🏨 Hotel Congress
Built in 1919. The Dillinger capture is just the beginning.
The Hotel has several well-documented haunted rooms. Room 242 is known as the "woman in the white dress" room. Guests have reported being awakened by a heaviness in the air and seeing a woman sitting on their bed. She appears ghostly, dressed in white, and sometimes lies down beside them. She is said to have taken her own life, and a bullet hole is still present if you know where to look.
Read the full Hotel Congress story →🎭 Rialto Theatre
Opened in 1920. The show never really ended.
In the mid-1940s, the piano player in the orchestra pit was killed when his bench collapsed and the piano fell on him. His spirit is said to haunt the theater. Footsteps heard upstairs at night, mutterings and murmurings, and a shadowy presence seen moving across the stage area have all been documented through paranormal investigations.
Read the full Rialto Theatre story →🏚️ 57 S Scott Ave (Site of the Santa Rita Hotel)
Once Tucson's most elegant hotel. The building is gone. The stories aren't.
Seven people died at the Santa Rita Hotel. In 1939, a young boy was found dead at the bottom of the pool after his parents retired to the hotel bar. When hotel staff awakened his still-intoxicated parents the next morning, they made their way to the rooftop garden and jumped to their deaths, hitting the concrete alongside the pool.
Read the full 57 S Scott Ave (Site of the Santa Rita Hotel) story →⛪ St. Augustine Cathedral
The mother church of Tucson. A 600-year-old cross. And a woman in black who doesn't behave like the living.
A persistent sighting through the decades is that of a woman dressed in black, walking to and fro in front of the church. She has appeared at all hours, day and night, and is described as a woman in mourning. Several people have reported approaching her only to watch her turn her head around, and around, and around. No one has arrived at a satisfactory explanation for her presence at the cathedral steps.
Read the full St. Augustine Cathedral story →🎬 Fox Theater
When it opened, the whole city danced in the street.
The most frequently seen apparition is a shabbily dressed man who appears outside the Fox and asks passersby for money to feed his family before disappearing into thin air.
Read the full Fox Theater story →🔥 Pioneer Hotel
December 20, 1970. A Christmas party. A fire. 28 lives.
Even after rebuilding and refurbishing, the horror of that night had tarred the Pioneer's reputation. It was eventually converted into an office building. The hauntings are well-documented: the sound of running footsteps on the upper floors, murmurings and shrieks in empty rooms, the smell of smoke (especially on the upper floors and in the stairwells), and the rare apparition of a person running wildly through an upper hallway.
Read the full Pioneer Hotel story →🎵 Francisco Studios
Recording studios where playback reveals more than the session captured.
Musicians practicing inside the studios have reported consistent paranormal activity. One man watched his water bottle fly off a shelf before a door slammed shut on its own. As he hurried to leave, a stereo set crashed to the floor. Running down the stairs, he felt something pushing him toward the bottom.
Read the full Francisco Studios story →🚂 Tucson Amtrak Station
The vendetta that started at the O.K. Corral ended right here.
The station and the adjacent Transportation Museum are a swirl of paranormal phenomena: wispy apparitions, doors slamming, footsteps on empty tile, and muted voices. One employee reported frequently smelling strong, strange perfume in the women's bathroom. Merchandise has been rearranged on shelves overnight. Lives were lost laying the tracks and running the trains, and the old depot has a way of holding onto the people who passed through it.
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