Crescent Hotel

Record summary

The Crescent Hotel, a nineteenth-century resort and former hospital, became known for ghost stories involving patients, staff, and deaths associated with its medical past. Its late-twentieth-century reputation developed through local tourism, guided storytelling, and paranormal investigation. The site is useful for comparison because the documented transformation from hotel to hospital supplies a large pool of real historical events that later narratives interpret supernaturally. Individual apparitions and named ghosts are difficult to date, and published accounts vary substantially in detail.