THE STORY
Reported Haunting
The historic Morse Mill Hotel has accumulated reports of spectral figures, disembodied voices, slamming doors, phantom cooking smells, and unseen hands touching guests. Its varied past as a farmhouse, hotel, and alleged wartime hospital has inspired decades of paranormal lore.
Built in 1816 as a farmhouse, the hotel had its heyday in the 1920s and ’30s. Clara Bow, Charles Lindbergh, Jesse James and Al Capone are among the famous guests who stayed here, as well as serial killer Bertha Gifford, who killed many victims by poisoning with arsenic. Witnesses have reported apparitions, photographic images, footsteps, voices, and cold breezes among other phenomena.