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Posted: 28-10-2012 10:08 Post subject:

On the ghostwalk here in Stockholm, I used to tell the story of a hotel poltergeist. I heard the rumour and went to speak to the owners. They denied it but the girls on reception were more than willing to fill me in and put me in otuvh with some of others whi had experienced the poltergeist.

In the Old Town part of the city, there is a nice hotel very close to the Royal Palace. There is a room on the top floor which experiences (quite severe at times) poltergeist activity. This in itself is unusual, as it seems the energy is attracted to the room itself rather than a person.

People staying in the room report objects of furniture moving, sometimes rearranging themselves when they are in the bathroom. Their own personal belongings disappear and reappear in odd places whilst they are in the room (and no others have entered).

Guests in the adjoining rooms have been known to ring to reception in the middle of the night and report that the noises coming from that room are unacceptable. However, more often than not, when the loud noises are reported it would seem that the room is available and no-one has checked in. Then the poor sods on reception have to go and explore the empty "haunted" room in the middle of the night.

The hotel has even adopted a new policy when it comes to how their housekeeping girls work. On that floor, they work in pairs rather than individually. The girls felt uneasy on that floor and on the odd occasion, were being hassled in that room by an unseen force. The most (locally) famous instance concerns one girl who had just finished making the room. She left and was closing the door behind her when she heard and felt a thud on the inside of the door. She sheepishly tried to open the door but found she couldn't. Something was blocking the door. She forced it open and found that a pillow from the bed had been thrown after her and had become wedged under the door. The bed she had just made was now in a shambles and the furniture in the room had all been disturbed.

Why is the sprit there? No idea. All I can turn up is that the hotel was once a weigh house but I'm not sure if they ever held witch trials there or in fact if witch trials were ever held in weigh houses in Sweden.

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Posted: 28-10-2012 15:29 Post subject:

When we stayed overnight in a 'Day's Inn', the first back on the English side coming from Scotland, my husband had a case of sleep paralysis. He was totally aware yet couldn't move, whilst the bedside lamps were on and I was reading on my phone. I tried to 'wake' him up gently and when he suddenly drew in his breath with fear, he told me that he just experienced sleep paralysis and that there was a man standing right next to the bed...
Ohhh exciting I thought, describe him.
Well he was ordinary looking, wearing a suit.

I laughed my head off, be it a hallucination brought on by sleep paralysis or a ghost, wearing a suit, somehow was quite weird. Normally apparitions wear more 'romantic' attire.

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Posted: 29-10-2012 09:52 Post subject:

About 6 years ago me & a mate decided to go to Leeds for a night out, we took our girlfriends (at the time). It was near Xmas & money was a bit tight so we booked into a brand hotel (either premier inn or travelodge).

The traffic was bad that night & we didn't get to the hotel until about 9pm. We where in reception & there seemed to be quite a lot of people checking in before us ( couples, stag & hen parties) etc anyhow my mate & his girlfriend where in front of us in the que, they paid & got their key & headed off, we shuffled forward with our bags. Behind the desk was 2 girls & a bloke ( hotel manager) behind them. As we approached one of girls said to the other one something like 'aw no you've put them in that room, hope they don't see anything or they'll complain'. I heard this & the girls didn't know we where together as a group, so I said 'what's up with the room, we are with those 2' the girls looked embarrassed & at this the hotel manager came over & took us too one side & said (descretely), ' that room is haunted, the boy in blue is seen in that room all the time, he appears in a corner of the room upset & crying & then disappears, several staff have seen him & a few of the cleaners'!! So I jokingly said 'well if my mate does I hope they get a discount' !!! We went to the same floor & where a few rooms down, we told our friends & to this day I still think my mate doesn't believe me.

Not exactly a ghost story but when I looked into it the hotel used to be an old mill & obviously lots of children could have died there, also it just shows that when checking into a haunted hotel staff don't know who can be listening!!!!

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Posted: 01-11-2012 16:52 Post subject:

I know which hotel you mean (I haven't stayed there or even stepped inside - and now I don't think I would... Shocked

)..! Fascinating - and so right for Old Town, which has such a wonderful atmosphere, in spite of all the awful shops and crap...

I think my husband did the interview and article after 2008 - the man he spoke to was named Peter.

OT: My husband went out to photograph the Sheffler palace for another article the other night. Dissapointingly enough, no spooky evidence captured Wink

Perhaps if he tries closer to midnight next time...

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Posted: 02-11-2012 01:08 Post subject:

A few years ago my girlfriend and i were staying in a converted cottage in North Devon. It is part of a larger farm converted for holliday homes. I won't tell you the name as it belongs too a friend of a freind and she gets very defensive and frightened at the mention of anything strange in the cottage.
After a day out we came back and the owner asked us if we could remember to switch off all the light and the tv when we went out. I thought this was odd as i switched them all off befor we went out. I'm a bit anal about saving energy and always switch things off. Anyway the next time we went out my girlfriend and i double checked that everything was switched off. Lo and behold we came home to find it all switched on again.
That night as we lay in bed we both heard heavy footsteps from down stairs. It sounded like boots on flagstones. I went down ready for a fight and found the place empty (we were the only guests at the time). Also it dawned on me that the whole house was carpeted and had no bare flagstones.
Next morning when we woke up my girlfriend had bruises all down her right arm (which was on the opposite side of the bed to me) in the shape of a very large hand, far bigger than mine. It was as if somthing had gripped her arm in the night whilst she slept.
We mentioned this to the owner who just said 'Oh, oh don't say that!'She seemed very upset when i broached the subject.
The following year a friend (a prominent fortean writer) and his girlfriend stayed in the same cottage and in the same room. He awoke in the night to a tight feeling around his legs. Looking down he saw the coils of a huge, python-like snake wrapped around him. The thing was hauling him out of the bed! He says that he clearly saw the patterns on it's back in the clear moonlight. The whole creature, most of which lay on the floor, was some 30 feet long! His girlfriend awoke and saw him being dragged from the bed by the snake and tried to pull him back. The snake was gradualy dragging him off the bed so she switched on the bedroom light to find the snake had vanished. My friend bore brusies around his legs.
I have slept in that room on my own once and not a thing happened.

Posted: 02-11-2012 08:33 Post subject:

What a shame we don't know which cottage this is. If we did, your FOAF would be inundated with bookings from curious Forteans. Wink

Posted: 02-11-2012 12:46 Post subject:

If you have been to the weird weekend you may well have stopped there.
I could tell private individuals so long as they didn't mention it to the owners but i don't want to put it up on a message board.

Posted: 02-11-2012 12:58 Post subject:

When I went was staying in a hotel in DisneyLand, Paris, I remember several times hearing the eerie sound of a female voice humming a tune...

The sensible, rational part of me just assumed perhaps it was a cleaner, humming away whilst working, and that I could hear the sound through some sort of vent in the room... but I heard it more and more often....

At one point, my husband peered his head around the bedroom door and said, "Is that you singing??" I looked at him and said, "Definitely not."

I heard it at various hours throughout the week... some times early mornings, sometimes in the afternoon, whilst having a little doze in bed....

Probably a rational, perfectly normal explanation, but it definitely sounded creepy - even in a bright, pink theme park like Disney Wink