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Named ghost legends filed in Arkansas

Arkansas files 14 hauntings with a name attached — a claimed identity, often a former owner, a patient, a soldier, kept alongside what the record can actually confirm about that person. Many named ghosts turn out to be real people; whether they stayed is the part nobody can file.

14 dossiers2 counties covered100% open to visitorsCrescent Hotel — deepest file
Hotel
High confidence

Crescent Hotel

Eureka Springs, Arkansas

Hotel in Eureka Springs; research record.

4 claims · 3 legends→
Railroad Corridor
Medium

Gurdon Light

Gurdon, Arkansas

Railroad corridor in Gurdon; research record.

3 claims · 3 legends→
Battlefield
Medium

Pea Ridge National Military Park

Pea Ridge, Arkansas

March 1862—the battle that saved Missouri for the Union.

2 claims · 2 legends→
Town
Medium

Rush

Rush, Arkansas

The zinc boomtown on the Buffalo—silent since the 1960s.

2 claims · 2 legends→
Hotel
Medium

Arlington Hotel

Hot Springs, Arkansas

Capone’s Hot Springs hotel—the 1924 grande dame across from the Row.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Hotel
Medium

Basin Park Hotel

Eureka Springs, Arkansas

1905 limestone hotel in the crooked-street town—Eureka’s second legend.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Fort Smith National Historic Site

Fort Smith, Arkansas

Judge Parker’s court and the gallows—"the hangman’s" ground.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Battlefield
Medium

Poison Spring Battlefield

Camden, Arkansas

April 18, 1864—the ambush and massacre that stained the Camden Expedition.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Rohwer Relocation Center

Rohwer, Arkansas

The camp where 8,000 Japanese Americans were held—and George Takei grew up.

2 claims · 1 legend→
House
Medium

Peel Mansion

Bentonville, Arkansas

Colonel Peel’s 1875 Italianate—Bentonville’s grand survivor.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Sultana site

Marion, Arkansas

April 27, 1865—the worst maritime disaster in U.S. history.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Elaine

Elaine, Arkansas

September 30-October 1, 1919—the deadliest racial massacre in U.S. history.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

USS Sultana

Marion, Arkansas

April 27, 1865—the steamboat that killed 1,800 freedmen.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Jerome Relocation Center

Jerome, Arkansas

The Delta camp that held 8,000—Arkansas’s other incarceration site.

1 claim · 1 legend→

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