Goldfield Hotel
Following the impregnation of a prostitute by the manager of the hotel many years ago, the manager became angry at the women for the incident and took her to his hotel. As her pregnancy became more obvious, he chained her to the radiator in one of the rooms., and when the baby was born, he killed them both. The hotel has been closed for many years with no power to any part of it, but on some nights there are several lighted rooms. Workers have been hired on several different occasions to do restoration on the hotel, and due to the many unexplained incidents, the hotel restoration has never been completed and has changed hands several times. There have been several ghosts seen in several parts of the hotel, including the prostitute, the original owner, and two other men. Paranormal experts have visited the hotel many times and have determined that it is one of the nine portals that connect our world with the spirit world.
i think this story is not that scary and you need to put more stories about nv
Comment by princess | 09.27.2005 | 10:42 pm
i live in tonopah and have been to goldfield many times and stuff and i have heard a different story about that hotel.
Comment by Maggi | 10.16.2005 | 2:11 am
I believe the woman that was chained to the radiator was in room #109.
Comment by Shaun Sullivan | 10.23.2005 | 8:37 pm
i belive that the goldfield hotel is hunted!!! i wanna go in it
Comment by brittany | 11.19.2005 | 11:44 pm
ya its was room 109 cuz they were doing a thing one tv about the world scared places on earth.
Comment by brianna | 11.20.2005 | 5:17 pm
Woot! Never heard from the place but what can you say I’m Finnish or suomalainen or what ever. Rauhaa ja rakkautta!
Comment by Max | 01.9.2006 | 11:02 am
Hokkay.. Have to addmit. It sounds rather interesting. To bad I don’t live in USA. Otherwice I would be jumping towards it right now. Do not know if it is true, but I would happily find out..
Comment by Max | 01.9.2006 | 12:03 pm
anyone up for spending a night in the hotel could be a BLAST
Comment by penny | 01.17.2006 | 1:23 pm
There is a scary place close to there in Tonopah it is an old mansion which I as well as others have seen things just in the windows because it is private proberty and you can’t go in there but if youcould get the owner to let you research it it will be promising.
Comment by mandy | 01.23.2006 | 3:15 am
I saw that show brianna was talking about it freaked me out so much…but i couldnt stop watching it, there was like a marathon of it. Then i got so paranoyed…every little noise scared me.
Comment by jen | 02.1.2006 | 11:35 pm
The haunted rooms are #13&14. These and the hall way are the only places in the hotel where the haunts occure. If you ask for the haunted rooms you are allowed to stay in them. When I was there I heard a small laughing sound at about 2:10 AM. My friend said she was very cold and the covers did not seem to offer any warmth. After that neather of us got any sleep. On the other hand the dinner was great.
Comment by marvin | 02.5.2006 | 1:44 pm
If you ask me I think that the story is pretty interesting,then again I honestly don’t think he died from running.
Comment by rhochelle | 03.1.2006 | 4:41 pm
What kind of animal would do such a thing?Whatever issues he had with her,there was no need to kill her or the baby.I’m curious why he waited until the baby was born..
Comment by ina | 03.16.2006 | 2:58 pm
In Response to: anyone up for spending a night in the hotel could be a BLAST
Yeah We are and we will provide the entertainment; a room full of ghosts. Don’t try to fight it, we’ll kill you!
Max: Hi!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ghosts Rock. I know because I own one!
***This is an automated response from the Taylor/Reyes corporation taking over the world one ghost at a time***
Comment by Taylor/Reyes | 04.3.2006 | 1:25 pm
Haunted hotel huh? Sounds cool, I would like to go there some time. I love going to creepy places, can’t say the same for my cousin though, she hates ghosts! Me I love ‘em…guess I get it from my mom.
Comment by Sia Nyteblade | 06.6.2006 | 1:59 pm
i think they should rebuild it. man i dropped my coke
Comment by lando | 06.6.2006 | 5:48 pm
call me
Comment by britiny spears | 06.6.2006 | 5:49 pm
What and where are the 9 portals…
Comment by anonimus | 06.18.2006 | 6:58 am
I used to live in Tonopah and I have heard many different stories about this but never got the real thing. I hella believe this **** though. I wanna go back and party now. n e body up 4 it?
