Haunted Places - do you have a story?

[Lady Rebecca]

I took a series of continuous shots of 6. In the 4th picture you can see the upper window, fill with a shape, in the 5th picture a 'woman' is there looking out and in the 6th...'she' is gone.

I toured Stanton Hall in Natchez today, and we were standing near the front door (I happened to be the only person in my tour group), and there were a bunch of people taking pictures outside. The guide shifted so she was looking outside through the open window for a few seconds, then came back by the solid door, and told me she gets a kick out of doing that because people won't see anyone when they're taking the picture, but then they'll get home and see a "ghost" in their picture.

Not saying that's what happened to you, but I thought it was funny.

[Mairte]

My son told me this one the other night.
He used to work at Famous Daves in Duluth. He had been in early one morning firing up the grill when he caught movement from the corner of his eye.
Thinking he was losing and refusing to let it get to him, he continued working.
Later another employee came in and his face was absolutely white. He said he saw someone go into the freezer, followed them in there to find no one.
He told me one of his friends calls places with "spooky" vibes as having something he calls "the fear". I wouldnt necessarily call it fear, unsettling would be more like it.
Between us we came up with four definite places that have this feel to it. The place I grew up (as mentioned because he had his share of experiences growing up there too.),Famous Daves in Duluth, the drive down hwy 61 from RedWing to Wabasha/Kellogg (especially at night), and a relatives place by Grand Meadow, Minnesota.
Grand Meadow,MN story. My son had been visiting there as a adolescent. Its a large family and a couple of my cousins were from around his age up to later high school years. One night there was a big flurry of activity because a couple of them had seen red eyes in the mirror. I have also heard a version it was a red light. But anyway, something not normal.
The next day everyone went out and about their business and my son elected to stay there and work on a project. He said for some reason he felt drawn outside      .He then went back into the house and all of the doors and windows started slamming ....I dont believe he ever stayed there alone again!!!!!

[DonaCatalina]

Overlooking beautiful North Beach in the bustling city of Virginia Beach, Virginia, this elegant hotel features far more than a stunning view and its dramatic chandelier-hung lobby with glossy checkerboard floors and sharply contrasting paneled walls. This, the original Cavalier Hotel, has ghosts. The ghost is reputed to be Adolph Coors who died June 5, 1929, at the Cavalier Hotel in a fall from a sixth floor window under suspicious circumstances.
Map coordinates 36.869150, -75.983483

[DonaCatalina]

It looks like Ghost Hunters International is going to Castle Rising tonight.
This was covered as the castle of the day for February 5, 2009.

[Mairte]

Yes!!! I saw this advertised last week and definitiely going to watch.

[DonaCatalina]

The Sun Inn in Bethlehem Pennsylvania has had a reputation for being haunted amost since it was built. The best known specter is a little girl named Sarah who was the daughter of a nurse. Sarah was ill and died in the inn. The lesser known ghost is William Jones, the Secretary of Navy under President Madison, died in 1831 at the Sun Inn. Most recently a televised episode of Ghost Hunters showed infrared footage that shows a little girl with long hair walking in front of an attic window as a dark shadowy shape.
map coordinates 40.621909, -75.381640

[DonaCatalina]

The Rogers Hotel Named for the founder of Waxahachie, Emory W. Rogers, who built his log cabin home in 1847 on this site and donated land for the Ellis County Courthouse in 1850.  And yep!, it is haunted!
The Rogers Hotel – Several years back, the owner of the Rogers Hotel said he believed that the historic hotel was haunted.  When the owner arrived at the hotel one morning he could not find the maintenance man.  When he finally found him, the man had locked himself in his room and would not come out.
After undergoing renovation and being open to the public for a short while; problems with keeping employees finally forced the hotel into financial difficulties and closure.

[Drac]

Dona,

I have a few stories from my travels.  I enjoy taking the Huanted Tours.  I also have some pics if they are allowed?  Ghost balls, ect.

Jim

[DonaCatalina]

Love for you to share Drac. This is an open thread.

[Mairte]

The Anderson House in Wabasha,Minnesota is haunted. It's been closed for a while but looks like it will have new owners soon if not already. The story is a woman threw herself from one of the upstairs windows.

