Here's an article by Peter Greenburg of NBC news that may give some thrills and chills...these very may be REAL!
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There are good hotel rooms and bad ones, vacant ones and occupied ones. But at Halloween, it’s time to celebrate the very special rooms that are always occupied. I’m talking about the hotels, resorts, and special rooms inhabited by spirits, ghosts, apparitions and other friendly and some not-so-friendly guests.
The Haunted Hotels range from small inns to large vacation and convention resorts, to legendary hotel palaces.
If you’re headed to San Diego, you might ask for room 3502 at the Hotel Del Coronado. There’s an extremely good chance you’ll encounter the ghost of Kate Morgan.
Kate was married to a gambler, and, the story goes, went to the Del on Thanksgiving 1892 to tell him she was pregnant. When she found him in the card room with another woman, she got a gun and killed herself with a shot to the right temple.
But ask around the Del, and you’ll be told that Kate Morgan still “lives” at the hotel. She reportedly haunts the premises in her black lace dress. In fact, room 3502 was once sealed off because too many guests reported unusual disturbances.
Guests have reported encounters of frightful sightings of Kate in her room and some rooms nearby, and investigators found 37 abnormalities in temperature, humidity, and magnetic and electrical emissions coming from her room.
In London, the Langham Hilton, across the street from BBC radio, is a t historic hotel. It was bombed during World War II by the Germans, but was later repaired and rebuilt. Ever since then, guests sometimes awake to see a bright ball glowing at the end of their bed, forming the apparition of a man.
At the Hotel Macomber, in Cape May, N.J., the ghosts don’t just appear . . . they make noise. Dresser drawers open and close, lights turn on and off by themselves, clocks stop and restart, and guests have reported hearing the sound of heavy furniture moving on its own.
In San Antonio, TX, the 140 year old Hotel Menger is nothing short of a ghost convention. If you ever call housekeeping and ask for extra towels, beware. A former hotel maid, Sally White, was killed at the hotel after her husband supposedly caught her with another man. Reports are that White can still be seen walking on the fourth floor carrying a stack of linens.
But that’s just the beginning. Other report sightings of the “blue ladies” of the Hotel Menger - ghosts who travel in pairs and are seen sitting in or near the lobby dressed in 1940s clothing. They wear blue dresses with red stars and brown lace-up oxfords with heels - very much like the Women’s Army Corps members did in World War II.
The Omni Shoreham-Washington D.C. is the home of the legendary “ghost suite.” A legend since the 1940s, the ghost suite was once the North American headquarters for a southern businessman. An elderly aunt lived with the family for years, eventually contracting an illness and passing away in the suite. But this was just the beginning of the family’s sorrow. Just a few months later, the businessman’s daughter, a pianist, also took sick and died. Soon after, her mother also died. Upset and distraught, the businessman left the Omni and the hotel closed the suite.
Since then, the hotel has been remodeled and the suite re-opened to guests. However, mysterious things have begun to happen - guests report hearing a piano being played in the suite, and some say that appliances seem to turn themselves on and off. Others report a mysterious woman conversing with guests in the elevator, and then disappearing halfway through the journey.
In Portland, Oregon, at the McMenamins Grand Lodge, it’s the building’s pre-hotel history that seems to have produced some permanent residents. The hotel once served as a Masonic home for the elderly, and some of the former residents haunt the place to this day.
The most famous is Alice Inkley, who hangs out in the octagonal sun room on the second floor. She always seems to wear lavender, and no one can explain why the scent of lavender is often noticeable in the room during the morning hours, or immediately after a sighting.
Particularly disturbing are sounds coming from the Children’s Cottage at the lodge. When the building was run by the Masons, this cottage was used as an orphanage. Guests still report hearing the sounds of children playing in the upstairs rooms.
There are hundreds of other haunted hotels, but my favorite is the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in Alberta, Canada, and its legend of Sam the bellman. Sam was well-known at the hotel, and when he retired in 1967 he always claimed he’d be back. He died a few years after retiring, but apparently Sam has kept his promise.
More than a few guests each year report the exact same story. When they call down to the bell desk, an elderly gentleman dressed in a faded red bellhop uniform appears and takes their bags. Later, when they go downstairs, the luggage is there but the bellhop has disappeared.
When asked to describe the bellhop, the guests are consistent: an elderly, limping man dressed in a faded red uniform - a style the hotel has not used since . . . 1967.
-PETER GREENBERG, NBC NEWS