Comment by J.R. | 07.4.2006 | 10:35 pm
I am one of the ghosts in the hotel and I must tell you…it really isn’t that scary.
Comment by Rubarb | 08.8.2006 | 8:25 pm
i am paranormal and i sense rubarb you have not made it to the spirit world you musnt say that.
u r not a ghost.
Comment by angel | 08.15.2006 | 2:20 pm
Wow, That sounds really cool. I haven’t been there but would love to check it out…Umm I lived in Reno Nv for 4 years….there was this place like 5 blocks or so from down town on Plumus street…..It’s now a breakfast in bed place as far as I know…I haven’t been back in 3 years…it was a house…I heard that it was haunted when they were rebuilding it…I didn’t belive it till I went in it. Sometimes at night, the adict light would be on and u can see transparent images thru the window….most of the time it was a man and a little boy. You can definately feel the presence of something there when you were inside….and even when your in the yard. it’s wierd…
Comment by Carmyn | 08.16.2006 | 8:06 pm
that is so dumb
Comment by back-off | 08.27.2006 | 5:12 pm
Wow, you guys are crazy. I cant belive That you got
paranoued, I party with ghost every night down at the manner you should come. See u there angel and max.
By gtg, Be back soon
Comment by Crazy Kid | 09.2.2006 | 8:25 pm
i’ve been to the hotel like 3 times
you’re not even allowed to go in it
it’s not that great
nevada has better places than that
Comment by laina | 09.28.2006 | 6:05 pm
Well, since it says that the Hotel is closed down, I don’t see how it’s possible to ask to stay in any haunted room, or to dine there, for that matter.
Also, like Ina, I’m curious to know why he waited until the baby was born to kill them. It would seem to be a lot less trouble had he done it before she gave birth, but then murderers aren’t always the most logical people, I guess.
Comment by Lucy | 10.4.2006 | 4:35 am
It is also said that you can find childrens hand prints high up on some of the walls and that you can hear a child crying at night.
Many people believe the same hotel owner that chained the prostitute to the heater, threw her baby down a mine shaft that the hotel is built over.
It is ironic because I actually worked construction on the hotel in the mid-late 80’s. (I didn’t see anything though.)
I would love to spend the night though.
Comment by Ed Horton | 10.5.2006 | 6:21 am
I don’t beleive that. How can anyone believe. Is the hotel still there?
Comment by steph | 10.7.2006 | 4:34 pm
Isnt GoldField by Virginia City..? If so.. this story is believable in my opinion! Anyone who’s been there (Virginia City) can agree that that entire city is CREEPY!! How cool would it be to stay in the hotel for only a couple of hours.. Thats definetly on my “To Do List” before I die.
Comment by Nicole | 10.9.2006 | 8:42 pm
who would do that to a pregnat person it is room 109.i passed by there …it aint scary
Comment by Jenna | 10.15.2006 | 2:33 pm
I have a question for the masses. My daughter heard about a haunted insane asylum in Nevada. She thinks it’s in a town with “Springs” in it. I have done a search and can’t seem to find anything. Has anyone ever heard of this place, and where is it? Thanks so much.
Comment by jxrandy | 10.26.2006 | 2:10 am
Goldfield and Virginia City are not very close to eachother. Virginia City is however reputed to have several haunted places. There is Julia Bullet’s grave stone that glows at night and the Gold Hill Hotel claims to have constant activity. I was a bit disappointed that there were not more mentioned for Nevada…There are many areas that are widely known for paranormal activity here.
Comment by willow | 10.28.2006 | 8:09 pm
I thought that this was an abandoned hotel? Does anyone know if this is correct? If it is open, it would be really exciting to try to get some EVPs inside.
