#haunted hotels

[myhauntedsalem]

The Cornstalk Hotel

New Orleans, Louisiana

The Cornstalk Hotel was the early 1800s home of Judge Francois Xavier-Martin, first Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court and author of the first history of Louisiana, where Harriet Beecher Stowe stopped and was inspired to write Uncle Tom’s Cabin from the sights at the nearby slave markets.

Surrounded by a unique and intricate 165-year-old “cornstalk” cast iron fence, it is now a lovely hotel in the Victorian tradition of elegance. The building still functions today as an open hotel.

The stories of ghostly goings-on here are rather different from any other location, apparitions of children have been witnessed running and playing all over the house and grounds, as well as the sounds of children laughing and light footsteps in the hall ways when no one’s there.

What makes this location different from any other though is the stories of guests who have stayed there. On several occasions, people have checked into the hotel with a camera on them, not an uncommon thing to do in a tourist area.

But upon getting the photos developed they found there to be photos of themselves lying asleep in the bed they stayed in at the hotel. Many people can’t explain this as they were alone at the time of their stay. Maybe the spirits of the children have a passion for photography?

[ninaandjames]

Haunted Hollywood And Its Ghosts Await The Intrepid Tourist

[angelmothergod]

peaceful mornings

[thesehauntedhills]

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[oldschoolvillageidiot]

The hotel where I'm staying is haunted. And apparently they put up a picture of the ghost haunting your room. I'm calling her Claireann, because that's literally a name that popped up in a dream I had last night while sleeping here.

[ky-ancom]

So just before waking up tonight for work I had a dream that was very quickly delving into nightmare territory.

I, along with some friends and family went to stay a night or weekend at a nearby luxury hotel, that's fallen on hard times due to it apparently being VERY HAUNTED.

I distinctly remember the drive up to this place. For some reason I know it was on this massive hill on the line from the county I live in and the next, but there is nowhere on that line in real life where this hill could have been. I also remember that I definitely started humming the theme from The Shining as we made our way up the hill.

When we arrive I insist on shared rooms/suites and that we stay together as best as possible. But I am quickly left alone in our suite's living room (which is located just next to the Manager's office and front desk, with it's northern wall leading outside) with only my cat, Nepeta, to accompany me. Everyone else went on some kind of ghost tour (iirc it was something like "Ghost walk with your cats, bring your kitty friend on a tour of our property's most haunted locations"), but I was having none of that.

Why? Well, I knew this place had the supernatural ability to pull this kind of fucked up House of Leaves/The Backrooms style impossible geometry shit. Which is why I wanted to promptly stay in one place and make sure we all stayed together.

Also, I don't remember bringing Nepeta with me. She definitely wasn't with us on the ride up to the hotel. But she showed up anyway once I was alone in the room.

However, I have apparently forgotten a litter box for her (probably because I didn't intend on bringing her) and she does her business on the floor of a storage room. A storage room connected to the north wall of the suite. That couldn't exist. In fact, looking out an outside window just next to it proved it couldn't be, and wasn't, there. I held Nepeta close to me in fear.

Then I woke up.

[oddbatss]

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on a night i had a home but couldn't find home, i walked the halls of the Driskill hotel looking for ghosts in the mirrors & the reflections in cocktail glasses but only found myself

i was my own haunting; my own dilapidated house that i couldn't escape. every door lead to a closed hallway, every window i jumped from landed me on the basement floor

the hotel guests, both living and dead, seemed to notice the 'no vacancy' sign lit up behind my eyes--indicating no space, there's no comfort to be held inside this framework

instead i sank into the depths of a cowhide sofa; i kicked my shoes off, tucked my bare feet under my legs & felt guilty when i sat my sweating coupe glass on the real wooden side table. it felt like a tiny act of violence, and the room responded by irritating my skin against the cow hair covered cushion

[scaredsheetlessnh]

Excerpt from article (click on link above to read the rest.)

When you think of hotels, you may think of suites, a free breakfast, maybe even an indoor pool. From someone who’s worked in hotels for a few years, that’s commonplace, but some hotels come with extra amenities. Take the Mount Washington Hotel, for example. Beautiful on the inside, as well as out. A hotel rich in history as well as those who’ve called it home for a few days in life and forever in death. This is the story of the Mount Washington Hotel - where most guests have checked out, but not all.

