The Hawthorne Hotel is a working hotel. Guest floors and rooms are for registered guests and their visitors, and staff may ask others to leave.
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The Hawthorne Hotel is a 93-room hotel in downtown Salem, Massachusetts, open since 1925 and often cited among the most haunted locations in the city 1, 2. Boston.com collected accounts from local tour operators of flickering lights, unexplained sounds and doors opening on their own, particularly in rooms 612 and 326 2. Hotel staff told Boston.com that whether the building is haunted depends on personal experience, and that some guests have reported what they consider supernatural occurrences 2. Visitors commonly describe guest room doors found standing open at night, lights and fixtures behaving oddly, noises in the upper-floor corridors, and a sense of someone else in the room.
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Boston.com reported that the Hawthorne Hotel is often cited among Salem's most haunted locations, citing tour operator Beth Crowley on guest accounts tied to rooms 612 and 326. The article listed flickering lights, unexplained sounds and doors opening on their own among those reports.
Doors opening or closing · Electrical disturbance · Unexplained sound
Rooms 612 and 326, and guest floors generally
Giovanni Alabiso of Salem Historical Tours told Boston.com that guests on one of his tours, staying on the third floor, woke in the middle of the night to find their room door open to the hallway.
Doors opening or closing
Third-floor guest room
The history · Salem, Massachusetts
Salem hotel where guests report doors opening on their own
VBy Vigil TeamUpdated · 1 min read · 2 sources
The Hawthorne Hotel is a 93-room hotel in downtown Salem, Massachusetts, open since 1925 and often cited among the most haunted locations in the city 1, 2. Boston.com collected accounts from local tour operators of flickering lights, unexplained sounds and doors opening on their own, particularly in rooms 612 and 326 2. Hotel staff told Boston.com that whether the building is haunted depends on personal experience, and that some guests have reported what they consider supernatural occurrences 2. Visitors commonly describe guest room doors found standing open at night, lights and fixtures behaving oddly, noises in the upper-floor corridors, and a sense of someone else in the room.
The hotel from Washington Square West, photographed by Ed Wolkin for The Salem News in the 1970s. Salem State University Archives and Special Collections.
Crowds outside the hotel during its opening celebration in July 1925. Henry Theriault Collection, Salem State University Archives and Special Collections.
A procession passing the hotel at its opening in July 1925. Nelson Dionne Salem History Collection, Salem State University Archives and Special Collections.