Ever stay in a haunted hotel?

[Planogirl]

JR6ooo4, that is an amazing picture and an amazing building. I love places like that.

 

[KarenB]

DH and I stayed in a bed and breakfast in Gettysburg that was supposed to be haunted. It was the off season and very few people were there. No TVs to drown out any noises.....kind of creepy.

 

[Heidict]

The Luxor in Vegas.

Our room was in the pyramid in the middle. So, when you left our room you had to walk a ways, in either direction, to get to a hallway. In the middle of the night we heard knocking on our door. My friend and I just looked at each other. Then more knocking.

I got up to go to the door and there was more knocking as I entered the little hallway area. I looked through the peep hole and say noone, so I opened the door. Noone there and no one in the hallway. Very weird.

I found out later that there were some men who died during construction and the place was rumored to be haunted. Maybe we had a workman at our door wanting to come in for some fun?

 

[DawnCt1]

We stayed at the Hotel Del Coronado this summer. It is supposed to be haunted but we didn't experience anything.

We stayed there too. I even asked for the area in which Kate Morgan had been seen but she never appeared. One of the elevator operators saw an apparition late at night....or so he says. He said that other staff people have too. Anyway, she didn't visit me.

 

[stitch and co]

Spent two nights at the Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Springs, Colorado for part of our honeymoon. The floors creaked, lights were dim, and the ambiance (sp) was decidely earlier 1900's. There are stories but we did not experience anything while we were there. It was neat to stay there though, quite different from your newer hotels.

 

[RangerPooh]

A few years back we stayed at the City Hotel in Columbia Ca. It is located in a historic gold mining town. From having a "beverage management" class for school in the bar downstairs (no joke) a few years previously I knoew that the hotel was haunted. DH and I were in the area for a short trip and decided to stay the night. There are only 8 room with the 4parlor room sbeing the one swith the most occurances. DH requested a parlor room and we were fortunate to get one. Nothing happened except that DH and his nephew tried taking picures of the headboard with our digital camera and it would always shut off. They tried this with another digital camera and the same thing ahppened. I walked back into the rooma nd it would work, once I left it wouldn't. Why were we taking pics of the headboard...people have caught the image of "Elizabeth" there.

DH use to work as a bartender at a haunted hotel. This one is actually located ~10 miles from the previous one. It's the Gunn House in Sonora, Ca. During the buildings history is was a newspaper office, a hospital, the morgue, the mayors home/personal residence, and the location where prisoners were held until the were executed in the tree outfront (yup, tre's still there). The overflow rooms were used as the morgue and really weird things occured there and therefore they weren't used unless specified or needed. The resturnat and bar had plenty of weird happenings. DH and the serving crew were setting up for a party the next day in the dining room, and each setting had a camera placed at it. When they were finished they locked up and walked across the hall into the bar. Suddenly they saw flashes of light in the dining room. They went in and found that each camera had taken a picture and wer enow laying face down on the plates. DH also told me about a window in the bar room that had been nailed shut (you could see the nails dangling from it) but was open. Apparently the window was always being hammered shut but wold fly open on it's own, and it wasn't a light weight window either. My experience was when I went to see him at work right after we had started dating. I was walking up a side entrance and as I was alost to the corridor that I needed to turn I felt as if someone was pulling me towards a blocked of doorway. I honestly felt like I was on an escalator as I wasn't controlling my feet. I quickly snped out of it and ran down the corridor and up the stairs to DH. He told me that the romw as used to house the inmates prior to being hung and that guests had heard people calling to them to open the door. That was very creepy!

 

[Youarehere]

Hey- someone ressurected my hauntings thread.

I was visiting DD several days before college was to be finished for the summer. DH couldn't get the time off work, so I was staying at a small bed & breakfast not far from the campus. Lovely elderly woman was the owner of what had been an old parsonage. The lady's grandaughter was staying with her also for several days and occupying a room just down the hall from mine. After a restful nights sleep, I rose early to shower and get ready for breakfast. Upon finishing my shower and exiting the bathroom (which was adjacent to my bedroom), I noticed the distinct odor of cigarette smoke. The property had listed itself as non-smoking. At breakfast, I nonchalantly mentioned the cigarette smell and made some non offensive comment about young folks smoking (thinking it had been the grandaughter). Nice. little, elderly lady informs me that it wasn't grandaughter, but the "spirit" that occupies the house! "We don't know exactly who he is, but he doesn't hurt anybody. He likes to smoke and sometimes moves things around and hides stuff on the guests". Well, freak me out big time. Although, if he caught a glimpse of me in the shower, I probably freaked him out even more!!!

Our ghost "stinky" left skunk like odors. I never encountered it, but mom did. I would rather the smoke smell.

We stayed at the Myrtles Plantation twice and the only experiences I had there was a light on a dimmer switch dimming by itself and a bang against a window when I was outside the room right by the window. I looked in the window but saw no one and the dimmer switch just needed to be turned back up.

