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Fairmont Hotel Ghost Tour Review, Deadwood, SD

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Deadwood is both literally and figuratively the wild wild west. It’s a town with a ton of history, and it is also considered to be one of the most haunted places in the U.S. The town uses that history and reputation all summer in the very best way: as a tourist trap. But it’s also a town where the bachelor and bachelorette-type parties get ridiculous. If you’re not a drink-til-ya-puke-at-the-casino kind of tourist, the ghost tour at the Fairmont Hotel is a quieter, more cerebral experience not to be missed. Read on for my review of this spooky ghost tour experience. 

Site history of one of the most haunted places: Deadwood

When the Fairmont was built in 1895, everything was legal in Deadwood. The rough settlement of gritty pioneers and miners prided itself on being completely lawless. The only rule was the fastest gun. You’ve probably heard of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane. Well, I wasn’t too familiar, but Amber was excited to share all the cool Wild-West history with me.

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Although there were legitimate lodgings at the Fairmont, it was also once a lively brothel. Remember, wild wild west; I think every building that could fit a bed was a brothel in some way. Hookers would flock from all over to earn a legal living in the pioneer town for the next century! No kidding, prostitution was technically legal in Deadwood from 1876-1980. 

The Spooky Ghost Tour of the Fairmont Hotel

The Fairmont has been called one of the most haunted places in the state of South Dakota (certainly one of the most haunted places in Deadwood, SD), and investigated by many paranormal teams. it was even featured in an episode of Ghost Adventures . The ghost stories we heard involved tragic tales of murder, jealousy, suicide, and above all, prostitution. The tour spanned what used to be two separate brothels, one above the gaming room and one above the oyster bar. The most famous haint is that of Jack McCall, murderer of Hickok.

We were able to buy last-minute tickets from the bartender right before the tour. But this was during the off-season, so I’m not sure we’d have gotten so lucky on some nights. Tours are really only available on weekends in the Summer, since winter tourism isn’t so big in chilly South Dakota. We felt the quality of the 1 1/2 hour tour was fair at $20 a ticket.

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The town does have handy public transportation, at least in the warmer months. The bus goes all the way to the campgrounds on either side of town. During the tour, there are several stories of stairs to climb. When we took the tour in 2018 we didn’t notice an elevator, you’ll have to call and check if you can still participate if you cannot do stairs. The entirety of the tour took place upstairs of the 3-story building. These floors were unfinished and under-construction at the time, which lent to the spooky, abandoned, behind-the-scenes vibe. The last staircase was steep and only wide enough for one-way traffic, but we were the only living souls upstairs so it wasn’t crowded. 

Steep staircase up to the top floor of the Fairmont in most haunted places Deadwood

We did get to sit for the initial history of the hotel, which is always lovely. Mannequins dressed in garish old-timey lingerie looked on as our tour guide told the tale she was obviously quite familiar with. It was a little difficult to hear this part, since we were on a balcony over the busy casino below, so don’t be late like us and have to sit far from the guide. 

Tour guide at the Fairmont Hotel

Please keep in mind that we took this tour in 2018, and many things including the tour guide may have changed. Our guide had a down-to-earth attitude but some wild and crazy stories to tell. Some of the stories were actually quite frightening! There were definitely a couple rooms I didn’t want to be the last to leave. 

Our tour was special because the tour guide had spent some time living in the hotel. On the tour, she recounted her own personal ghost stories of what happened to her in her room at the Fairmont Hotel, and while she worked in the bar downstairs. But our favorite part about the tour was that it made us feel like active participants. Every time the guide told a ghost story, she’d give us 5-10 minutes to poke around and take photos before moving on. I personally prefer this type of interaction over just being a passive listener to a long history lesson.

Diana takes a selfie with the Celebrity Hotel across the street visible through the window in most haunted places Deadwood

A not-so-paranormal photo

While we were on the tour, there was a part of the upper floors above the bar that was unfinished due to some damage that had slowed construction. The guide said this was a great place to take potentially-paranormal photos, so we split up and snapped away at random. I thought I was hot stuff for catching this orb…

an orb caught on the fairmont hotel ghost tour

But a few frames later, the image manifested into a full apparition of someone rightly see-through! After dozens of uneventful ghost tours, I thought I’d finally caught a ghost!

tourist mimics apparition on Fairmont Hotel ghost tour

But the tour guide just laughed and pointed to a very solid lady in a pink shirt. My ghostly photo was just one of the tour participants moving quickly. To be fair, my phone screen was pretty tiny in those days.

