Interesting, I have lived in Kingman all my life (26 years) and my parents renewed their vows in 2003 and had their reception party their at the Brunswick and was given a free night to stay at the hotel. I don't think they stayed the whole night, they said the train kept waking them up. I never asked them about any paranormal stuff, I might try asking them now that I know about it
Your parents were lucky to get the chance. Wish I could be so lucky or even knew who to contact to initiate negotiations to pay for a spot. Yeah, ask them if it was really the train that kept them up.
The food used to be great there. My buddy worked in the kitchen for years. But honestly I thought the rooms upstairs were really bad. Like a flop house hotel or drug hotel. This was back in the early 2000s. Maybe it has changed. But back then they were like 100 buck a week looking rat holes
It seems likely that the entire downtown Kingman area could be haunted. Including the high school I attended, Kingman/Lee Williams High School. This school was featured on Ghost Adventures a few years ago. I published a video on my channel featuring this topic along with other Kingman related videos. Thank you for sharing this story of the historic Brunswick and Beale Hotels. I've walked that downtown area many times myself.
It would be great to get into the Brunswick for a few evenings. We researched it once again well after we made our video and I thought I had located an owner but it was just a blind alley (so to speak).. If you still live in Kingman try digging the owner up and find out how to get us in. We could make it a joint venture.
Family and I stayed here when it was still open about 20 years ago. My wife thought it would be fun to spend the night there, so I figured why not. During the early morning hours I was awakened by the sound of people laughing and carrying on and could see the shadow of feet out in the hallway under our door. Figured it was some late partygoers coming in after a night at the local bar and turned over and went back to sleep. Our youngest son was still living with us at the time and was sleeping on a fold out bed in the sitting room. In the morning I asked him how he slept and he said he didn’t get a wink because he could hear whispering on the other side of the door all night long after we turned the lights out and was terrified to move. We went down for breakfast and I told the lady who was serving us that some of our fellow residents were kind of rowdy. She said “Well, I’m not sure what you were hearing, but you guys were the only guests in the hotel last night”. I’m a pretty big skeptic when it comes to paranormal stuff, but I have to admit that shook me a little.
Thanks for the input. That is a wonderful review of the potential that can occur in these old places. Of course, we don't know if it was paranormal without opening the door and taking a peak outside. Perhaps the hotel was not secure in the hours when management was not around to pay attention and others thought (like you) that it would be fun to stroll through a "haunted building", after the bars closed, but all in all, occurrences like this, as often reported to us, are what we investigate for. I wish they would get their stuff together and start renting it out again. We have contacted them several times over the years, but it appears the owners are just content to let it sit and deteriorate.
@@StanJanParanormal See, that's the thing, though. At the time we stayed there the owners left at 10:30 and locked the door behind them, so no one in or out after that hour making the likelihood it was random adventure seekers very low. I admittedly left out a good bit of detail about the event for the sake of brevity.
@@krazykat64 And thats the paradigm that "haunts" us as we goabout our investigations in the (now over 200) hotels that we have stayed in. We don't know how much stuff we really miss out on capturing by assuming what is happening is normal based on our own previous common experiences. But, in order to present a valid case study of findings we must be truly skeptical and not post information that we did not directly witness or capture on media capture devices like our surveillance. Lots and lots of stuff that we omit out of our videos so viewers will not challenge us on it. However, having personally seen two apparitions in a face to face type of encounter (which appeared to me to be natural living human beings until they vanished in front of me), I can tell you that it is a lifetime game changer for all of the stored viewpoints on culture and religion that one has grown up with. Proving it to others becomes an obsession. Oh, and trust us when I say that we have never been harmed, scratched or anything, like you see on hollywood by anything encountered, so should it happen again, opening the door would yield no harm to you if in fact it was paranormal. Now, if in the next time it turns out to be errant party goers, that could be a different story Next month we are back to the Vendome in Prescott to try one more time to get our "cowboy" on document (if the Coronavirus doesn't shut us down first).
