Home is where the heart is, and oftentimes where you feel the most safe.
But, if you are travelling, you need to find a place to lay your head to rest for a while.
The thing is, there are a ton of hotels with unexplainable happenings so you have to watch
out where you are staying.
Or, if being a little haunted is your style, maybe you will use this list to figure out
where you will be staying next.
Hey most amazing fam!
My name is Abbey and I will be sharing with you Top 10 Scary Hotels That Are The Most
Haunted.
If you are on vacation right now, maybe save this one for later if the idea of being haunted
is going to put you on edge.
Number ten The Stone Lion Inn in Oklahoma This Inn was originally built as a Victorian
mansion in 1907 for F.E. Houghton.
But, it also was used as a funeral home for an eight year period when the Houghton family
struggled financially.
The embalming table from that table is still on display today at what is now a bed and
breakfast.
Possibly as a result of the death that was within it previously, guests have reported
strange noises throughout the house.
Guests also say they have seen the daughter Augusta who died in the house from whooping
cough, and F.E. Houghton himself smoking a pipe.
Number Nine Hotel Europe in Vancouver This building was completed in 1909 to be
the prominent hotel in town, and it was, until Hotel Vancouver opened up in 1916.
After it lost the majority of the favourable clientele, the hotel fell into disrepute as
a brothel.
It eventually became a heritage building with a storefront on the main level.
Over this time, the areaways underground were filled up.
These were paths underground that connected to the sidewalk so that freight could be loaded
into the cellars in the basement.
During the construction one of the times the Hotel Europe changed, a contractor had a frightening
experience.
Apparently, he was working by himself on some repairs in the cellar, close to a bricked-up
areaway door.
The contractor left the cellar briefly to fetch something and, when he returned, his
tools were scattered all around the floor.
He then heard scratching noises coming from behind the brick wall and felt a bad presence.
Scared and confused, he quickly gathered up his tools and left the cellar as fast as he
could.
After that, he flat out refused to work there again.
Sometimes, scratching noises can be heard coming from the other side of the bricked
up areaway.
People sometimes dispute that this could be mice, but the areaways were completely filled
in.
Later on, the owner of a poster store on the main floor of the building saw a figure in
a black coat and flat cap in her store after closing on the security camera.
When she went to check on the possible lost customer, he was gone.
She was shaken and closed up the store quickly that night, not sure if she was seeing things.
Number Eight The Crescent Hotel The hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, used
to be one of the most luxurious resorts when it opened in 1886.
But tough economic times hurt the Crescent Hotel and it closed in the 1930s.
In 1937 Norman Baker opened its doors once again and turned it into “Baker's Cancer
Curing Hospital”.
As a man without a medical degree, it was discovered that this fraud physician was running
a scam.
Today, the hotel has been returned to its former luxurious glory, but some spirits from
the past still lurk around.
Some included are some of Bakers old patients, including the commonly spotted Theodora.
She is most often spotted fumbling her keys outside room 419.
Another spirit seen around the property is a man who helped build it.
Michael, in Irish stonemason who fell to his death.
If you happen to stay there, they have nightly ghost tours that end at the morgue.
A morgue that remains still intact from it’s time as a hospital and is said to be a hotbed
of paranormal activity.
Number seven Banff Springs Hotel, Alberta The Fairmont Banff Springs was actually one
of the first railway hotels built in the 19th century by The Canadian Pacific Railway.
It was built as a part of the aim to attract travellers westward.
The Hotel denies that it is haunted, but that doesn’t stop the guests who stay there from
sharing the encounters they have had.
The long standing story is that in 1932, there was a bride who died while falling down one
of the hotel’s grand stone staircases.
Guests say they have seen her still in her wedding dress dancing alone in the Cascade
Ballroom.
Another Hotel the Canadian Pacific Railway built is our number 6 The Royal York Hotel
This one was opened in 1929 right across from Union Station in Toronto.
At the time and to this day it is one of Toronto's most grand hotels, even the Queen has stayed
there.
But, just like the Banff Springs Hotel, it is home to its fair share of ghost stories.
People talk about hearing the sounds of children running up and down the halls.
But, once they check to see who is making all of that noise, the hallway falls silent.
Also, people underneath the now closed off Crystal Ballroom report hearing voices and
music coming from the vacant space.
One guest even wrote on a toronto blog that some chandaleirs on the floor below it were
“trembling” and the ceiling shook.
