KTVN Channel 2 - Reno Tahoe News Weather, Video - Haunted Nevada: Goldfield Hotel
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25,000 people lived in Goldfield in 1906. Hundreds of buildings crowded the hillside of the once bustling gold town.
The now empty Goldfield Hotel has no power or plumbing. Back in its heyday the "Grand Lady of the West" (as it was known) was one of the first with steam heat, phones, elevators and electricity in every room.
George Wingfield built the hotel; he later settled in Reno.
As darkness falls, seven people assemble in the once opulent hotel lobby with lanterns and flashlights.
The hotel's caretaker, Virginia Ridgeway tries to contact one of the residents named Elizabeth in the room where she died. The team later retreats back to the lobby for a séance to try to contact whoever might be there.
Someone thinks they see the figure of a cowboy in a room next to the séance. Cameraman Jeff Foss and reporter Bill Brown go off chasing shadows and find cold spots.
Mark Constantino wants the spirits to know they mean no disrespect. "Not trying to get you to perform, we're just trying to learn."
He gets a response of "I like that."
Throughout the halls, the team stops and tries EVP or electronic voice phenomena.
But sometimes spirits do other things to get your attention.
On the fourth floor, just as they pass an open stairwell, something rushes at them. They hear steps coming right at them. "We've got movement on the stairs."
But nothing prepared them for what they would find or hear in the basement.
An earlier film crew had apparently angered the spirits to the point a brick was thrown. The team asked whoever was there to show them that they were real, not a brick, but just something. The spirits refer to the brick a few times.
"We didn't mean to hurt," says an EVP.
So does Bill believe in ghosts? "Let's just say I was there, I know what I felt, saw and heard. I'm not sure who or what it was, but I know something, someone was there and it wasn't always nice."