@@StanJanParanormal I can certainly appreciate a healthy dose of skepticism and think it's well needed in order to perform an objective investigation. If you're interested I can speak to my wife tonight to make sure our memories match up and give you a more detailed account of our experience because there were many smaller unusual things that took place while we were there. Coincidentally, I grew up not far from Prescott.
It would be kind of hard to investigate instide a building that has been locked down for the past 10 - 12 years unless we just stood outside and filmed through the window. I tried serveral times to research who is paying the taxes and contact that source without a reply. But that having been said, you will find that all of the videos that we have done in the last few years have as much historical content in them as I was able to locate out of available records. Most of our subscribers are members of other investigating groups who appreciate the research in case they themselves want to to perform a hunt at that location. Going by legend just makes you a story teller, going by facts...well, that makes you an investigator.
I was just there today 4/30/2018. Its still closed. The Sportsman's Bar is the only place that is open between the Brunswick and Beale. The place looks creepy. The Night Hawk is closed and there was a skeleton of a dead bird by the window facing the street which makes it even creepier.
It's sad. I have no idea how the owners are even paying the property taxes. Obviously they ran out of funds somewhere along the line and are just content to let it sit and deteriorate, kind of like old Red does with the Goldfield hotel in Goldfield NV.
StanJanParanormal=I was just up at Goldfield in January. Looks like they are finally doing some work on it and doing a renovation. I saw a restored old car from the 1930s there inside the lobby. I hope to see it in its old glory sometime in the future.
When we came through last Halloween from Tonopah and showed the dash cam footage of the Goldfield Cemetery we noticed on the way back to 'Vegas that work was going on at the Hotel. So far, nothing mentioned about it opening up for investigations or occupancy though.
I don't care. My best bro, steve, was burned badly while working in the kitchen there. He had worked there for years and they refused to give him off time pay.. even though their faulty fryer burned his hands VERY BADLY. I swear I came that close to punching the owner in the mouth in front of a full dining room I was so lissed.
I had a dream about that little girl! OMG! I didn't know what she looked like! That was the girl in my dream and another girl was in the same dream. They were friends! She visited me along with that other little girl! I feel so honored to have been befriended by her on the other side. I asked and by golly she answered me! I do believe she still hangs around me but I have to call her when needed. Now I know! OMG!
Possible...it would mean that the pic of the kids was a family portrait that predated the hotel as the census shows the kids were much older than this at the time the hotel opened. But, one thing is for certain...Leo is not the alleged child that was killed tumbling down the back steps as his remains are buried in the family plot as is shown. He most likely died during WWI, but I could find no records to support how his death occurred. We would need a direct connection to the family to get that information, which I did not have during the research phase of this video.
It's hard to prove these stories sometimes. I investigated a store back in Oshkosh WI before moving here to Kingman. The story there was of a little girl tumbling down some second story steps while chasing her cat. We never could substantiate that but it was still an interesting investigation, with a few EVPs and a good story or two to go with it. But they never got to be more than stories.
