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A closer look at haunted Flagstaff

Hotel Monte Vista in 1946
Courtesy of NAU Cline Library
Hotel Monte Vista in 1946

At the turn of the century Flagstaff began as a logging town complete with saloons and brothels.

Sitting on the edge of the Navajo Reservation along Route 66 many of its historic buildings still stand. So it has more than its share of ghost stories.

Take a haunted tour of Flagstaff at the Hotel Monte Vista, built in the 1920s, where many a transcontinental traveler stayed as well as bank robbers and Hollywood starlets.

Laurel Morales was a Fronteras Desk senior field correspondent in Flagstaff from 2011 to 2020.

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