Seven Montana places with a haunted reputation and a public door

The Grand Union Hotel, Fort Benton

The Union Grille will sell you dinner without a room key. The hotel history page will not mention a ghost, and a KTVH story will spell the owner's name in a way that history page does not.

The restaurant page puts the hotel at 1 Grand Union Square, Fort Benton. The header and the footer use ZIP 59442. A location block under the hours uses 59422. Phone, (406) 622-1882. Fax, (406) 622-5985. Email, info@grandunionhotel.com. The history page uses the same phone, the same fax, the same email, and 59442, and it adds PO Box 1119. I am not going to mail a letter to 59422 because one block prefers it.

The clocks on that restaurant page do not agree with each other. A headed block says summer, June 1 through September 27, is every day, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., and fall through spring, September 28 through May 31, is Wednesday through Sunday, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. The body says the summer peak is June 1 through September 30, seven nights, and that October 1 through May 31 is five nights, Wednesday through Sunday, still 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. A menu block says June, July, and August are daily, September through May is Wednesday through Sunday, and November through April is Sunday only, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. The same menu block prints 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. and does not say what that hour is. The page also says the grille is closed January 1 through 26, 2027, and reopens January 27, 2027. October 4, 2026, the day this was checked, is a Sunday. The Wednesday-through-Sunday lines cover that Sunday. The Sunday-only line says it starts in November. I am not going to pick September 27, September 30, or October 1 as the night the week shrinks. I am not going to invent a meaning for 4 p.m.

The history page is a ledger, not a ghost story. It says the hotel opened November 2, 1882, after $50,000 in construction and $150,000 in furnishings. It failed, it was sold, ranchers bought it, it ran down, farmers bought it, a renovation collapsed, a sheriff's sale stripped it, and James and Cheryl Gagnon reopened it on November 2, 1999. In June 2022, the page says, Great Falls residents Colette and Tony Longin bought it.

Owen Skornik-Hayes, KTVH, October 31, 2024, is the ghost story. The page spells the owner College Longin. "I believe all my guests and employees when they tell me their experiences," that spelling of Longin says. The famous ghost, in the story, is the Staircase Shooter, a drunken cowboy who took a dare to ride up the staircase and was shot by an armed guard before he was halfway up. Guests, the story says, hear hooves on the stairs and lively music from the saloon. Longin is quoted on the block outside: "Right outside was the bloodiest block of the West." Guests report orb-like lights and a female spirit in Room 202. Housekeepers, the story says, make a bed and come back to an imprint in the mattress. Longin recounts a guest on the third floor who felt something brush his leg, looked down, and saw a little girl laughing, who then ran down the hall and into the wall. The guest, in that recounting, said he never drinks or takes drugs and that it was clear as day. The story says the hotel finds the rumors good for business, that guests request the rooms, and that the owner planned haunted-room tours and candy, plus mannequins in the windows for that Halloween. Supposedly, in the story's first paragraph. I am not going to turn College and Colette into one confirmed spelling, and I am not going to turn a KTVH recounting into a record of a shooting.

Visit: 1 Grand Union Square, Fort Benton, MT. (406) 622-1882. grandunionhotel.com/restaurant. Dinner, checked in October 2026: 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., with the season boundary printed as September 27, September 30, and October 1, depending on the paragraph. Fall nights are Wednesday through Sunday on the lines that cover October. ZIP 59442, except one block that prints 59422. The Staircase Shooter, Room 202, and the little girl are Skornik-Hayes, October 31, 2024. Colette is the history page. College is the news page.

The Murray Hotel, Livingston

The Murray will tell you the building is always open. It will also tell you Gil's serves breakfast, and then Gil's own page will start the food at 11.

The hotel page says 201 West Park Street, Livingston, MT 59047. It says the hotel is always open. Contact, 406.222.1350, and the same line prints (406.222.9463). Email, info@murrayhotel.com. That page says 25 rooms and suites, and that three restaurants connect with the lobby. It says you can start the day with breakfast or brunch at Gil's Goods Cafe. It says live music plays almost every night in the Murray Bar. It calls the 2nd Street Bistro French and Italian.

Gil's page does not say breakfast. It says 207 West Park Street, food service daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., with late-night bar service Thursday through Saturday. Phone, (406) 222-9463. Emails on that page include eatanddrink@murrayblock.com and 2sbreservations@gmail.com. It does not print the hour late night ends.

