The Comstock Lodge was built 1956, and it stands on a part of Virginia city called the Divide. The dividing point between gold hill, and Virginia city. After 1880, the population dwindled. The Divide was the site of the industrial area, where the Fulton and gold hill factories were as well as multiple homes in the area. In 1941 there was a major building fire called “the divide fire” which burned everything in the area down. A lot isn’t well known about this fire, but no one is sure if there were any deaths. The stories of hauntingly in the motel come from some of the townspeople, they tell of strange stories with a man who wears a bowler hat and lurks around the property and even in peoples rooms, and the story of a little girl, who runs from room to room.