HOTEL MORGAN
Hotel — 127 High St, Morgantown, West Virginia
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Hotel associated with published local folklore.

A hotel in Morgantown, West Virginia, Hotel Morgan is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Hotel associated with published local folklore. It sits in the archive under haunting reports. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend, every one filed as account rather than fact. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.

The nine-story tower on High Street opened on October 16, 1925, after the Morgantown Hotel Company raised the building in a single year. At the local historical society's insistence it carried the name of Zackquill Morgan — son of the region's first settler and the man who founded the town before dying in 1795. The opening advertisement promised fireproof construction; the ballroom delivered red satin upholstery, crystal chandeliers, and the address where Morgantown held its large occasions. Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and John F. Kennedy all passed through its register, Kennedy during the 1960 West Virginia primary that helped decide his nomination.
Deferred maintenance caught up with the building by the 1980s. R. Ted Brant bought it in 1999 and restored it, and the hotel trades today as a Wyndham boutique property — still the tallest landmark in downtown Morgantown and still attached to West Virginia University life.

THE HAUNTING THE OWNER DENIED
The ghost record here is notable mainly for who rejected it. When organizers of a February 2009 psychic and paranormal conference billed the hotel as haunted and scheduled a ghost hunt on the premises, owner Richard Brant went to the press: in the decade his family had owned the building, he said, nobody had reported anything, and he asked the conference to drop the claim. The organizers said their information came from a guest's experience; the details were never specified.
The stories that circulate anyway are standard hotel-lore shapes. Room 314 is said to hold a little girl who drowned in the bathtub — no drowning at the hotel has been documented. A woman in white is reported near the site of the old indoor swimming pool, again without a matching record. Fifth-floor guests have described feeling watched, and staff have filed the usual footsteps and voices in empty corridors. West Virginia's state paranormal trail lists the hotel regardless.
The file's value is its honesty about the disagreement: a landmark with a genuine presidential guest book, a ghost story thinner than its history, and an owner who said so on the record.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] apparition: State tourism recounts spirits supposedly roaming hotel corridors. A hotel in Morgantown, West Virginia with more than a century of check-ins gives the reports plenty of rooms to work with. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The account appears in 'West Virginia Paranormal Trail'. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped.
  source: West Virginia Paranormal Trail (https://wvtourism.com/west-virginia-paranormal-trail/)

SOURCES — 1 cited
· West Virginia Paranormal Trail — West Virginia Department of Tourism
  https://wvtourism.com/west-virginia-paranormal-trail/

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