The Waterfront Hotel in Baltimore is haunted by the ghosts of sailors from its past as a boarding house. Now a historic establishment in Fell's Point, the hotel is known for its paranormal activity, with many guests reporting ghostly encounters and unexplained phenomena. The hotel is constructed from seven different buildings that date back to the 1770s. In the early 1900s, the Port Mission Women's Auxiliary opened a Christian boarding house for seamen called the Anchorage. It was a safe place where sailors could get a clean bed and a hot meal. However, the building witnessed much death, especially during the 1918 flu pandemic, when it was used as an infirmary for infected sailors. Witnesses have seen apparitions of sailors floating in the halls or knocking on hotel room doors. In one instance, a dog barked at an old sailor sitting on a ledge outside a window. The spirits of nurses who died while caring for ill sailors are also said to haunt the building. One guest saw a woman with a medical chart standing at the foot of his bed and later recognized her from an old photograph. Reports of alarms going off unexpectedly, lights flickering on and off, and furniture moving on its own are common. Disembodied voices and the sound of sailors singing jovial songs are occasionally heard in the dead of night. An elderly man wearing a suit and white gloves has been seen in front of guest room doors. The man was later revealed to be a butler who used to live in that part of the building. An apparition of a woman is sometimes seen in the hallways, leaving the lingering scent of lilacs in her wake. The hotel has been featured on television shows like Ghost Detectives for its paranormal activity.