Comment by Auri | 10.31.2006 | 2:38 pm
The Goldfield Hotel is closed and has been for years… The true story is: The owner of the hotel was having an affare w/a maid. She thought he would leave his wife if she had his baby. Instead he locked her in the attic changed to a radiator until the baby was born. Then he took the baby to the mine shaft in the basement and threw it down the shaft. He left the mother locked in the attic where she died. The owner of the hotel also founded a dormatory/school for american indian children to be trained to fit into “white society” These kids were brought from all over the country… There was a fight between the indians and the whites. all the kids were locked in the school and died in a fire… rumor has it that the owner would take them into the basement of the school to torture and rape them.
Comment by rowan | 11.4.2006 | 4:23 pm
to jxrandy: the place you are thinking of i believe is the waverly hill asylium in Tenn. It was originally built for rich people with tb. they have tours and you can check it out on their website. Truely a haunted place.
Comment by rowan | 11.4.2006 | 4:29 pm
I actually snuck in the hotel back in the summer with my two friends. I grabbed one of the keys on the piano (it was peeling). And we took many pictures inside the hotel. I have a picture of myself in the room with the radiator. We wanted to go to the basement, but it was too dark and we didn’t have any flashlights. I’ll post a link to the picture tomorrow.
Comment by Jeff (Nevada) | 12.2.2006 | 4:38 pm
I know its a later than I said it would be, but here’s the link to the picture.
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=4417564&imageID=1561897666
Comment by Jeff | 12.15.2006 | 1:30 am
I live in Nevada and Goldfield is a real place and that hotel is there. I’m not sure whether that myth is true or not. I plan to go there this summer and find out. I don’t know if I have the guts to sneak into a haunted place though! Lol
Comment by Susan | 12.18.2006 | 5:40 pm
jeff, i saw the picture and that is pretty cool. is that you in the photo? ur a hunk….not lol. no whoever that was they have too many pimples. no offence to whoever is in that picture.
Comment by Susan | 12.18.2006 | 5:43 pm
im kidding but they look a little dazed, or disteacted. looking at someting…too distracted to look at the camera and smile!! must not me photogentic. however u spell that. ^_^
Comment by Susan | 12.18.2006 | 5:45 pm
weird where i live its 3:00
Comment by Susan | 12.18.2006 | 6:52 pm
One of the nine portals? You crazy? I used to go t school with a girl whose mom and sister were sensitive to paranormal activity and their basement was a hot spot for activity. Electricity in the whole house was pretty well voice activated because the mom and sister could say “Turn on/off the TV” (especially if it had just turned off/on on its own), and it would. It’s not a haunting, but it is a portal. I’m sure there’s got to be more than nine on the planet.
As to the story, however… It sounds like a bad made-for-tv show to me. But hey, I’m up for a night spent inside. Joiners?
PS, anyone know of any hauntings in Ontario, Canada? (Preferably Toronto area). Kay, thanks :).
Comment by Heather | 12.25.2006 | 1:45 pm
After doing some research, I came up with this url: http://www.legendsofamerica.com/NV-GoldfieldHotel.html
Seems creditable to me.
Comment by Heather | 12.25.2006 | 2:00 pm
Ok so i heard a ton of stories about this place! And Im planning on going there this week I live a couple hours away but I think its worth it…If anyone has any info on this or has actually been inside, please let me know so I can get the scoop! What about police do they patrol there because of tresspassers..?
Comment by Jelly | 12.30.2006 | 8:47 pm
Jelly, thats really cool! I live in Las Vegas. Do you know where this hotel is???
Comment by Susan | 01.18.2007 | 8:16 pm
you all talk rubbish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we luv ghost stories!!! continue people!!!!
Comment by raghav and ria | 02.10.2007 | 7:13 am
that sounds really interesting i really want to go there and check it out hopefully very very soon i am so excited about it so maybe you guys could e-mail me and tell me where i could find it always love the supernatural all the time like me please
vanessa
Comment by vanessa | 02.16.2007 | 11:48 pm
uh I’m new to this website so I dont know if I should make up a nickname or just keep my new name. Well could someone help me and I’ll be your friend. And I could tell them all about jump in. So come on with the come on. Ha Ha!!!
