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Coupled with its forlorn appearance and located on Oatman's only paved street, Main Street, a street made famous as part of the famed Route 66, once the "Mother Road" that linked Chicago to California. A highway with many tales ghost of sightings, but Oatman may support the most interesting ghosts.
Site visitors describe William Ray Flour better known as "Oatie, " who died here of alcohol abuse during the Great Depression. His / her body was found in a trash bin behind the hotel two times after he went lacking. Before his death, Oatie worked at odd careers in Oatman, though he or she had once been a miner and a cowboy. Oatie is considered a playful ghost who doesn't prefer to have the window in his former room closed. Hotel guests and employees claim, however many times the window is closed, that same windows will turn out to be reopened.

Hotel employees Chicago Tours like to tell site visitors that when a skilled photographer took images a few years ago in the room once occupied by Gable and Lombard, he found the ghostly outline of any man in the developed pictures. Others claim to hear laughter and whispers coming from the former honeymoon collection if it is empty; perhaps the couple... "had so many fine memories of the old hotel that they simply refuse to leave. inches

Ghosts reportedly have been seen in the halls and the lobby of the hotel. In spite of such widely held lore, skeptical residents and site visitors claim there are no ghosts in the Oatman Hotel and anything ghostly reported there is solely the product of a vivid imagination in desires of creating supernatural reports about much-loved Route 66, although none can describe why toilets will sometimes flush and lights will come on in unoccupied rooms of the hotel.

Forever linked to Route sixty six

The weather-beaten mining town of Oatman once featured a population in the thousands; today that population is closer to one-hundred residents. Oatman lies in the foothills of Arizona's Black Mountains, 30-miles southwest of Kingman. The section of Old Route 66 leading into Oatman from Kingman is narrow, dips, changes and turns, it makes one wonder what holidaymakers in their Model-T's, during the Depression thought as they travelled this extend of remote desert.

Inside their pursuit of an improved life in California, most Dust Bowl travellers emerged with little familiarity of the region, many certainly had to have wished to show back to what was known to them, rather than push onward into further uncertainty. Situated on the outer rim of the Mojave Desert, the area around Oatman beyond uncertainty must have appeared like Heck on earth during the hot summer months, when daytime temperatures of 110-degrees or more are not unheard of.

Skeptics acknowledge the Oatman Hotel is permanently linked to Route 66's history. Today the Oatman Hotel is overflowing with memorabilia from its past and some hold firm that there are ghosts of an earlier time. Typically the famed Gable and Lombard Room's furnishings recreates the late 1930's period the same as it was when they stayed here.

Following their honeymoon, Gable and Lombard frequently came back to the Oatman Hotel for its peace and quiet, as well as privacy. Clark Gable was well-known in town for spending his evenings enjoying poker with a amount of the local residents. Sadly, their life together was interrupted by the ill-fated plane crash that took Lombard's life close to Las Vegas, Nevada in January 1942.

The collision followed America's first connection rally of World War II. Ms Lombard was on a tour in her home state of Indiana to raise desperately needed money for the war effort by selling war bonds. When the girl and her mother, who was travelling with the woman, boarded the plane in Indianapolis to return to California, Lombard addressed enthusiasts saying, "Before I say goodbye to you all, come on and sign up for me in a huge perk! V for Victory! "

Carole Lombard's death was the first war-related women casualty the United Declares suffered during World Conflict II. Devastated by his loss, Clark Gable soon joined the United Says Army where he served as a gunner on-board a bomber on overcome missions over Europe. The Liberty ship SS Lombard was named for his wife and Gable attended its launch two years later on January 15, 1944.

Whether it is the ghost of Oatie or Hollywood royalty couple, Gable and Lombard, ghost predators and the curious who wish to experience the paranormal for themselves gather to the Oatman Resort. To both believers and the townspeople who want to see more travel, Oatman will always be closely linked to the paranormal!