Welcome To Eureka Springs Eternal Elegy Ghost Tour
The healing springs may comfort the unwell, but at what cost? From a hotel built on the charred remains of a 19th-century relic to a bath house with a phantom seeking comfort in the afterlife, Eureka Springs’ past is primed for a rather haunted present.
The Shadows of the Perry House Hotel
The brilliantly lit exterior of the Basin Park Hotel is a stark contrast to the shadows that move about the 20th-century lodging. Years before its grand opening in 1905, its grounds belonged to the Perry House, a smaller hotel that succumbed to a fire 15 years earlier. Though the original structure is gone, the energies within are dispersed throughout the Basin Park Hotel.
Explore the unknown with Eureka Springs Spirits and uncover the ghosts and shadows keeping guests up at night. Dark masses dart just out of view while unseen spirits rattle nerves with unsettling and unexplainable noises. Photographic evidence has depicted a human-shaped haze in front of a window as if a phantom is watching the world progress around it.
Paranormal investigators and guests alike have been victims of the antics of Basin Park’s resident haunts. Sleep can be difficult in this very haunted hotel, where unseen figures scrape along the floor and apparitions appear without warning.
What Will I See?
Visit Eureka Springs’s Most Haunted Locations, Including:
- Basin Park Hotel – Built on the ashes of a fallen hotel, Basin Park is home to spirits with no known origin. Shifty shadows and eerie spectral encounters surprise guests at every turn, sometimes even robbing them of sleep.
- Chelsea’s Corner Cafe – Chelsea’s is a local favorite watering hole, serving up late-night entertainment and mid-day casual dining. It’s so revered that deceased patrons from its earlier days return to enjoy the live music and lively scene.
- Carroll County Courthouse – The Lady in White returns time and time again to plead her case and seek the justice she never received. Her presence is matched only by the mysterious force that kept the central tower’s original clock from working.
Carroll County’s Lady in White
Courthouses are where justice is meant to be served. Not all who walked through the doors of the Carroll County Courthouse found justice, though. Some left with their story unheard, and the truth buried by those in power. For the Lady in White, it’s the injustice that keeps her bound to the early-20th-century courthouse.
Join Eureka Springs Eternal Elegy Ghost Tour just outside the light brick building where the echo of a desperate ghost returns to plead her case. The luminescent Lady in White has been spotted in the Judge’s Chambers, as if on an eternal hunt for justice.
Could her impassioned pleas emanate enough energy to interfere with the mechanics of a clock? Something certainly gave a local clock repairman difficulties, as he struggled to get the clock to work when placed in the now-empty center tower. It was so bad that even the repairman suggested it was haunted.
Why is Eureka Springs so Haunted?
The Underground Tunnels of Eureka Springs
Legend states that a series of tunnels once snaked beneath Eureka Springs. It’s in this subterranean network where secrets went to be buried. Thought to once be a den for prostitution, outlaws, and other scandalous lawbreakers, the tunnels are heavy with thick air, an accumulation of negative energy that built up over the years.
Stand before a mysterious staircase said to lead to the underground system. There’s need to explore beneath the earth to feel the spectral influence, though. Just next door, the Rowdy Beaver Den bears the mark of the boisterous spirits said to have ties to the tunnel system.
An impossible reflection flashes in the mirror, the strong scent of cigar smoke with no source fills the air, and cold eyes gaze down from the second-story balcony. Do they all have ties to the Rowdy Beaver? Or is the den just a cover for a grim and forgotten history tucked away beneath Eureka Springs?
Eureka Springs’s Most Haunted
The gothic exterior of Penn Castle gives off the allure of a haunted house, and it delivers on a promise of specters and apparitions. The old building once belonged to a pastor who left a piece of himself behind when departing the moral plane. The pastor is a part of the castle and is said to be responsible for the knocks and moving objects.
Performers often find it difficult to let go of their past lives. Intrigue Theater presents an opportunity for a former dancer to enjoy one last romp on the stage. Sadly, her ethereal form means very few would even see it. Waiting patiently for the right music, the lone ghost sometimes dances on stage to a silent tune.
A cancer institute turned lodging, the Crescent Hotel still bears the markings of its prior life. Chief among them: the souls of those who were victims of Norman Baker’s unethical practices. Do they seek justice for Baker’s deceptions, or are they seeking care, unaware of the truth behind the Crescent’s resident specter?
* This is a walking tour and we do not enter privately-owned buildings or private property *
