6. The Hotel Monte Vista in Flagstaff, Arizona
Among the many persons who reported encountering ghosts in the Hotel Monte Vista was John Wayne, who claimed to have met a ghost there while staying at the hotel while making a film. The Duke reported meeting the ghost on more than one visit, according to the hotel’s website, and that the apparition was a bellboy. Several other guests have reported being visited by the bellboy, either via a knock on the door and the announcement of room service, followed by nobody being at the door, or by seeing the bellboy down the hall. Usually the bellboy is spotted waiting at the door of room 210. Although the hotel’s elevators are self-service, numerous guests and staff have reported an elevator attendant from time to time. The attendant appears more often to staff than to guests however, particularly housekeepers.
Other ghosts which have been reported in the Monte Vista include a little boy wandering the halls, who is sometimes heard but not seen. Staff have reported the sounds of a baby crying in the hotel basement, which is also occupied by a shadowy figure of an adult male. A woman in a rocking chair has been reported, sometimes with the chair simply rocking on its own. Barstools have been seen to move at random, as have drinks on the bar. The ghosts of two prostitutes killed in the hotel have been reported to still haunt a room on the third floor (some say the fourth floor). Televisions turn themselves on and off, lightbulbs unscrew themselves, and made beds become unmade despite being in an empty room behind a locked door. In 2016 the Hotel Monte Vista was named as the most haunted spot in Arizona.