![]() The hotel attendant informed us that many people do stay in the hotel and request to sleep in the most haunted rooms and do in fact experience a paranormal phenomenon. We later found out it was an abandoned area that used to house the miners hospital and morgue back in the day. Didn’t want to fall in there! There was more past the hotel rooms, but it was blocked by a locked door. Can you say “Bloody Mary” three times into the mirror and let me know what happens? There were also cut outs in the floor that apparently led to sewage ports. We reached the end of the long hall and there was the large creepy mirror that seemed to be waiting for something to appear in it. We walked into a couple of them and I took several photos. We had never heard of the Amargosa Hotel or Opera House so we didn’t know which rooms were rumored to be haunted. Each room had wall murals and pretty outdated décor as was the theme of the hotel. I hadn’t ventured this far into the hotel when I came in before but the eeriness just felt more and more foreboding. As we walked down the hall we found a little café table and seat area before the start of all the hotel rooms. We were short on time to wait for someone to provide a tour for us of the opera house, but since walking around the hotel was no problem on our own, we decided to take a look. Haunted Amargosa? Room at Amargosa Hotel thought to be haunted. Marta Beckett the owner performed in the Opera House for over 43 years and when she wasn’t performing she painted the halls and murals herself. She suggested we do a tour of the Amargosa Opera House and take a walk around the hotel. The sight of three grown and muscular men running from ghosts was incredible she said. #AMARGOSA OPERA HOUSE HOTEL DEATH VALLEY JUNCTION SERIES#When I get back into the café, Jason is chatting away with the waitress and I come to find that the hotel is actually haunted! She told us all about how the guys over at the Travel Channel’s Ghost Adventures series came to do an overnight investigation and they ran out of the hall screaming. So I quickly did my business and left back towards the Amargosa Cafe. I was pretty creeped out with this sudden feeling of dread and felt the urge to leave. The hotel attendant points me towards the bathroom at the head of a long poorly lit hall with rooms on either side and a huge mirror far down the end. The dining area has paintings painted directly on the walls. The décor seemed like something stuck in the 70’s with green carpets and a striped couch by a fireplace at first glance. I walked into the hotel and it was old and weird. Image: ©2012 īefore leaving, I wanted to hit up the restroom no need to pop a squat on the side of the road! The waitress pointed me to the Amargosa Hotel advising the café did not have a restroom. ![]() The Amargosa Hotel at First Glance The hall of guest rooms at the Amargosa Hotel. Jason also enjoyed chicken tenders with a zesty homemade bbq sauce that he raved could only be found in the wild west. I just had a simple grilled cheese sandwich with chips but it was the best damn grilled cheese I had ever had. She offered us the specials of the day but we chose to skip the mushroom cheddar burger. We walk out and exchange glances feeling the same eeriness of the place at that moment but decided to eat since it might be awhile before we hit anywhere else on our way to Dante’s View in Death Valley National Park. She informed us we were at Death Valley Junction and that we should have made a right at the fork onto 127 from State Line Rd/Ash Meadow Rd and a quick left onto 190. We walk into the Amargosa Cafe and all eyes are on us, but the waitress was very pleasant. The Amargosa Cafe Amargosa Cafe in front of Amargosa Opera House and Hotel Image: © 2012 ![]() We had stumbled upon the Amargosa Hotel and Opera. ![]() The place looked very run down but we noticed a hotel to the right and some cars in the lot. We figured we’d stop in and eat something and ask for directions to make sure we didn’t end up lost as the roads were very long and turning back would have been way worse. We had been driving for close to 2 hours from Las Vegas and noticed a little diner sign reading “café” to the left. While on the way to Death Valley National Park, CA, we reached a fork in the road and were not sure of which way we were supposed to go as we had seen a straight shot on the map before we headed out. ![]()
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