Guest’s Night Turns Terrifying After Booking Las Vegas’ Most Haunted Hotel—Mysterious Orbs Appear in Room
Ever accidentally book a hotel so haunted, you might just make friends with a ghost—or at least question your life choices? Welcome to Hotel Apache and Binion’s Gambling Hall in Las Vegas, a place where spectral tales aren’t just whispered—they’re proudly flaunted. It’s not every day you find a spot that wears its paranormal encounters like a neon badge of honor, tempting thrill-seekers and skeptics alike to test their nerve. And honestly, with about 60 percent of Americans claiming to have brushed up against the supernatural (according to a 2025 YouGov poll), maybe the real question isn’t “Do ghosts exist?” but “Should you be booking that spooky ‘worst room’ just to spice things up?” Fasten your seatbelt—and maybe your spirit box—because this legendary hotel isn’t just about blackjack and neon lights; it’s a crossroads for the curious, the brave, and those who think an orb on camera might just brighten their stay.
Hotel Apache and Binion’s Gambling Hall in Las Vegas proudly boasts of alleged paranormal encounters that guests and staff have had over the course of its existence.
Google MapsHotel Apache has a reputation for alleged paranormal encounters.
A woman says she accidentally booked “one of the most haunted hotels in Las Vegas,” Hotel Apache and Binion’s Gambling Hall. She was a good sport about the whole thing, even asking for the “worst room you got” upon finding out about the haunted lore.
One might think that a ghostly encounter would be terrifying. For some thrill-seekers, the scare is the point — and they’ll travel to the ends of the Earth to increase their chances of finding it.
A 2025 YouGov poll found that around 60 percent of Americans claim to have had at least one paranormal experience. While the number of people who say they’ve seen a ghost is smaller, it’s still significant. The same poll found that 16 percent of respondents claimed they’d encountered a ghost or spirit, while 17 percent alleged they’d witnessed an object move without explanation.
The majority of the time, these encounters are perceived by those who experience them as either neutral or, surprisingly, positive. That may be why a 2024 survey from Chapman University found that, even though many Americans believe in ghosts, only around 10 percent actually fear them.
In fact, some people are so unafraid of ghosts that they’ll stay in a hotel that’s rumored to be filled with them.
Rumors Of Ghosts At Hotel Apache
In a video with over 63,000 views, TikTok user Rebecca Paige Caplinger (@sidebarwithbec) details her stay at Hotel Apache and Binion’s Gambling Hall.
As shown in Caplinger’s video, the hotel is proud of its allegedly haunted status, even showing off a large display of apparent ghostly encounters near its entryway.
Thankfully, Caplinger is a fan of ghosts — so much so that she says she asked the hotel for “the worst room you got.”
“You know what? I got nothing else to lose. I want to spice up my life,” she says in the video.
Bob n Renee/Wikimedia CommonsA guest room at Hotel Apache.
Immediately, things felt off. Caplinger says parts of the room carried a sinister energy and that an “orb” was visible on her camera recording.
Caplinger then read of several incidents that allegedly occurred in her room, provided to her in a brochure upon check-in. One simply involved a man becoming dizzy and nauseous; another claimed that guests used a “spirit box” to contact “a woman who said she was choked in the bathtub.”
Caplinger detailed to All That’s Interesting how exactly she unintentionally booked the haunted hotel. She said she was in Las Vegas for a mix of business and pleasure and that she reserved her room through a third-party travel site that “didn’t mention anything about its haunted reputation.”
However, due to Caplinger’s interest in the paranormal, she didn’t mind.
“I went into the experience with an open mind. Before I started filming, I spoke positive intentions into the room and asked for protection, believing that if there were any spirits present, they might simply be looking for genuine interaction,” shared Caplinger, who said she grew up in a house that may have been haunted.
@sidebarwithbec/TikTokRebecca Paige Caplinger didn’t realize that she’d booked a room at a Las Vegas hotel infamous for its alleged hauntings.
She also shared one of the “strangest moments” that happened to her during her stay.
“I was checking the window and discovered that it had been unbolted, providing direct access to the roof. There was no way to lock it from inside the room. That immediately felt off, so I called hotel security, and they came up right away and re-bolted the window,” Caplinger said. “What stood out to me was that I felt strongly compelled to check the window in the first place. Once it was secured, the energy in the room seemed to shift dramatically.”
Of course, Caplinger is far from the only person who’s had a haunted hotel experience.
A Brief History Of Haunted Hotels
While haunted hotels have been around for a long time, the haunted hotel industry — i.e., tourists intentionally staying in hotels they believe to be haunted — is a relatively recent phenomenon.
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