A new collection of photos and materials, new and archival, tells the story of the Crescent Hotel, in Eureka Springs, Arkansas—considered one of the most haunted places in America.
Among people concerned with such things, the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, is considered one of the most haunted places in America. It gained this reputation thanks to a man named Norman Baker, who bought the hotel in the late nineteen-thirties and for two years turned it into a cancer hospital—or a semblance of one. Baker wasn’t a doctor.
Unsurprisingly, many of Baker’s patients died, and some are now presumed to haunt the Crescent Hotel. Nightly ghost tours are one of the town’s main tourist attractions. It was on one of these tours, during a research trip for, in 2017, that the photographers Lara Shipley and Antone Dolezal first came across Baker’s story. Donald Trump had recently been elected, and they found Baker to be an oddly resonant figure for the times.
Baker, a dark-haired man with a steely gaze, appears in a few of the archival images. More frequently, he’s portrayed by an actor named Keith Scales, whom Shipley and Dolezal met in Eureka Springs and who is locally considered the foremost authority on Baker’s story. Born in Muscatine in 1882, Baker dabbled in a number of money-making ventures—ranging from a mail-order business for dry goods to a travelling mind-reading act—before hawking himself as a healer.
Patients who came to Baker’s hospital were promised that if their cancer wasn’t cured in three to six weeks they could return for more treatment “free of charge, except for board, room and transportation,” according to. Medical examinations at the hospital consisted of palpitating patients and “pinching them and looking at them,” and Baker’s facilities didn’t contain any microscopes.
—that many were ultimately left in the ground. Testing is still ongoing to determine what they really contain.
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