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Hotel Provincial
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.
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Andrew Jackson Hotel
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.
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Hotel Monteleone
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.
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Bourbon Orleans Hotel
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.
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Omni Austin Hotel Downtown
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.
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The Driskill
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.
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Beacon Grand Hotel
The Beacon Grand opened in 1928 as the Sir Francis Drake, and an actor fell to his death from an eighth-floor window in 1965. Ghost tours say its most-reported ghost is a woman in a white evening gown.
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Fairmont San Francisco
The Fairmont was set to open on April 18, 1906, the morning the earthquake struck, and one of the two sisters who built it is said to return to check on her hotel.
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San Remo Hotel
Bank of America founder A.P. Giannini paid for this North Beach hotel in 1906 to shelter earthquake victims, and guides say a brothel madam called the Painted Lady still haunts Room 33.
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Westin St. Francis
Actress Virginia Rappe fell fatally ill at silent-film star Fatty Arbuckle's 1921 party in rooms 1219 to 1221, and Al Jolson died in the same suite in 1950. Ghost tours say the 12th floor holds three ghosts.
