Oliver House

Guests at the Oliver House report ghostly footsteps in the hallways at night, cold spots, a rocking chair that moves of its own accord, doors and shutters that open by themselves, the sense of being watched, the sound of a party carrying on in empty rooms and a presence known as Grandma in one guest room; a ghostly woman is reported in Room 13, a love-triangle killing is told of Room 9, and a log book at reception holds guests' encounters. The best documented death is Nathaniel Anderson, a railroad man shot between the eyes at the foot of the stairs in February 1920 in a killing never solved, and local history holds that 26 people died in the building, most of them violently. An earlier account, harder to verify, has a Bisbee policeman finding his wife with another man and killing them both, along with others in his way, before taking his own life. Edith Ann Oliver, wife of a Calumet & Arizona Mining Company official, built the house in 1909 to lodge company men, and it later took in ordinary miners. It now operates as a twelve-room bed and breakfast.