The Palmer House Hotel, at Sinclair Lewis Avenue and Main Street in downtown Sauk Centre, is haunted at least according to its website and its owner, Kelley Frese, who bought the hotel with her husband about 10 years ago

Website testimonials from guests and employees mention hearing the sound of children playing in the hallway, even though no children were staying at the hotel at the time; furniture being moved around in the rooms above, even when the room was on the top floor; unexplained temperature changes; things going missing only to be returned or never seen again; and ghost sightings Frese, who says she did not believe in ghosts until she bought the hotel, has had several encounters. After a stranger told her about a dream that directed her to the spot, Frese says she dug up what looked like rib bones in the basement. She put them in a box, but when she returned for them, the box had ; you guessed it disappeared Then there was the woman wearing a red turban and flowing scarf who walked out of the bar into the lobby one New Years Day. Frese says she was talking to hotel guests, who saw the woman, too. But when she turned to ask the woman how she could be of service, the woman had disappeared According to Frese, there doesn't  seem to be any pattern to the manifestations. She recorded experiences in a journal for a time, but the only similarities she noted were the lack of expression on the apparitions faces She does point to the possibility that a fire that destroyed the hotel previous to the Palmer House, which was built in 1901 on the same site, may have something to do with the hauntings. However, there reportedly were no fatalities in the fire, and everybody knows dead people are the key ingredient for ghosts Also on the website are comments from guests and employees who allegedly came into contact with the spirit world. Kelly's favorite is from a night clerk who reportedly served beer to a ghost

    Claims

• Walking coming from the top floor 
• Children Playing
• Voices 
• Full apparition