Comment by corben blue | 02.26.2007 | 12:37 am
I beliveeeeeeeee that that is so cool but how is there more ghost than three then or is it the same three ghost or sumtin and iwant to go visit it or wach a trure movie about it asomeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!
Comment by Hayley | 02.27.2007 | 7:33 pm
well…i know that this is not a chat but i want to say that i am interested in what taylor/reyes is saying!we have the same ideas and thoughts!Also these names you put,are the names from my idol in music and my favourite player in soccer!COREY TAYLOR from the Slipknot band and JOSE ANTONIO REYES,the player from Real Madrid!Anyway,i have gone in many places like this one in Greece,where i live and i had exchiting experiences…!!!
Comment by devil hunter | 03.19.2007 | 5:53 am
this sounds reeeeeeeeeeeeally cool! id luv to visit sumtime if only i lived a lil closer. they should really post sum mor stories of nevada on this website cuz theres gotta be mor n 1 story for the whol state. im not sure if i belive this story or not, but id luv to find out if its true!
~W.C.~
Comment by Wild Child | 03.22.2007 | 2:05 pm
What happend to the wife an the baby
Comment by hjl | 03.23.2007 | 5:24 pm
2 of my friends and I broke into the hotel. We didnt see any ghosts but their was definatly a room on the first floor that wasnt right. When we first broke in we immediatly ran to the second floor scared we were going to be seen. The whole time we were taking pictures.. the second floor, then the third, then the forth. ALl the time just snapping pictures. We went back to the first floor because the two boys I were with wanted to check out the pianos on the first floor. We came to the basement and I refused to go because something was off about it. We continued to the rooms on the first floor, all the while taking pictures. We came to a room, completely void of all windows, and immediatly after entering you could feel some kind of weight press upon you. I wanted to leave but the boys insisted on a picture first. 5 days later when we returned home to Las Vegas I was loading the pictures off my digital camera, and they came in first took oreder. The pictures from the second, third, and fourth floor were all normal. Got to the first floor, they were still normal, the one picture taken in that room was covered in spots and mist. Its very weird. All in all it was an amazing experience, something I will never forget.
Comment by Lindsey | 06.23.2007 | 12:18 am
haha thats really funny that Jeff posted above. I didnt realise, he was one of the friends I was with.
Comment by Lindsey | 06.23.2007 | 12:22 am
I just watched something about this on scifi… I really want to go there. Why hasn’t anyone ever tried to remodle it into a hotel again? I think it would be well worth it. whats this about 9 portals.. sounds weird.
Comment by nirvananajunkie | 07.26.2007 | 12:03 am
What and where are the other eight portals?
Comment by ms | 07.26.2007 | 1:13 am
i just recently watched a show on the goldfield hotel where these two guys actually experienced poltergeist and caught it on film! they walked into a room near the mineshaft its built over. upon walking in and invoking the spirit, a brick flew across the room and boards flew into the wall. a phenomenom that couldnt even be explained by a physicist. there tapes have been analyzed and proven not to be a hoax. i dont remember the name of show, but i was genuinely scared aand would have reacted like these two guys did, terrified and ran to only jump out of a 2nd story fire escape.
Comment by Hector | 07.26.2007 | 3:54 am
I just watched the documentary you mentioned, it was
called Ghost Adventure (or Adventures). The version I
saw was presented as a two hour program. The second hour was about the GoldField Hotel. The first hour detailed the investigation by the team of some sites in Virginia City, that someone mentioned earlier. Another old western town which was so lawless at one time that there were many tragic and traumatic deaths. While investigating a hotel in that town, they captured the most convincing full body apparition footage I’ve ever seen.
It was picked up by an infra-red camera, and was a apparently not visible to the naked eye. The interesting thing was that a team member who was there alone was walking out of the room to check some equipment, and it seemed to follow him, maybe 20 feet behind him. When the man passed in front of a window, his head blocked the light from a streetlight outside, but when the apparition passed it, the light could be seen right through its head (it apparently dimmed slightly). It looked like a translucent person, and was one of the creepiest things I’ve ever seen.
