The Copper Queen Hotel in Bisbee Arizona is a haunted establishment. At least from my experiences.
Although I am combining both stories in this post, I regard this as a good opportunity to show my growth in investigating. Why? Because capturing evidence is key and none of that happened upon my first visit.
Let's start here though ….
On our first visit to the Copper Queen Hotel in August of 2008 we stayed in the
The J.A. Jance Room room. It is a beautiful room located on the second floor, and one step away from the swimming pool. In the mid-1970's they decided that a pool would be a benefit to the hotel and it was installed where the original parking lot had been located.. What’s unusual about the location of the pool is that you’re at ground level, but on the second floor of the hotel. So, this room was the last room in the hallway leading to this pool, and if you looked out this room's only high over the bed window, you viewed the swimmers. Anyway, once we arrived and set down our luggage, activity in the room began to occur.
Within 20 minutes we (husband and I) had smelled a foul odor pass through the room. The hotel's claim is that guests occasionally see an older gentleman, tall with long hair and a beard, wearing a black cape and a top hat. Some claim they smell the aroma of a good cigar either before or after seeing him. The odor we witnessed was no cigar. Instead we smelled decay. It passed through our room swiftly but as it traveled, so did the sound of our EMF readers as they began to alarm. We were caught off guard.
Later that evening we had a fine dining experience in the hotels restaurant. We were even approached by the owner of the hotel when he checked in with us to see how we liked the wine. His wine, made at a local winery he owned. We talked with him about the hotels history, the ghost stories, etc. and he was gracious enough that evening to even offer us his own personal ghost tour within the hotel. It lasted about an hour, and some of the other guests who saw us move through the hallways even tagged along.
Later that evening we experienced one more paranormal event at 4:30 AM, as our EMF reader again alarmed. But caught nothing on video and nothing on audio.
Our next visit to the hotel was September 2011. We stayed in the
The Julia Lowell Room, featured on Ghost Hunters and named after one of the resident ghosts, a former “Lady of the Evening”, The story goes that she was a lady of the evening on Brewery Gulch and used this room in the hotel for her clients. She supposedly fell madly in love with one of the gentlemen and upon telling him, he no longer wanted anything to do with her. She then took her own life at the hotel.
In the three years I have been investigating since the first visit to this hotel, I had acquired quite the arsenal of paranormal equipment. From KII meters, MEL meters, night vision DVR's, Zoom audio equipment, and even ghost boxes. You name it I have it. But the stay at this hotel proved that the simplest of gadgetry was the one that the entity in this room preferred. A flashlight.
Approximately 10:30 PM we returned to our hotel room from the Old Bisbee Ghost Tour, which I may add is worth the walk. Once in the room, digital and audio equipment was set up with recorders focused mostly at the foot of the bed where Julia has been know to move the blankets to tickle a mans foot. This room is rectangle in nature with a loveseat at one end. Here we placed a digital recorder and a flashlight situated in such a way that it could easily go on or off because it was twisted to almost the on position. We also placed equipment on the dresser with a flashlight in the same state.
Approximately 15 minutes went by with no activity from any source until we started to solicit a response. Our very first question was to ask Julia or any potential entity in the room if they were in deed in our presence and if so could they turn the flashlight on that sat on the loveseat. Within seconds, the flashlight lit up. With over 2 hours of questioning were able to solicit yes/no responses not only from the flashlight on the couch, but also from the one on the dresser. We would ask the answers to our questioning come from whatever flashlight we had chosen and then the responses would only come from that particular flashlight. We witnessed the entity flash multiple times in rapid succession if requested. When we pulled out the ghost box for use, the flashlights stopped. Julia would have nothing to do with it and once we asked her in a yes /no fashion if the ghost box devise should be put away the response was yes multiple times. At one point my husband stated, “ I do not know what else to ask” because of the amount of responses we received.
Around 2AM in the morning we decided to go to bed. Flashlights still in place and also motion detection equipment in play. For the rest of the night, Julia must have been pacing because motion detection lighting would turn on from one side of the room to the other in a pacing motion and even light up the sensor in the bathroom where we told her she could handle my jewelry. What is interesting is that once we stopped talking with her, the flashlights would not light up again and we were careful not to handle them.
As of this post I still have approximately 20 hours of video to view and about 30 hours of audio to listen to. But, what I have reviewed thus far are 2 videos clips from one DVR, spaced 4 minutes apart that show clearly the blankets being pushed off my husbands legs, and then only to be straightened out minutes later. Remember, Julia Lowell loves to play with a mans foot.
The hotel has a Ghost journal at the front desk. They are actually on book two now for entry’s. If you visit the hotel, go to book two and look for the date 9/18/2011. Here you will see my paranormal experience in full detail.
