Connor Hotel

Guests at the Connor Hotel report whispering and women's laughter in Room 1, said to have frightened the hotel's first guest, an electrician, and the room most often chosen for ghost encounters; in Room 2 objects move on their own, a radio turns on even when unplugged and figures stand in the room at odd hours, and in Room 4 a dog is heard growling under the door; lights and taps work by themselves. The best-known story belongs to Ann Hopkins, wife of the mine's chief engineer, who threw diluted carbolic acid over the schoolteacher she believed her husband was involved with as the woman ate in the hotel's downstairs cafe; the teacher survived, and Hopkins went to prison for it. She is said to haunt the scene of her crime along with the hotel's builder, David Connor. Connor built the three-storey brick hotel in 1898, with twenty guest rooms above a saloon, card rooms and a billiard hall, at the height of Jerome's copper boom. It closed in 1931 as the mines faltered, spent decades as cheap lodging, closed again in the 1980s over safety concerns, and reopened as the hotel it is now.