The morgue at the 1886 Crescent Hotel is famous for its history as part of Dr. Norman Baker’s hospital. But for our expert guides, the medical encounters in that room didn’t end in 1939.

During a Midnight Investigation in early October 2024, our guide, known as The Conductor, experienced something highly personal and impossible to explain while using the Estes Method in the dark.

Here is his firsthand account of what happened inside the autopsy cooler:

“I was sitting with my back to the door and the light off. I felt something moving the hair on the back of my neck toward my right side. I thought maybe it was a guest messing with me, so I turned to look, but nobody was near me.

I turned back around and started getting the feeling again. In a bit, I felt ‘something’ touching the skin on my neck. It moved from my right side toward the middle of my neck, then stopped. Then I heard over the headphones: ‘metal.’

That freaked me out because I have a stainless-steel plate in my neck from where I had it fused. There are no scars on the back of my neck from the surgery, only on the front. Was ‘someone’ examining me? How did it know about the plate unless it had gotten in my head?”

The morgue cooler remains one of the most active spots in America’s Most Haunted Hotel. Encounters like this one suggest that whatever remains in that space still has a very clinical interest in the people who enter.

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