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Jefferson Public Radio reports rumors that the building is haunted by former vacationers, a gardener and former patients, citing the book Oregon's Ghosts & Monsters. It also notes the building has appeared on Scariest Places on Earth. Source: JPR, 2014.
Facts below are drawn from the linked sources.
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Real history
According to the resort's own history, a building stood here by 1864. The brick hotel dates from about 1906–1908, and Dr. W.T. Phy acquired the property in 1917. After a fire in 1934 it became a WWII-era flight school and nurse training site, and later a nursing home. It was abandoned in 1991. David Manuel bought it in 2003, and new owners took over in 2020 (Hot Lake Springs history). Its National Register nomination dates the conversion to a home for the aged to 1951 (NRHP nomination).
Ghost stories
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Then and now
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