[Merlin the Elder]

The Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas is supposed to be haunted. Several of us stayed in the area that was reported to have spirits wandering, but we never saw anything.

We've also stayed at the Rogers Hotel on numerous trips to Waxahachie for faire. I'm not sure of all the details, but I do know it got shut down for non-payment of utilities, and I'm sure you realize the difficulties of a no-utility hotel.  We had reservations and about a week before our trip, I tried to call to confirm. Got an answering machine the first time, then after that, it just would go off-hook when I called. I guess the spook got tired of the phone ringing.

We arrived and found a note on the door that they were closed until further notice. Too bad...it really was a neat place to stay. The rooms were HUGE!

[Drac]

First installment of haunted places I've been to is the Villa Montezuma in San Diego CA.

Rumor has it that not one, but two ghosts haunt the stately manor. One is suppose to be Jesse Shepherd (the original owner and the gentleman it was built for) himself and piano music can still occasionally be heard emanating from the house at odd hours of the night. The other is supposed to be a man who rumor would have it hung himself in the observatory tower. Some believe that he is a butler of Jesse Shepherd and he was devastated over the death of his own wife. The body can still often be seen hanging in front of the window. Also his ghostly face peers from the windows at night.

It is a fantastic looking house worth the visit even if you aren't into ghost stories.

Here is a a weird shot that had everyone excited, a ghost orb -



Jim

[LadyJessica]

I have two stories...

The first was when I was about 15 and staying the night at a friends house.  The house was built so he parents had one side of the house and the rest of the rooms were on the other side with the kitchen and living room inbetween.  Her parents room also had a sitting room with a piano.  The sitting room used to be the room that her grandmother stayed at until she passed.  Her parents had left for the evening leaving only her, one other friend, and myself in the house locking their bedroom door.  During the evening we started to hear piano music but it was only one note at a time and about 5 minutes or so inbetween each note so none of us thought much about it as we all thought that we didn't really hear that.  Then at about 10ish we all three saw our friends bedroom light flash on and off once then the piano started playing a tune.  It freaked us all out enough to call her parents to come home.

My second story is not so much a ghost story but proof for myself that our loved ones watch over us.  In 2003 my dad's cousin was diagnosed with brain cancer.  She and I were really close and enjoied talking with each other when ever the family got together.  At the beginning of 2004 the doctors told us that there was nothing they could do to remove the tumor based on where it was growing.  By July we knew she wouldn't make it to the end of the year.  We went to visit as often as we could and we tried to make her as comfortable as we could.  At Thanksgiving we went to see her for the last time.  Everyone was saying their goodbyes to her and telling her that they loved her.  When it was my turn everyone seemed to have left the room and for some reason the TV was on the weather channel in her room.  We just sat there watching the TV as the weatherman reported on the snowfall in the Northern states.  I turned to her and said "Just once I'd love to have a white christmas".  She just sort of smiled and pointed to the screen.  A few minutes later a few people came into the room.  She reached for me so I kissed her forehead and told her that I loved her.  She passed a week later.  That year Houston had it's first white Christmas in recorded history.

[iain robb]

Apparently several people have heard of George, the ghost who is supposed to haunt Pirates of the Caribbean at Disneyworld. I hadn't until my daughter became a cast member there. I think most of the background of the story has been made up, but I know that cast members attributed many mischievous things to him, claimed to feel his presence backstage, and routinely said goodnight to him each night to ensure that the ride didn't break down the next day.

Supposedly, the building where I live is also haunted. Our dining room seems to be a hot spot. It is at the far end of our apartment, against the outside wall of the building, and our computer is there. My son one evening mentioned that he had been at the computer and thought someone was coming up behind him, but when he turned around, no one was there. That surprised me, since I had had a similar experience, and told him so. This prompted two of our three daughters to say they had had the same thing happen.

More eerie, at least for me, has been the fact that on three separate occasions I have been walking through the kitchen toward the dining room and was certain there was a woman in the dining room. (There's a pass-through at chest-height so you can see movement in the dining room as you walk through, but generally I'd say I only "sensed" movement.) Once it was so clear that I called my wife's name, and remembered when I turned the corner into the empty dining room that she was not home.

[DonaCatalina]

I'm waiting for Drac's installment #2