Question of the Day - 18 September 2022

That QoD from nearly 10 years ago described sightings at primarily Luxor, but also Bally's, Bellagio, Circus Circus, Flamingo, Planet Hollywood, Plaza, and Whiskey Pete's. You can read them here. 

This was a challenging update (in more ways than one); PR departments aren't normally too enthusiastic to promote ghosts on their properties. But we did unearth, so to speak, a few new stories. 

Here are a couple courtesy of the Haunted Vegas Tour & Ghost Hunt.

The tour visits Fox Ridge Park in Henderson, where the ghost of a young boy is sometimes seen riding the swing set. Tourists who have visited it recently have taken photos of the swing set that, when developed, showed either a shadow on the swing or orbs in its immediate vicinity.

Another venue popular with the paranormal is Bally’s Las Vegas, presently being converted to a Horseshoe. It's most famous as being the second of three MGM Grand hotels, the one that was the tragic site of the 1980 fire that took more than 80 lives. A veteran Bally’s/MGM dealer recently shared with the tour that she'd been dealing blackjack when a nearby table erupted as though somebody had hit a big win. She looked up and recognized “Robert,” a dealer who'd died in the fire, still wearing the same uniform. Shaken, she looked down at her cards for a moment and — when she looked up again — the table was empty.

If you want to do some DIY ghost-hunting, you can rub elbows with spirits at the Mob Museum. Staffers there believe the former courthouse is haunted, perhaps because it's now filled with the bric-a-brac of murder and mayhem.

At MGM Grand, according to Vegas.com, “The most chilling ghostly encounter is an elderly woman who is said to occupy a bank of slot machines on the casino floor. She calmly plays two games at once as her dress engulfs her in flames. If approached, she disappears.”

We also heard that the Westgate is "filled with the spiritual presence of Elvis Presley," its most famous headliner, when it opened as the International. If true, Elvis might not have left the building after all.

Finally, one venue that could be expected to host apparitions or otherworldly sightings has been noticeably lacking in reports of such. The Ghostbar on the 55th floor of the Palms is, from all indications, mercifully free of its spectral namesakes.