THE METLEN HOTEL
Hotel — 5 S. Railroad Ave., Dillon, Montana
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Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/the-metlen-hotel-dillon-montana/

Historic hotel with ghost reports.

The Metlen Hotel is a hotel in Dillon, Montana. Historic hotel with ghost reports. It sits in the archive under haunted locations. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend — all telling, no verified spine yet, and the file says so plainly. Access details are unverified — research before visiting. The dossier keeps the place and the story in the same record — which is what the archive is for.

The Metlen is the canvas hotel's replacement — Joseph Metlen's Second Empire palace built on the exact ground where the Corinne, the cloth-partitioned hotel that followed the railroad, burned in 1891. The $30,000 sixty-room building had call bells and electricity and steam heat 'absolutely free from hammering' — the freighter who came to Montana in 1867 betting Dillon would be a city.
The governor came to the 1898 opening; the penthouse watched for aircraft in the war; the hotel closed in 2008 but the bars stayed open in the Old West clutter of pistols and skulls. The ghosts are the cowboys the staff say aren't threatening — the keys that vanish, the furniture that moves, the footsteps in the building that's been a landmark for a hundred twenty-five years.
The file keeps the Metlen: the burned Corinne's site, the 1898 opening, the WWII penthouse, and the cowboy ghosts in the closed hotel.
The Metlen is the archive's Dillon file — the freighter's palace and the ghosts the staff call fun.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
The Metlen is the archive's Dillon file — the 1897 Second Empire hotel and the cowboy ghosts.
A hotel built on a fire keeps its warmth — the file's suggestion being that the Metlen's hold is the succession: the canvas Corinne's ground, the brick Metlen's luxury, and the friendly dead the caretakers still host.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] apparition: Southwest Montana recounts accounts of ghost sightings. The Dillon hotel's reports are the kind old lodgings accumulate — footsteps after hours, presences in rooms, the house working the night shift. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped.
  source: Southwest Montana’s Haunted Places (https://southwestmt.com/ghosts/haunted-places/)

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Southwest Montana’s Haunted Places — Southwest Montana
  https://southwestmt.com/ghosts/haunted-places/

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