The footage was investigated by a video expert who declared that the image was not faked. This footage
was widely publicized I guess, and they were interviewed on TV shows, leading to them getting an
invitation to come investigate the Gold Field.
An interesting detail was that they had themselves
pad-locked in, presumably to ensure that noone would
interfere with their investigation, or play hoaxes.
My son and I both thought: I bet they’ll be leaving
through a window part way through the night…
At one point they caught a brief image at the end of
a hallway that looked like someone’s hand and head
peering around the corner, watching them. The best
way I can describe it is that it looked like it was
made out of shadow - deep black and featureless.
When they got to that point in the corridor, it was
of course a dead-end, with no exit.
But the scariest moment was when they entered a room where they had heard lots of loud banging noises. The two men doing the investigation used alot of what I
would call “confrontational” techniques to taunt ghosts into showing themselves, making a sound, etc.
(Earlier in the show, one of them had climbed into a
bathtub in which someone had slit their wrists, and
mocked the ghost by pantomiming suicide motions, to
try to get a reaction. I didn’t approve of such
heavy-handed methods).
In this case, they were shouting things like, “Who’s making all the racket in here?” or something like that, trying to goad the spirit into interacting with them. Well, they got a reaction! Most of the rooms
in the hotel have various amounts of debris and left
over supplies from abandoned construction. Well, on
camera, a brick could be seen wobbling a little on the
floor, then levitating into the air, and flying at them as if thrown - but no thrower was visible! Well,
suffice it to say that the padlock on the main door
didn’t keep them from getting out of the hotel in a BIG hurry!!! Honestly, the apparition, and that brick
were the two most convincing ghost videos I’ve seen.
Comment by Joseph | 07.26.2007 | 5:18 am
Somebody find out how to contact the owner and see if he will let others go into the hotel.
Comment by SpaceGhost | 07.26.2007 | 3:03 pm
I want to explore this place…Brak and Zorak want to go too…I aint afraid of no Ghost!
Comment by SpaceGhost | 07.26.2007 | 3:11 pm
I also saw the show last night and was very impressed. Does anyone know how to get in touch with the owner? Do they offer any type of tours? I usually watch Ghost Hunters (Taps), they seem pretty legit. I have never seen Ghost Adventures before, are they as credible?
Comment by EJ | 07.26.2007 | 8:34 pm
Yeah! I saw that same show ya’ll are talkin’ about. I was falling asleep so I recorded it and watched it this morning. It is really convincing. I had to rewind it several times just to see the brick move thru the air. I have read alot of stuff about this hotel and I have found that depending on where your at,the story is told a couple of different ways.The one on the show last night stated that the prostitute “Eliabeth” was chained to a radiator in her room and when she gave birth some guy named “George Winfield” threw the baby down a mineshaft in the basement and starved “Elizabeth” to death in her room.She was still chained to the radiator when they found her body.
Comment by huckleberry | 07.26.2007 | 9:24 pm
I’ve seen an episode of Hauted Adventures on 07/25/07, and two guys went into the hotel. They actually caught the ghost picking up a brick and throwing it across the room along with levatating some boards. You could hear foot steps. And they got EVP’s of Elizebeth talking to the former caretaker of the building (an older lady) by the name of Virginia. She had asked if Elizebeth if she would speak with her and she was recorded as saying “No”. Very freaky place!
Comment by Christina | 07.26.2007 | 11:09 pm
Google the Goldfield Hotel and one of those sites has a P.O. Box address, you may be able to get a hold of the owner that way.
Comment by Christina | 07.26.2007 | 11:10 pm
I saw this special on SCI-FI, it was great. I would love to visit this place as well. I want to stay the night though and see if this is real. I really think I could make it all night. It takes a lot to scare me. I am always looking for a ghostly encounter.
Comment by Janine Dulworth | 08.2.2007 | 12:53 pm
I didn’t believe before,BUT I DO NOW!!!!!!!11
Comment by John | 08.3.2007 | 12:24 am
Although there are other ghosts supposed to reside within the Goldfields Hotel the most interesting ones are George Winfield the former owner of the Hotel and that of a prostitute by the name of Elizabeth.
