THE POLLARD HOTEL
Hotel — Red Lodge, Montana
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public · est. 1893
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/the-pollard-hotel-red-lodge-montana/

Red Lodge’s 1893 hotel—the woman in the hall and the basement’s darker memory.

A hotel in Red Lodge, Montana, built in 1893, The Pollard Hotel is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Red Lodge’s 1893 hotel—the woman in the hall and the basement’s darker memory. HauntHunt files it with haunted places and historic hotels. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. It still takes guests.

The Pollard is the gathered — the 'Buffalo Bill' that's the lobby's guest, the 'Calamity Jane' that's the interruption made. The '1893' is the first — the 'brick building' that's the town's start, the 'coal money' that's the Spofford built. The 'Wild Bunch' is the rumored — the '1897 robbery' that's the guests watched, the 'Sundance Kid' that's the tale told.
The 'yellow dress' is the walked — the 'third floor' that's the hallways' ghost, the 'French perfume' that's the scent left. The 'George' is the named — the '80s appeared' that's the friendly teased, the 'popcorn smelled' that's the pranks kept. The Pollard is the stayed — the 'register signed' that's the famous kept, the 'rooms 309' that's the dizzy made.
The file keeps the Pollard: the gathered famous, the Wild Bunch rumor, the yellow lady, and the named George.
The Pollard is the archive's Montana file — the hotel where Buffalo Bill swapped tales.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
The Pollard is the archive's Montana file — the brick first where the Old West checked in.
A hotel keeps its guests — the file's suggestion being that the Pollard's hold is the layered: the 'Cody told' that's the lobby's tales, the 'yellow dress' that's the third floor's walk, and the 'George pranks' that's the named ghost.

FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified
· [Local folklore] apparition: Reported a woman’s figure, a man in the basement and children’s voices. The Pollard Hotel, a hotel in Red Lodge, Montana, has kept the story in circulation longer than most of its guest registers. The claim is neighborhood knowledge — retold locally, verified nowhere. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.
  source: The Pollard Hotel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pollard_Hotel)
· [Anecdotal] reported anomalies: Reported footsteps and a presence in the halls. The Pollard Hotel, a hotel in Red Lodge, Montana, has kept the story in circulation longer than most of its guest registers. The reports are anecdotal — consistent enough to record, thin enough to stay unproven. 'The Pollard Hotel' carries the account. The pattern of small anomalies is itself the claim — none dramatic alone, persistent together.
  source: The Pollard Hotel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pollard_Hotel)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· [1893] Opened 1893; Red Lodge’s first brick building. 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. The record appears in 'The Pollard Hotel'. The record keeps it — history, not lore. The file stays open on it.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· The Pollard Hotel — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pollard_Hotel

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