Basin Park Hotel

William Duncan built the Basin Park Hotel from local limestone in 1905, on the site of the Perry House, which had burned in 1890 in the last of four fires that levelled much of downtown Eureka Springs — a town that grew up around claims about its spring water. Guests and staff describe a girl in a yellow dress and a young woman with long fair hair in the corridors, and voices and footsteps in a hidden lower level that once held a speakeasy. Room 310 has its own reputation: the smell of livestock with no animals near, and cowboys said to walk through the walls. Local telling makes one of them the cattle baron John Chisum, who did die in Eureka Springs in 1884 — though that was twenty years before this building existed, when the Perry House still stood here. The hotel runs its own ghost tours and investigations, as does its sister property, the Crescent Hotel. Ghost Files, the YouTube series with Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej, spent a night at the hotel for "The Toe-Curling Frights of Basin Park Hotel" (2025).