Hotel Congress

Guests and staff at Hotel Congress describe a woman in lace who leaves a scent of roses in the lobby, a man in Victorian dress in Room 214, and a woman in white, along with footsteps and voices in empty corridors. The hotel opened in 1919 to serve travellers arriving at the Southern Pacific depot across the street, and still operates as a hotel, bar and music venue. On January 22, 1934, a fire started in the basement and reached the third floor, where three members of John Dillinger's gang were staying under false names; everyone got out alive. A firefighter helping the men retrieve their luggage recognised them from a photograph in True Detective magazine, and within days the gang was in custody — Dillinger himself, who was not staying at the hotel, was arrested elsewhere in Tucson on January 25.