ARLINGTON HOTEL
Hotel — Hot Springs, Arkansas
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/arlington-hotel-hot-springs-arkansas/

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

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.

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.

CAPONE'S SUITE
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.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
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.

FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] named ghost legend: 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.
  source: Arlington Hotel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington_Hotel_(Hot_Springs_National_Park))
· [Anecdotal] apparition: 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.
  source: Arlington Hotel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington_Hotel_(Hot_Springs_National_Park))

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· [1924] 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.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Arlington Hotel — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington_Hotel_(Hot_Springs_National_Park)

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