Woman: Welcome to the Mizpah Hotel.
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Woman: Welcome to the Mizpah Hotel. An historic beacon at Central Nevada's mining boom that
came and went and left behind a trail of tiny towns and ghost towns. Mizpah has been called
the most haunted hotel in America and during my road trip between Reno and Las Vegas, I
just had to stop in and check it out for myself.
G: That is the corkiest thing.
Woman: It might be though honestly. We're passing by the weirdest things right now.
G: They take the totality of it. I don't think any other state can beat it.
Woman: Besides the glitz and the glitter of Vegas and the biggest little city in the world,
that's Reno, there aren't a whole lot of big towns in Nevada. And as you drive through
it may very well feel like the land that time forgot. But for those of us who love the weird
and amazing, there is pool of wild west treasures here. The Mizpah is the halfway point between
Vegas and Reno in Tonopah, Nevada, population of around 2,000. We have officially checked
in, this lighting is awful and...
G: It's creepy lighting...
Woman: We got the Lady in Red room, which is like the most haunted room here and I'm
very excited about it.
G: Oh yeah.
Woman: There you go. Oh. Holy shit. I don't know if you saw my Berlin apartment tour but
this is really that vibe. So this is like super my style, I really like it. It's like
the Gryffindor room/ the room where someone got murdered. So...Well, Harry Potter was
pretty murderous too. It's on theme.
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G: What are you doing?
Woman: I'm in the bathtub
G: With your clothes on.
Woman: I wanted the experience without wasting all the water. It's got like these really
cool claws and it feels like very Taylor Swift circa like 2017 "Reputation" album. Right?
G: I guess.
Woman: What's your problem?
G: I know one's over here.
Woman: Over here? And you're claiming that it was not there before. Have the shenanigans
already began? So apparently this is the most haunted room in the hotel. And there was a
woman, a lady of the night, who was murdered here, strangled, either by a jealous ex-boyfriend,
wasn't it?
G: Nobody knows.
Woman: Well, there was probably bad PR back then but now it makes for one of the most
famous rooms in the whole hotel, that's why we had to stay in this room. Let's see what...
G: Let's see if we see the Lady in Red.
Woman: Oh God, wouldn't that be fun? Okay, it's time to go to bed. Moment of truth, I
guess. Will we be visited by a ghost or not? Absolutely.
G: Absolutely.
Woman: G says absolutely? I think absolutely not. We'll see who's right. Good morning.
I don't think we had any paranormal...is paranormal the right word? We still got one more night
to go though and hopefully a little tour around the haunted facilities here today.
Mizpah originally opened in 1908 at the height of Tonopah's silver boom. At the time it was
the tallest building in Nevada and was one of the first luxury hotels in the state. It
hosted celebrities and wealthy investors who flocked to the town during its silver boom.
It was even known to be frequented by Hyatter Howard Hughes who got married in Tonopah.
However time took its toll, several murders took place on the hotel grounds and it closed
and reopened several times. The hotel was reopened after being shattered for 10 years
in 2001. And now it's the perfect peek into the past as it's retained its charm with much
of the original furniture from the grand opening in 1908. So for those who love the porky and
the creepy, it's a delight. And personally, I fucking love this kind of thing. I know
you're here for the juicy stuff. Is the hotel truly haunted? To get the full experience
I asked the hotel manager Chambria to show me around and tell me a little about the history.
All right, guys, this is Chambria. She's the manager here, right?
Chambria: I'm the sales manager.
Woman: Sales manager. She's gonna tell us the spooky history and show us around a little
bit.
Chambria: So the two children that we have on the spore, they are just like your typical
kids, they are very rambunctious, they like to kind of stare at guests. A lot of times
when they are trying to get on the elevator, they can feel tagging on their clothing, running
up and down the halls, knocking on the doors, jumping on the beds. We have a gentleman that's
kind of roamed the entire hotel. We know nothing about him except for the fact that he's a
soldier. And you can see him very clearly. Guests have seen the gray uniform that he's
actually wearing.
Woman: What?
Chambria: And he's all over the place. People have seen him in the lobby, they have seen
him in the Jack Dempsey room. So there's some theories that people have had over the years
before they were actually deployed they actually stayed here at the hotel. Kind of getting
the last hoorah before being deployed. Maybe this was his happy place, you know, to...he
just..this is where he would spend eternity recently, so. But nobody knows anything about
him.
There's so much activity going on in the basement as far as paranormal is. I've actually had
a few experiences myself doing tours. So one of the ones that will always stand out to
me was I actually had a gentleman standing probably about this close to me and he, like,
kind of gets a little closer and goes "Hey." It scared the crap out of me. It was so unexpected
and like I didn't tell anybody...
Woman: There was no one there?
Chambria: There was nobody there. It was so funny because we were standing...I was standing
here and I gave my group the slayer turn and, you know, let them to down the hallway. They
hang back, you know, I'm just waiting for them. Well, it happened while I was standing
by myself and I was like okay, let's move, like let's keep going.
Woman: So this is the Halloween decor?
Chambria: The best part of the hotel. It's actually part of the old mining tunnel. So
they actually dug a tunnel, an extra tunnel from the mining tunnel, up under into the
vault and robbed the bank.
Woman: Genius.
Chambria: So they took all the money. Well, unfortunately, for two of them they did not
make it out. Their partner became greedy and he actually shot his two accomplices and left
them at the bottom of the tunnel. And took all the money for himself and he was never
caught.
Woman: This is the true wild west out here. As wild as it gets...
Chambria: Welcome to Nevada.
Woman: Yeah. So Tonopah, my friends, is not just this haunted hotel. Oh no. It's this
old like historic town, it used to be of like silver boom town so there's a lot of really
old buildings here that are really cool. And a clown motel and some really cool sand dunes
that we're about to go check out.
G: And a solar field.
Woman: And a solar field.
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Woman: There's even more clowns than I imagined or expected or could have hoped for.
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Woman: A lot of the people here died in mining-related accidents, which I guess isn't surprising
because this is an old silver mining town but...
G: And/or tuberculosis or pneumonia.
Woman: Okay or an illness, which is I guess how most people die. But this is one of the
creepiest trips I've had so far, haunted hotel, clown hotel and now this old cemetery. Should
we do something not creepy?
G: Yes.
Woman: Yeah, let's head to the sand dunes.
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Woman: So, at the end, I'm left wondering, is it really a haunted hotel at the Mizpah?
Apart from a few strange happenings like my phone absolutely not working besides having
full LTE, I can't say that I personally experienced anything particularly weird at the Mizpah
Hotel. But word on the street is you have to just keep going back and hoping that it
might happen the next time you go.
Well, that was definitely a spooky, awesome time at the Mizpah Hotel. There is a whole
bunch more videos on this channel of Traveling Through Nevada especially on the Highway 95
between Reno and Vegas. So check them out. If you like this video, share it, subscribe
for more stuff like this and I'll see you soon.
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