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Posted: 02-11-2012 13:02 Post subject:

Just finished readin an Elliot O Donnell book. He talks about seeing 'elementals', which sounds like what he would have interpreted the snake as. He claimed that diseases are created by elementals and can appear to some humans in a vaguely human form.

Posted: 02-11-2012 19:03 Post subject:

We stayed in the converted coach house at a hotel in Dorchester - it was this bonkers decorated Tutankhamun suite. The first night, the sound of horses clopping and jangling kept me awake all night - it was only in the morning looking out onto the carpark I realized how unlikely it was. Husband didn't hear anything but he was totally unnerved by some weird presence in the room - to the point of telling it to f**k off. We were there three nights and by the end of it we were so desperate to leave. All the walls were painted black, we ended up light starved and totally spooked.

Oooh, and googling just turned up this!

http://ghosthunteratlarge.blogspot.ca/2010/02/ghosts-in-dorchester-dorset.html

Posted: 03-11-2012 14:40 Post subject:

This happened about six years ago in a caravan at Dawlish Sands Holiday Park in Dawlish south Devon.
I was there with my girlfriend and her 7 year old son. He was put to be bed we put some cases up against his door so we would hear him if he came out of his room. His mother and i wanted to get a bit intimate and we wanted to be warned if he was getting up to use the toilet.
My girlfriend and i were on the couch in front of the tell. It was about 11 at night and the lights were off. I looked up and saw the silhouette of a child's head peering around the corridor (the caravan was a large static one of about 30 feet. It had rooms on either side of a corridor that ended in a t shape that lead to a mall room on one side and a bathroom on the other.) I said to my girlfriend that the boy was awake. When we looked up the silhouette of a boy of about 7 was standing in the corridor. He seemed to have short hair and what looked like short trousers but the figure was matt black. We looked away for a second and it was gone.

The boy was still in bed asleep and the cases had not been moved from his door. The whole event lasted only seconds. Nothing else untoward happened but my girlfriend thought that the caravan had a 'weird feel' from them moment she entered it.

Posted: 03-11-2012 15:48 Post subject:

'Astral Projection' perhaps?

Posted: 05-11-2012 12:25 Post subject:

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-10-31/news/sns-rt-us-usa-arizona-ghostsbre89u0rl-20121031_1_manager-robin-brekhus-gadsden-hotel-arizona-hotel

Haunted hotel in Arizona

Posted: 08-11-2012 22:40 Post subject: sounds familiar

Posted: 09-11-2012 11:18 Post subject:

The lounge and function room at The Hilton Avisford Park, near Arundel West Sussex is haunted. I used to work there and the porters had some great stories to tell. There's a function room off to the right of the lounge where a few years back one of the porters (I can't remember his name (it was 10 years ago!) but he told me this first hand) was moving chairs about when he left the room to get something. When he returned the door was shut and wouldn't budge. Eventually he managed to get the door fractionally open to find all the chairs in the room piled up behind the door, in the space of about a minute!
There have also been sightings of a little girl in victorian dress and an old man reading a paper in one the chairs.
The hotel has been many things over the years including a school and in the restaurant all the prefects names are painted on the oak panelling, there is a hotel legend that, where two of the names appear to have been burnt, these two poor lads died in a fire on site!
There are also areas of the hotel that are particularly creepy and, when I was there, some members of staff refused to go to alone.

Posted: 15-11-2012 10:08 Post subject:

One weekend, we stayed at the Gunter Hotel in San Antonio, Texas. It has a notorious murder room and ghost, as well as being the place where Robert Johnson recorded (the also notorious) "Crossroads Blues" among other songs.

I couldn't find much online about it, but this site gives a good synopsis of the story:
http://catierhodes.com/2012/07/20/haunted-hotels-the-gunter/

The hotel was comfortable and nice but our room was a little eerie somehow. When we checked into the room all the lights were burned out. The maids said that they had just changed the bulbs earlier that day, but the lights constantly burned out in that particular room. During the night there was a weird chill and the light bulb in the vestibule went out. It was a bit spooky.

We didn't know where the ghost room was and were too embarrassed to ask. But the second day while we were exploring, a bellman asked us if we knew about the ghost. He said we looked like the type who would enjoy ghost hunting (wonder what gave us away? Very Happy

) and gave us the number of the ghost room. Which turned out to be directly next to ours. Shocked

(Thank goodness it wasn't our room - I like a good ghost story but I have my limits!) The second night was considerably more nervous than the first. Luckily, we weren't woken up by any shrieking spirits in the night.

Later we thought about the chill passing through the room and the lights burning out. What if the ghost was taking a stroll through the room and overloaded the circuits? Brr. So, no apparitions but eerie enough to be interesting.

Posted: 29-11-2012 16:21 Post subject:

I stayed at the Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Springs, Colorado in summer of 2010. The place dates from 1890s, Teddy Roosevelt and other luminaries stayed there in its glory days. It's been renovated but not modernized so it has a great Old West Grand Hotel atmosphere. Plus, fantastic hot springs just down the hill.

We had a suite of two rooms with shared bath, wife and I in one room and two teenage sons and their friend in the other. We were exhausted from travelling all day and everyone fell asleep - except me, I lay awake for hours. The old place has no air conditioning since they don't usually need it in the mountains, and the air was warm and still, a little uncomfortably so. We had all the windows, the transom over the hallway door, and the door seperating the two bedrooms wide open to promote air circulation. In the wee hours as I lay there awake, the door closed itself. Not slowly like it had crooked hinges, but a nice firm purposeful close with a fairly loud "thunk" like somebody would do if they weren't concerned about waking anyone. I assumed that one of the boys had got out of bed and closed it for some reason, but hadn't heard anyone move, and after half a minute I got up to check. The three boys were dead asleep. Hmmm...I re-opened the door and it stayed open all night.

That's all that happened. I feel sure there wasn't enough air movement to close the door, and that it wasn't due to lopsided hinges because it had been standing open for hours, and if one of the boys had been sleep walking I'm sure I would have heard them. So, possible ghost.

Subsequently, I found many ghost stories about that hotel on the web, and when we returned there last December we found that they now offer a ghost tour, which we took of course. According to which there are several consistently seen ghosts in different areas - a little girl in the 3rd floor hall, a woman in one of the penthouse rooms, and even one room that they've stopped using for guests because of the amount of activity.

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Posted: 29-11-2012 22:24 Post subject:

Yes - but how many occupants would they charge you for?

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Posted: 30-11-2012 05:39 Post subject:

Yup, I'd get a bill for myself and assorted ghosts, who'd have checked out very suddenly. Pressing business elsewhere, y'know. Wink

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