The bar page is 201 West Park Street, the hotel's number, not Gil's 207. Food service daily, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., with late-night bar service Wednesday through Saturday. Same phone, (406) 222-9463. Live music, Friday and Saturday, 9 p.m. to midnight. That is two nights, not almost every night, and the late-night days are Wednesday through Saturday here and Thursday through Saturday on the Gil's page. Neither page prints a last call.

The bistro page is a third address and a different owner. 123 North Second Street, Livingston, MT 59047. Seating Tuesday through Saturday, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Reservations recommended. The bar area takes walk-ins. Cancellation wants 24 hours, and a party of five or more puts a card down, charged for a no-show or a late cancel. The page says Bob and Jessy Perdan assumed ownership after Bob became head chef. The Murray homepage, in the Bourdain section, says chef Brian Menges operates the bistro, the bar, and Gil's, all on the main floor, and it says the hotel has 30 suites. The hotel page I opened says 25 rooms and suites, and it says the bistro connects to the lobby. I am not going to collapse 201 West Park, 207 West Park, and 123 North Second into one door. I am not going to decide whether Menges or the Perdans run the bistro.

The ghost story is older than those pages, and the wife's name does not match either. Pat Hill, Bozeman Magazine, October 1, 2015, writes that Dan and Cathleen Kaul have owned the hotel since 1991. The homepage's Bourdain section says Dan Kaul and his wife Kathleen bought it in 1991. Hill quotes Kaul: the old owner, Patty Miller, told them about the ghosts and advised her not to tell anyone, or people would not stay. Kaul told Hill that a lot of folks ask for a room with a ghost. Hill writes that a mistress of Walter Hill, son of James J. Hill, is said to be one of the haunts, and he quotes Kaul: "It has been told that the mistress died quite young of a broken heart, and she's still mad about it." Said to. Told. A former employee, in Kaul's account to Hill, woke to giggling and saw a girl of about 11 or 12 in a white dress, who faded. Hill writes that a woman is said to appear in a second-story window on the Park Street side, and that the room is empty when someone checks. A former bartender, Hill writes, claims he saw an old man and an old woman in the basement and hung prayer flags. Hill also describes a letter from a guest in Columbus, Ohio, who stayed in 1999 and wrote that a man in old-fashioned clothes stood in the bathroom door and that the sheets shot up toward her neck. That is Hill's account of the letter. I did not read the letter. Hill writes that author Stephen Byler told the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, "there's too many ghosts. I can't concentrate." I did not open that Chronicle story.

The hotel's own history page has a horse, and it is not Hill's horse sentence. The page says humorist Will Rogers and Walter Hill tried to bring a saddle horse to a third-floor suite on the 1905 Otis elevator. Hill's magazine story says Walter Hill reportedly would bring his horse up in the elevator, and it puts bullet holes in the ceiling of what became the Sam Peckinpah suite. Tried, on the hotel page. Would bring, in the magazine. I am not going to merge them.

Visit: 201 West Park Street, Livingston, MT 59047, on the hotel page. (406) 222-1350. The same line also prints (406) 222-9463, which is the number on the Gil's and bar pages. murrayblock.com/murrayhotelold. The hotel page, checked in October 2026, says always open, 25 rooms, and breakfast at Gil's. Gil's says food from 11 a.m. at 207 West Park. The bar says late night Wednesday through Saturday. Gil's says Thursday through Saturday. The homepage says 30 suites and Menges. The bistro page says the Perdans, at 123 North Second, Tuesday through Saturday, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Cathleen is the 2015 magazine. Kathleen is the hotel homepage. The girl, the mistress, the window, and the 1999 letter are Hill, October 1, 2015.

Chico Hot Springs, Pray

Chico will sell a day visitor a soak, and it will print the price. It will not, on the pages I opened, mention Percie at all. Two news stories mention her, and they do not agree on her name, her room, or the year she died.

The saloon schema prints 163 Chico Road, Pray, MT 59065, and (406) 333-4933. The soak page gives the same phone for guest services. The day spa is (406) 333-4553. The FAQ says the resort is open year-round, check-in at 4 p.m., check-out at 11 a.m.

