Aunt Alice Our creepiness rating 💀💀💀💀💀
Former Mission Inn Foundation curator Kevin Halloran told the Press-Enterprise that guests, maids and bellmen described a rocking chair rocking and TVs turning on in the old room of Alice Richardson, Frank Miller's sister, who managed the hotel until her death in the 1930s. A maid reported hearing footsteps and jangling keys pass her with no one there. Source: Press-Enterprise, 2014.
Facts below are drawn from the linked sources.
Real history
The Press-Enterprise (2014) wrote that the Mission Inn's origins date to an 1876 adobe boarding house, and that the renovated hotel reopened in 1992 (Press-Enterprise). SAH Archipedia says the Mission Wing was built from 1902 and opened on February 20, 1903 (SAH Archipedia).
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The dog in the mirror Our creepiness rating 💀💀💀💀💀
Halloran said a guard in the Spanish Wing saw a snarling dog reflected in a beveled mirror; Halloran noted the mirror can produce double images. Source: Press-Enterprise, 2014.
Halloran said a guard in the Spanish Wing saw a snarling dog reflected in a beveled mirror; Halloran noted the mirror can produce double images. Source: Press-Enterprise, 2014.
Then and now
Public access
Open to the public It operates as a hotel (Press-Enterprise). Last checked: Oct 31, 2026.
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