>>Real Haunted Houses & Places Copper Queen Hotel Bisbee AZ Location: 11 Howell Avenue Bisbee, Arizona 85603. www.copperqueen.com The Story: Bisbee started as a tiny mining camp within Arizona in 1877. By 1910, Bisbee grew into a solid and wealthy town which held more than 50 saloons, earning a reputation as the best drinking and entertainment venue in the territory. The famous old "Queen" hotel was built by the Copper Queen Mining Company and played host to mining executives, traveling men, governors and the flamboyant types of the Old West. Soon after Bisbee became a town, the Copper Queen Hotel came about as a place for dignitaries and weary miners to rest their hats. Recently featured on the Sci-Fi Channel's Ghost Hunters episode "Spirits of the Old West", the Copper Queen Hotel is said to have three resident ghosts. The first is an older gentleman who is tall with long hair and a beard. He is usually seen wearing a black cape and top hat. Some guests and employees claim they smell the aroma of a good cigar either before or after seeing him, usually in doorways or as a shadow in some rooms on the fourth floor near the Teddy Roosevelt room. The second resident ghost of the Copper Queen Hotel is perhaps the most famous. She is a female in her early thirties and is believed to be that of Julia Lowell. The ghost story goes that she was a lady of the evening on Brewery Gulch and used the rooms in the hotel for her clients. She supposedly fell madly in love with one of the gentlemen. Upon telling him of her feelings, he no longer wanted anything to do with Julia. She then took her own life at the hotel and her presence is still felt on the west side of the building on the second and third floors. The hotel has paid tribute to her by naming a room in the area where she practiced her profession the "Julia Lowell Room". The third and youngest ghost of this haunted hotel is a small boy at the age of eight or nine. It is said that he drowned in the San Pedro River. It is believed that his spirit found its way to the hotel because a relative, perhaps his mother or father was employed here at the time. He's the most mischievous of the three ghosts. Guests, on the west side, and also on the second and third floors, have reported objects in their rooms have been moved from one table to the next. A few reported footsteps running through the halls and sometimes his intoxicating giggle. Others claim that when they run bath water, they feel his presence. He is never seen, just heard. If you visit the Copper Queen Hotel in Bisbee Arizona, be sure to ask the clerk about the Ghost Journal located at the front desk. Guests will share their ghost sightings and eerie experiences, which will then be recorded into the haunted hotel's Ghost Journal.