Redmont Hotel

The Redmont opened in downtown Birmingham in 1925. On December 30, 1952, Hank Williams and his young driver, turned away by another hotel, checked in here on their way to a New Year's show in Ohio. It was the last hotel Williams stayed in: he was found dead in the back seat of the car at a stop in Oak Hill, West Virginia, in the early hours of January 1. Guests have long reported a figure they take to be Williams on the upper floors. Staff also tell of a longtime owner, Clifford Stiles, who kept an apartment on the top floor and is said to still make surprise inspections, pulling sheets from beds and knocking over cleaning carts. A woman in white has been reported on the ninth floor, along with doors opening and closing and furniture that moves by itself.