22 hotels and inns in 9 states, each with the story of what happened there and a way to book a room.
Spookt counts a hotel as haunted when someone puts their name to its ghost story: the hotel itself, a guide who tells it on tour, or a newspaper that printed it. A rumor with no teller doesn’t make the list. Every stay here has its own researched page, and where the story points to one room, the stay’s card names it.
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6 stays · 2 states
Hotel · New Orleans, Louisiana
Andrew Jackson won the Battle of New Orleans in January 1815 and two months later was fined $1,000 for contempt of court in a federal courthouse on this site. New Orleans TV station FOX 8 calls the hotel one of the city's most haunted.
Hotel · New Orleans, Louisiana
The hotel's Orleans Ballroom dates to 1817, and from 1881, it was a convent of the Sisters of the Holy Family. The hotel tells of a lone dancer in the ballroom and a little girl rolling her ball down the sixth-floor halls.
Hotel · New Orleans, Louisiana
Sicilian cobbler Antonio Monteleone bought a hotel on Royal Street in 1886, and his family still runs it. The hotel says guests have seen a toddler named Maurice Begere near the room where he died.
Hotel · New Orleans, Louisiana
Hotel Provincial says its land held a military hospital as early as 1722 and again during the Civil War. The travel guide Time Out reports that a Civil War soldier from those days is believed to haunt the hotel.
Hotel · Austin, Texas
Cattle baron Jesse Driskill opened his hotel in 1886, and ghost tour guide Monica Ballard tells of a guest who woke at 3 a.m. to find him at the window, puffing on a cigar.
Hotel · Austin, Texas
The Omni stands where the Republic of Texas housed its president in 1839, and urban legend gives the hotel a ghost known only as Jack, a guest said to have jumped from a balcony.
Haunted hotels by city guide: San Francisco, New Orleans, Salem, Chicago, Austin, Seattle
The Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, bills itself as America’s Most Haunted Hotel, and it runs its own ghost tours every night. The Myrtles Plantation in Louisiana makes a smaller claim: it bills itself as one of America’s most haunted homes.
Some hotels sell their haunted rooms by name: the Stanley Hotel books Room 217 as the 217 Spirited Grand King, and the Crescent lists Michael’s Room, Room 218, on its guest rooms page. The Queen Mary sells Stateroom B340 on her own website as the B340 Suite. At the Driskill there’s no promise: the hotel doesn’t sell Room 525, where the legend of its two jilted brides is set, as a haunted room.
Yes. At the Bourbon Orleans Hotel, Room 644 was “believed to be the most haunted room in the hotel,” The Advocate, a Baton Rouge daily, reported in 2014. The Hotel Monteleone’s own website names one ghost, a toddler called Maurice Begere, and says guests report seeing him near the room where he died.
Yes. The Driskill, in Austin, topped the list of the 20 most haunted places in Texas that Yelp drew up in 2021 by searching visitors’ reviews for words like “haunted,” “spooky,” and “ghosts.” The Omni Austin Hotel Downtown has a ghost story of its own, about a guest known only as Jack, and the details change with the teller.
In Long Beach, the Queen Mary rents out staterooms themed to her ghosts, and her general manager said in 2018 that “the stateroom with the most infamous reputation is room B340.” The Hotel del Coronado says Kate Morgan, a guest found shot dead on its steps to the beach in 1892, turns up mostly in her old third-floor room. In San Francisco, Room 1219 at the Westin St. Francis is said to be the most haunted room in the hotel.
Yes. Tony Szabelski, a guide with the ghost tour company Chicago Hauntings, tells every tour group that if any place in Chicago is haunted, it’s the Congress Plaza Hotel. Choose Chicago, the group that markets the city to visitors, ranks the Drake a “strong second,” with a Lady in Red said to haunt its 10th floor.
