Haunted Hotels
Apr 18th, 2000 | 06:16 AM
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you probably know that the Hollywood Roosevelt is supposed to be home to Marilyn in a mirror, Monty Clift if room 928 (stayed there, but no action. My friend claims to have been shoved during the night.) and a mysterious gold spot in the Ballroom, where the first Academy Awards were held.
Apr 18th, 2000 | 11:37 AM
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Shelley, I stayed at The Menger in
San Antonio, TX and they supposedly have a ghost on the 3rd floor that comes out around 3 a.m. They also have one that wanders around the dining room from time to time. Built in the mid-late 1800's.
I saw my own ghosts since S.A. is a pretty good party town!
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOhhhhhh
Kal
San Antonio, TX and they supposedly have a ghost on the 3rd floor that comes out around 3 a.m. They also have one that wanders around the dining room from time to time. Built in the mid-late 1800's.
I saw my own ghosts since S.A. is a pretty good party town!
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOhhhhhh
Kal
Apr 18th, 2000 | 12:22 PM
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Not a hotel, but the restaurant Moss Beach Distillery in Half Moon Bay, CA, has a ghost. In the little town of Half Moon Bay are good B&Bs, one owned by Karen Brown the travel writer. About 1 hour south of SF, but a small beach town--not very commercial or fancy.
Apr 18th, 2000 | 03:22 PM
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Dear Shelley:
Try the Captain Whidbey Inn in Coupeville. Judge Still, who built the inn and hanged himself, walks the upstairs hallway at night. Nearby Sunnyside Cemetery has the ghost of Colonel Isaac Ebey: Tlinkit Indians from Alaska beheaded him back in the 1850s, and he's still looking for his head.
Try the Captain Whidbey Inn in Coupeville. Judge Still, who built the inn and hanged himself, walks the upstairs hallway at night. Nearby Sunnyside Cemetery has the ghost of Colonel Isaac Ebey: Tlinkit Indians from Alaska beheaded him back in the 1850s, and he's still looking for his head.
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Apr 9th, 2002 | 06:18 AM
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Try many of the bed and breakfasts in St. Augustine Florida. They have a great ghost tour which points out a lot of them out as well as several buildings in town where people have had ghostly encounters. My husband had an experience at our bed and breakfast where we had no idea they had an inn ghost. When our tour guide asked if any of us had seen a ghost my husband tentatively explained the woman he saw in a long white dress walk into a room which had no door to the outside and when he followed her in there to return a bike key there was no one there. The guide explained he'd seen Rose, the woman who had died on her wedding day. When we came back and told the inn keepers they couldn't believe my husband had seen her because they never had nor had any of the other guests.
Apr 9th, 2002 | 06:55 AM
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Shelley,
Many people might snicker at your request and ten years ago I would have been one of them. My views on this subject changed forever; however, after spending one night at Syrus Aeckney's Inn on the coast of Maine.
My wife has always been interested in "The Occult" but I always thought it was a bunch of hogwash. Still, it never bothered me that she enjoyed it (even I enjoy ghost stories now and then) and if we were at a county fair or the like I would always observe when she went for Tarot readings, tea-leaf readings, seances, etc..
Her dream was to visit a genuine haunted house and she spent much time trying to determine where the "real thing" might be by visiting the library and doing a tremendous amount of reading on the subject. This was when she read about Syrus Aeckney. It seems that in the 1920s Mr. Aeckney arrived in Maine from overseas. The text didn't say from where but merely that he arrived with “two brothers and a wife.” They arrived in Portland, drove up north to Lewiston and then proceeded directly to the coast where they spent the next three and a half years building a "mansion" on the cliffs overlooking the ocean, near the little town of Hadleyburg.
According to Anee’s (my wife) reading the Aeckneys were not the most social people in the world. Although Syrus was seen in town from time to time, the two brothers and Syrus’ wife were never seen outside the property after the mansion was completed. The townsfolk knew they were there because the family was periodically spotted by people passing on the crest of a hill opposite. The townspeople tried approaching the family several times--both to welcome them to town and invite them to social functions--but Syrus merely greeted them all with a “cold and unwelcoming gaze” and “never so much as uttered a single word to anyone who approached.” Soon, everyone stopped approaching…but not before something unsettling occurred.