We always rely on anecdotes as a jumping off point for an investigation and we recommend the same to other investigators. There is a slight difference between "anecdotes" and "stories", mostly in the length of the telling, but also "anecdotes" since shorter, are usually a personal relating, which is what we strive to get if we can. "Stories" are usually second hand and elaborate into many different side stories that are also connected to others and so on and so on. Personal anecdotes are also mostly accurate depending on the persons own veracity. Stories are usually unfounded or developed in elaboration from an anecdote going way back when. We use online sources like Ancestry to debunk most of them. For instance, when we did the Grand Canyon Caverns (not to far from you) the story is about the owner's son who hanged himself in the bunk house because his Dad sold the property over a bad debt that he had acquired from gambling and then the Dad became despondent over the son's death and "probably" hanged himself in the caverns and the property went into state probate...etc...etc. Tracing the history of the people who were on the deeds to the property showed the owner during the period when that occurred had no children. The story was all crap, but it sells occupancy. On the other hand when we go into a hotel I always try to interview the workers who may have anecdotes and immediately I am referred to the management. Hell, I don't want to talk to the manager, I want to talk to the maid, the laundress, the guy who replaces the light bulbs in the hallway. Those are the folks who are actually in the area and have the personal encounters. When I am asked to give a speech I always encourage fledgling investigators to sign up for the ghost tours if one is given (even if they don't allow equipment) as those tour guides are always on location and get anecdotes from persons on the tour who observed something odd on the tour or their own from just being there. They will point out to you the exact spot where "so and so" on the tour a couple of years back claimed to have seen a partial apparition. It is a good jumping off point. As an example if you view my two reviews on the two different ghost tours at the Calico Ghost Town you will see that the Maggie Mine tour I rated as very good as the two guides told personal anecdotes, whereas the Schoolhouse tour I rated poorly because the guide spoke in stories from books. A few years back Jan and I tried to co-hunt with another paranormal group here in Las Vegas and when I asked him if he attended the tours for the properties his response was "hell no...I'm an investigator. I don't do tours". A couple of meetings with his group showed that they were only interested in putting up any photos or videos they could get with flying insects or anything in them in order to get crowd funding on their website. So much for that investigator group. Hey, if you are in Kingman, try to get any scuttlebutt on the Brunswick. I thought it was going to reopen about two years ago, but still nothing. Would love to get inside of there for a night or two, and it's only a few hours drive from us.
I get that. In the case of the store I was mentioning, the little girl had died a hundred years ago. At this point, there is no one left alive who would have any first hand knowledge. Newspaper searches of that tie didn't reveal any mentions, so to us, it was a story that was yet to be proven. However, the owner considered herself psychic and said she felt the presence of the child. She also had a first hand anecdote of working in the second (top) floor. At one time, a building with three floors had stood on that spot, but was probably destroyed in one of a series of fires that plagued Oshkosh through the years. She reported seeing a woman running up a set of stairs, being chased by a man, both heading for a third floor that no longer existed. In fact, the stairs no longer existed either. I would call that one an anecdote but everything else about that investigation except a few EVPs did nothing to prove the existence of the little girl. HOWEVER...I did witness, out of the corner of my eye, a cat's tail disappearing into a wall. Also one of our investigators saw a glowing ball in one of the hallways but nothing was caugh on video nor his camera. Maybe it was the kitty, but we will never know for sure.
I don't know who the owners are at this time, but would be excited to do a hunt there. The owners should have got some insurance of some type going to cover their holdings and been doing overnight hunts for a fee a long time ago. At least that is what I would do if I owned a historic and possibly active structure. Lot of money has been left on the table there over the years while the place just sat vacant during remodeling. If you do know the owners feel free to pass the comments and my site along to them. They can contact us through the site here by email or comment.
Thank you Leslie. We went by there in Dec last year while on our way to investigate the Grand Canyon Caverns and the Brunswick has not reopened although you can see that some furniture has been moved around and there was a case of bottled water sitting on a table indicating they have been holding some kind of meetings there. The folks in the ice cream shop next door said they had no word on the progress in reopening the Brunswick but they were not adverse to talking about their own minor activity that transpires in the ice cream parlor, such as the cash register periodically ringing up the sale for a "waffle cone" when there are no customers that ordered one. Whatever is there seems to prefer a waffle cone over a regular cone.
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Interesting, I have lived in Kingman all my life (26 years) and my parents renewed their vows in 2003 and had their reception party their at the Brunswick and was given a free night to stay at the hotel. I don't think they stayed the whole night, they said the train kept waking them up. I never asked them about any paranormal stuff, I might try asking them now that I know about it
I will have to go through old photos
Your parents were lucky to get the chance. Wish I could be so lucky or even knew who to contact to initiate negotiations to pay for a spot. Yeah, ask them if it was really the train that kept them up.
The food used to be great there. My buddy worked in the kitchen for years. But honestly I thought the rooms upstairs were really bad. Like a flop house hotel or drug hotel. This was back in the early 2000s. Maybe it has changed. But back then they were like 100 buck a week looking rat holes
It seems likely that the entire downtown Kingman area could be haunted. Including the high school I attended, Kingman/Lee Williams High School. This school was featured on Ghost Adventures a few years ago. I published a video on my channel featuring this topic along with other Kingman related videos. Thank you for sharing this story of the historic Brunswick and Beale Hotels. I've walked that downtown area many times myself.
