Ghosts of the Copper Queen Hotel

There are three resident ghosts at the Copper Queen Hotel. The first, an older gentleman, tall with long hair and a beard, is usually seen wearing a black cape and a tophat. Some claim they smell the aroma of a good cigar either before or after seeing him. He appears in the doorways or as a shadow in some of the rooms in the southeast corner of the fourth floor (near Teddy Roosevelt's room).

The second, and perhaps most famous, is a female in her early thirties by the name of Julia Lowell. The story goes that she was a lady of the evening on Brewery Gulch and used the rooms at the hotel for her clients. She supposedly fell madly in love with one gentleman and upon telling him, he no longer wanted anything to do with her. She then took her own life at the hotel. Her presence is felt on the west side of the building on the second and third floors. Some men have reported that they hear a female voice whispering in their ear. Other claim that she appears in the shape of a bright, white smoke. We pay tribute to her here at the Copper Queen Hotel by naming a room (in the area where she practiced her profession) "The Julia Lowell Room".

Our third and youngest ghost is a small boy, age eight or nine, who drowned in the San Pedro river. It's believed that his spirit found its way to the hotel because a relative, perhaps mother or father, was employed here at the time. He's the most mischievous of the three, as guests, on the west side, also on the second and third floors, have reported objects in their rooms moved to different locations than they were last seen. Eyeglasses, cups with beverages, seem to mysteriously move from one table to the next! A few have reported that you can hear his footsteps running through the halls and sometimes his intoxicating giggle. Others claim that when they run bath water, they hear him cry. He is never seen, just heard!

Thank you to The Copper Queen Hotel for use of this material.