During the final attempt by the locals to invite the Aeckneys to a public gathering for the next day, muffled cries were heard emanating from the mansion. This next bit is a direct quote from the text:
“ As we neared the ghastly manor we heard what appeared to be a woman’s moans coming from the place. We stopped, wondering if mayhaps we had chosen in inopportune moment for our visit. Nay, but we did continue on for we knew this was to be the last descent by us, or anyone else, to this unsettling manse. As closer we approached, we heard the moans to become cries, the cries to become screams and the screams to become silent. Our charge was forever suspended.”
According to the rest of the book, it was another two years before anyone attempted another visit to the Aeckney home. When someone finally did call on the them, it was in the form of the newly appointed constable (apparently there had been none two years before when whatever happened, happened). What constable Mathew Stroeble discovered when he broke down the door to gain entrance was described by him as, “crimes of Hell committed here, on the Earth .” The descriptions that followed are unprintable in this forum… to be continued
Many people might snicker at your request and ten years ago I would have been one of them. My views on this subject changed forever; however, after spending one night at Syrus Aeckney's Inn on the coast of Maine.
My wife has always been interested in "The Occult" but I always thought it was a bunch of hogwash. Still, it never bothered me that she enjoyed it (even I enjoy ghost stories now and then) and if we were at a county fair or the like I would always observe when she went for Tarot readings, tea-leaf readings, seances, etc..
Her dream was to visit a genuine haunted house and she spent much time trying to determine where the "real thing" might be by visiting the library and doing a tremendous amount of reading on the subject. This was when she read about Syrus Aeckney. It seems that in the 1920s Mr. Aeckney arrived in Maine from overseas. The text didn't say from where but merely that he arrived with “two brothers and a wife.” They arrived in Portland, drove up north to Lewiston and then proceeded directly to the coast where they spent the next three and a half years building a "mansion" on the cliffs overlooking the ocean, near the little town of Hadleyburg.
According to Anee’s (my wife) reading the Aeckneys were not the most social people in the world. Although Syrus was seen in town from time to time, the two brothers and Syrus’ wife were never seen outside the property after the mansion was completed. The townsfolk knew they were there because the family was periodically spotted by people passing on the crest of a hill opposite. The townspeople tried approaching the family several times--both to welcome them to town and invite them to social functions--but Syrus merely greeted them all with a “cold and unwelcoming gaze” and “never so much as uttered a single word to anyone who approached.” Soon, everyone stopped approaching…but not before something unsettling occurred.
During the final attempt by the locals to invite the Aeckneys to a public gathering for the next day, muffled cries were heard emanating from the mansion. This next bit is a direct quote from the text:
“ As we neared the ghastly manor we heard what appeared to be a woman’s moans coming from the place. We stopped, wondering if mayhaps we had chosen in inopportune moment for our visit. Nay, but we did continue on for we knew this was to be the last descent by us, or anyone else, to this unsettling manse. As closer we approached, we heard the moans to become cries, the cries to become screams and the screams to become silent. Our charge was forever suspended.”
According to the rest of the book, it was another two years before anyone attempted another visit to the Aeckney home. When someone finally did call on the them, it was in the form of the newly appointed constable (apparently there had been none two years before when whatever happened, happened). What constable Mathew Stroeble discovered when he broke down the door to gain entrance was described by him as, “crimes of Hell committed here, on the Earth .” The descriptions that followed are unprintable in this forum… to be continued
Apr 9th, 2002 | 03:07 PM
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Shelley,
The Brown Palace in Denver, CO has a couple of ghosts in it. This is a four-star hotel that was built in the late 1890s. I don't believe that many guests have seen the ghosts much but if you talk to the housekeeping staff they'll tell you a few stories. In fact, there are some employees of the hotel that will not work in certain rooms and have their schedules arranged accordingly.
Great hotel, neat history.
Davidcs
The Brown Palace in Denver, CO has a couple of ghosts in it. This is a four-star hotel that was built in the late 1890s. I don't believe that many guests have seen the ghosts much but if you talk to the housekeeping staff they'll tell you a few stories. In fact, there are some employees of the hotel that will not work in certain rooms and have their schedules arranged accordingly.
Great hotel, neat history.
Davidcs
Apr 9th, 2002 | 08:04 PM
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Shelley, if you want something out of the way, the Lodge in Cloudcroft, NM (about 15 miles east of Alamogordo on US Hwy 82) is supposedly haunted by a ghost of a woman named Rebecca who was murdered by a jealous lumberjack at the inn back in the 1930s. Employees and guests have reportedly seen her roaming the halls.
