Historical Hotel and Its Legends of Murder and Hauntings
The Hotel Savoy now known as 21c Kansas City still carries the stories of being haunted.
Since 1888, the Hotel Savoy in Kansas City has been accommodating guests. It is the oldest operating hotel west of the Mississippi River.
For more than 100 years, this hotel has been providing people with a place to stay, and it has carried stories of several reports of supernatural activity.
Stories have been told that a woman by the name of Betsy Ward lived at Hotel Savoy in the late 1800s. She lived and died in Room 505. Her death remains a mystery.
Nobody really knows how Ward died. Some think she died in a bathtub by suicide and another story suggested it was a result of criminal activity. People at the hotel have heard doors opening and closing by themselves near Room 505. Some have seen shadows or heard voices they can’t explain. Still, others have felt like they were being watched.
Allegedly, visiting guests have reported hearing music in their room when no music had been turned on.
Electronic voice phenomena (EVP) were recorded on audiotape. Although sounds were captured, voices weren’t present at the time of recording.
Photos showing apparitions have been taken. Sometimes a passenger on the elevator…
