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A Pioche silver-camp hotel and bar where guests report a dark figure in Room 10
662 Main Street, Pioche, NV 89043
Research updated October 2026
Age
All Ages
Cost
$$
Room rates vary by season; the saloon is open to the public. Check the venue site for current pricing.
Access
Limited Access
Historic two-story building on Main Street in a hillside mining town; interior stairs to upper-floor rooms.
Equipment
Photos OK
Est. 1948 · Nevada Silver Mining Boom · Historic Pioche Main Street
Pioche grew up around silver strikes in the Ely Mining District of Lincoln County, Nevada, and by the early 1870s it had a reputation as one of the roughest camps in the West. The town's mining wealth drew gunmen, claim-jumpers, and gamblers, and Pioche's Boot Hill became locally famous for the number of men buried there who had died by violence. The often-repeated claim is that 72 people were buried in Boot Hill before the town recorded its first death from natural causes.
The Overland sits on a Main Street footprint that has carried a boarding house and bar since the early 1900s, continuing the town's long history of lodging travelers and miners. The structure standing today was built in 1948 after the earlier building on the site was lost, and it has operated as a hotel and saloon in the decades since.
Like many surviving buildings in Pioche, the Overland trades on the town's preserved mining-camp character. The saloon serves locals and visitors passing through on US 93, and the upstairs rooms keep the property in continuous use as lodging. The building's age and the town's documented violence are the backdrop for its haunted reputation, which centers on the upper floor rather than the public bar.
Sources
The Overland's haunted reputation centers on Room 10 on the upper floor. Guests who have stayed in the room describe a dark, shadowed figure and a persistent sense of being watched, and staff have repeated similar accounts over the years. Reports elsewhere in the building tend toward the ordinary inventory of an old hotel: doors, footsteps, and the sounds of a wood-frame structure settling.
The town's violent history supplies the framing for the activity. With dozens of men buried in Boot Hill after dying by violence, Pioche carries a denser-than-usual layer of dark local lore, and the Overland's age places it close to that history. The hotel leans into the reputation as part of its identity rather than staging it as an attraction.
The Overland has been covered in regional travel and haunted-history features and was filmed for the paranormal television series Ghost Adventures, which brought wider attention to Room 10. As with most accounts of this kind, the experiences are anecdotal and reported by guests and staff rather than independently verified, but the consistency of the Room 10 reports across separate stays is what keeps the location in haunted-Nevada coverage.
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Book a room in the restored Overland, a hotel-and-saloon on a Main Street footprint that has held a boarding house and bar since the early 1900s. Room 10 is the property's most-discussed paranormal location, where guests and staff describe a dark figure and a sense of being watched. Thirteen rooms are located on the second floor above the saloon and dance hall.
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