Irma Hotel

"Buffalo Bill," William F. Cody was probably the best known American in the world during his lifetime. Having been involved in many events that shaped the American West, he formed an arena show of the western experience called Buffalo Bill's Wild West in 1883. It toured the United States and Europe for 30 years.

Buffalo Bill helped found Cody, Wyoming in 1895, and established his TE Ranch in the area. In 1902, he built the Irma Hotel, which he called - "just the sweetest hotel that ever was." Buffalo Bill maintained two suites and an office at the hotel for his personal use.

When the Burlington Railroad completed a spur line into Cody, his plan was to have travelers stay at Buffalo Bill's Hotels in the Rockies on their way to the east gate of Yellowstone National Park. They included the Irma Hotel in Cody, near the railroad; Wapiti Inn (a day's wagon ride west) and Pahaska Teepee near the East gate of the park.

The Irma Hotel is listed on the National Register of Historic Places by the National Park Service, in recognition of its contribution to the cultural foundations of America. It was designed by Alfred Wilderman Woods, a Lincoln, Nebraska church architect. Certain exterior walls are made of river rock and locally quarried sandstone from Beck Lake just south of town. The fireplace is an assemblage of rock, ores, minerals, and fossils from the Big Horn Basin.

Paranormal Claims

• There have been sightings of a soldier dressed in an 1800's style uniform in the main dining hall near the cherry wood bar.
• An aggressive presence has been reported in the kitchen.
• Irma (Buffalo Bill Cody's daughter) "The Lady in White" roams the halls of the second floor where the suites and rooms are located.
• Footsteps have been heard in the hallways.
• Knocking on hallway walls so loud that it wakes up the guests have been heard.
• An apparition of a confederate soldier (from the waist up) has been reported in room 35.
• Buffalo Bill has been seen in a long mirror in the dinning room.
• If people who look like the ex-wife of Buffalo Bill, they get messed with.
• People have had drinks knocked out of their hand.
• Rocking chairs have been reported to rock on their own.
• People have heard the sound of petticoat swishing from one side of a room to another.
• TV and lights have been reported to turn off and on by themselves.
• Water faucets have been reported to turn on/off by themselves.
• An apparition of a man has been seen to walk into the bar and take a seat, when someone goes to wait on him he disappears.
• Man in old west Calvary clothing has been reported.
• Extreme cold temperatures have been reported in room 35.
• Disembodied voices have been reported.
• Guests have reported to be woken up with a cold hand touching them.
• Covers of beds in room 35 have been ripped off the bed while people were sleeping.

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