Ghosts are believed to be the spirits of dead people. According to people who have seen them, they take the form of when they were still living and haunt the area where they died. Hotels are no exception.
I was initially planning to visit Texas to take part on some of the
events there. However, while looking for
hotels I could stay in, I managed to find some interesting stories, or rather, "ghost" stories regarding some of them. I don't really believe in ghosts but some of you might be interested. Here are three of what I found. Feel free to comment and add to these while you're at it!
Baker Hotel, Mineral Wells TX - The Baker Hotel is already defunctional and is already placed in the National Register of Historic Places. It was very popular since its construction in 1929 and a lot of celebrities had stayed there. It had the first Olympic-sized swimming pool in the US as well.
It's also famous for being haunted.
A lot of people claim eerie stuff could be heard from the place a long time before it shut down. There's a story about a woman on the 7th floor who was said to be the mistress of the hotel manager. Apparently, she committed suicide by jumping off from the top of the building.
Another story involves the elevator operator who was said have a minor part in a prostitution ring. Guilt apparently led him to report it to the authorities which, unknown to him, had some involved with the ring as well. As a result, he was laid off but was called back in a few weeks. He died after being torn in half from an elevator accident. People claim to have seen the boy lurking in the basement area with only his upper body visible.
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Crazy Water Retirement Hotel, Mineral Wells TX - Another old hotel in Texas (built in 1927). It was built on the site of the third well dug in Mineral Wells. It was also pretty famous and had served a few celebrities.
A girl was reported to have been sighted by employees in the kitchen. She wore a pink frilly dress and liked to play in the kitchen area. Often times she just watched as the employees prepared food. The girl was not the only ghost that was sighted in the kitchen, a man in a trench coat also appeared and vanished. Voices were also heard around the basement.
SourceJefferson Hotel, Jefferson TX - One of the oldest buildings in Jefferson and was built in 1851 as a cotton warehouse. Ghost stories in the hotel have been passed on through the years.
Footsteps were said to be heard in the halls at night. What's weird was the floor was entirely carpeted. Children were also heard laughing and crying when there were no kids in the hotel. Doors kept shutting and closing, furnitures being dragged were some more of the weird sound that were said to be heard by various employees throughout its history. Various rooms have had different sightings and sounds coming from the spirits of those who stayed.
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