Stanley Hotel

The Stanley Hotel is located in Estes Park, Colorado. The Stanley Hotel was built in 1909 by Freelan Stanley.  He was the inventor of the Stanley Steamer.  Stephen King has been a guest of the Stanley Hotel.  He stayed in room 217 and it is believed by one he worked on his book “The Shining.”  Many people believe the hotel is haunted by children.  Many guests say they have heard children playing in the hall at night.  Some people believe the Stanley Hotel is haunted by Freelan Stanley and his wife Flora.  They have been seen by many people wandering around the hotel.

Hotel San Carlos

The Hotel San Carlos in Phoenix, Arizona is a very well known haunted hotel.  It is believed by many that Leone Jensen has been haunting the Hotel San Carlos since May of 1928.  It is said Jensen was heartbroken because she had lost her lover.  It is said she jumped from the 7th floor of the San Carlos.  Many people believe her spirit roams the hotel.

Landmark Inn

The Landmark Inn is located in Lake Superior, Michigan.  The Landmark Inn was opened in 1930.  People say the town librarian was in love with a sailor.  They were going to get married but his ship never returned to port.  The people say she is still watching from the Lilac Room of the Landmark Inn for her sailor to return.

Hotel Del Coronado

Hotel Del Coronado is located on Coronado Island in San Diego.  The Del Coronado was built in 1888.  It is said Kate Morgan haunts the Del Coronado.  In 1892 she checked in to meet her husband but he never arrived.  A few days later she was found on the beach shot to death.  Many strange things happen in the Del Coronado and it’s believed it was her ghost.

The Gage Hotel

Everything in Texas is big and this includes their haunted hotels.  The Gage Hotel is located in Marathon, Texas.  There are supposed to be 3 ghosts staying at the Gage Hotel.  Another Texas haunted hotel is located in San Antonio, Texas.  It is the Menger Hotel.  It is said that Sallie White, a chambermaid at the hotel, had an argument with her husband.  He threatened to kill her.  In March of 1876 she was attacked by her husband and she died from the injuries.  It is said that Sallie roams the halls of the Victorian wing of the hotel dressed as a maid to this day.

Queen Mary

The Queen Mary has been docked in Long beach, California for many years.  The Queen Mary was purchased by the City of Long Beach in 1967 and turned into a hotel. Many people believe the Queen Mary is haunted.   The Queen Mary visitors say they have heard noises, seen objects move and heard people walking the halls.  The staff has also reported these strange occurrences.  The most haunted area of the Queen Mary is the engine room.  A young sailor was killed here trying to escape a fire.  People have heard knocking and banging on the pipes around the door

Many people say they have seen ghosts of children in the pool area.  A young girl broke her neck here and it is believed she roams this area.  The Queen Mary is famous for its ghosts and there are ghost tours offered

Ramada Plaza

The Ramada Plaza hotel is in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.  It is built on top of underground tunnels that were used by Chicago gangsters to escape from the police.  The escape tunnel’s end in the hotel’s basement.  It is said by many the owner of the hotel was murdered and he now haunts the hotel.  They say he turns on faucets, lights and bangs on the walls.

General Wayne Inn

The General Wayne Inn was opened in 1704.  It was originally called the Wayside Inn.  In 1797 the Inn was renamed the General Wayne Inn.  Famous people like George Washington, Edgar Allen Poe and Lafayette have stayed at the Inn.  In 1996 owner Guy Sileo murdered the Co-owner James Webb here.  There have been many ghosts seen at the Inn.  Hessian soldiers have been seen at the Inn.  A little boy has been heard crying.   The Inn closed in 2004.

These are only a few of the haunted hotels.  There are hundreds of them all over the country.  Spending the night in a haunted hotel is a true experience and one that will not soon be forgotten.

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Mainstreet at least a look at five of the most haunted hotels in America and their stories of fear. If you want to stay in a haunted book soon, because Halloween is sneaking up on you like a … yes, like a ghost.

Read on if you dare:

1. The 1886 Crescent Hotel & Spa
Eureka Springs, Arkansas

The leaders of the tour of the ghost night tours through the hotel to tell visitors that the professional television program Ghost Hunters proclaimed this luxury hotel was the school became a cancer hospital that became a hotel in the the third most haunted building that he had never studied.

The hotel is one of the few places that the team would take a full body apparition of the infrared camera. This is not the only cameras capture minds, however, that regular guests share photos of orbs and ghostly faces – round balls of light seen by some spirits. Many pictures you can see on the website or “ghost book” at the reception.

A more playful ghosts to inhabit the earth is Michael, a bricklayer young Irishman who came to America to help build the hotel. According to legend, when he leaned on the landing to see a pretty girl passed by, fell to his death, near room 218, one of the rooms with the most common activity of the paranormal.

