{"id":2632,"slug":"arlington-hotel-hot-springs-arkansas","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Arlington Hotel opened in 1924 — Hot Springs' grand resort, the bathhouse-era palace where Al Capone kept a suite and the country's gangsters took the waters, the hotel being the spa town's biggest monument to its illegal elegance.","The file's documented spine is Capone's patronage: the mobster's stays at the Arlington being record, the suite he kept being the room where America's most famous criminal vacationed — Hot Springs being the gangsters' Switzerland."]},{"heading":"Capone's suite","paragraphs":["The lore reports Capone remembered in the suite he kept — the file's ghost being the guest who never checked out: the mobster reportedly still in the rooms where he soaked and schemed, the hotel keeping its most notorious resident.","Capone's suite is the file's signature — a gangster's rooms reportedly still holding him, the Arlington's most famous guest being the one who reportedly never left."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The Arlington is the archive's Capone file — the 1924 resort keeping the gangster reportedly in his suite. The documented stays are the record; the lingering presence is the lore of a hotel that hosted America's most famous criminal.","A hotel that kept Capone keeps him — the file's suggestion being that the Arlington's suite still holds the guest who made Hot Springs his retreat."]}],"name":"Arlington Hotel","aliases":[],"type":"HOTEL","type_label":"Hotel","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","HISTORIC_BUILDING"],"groups":["dark-history","hauntings","legends","lodging"],"desc":"Capone’s Hot Springs hotel—the 1924 grande dame across from the Row.","full_desc":"Arlington Hotel is a hotel in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Capone’s Hot Springs hotel—the 1924 grande dame across from the Row. The name the accounts keep returning to is Al Capone. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. It still takes guests.","address":null,"city":"Hot Springs","county":null,"state":"Arkansas","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":34.489442,"lon":-93.050254,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":"Historic site","research_notes":"AR batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":2173,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"Capone is reportedly remembered in the suite he kept. The figure answers to Al Capone in the retellings. The hotel keeps the account on its own record — the sort of haunting a building earns one guest at a time. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. 'Arlington Hotel' carries the account. Named ghosts are the ones that last — this one has lasted.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"Al Capone","where":"Room 443","first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Arlington Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington_Hotel_(Hot_Springs_National_Park)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":2174,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures in the halls and lobby. The hotel keeps the account on its own record — the sort of haunting a building earns one guest at a time. The reports are anecdotal — consistent enough to record, thin enough to stay unproven. The account appears in 'Arlington Hotel'. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Arlington Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington_Hotel_(Hot_Springs_National_Park)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Opened 1924; Capone’s stays are documented. A hotel with this much documented history gives the dossier real substance underneath the lore. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. Sources including 'Arlington Hotel' carry the record. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1924","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Arlington Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington_Hotel_(Hot_Springs_National_Park)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Capone is reportedly remembered in the suite he kept. The Hot Springs hotel's reports are the kind old lodgings accumulate — footsteps after hours, presences in rooms, the house working the night shift. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. The retelling is the record now — the legend metabolized the facts long ago.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Arlington Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington_Hotel_(Hot_Springs_National_Park)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"Al Capone","claimed_identity":"Al Capone","verified":null,"summary":"Capone is reportedly remembered in the suite he kept. The file calls it Al Capone. Room 443 is where the sightings cluster. The hotel keeps the account on its own record — the sort of haunting a building earns one guest at a time. The account appears in 'Arlington Hotel'. The named presence is what turns a haunting into a household.","behavior":"Capone is reportedly remembered in the suite he kept.","area":"Room 443","first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Arlington Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington_Hotel_(Hot_Springs_National_Park)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Operating or preserved hotel property; public areas vary—check directly for tours or overnight stays.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Arlington Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington_Hotel_(Hot_Springs_National_Park)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":{"title":"Arlington Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington_Hotel","desc":"Topics referred to by the same term","extract":"Arlington Hotel may refer to:\n\nArlington Hotel (Paris, Ontario), Canada\nArlington Hotel (Hot Springs National Park), Arkansas, United States\nArlington Hotel (Santa Barbara, California), United States\nHaleʻākala or Arlington Hotel, a former Hawaiian residence\nArlington Hotel (Narrowsburg, New York), United States\nArlington Hotel (Zanesville, Ohio), United States\nArlington Hotel (Echo, Oregon), United States\nArlington Hotel (Washington, D.C.), United States\nArlington Hotel Open, a former PGA golf tour","img":null,"score":89},"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}