Arkansas

Eureka Springs

Crescent Hotel

A room in this seventy-eight year old resort hotel is haunted by the ghost of Michael, and Irish stonemason who worked on the hotel when it
was being built in 1885. The man fell from the roof and died in the second floor area which became Room 218. Now he plays tricks with the
lights and TV, or pounds loudly from inside the thick walls in the room. There are also other spirits here. The ghost of a nurse dressed in white
has been reported on the third floor. A gentlemen in Victorian clothing haunts the lobby. He has been spotted at the bottom of the stairway and
sitting at the lobby bar. Other apparitions have been sighted in Rooms 202 and 424. Built in the early 1800s, the resort hotel was used as a
college in the 1920's and became a somewhat controversial hospital/health resort in the late 1930's. The confused ghost of Doctor Baker, the
Charlatan who ran the hospital in the 1930's, has been seen in the old recreation room and at the foot of the first floor stairway.

Little Rock

Highway 365

Several versions of the Vanishing Hitchhiker legend originate on the highways between Little Rock and surrounding communities. Someone
picks up a young girl hitchhiking, usually on a rainy night, and when the driver gets to the house where the girl wants to get out she disappears.
The astonished driver knocks on the door of the residence only to be told that the ghost of the owner's daughter returns on the anniversary of
their death. The girl died in a car wreck at the spot where the driver picked her up US highway 64 north of Little Rock is the stomping ground of
another highway ghost, but this one has a name Laura Starr Latta died a month before her twentieth birthday in an accident on the old road in
1899. The haunted area on Highway 365 is from Little Rock to Woodson, and the Redfield to Pine Bluff.

The area of US Highway 64 runs from the Conway to Morrilton.

Monticello

Old Allen House

This home was built by Joe Lee Allen (a prosperous farmer) in 1900. Shortly after his daughter, LaDell Allen's suicide of drinking cyanide she
she started to haunt the house in the 1940's. The huge house was converted to apartments in the 1950's, and many tenants have reported her
ghostly manifestations. One couple trapped a phantom in a closet and struggled to shut the door on the giggling ghost. A doctor living in one of
the rooms took a photograph of the dead girls' reflection in a mirror. Literary scholars believe that author Carolyn Wilson based he book Scent of
Lilac on her experiences while living there. Police have been called to the apartments on several occasions to investigate reported of prowlers on
the upper floors, but no living person has ever been found. The owners have denied permission to parapsychologists wanting to set up
monitoring equipment in the old house.

Bibliography: Hauck, Dennis. Haunted Places: Ghost abodes, sacred sites, UFO landings, and other supernatural locations. New York:
Penguin Book, 1994.