2008 Woodie Awards
Sleeping in the morgue
Antionette Grajeda
Issue date: 10/31/07 Section: Life & Style
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Today is Halloween, and while some will celebrate the holiday by donning a variety of costumes, others will spend their night seeking scary thrills at local haunted houses.
A reportedly real haunted locale, the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs has been a popular spot for paranormal thrill-seekers for years.
In honor of the Halloween spirit, the hotel added a new lodging option, which offers patrons the chance to sleep in its morgue.
The three-day and two-night package is designed for a group of four and includes one night in the morgue and one night in the hotel's luxury suites, one per couple, according to a press release.
Technically, the area is no longer a morgue, but a storage area for the hotel.
The Crescent first opened in May 1886, but in the late 1930s, Dr. Norman Baker bought the hotel, which "had fallen on hard times" and turned it into the new location for the Baker Hospital, according to the hotel's Web site.
The autopsy table is still in place as is the walk-in cooler where Baker kept bodies and body parts for experimentation in his highly advertised "cancer curing hospital," according to a press release.
The room where he kept body parts in jars of formaldehyde is the site where a full-bodied apparition was caught on videotape by the Sci-Fi Channel's "Ghost Hunters" in 2005.
This unique package entitled "Fall Back In Time and Dimension" was created for the "Fall Back in Time" promotion conducted by Historic Hotels of America (HHA), of which the Crescent Hotel has been a member since 2000.
The idea for the new package, which UA senior Jed Hefner described as "freaking awesome," was originally created by Jack Moyer, the Cresent's vice president of operations and development.
"He was trying to think of a package that would be unique not only to our hotel but to the entire North American continent - evidently he succeeded," said Bill Ott, director of marketing and communications for the Cresent.
A reportedly real haunted locale, the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs has been a popular spot for paranormal thrill-seekers for years.
In honor of the Halloween spirit, the hotel added a new lodging option, which offers patrons the chance to sleep in its morgue.
The three-day and two-night package is designed for a group of four and includes one night in the morgue and one night in the hotel's luxury suites, one per couple, according to a press release.
Technically, the area is no longer a morgue, but a storage area for the hotel.
The Crescent first opened in May 1886, but in the late 1930s, Dr. Norman Baker bought the hotel, which "had fallen on hard times" and turned it into the new location for the Baker Hospital, according to the hotel's Web site.
The autopsy table is still in place as is the walk-in cooler where Baker kept bodies and body parts for experimentation in his highly advertised "cancer curing hospital," according to a press release.
The room where he kept body parts in jars of formaldehyde is the site where a full-bodied apparition was caught on videotape by the Sci-Fi Channel's "Ghost Hunters" in 2005.
This unique package entitled "Fall Back In Time and Dimension" was created for the "Fall Back in Time" promotion conducted by Historic Hotels of America (HHA), of which the Crescent Hotel has been a member since 2000.
The idea for the new package, which UA senior Jed Hefner described as "freaking awesome," was originally created by Jack Moyer, the Cresent's vice president of operations and development.
"He was trying to think of a package that would be unique not only to our hotel but to the entire North American continent - evidently he succeeded," said Bill Ott, director of marketing and communications for the Cresent.
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