
know cold cold spots, that's just where energy is basically
being pulled out of the air, and that could be
the sign that spirit's going to do something because they're
using that energy to manifest in some way. At that point.

(08:48):
You might get an e VP, you might get something
coming through a ghost box or spirit box. You might get,
you know, an apparition caught on camera. You might get movement,
you might see a shadow, you might get some kind
of other activity. You might inherd, somebody voice, somebody might
see something. So yeah, very cool, very very cool. I've

(09:13):
had a lights flicker off and on. That's creepy, I'll
tell you what. And then you know the goes to
Parker Harvey himself. That would be really cool to see him,
like on the elevator and you know, door's open. He's
there and it's kind of like translucent and you see
him and then he pushes the button and then the
doors closed and he takes off up to the next

(09:35):
floor and you go running up the stairs.