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Historic haunted places in Hot Springs, AR. Each page gives the ghost story, whether visitors can go, and a link to the site the story came from. The stories are folklore, not documented fact.
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Suite 443, known as Al Capone's room, gets the most reports: cigar smoke in a non-smoking room, a doorknob turning in the night and lights switching back on. Guest accounts became …
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
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Local legend says a 1941 illness swept through one ward and killed most of its patients, though no records confirm it. Since the hospital closed in 2019, people have reported figur…
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
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This theater, now home to a magic show, was featured on Travel Channel's 'Portals to Hell' in 2022, where the crew recorded disembodied voices and unexplained banging. Local press …
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
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Management allows after-hours ghost hunts inside this historic bathhouse, now a brewery. Investigators call the basement boiler room the most active area, reporting fast-draining b…
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
Hot Springs' haunted frame is a resort built on water and, for a generation, on gambling. Madden arriving in 1935 and settling in easily, word spreading that Hot Springs was "the perfect hideout for criminals running from police investigations," until "gangster activity in Hot Springs came to an end in the 1960s, due to a federal crackdown on what the government called 'the site of the largest illegal gambling operation in the U.S.'" That is the tourism authority's summary, recorded as such.
The Arlington Resort Hotel & Spa, on its own homepage as collected, is a "majestic 1920s hotel" with double towers "presiding proudly over the heart of downtown Hot Springs," which has welcomed guests "for over a century." The hotel's own FAQ, as collected, adds its present facts: it is "the largest hotel in Hot Springs," at 239 Central Avenue, "directly in downtown Hot Springs and steps from Bathhouse Row and Hot Springs National Park."
Downtown's walking-tour ground is Central Avenue itself. Hot Springs Haunted Tours, on its Visit Hot Springs listing page as collected, promises "several haunted buildings, with the oldest dating back to the early 1800's," on a route sold at 430 Central Avenue. The second walking product, Let's Roam's self-guided ghost hunt, names its five stops on its own page: the Malco Theatre, the Fordyce Bathhouse, the Ohio Club, the Medical Arts Building and the Arlington Resort Hotel — a bathhouse, a theatre, a club, a medical tower and the grand hotel, which between them are the spa city's whole cast of building types.
This section is folklore — reported by the sources cited, and never asserted as fact here.
Hot Springs Haunted Tours' own listing copy names no individual ghost, victim or incident: it offers "the dark, morbid side of Hot Springs, both past and present" and topics — "hauntings, mysteries, murders, deaths, and suicides" — without attaching a story to a name on the page collected. Let's Roam's collected page is similarly general: its reviewer quotes, carried on the operator's own page, speak of "haunted tales around Malco Theatre," "local legends at Ohio Club" and "urban legends near Arlington Resort Hotel," and its stop list calls Fordyce Bathhouse a place to "uncover spooky facts," but the page names no ghost and tells no specific tale in the text collected. No individual Hot Springs ghost story from either operator is asserted or summarised here, because none was in the material.
The one named underworld figure is historical, not spectral, and the haunting-adjacent lore around him is kept to what the sources say. The Arlington's own homepage sells "The Capone Suite, once reserved by the infamous Al Capone, who not only stayed here but booked the entire fourth floor for his guests." Luciano was arrested at the hotel in a separate episode the same account recounts. Those are that account's details, attributed as such; the hotel's own collected pages give no room number.
Hountix lists 4 places in Hot Springs, AR. Seasonal attractions keep their own open dates, so check each business's own site before you go.
The Arlington's own collected pages are entirely, almost pointedly, un-haunted — and that is the honest core of its story here. Its homepage presents "Historic Charm and Modern Comforts": a "majestic 1920s hotel" with "double towers, intricate architectural details, and a grand lobby adorned with chandeliers and crown molding," cascading outdoor pools, a Salon & Spa and a "historical Thermal Bathhouse," at 239 Central Avenue, with the claim that "history isn't just remembered — it's lived, breathed, and celebrated every day." Its FAQ, as collected, covers rooms, renovations ("Exterior restoration has been completed, and work has now moved indoors"), pet-friendly rooms at a $60 fee, and its status as the largest hotel in Hot Springs. Neither collected page mentions a ghost, a haunting or a paranormal tour.
What the hotel does publish is the gangster suite. Its homepage's room list leads with "The Capone: Step into history in the Capone Suite, once reserved by the infamous Al Capone, who not only stayed here but booked the entire fourth floor for his guests," priced from $470 in the collected text, alongside a Babe Ruth Suite ("a tribute to the legendary slugger who called Hot Springs 'the most exotic place he'd ever seen,'" per the hotel) and Mineral Water Rooms, where "hot springs mineral water is piped directly into your private bathtub."
The dated history and the haunting reputation both come from outside the hotel's own pages, and are attributed as such. Aggregated haunted-history pages in the research also report a woman in white and upper-floor activity at the Arlington, but those pages were low-quality aggregators, this batch did not rely on them, and the claim is recorded here only as an unverified report — not as the hotel's lore and not as fact.
*Website: https://www.arlingtonhotel.com/*