Haunted Houses: Animal Spirits and Pet Ghosts Around the Country

Not many hotels can show you the former morgue in the building, but The 1886 Crescent isn’t your average hotel. Originally built in the heart of the Ozark Mountains, for America’s most wealthy, it also served as a former finishing school for girls and in the '30s-'40s, a cancer hospital, where a fraudulent doctor named Norman Baker is suspected to have oversaw the death of over 300 of his “patients.”

The building is reportedly haunted by plenty of human spirits, but two of its most famous ghosts are that of Baker’s St. Bernard and Morris the cat, whose grave is marked outside of the hotel. Both animals have been caught on film and their likenesses can be found by asking the front desk for the “ghost book.”