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Rough Riders Hotel

Medora, North Dakota, United States

Hotel · local-legend

The Story

The hotel’s familiar ghost story concerns an unseen boy upstairs. Accounts describe a child laughing in an otherwise empty top-floor room and toilets flushing without anyone inside. A traveler who stayed at the hotel repeated the local tale but explicitly reported no encounter of her own.

The Hauntings

The hotel’s familiar ghost story concerns an unseen boy upstairs. Accounts describe a child laughing in an otherwise empty top-floor room and toilets flushing without anyone inside. A traveler who stayed at the hotel repeated the local tale but explicitly reported no encounter of her own.

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