Another part of the structure haunts the area is 4 floor, where Dr. Baker, who was not a doctor, that is, when the hotel has become a cancer hospital. His treatment of 1930, and 40, it is believed that about 300 residents died there. Baker, as well as some of the patients and nurses, were seen in the corridors like ghosts. One patient has been several times to find the keys out of the room 419 Recently, a girl who was visiting the hotel with his parents began to speak in someone’s room, he could not see. The parents found a description of the child, and announced that the discussions he had seen Irene Castle, a famous dancer in 1920, which has been described in film after Ginger Rogers. Castillo attended the property in his later years and died at home near the year 1969. Maybe this is one of the dancers of the spectrum were consulted Ballroom at night.

The hotel is also an old morgue, where autopsies were made and stored in the bodies, some apparently took and hid in the ground to hide the actual death of the plant. Believers often have some experience in the hotel, staff members say the skeptics, and – Well, I have been known to leave the center of the busy night.

2. Buxton Inn
Granville, Ohio

Orville and Audrey Orr, Buxton Inn owners since 1972, said he never advertised the Inn haunted, but stories of ghosts who live in a building 199 years old, was a time when recognition of the hotels. com as one of the 10 Most Haunted Hotels in America.

Orville Orr said that when he and his first wife, purchased the property, or even want to talk about strange events at the hotel, is a conservative fund. Even when he saw the revelations in his eyes, says he does not want to believe. “I could not understand.”

The inn was originally a tavern and operated since 1812 in the west of the main road which provides negotiated and been passed by many travelers. In 1972, he was about to demolish the building for parking, but the authentic restoration Orrs intervened and completed a total of four buildings and 25 rooms.

Major Buxton was one of the owners and operators of the Inn at 1865-1902 and can still be seen regularly on the first floor of the main building. Ethel “Bonnie” was a champion Bounell 1934-1960 and her favorite perfume of gardenias can sometimes still smell hangs in the halls.

The Orrs have made peace with permanent guests. “A medium told us not wanting to get rid of them, like coming to visit,” says Orville. The Orrs desire to respect the dignity of his predecessors, not to exaggerate the ghosts, but do not care where the curious come to see if they too can experience.

3. The Brown Palace Hotel & Spa
Denver

Built in 1892 by a well-known Denverites named Henry C. Brown, the Brown Palace Hotel & Spa is a temporary stop for every president since Teddy Roosevelt, except Calvin Coolidge. The Beatles, even with a suite named after them and I stayed at the hotel during a stop on tour in 1960-s.

Many believe that the hotel is connected to the “unsinkable” Molly Brown, Denver celebrities who have survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, but it is only a legend, told in Hotel Management.

Although none of the alleged ghosts that are believed to legendary singers and former presidents, one believes in Louise Crawford Hill, another Denver socialite who settled in the 1930s when the two upper floors have been converted into apartments.

The reported receiving calls from room 904, room hill where the ghost tour time tells the story of his scandalous relationship. It would be so scary, if the ninth floor had not been renewed on time, with all cables removed both upper floors.

Others have reported seeing a train driver since the end of dresses walk down the aisle. He is suspected of being a visitor who arrived at the hotel when a train operated nearby. However, other visitors reported gas fireplaces itself on and the music comes from the restaurant at night.

4. Myrtles Plantation
St. Francisville, Louisiana

Many places visited in the country are located in the historic southern states, and the Ghostbusters have long identified the Myrtles Plantation is one of the nations most haunted. The plantation was built in 1796 by General David Bradford, have been built on an ancient burial ground for Native Americans, and when Dave whiskey workers discovered them, ordered them burned. This in itself is enough to cause restless spirits, they say.

The most famous ghosts that inhabit the Myrtles, however, is Chloe, a former slave who had an affair with Bradford-law. The fear of being expelled from the house to the fields of history, Chloe began to listen to private conversations of her lover. Her lover and teacher grabbed her, pulled a sword and cut off his ear. Desperate to show its value to the family, a birthday cake poisoned by one of the children, hoping to heal the sick members back to health. Instead, his wife and son both died.

His fellow slaves, for fear of reprisals, Chloe lynched by a lamp in a room, and has since said to have been photographed several times at the inn, always wear a turban to cover their ears cut off. The spider in this room have been reported to oscillate in the middle of the night for no reason.

Other ghosts, including children who have died by then incurable disease, is also reported to roam the halls of the Myrtles. If you stay in one of the 11 rooms, be sure to book their place in the ghost tour before and if you meet a woman who wears a turban or see the ball rolling on the floor of your account, do not think anything of it. The owners say their ghosts are harmless.

5. Hotel del Coronado

San Diego

Built in 1888, was the Hotel del Coronado known in the late 20th century, to 19 and a complex for anyone who was anyone, and it took months to travel through the large gap between east and west coasts . The Hotel del Coronado, even once had its own school to teach children their longer stays.

Since then, some long-term guests have never left it seems, so that their occupation of life after death. One of the most famous hotel ghosts said Kate Morgan, a woman in love, which is checked into the hotel in 1892. He waited five days to meet with him for the love of her life, Kate is not and has never been found dead at the bottom of the stairs outside the beach.

