Mission Inn

The Mission Inn began in 1876 as a small adobe boarding house run by the Miller family. Over the following decades Frank Miller built it into the sprawling Mission Revival hotel that fills a city block today, filling it with art and antiques from his travels. Beneath it runs a basement passage known as the catacombs, part of which visitors can see on guided tours; rumours that the tunnels once ran to Mount Rubidoux or a lost Chinatown have never been shown to be true. Frank and his sister Alice, who helped run the hotel, are the spirits most often named. Guests and staff report cold spots, a cold touch, apparitions and singing in the area of Alice's old fourth-floor rooms. One employee tells of an elderly guest, placed alone on an upper floor during construction work, who praised the woman singing beautifully in the next room, although no one else was staying on that floor.