Amargosa Opera House & Hotel

History

The Amargosa Hotel was built between 1923 and 1925 as part of the Pacific Coast Borax Company’s civic center. Originally, it housed visiting investors of the mining company. When mining left the area in 1928, the hotel was remodeled and opened to the public. For its time, the building was advanced, with central cooling, heating, and skylights throughout. Marta Becket’s murals, added after 1981, transformed the property, with Room 22 featuring a tribute to Red Skelton and the dining room painted in trompe l’oeil style.

Paranormal Activity

Room 24 is linked to the cries of a child who drowned in 1967. Room 32 holds a menacing presence, tied to a mining boss and a hanging. In Room 9, people feel their legs restrained as they sleep, hear giggles, and find turning doorknobs with no one outside. Shadows cross the opera stage, and voices echo in the dining room, including a woman’s high-pitched tone. Footsteps and unexplained noises fill the halls, along with scents of lilacs and self-activating showers. The is an unfinished hidden section of the hotel known as “Spooky Hollow”.