America's Most Haunted Hotel? The Crescent Hotel and Spa in Eureka Springs
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America's Most Haunted Hotel? The Crescent Hotel and Spa in Eureka Springs

Perched high above Eureka Springs, Arkansas, the Crescent Hotel is marketed as America’s "most haunted hotel". Ghost tours tell of restless spirits, wandering patients, and a mad doctor who tortured patients. But before the Crescent became a haunted hotel, it was a luxury resort, a women’s college, and later, the setting for one of the most disturbing medical frauds of the twentieth century.

0:00 Intro
1:07 The Hotel's Alleged History
9:03 Gossip Sesh Starts
11:08 "Michael" the Stonemason
13:45 The Hotel Opens
14:05 Dr. John Fremont Ellis
16:30 Crescent College for Young Women
20:42 The Crescent Junior College
20:57 Norman Baker's Early Life
21:59 Baker's Early Scams
25:48 Baker Buy's the Crescent Hotel
26:48 Baker Takes Advantage of Cancer Patients
31:04 The "Castle in the Air"
32:46 Baker's Hold on Eureka Springs
34:36 Baker Plans to Open City
36:07 Baker's Downfall
38:00 Redditor's Encounter & Analysis
43:43 Conclusion & Outro

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