The soak page is the public door with a number on it. Resort guests, 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., included in the stay. Day guests, 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Adults and children 7 and older, $14. Children 3 to 6, $8. Seniors 65 and older, $8. One block says towel rental is $2.50. The etiquette block says day guests can rent a towel for a small fee and does not repeat $2.50. Pool temperatures, it says, average 96 degrees in the large pool and 103 in the small one. No lifeguard. The page advises against children under 2. The history on that page says Bill and Percie Knowles opened the Main Lodge of Chico Warm Springs Hotel in 1900. It quotes miner John S. Hackney's diary for January 16, 1865, "I went out to the hot springs and washed my dirty duds." It says the roof over the plunge collapsed in May 1957 on about 70 swimmers, with two minor injuries, and that the roof was not rebuilt. Knowles, on this page, is an owner in 1900. She is not a ghost on this page.

The saloon page says open daily, 11 a.m. to 1 a.m., with dining service 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. The schema says the saloon does not take reservations. The FAQ says reservations for the Chico Dining Room are recommended, and the same answer prints "required for a table" inside the parentheses before the word recommended. Parties over 6 call (406) 333-4933. A FAQ question asks whether the restaurants are open to people who are not staying overnight. The copy I opened does not answer it. The saloon page does say the room is for locals and visitors. The pools are the door that states a day price.

The ghost pages fight. Kira Stoops, Outside Bozeman, Fall 2007, writes that in 1990 security guard Larry Bohne saw a woman in an empty wing who "didn't seem to be walking" and drifted away, and that the jasmine scent was strongest near room 346, "the room where Chico's original owner, Percie Matheson, spent her declining years until her death in 1940." Stoops writes that the rocking chair creaked when Bohne looked in, and that Percie is legendarily the one crashing in the kitchen and hiding papers and coins. She writes that security guard Tim Barnes photographed an apparition in 1986. The note at the bottom says the Chico information is from Big Sky Ghosts, by Debra D. Munn. I did not open the book.

Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune, published by the Spokesman-Review on May 16, 2004, uses a different Percie. He writes that speculation has led most to believe a figure in white over the pool is Percie Knowles (1860-1941), and that the hotel opened in the summer of 1900. He puts the rocking chair in Room 349, always ending up facing the window. He writes that a Bible in the attic stays open to the same page in Psalms and dust-free, as legend. He writes that the white figure over the pool was featured on an episode of Unsolved Mysteries. I did not watch the episode. His smaller pool "advertises 105 degrees." The soak page I opened says the small pool averages 103. Matheson against Knowles. Room 346 against Room 349. Death in 1940 against 1941. The resort's own history page agrees with Elder on the surname and on 1900, and it does not give a death year or a room number. I am not going to pick the room.

Visit: 163 Chico Road, Pray, MT 59065. (406) 333-4933. Day spa, (406) 333-4553. chicohotsprings.com/soak. Day soak, checked in October 2026: 8 a.m. to 11 p.m., $14 for ages 7 and up, $8 for ages 3 to 6 and for 65 and older. Towel rental is $2.50 in one block and a small fee in another. Saloon, 11 a.m. to 1 a.m., food until 9 p.m. Knowles, without a ghost, is the resort history. Matheson, room 346, and 1940 are Stoops, Fall 2007. Knowles, room 349, and 1941 are Elder, May 16, 2004.

Sacajawea Hotel, Three Forks

The Sacajawea will feed you in two rooms with two clocks. It will also print a second phone number that is not a Montana number, on both pages, and it will not mention a ghost.

Pompey’s Grill says Wednesday through Sunday, 4:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Reservations, (406) 285-6515. The Sac Bar says it is open seven days. Food, Monday through Friday, 4 p.m. to 9 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, noon to 9 p.m. Both pages print the address as 5 North Main Street, Three Forks, Montana, and neither prints a ZIP. Both pages then print the phone a second time as 604.285.6515. Six-oh-four is not the Montana area code on the line above it. I am not going to call 604 and hope.

The grill page also prints "Thursday, November 25th," 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Pompey's, with the Sac Bar closed, and a four-course menu. It does not print a year. November 25, 2026, is a Wednesday. Thanksgiving in 2026 is November 26. I am not going to treat that Thursday line as this November.