A real paranormal experience on this spooky ghost tour?

From the front room of the upper floor, we looked out at Main Street below through huge windows. The tour guide explained that the windows were used for advertising. The prostitutes would stand in the windows, dressed in low-cut lavish hoop skirts. They’d get attention by waving and calling to the gentlemen passing below. The patron would head up to this sitting room to chat up a lady of the evening.

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While we were listening to this tale, I kept absentmindedly reaching down to scratch an itch on my legs. The feeling continued, so I turned to see if a curtain was billowing against my legs, or if I had a bug on me. Nope. I shifted a few feet to the side, in case it was a draft. No matter where I stood in the room or which side I had towards the windows, I felt it on the backs of my ankles. This continued to annoy me until we left the room. Then, some time later, I became aware it had stopped. 

My legs were being tickled so much, I tried to surreptitiously snap a photo behind me.

Later, walking back to the bus stop, Amber asked me if I’d experienced anything odd on the tour. I recounted the strange sensation of fabric brushing back and forth against my calves. She said she’d felt it, too, and in the same room! What she described was identical to what I’d felt! Specifically, she’d felt something like soft fabric gently brushed against just the backs of her legs. 

I stopped walking. “We were in a room where a ton of women used to wiggle it in front of those windows. Women dressed in hoop skirts, most likely.” 

Diana and Amber in Deadwood, SD

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Glad you were able to get so much out of your experience in Deadwood and particularly your Fairmont Hotel tour! It makes me wish I had spent more time inside some of the well-preserved buildings rather than soaking up the ambiance as I walked around outside on a long summer night. This little tour makes me recall a few things about that part of South Dakota: what a well-kept secret the Black Hills really are (there’s so much more to see and do than just Mount Rushmore or Crazy Horse), and how quickly the temperature drops from blazing hot during the day to jacket weather after dusk, even in July (the high elevation is key).

And what stunningly brave ankle photos! It can’t help make me wonder if that’s a reference to the hotel’s role as a bordello, since 19th century West is definitely still a time when women showing their ankles would have been a signal of–well, you know.

Oh! You think the ghostly ladies were teasing us about our risqué bare ankles? I hadn’t thought of that, and I love it.

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Could one of the most haunted towns coincidentally have a morbid name? There is no doubt that Deadwood in South Dakota is one of the most supernaturally spooky places in the United States.

Do you think the original citizens intentionally named their hometown to honor death, that which creates souls?

Deadwood's History

Deadwood was established in 1876 during the Black Hills Gold Rush, bringing in all kinds of people to this growing city in South Dakota. It attracted pioneers and prospectors seeking their fortune, along with lawless, unsavory types. These characters only brought murder, mayhem, establishing Deadwood’s heralded status in Wild West lore. Back then, the business district comprised largely of saloons, dance halls, card parlors and bodacious bordellos. They were all were hungry for gold and did whatever they had to in order to get them some! The businesses did whatever they could to service the gold-diggers, and sometimes that led to a little bit of conflict!

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But why would a city ever have such a morbid name to begin with?  Of course, it all started with gold!

In 1875, a miner named John B. Pearson found gold in a narrow canyon in these Northern Black Hills. This Canyon became known as “Deadwood Gulch”, because of the many dead trees that lined the canyon walls at the time. Could these dead trees have been a forecast of what was to come for this naughty city?

Practically overnight, the tiny gold camp boomed into a town that played by its own rules that attracted outlaws, gamblers and gunslingers along with the gold seekers. At its height, the city had a population of 5,000, attracting larger-than-life Old West figures. Some of these included Wyatt Earp, Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok.

Wild Bill Hickok was one of those men who came looking for fortune. But just a few short weeks after arriving, on August 2, 1876, he was gunned down while holding a poker hand of aces and eights – forever after known as the Dead Man’s Hand. 

To add to the haunted history flavor, in 1876 Deadwood survived a Small Pox epidemic that nearly wiped them out. There were so many infected, that multiple tents were erected to quarantine the stricken. In addition, it suffered three major fires.  One devastating fire occurred on September 26, 1879, destroying more than 300 buildings and consuming the belongings of many inhabitants. Many numerous economic hardships also followed, pushing it to the verge of becoming another Old West Ghost Town.

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But this town new what it had to do to survive. In 1989 limited-wage gambling was legalized and Deadwood was reborn into the destination naughty town it is today, full of history, playful entertainments …. And haunts!

