Is the Paso Robles Inn really haunted?
The answer probably depends on how you, personally, explain the unexplainable. But, whether you believe in the supernatural or not, the Paso landmark hotel has a history of bizarre events, said Paul Wallace, vice president of Martin Resorts, the company that owns the Inn. “I believe we have unexplainable things that happen here,” he said. In 2001, The Tribune reported on a rash of spontaneous calls coming from the hotel’s Room 1007. Many went to the hotel’s front desk, but one was to 911. Wallace has a theory that points to the 1940 fire that leveled much of the inn. During that fire, the night clerk — J.H. Emsley — sounded the alarm and immediately died of a sudden heart attack. He had no idea that his warning saved the 200 people staying at the hotel that night. “I call it a spirit with unfinished business,” Wallace recently said. “He’s still trying to warn everybody of make sure the people in his care are taken care of. This has been the one thing I have not been able to give any
