Mystery Location No. 142: March 3, 2019

This is the Hassayampa Inn, 122 E. Gurley Street, Prescott, Arizona. It opened in 1927, the Roaring Twenties, "a time of change and excess." Prescott is named for William H. Prescott, who was from Salem, Mass., a location with a "bewitching" past.

It's supposed to be haunted by Faith Summers, a woman who married a much older man: a May-December marriage. They were on their honeymoon and after they checked into the hotel, her husband went out to buy a pack of cigarettes and never returned. She waited for days, but he was never heard from again. She was so distressed that she finally climbed to the bell tower and hanged herself. She haunts room 426, where they were staying, and people sometimes smell the scent of a flowery perfume in that area and see her ghost, which appears as a "woman in white," though some say they've seen a "woman in pink." There's also the ghost of a young Chinese boy in the laundry, probably the son of a laundress who once worked at the hotel.

Many famous people have stayed at the Hassayampa: Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, George W. Bush, D.H. Lawrence and many others.

The state of Arizona was admitted to the Union on Valentine's Day of 1912. There's a large, copper-colored star on Arizona's gaudy flag.