Posada San Francisco — the 16th-century haunted inn of Tlaxcala City

The Posada San Francisco Hotel in Tlaxcala City, Tlaxcala, occupies a 16th-century building that has served as an inn for nearly 500 years. According to local legend, the spirit of a young woman who died in the building during the colonial era haunts the premises. Guests describe hearing a woman's voice singing softly in the corridors at night, seeing the apparition of a woman in colonial dress standing at the windows, and experiencing cold spots in the older sections of the building. EVP recordings taken in the hotel have allegedly captured conversations in 16th-century Spanish. Tlaxcala, Mexico's smallest state, played a crucial role in the Conquest — the Tlaxcaltec allied with Cortés against the Aztecs, and Tlaxcala City was one of the first Spanish colonial cities in the Americas. The Posada San Francisco's 500 years of continuous hospitality have given it layer upon layer of history, and its ghost may be just one of many spirits accumulated over five centuries of travellers, soldiers, priests, and merchants passing through its doors.