A 2000-built Florida hotel with a Room 208 legend
151 Cracker Barrel Drive, Crestview, FL 32536
Age
All Ages
Cost
$$
Standard mid-range hotel pricing, typically $80-$120 per night.
Access
Wheelchair OK
Paved parking and ADA-accessible interior corridors and rooms.
Equipment
Photos OK
Est. 2000
The hotel at 151 Cracker Barrel Drive in Crestview, Florida was built in 2000 as part of the Jameson Inn chain, sited at the Interstate 10 commercial node just east of the Cracker Barrel restaurant on the west side of the city. Crestview itself is the seat of Okaloosa County in the Florida Panhandle, a community whose modern growth came from its position along I-10 between Pensacola and Tallahassee and from its proximity to Eglin Air Force Base. The Jameson Inn chain operated the property through its national rebranding cycle of the early 2010s, after which the location was rebranded to the Quality Inn flag under the Choice Hotels system. Local accounts also reference a Best Western affiliation, reflecting the property's history of franchise changes typical of the I-10 motel corridor.
Per the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, the property has operated under successive ownership entities, most recently SSI PMG LLC, doing business as Jameson Inn Crestview. As of the Yelp listing, the Jameson Inn name is closed and the property operates under the Quality Inn brand. The hotel sits within the commercial cluster anchored by the Cracker Barrel and the I-10 exit, with no documented historical structure or prior use of the site beyond the 2000 motel construction.
Sources
The paranormal accounts attached to the property cluster around Room 208, which appears across multiple regional haunted-locations write-ups including FrightFind. Reported phenomena include phantom cigar and cigarette smells with occasional reports of items found smoldering or partially burned without apparent ignition source, cold or wet spots in specific corners of the room, and a recurring figure described as a headless woman in a nightgown. Guests have also reported items moved between visits and unexplained sounds from the adjoining bathroom.
Local Crestview newspaper coverage from the Crestview Bulletin compiled the room-208 accounts as part of a regional ghost-story feature, but the claims have not been tied to a documented death on the property, a named former guest, or any incident in Okaloosa County records. The hotel's 2000 construction date and its location on a previously undeveloped commercial parcel make a historical-tragedy provenance unlikely, leaving the folklore in the category of modern guest-experience accumulation typical of long-running franchise motels.
Book an overnight stay at the former Jameson Inn, now operating under the Quality Inn / Best Western brand. The Shadowlands report and several aggregator sites center activity on Room 208, with reports of phantom cigar and cigarette smoke, an apparition near the second-floor elevator, and unexplained cold spots. The property is a standard mid-range interstate hotel built in 2000.
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