High above Eureka Springs, Arkansas, stands a grand Victorian hotel known today as America’s Most Haunted Hotel. But the Crescent’s darkest story isn’t about ghosts.. it’s about the suffering of people who were still alive.
In the 1930s, flamboyant radio personality and professional con man Norman Baker transformed the hotel into a cancer hospital. Baker wasn’t a doctor, his treatment wasn’t a cure, and the desperate patients who trusted him paid the price.
In the first episode of Permission to Ramble, Ella follows the Crescent from Eureka Springs’ legendary healing waters to Baker’s medical-fraud empire and into the paranormal stories that came afterward. We discuss The Crescent's permanent residents, investigations, evidence and disturbing discovery hidden beneath the hotel for decades.
Welcome to the Crescent Hotel, where the ghosts may be debatable but the horror is not.