05-25-2025 The Mizpahhotel is a touristtrap keeping the Tonopah Town alive by claiming there are ghost. Nothing special besides a creepy old run down, unkept, uncleaned, dirty hotel, hotel rooms from the 1900's Tonopah with a rude, vulgar, unprofessional #unkept woman dressed like she just got done with a 36hr OTR drive in a semi truck, with a matching vulgar mouth that sound worse then a mouth of a sailor. That woman talked so much trash about previous hotel guest who had issues with the broken down rooms and hotel, she stated the staff has a certain "f*** off" statement that she tells anyone who complaints (quoting that employee).
We stopped and stayed in the "Red Lady Room". The things scary about this room were the fiberglass tub (they had fiberglass tubs in the 1900's??? ) that DIDNOT drain at all, the BROKEN furniture and single wooden chair, the BROKEN wooden blinds in the bathroom, the DARK YELLOW stained sheets and stained comforter, dirty cracked windows being held open with pieces of sticks, broken air condition. Dont forget you have to step into the tub to close the bathroom door to get to the potty.. Did I mention the elevator that takes the doors 3 minutes to close that was last inspected in 1911 that has names scratched into the walls and doors??
Reno Gazette did an article on 11-11-2000 How Sen. Pittman died on 11-10-1940 after winning the election and oldwivestales state his body was kept on ice, another 'story' they are passing as facts . Want to see where the MizPah Hotel is letting its stories and fibs from.... Google them, read the articles, do your homework before stepping into that traffic jam.
You want to know what else you will experience here?? When someone else in ANOTHER ROOM (anywhere on the same floor) uses the #bathroom. The smells fill the hallways, stairs, corridors and your room. They try and mask the odor and mildew by putting plug-in's in every corner of each floor.
Ghost: The hotel has a 3 ring binder of "hand written" experiences over 10-15 years old (same time the WSJ was posted) with pages stuck together, all in similar had writing that other people have heard, seen #orbs with #flashes in the mirrors (dust particles because the #ventilation is so dirty and old) and heard kids playing the hallway.. you can hear everyone in the hallway, looking around trying door knows . Nothing haunted about this place but the yellow stains on the bed sheets in the room your staying in.
The hotel is run down with furniture that has been donated from the local families or stuff they 'found' in the trash on the side road (quoting the bartender down stairs) where we got dinner. The only ghost you'll see here are the ones in your head when leaving w/o ur $$$ and bad night sleep.
Actually stop and look at the decoration, the pictures and furniture. Very few pieces are even related to the hotel, to "so called" incidents that "so called, took place" at the hotel - that you cannot find on paper anywhere. Some 'random' lady in red was "maybe" murdered on the 5th floor.. somewhere there - as the 'story' goes.. The murder of a 'political figure' kept in a bathtub of ice? Look at the newspaper article posted in their lobby thats from the "Wall Street Journal" dated 07-31-2015, stating "Ghost Town: Tonopah "Hopes to Become a Tourist Haunt". Hold on, hopes... and the actual WSJ states its a "upsell to help the town". Oh and for some weird reason, the title on the 'printed newspaper' in the frame vs the actual website article IS DIFFERENT!
This is a old hotel that they don't fix broken things. Repair something, fix the things there that are either broken or missing parts. You can actually repair things and keep the fake historic haunted theme still.
*THIS IS MY FIRST HAND PERSONAL OPINION FROM MY EXPERIENCE WHEN MY FAMILY STAYED AT THE MIZPAH HOTEL IN 2025 read more