THE STORY
Reported Haunting
Hotel Savoy is considered one of Kansas City's best-known haunted hotels. Guests and staff have reported apparitions, phantom footsteps, mysterious voices, and unexplained activity in guest rooms and hallways. The hotel's long history has produced numerous accounts of lingering spirits.
It is said that Betsy Ward, who lived here in the late 1800s, died in room 505 of this hotel, although how she died is uncertain. One story says she committed suicide in the bathtub; another that there was foul play. Both guests and staff have heard unexplained voices, seen shadows, and heard doors open and close by themselves in the vicinity of Room 505. There have been many other strange occurrences here as well: Some reported a feeling of being watched and followed on the second floor where a restaurant manager was allegedly stabbed to death by the dishwashers in 1990. There have also been clear EVPs and pictures that showed orbs and apparitions. Some have seen a little girl in Victorian clothing on the fourth floor. Also, the elevator often gets stuck on the fourth floor, or else it will send passengers to the sixth instead when they push the fourth floor button.