Goldfield, Nevada was the largest city in the state for a brief, improbable period at the start of the twentieth century, its population reaching nearly twenty thousand at the height of the gold rush. The Goldfield Hotel opened in 1908 at the peak of that prosperity—built by mining magnate George Wingfield for approximately $400,000, a deliberate statement that this desert city intended to last. It had marble fixtures, electric lights, steam heat, and a dining room worthy of any metropolis. Within two decades the gold was gone, the population had collapsed, and the hotel entered the long, quiet category of places too substantial to demolish and too costly to restore.
What remained inside was not ordinary emptiness. Room 109 is the center of it. The legend attached to the room concerns a young woman called Elizabeth, said to have been confined there during the hotel’s operating years—kept against her will, lost along with the child she was carrying. The historical record does not confirm the details. Investigators who enter the room without knowing the story consistently describe the same thing: a female presence, something unresolved, a difficulty staying that the building’s physical condition does not explain.
The Ghost Adventures team has investigated the hotel multiple times, and Room 109 produced responses their equipment registered as among the most significant they had recorded. The hotel still stands at 411 N Crook Ave in Goldfield—a four-story stone building on US-95 that the desert has preserved with the honest indifference it applies to everything. Room 109 is in there. The silence around it is in there. Neither has finished with the other.
Story Source: www.legendsofamerica.com
Address: 411 N Crook Ave, Goldfield, NV 89013
Accessibility Rating: Guided Tours Only — Access permitted only as part of an organized tour. Independent exploration not allowed.
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What Others Have Experienced
Room 109 is reported to remain intensely cold regardless of outside temperature; visitors on overnight tours describe hearing what sounds like a woman’s cries from the room, linked to the local legend of a woman called Elizabeth said to haunt the hotel’s tragic history.
— from Carson Now
Fresh cigar ashes have reportedly been found on the lobby floor and in a first-floor room even when the hotel has been locked and empty. Visitors attribute the smell and residue to the ghost of George Wingfield, who owned the hotel at its peak.
— from ROUTE Magazine
Three child-sized spirits are said to haunt the lobby near the staircase; guests on tours report being tapped on the back by unseen hands, followed by giggling, before the presence disappears.
— from Carson Now
The former Gold Room — the hotel’s main dining hall — is said to host a hostile presence known locally as “the Stabber,” a spirit reported to aggressively confront visitors who enter the space.
— from Carson Now
Guests on overnight paranormal tours — conducted by local guides using full-spectrum cameras and ghost boxes — report hearing what sounds like a child crying from the basement, near the sealed mine shafts dug beneath the hotel in 1925.
— from Melissa Whitney Photography
