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Posted: 07-01-2013 17:24 Post subject:

Not exactly supernatural, but about a year ago I was staying at a Premier inn in the North of England on business - this is fairly routine for me.
I checked in and changed out of my work clothes then decided to go out for something to eat. Just as my room door closed I realised I had left my key on the table in the room. I stopped at reception and explained what had happened and arranged that on my way back from dinner I would collect the spare key from them to let myself back in the room then bring the spare key back to them.
When I got back to my room I found the lights not working. There was no power at all in the room. They were working previously. Knowing I would never find my original key in the dark I went back to reception, now beginning to feel like the guest from hell. One of the receptionists came back with me and reset the power trip.
I could not find my original key anywhere. It was not on me, and nowhere in the room. I imagined that the receptionist was getting a bit impatient by now, and I was worried that there was a key to my room floating around the hotel somewhere. I went back to reception with the intention of getting another room, but the receptionist found the spare key where it should have been, and the one she gave me 'as' the spare was in fact the original key.
How in the hell did I open the room up in the first place if that was the case?
I will never work that one out Confused

Posted: 07-01-2013 19:36 Post subject:

Nice variation on the more traditional locked room mystery, there.

Posted: 09-01-2013 14:54 Post subject:

Thought about putting this in IHTM, but this thread might be more appropriate!

In 2008 (I think, will have to check my dates) I went on holiday to Whitby with my partner. We stopped in a large old hotel on top of a cliff overlooking the harbour. Our room was on the first floor at the end of a long straight corridor. To reach it once you climbed the stairs from the lobby you had to walk down a corridor, through a set of fire doors and down another corridor. Our room was the very last, right against the outside wall of the hotel.

It was around mid-morning and we were going out for the day. When we got to the lobby I realised I'd left something back in the room so went back to fetch it.

When I left the room I started walking down the corridor and suddenly felt something behind me. You know that sensation you get when someone is standing right behind you? It was exactly like that. I told myself not to be silly- there was no one else in the corridor and physically no way anyone could be behind me. I ignored it and carried on walking. As I did the presence got heavier and heavier, until it felt like someone was literally looming over me. I kept telling myself it was nothing and nobody was there...but I couldn't bring myself to look round and started walking quite a bit faster! As soon as I went through the fire doors the presence vanished. I looked round at that point and the corridor was empty. Nobody was there.

A few days later we went on a ghost walk that took us all round the town and were told old myths and legends about Whitby. The last stop was right outside our hotel. According to our guide in the 19th century workmen had found a sealed off room containing human remains, believed to be that of a vanished maid in the 17th century who was thought to have run off with a man (turns out she was likely murdered and her body stashed there). Ever since the hotel has been haunted, the most common thing being "the staff often report the sensation of being followed!" Shocked

Made the next few nights in that hotel interesting!

Posted: 09-01-2013 16:53 Post subject:

Posted: 20-07-2013 12:26 Post subject: Re: sounds familiar

Posted: 23-07-2013 03:03 Post subject:

It was back in the early 70's that I flew into Cleveland, Ohio, and got a room at the hotel at the airport terminal. It was around 1 am when I landed there, so that's why I got the room right there. I was tired and fell asleep in short order. It was a couple hours later I was rudely awakened by the bed shaking violently. Turned out it was a vibrating bed and if you would drop a quarter into the coin slot the bed would vibrate for awhile. Well, I unplugged it and wondered HOW the bed would suddenly start itself up in the middle of the night. I chalked it up to some sort of perverse vibrating bed malfunction.....but it's stuck in my mind as a very odd kind of thing. I didn't like that room.

Posted: 24-07-2013 07:08 Post subject:

There wasn't a couple in the room next to you, was there, Shoe? Laughing

Posted: 24-07-2013 13:50 Post subject:

Yup, I've had that happen.... Wink

Posted: 31-07-2013 08:28 Post subject:

I'm off to stay at a haunted hotel/hostel in a few weeks specifically with the purpose of investigation it's claim as one of the most paranormally active places in Sweden.

It's quite infamous in paranormal circles and to add to the drama, it's in the middle of nowhere, just next to the border with Norway.

Posted: 31-07-2013 11:25 Post subject:

Hope you let us know how you get on? Smile

Posted: 31-07-2013 15:51 Post subject:

Posted: 31-07-2013 20:31 Post subject:

Just remember these wise words, "Klaatu barada nikto!".