It was said to be that George got Elizabeth pregnant and kept her tied to a radiator in room 109 during the time that she carried this child.
Upon giving birth George took the newborn and threw it down a water well that was located in the basement of the hotel, killing the child, he then staved the prostitute Elizabeth until eventually she passed away, these two souls are said to still haunt the Goldfield Hotel.
The basement is said to have a gateway to the other side in which much of the Goldfields activity takes place from the basement location.
Other stories of a gun slinger are also reported in the hallways and that of a spirit who tries to stab you with what has been described as a kitchen knife
Comment by Tracy | 09.5.2007 | 10:39 am
I have been to this hotel twice and both times i have been there, they were open! They were cleaning the rooms that someone had actually been sleeping in that day. They let us walk around the halls and look into the rooms they were cleaning. Gold Hill is located about 2 or 3 miles south of Virginia City.
Comment by Ang | 10.17.2007 | 8:44 pm
Also, there are alot of other places just in the Virginia City area that should be on this page. We have been to a few places there that have been on other web pages as being haunted!
Comment by Ang | 10.17.2007 | 8:47 pm
There is some confusion among some of these posts. GOLDFIELD Hotel is located approximately 3 1/2 hours from Las Vegas, southern portion of Nevada. GOLD HILL Hotel is located approximately 2 1/2 miles from Virginia City, Northern portion of Nevada. Gold Hill is open and you can rent rooms. Much of Virginia City is said to have paranormal activity. It is well worth the trip. Goldfield is not open and the people that live in the town are pretty protective of the property. The local police keep a good eye on it. The stories mentioned prior to this post are all true and apply only to the Goldfield Hotel. Here are some links for anyone wanting more information.
Goldfield: http://onlinenevada.org/goldfield_hotel
Goldhill: http://www.goldhillhotel.net/
Our group is planning an investigation there in November 2007. We will post information pertaining to this shortly after. We are excited and looking forward to our time there.
If anyone knows of any paranormal activity and/or true paranormal stories in the Southern Nevada area and you are willing to share them, please post, or send information to us at: timntay@hotmail.com or http://www.nvprs.com (Nevada Paranormal Research Society. We are also happy to send you what we are aware of.
Comment by Taylor | 10.26.2007 | 5:12 pm
I live in Reno and I have visited this place but never spent a night. the food is good I had the hamburger. also it is called Gold Hill Hotel. I heard all the story’s but never experinced it. I also heard the Bowers Mansion has paranormal activity . the bowers once lived in gold hill and when they made the first Million dollars in NV from mining they had the Bowers Mansion built in Washoe Valley. as they died they were burried up on the hill above the house.
Comment by tuitonga | 10.28.2007 | 3:50 pm
Halloween day I came across “Ghost Adventures” on Sci Fi. This episode was haunted locations in Nevada and the Goldfield Hotel was featured. The directors, Zach Bagans and Nick Groff spent the night and filmed some of the wickedest and most amazing footage I’ve EVER seen. Poltergeist activity in one room of a brick being flung and a levitating piece of wood really tripped me out. Also caught on tape was the ‘gunman’s’ shadow coming from around the corner. A few Orbs and recordings of voices were also documented. It was a GREAT show. I compare it to Sci Fi’s Ghost Hunters’ Manson Murder episode. That intense! (Filmed in 2006)
Comment by Gigi | 11.1.2007 | 6:34 pm
i once lived in las vegas and i woulddrive up to reno alot to see my kids. and ever time i drove up i would just look up in to this hotel and wonder what it would be like to walk around in it. maybe someday i will.