The links:

Scared Sheetless on YT: https://www.youtube.com/@scaredsheetless8788 Link to the article I read, as well as references I used for this video: https://tinyurl.com/2sb8vuuj Link to Scared Sheetless: https://tinyurl.com/awcx74su Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/ttzs78nz

[paranormal-playground-podcast]

The Urban Legends of the Hermosa Inn: Unraveling the Mysteries

The urban legends of the Hermosa Inn have fascinated locals and visitors alike for decades. Located in Paradise Valley, Arizona, this historic inn is steeped in mystery. From ghostly apparitions to eerie noises, the legends surrounding the Hermosa Inn are as captivating as they are chilling. In this article, we delve into these tales and explore the truth behind the urban legends of the Hermosa…

[earnfromwriting]

https://discover.hubpages.com/travel/west-australian-haunted-buildings-and-homes-over-many-years

[myhauntedsalem]

1858 Garnett House Hotel

Garnett, Kansas

Garnett House was built in 1858 by D.W. Houston and was opened as a hotel by Hiram Tefft in the fall of that year. The building sits at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Walnut in the town of Garnett, Kansas. The building was the first hotel in town and had several additions built onto the building. It was said that Mrs. Houston refused to move into the original building due to it’s swaying in the breeze. The hotel became known as The Garnett House and also the Lighthouse Hotel due to it’s bright lantern on the top floor which could be seen for miles at that time. It is the only surviving antebellum structure in the town of Garnett, Kansas.

As a hotel, the building has been a witness and a participant to many events in it’s near 160-year history, including a participant in the Underground Railroad. During the time known as Bleeding Kansa. It is said that the famous Abolitionist John Brown hid escaped slaves in the attic of the home. This is said to have happened around 1859 just prior to the American Civil War.

During the 1870s, the town of Garnett became a crossroads of cowboys, settlers headed West and citizens. It literally became the scene out of the Old West with saloons, brothels, and gunfights in the streets. It was during this time that the hotel hosted some of it’s most famous guests.

The guest list includes famous lawmen Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and Wild Bill Hickock. It also includes famous scout Buffalo Bill Cody who was traveling with Hickock at the time. Belle Starr the famous female cowboy shooter was also a guest of the hotel. The famous outlaw Jesse James was also rumored to have stayed here under one of his many aliases.

After this time, the hotel eventually became a private residence once larger and more modern hotels began to appear in the town of Garnett. In the early 1950s, the building became the Doctor’s Office of Dr. Robert Stevens and his wife Dr. Julius-Stevens. They treated patients in the old hotel up until the 21st Century.  

Every mystical place has its tales. There is a story of a woman poisoning her husband with rabbit poison, and how she was imprisoned in the Garnett house before being rescued.

Screams in the night have been heard on EVP recordings have been pulled from digital recordings at the Garnett House. One of the most disturbing elements of these screams is that they appear to come from a child.

The Garnett hotel has been investigated many times. The current owners are very interested in preserving the precious history that this old inn holds beneath its walls.

[r4diopl4y]

Just had to join in on drawing this fucking thing

[grickle14]

There had been small rumors floating around. 

[factober]

Haunted Hotel Fern Hill Ooty Uncovering the Spine-Chilling Secrets

Haunted Hotel Fern Hill Ooty Uncovering the Spine-Chilling Secrets #mystery #horror #Ooty #Travel #MysteryforYou #MYSTERY #haunted #hauntedhouse https://youtu.be/f6cGelR-xX4?si=kjX1DzfDvo2uih2U via @YouTube 

[kiankiwi]

I love how haunted hotels can be. I want to go to the Stanley so bad

[ckc4me]

Fort Donelson’s Walking Dead

There are many who say that the shades the soldiers linger still here and, indeed, some dead still walk its trails, paths and by-ways. Visitors, guides and costumed re-enactors all have their own tales to tell regarding the restless dead of Fort Donelson.

LONG SHADOWS: MORE GHOSTS & HAUNTS OF THE CIVIL WAR Grant at Fort Donelson by Paul D. Philippoteaux. In February of 1862 the Union army launched a major campaign against Forts Donelson and Henry. These twin Confederate bastions stood guard over the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers along the border with Kentucky—still technically neutral–and which together formed a barrier keeping the Federal…