2008 Woodie Awards
Angeline's Grave and other haunted places in Prescott
Lynda Roberts
Issue date: 3/31/06 Section: News
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A young child, weeping, wanders the countryside searching for her mother. Her tiny palm prints make delicate impressions on the car windows of voyagers who stop and perhaps linger a little too long near her grave. Angeline is dead and guarding her own tombstone from vandals and tourists. Unfortunate occurrences have been said to have happened to those who chose to disturb little Angeline's final resting place. Tales say that Angeline died from the plague during a wagon train journey to the western frontier in the 1800's and is buried near Lynx Lake outside of the Prescott city limits.
Welcome to the haunted places in Prescott, Ariz. Prescott's wild and wooly history has given the town many opportunities to become a popular place for restless spirits to roam.
Another local water setting is rumored to harbor ghosts. Roosevelt Lake had many deaths occur while the dam was being constructed and it is said that a strange presence surrounds the lake while odd experiences happen to people who visit the area.
One of the more well known entities resides at the historic Vendome Hotel in downtown Prescott near the courthouse and Whiskey Row. Abby Byr and her cat, Noble, make regular appearances inside the hotel and guests will need to pay an extra fee to stay in Room #16 where their bodies were discovered in 1921.
The Grand Balcony Suite 426 in the beautiful Hassayampa Hotel is where in 1927 a newlywed bride hanged herself when her spouse did not return from an errand to purchase tobacco. Faith now wanders throughout the inn disturbing the living while possibly looking for the husband who forsaked her on their wedding night.
Here is a great excuse to go bar hopping! Coyote Joe's Bar and Grill on Montezuma Street has a colorful past where in the 1800's the building had the distinction of being home to one of Prescott's first brothels while also catering to the opium crowd in town. Tunnels built under the establishments on Montezuma Street provided delivery routes for laundry service by immigrants who worked their trade. Coyote Joe's three-story business is a labyrinth of rooms where ghostly figures of sociable women come and go directly through the brick walls. The cook's report that utensils regularly fly off the shelves in the kitchen and that one especially friendly 'lady of the evening' has been known to drop chocolate candy to children from a vending machine when they simply point and ask for it. The soulful spirits are definitely gracious at Coyote Joe's and are just having a little fun with the new customers.
Welcome to the haunted places in Prescott, Ariz. Prescott's wild and wooly history has given the town many opportunities to become a popular place for restless spirits to roam.
Another local water setting is rumored to harbor ghosts. Roosevelt Lake had many deaths occur while the dam was being constructed and it is said that a strange presence surrounds the lake while odd experiences happen to people who visit the area.
One of the more well known entities resides at the historic Vendome Hotel in downtown Prescott near the courthouse and Whiskey Row. Abby Byr and her cat, Noble, make regular appearances inside the hotel and guests will need to pay an extra fee to stay in Room #16 where their bodies were discovered in 1921.
The Grand Balcony Suite 426 in the beautiful Hassayampa Hotel is where in 1927 a newlywed bride hanged herself when her spouse did not return from an errand to purchase tobacco. Faith now wanders throughout the inn disturbing the living while possibly looking for the husband who forsaked her on their wedding night.
Here is a great excuse to go bar hopping! Coyote Joe's Bar and Grill on Montezuma Street has a colorful past where in the 1800's the building had the distinction of being home to one of Prescott's first brothels while also catering to the opium crowd in town. Tunnels built under the establishments on Montezuma Street provided delivery routes for laundry service by immigrants who worked their trade. Coyote Joe's three-story business is a labyrinth of rooms where ghostly figures of sociable women come and go directly through the brick walls. The cook's report that utensils regularly fly off the shelves in the kitchen and that one especially friendly 'lady of the evening' has been known to drop chocolate candy to children from a vending machine when they simply point and ask for it. The soulful spirits are definitely gracious at Coyote Joe's and are just having a little fun with the new customers.