The ghost is Kira Stoops again, Outside Bozeman, Fall 2007, in the same story as Chico. She quotes Mary Capusci, maintenance manager, who "admits there are a few nonpaying guests." Capusci's quoted lines are footsteps on the third floor when the hotel is empty and quiet in winter, and the radio coming on at 2 a.m. Stoops writes that a chambermaid once found a bed blocking the only door of a third-floor room from the inside, moved it, and found it blocking the door again. Guests, Stoops writes, mention a very tall man with a white beard and white hair, "a KFC figure." She writes that former owner John Quincy Adams, not the president, fits that description. She then quotes Norma Halen at the Three Forks Chamber of Commerce against a rumor that the hotel was a brothel where a madam was murdered. Halen, in Stoops's piece, says a madam named Laura Adams, no relation, was murdered in Three Forks and operated the Western, a few blocks away. Helen Backlin at the Pioneer Museum in Bozeman, Stoops writes, confirms the Sacajawea has been a hotel since it was built in 1910, and the Western burned in the 1960s. Stoops then writes, "Perhaps Adams is the 'Lady in Red' haunting the Sacajawea dining room." Perhaps is hers. I am not going to promote it.

Visit: 5 North Main Street, Three Forks, MT. The pages do not print a ZIP. (406) 285-6515. The same pages also print 604.285.6515. sacajaweahotel.com/pompeys-grill. Pompey's, checked in October 2026: Wednesday through Sunday, 4:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sac Bar food: weekdays 4 p.m. to 9 p.m., weekends noon to 9 p.m. The Thursday, November 25, line has no year and does not match Thanksgiving 2026. Capusci's footsteps and the 2 a.m. radio are Stoops, Fall 2007. The Lady in Red is Stoops's perhaps, after Halen and Backlin told her the brothel story belongs to a different building.

The Grand Hotel, Big Timber

The Grand will seat you Tuesday through Saturday and say nothing, on the pages I opened, about a basement. A 2015 story quotes the woman who had just bought it, and she is the one who brings up spirits.

The dining page and the homepage agree on the clock, and they print it twice on the dining page. Closed Sunday and Monday. Lunch, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. Bar menu, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Happy hour, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Dinner, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Address, 139 McLeod St., Big Timber, MT 59011. Phone, (406) 932-4459. Email, info@thegrand-hotel.com. The homepage says 14 unique rooms. It does not name a ghost, and it does not name the owner.

Hotel Online, February 1, 2015, is a different set of numbers and the only ghost sentence I opened. The page uses a newspaper dateline, "Feb. 01--BIG TIMBER," and it does not print a reporter's name. It says Tami Dern, 52, and her husband, Chris Dern, 40, bought the Grand on January 1. The building, the story says, was financed in 1890 by sheep rancher Jacob Halverson for $20,000, at 139 McLeod St. The basement "was originally used by Chinese immigrants to wash clothes. Staff members swear they can still hear noises from spirits supposedly rustling below, Tami said, only half-joking." Then her quote: "This is the only part of the hotel that gives me the heebie-jeebies." Swear, supposedly, half-joking. The same story says the Grand has 12 rooms upstairs, from $69, with suites up to $169. The homepage I opened says 14 unique rooms and does not print those rates. I am not going to charge you 2015 prices, and I am not going to assume the Derns still own it because a page from that February said they had just bought it. The current site is silent on both the owners and the basement.

Visit: 139 McLeod St., Big Timber, MT 59011. (406) 932-4459. thegrand-hotel.com/dining. Hours, checked in October 2026: closed Sunday and Monday. Lunch 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., dinner 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. The homepage says 14 rooms. The February 1, 2015, Hotel Online piece says 12, and it is the page that quotes Tami Dern on basement noise. The restaurant pages do not.

The Northern Hotel, Billings

Bernie's will sell you breakfast without a room. TEN will sell you dinner. The hotel site will not mention a fire death or a girl at the door. A Gazette collection will tell the girl story and then take it apart.

The homepage says 19 North Broadway, Billings, MT 59101. Email, info@northernhotel.com. It prints three numbers and does not label them: (406) 867-6767, 1-855-STAY-LUX, and (406) 867-6776. I am not going to guess which one is the desk. Bernie's Diner, on that page, is daily, 6 a.m. to 3 p.m., no reservations. TEN, on that page, is daily, 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. The line says dinner is served. It does not print a separate kitchen close. A 24-hour room-service line sits in the amenities list. I am not going to read that as a meal for someone who is not a guest. The same page says a legacy of luxury since 1902. It does not mention 1940.

