Montvale Hotel

Per the Spokesman-Review's October 21, 2025 feature 'Paranormal activity in Spokane? What ghost hunters found in three historic downtown buildings,' medium Jennifer Von Behren and paranormal investigator Kika Morelan conducted an extended on-site investigation of the Montvale. In Room 310, Von Behren reported sensing a female spirit immediately upon entering. By her own characterization she 'translated' the spirit's name as 'Caitlin' and reported the ghost had been killed in the street outside the hotel roughly sixty years prior. HauntBound notes that this attribution comes from the medium's interpretation rather than from any independently verifiable historical record. The Spokesman-Review article documents that guests in Room 310 have reported lights turning on by themselves; the article also notes that someone died in the room within the past two years.

In Room 203, Von Behren reported a male spirit who died of a heart attack. In the basement she described two male 'drinking buddy' spirits dating to the Prohibition era, and reported that a stairwell ghost touched her hair during the investigation.

In evaluating the lore, the medium-translated identification of 'Caitlin' is single-source and unverified. The phenomena reported by ordinary hotel guests (lights, sensations of presence) are corroborated by hotel staff per the Spokesman-Review feature. The Montvale's prior uses — SRO hotel, brothel, abandoned shell — provide rich historical context for the long-circulating paranormal reputation, but the specific 2025 identifications should be treated as community lore rather than documented history.