A lot of people staying there at the time had even odder experiences or so they claimed. One lady was talking to a staff member about how she'd lost a blouse somehow in her room. She said that she'd looked everywhere and she sounded sincere. A lady walked up shortly after that and said that she'd just checked in and there was a blouse hanging on her door for some reason. I overheard a man later complaining that "the maid" kept sneaking into his room and rearranging everything on his dresser. I wonder...

We've also stayed at the Menger in San Antonio several times but haven't experienced anything there.

A pair of DBF's jeans that he pulled out of his suitcase were only a 30 length. He wears a 34 length. We have no idea where these jeans came from or what happened to his. We never had housekeeping in our room. This happened on our second day, so there was plenty of time for a mischeivious spirit to switch up some clothes. It is just too hard for me to believe that is what happened.

 

[Youarehere]

Here is a pic of our Haunted Hotel. Mikeeeee yours looks creepier, but this pic is from the web and is way less creepy than the ones I took myself. Notice the giant cross on top- it is original and it glows at nighht.

 

[moon]

The Overlook Hotel in Colorado. I wouldn't recommend it

 

[pppiglet]

We stayed on the Queen Mary last year which is suppose to be haunted. We didn't do any of the tours and didn't have any weird experiences.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

RickinNYC, cool story. Of course, if that happened to me at CSR (or anywhere else) I think I'd freak! And I love to read ghost stories for fun - I've just never seen one. I've read that not everyone can see ghosts or spirits. Have you ever seen anything like it before?

Keep em coming!

 

[Daxx]

We stayed at a haunted hotel in Niagara on the Lake, Ontario. The place dated back to the Revolutionary War. At night, the hotel guests would gather together and decide whether they should hang the flag out front. Something to do w/if the flag flies, the ghosts won't show their presence, but if the flag doesn't fly, the ghosts come through. (or maybe it was vice-versa). Anyway, we all decided that we wanted to see the ghosts. Not much happened while we were there, although we swear we heard musket fire. Who knows?!?!?!

 

[juligrl]

DH and I stayed at the Cashtown Inn near Gettysburg, PA once. Nothing out of the ordinary happened to us. Then again, I also wouldn't turn the bedside lamp off...

 

[futreWDI]

Actually I have stayed in a haunted mansion...

 

[PixiePop]

I have never stayed in one but would LOVE to one day. I don't know if I would be able to convince my DH though.

 

[lucas]

About 18 years ago we stayed in the upper room of the main house at Casa de Solana Bed & Breakfast in St. Augustine, FL. It is one of the oldest houses in St. Augustine. While I was sleeping on our last night, Dh thought he saw someone in the room. We were never sure, since dh needs his glasses to see anything so we thought maybe he was dreaming. For me, that night I just had an extremely creepy feeling. I remember lying in bed with my eyes closed but I was too afraid to open them. We didn't say anything to the staff at the time - we just wanted to get out of there! We always wondered about it and talked about it. So, a couple of years ago, I actually called the hotel to tell them what happened and asked if anyone else had an experience like that. The clerk said yes, they have had many reports about the hotel being haunted!

Then:

Now:

http://www.casadesolana.com/

 

[Metro West]

No, but it's on my list of things to do!

Me too!

 

[Hound 109]

Yes, in New Mexico. I did not know it was supposed to be 'haunted' at the time. Since I was utterly unaware of the hauntings, then I did not imagine ghosts, etc., with every small noise. I passed several peaceful nights.

Was the hotel in Cimarron? We ate dinner there once & an employee gave us a tour. Cool Hotel & rooms.

I also stayed once at the Strater in Durango.

The most Haunted Hotel we stayed at (though) was the Menger Hotel in San Antonio. A great Hotel.

hound

 

[Aidensmom]

We've stayed at the Belleview Biltmore in Clearwater, FL. We stayed there both because we support it as a historic hotel which developers were trying to tear down and because we knew it is rumored to be haunted. This hotel has been featured on TV as one of America's most haunted hotels.

When we stayed, we went to the lounge after dinner and it was just out luck the manager of the hotel happened to be there too and I was conversing with his wife. We got a private "ghost" tour to the off-limit supposedly haunted parts of the hotel, none of which scared us or anything. However, later that night, we did feel some weird things in a wing of the hotel where other people had felt strange things, and we have some really interesting images on our camera. For us, the weirdest thing that happened is we saw a weird light (orb-like) in the corner of our room and so I took a picture. After the picture was taken, my gold earring was missing, out of my ear, nowhere to be found in the room, and the main "ghost" of the hotel had her jewelry was stolen.

 

[shkeogh]

Not haunted, but checked in to a hotel, went to our room and there were three cops standing outside the door next to ours. Ask them what happened, and they told us a man had committed suicide in the bathtub. Called the front desk to get another room. They said, "no problem." Why would they put us there in the first place if it was so easy to have another room...