Ive acually been there and i really like the way the hotel has a book documenting the phenominon with acual pictures that people has taken and hand written storys of there encounters. I think thats a really good idea on the hotels part to do that.

I really like how the hotel has a book of hand written acounts of storys from people that have stayed at the hotel with acual pictures they have taken. I think its a really good idea and wish more places that have supernatural activity had somthing like that.

ive seen the guy and talked to sherrif bullock

just kidding. but i have never heard tht story before and i live in sd.

When I was younger, probably around 7, I stayed at the hotel with my parents and my twin sister. Early in the moring I heard a loud knock on the door but no one woke up except for my twin sister and I. I looked up and could see Seth Bullock in the reflection of the mirror standing next to my bed. I realized that my sister had seen it too because she gave me the wierdest look. It was strange because it really didn’t freak us out. When everyone had woken up we both correlated our stories and gave our descriptions of the man we had seen to some of the workers at the hotel and without seeing a picture had described Seth Bullock. I know it sounds crazy but it really happened.

Let me just say that a friend and I went to the Bullock hotel knowing full well that it is haunted. We however did not know what room or rooms were the most spectral. We went looking on the second floor of the hotel, My friend noticed that she felt a heavyness close to a certain door, whereas I had felt the heavyness close to another door. We went downstairs to look at the newspaper clippings about the hauntings and what rooms were normally the culprits, we found that we had both been right on! both of the rooms we had chosen were the only rooms in the hotel to be haunted. Another very interesting thing that I noticed while we were looking around in the hallways was that if you stand at one end of the hall and look tward the haunted room you can see the outline of Seth Bullock in the woodgrain of the door to the haunted room.

i went to the hotel and met this hooker. she did it for free. on the foothill bus number 43. all night long she was acting ***** so i macked on her like i was frank nitty. i once met a girl. her name was melinda. my homeboys called her melinda the blender. she gave head like she made it up. she was 20 years old with a big round butt.

I Live in Deadwood, I believe that this hotel is truley haunted! One night my friends and I got a room because we never bleieve the stupid stories we herd. When we were sitting on the bed watching tv the tv started going crazy and then a picture flew off the wall. That was only the beggining of our happenings and it was extremely creepy. We also saw the outline of a man. It was a scary experience but it was awesome. I stay away from that place now

WOAH! SCARY STUFF

This story about Seth Bullock roaming the Hotel is often even told by the locals there. But there are ghost stories about the Franklin Hotel and the Old Bodega Bar as well. Someone should get on here and tell those stories as well.

I recently stayed at the Franklin Hotel in Deadwood at the Willie Pep room I believe room 414. No ghosts or presence felt, but bathroom light was flickering (only when I turned it on) probably attributed to the hundred year old wiring . Also the newspaper clippings about boxer Pep were an inspiration for the Deadwood marathon.

The Blind School in Gary South Dakota is haunted. It was the first one in the midwest, and there are stories of the teachers torchering and sometimes killing the patients. There tunnels going from building to building. I was there with a group of friends one night and we heard noises and when we were walking through a doorway one of those window vents was above the door it flung around and hit one of my friends in the back of the head, very frieky and a foresure haunted place. A must see

There are a few real haunted houses in Rapid City. They say some are the results of the big flood in 1972. There is a house off of Sheridan Lake Blvd., that is said to be very haunted. They had a hard time keeping workers that were there to remodel the house. They kept hearing their names whispered close to their ears….calling, calling, calling. Also, they saw a dog run into a room & upon entering the room…no dog. Just a few of the stories. Rapid City & the surrounding area is said to be the home of many satanists and witches. Alot goes on in the forests of the Black Hills. Beware.

i have no idea what a “brawl” is.

the bullock is definitely a metaphysical curiousity, being a professional psychic of several years now and having stayed there on numerous occasions i can say yeah its haunted… all the casino machines do interfere with the psychic feeling however which would probably be way too much in its pure form. the hotel itself was not founded in the 1870’s, at that time it was star and bullock’s hardware store and did not become a hotel til around the turn of the century.
i found the basement to be the most haunted and while seth may be the most famous ghost, it was a hospital for children with small pox for a while and you can feel that presence much more profoundly than that of bullock. its a great place to stay because you get the haunted vibe but its tempered by the electronics so its a good place for the curious to stay who have an electronic refuge in the downstairs casino if things become too intense. its weird yeah and its a good and safe weird too. i have gotten the creeps there followed by a night of solid sleep so in the way of haunted buildings its one of my favorites. the whole town of deadwood is outrageously haunted but also full of the electronic bells and whistles of slot machines, which makes it really nice. you can explore the strange then shift back into “reality” fairly easily… which is an uncommon gift.

I have never heard of that story and I live only 90 miles away. I would like to go and visit. This is a very interesting story.

I have worked at the Bodega,the Buffalo Saloon and Oyster Bay and have had experiences in all of them. As a teenager I worked at the Bodega.It was still a restaraunt then before this gaming came to town.Anyway a few of us were cleaning up one night and heard what sounded like a ball rolling down the stairs. I mentioned it to my mom who had also worked there years before and she said they all heard the same sounds. It is claimed to be the head of a prostitute who lived upstairs(in the brothel) a man was upset with her and chopped her head off and threw it down the stairs. The Buffalo Saloon is very creepy at night. You hear wierd sounds and voices. At the Oyster Bay there is a lady in red. Seen her often. She doesn’t quite care for men. She supposedly jumped from one of the windows of the Fairmont Hotel,connected to Oyster Bay. Also seen a preacher man one night when I was closing up. He walked right through the door. The basement in the Oyster Bay has the old jail cells. This place is way creepy.

Two more hauntings to add to the Deadwood list: the former K-SKY building, and KDSJ’s studio – which used to be the old morgue!!
K-SKY building was haunted by the dentist Dr. Smiley and a Chinese woman that he accidently killed. Of course, the studio was the room where his office was, and when I worked there (mid-90s) they still had the old door with his name on it! Overnight DJs can testify that at 4:30 a.m. something weird would always happen – CDs would start skipping or would pop out of the player, the door would shut. The woman is supposedly more mischievous. One time my purse was in the middle of a table, and it suddenly tipped over onto the floor and spilled everything. When I had to do midnight-6 a.m. shifts, I’d walk the halls to stay awake, and one time I closed my eyes and leaned against the wall and I SWEAR I felt myself being tipped back, like in a dentist’s chair!!!!! (I didn’t last long at that job.)

A few months later I ended up at KDSJ – which was even more haunted. The building still had the giant sink, and if I had to cut commercials at night, I’d always smell formaldehyde (sp). My husband would notice it too… That would never happen during the day – only at night. One night, my husband picked me up and we were closing down the station for the night, and the moment I hit the lights, the temprature dropped and it became very muggy (this is mid-July in the mountains, so no humidity!) and the WHOLE BUILDING smelled of formaldehyde!! We hauled our butts out quick!!!
When I had to close the station at night, I’d start my car and turn the headlights on to shine in the building, have the door propped open, and after I hit the lights, I’d RUN! VERY creepy!!

It’s all true. I live here in Watertown and have been told these stories since I was a kid. Deadwood is a beautiful place to visit as well to go to many of the gambling places. The Badlands are haunted too. It’s real creepy at night.

P.S. You can get a book called Road Guide To Haunted Locations In South Dakota. There are more haunted places here in South Dakota then you think. It gives directions to the places. Another good book is Dakota Apparitions they let ya of other hauntings in South Dakota. Give it a try.

I don’t believe any of this because i dont believe in ghosts, i have been to this town when iwas younger and we heard no stories of this.