Amargosa Hotel

Guests at the Amargosa Hotel describe a child crying at night in Room 24 when no children are staying, strange activity in Room 22, apparitions in the old miners' quarters known as Spooky Hollow, a presence in Room 32, and in Room 9, the room most often mentioned, something holding down their legs and a doorknob turning by itself. Local telling links Room 24 to a young girl who drowned in a bathtub, but no record of that death has been found. Ghost Adventures investigated the hotel. The Pacific Coast Borax Company built this adobe hotel and community hall in the 1920s at the heart of its company town. In 1967 New York dancer and painter Marta Becket, stranded nearby with a flat tyre, found the hall abandoned and rented it for $45 a month, and she performed there for more than four decades, painting an audience of Renaissance revellers on its walls so she would never dance to an empty house. She died in 2017, and a nonprofit now runs the hotel and opera house; the oldest wing remains closed to guests.