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“I did all the maintenance for the hotel for a few years around 2002 and have had many experiences. More than once, I was working in some of the rooms at night and heard people talking and ballroom music playing when the bar and restaurant were closed. One time, I was walking down the basement hallway past the men’s room and all of a sudden heard the sound of water running. I walked into the bathroom to see if someone was in there and found no one, but the faucets were running. I then walked into the bathroom stall to see if someone was in there and the door slammed shut behind me. That scared the hell out of me and I ran out of there as fast as I could. I never went back into that restroom again, and didn’t even like walking past it,” recalled TJ. The Boulder Dam Hotel in Boulder City, Nevada, has many more stories like TJ’s. From apparitions to visitors feeling like they’ve been touched, to sightings of the ghost of night clerk Tommy Thompson, who is believed to haunt the lobby, lots of strange things have been reported throughout the years. Besides its fantasmic guests, the hotel has an interesting living past as well. Eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes was testing an experimental plane over Lake Mead when it went down and killed the other two passengers. Hughes holed up at the Boulder Dam Hotel while he recovered. It’s not surprising that the hotel would be haunted, given that the dam it was named after is probably haunted as well. The hotel was built in 1933 to accommodate dignitaries visiting the construction of the Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam. Between 96 and 112 people and one special dog died during the building of the mammoth dam. Perhaps that’s one reason why there are so many ghosts at the Boulder Dam Hotel!

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