The Billings Gazette collection "Haunted Billings History," September 13, 2019, is the ghost text. It says the Northern was built in 1902 and owned by P. B. Moss, and that a fire on Wednesday, September 11, 1940, leveled the hotel, starting in the basement in the Jane Drake Dress Shop. "The inferno contributed to many urban legends of guests perishing in a fiery death." The collection then says archives show all guests were evacuated, unharmed, and that no lives were lost. Guests and former employees, it says, have claimed shadowy phantoms in the hallways and pockets of ice-cold air. One tale, it says, describes a small ghost girl knocking on doors before the fire, "the ghost of P. B. Moss's deceased daughter, Virginia." The next sentences dispute it. Virginia died suddenly at the home she loved, with her family, not in the hotel. Former employees, the collection says, have remarked on an unsettling feeling in the basement, some refusing to enter where the fire started. Claimed. Tale. Archives, as the Gazette cites them, say nobody died in the fire, and that the girl in the tale did not die at the hotel. I am not going to put her back in the basement.

The building in the 2024 photo is not the 1902 building the Gazette says burned. The Commons description on that file says the hotel was completed in 1941, replacing an earlier structure that burned in 1940, and that it reopened in 2013 after renovations. That is the file's text. The hotel page says since 1902 and does not say 1941. I am not going to treat those as the same sentence.

Visit: 19 North Broadway, Billings, MT 59101. The site prints (406) 867-6767, 1-855-STAY-LUX, and (406) 867-6776, unlabeled. northernhotel.com. Bernie's, checked in October 2026: daily, 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. TEN: daily, 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. The September 13, 2019, Gazette collection is the fire, the legend of guests who died in it, and Virginia. The 1941 completion date is the Commons description, not the hotel homepage.

The Baxter Hotel, Bozeman

Bacchus will sell you a meal inside the Baxter. The Baxter will not, until fall 2027, sell you a room. The bride in the ballroom is a paranormal investigator's sentence in a 2014 magazine story, not a sentence on the pub's site.

Bacchus says it is inside the historic Baxter Hotel. Address, 105 West Main Street, Bozeman, MT 59715. Phone, (406) 404-1996. The hours block says Sunday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., with the kitchen closing at 9 p.m. A second hours block on the same page says Monday through Thursday 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., Friday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Sunday 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., and it does not mention the kitchen. I am not going to promise you a 10 p.m. table or a 9:30 p.m. last call. The kitchen line, where it exists, stops at 9.

Sarah Cairoli, Bozeman Magazine, September 30, 2014, is the ghost piece. She quotes Eliese Adams of Bozeman Paranormal. "Just down the street, in the Baxter Hotel, a ghostly bride is rumored to haunt the ballroom. Caterers and wedding guests have seen dinnerware spontaneously fly off the tables, Adams said. Some brides have also reported the sensation of someone holding on to their waist as they descend the stairs." Rumored. Adams said. Cairoli also writes that Adams said the group tries to debunk things, and that pipes and wiring get misread as paranormal. The bride is Adams, in Cairoli's story. The Bacchus page I opened does not use it.

The building's current job is in a later Bozeman Magazine piece, February 5, 2026. It says the Baxter opened in 1929, was converted to condominiums in the 1980s, and is being restored as a hotel, slated for fall 2027, with 32 guest rooms. General manager Amy Horton is quoted: people have kept asking how to check in "even over the past 50 years when The Baxter Hotel was no longer operating as a hotel." The piece says the building stays open during the work, and that Ted's Montana Grill, the Bacchus Pub, and the ballroom weddings and events business continue. I opened Bacchus. I did not open a Ted's hours page. The ballroom, in that sentence, is events. It is not a daily tour. The Commons description on the photo file says the hotel opened March 16, 1929, designed by Fred Willson, and that local rancher Robert A. Baxter financed it. The February 2026 piece says 250 Bozeman community members funded it, and "Bozeman's founding families." I am not going to decide who paid for 1929.

Visit: 105 West Main Street, Bozeman, MT 59715. (406) 404-1996. bacchuspub.com. One hours block, checked in October 2026: Sunday through Thursday until 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday until 10:30, kitchen at 9. The other block stops at 9:30 on Sunday through Thursday and at 10 on Friday and Saturday, with no kitchen line. Guest rooms, per the February 5, 2026, magazine piece, are a fall 2027 project. The bride is Adams, via Cairoli, September 30, 2014, and she is in the ballroom, not in a sentence on the pub page.

