Eureka Springs Trip

[Marcellus]

Originally Posted by blake5676

These are all the tips I was looking for...appreciate the input!

And I guess I need to research a little about the history of this place. Pretty unique to be super LGBT friendly, but also a biker town with some crazy religious culty vibes mixed in. Sound like the perfect town to get drunk in and see what happens.

The Crescent Hotel itself has a crazy history. Some quack opened a cancer treatment hospital there in the 1930's and bilked people out of $. Story goes that when the patients would die they would remove the body in the middle of the night and have it cremated but he never told the families and kept collecting monthly payments for their "treatment". That supposed to be why its haunted.

Ironically he died of cancer after getting out of prison.

In 1937, it got a new owner, Norman G. Baker, who turned the place into a hospital and health resort. Baker, a millionaire inventor and radio personality, styled himself as a doctor, despite having had no medical training. He claimed to have discovered a number of "cures" for various ailments, including cancer, and launched frequent attacks on organized medicine, which he accused of being corrupt and profit-driven.[3]

Having been run out of Iowa for practicing medicine without a license, Baker moved his cancer patients to Arkansas and advertised his new health resort at the Crescent. His "cure" consisted primarily of drinking the area's natural spring water.[clarification needed] In 1940, federal charges were filed against Baker for mail fraud and he spent four years in prison.[3] The Crescent Hotel was left ownerless until 1946. In the spring of 1946, the Crescent Hotel was purchased by John R. Constantine, Herbert E. Shutter, Herbert Byfield, and Dwight Nichols. On March 15, 1967, the hotel was nearly burned to the ground. The only living owner at this time was Dwight Nichols.