Merdeka Palace Hotel (Kota Bharu) — unverified

The research materials provided contain conflicting geographic attributions for the name 'Merdeka Palace Hotel'. A Wikidata entry and at least one travel aggregator reference a Merdeka Palace Hotel & Suites located in Kuching, Sarawak, but the research brief targeted a Merdeka Palace Hotel in Kota Bharu, Kelantan. The corpus includes several travel and regional sources about Kota Bharu (its markets, Padang Merdeka, museums and hotels in general) but none that explicitly name or document a Merdeka Palace Hotel in Kota Bharu. No construction history, ownership timeline, or incident record for a Merdeka Palace Hotel in Kota Bharu is present in the supplied notes. Regarding paranormal claims: across the provided sources there are no reports of hauntings, apparitions, poltergeist activity, or named supernatural entities associated with any Merdeka Palace Hotel (neither a Kota Bharu property nor the Kuching listing). The only uses of 'Merdeka' in the corpus are cultural or toponymic references (Padang Merdeka, Jalan Merdeka, etc.), which denote national independence but carry no documented supernatural associations in these materials. Because of the geographic ambiguity and the absence of any folkloric or eyewitness material, no phenomena or entities can be credibly attributed to a Merdeka Palace Hotel in Kota Bharu from the supplied notes.