How to use this

Start with the door that matches the week you are actually having. The Union Grille is the Grand Union's public door, (406) 622-1882, at 1 Grand Union Square. Dinner is 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. The season boundary is September 27 in the headed block, September 30 in the body, and October 1 in the same body. Fall service is Wednesday through Sunday on the lines that cover October 2026. A menu block makes November through April Sunday only, and it prints 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. without saying what opens. ZIP 59442, except one block at 59422. Closed January 1 through 26, 2027, on that page. Skornik-Hayes, October 31, 2024, quotes College Longin on a little girl, and the story tells a staircase shooting, hoofbeats, and Room 202. The history page says Colette and Tony Longin bought the hotel in June 2022 and does not tell that story. The Murray hotel page says always open at 201 West Park, (406) 222-1350, and it also prints (406) 222-9463. It says 25 rooms, breakfast at Gil's, and music almost every night. Gil's says 207 West Park, food from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., late night Thursday through Saturday. The bar says 201 West Park, food 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., late night Wednesday through Saturday, music Friday and Saturday 9 p.m. to midnight. The homepage says 30 suites and that Brian Menges runs the bistro, the bar, and Gil's. The bistro page says Bob and Jessy Perdan own it, at 123 North Second, Tuesday through Saturday, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Hill, October 1, 2015, says Cathleen Kaul. The homepage says Kathleen. Hill's story is the mistress, the girl of 11 or 12, the Park Street window, the basement pair, and a 1999 letter. The hotel page says Will Rogers and Walter Hill tried to bring a horse up. Hill writes that Walter Hill would bring the horse, and that the Chronicle ran Byler's line about too many ghosts. I did not open the Chronicle. Chico's day soak is 8 a.m. to 11 p.m., $14 for ages 7 and up, $8 for ages 3 to 6 and for seniors, at 163 Chico Road, (406) 333-4933. Towels are $2.50 or a small fee, depending on the block. The small pool averages 103 on the soak page. Elder, in 2004, wrote that it advertises 105. The saloon is 11 a.m. to 1 a.m., food until 9. The dining-room line says reservations are recommended and, in parentheses, required. Stoops, Fall 2007, says Percie Matheson, room 346, died in 1940, and credits Debra D. Munn's book, which I did not open. Elder, May 16, 2004, says Percie Knowles, 1860 to 1941, Room 349. The resort history says Bill and Percie Knowles opened the lodge in 1900 and does not give a room or a death year. The Sacajawea grill is Wednesday through Sunday, 4:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., at 5 North Main, (406) 285-6515, and the page also prints 604.285.6515. The Sac Bar serves food weekdays from 4 p.m. and weekends from noon, until 9. A Thursday, November 25, special has no year. Thanksgiving 2026 is November 26. Stoops quotes Mary Capusci on third-floor footsteps and a radio at 2 a.m., quotes Halen and Backlin against the brothel rumor, and then writes perhaps the Lady in Red. The Grand in Big Timber is closed Sunday and Monday, lunch 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and dinner 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, (406) 932-4459, 139 McLeod St. The homepage says 14 rooms. Hotel Online, February 1, 2015, says 12 rooms and quotes Tami Dern, half-joking, on staff who swear they hear spirits in the old laundry basement. The current dining pages do not. The Northern's Bernie's is daily 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. and TEN is daily 3 p.m. to 11 p.m., at 19 North Broadway. The site prints (406) 867-6767, 1-855-STAY-LUX, and (406) 867-6776 without labels. The April 13, 2024, photo shows a Bernie's sign at 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Gazette, September 13, 2019, says no lives were lost in the 1940 fire and that Virginia, P. B. Moss's daughter, died at home, after it has already told the tale of a girl knocking on doors. The Commons description says the tower was completed in 1941. The hotel page says since 1902. Bacchus, inside the Baxter at 105 West Main, is (406) 404-1996. One block runs to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 10:30 Friday and Saturday, kitchen at 9. The other block runs to 9:30 or 10 and skips the kitchen. Cairoli, September 30, 2014, quotes Eliese Adams on a rumored bride, flying dinnerware, and a hand at a bride's waist. The February 5, 2026, piece says guest rooms return in fall 2027 and that Bacchus, Ted's, and ballroom events stay open during the work. I did not open Ted's hours. The photo file says Robert A. Baxter financed a March 16, 1929, opening. The magazine says 250 community members.

If a guide adds a ghost this research did not find on the venue's site or in the news pieces cited below, enjoy it as a story and leave it there.

These seven doors are not in one town. Compact binoculars and a Montana road atlas are the practical extras if you are driving between them.