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Avery After Dark

42: HAUNTING | 1886 Crescent Hotel

Avery After Dark

Avery Ross

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, True Crime

4.8746 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The most HAUNTED hotel in America, so they say. In today's extra spooky episode, we are talking about the haunting of the Crescent Hotel & Spa in Eureka Springs, Arkansas

We dive into the strange & evil case of Dr. Norman Baker. In the 1930's, Dr. Baker turned the hotel into a hospital and told his patients he had the cure for cancer. But he didn't have the cure and he wasn't even a doctor. The Crescent Hotel turned into a hospital of horrors

This eerie story is one of the most shocking in history - you gotta hear it to believe it

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0:00.0

When a doctor by the name Norman Baker bought the haunted Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, he turned it into a cancer hospital,

0:23.9

professing to the world that he had the miracle cure. Yep, that's right. A special elixir of his very

0:30.7

own that would heal them of cancer, tumors, and countless other ailments. His hospital promotion

0:37.0

ads read,

0:38.2

The Baker Hospital, where sick folks get well.

0:42.0

Sound too good to be true?

0:43.9

It was.

0:45.3

Dr. Baker wasn't even a doctor.

0:48.1

And as you listen to this, you know it's 2023 and there is no cure for cancer.

0:53.2

But he brought thousands of patients in at a hefty cost,

0:57.1

happily taking their life savings from them and, quote unquote, treating them. These innocent people

1:03.2

had no idea that he was nothing but a fraud, a swindler, and they had no way of knowing that his

1:08.8

special elixir was just a useless concoction of watermelon seed,

1:13.7

clover, corn silk, and carbolic acid. As you may guess, many of Norman Baker's patients died at the hospital.

1:22.3

And eventually, Norman Baker was exposed as a phony and was sent to prison. The hospital closed and it was later reopened

1:29.4

again as a hotel. But the story doesn't end there. Many of Dr. Baker's patients that passed away at the

1:36.1

hospital seemingly never left. Hundreds and hundreds of ghostly encounters have been reported

1:42.3

at the Crescent throughout the years.

1:46.5

It's one of the most haunted hotels in America.

1:49.5

Some say the most haunted hotel.

1:55.9

And most shockingly, just a few years back, archaeologists discovered jars and jars of human specimen buried out on the property, along with a bone saw.

2:00.3

And it all ties right back to Baker's Hospital

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