The History Behind This Remote Hotel In Montana Is Both Eerie And Fascinating
By Jessica Wick|Published February 23, 2018
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More than 100 years ago, the Great Northern Railway helped promote legislation that established Glacier National Park. Several hotels, chalets, boats, roads, and trails were designed and built to attract tourists, one of which was the elegant Many Glacier Hotel.
Many Glacier Hotel is located in the heart of Glacier National Park, on a rocky ledge by the shores of Swiftcurrent Lake.
Several hundred men worked on the construction. A sawmill, erected near the hotel site, fashioned thousands of boards from trees which were cut down inside the park.
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Louis Hill, the Great Northern Railway's president, chose the Many Glacier valley for the location.
"It talks to you," he said in 2006. "Sometimes you feel like it's alive — you sense it. Those mountains up there are just glowing, just powerful, and here it is. You have to respect it."
Are the strange sounds just the creaks and groans of an old building, or is the hotel actually haunted?