Willow Hotel, Jamestown California

We investigated the Hotel Willow in July, 1995 along with the “Sightings” television program, “Myths and Mysteries” and many other paranormal experts. Our family was the first group seated for dinner, among people attending from all over the United States. We are featured in the book by Sally Hamilton “Hotel Willow” published the year after the big event.

The original Willow Hotel was built in 1862 on the site of a collapsed mineshaft that killed 23 men.

Other than Ghosts, fire is the greatest danger when visiting the Willow. Fire struck the town in 1896, and residents (incredibly) used dynamite to blow up other buildings to save the hotel!

Unfortunately there were people still in those buildings, and their ghosts seek revenge to this day!

Witnesses claimed to see apparitions hovering around the source of a 1975 fire in the hotel, and in 1985, a mysterious blaze burned down the hotel and several nearby stores.

The bar and restaurant were rebuilt, but the hotel was not restored, only the first floor was rebuilt. Many patrons and all the employees have experienced ghostly events, creepy feelings and the ghost of a man peering in windows, and a gambler dressed in a black suit has been glimpsed at the bar.

There are reports on the web that Elualah Sims was murdered in the bar by her husband in the 1890s

The Willow Steak House
18275 Main St
Jamestown, Ca 95327