Marilyn Monroe at the Cal Neva Hotel

Carl Buehler approaches the ceiling light at the end of the hallway with caution. Although the Cal Neva employee has given this underground tunnel tour hundreds of times, he never knows what will happen under that light any given night.

The light is the only light in our casino out of hundreds of lights that goes on and off by itself," Buehler says. "There are no switches to this light. It is a 24 hour light. Engineers have checked this light - there is nothing wrong with this light. The bulbs have been changed. The electric is fine with it, there is nothing wrong. I tell people this and they say, well you have a switch to this. Well, I don't have a switch."

Buehler then explains that this is Marilyn Monroe's light. She is the one who controls when the light goes on and off, he says.

"There is no explanation for this light, except that for whenever she wants to, she'll just turn it on or off," Buehler says as he approaches the outed light. "On the last tour I had, as we were walking out, Marilyn turned the light off. It's crazy. I've never seen nuthin' like it."

As Buehler points to the stairs at the end of the hallway just to the right of the light, he notes that the steps lead to nowhere and that they are blocked off. He says that a psychic who visited the casino said "there was a lot of spiritual energy through here" and saw Marilyn sitting on the second step crying.

"The psychic said Marilyn was crying because she doesn't like the way Americans portray her," Buehler says. "We took pictures right where she was supposed to be and sure enough, there was a big ball of light right where she was supposed to be. It was a spiritual orb. You never know what you are going to get."

And almost on cue, the light goes off. Marilyn has struck.

"If anybody asks me if this place is haunted I say 'Hell yes,'" Buehler says. "It's the craziest light I've seen. It's bizarre."

Cal Neva employees like to exchange ghost stories. In addition to the underground tunnels that Frank Sinatra built and the ghosts that haunt the stage, another part of the casino gives employees chills.

There are people who are afraid to go on the first floor. Someone was killed in room 101.

"The first floor down below is always cold," said Frank Encinas, a Cal Neva security guard. "Even in July it is cold. Someone committed suicide down there. It gives you the creeps."

Security guard Davis Dunihue said it is the last room rented in the entire hotel.

San Jose resident Lisa Eichler, who stayed at the Cal Neva one recent weekend with her boyfriend, claims she has psychic abilities and that she has felt ghosts elsewhere, but feels no such energy on the first floor of the Cal Neva.

"I don't know. Just because there was a suicide doesn't mean there are ghosts. People who kill themselves want to leave and why would they stay," Eichler says. "If I get scared, you should be scared. But I ain't scared."

Source:Farshore

Crystal Bay Club's Ghost Dealer

Security camera's in the Casino area have picked up an ghostly, sharply dressed Dealer setting up at the #3 Blackjack Table. When security arrives, they find no one and the table undisturbed.

Sometimes nearby female gamblers will report that they noticed the dapperly dressed Dealer, but didn't think anything of it until Security arrives to the empty table.

Haunts of the Biltmore Lodge

Screaming Ghost of the Biltmore
In one of the Biltmore Tahoe Lodge's Cottage rooms, horrifing bloodcurtling screams are heard at various hours of the night.



When investigated, no one is ever found. Apparently the screams only occur when the upstairs room is occupied; Hotel Staff has taken to booking this room first when possible as to lessen nighttime disruptions.

Ghost of Molly
Also, legend has it that a show girl named "Molly" committed suicide there in the 60's. Her ghost still haunts the casino area with occasional late night appearences in the old ballroom, dressed in full showgirl costume..

Cal Neva Resort Investigation

On the North Shore of Tahoe, right on the State borders sits the mysterious Cal-Nevada Lodge.

Lodge employees and ghost investigators tell tales of hauntings by the Shaman (the Washoe indians were believed to summer here on their ancestral land), former owner Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe who attempted suicide here just weeks before she died. In 2007, KTVN—accompanied by TMCC's 2007 ghost conference speakers—conducted a journalistic investigation into paranormal activities at the site. Amazingly enough, the group saw a television remote levitate in Frank Sinatra's cabin and captured voices through electronic voice phenomena that are believed to be Sinatra and Monroe.
Source:TMCC

2 Ghosts of the Hyatt Regency

OLD MAN
On the north shore of the Lake lies the stately Hyatt Regency. In recent years, many guests have reported seeing an old man who would sit in evenings in the lobby by the fireplace, but would suddenly disappear into thin air.

No one knows who the grey haired, be speckled dignified old man may be, but he is such a fixture here, that the staff laugh about it when asked.

"Everyone has seen him, and he doesn't bother us, so we don't bother him"

BODY AT THE BEACH
Some guests of the resort have reported seeing a pale white woman floating lifelessly in the water off of the Resorts Private Beach.

When life guards arrive, no body is ever found. One Sacramento Based Pschic, beleives the woman may be the spirit of Angie Plower, a Tahoe Area Socialite who fell off a steamship in the 1920's in the area.

Haunted Star Hotel

I worked at the Star Hotel in Truckee, Nevada and got to see MUCH more ghostly activity than I ever wanted to see.

Many staff, including me felt touching by unseen hands on several occasions. Often the room got ice cold during these occurrences.

Also a shadowy figure would walk from one room to the other on the ground floor at night, often in full view of staff and guests alike.

Some people believe the adjacent graveyard may have something to do with the numerous apparitions.
-Kevin

Sand Harbor Hauntings

Rangers at Sand Harbor State Park have for years been kept company by a playful unseen spirit that move equipment and turns on lights in locked rooms.

Although some people have reported seeing a shadow man on the bordwalk at night, it is not know if this is related to the famous and friendly poltergeist known by the rangers.