Case file · Haunting
The lady of the Davenport Hotel
In August 1920 Ellen McNamara, a widow from New York staying at Spokane's Davenport Hotel, opened the wrong door, stepped onto the lobby skylight and fell through. She died an hour later. Staff and guests describe a woman in 1920s dress on the mezzanine.
1920 CE · 47.66, -117.42 · status: legend
The account
The death is in the newspapers of 1920. The ghost story grew after the hotel reopened in 2002, when staff said they heard a woman asking 'Where did I go?' and then found the old reports. The hotel marks the anniversary each 17 August with a rose.
The sceptical view
The haunting dates from the 2002 reopening, and the hotel promotes it; there is no evidence beyond guests' stories.