East Speedway Hotel with Folklore of a Wailing Woman
6555 East Speedway Boulevard, Tucson, AZ 85710
Age
All Ages
Cost
$$$
Hotel rates vary by season and availability under the current Embassy Suites by Hilton brand.
Access
Wheelchair OK
Paved hotel walkways and interior corridors
Equipment
Photos OK
The hotel at 6555 East Speedway Boulevard sits on Tucson's east side, near the El Con shopping district and the city's eastside medical corridor. It operated for many years under the Radisson banner as the Radisson Suites Tucson, an all-suites property used for both leisure and group business. Folklore collected during this period frames the property as mildly haunted and gave rise to the entries that survive on Shadowlands and USC Digital Folklore Archives.
The property completed a full renovation in 2019 and rejoined the Hilton portfolio as Embassy Suites by Hilton Tucson East. The renovation modernized the suites, public spaces, and the ballroom and meeting spaces that had figured in the earlier folklore. The hotel continues to operate under the Embassy Suites flag.
A separate property, Country Inn & Suites by Radisson Tucson City Center, was built newly in 2010 on a different site and is unrelated to the lore attached to this address.
Sources
The reported activity at the East Speedway hotel concentrates in two back-of-house and event spaces: the kitchen and the ballroom. Across the Radisson Suites era, multiple staff and guest accounts converged on a woman's voice heard wailing or moaning in the ballroom area, with additional reports of footsteps, doors moving on their own, and a fleeting figure described as a woman or a girl glimpsed near the kitchen.
The origin story attached to the lore, captured in the USC Digital Folklore Archives entry, holds that a woman was killed at the hotel by her husband after he discovered her with another man. No primary source in the public record confirms a homicide at this address; the account functions as folklore rather than documented history. A secondary thread, recorded by staff to USC's archive, describes child-like giggling overheard while alone in service corridors, attributed in folklore to a separate child entity rather than to the woman.
With the property now operating as Embassy Suites Tucson East following the 2019 renovation, current management does not promote any paranormal programming, and contemporary reports under the new brand are not part of the public record. The lore here belongs to the Radisson Suites era and to the folklore archives that captured it.
Book a room at the East Speedway hotel formerly known as Radisson Suites Tucson, rebranded as Embassy Suites by Hilton Tucson East after a 2019 renovation. Folklore from the Radisson era described unexplained sounds and figures in the kitchen and ballroom areas; current management does not promote any paranormal programming.
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