The Most Haunted Hotels In America

The Hotel Sorrento opened in Seattle, Washington, around the time of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in June 1909, as noted by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The upscale hotel was designed in the Italian Renaissance style by Harlan Thomas. Today, it is said to be haunted by one notable, if puzzling, ghost: that of the avant-garde writer Alice

The Hotel Sorrento opened in Seattle, Washington, around the time of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in June 1909, as noted by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The upscale hotel was designed in the Italian Renaissance style by Harlan Thomas. Today, it is said to be haunted by one notable, if puzzling, ghost: that of the avant-garde writer Alice B. Toklas, who has also been credited with the creation of the pot brownie.

It is unclear why Toklas would be associated with the Hotel Sorrento at all. She was born in San Francisco 32 years before the hotel was built. While she studied music at the University of Washington in Seattle, she returned to San Francisco years before the hotel opened, and spent her later years in Paris, France, with her partner, the novelist Gertrude Stein. It is unlikely that she ever visited the Hotel Sorrento in her lifetime.

Even so, some say they have seen the late writer's ghost dressed in black or white and wandering the halls outside Room 408. She allegedly causes lights to flicker and drinks to move in the hotel's bar, the Dunbar Room. In 2018, the hotel hosted a dinner in their alleged ghost's honor, serving up dishes from her cookbook, "The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook."

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