Arlington Hotel
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.
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Is Arlington Hotel haunted?
The record holds 2 claims, 1 legend, 1 named entity — filed as reported, not verified. The heaviest filing is classed documented legend. The archive documents the claim; it takes no position on the ghost.
The record — long form
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.
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Arlington HotelThe record of claims
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.
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.
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.
Alleged entities
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.
Documented history
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 on file
- 01Arlington HotelWikipedia · encyclopedia · A4
Field notes & open questions
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