Buford House

Arizona · United States · Manor

A Tombstone bed and breakfast, and a young man who could see her window from his own.

The Buford House stands on Safford Street in Tombstone, Arizona, an adobe from the town's silver years now run as a bed and breakfast. It was the home of a young man who intended to marry a young woman who lived across the street. She refused him, and he killed himself in the house. Whichever window he used, he could see hers.

He has been reported around the property and on the street in front of it for a long time. The doorbell rings in the small hours and there is nobody on the step, which is the account guests most often arrive at breakfast with. Knocking comes through the walls of the guest rooms. The tap in the bathroom along the hall turns itself on and then off again. Lights are described outside the house, and cold spots that move through a room rather than sitting in one corner of it.

Tombstone trades on this sort of thing, and it is fair to be sceptical about a haunted room in a town that sells gunfight tickets twice a day. The Buford House stands up better than most: it was filmed for a television series on the town's hauntings, the accounts come from paying guests with no stake in the story, and they have stayed consistent across many years and many owners. It takes bookings.

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Where is Buford House located?

Buford House is in Arizona, United States.