5 haunted hotels

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

There are many hotels in the world that have their own history and even their own ghosts. These places invariably attract tourists eager to meet the unknown. Here you can wander along wide corridors, dine in luxurious restaurants, meet famous actors, and if you're lucky, touch the secrets of the other world. It is known that the Stanley Hotel once inspired Stephen King to create the novel The Shining.

The Stanley Hotel, Estes Park, Colorado

This hotel is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Since its opening in 1909, celebrities have often stayed here. However, he gained the greatest popularity after Stephen King got the idea to write his own novel in the genre of psychological horror about a recovering alcoholic and his clairvoyant son in a hotel. However, the movie based on King's novel was filmed in a different hotel, and Stanley is still considered to be guarded by good spirits, despite the fact that the book develops the idea of a “bad place”.

Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Los Angeles, California

The inauguration of the 12-storey hotel, built in the Spanish colonial style, took place on May 15, 1927. It was here that the very first Oscars were presented, followed by numerous awards with the Golden Raspberry anti-academic awards for the worst film works. The hotel has hosted Hollywood stars, filmed films and hosted premieres. Errol Flynn and Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable and Carol Lombard lived in Hollywood Roosevelt at different times, and some rooms today bear the names of their famous guests.

Many hotel guests are sure that the restless ghosts of those celebrities who once lived here roam the corridors and rooms of the hotel. Especially often you can meet the spirits of Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift. Hollywood Roosevelt guests complained about the trumpet sounded in the middle of the night on the 9th floor, where Montgomery Clift once lived.

However, today's youth are attracted to the hotel not by stories about the ghosts of the past, but by the very fashionable Teddy nightclub, which was opened on the first floor of Hollywood Roosevelt after reconstruction in 2005.

Golden North Hotel, Skagway, Alaska

The Golden North Hotel was built in 1898 at the height of the Gold Rush. Prospectors stopped here on their way to the Klondike. According to legend, in this hotel, one of the gold seekers named Ike settled his fiancée Mary in room 23, while he went to the mines. Later, several versions of the story about the fate of the girl appeared.

According to one, she fell ill with pneumonia, according to the other, she stopped leaving the room, worried about the long absence of her lover, in the third version Mary took refuge in the room from local hooligans. Be that as it may, the girl died without waiting for the return of Ike. Supposedly her lifeless body, dressed in a wedding dress, was discovered by hotel staff who broke down the door.

Since then, Mary's spirit wanders the hotel and looks out the windows in the hope of seeing Ike returning to her. Guests of room 23 even wake up in the middle of the night from suffocation, as with pneumonia, and some talk about gusts of icy wind, which are felt even with closed doors and windows.

However, inexplicable phenomena are also associated with number 14, from where a mysterious golden light was allegedly periodically seen, emanating either from sparks of unknown origin, or from a flickering ball. The hotel was closed in 2002, but today you can visit it with a guided tour or sign up for an adventure quest within its walls.

Drovers Inn, Argyll and Butte, Scotland

Legend has it that the ghost of a girl who once drowned in a mountain river trying to retrieve a doll that fell into her is wandering around the Drovers Inn hotel. Since then, the restless soul has been looking for a lost toy and finds no rest. Guests in room 6 talk about ice cold water dripping onto their bed in the middle of the night. In addition, there are legends about the ghosts of cattle drovers who died during the wars between the clans of Scotland and periodically visit the hotel where they once stayed while still alive.

Grand Hotel Bolivar, Cercado de Lima, Peru

This hotel was opened in 1924 to accommodate dignitaries arriving in the capital of Peru and was considered the finest hotel in Lima. Hollywood stars, famous writers and rock musicians have stayed here. Charles de Gaulle, Nixon, Robert Kennedy and Emperor Akihito, Faulkner, Hemingway and Orson Welles, Ava Gardner and John Wayne, Mick Jagger, Julio Iglesias and Santana lived at the Bolivar Grand Hotel at various times.

However, with the advent of new modern hotels, the former glory of the Bolivar Hotel began to fade, and the fame of it as a place with paranormal activity, on the contrary, grew. There are legends that a woman in white wanders along the corridors of the grand hotel, who once threw herself out of one of the rooms, and in the rooms you can meet the ghost of a deceased former employee who rented a hotel room and did not check out.

In Europe, houses and castles, which are associated with mystical stories, are always popular among tourists. Ghosts, supposedly living in ancient palaces, are becoming a brand for which lovers of the unknown are ready to shell out round sums. However, in Russia there are no fewer places where, according to legends, you can meet ghosts. Fans of the otherworldly will receive a chilling experience in these estates.