Comment by tony | 11.5.2007 | 12:55 pm
i fucked that prositute and the ***** gave me aids 40 years ago and i still havent died.thats wierd.ill still fucked any prositute anyday
Comment by billy lopez | 11.5.2007 | 5:53 pm
I’ve have always been fascinated since i lived in a house growing up with these paranormal activities going on. I did not say any thing to my parents.When i was home from college i saw this old man in my room. The same old man that would wake me up at night,Would be outside of the house when i would come home.The same Ghost that would stand by my crib when i was a bay no matter what room. The same one that my parents would see walk from the parlor up stairs.Down to the kitchen to the pool house .He would even open the doors of the house.The same man that the neighbors told my parent about when they bought the property.I have always been able to tell if there is something going on.I don’t feel weird but this or even scared . But i would give the owners of the Gold field Hotel 100,000 to stay in the hotel Alone for one night . I saw the Sci fi . Ghost adventure with Zach Bagan, Nick Groff.And there is nothing to run from…
Comment by Ron Clifford | 11.12.2007 | 8:22 pm
I saw a 2 hour show on this city and they spent an hour on the GoldField. What they captured on film, if you have any doubt that ghosts exist, this film will change your mind. Actual flying bricks caught on film and the events that occured in this hotel were enough to get the ghost hunters to jump out of a second story window to get out of the hotel in which they were locked. Professionals reviewed the film as well as physics professors and have determined it to be authentic.
Comment by Thom T | 11.23.2007 | 12:06 pm
THIS IS PATHETIC I WANT MORE REAL TRUE STORIES
Comment by eric | 12.3.2007 | 3:06 pm
I just saw the episode with the goldfield hotel on Ghost Adventures on Sci Fi. That Place is freaky! I couldn’t imagine what that lady went through because of George the manager.
Comment by Dawn | 12.19.2007 | 2:46 pm
hey guys u chose to go to goldfield hotel as a thing to do b4 u die is NOT A GOOD IDEA!!! the reason is because if u do go there it will be the LAST thing u do b4 u die, BECAUSE YOU WILL F’ING DIE!!!… THIS COMMENT POSTED BY…ME!(spirits and poltergeists most active after 10pm)
Comment by Not-A-Good-Idea | 12.19.2007 | 11:06 pm
To get a complete picture of the Goldfield Hotel tragedy, take a little time and read about George Wingfield. It puts the murder of Elizabeth and her baby in perspective.
In 1908, when the hotel was opened, George was newly-married himself. His career in banking was beginning to take off, and he would have lost everything had the scandal of an out-of-wedlock child been spread.
I’m not condoning George’s actions at all, but reading further about him gives a more complete picture of the times in which they lived, and what would compel a man like him to commit so heinous an act.
Comment by Calire | 12.27.2007 | 2:45 pm
Saw the show on SciFi about this hotel..the one with the video footage of the flying bricks and the post-processing effects proving there was no string or line attached to the brick, and the physics professor explaining it would’ve taken a very thick and sturdy string to move a brick with that much exertion in such a short time - a string would’ve been visible had it been a hoax. Best ghost video footage I’ve ever seen. Left me a bit disturbed, but intrigued, after watching it. Clearly, human visitors aren’t welcome….
Comment by iceveiled | 01.9.2008 | 12:25 pm
i would love too see the real ghost hunters go after this place like jason and grant should go here bust these ghosts. that means TAPS needs break up the spirts
Comment by Nathan | 01.13.2008 | 10:59 am
My husband worked on the hotel during one of it renovations. The reason they stopped and I believe sold is because the owner went way over budget. The story we heard was that the owners teenage daughter was the one pregnant and she died in childbirth. The room that she was lock up in was used as the storage room for the carpenters. My husband was one of the few with the key. Besides the usual banging, knocking, and footsteps there is one story I remember. One Friday night he locked up and the next Monday morning when he unlocked the door he smelled purfume and heard a faint cry.
Comment by Lisa | 01.30.2008 | 5:44 pm
Hello, everyone! I know for a fact that if you find out the name of the county that the hotel is in you can contact the county court house. Ask to speak to the person in charge of property taxes, tell them that you would like the name of the owner of the GoldStein Hotel. Under law they have to provide you with that information. Then you can try to find an address online or if the property tax person is nice maybe they will give you contact information. Good luck and happy ghost hunting!
Comment by Heidi | 02.2.2008 | 2:16 am
I cannnot beleive some of the stories I am reading on this board about the GoldField Hotel.
