THE STORY
Reported Haunting
The Coates House Hotel is one of Kansas City's oldest haunted buildings. Reports include ghostly apparitions, phantom footsteps, mysterious voices, and sightings believed to be connected to former guests and victims of the hotel's tragic fires.
The Coates House was a hotel that opened in 1867 and had some famous guests, including three presidents: William McKinley, Grover Cleveland and Theodore Roosevelt. A fire in 1978 killed at least 16 folks in the homeless shelter the building had by then become. Now, folks say shadowy figures move about in the building, make strange noises and tinker with appliances.