I know some people can see them so
clearly and some can't, and some feel
them and some sense they're present.
And it doesn't really matter
as long as you, you know,
be respectful of the place where you're in,
whether you believe in ghosts or not.
It's just be respectful.
They were here way before you.
The ghost is the same personality,
dead as they were alive.
And so that's, I mean not to say there
there are evil you know out there,
but again you learn to set your boundary
on what you allow in your space,
just like your friends, you know.
So the Hotel Vendome was built in 1917,
so it's 102 years old.
And Jack Jones had moved here.
He was a cowboy from a rancher,
really, from Texas.
And he bought the house next door,
which has since burned down,
and he bought this lot.
Well, the famous ghost here is Abby and
her cat noble are in room 16, which is
straight upstairs here in the corner.
And the story is that Abby was very ill,
she had tuberculosis.
Her husband goes out to get her
medicine and never comes back.
So she locked her cat noble in her
closet and locked herself in her
room and they both starved to death.
So people that stay in Abby's room will
feel the cat jump on the bed and there's
cat toys under the bed and they wake
up to the cat batting the toys around.
We had a guest that was staying in there.
She'd been there a week
and nothing had happened.
And she wanted something to happen so badly.
So I said, look,
I'll give you a saucer of milk,
you can put it down.
We'll just see if something happens.
So the next morning she comes
running downstairs.
She said.
At 2:30 in the morning she woke up
to this cat needing her shoulders.
One of the reasons goes stay around is.
Some don't know they're dead,
and some stay around because
they committed suicide.
When you are at a point
of committing suicide,
you're at such a low point,
you can't think logically.
You can't think out of this
dark hole that you're in.
And so they don't think about
who's going to find them or what
the expression or what's going how
that's going to affect that person.
And so they're here from guilt.
This hotel was built in 1927 and
it was local residents that bought
Dollar shares to build this hotel.
They were starting to get businessmen
in town and they knew they needed
something a little classier.
One of the famous ghost here is faith.
And the story is that her much older
husband and she checked in on their
wedding night and he goes out to get
cigarettes and doesn't come back.
And so she wandered the lobby for
days and then she went up to their
room for 26 and went out on the
balcony and hung herself from the
flagpole that used to be there.
People have seen her walking around
here in her long white dress.
I had a group.
And this young girl,
who's about 12,
took some pictures and she got a
picture of faith walking into the wall.
And you don't see the top half of her,
but you see her long white dress
on the outside of the wall.
I tell people when you take pictures,
you always want to have your flash on.
You want to take 3 pictures
because if it's a reflection it'll
show up in all three pictures,
but if it's a ghost,
it'll only show up in one.
So the best advice I got when I got into
all this was to read everything you can
on a subject that you're interested in.
Don't believe everything you're told
and don't believe everything you hear.
But what feels right for you.
We could all read the same book
and get something out of it,
or one of us get nothing out of it,
or one of us get everything out of it,
because that's the stage that
you are in and your journey.
So listen to, you know, your intuition.