Empty Hotel Room
There is a hotel in the Nevada desert that has stood guest-less for over 60 years, looming over the once prosperous and bustling boom-town of Goldfield. Aptly named the Goldfield Hotel, this stone and brick behemoth of the desert happens to be very haunted.
It was built on the site where two previous incarnations had burned to the ground. Phoenix rising from the dust in gleaming granite and brick glory during a gold-fueled, wild-west heyday. But no sooner than the hotel was built did the gold start to dry up and the town begin to die. And the once-lavish hotel began to fade away. Still, despite a series of fires and floods that have ravaged the town over time, the Goldfield Hotel remains, a little rough around the edges, but virtually unscathed after all these years. The strong, silent type with a mysterious past.
Many ghosts are said to haunt the Goldfield, including a young woman named Elizabeth, who, as the story goes, was a prostitute that became pregnant with the hotel owner’s child. Rumor has it that she was chained to a radiator in Room 109 and left for dead, and her baby thrown down the mine shaft that runs underneath the hotel. But Elizabeth is only one of many spirits suspected to roam the long, dark hallways of this stone oasis of sorts. In fact, the hotel is claimed by psychics to be one of 7 portals to the other side. In addition, its haunted reputation has been fueled by TV and film coverage from shows like FOX’s “Scariest Places on Earth” and the “Ghost Adventures” documentary and series.
To enter the Goldfield Hotel is to be swallowed up by a living, breathing entity. Gulp. Smack. And there you are, in the belly of the beast. Inside, the air is thick with ancient dust, creating an otherworldly lens through which the outside world disappears. An initial calm gives way almost immediately to an uneasy certainty that you are being watched by a host of unidentified eyes. Eyes that have known this place for a very, very long time. And you know that not only are they watching you, but they knew you were coming. The quiet air of the lobby is filled with an awkward politeness. You feel welcome, but you can’t escape the undercurrent of unease. Inside the Goldfield Hotel, the feeling persists that the very fabric of reality could simply unravel at any moment.
Inside the Goldfield, we experienced events not quite like any we had experienced before. The level of activity and the seeming intelligence of it not only stunned us but at times, frightened us. There were moments during our investigation where we investigators knew that we were not the ones in control, and the feeling was terrifying.
Sitting on the 4th floor at the T-junction of two hallways while footsteps approached from both the front and the sides. Getting ready to roll a rubber ball down the hall and having pebbles thrown and rolled at us instead. In fact we had pebbles thrown on 2 separate floors. Growls. Growls? Yes, audible growling sounds. Intelligent growling sounds no less. Audible direct responses to questioning. Sounds of objects moving around us, with no visible or physical explanation. Many times it felt as though something was toying with us. Not knowing who or what that something was, was unsettling to say the least. Bangs, crashes, creaking, groaning, shuffling, mysterious lights, K-2 hits, disembodied voices, music, laughter and shadows. This was one very active location.
While some of what we experienced will have to be filed in the “personal experiences” category, we were able to capture a surprising amount of evidence (not all of which will fit in this one post, so stay tuned for more), and we invite you to judge for yourselves, beginning with the following 6 audio clips.
For those of us who were there, there is no question as to whether the Goldfield Hotel is haunted, but what we are left wondering is, by how many, who and why?
-LMH
***Note*** You will want to listen to the following EVP’s with headphones on and volume up.
EVP 1 – Step Out Into the Corridor
There were 3 of us in the hotel, and we were standing together in the basement at the t-junction of 2 hallways. We were calling down the hallway because we were hearing odd noises from down there – growls, bangs, movement, voices… it had been raining, so you can also hear dripping. In this clip, Brian asks whoever or whatever was communicating with us to step out into the corridor and we hear a voice that sounds a bit like a whispery growl say “yeah” in response.
This was taken from Los Angeles Paranormal Association and is copyright by the articles owner
