7/28/2020 Could have been so much but instead so little. We came to see the Baker and read about this haunted house a short walk away. So we figured we'd check it out. With cash in hand our 5 person group (3 adults, 2 kids) walked up to a house with haunted house signs all over it and phone numbers saying "call to book your haunted house tour!!!!" only to see a lady sitting on the porch jump up and run inside.

I thought: ok caught them off guard no big deal benefit of the doubt so we went to the front door (under surveillance) and as we were turning to leave this unknown woman throws the door open and barks: "Sir you're going to have to leave the porch!, this is private property!, We can't have kids up here!, This is very real!". To which I replied "ok" and left.

This kind of put a negative tone on the day and overall visit. I can't imagine why you would put yourself out there as a business only to run off potential customers. Especially with the covid fiasco going on you'd figure we'd be a welcome sight. Especially in a small town.

I'll be honest, as a paranormal hobbyist (skeptic) this place already felt super gimmicky and a desperate grab to piggyback the famous hotel especially at the the prices they expect people to pay but to be run off on sight as a group of out of towners looking to spend money, now I'm convinced it's a total sham. The hotel being haunted is still a testable hypothesis and I look forward to investigating in the future but any place that has to be "prepared" for an investigation smells like something Houdini would love to expose as fraudulent.

I would suggest to the people running the show at this place, in the future when passers by walk up to the front door, hand them a pamphlet and give them information rather than just running them off.

12/6/2020 Edit: a reply to your response: I have no idea what you're talking about. We walked up as a group and were told to leave, then we left. We weren't on site for more than 2-3 min. My kids were not on any walls and they certainly weren't trying to push each other off of anything. I have way too much respect for history to allow that kind of behavior and my son would NEVER try to push his sister off of a wall.

I think you're responding to the wrong group. We walked up the stairs, stood on the porch (quietly) for maybe a full 30 seconds. I was just admiring the house, then the door flew open and I was barked at to leave. I even told the kids before we walked up the stairs to be respectful of the house and the surrounding property because of its age. After being run off we stood in the street near the driveway to figure out what to do next.

If anyone was filming they were doing it inside because the only cameras I saw were security cameras. I don't see how my kids and I standing on the front porch were disrupting "filming" anymore than the lady who was sitting on the porch who jumped up and ran inside just before we walked up.

I wasn't "politely asked" to leave I was barked at to leave. Regardless of what words may have been used it was very short and made us feel very unwelcome.

You have a business, listed on google, down the street from the Baker Hotel, and call your potential customers trespassers? That's not conflicting at all. There were some local businesses we went to after our encounter and they weren't shocked at all by our story.

Your angry and defensive reply drives home that this is a scam like I mentioned above. It's nothing but a desperate attempt to capitalize on the Baker before they renovate it. I can also see that your customer service hasn't improved any and a good 5 months after our visit to Mineral Wells this is the reply you came up with!? I'm sure there's a school nearby that teaches some business classes. Maybe you should take some.