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Deadwood has many unique and interesting acclamations. For instance, do you know it is the only US town to be named a National Historic Landmark? This landmark is alive and kept well by the stories of its dead residents which are still haunting present-day hotels and saloons.

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The Dead of Deadwood

Deadwood is one of the few places on earth that has kept history on the first reported hauntings.

On Dec. 6, 1877, the Lone Star Building on lower Main Street was the site of a grisly murder/suicide. Kitty LeRoy, a popular dancer, poker dealer and probable prostitute, was shot and killed by her jealous husband, Samuel Curley. Curley then shot and killed himself. 

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As a result of this double killing, a Black Hills Daily Times article dated Jan. 16, 1878, reported a haunting taking place in the Lone Star building:

“To tell our tale briefly and simply, is to repeat a story old and well known – the re-appearance, in spirit form, of departed humanity. In this case, it is the shadow of a woman, comely, if not beautiful, and always following her footsteps, the tread and form of the man who was the cause of their double death. In the still watches of the night, the double phantoms are seen to tread the stairs where once they reclined in the flesh and linger o’er places where once they reclined in loving embrace and finally to melt away in the shadows of the night as peacefully as their bodies’ souls seem to have done when the fatal bullets brought death and the grave to each,” reads the story.

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While visiting the Historic Bullock Hotel, don’t be alarmed when you smell cigar smoke, yet there is no one present enjoying a stogie. For this may be Deadwood’s first sheriff himself, Mr. Seth Bullock, known for his heavy cigar smoking. His apparition also appears in photos that are on display at the hotel.

But he’s not the only one lurking about in the hotel he built in 1895. Bullock took in many people during a cholera outbreak and the small children who fell victim to this dreaded disease are today seen roaming and playing in the last place they knew as home.

Another haunting is associated to a historical claim of a hanging in Room 211. Guests have seen a faint figure still hanging there … so we will never forget. (How could we ever!)

The Adams House

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In 1925, W.E. Adams lost his wife, daughter and infant granddaughter within 48 gruesome hours. Later in 1927, he remarried a woman 44 years younger, called Mary Vicich. On June 16, 1934, W.E. Adams died in his beloved home. Soon thereafter, Mary shut and locked the home up, claiming the home was too haunted to be lived in. The Adams House remained vacant for more than 50 years.

Past claims of activity have included people hearing voices coming from other rooms in the house, very much like a party. You may hear footsteps (especially on the back stairs) or see a tall shadow of a man in an upstairs bedroom window. One previous staff saw the apparition of W.E. Adams and another employee witnessed the rocking chair in Mary’s room rocking on its own!

The Fairmont Hotel

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The history here is intense, explaining why this hotel is so spooky!

On Aug. 28, 1907, Maggie Broadwater, one of the upstairs girls, jumped from a third-story window.  In another scene, in 1907, Prentice Bernard, aka Vinegar Rowan, in a jealous rage, shot and killed the client of his girlfriend. In the process of shoving the pistol in his pants, the gun went off wounding him. Rowan ran from the hotel, where he eventually collapsed and died.

Throughout the years, there have been numerous claims of third floor activity at the Fairmont Hotel. Several who have slept in the third story room, which can be seen from the exterior of the building, as the fourth window from the back on the third floor, report seeing a woman with red hair and a green dress standing at the foot of the bed watching them.

There are no known photographs Broadwater, but many Paranormal investigators wonder if the apparition people are seeing is that of her ghost. Others have claimed to have the feeling that someone is running past them on the stairs in the Fairmont Hotel. Could this be the desperate Rowan running to save his life?

By the way, did you know the Fairmont Hotel participated in 2018’s World’s Largest Ghost Hunt?  Ho

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Here, at the Mount Moriah Cemetery, when you pay your respects to the famous Deadwood’s dead, you may get something much creepier than you bargained for! Here lies the graves of Wild Bill Hickok, James Butler Hickok and the trick shooter Calamity Jane. Oh yes, let’s not forget, Deadwood’s first sheriff, Seth Bullock is also resting here … or is he? 

The Mount Moriah Cemetery also contains a mass grave, in which eleven men were buried after having tortuously burnt to death in their boarding homes during one of Deadwood’s great fires.

Visitors claim to have feelings of uneasiness and of being watched.  Many say this is one of the most haunted cemeteries in the USA.  These tombs are certainly worth a bit of challenging exploration!

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This tour was amazing and has a little bit of history of the town and hotel. Not once did we feel unsafe but we had a few experiences happen while we were on tour that was unbelievable. I've been through many ghost tours and this one was one of my top favorites. The tour guide, Kitty, made it even more exciting by how passionate and knowledgable she was about the subject.