It would be great to get into the Brunswick for a few evenings. We researched it once again well after we made our video and I thought I had located an owner but it was just a blind alley (so to speak).. If you still live in Kingman try digging the owner up and find out how to get us in. We could make it a joint venture.
@StanJanParanormal Thanks for your reply to my comment. I've been away from Arizona since 1986. I'm not sure when I'll get back out there again.
Family and I stayed here when it was still open about 20 years ago. My wife thought it would be fun to spend the night there, so I figured why not. During the early morning hours I was awakened by the sound of people laughing and carrying on and could see the shadow of feet out in the hallway under our door. Figured it was some late partygoers coming in after a night at the local bar and turned over and went back to sleep. Our youngest son was still living with us at the time and was sleeping on a fold out bed in the sitting room. In the morning I asked him how he slept and he said he didn’t get a wink because he could hear whispering on the other side of the door all night long after we turned the lights out and was terrified to move. We went down for breakfast and I told the lady who was serving us that some of our fellow residents were kind of rowdy. She said “Well, I’m not sure what you were hearing, but you guys were the only guests in the hotel last night”. I’m a pretty big skeptic when it comes to paranormal stuff, but I have to admit that shook me a little.
Thanks for the input. That is a wonderful review of the potential that can occur in these old places. Of course, we don't know if it was paranormal without opening the door and taking a peak outside. Perhaps the hotel was not secure in the hours when management was not around to pay attention and others thought (like you) that it would be fun to stroll through a "haunted building", after the bars closed, but all in all, occurrences like this, as often reported to us, are what we investigate for. I wish they would get their stuff together and start renting it out again. We have contacted them several times over the years, but it appears the owners are just content to let it sit and deteriorate.
@@StanJanParanormal See, that's the thing, though. At the time we stayed there the owners left at 10:30 and locked the door behind them, so no one in or out after that hour making the likelihood it was random adventure seekers very low. I admittedly left out a good bit of detail about the event for the sake of brevity.
@@krazykat64 And thats the paradigm that "haunts" us as we goabout our investigations in the (now over 200) hotels that we have stayed in. We don't know how much stuff we really miss out on capturing by assuming what is happening is normal based on our own previous common experiences. But, in order to present a valid case study of findings we must be truly skeptical and not post information that we did not directly witness or capture on media capture devices like our surveillance. Lots and lots of stuff that we omit out of our videos so viewers will not challenge us on it. However, having personally seen two apparitions in a face to face type of encounter (which appeared to me to be natural living human beings until they vanished in front of me), I can tell you that it is a lifetime game changer for all of the stored viewpoints on culture and religion that one has grown up with. Proving it to others becomes an obsession. Oh, and trust us when I say that we have never been harmed, scratched or anything, like you see on hollywood by anything encountered, so should it happen again, opening the door would yield no harm to you if in fact it was paranormal. Now, if in the next time it turns out to be errant party goers, that could be a different story
Next month we are back to the Vendome in Prescott to try one more time to get our "cowboy" on document (if the Coronavirus doesn't shut us down first).
@@StanJanParanormal I can certainly appreciate a healthy dose of skepticism and think it's well needed in order to perform an objective investigation. If you're interested I can speak to my wife tonight to make sure our memories match up and give you a more detailed account of our experience because there were many smaller unusual things that took place while we were there.
Coincidentally, I grew up not far from Prescott.
@@krazykat64 So where do you hail from? And sure...I am always ready to hear one's encounters with the paranormal.
I was hoping to see some paranormal investigating. This was more of an informative book report.