The womans name is Elizabeth, she locked in room 109 until she had the baby, at that time her and the baby was killed, noone was thrown down the mine shaft.
There is many ghost living in this hotel and proof has been brought out of this.
No one has access to the hotel anymore except the care taker Viginia and a couple of picked groups that have went it to the hotel to investigate.
There is No trespassing signs on the hotel and anyone breaking in will be prosecuted.
This is not a place you would like to be at in the dark alone.
The noises, banging, voices, and shadows alone are terrifying.
This hotel is a wonderful old building that is going to be re built, but please! dont read everything you read on the web, it is all added to.
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Comment by cookie | 02.21.2008 | 2:59 pm
okay i lived in Nevada and have u heard about Virginia city well,the stories from there are
real.not ****.
Comment by caro | 03.12.2008 | 5:27 pm
ok it sounds prety scary but,for me it seems the prostitude had too much sex.
Comment by coolfool | 03.12.2008 | 5:31 pm
I live in nevada and they need more ghost stories i have on! to see it go to my website
Comment by Kara | 03.13.2008 | 7:47 pm
Okay, to put this one to bed finally….
Room 109 is said to be the room where the prostitute Elizabeth was chained to the radiator until she had the baby of George Wingfield, POSSIBLY. I’ve also seen stories that it was not his baby but he became angry with her for getting pregnant. I’ve also seen something that says her name may have actually been Gertie.
The story goes George Wingfield took the baby once it was born and threw it down a chute to the abandoned mine under the hotel at either the north or north-east end of the basement. Elizabeth/Gertie is said to wander the 2nd floor and room 109 sadly looking for her child. The most common reports of contact with her is a cold feeling while being touched and the smell of Lilac.
The Gold Room (supposedly the main dining room or a room on the 3rd floor) “The Stabber” lingers. It is said to randomly attack people crossing into the room, however nobody has ever been injured. It then immediatly dissapears after the attack.
On the first floor stairs it is reported two small children and a midget sneak up behind people and pull on their clothes before giggling and running away.
Two more ghosts are reported to be on the third floor from people who commited suicide. One from a woman who hung herself, the other a man who jumped from a 3rd story window, however he is also reported to have jumped from a 2nd story window.
Finally George Wingfield is said to be in the first floor rooms, leaving the smell of cigar smoke and fresh cigar ashes on the floor.
Comment by nobody special | 03.23.2008 | 2:41 pm
I love it.
Maybe i should go.
Wanna come anyone?
Comment by sHaRiCe. | 04.2.2008 | 3:14 pm
Just a clarification….there was no mineshaft under or even near the building unitl after George Wingfield had sold the building and left the area.
I’m not a big beleiver in ghosts and such, but I did see “something” cross the street in front of the hotel once before that I cannot explain.
Comment by Daryl | 04.23.2008 | 1:22 pm
so anyway i just watched ghost hunters and had to check it out for myself. i’d like to check it out but then again maybe not. so anyway happy haunting!!!
Comment by BENITA | 04.23.2008 | 10:09 pm
OK people. I am a believe as many of us are. Now the problem I have with this story of Elizabeth,locked in room 109 until she had the baby, at that time her and the baby was killed, and thrown down the mine shaft is: for one, where did this story come from, Two, why was the man never put in jail. Three, has anyone botherd to locate the suppose infant body in the shaft. would someone such as the staff of the hotel, or even guest herd her pleas for help or came across her located in a room. She would had to be well hidden for no one to have seen or herd her. Has anyone searched the newspapers of that time to see what was recorded. yes, i believe but where are the facts to this story. P.S Iam in the state of GA, for those who are interested to form a group trip to visit and possible talk the owner into letting the group spend the night, iam sure it can be done if a fee is presented to him. Those who would like to go there and do just that, write me at: bunnylongleggs@yahoo.com. I would love to check it out and research the truth behind the story in the city records..ect.
Comment by Belinda Helton | 05.8.2008 | 8:33 pm
I want to buy it
Comment by Aaron | 05.8.2008 | 10:16 pm