Since then, Kate’s ghost has been reported on the beach and the hotel, and when she feels any hunter who is playing harmless pranks on customers such as hotel management.

Another hot spot for paranormal activity at the hotel gift shop, where to fly regular glass shelves and pictures from the walls to fall. The aim seems to be memories of the film Some Like It Hot with Marilyn Monroe, who has described the hotel in 1958. Marilyn’s ghost, perhaps? The hotel management does not believe. They believe that the ghost is just to keep the stage to share the beauty of the 20 th century.

              Every month of October, horror stories are really famous anywhere in the world since November is near to come and November is what they called as the “Ghost Month”. And now, there are hotels in America that really scares people not because of the hotel appearance but because of the scare stories that covered it. Are you ready to take a tour to the top 5 most haunted hotels in America? Please follow me;

Hotel Del Coronado, San Diego

                This 80’s hotel has once become a resort as a part of the management development. And also, this hotel also had its own school to teach the children of their most long-term guest and the ghost and scary stories began to spread all over the hotel when this long-term guest starts to see paranormal entities inside the hotel. One of the most famous hotel’s ghost was believed to be Kate Morgan, accordingly, Morgan was a lovesick woman who checked into the hotel in 1892, after five days of waiting for love of her life, unfortunately, he didn’t make it, then she was found dead at the bottom of an exterior staircase leading to that beach, and since then her soul already stayed in the hotel.

The Myrtles Plantation, St. Francisville, LA

                Historic places usually contained horror story and this Myrtles Plantation is one of them, it was build in the year 1796, and the most ghost personality in this hotel is Chloe; she is a slave who had a romance with the Bradford’s son-in-law, after her master knows her romance relationship with his son-in-law he got his sword and cut off the ear of Chloe, and because of that she planned to bake a poisoned cake to one of her master’s child to show her worth to the family but there was a big problem happened when the wife and the two of her children died.  And because of that, her fellow slave lynch Chloe from a chandelier in one of the room,  and it was believed that her soul stayed at the hotel and many people saw her wearing the dress that she wears when she was murdered.

The Brown Palace Hotel and Spa, Denver

                This was built in the year 1892, and for how many celebrities and famous people stayed on this hotel many ghost stories also grows here, one of the scary ghost story in this hotel was when one of the front desk personnel always got a call from the room 904, well it seems that it is just an ordinary situation but the creepy story is that, the 9th floor at this time was under renovation with the wires all stripped from the two floors which means, the room that always calling from the front desk is not just an ordinary call coming from an ordinary customer.

Buxton Inn, Grandville Ohio

                1972 when this hotel starts to built in. One of the owners of this hotel was Orville Orr, before his wife purchased this hotel, they already heard for some ghost stories but they didn’t mind that until they personally experienced the paranormal happenings in the said hotel. And according to the psychic that they tried to consult, the ghosts in the hotel will never be out or be keeping away because they will love to visit the said hotel.

The 1886 Crescent Hotel & Spa, Eureka Springs, Ark

                This historic hotel was not just a typical hotel because at first it was built to become a luxury hotel, and then become a school, then turned cancer hospital and now, it back to become a hotel. And because of this changes made over the years, the Crescent Hotel &Spa is renowned to be one of the most haunted hotel in the America, that even the ghost hunters claimed that this hotel was the third most haunted building that they had ever investigated and the other buildings are not found in America.

(Source: the topic was taken from Yahoo Travel Ideas as well as the image of the hotels)

After a very interesting stay in the hotel King decided to write his third book based upon his experience. The hotel was built by F.O. Stanley, the designer of the “Stanley Steam” engines. There are numerous reports that he and his wife still room the hotel, where he frequents the front desk and she can be heard playing the piano in the lobby. There have been thousands of reports of children playing in the fourth floor hall, even when no children are in the hotel.

A visit Decatur, Illinois will bring you to the Lincoln Theatre, considered the most haunted theatre in America.

The Lincoln was built in the 1916 in classic horror film style, on top of a Native American burial ground. Worse yet, the site was built over the scene of a large hotel fire only a year before the theatre opened. Here many people report seeing people across the open auditorium, which has long been closed for safety reasons. behind the stage people believe the have been followed up a spiral staircase. Literally hundreds of accounts of unexplained incidents make the Lincoln the most haunted theatre in America.

The scariest real haunted house in America can be found in a small Iowa town called Villisca. Here the fomre home of J. Moore is simply know as “The Villisca Axe Murder House”.

The Moores came home from a church function with two house guests in June, 1912. Somewhere between midnight and 5am, J.Moore, his wife, their four children and the two house guest were brutally axe murdered by unknown assailants believed to have been hiding in the attic. All 8 were found dead the next morning. The case was never solved. The house was bought  in 1994, and restored to the historical state of the 1912 axe murders. The owners here say they constantly find childrens rubber ball rolling in the hall, and though they remove them they always come back. The door opening to the hall opens and closes by itself, usually around dinner time.