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This was a really neat and historic experience! My fiance and I really wanted to stay at a historic cowboy-feel of a hotel and this fit the bill! Lots to do in the area and very cool to just walk around. We didn't do any ghost tours but we did see one was that talking near our room lol! Didn't think much of it. You can hear a bit of noise from the room, but the rooms are spacious and comfy. Didn't really get much sleep even though I was exhausted. I woke up in the middle of the night to my fiance loudly yelling "chicken sh*t." I know.... I've literally never heard him say that word EVER so it was very odd. He seemed half asleep but waking up as he was sitting up panting. He kept saying he felt like he was having a heart attack and heart was racing (he is 28 and very healthy). I asked him why he said "chicken sh*t" and he mumbled that he felt like his heart was racing and all of a sudden woke up in a panic of fear for some reason. I was more annoyed that I was so tired and he woke me up lol. I wasn't too worried about any ghosts. But as he settled back to sleep, he did wake me up again because there was a clunking noise near our bathroom. So we both sat up nervously. At that point I decided to put the bathroom light on for us to finally get some sleep in peace without our minds (or other) playing tricks on us lol. Overall great place! My fiance is more of one of those "tough guys" where nothing bothers him so it was just out of the ordinary for him to react that way.

My husband and I love history. We especially love old hotels, mansions, and castles. This hotel was perfect for us. The decor puts you back in the period. It is styled for the late 1800's but has all the modern things you would want such as a flat screen tv and coffee maker and jetted tub in the suite. The only thing I would suggest is new beds or pillow toppers because although the bed wasn't awful I have a sensitive back and after 2 nights I was in pain in the mornings. I still gave it a 5 star rating however, because my husband didn't have a problem with it and everything else was super enjoyable. The hotel is right in the middle of town so you can walk easily from one end to the other. The ghost tour was great! Miss Kitty really knows her history and if this had just been a history tour that would have been great enough. It goes further though. Down in the basement I caught all kinds of Orbs in Seth Bullocks old office area. She uses a ghost app on her phone with talking EVP and although I'm skeptical of that Seth and my husband had a good old conversation about the Cavalry. My husband is retired Army. I made a comment that my husband isn't sensitive and I was about to clarify that I didn't mean that in a negative way, he uses his gut. The EVP comes over and says "Gut". Well what do you know? We also made a joke that Seth would let me in the room but not my husband. We stayed in the Bullock Suite. When we first came to the room with our bags I put the key in and turned it every which way. The door wouldn't open. My husband gets in the elevator to go down to the front desk and the door pops right open for me as soon as he was gone. LOL Every single time he tried to get into the room it wouldn't open. I on the other hand could open it easily with one turn to the right. We were there in November so not many people staying. I had the tour alone with Miss Kitty. Afterward we had drinks and invited Miss Kitty and the bartender to have Pizza with us. They did and we had a great time talking about history, ghosts, where they were from, and all kinds of things. She mentioned that because the ghost tour is at 5pm she often misses dinner. I would suggest offering her dinner when possible. She is a great person to talk to and it makes things more enjoyable for everyone. Oh, BTW if you watch Ghost Adventures and have seen John he is actually a really nice guy too. They are just very protective of the spirits in the hotel. There is nothing scary about the ghosts of the Bullock. They are very respectful as long as you are. :-)

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It was really enjoyable staying at the Bullock... the history of the building is amazing. When you're in your room... the past just pops up and you get a feeling of what it may have been like then. This is the first hotel that was built in Deadwood. Located on the main street in the historic district - smack dab in the middle - making walking an easy task.

Thank you for leaving us a 5 star review! We appreciate your feedback and I'm so glad you enjoy your stay. Please come see us again.

We visited one night in Deadwood and enjoyed our stay at the Bullock. Note that in Deadwood there are not many high end lux properties, but the Bullock was welcoming and comfortable. We stayed in the Bullock suite on the third floor which was one of their two larger rooms and while the furniture was somewhat worn it had an old world comfort and charm. We spent some time in the casino on the main floor, but the highlight was the ghost tour - a must if you visit. They had a great breakfast setup.

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We didn't stay at the Bullock hotel but did a haunted tour which was so interesting. Not only did she talk about the history of the hotel and Seth Bullock the owner, but also the history of Deadwood. Even if you don't believe in spirits, it was very interesting hearing about the town of Deadwood and the history of the hotel. We are so glad we went. The guide (her name escapes me) was awesome! Great time!

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