Maybe some fancy ghosts took up residence after the ballroom was closed off permanently
due to building and fire code violations.
Number Five The story Inn This in that was built in 1851 in Indiana
truly does house quite the story.
It’s the only structure still left of a mining town called Story that was left inoperative
after the Great Depression.
It was restored and revitalized in the 1960s as a bed and breakfast and has a frequent
spectral guest.
The Blue Lady.
In the inn’s guestbooks there were records of a ghost called the Blue Lady who is believed
to be the wife of the towns original founder, Dr. George Story.
The guests of the inn record that her eyes are hypnotic blue and she smells like cherry
tobacco.
To summon her, those who stay turn on the blue light beside the bed in the blue lady
room.
If she’s feeling particularly nice, she will even leave behind blue items.
Number Four Mount Washington Hotel In 1902, a businessman named Joseph Stickney
built the hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire.The following year after completion, he passed
away.
It is believed that his widowed wife Carolyn haunts the halls of the hotel, reliving the
moments they had together.
Hotel staff have reportedly spotted her descending the stairs for dinner, and have also noticed
lights inexplicably turning on and off in one of the towers.
Sometimes she has been spotted standing on the balcony, looking off into the distance
lost in thought.
Her four poster maple bed is still in room 314, and it has become well known as the best
place to see her.
Guests have reported waking up to find a woman sitting at the end of the bed, slowly brushing
her hair.
Number Three La Fonda on the Plaza, Santa Fe
While the structure of La Fonda was built in 1922, records say it is on the site of
the city’s first in dating all the way back to the early 17th century.
The New Mexico hotel was a favoured place for travelers headed west, and is home to
a couple of guests that have passed on.
The first is the former Chief Justice of the Territorial Supreme Court, John P. Slough.
He was shot to death in the hotel lobby and his spirit is said to have never left.
The second spectre seen is a distraught salesman.
The man apparently jumped into the hotel well after gambling and losing on a bad hand.
He has been seen emerging from the hotel fountain.
Number Two The Prince of Wales Hotel, Niagara on the lake, Ontario Canada
This hotel was built in 1864 and went through a few other names before becoming the Prince
of Wales hotel in 1901.
It was expanded in the 70s to add additional ‘wings’ on either side, but the new additions
blend in so well to the original architecture that it isn’t noticeable to a passing tourists
eye.
Even with all the changes to the hotel, the resident Ghost has not been deterred.
She already spent so much time there.
200 years.
Molly McGuire was in a wooden house where the hotel is today when the American’s laid
siege on the town.
An American soldier was tasked with searching the house and found a dark figure looking
out the window.
Thinking it was a British soldier, he ran the figure through with his Bayonet.
But it was Molly.
The soldier ran off, telling no one of his mistake of killing an innocent woman.
Today, the spirit of Molly is said to haunt room 207, the approximate location of Molly’s
bedroom.
People report waking up to footsteps echoing in their dark and empty room and random lights
being on when they swear they were turned off.
One guest even checked out because all of the haunted happenings were too much.
Number one The Red Lion Inn, Stockbridge Massachusetts All the way back in 1773, a small tavern was
established on the corner that would eventually house the Red Lion Inn.
In 1896, while it was known as the Stockbridge house, the entire property burned down in
a fire.
It was rebuilt and opened the next year, then continued to changed ownership and names throughout
the years.
With all of that history, the Inn is said to have quite a bit of spiritual activity.
Guests often see figures including a young girls carrying flowers or a man in a top hat
on the premises.
But room 301 is the room to go to for the truly creepy encounters.
One man recorded his experience on TripAdvisor: In the middle of the night, on 3 different
occasions, I woke up feeling my toes being tugged on, and someone scratching my hand.
I also felt as if someone or something was under the covers with me at one point.
Then at 9am in the morning, I woke up when I heard the maid knocking at the door.
She opened the room with the key, walked in, and headed for the bathroom.
I heard the footsteps come out of the bathroom and stop by the bed.
Then suddenly it felt as though someone was "fluffing up" the comforter, as if trying
to make the bed on the left hand side.
As hard as I tried, I could not move and I could not speak.
When I looked up, I realized that I was in the room alone.
No one had been there!
And those are the Top Ten Scary Hotels That Are The Most Haunted.
Have you been to any of them?
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I’ve been your host Abbey, and until next time, have a good one