It would be kind of hard to investigate instide a building that has been locked down for the past 10 - 12 years unless we just stood outside and filmed through the window. I tried serveral times to research who is paying the taxes and contact that source without a reply. But that having been said, you will find that all of the videos that we have done in the last few years have as much historical content in them as I was able to locate out of available records. Most of our subscribers are members of other investigating groups who appreciate the research in case they themselves want to to perform a hunt at that location. Going by legend just makes you a story teller, going by facts...well, that makes you an investigator.
I was just there today 4/30/2018. Its still closed. The Sportsman's Bar is the only place that is open between the Brunswick and Beale. The place looks creepy. The Night Hawk is closed and there was a skeleton of a dead bird by the window facing the street which makes it even creepier.
It's sad. I have no idea how the owners are even paying the property taxes. Obviously they ran out of funds somewhere along the line and are just content to let it sit and deteriorate, kind of like old Red does with the Goldfield hotel in Goldfield NV.
StanJanParanormal=I was just up at Goldfield in January. Looks like they are finally doing some work on it and doing a renovation. I saw a restored old car from the 1930s there inside the lobby. I hope to see it in its old glory sometime in the future.
When we came through last Halloween from Tonopah and showed the dash cam footage of the Goldfield Cemetery we noticed on the way back to 'Vegas that work was going on at the Hotel. So far, nothing mentioned about it opening up for investigations or occupancy though.
StanJanParanormal=Cool. I hope to see more footage from you in the future if you ever come up to Nevada again.
"Up to Nevada"? as in Reno/Carson area? We live in Las Vegas
I don't care. My best bro, steve, was burned badly while working in the kitchen there. He had worked there for years and they refused to give him off time pay.. even though their faulty fryer burned his hands VERY BADLY. I swear I came that close to punching the owner in the mouth in front of a full dining room I was so lissed.
I knew there were reasons why they closed up. Too bad I don't own it or it would be managed properly
lived here for 18 years now
I had a dream about that little girl! OMG! I didn't know what she looked like! That was the girl in my dream and another girl was in the same dream. They were friends! She visited me along with that other little girl! I feel so honored to have been befriended by her on the other side. I asked and by golly she answered me! I do believe she still hangs around me but I have to call her when needed. Now I know! OMG!
? Do you live in Kingman?
StanJanParanormal Yes. Been here since 1991.
Nice. If you can figure out how to get into the place without having to spend and arm and leg let me know.
StanJanParanormal I actually peeked inside waiting for the bus one day. Lots and lots of dust! Looks sad.
You ever check the back in the alley?
I got a pic of the ghost yesterday on the stairwell
Al DiCicco Post it somewhere pls.
***** shared on my google photos
go to haunted kingman there are over 2,500 haunted places in kingman
What do you mean go to? Is it a website or on TH-cam? I live here and it would be interesting to find out
@@Zach-Fetters Website called haunted kingman az
Leo could have been dressed as a girl. It was common back then for young boys to be dressed as girls until they are old enough for short pants.
Possible...it would mean that the pic of the kids was a family portrait that predated the hotel as the census shows the kids were much older than this at the time the hotel opened. But, one thing is for certain...Leo is not the alleged child that was killed tumbling down the back steps as his remains are buried in the family plot as is shown. He most likely died during WWI, but I could find no records to support how his death occurred. We would need a direct connection to the family to get that information, which I did not have during the research phase of this video.
It's hard to prove these stories sometimes. I investigated a store back in Oshkosh WI before moving here to Kingman. The story there was of a little girl tumbling down some second story steps while chasing her cat. We never could substantiate that but it was still an interesting investigation, with a few EVPs and a good story or two to go with it. But they never got to be more than stories.
