While monitoring our subject sleeping in Theodora’s room [Room 419], several lamps turned themselves on and off. First it was a floor lamp in the couch/TV area. Then it was the nightstand lamp right beside the bed. While we were marveling over the bedside lamp switching on and off, the closet door in the room opened all by itself!
–– Rich Newman of Memphis Tennessee, Paranormal Inc founder on location at the Crescent Hotel for a Japanese television show

I put Eureka Springs on my itinerary because I had vague but pleasant memories of the town from a trip with my first husband when I was nineteen. Little Switzerland, I think it was called then.
I don’t remember where we stayed, but it wasn’t the Crescent Hotel. I’m not sure it was in operation at that time, but if it was, it would have been completely out of our newlywed budget.
On this trip in June 2019 I booked the hotel because of its reputation as “America’s Most Haunted Hotel.” Jeri and Darci had stayed there in 2017, and Jeri told me about her experience in Michael’s Room:
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