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Haunted Motels, Inns, and Hotels of America

Heather R.
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Duration
7h 23m
Year
2026
Language
English

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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.

Some guests never check out.

From neon roadside motels to grand hotels that have hosted presidents and poets, this book checks in at the most haunted places to lay your head in all fifty states. The lobbies where deals were made and blood was spilled. The rooms that stay booked even when the registry says they are empty. The staff who still work floors guests refuse to walk.

Inside you'll find:

The Omni Parker House in Boston, America's longest continuously operating hotel, where the founder still paces and literary spirits linger

The Mizpah in Tonopah, built on Nevada's silver boom, where Rose, the Lady in Red, still walks the halls

The Lemp Mansion in St. Louis, where a brewing family's tragedies stacked until the house itself could not hold them

The Driskill in Austin, oldest operating hotel in the city, where cattle baron Jesse Driskill is still playing the poker game he lost

The Menger in San Antonio, standing on Alamo ground, with its fifth-floor guest and Room 501

The Thomas House in Red Boiling Springs, Tennessee, ranked among the most active paranormal locations in America

The Ahwahnee in Yosemite, whose grand halls inspired the Overlook Hotel, and the managers who never left

The Geiser Grand in Baker City and Manresa Castle in Port Townsend, where gold rush wealth and a Jesuit seminary left their own company behind



Every property gets the same treatment: the history, the ghosts, and what guests and staff still report today.

Perfect for road-trippers, ghost hunters, and anyone who has ever eyed a motel sign and wondered who stayed there last.

Part of the Folklore and Legends series, where the land remembers it all.

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