Jasmine Lady

The Jasmine Lady is Mineral Springs Hotel's perfumed presence — a woman whose floral scent announces her on the staircase near the old pool level, per Alton tourism retellings. Named for the jasmine smell that precedes her, she's the hotel's most distinctive ghost and its most gentle. A hotel in Alton, Illinois with more than a century of check-ins gives the reports plenty of rooms to work with. 'Haunting Season in Illinois' carries the account. The named presence is what turns a haunting into a household.