We always rely on anecdotes as a jumping off point for an investigation and we recommend the same to other investigators. There is a slight difference between "anecdotes" and "stories", mostly in the length of the telling, but also "anecdotes" since shorter, are usually a personal relating, which is what we strive to get if we can. "Stories" are usually second hand and elaborate into many different side stories that are also connected to others and so on and so on. Personal anecdotes are also mostly accurate depending on the persons own veracity. Stories are usually unfounded or developed in elaboration from an anecdote going way back when. We use online sources like Ancestry to debunk most of them. For instance, when we did the Grand Canyon Caverns (not to far from you) the story is about the owner's son who hanged himself in the bunk house because his Dad sold the property over a bad debt that he had acquired from gambling and then the Dad became despondent over the son's death and "probably" hanged himself in the caverns and the property went into state probate...etc...etc. Tracing the history of the people who were on the deeds to the property showed the owner during the period when that occurred had no children. The story was all crap, but it sells occupancy. On the other hand when we go into a hotel I always try to interview the workers who may have anecdotes and immediately I am referred to the management. Hell, I don't want to talk to the manager, I want to talk to the maid, the laundress, the guy who replaces the light bulbs in the hallway. Those are the folks who are actually in the area and have the personal encounters. When I am asked to give a speech I always encourage fledgling investigators to sign up for the ghost tours if one is given (even if they don't allow equipment) as those tour guides are always on location and get anecdotes from persons on the tour who observed something odd on the tour or their own from just being there. They will point out to you the exact spot where "so and so" on the tour a couple of years back claimed to have seen a partial apparition. It is a good jumping off point. As an example if you view my two reviews on the two different ghost tours at the Calico Ghost Town you will see that the Maggie Mine tour I rated as very good as the two guides told personal anecdotes, whereas the Schoolhouse tour I rated poorly because the guide spoke in stories from books.
A few years back Jan and I tried to co-hunt with another paranormal group here in Las Vegas and when I asked him if he attended the tours for the properties his response was "hell no...I'm an investigator. I don't do tours". A couple of meetings with his group showed that they were only interested in putting up any photos or videos they could get with flying insects or anything in them in order to get crowd funding on their website. So much for that investigator group.
Hey, if you are in Kingman, try to get any scuttlebutt on the Brunswick. I thought it was going to reopen about two years ago, but still nothing. Would love to get inside of there for a night or two, and it's only a few hours drive from us.
I get that. In the case of the store I was mentioning, the little girl had died a hundred years ago. At this point, there is no one left alive who would have any first hand knowledge. Newspaper searches of that tie didn't reveal any mentions, so to us, it was a story that was yet to be proven. However, the owner considered herself psychic and said she felt the presence of the child. She also had a first hand anecdote of working in the second (top) floor. At one time, a building with three floors had stood on that spot, but was probably destroyed in one of a series of fires that plagued Oshkosh through the years. She reported seeing a woman running up a set of stairs, being chased by a man, both heading for a third floor that no longer existed. In fact, the stairs no longer existed either. I would call that one an anecdote but everything else about that investigation except a few EVPs did nothing to prove the existence of the little girl. HOWEVER...I did witness, out of the corner of my eye, a cat's tail disappearing into a wall. Also one of our investigators saw a glowing ball in one of the hallways but nothing was caugh on video nor his camera. Maybe it was the kitty, but we will never know for sure.
loved your video...good info!
+Deborah Branning Thanks, Deborah. Check out our others. Subscribe to get the newly released ones.
I been around there. It's just downtown. Go do the graveyard behind my house now XD
i knoe the brunswick owner and she is looking for investigators
I don't know who the owners are at this time, but would be excited to do a hunt there. The owners should have got some insurance of some type going to cover their holdings and been doing overnight hunts for a fee a long time ago. At least that is what I would do if I owned a historic and possibly active structure. Lot of money has been left on the table there over the years while the place just sat vacant during remodeling. If you do know the owners feel free to pass the comments and my site along to them. They can contact us through the site here by email or comment.
Are they still looking?
Nice job on this video!
Thank you Leslie. We went by there in Dec last year while on our way to investigate the Grand Canyon Caverns and the Brunswick has not reopened although you can see that some furniture has been moved around and there was a case of bottled water sitting on a table indicating they have been holding some kind of meetings there. The folks in the ice cream shop next door said they had no word on the progress in reopening the Brunswick but they were not adverse to talking about their own minor activity that transpires in the ice cream parlor, such as the cash register periodically ringing up the sale for a "waffle cone" when there are no customers that ordered one. Whatever is there seems to prefer a waffle cone over a regular cone.