San Carlos Hotel (Phoenix, AZ)
Legend
Many employees have said that they have seen ghosts at the hotel, the most commonly mentioned being that of Leone Jensen. This caused the Travel Channel to dedicate part of their show World Travels to the hotel. This feature on the hotel was premiered on Monday, January 19, 2004. Whether the ghost sighting theory is a promotional stunt or not is debatable.
[edit] Historical facts
The site where the hotel sits was the location of the first school in Phoenix. The four room adobe school was inaugurated in 1874. It was replaced with a larger structure in 1879. The school was enlarged several times but was condemed in [[1916] ], with construction of a luxury hotel in mind. In addition, many area children died during the 1918 swine flu epidemic that attacked the United States.
In 1919, the land was bought by the Babbitt family (relatives of Bruce Babbitt, former Secretary of the Interior and Arizona Governor, who intended to build a hotel. The San Carlos Hotel project was finally begun by Charles Harris and Dwight D. Heard who purchased the property from the Babbitts. Construction began in 1927. The hotel was designed by Nationally known architects in the Italian Renaissance style. The hotel was state of the art with air conditioning (the first in Phoenix), elevators, circulating chilled water in the rooms and steam heat. The hotel grand opening was on March 19, 1928. The hotel was built at a cost of nearly $850,000.
The hotel competed with the posh, nearby Westward Ho hotel, completed the following year, which was located on what once was Phoenix's first radio transmitter and whose list of clientele include such celebrities as Jack Dempsey and John F. Kennedy. The San Carlos had its share of celebrities such as Mae West, Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Marilyn Monroe and Gene Autry.
On May 7, 1928, the Arizona Republic reported the death of Leone Jensen. The article's headline read "Pretty blonde jumps from (the) San Carlos (hotel) early today". Based on what she wrote on her death note, it could be assumed that the 22 year old woman was physically abused by her boyfriend, a bellboy at the Westward Ho. Speculations have been made as to whether Jensen was pregnant and/or her boyfriend was having an affair with another hotel worker. Because of these theories, the way she died is also debated. While most evidence pointed to suicide, many have said that she could have been pushed off by her boyfriend or her boyfriend's other girlfriend.
Another ghost frequently mentioned by hotel employees is that of a little girl, possibly around six to nine years old, who is rumored to visit hotel rooms at night and sit crying. Ghost believers think she was probably one of the area children affected either by the school's closing or the flu epidemic.
On December 9, 2004, yet another tragic death happened at this hotel, when an unidentified man jumped to his death from the hotel's roof.
Me and my buddy got a private tour when we busted in at 1AM asking for a tour and to tell us of any paranormal activity being bored the chief security guy gave he and i a private tour of the hotel boiler room and and upstairs and the roof... it was one of the coolest things we did ever
when i asked if i can stay overnight and take pics of the place they politely told me to get the fuck out ha ha...
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I'm sure this is fake but interesting footage...
Residents of a town in Argentina are living in fear after several sightings of a "creepy gnome" that the locals claim stalks the streets at night. A group of teenagers hanging out on the streets after dark managed to capture this very strange footage. The gnome appears at the end, slowly making
it's way down the street. One of the teenagers was so frightened, he went into mild shock and had to be taken to a local hospital
Someone help me out what are they saying in regards to the gnome?
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And I don't think that girl is Kendra. She's got dark hair and such. I'm just gonna say she's full of it haha.