With Halloween just around the corner, I thought it might be fun to write a post of some haunted hotels in America. Hopefully after reading this you'll think twice before choosing where you will spend the over-night stay.
About.com composed a list of top 10 most haunted hotels in America. Although all these places are great for experiencing the ghostly phenomenas, I believe the top 2 hotels on the list will give visitors the most thrilling experience.
1. Myrtles Plantation (St. Francisville, Louisiana)
The story began with a slave named Cloe who became her master's mistress. But when the affair ended, Cloe began to eavesdrop on the family. When she was caught, not only the family threw her back onto the field but they also cut her ear off. Cloe wanted to go back into the family badly and she had a plan. In the birthday cake she prepared for the family, Cloe added a tad of poison hoping that she'll be asked to take care of the children once they eat the cake. The plan worked. Cloe was asked back into the house to nurse them when the two children and mother grew extremely sick. But soon the kids and mother died. The other slaves were scared of master's furious reaction so they dragged Cloe out of the house and hung her.
Today visitors can still see the ghost of Cloe, two children and the mother wandering around the house. There are also other ghostly activity witnessed:
-Bloody hand prints on walls
-Fingerprints on mirror
-A French woman wanders from various rooms in search of something/someone
-A ghost playing the same chord continuously at the grand piano
-Portrait of an unknown man that expresses expressions (Personally I can take all kinds of horror, but animate portraits really gets me).
-Girl who appears before thunderstorms, and much more.
2. Queen Mary Hotel (Long Beach, California)
Queen Mary is the "hot spot" for spirits to hang around. One of the reasons why Queen Mary is to haunted is because about 50 people had die on the ship. The hotel was originally used in the war. Winston Churchill traveled on the ship three times before his death (many people reported that they sometimes smell cigar smoke- Churchill lived his life off cigars). There various ghostly activity going on in all different parts of the ship.
-In the First Class Swimming Pool visitors had witnessed the ghost of two woman who drowned there.
-The changing room aside from the pool contains negative energy and when there are less visitors, the ghost of a little girl can also be spotted.
-The ghost of a woman in white dress and be spotted in the ship's salon.
-In the First Class Suites there stands a man in 1930s who once stayed in the room.
-Ghosts of children playing can be seen in the Forward Storage Room.
-On the walls of Bosun's Locker visitors can hear pounding and screaming from the 300 sailors who drowned during the war.
-The kitchen of Queen Mary is the death place of a cook in WWII. He was stuffed into an oven and burned to death because the troops didn't like his cooking. His scream can still be heard through times.
-The ship has its own morgue too (that's just saying, please stay here so we can fill up our morgue faster). Needless to say, it's awfully haunted as well. The ghost of 18-years old crewman, John Pedder can be witness wandering around the place in his blue coveralls just before he was crushed by the door during a practice drill.
-And cabinB340 has been reported of so many disturbance by the visitors that it's no longer rented out.
3. Hotel Del Coronado
4. Crescent Hotel
5. Stanley Hotel
6. Le Pavilion Hotel
7. Heathman Hotel
8. Ramada Plaza Hotel
9. Carolina Inn
10. Sagamore Hotel
Whether if you believe in ghosts or not, I say it's still beneficially to check them out. Keep an open mind because you never know what will happen :)
3 comments:
Speaking from experience, both the Queen Mary and the Hotel Del are pretty cool. With Coronado you only really have stuff happen if you stay in the main original building (in pictures its the kind of round building with the popinted roof). Its also a really nice hotel to stay in if you're in one of the newer buildings. For the Queen Mary, if you're ever in the L.A. area over Halloween thats usually the best time to go (same with the theme parks- they will usually scare/traumatize you pretty well). For Halloween Queen Mary has a haunted ship maze that takes you through most of the ship with additional actors like you'd find in a regual haundted house...but much scarier. It all ends in a big ballroom with dancing, etc. Its quite fun, I highly reccommend it.
You know... I have had only one legitamate supernatural experience at a younger age that I wasn't comfortable talking about until I was older. Coincidentally, this was inside a small hotel near Wisconsin Dells. Still gives me chills whenever I talk about it. I feel uncomfortable and twitch even lose words sometimes when I talk about it. I'm kind of hyping it and wasn't gonna share it, but that would be a major letdown. I'll give the fast version. Sleeping at night, woke up, looked around, rolled over, saw cloudy/misty/transparent girl standing right there, heard it say something, screamed so loud and jumped straight into my parent's bed next to mine. Looked over and she was gone. I'm still convinced to this day my father saw it too, but he doesn't want to admit it. Happy 4 days after Halloween!
Hi. I like your blog. Since you were talking about Queen Mary Hotel I would like to say that this I really high class hotel. It is not only about the comfort and luxury; the customer service is really great. There is nothing to complaint about. You pay a lot of money and you get the best out of it. There is a great site www.pissedconsumer.com, where you can read more of customer reviews.
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