Perched high above Eureka Springs, Arkansas, the Crescent Hotel is marketed as America’s "most haunted hotel". Ghost tours tell of restless spirits, wandering patients, and a mad doctor who tortured patients. But before the Crescent became a haunted hotel, it was a luxury resort, a women’s college, and later, the setting for one of the most disturbing medical frauds of the twentieth century.https://citegeistpod.com/Have a ghost story you want to share? Leave a voice note or send an en email at htt...
Perched high above Eureka Springs, Arkansas, the Crescent Hotel is marketed as America’s "most haunted hotel". Ghost tours tell of restless spirits, wandering patients, and a mad doctor who tortured patients. But before the Crescent became a haunted hotel, it was a luxury resort, a women’s college, and later, the setting for one of the most disturbing medical frauds of the twentieth century.
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