There's a mirror behind you. Yeah? I keep seeing these guys move and keep thinking "is that a ghost?"
It's a ghost! Well Iam telling you, I was
standing out front waiting for you guys
and out of the corner of my eyes in the
window I kept seeing someone. And I knocked on
the door thinking someone was there and
you guys were all out eating. Upstairs or
downstairs? Downstairs. Down in this gallery
right over here.
Yean. Really?! Yeah, really! Really really! Oh my gosh!
So I was looking in the window to see
you guys weren't there and you weren't, so I was
standing there and kept out of the
corner of my eye seeing something move by,
and so I go door knock on the door, but you
guys were all... then I got your text and
you were all down the street. Well, when we were in
the other room and I thought I heard something
walking around upstairs.
I thought it must just be the creaky walls or something. Sure.
That's it. Oh man. Are we good? Ghost towns?
I think my biggest experience,
I was coming through the hotel just
at dusk,
and I was making my way through the
dining room and I heard restaurant
noises. Glasses clinking, women laughing,
men talking, and I hurried out the door!
That was kind of the biggest thing
that's happened to me. As a professional
I feel I need to answer their question
directly, but it's something that I don't
trot out unless asked. And so, if people
ask is the hotel haunted... It appears to
be. I'm a skeptic by nature so on a daily
basis
my mind is occupied by research and
fundraising and building relationships
in the community and with our visitors.
When something happens it does grab my
attention and oftentimes, well I will say
every time I can't explain what it is
that's happened. And the things I've
experienced tend to be smells and
sounds and I've smelled cigar smoke and
we know that Louis Dupuy was a big
cigar smoker. I have smelled piping hot
coffee.
We know that he was famous for his
coffee.
And I've heard kitchen sounds, particular to
somebody moving bag of beans whether the
coffee beans or white beans in a burlap
bag from table to table. That specific.
We do smell cigar smoke often in the hotel.
We think Louis is moving around. My mother
who was here,
Ellenn Riddle in the 1960s and
1970s, used to hear noises. Again,
glasses clinking. We had ropes in front
of the dining room, ropes in front of the
rooms. She was sitting in the dining room
once when all the world started swinging,
and she to the her dying day said it's
not haunted.
I don't believe in that. We all thought
that was an interesting story. We've had
a medium come and do a little talk to
the hotel, and she and her husband had
taken a lot of photographs at the hotel.
In every part of the hotel orbs appear
in photographs. We've had a lot of people
who have taken photos themselves,
tourists and visitors, who have orbs.
I don't know much about orbs, but I hear
that could be a sign of action going on.
I can't explain it. I would like to.
I just don't know the answer. Louis Dupuy
tragically died in 1900
After a long bout with pneumonia.
His health slowly faded away ultimately,
and he died in the fall of
1900.
I heard, I didn't hear directly, that some
visitors, we used to let them go up and go
round on their own. Or at least go upstairs
in their own. And some visitors came down
the stairs and they were white as sheets,
and and they said, "you didn't tell us
that you had docents upstairs in costume!"
And
that's all I know that they saw
something upstairs. And there
weren't docents? No, no docents. No docents in costumes.
And no docents...
Yeah, they saw something upstairs.
If there were any, they were down in the cellar.
Of course a building of this size is going
to have creaks and groans and the wind
howling, and this and that. And I'm not a
real ghost person, but I don't deny
anybody who is. If there were any ghosts,
they stayed in the cellar because I
wouldn't let them upstairs.
So, if you're interested in
finding out if Hotel de Paris has ghosts, I
guess you just need to come see for
yourself! ... And I have used cars haha.