Personally, we prefer to get a little shut-eye when we stay at any hotel. But some hotels just beg to be haunted. If you're planning to stay at any of these ghastly quarters, you won't even need your own ghost stories. To these ghosts, it doesn't matter if it's Halloween.
Construction of the Victorian-style Ocean Edge Resort began in 1907, when banker Samuel Nickerson decided to replace the site’s original home, which had burned down a year earlier. Nickerson completed the Cape Cod mansion—which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places-- in 1912 for his son Roland, who died before the new house was completed. But his wife, Addie, seems to have loved the place so much, she can still be seen roaming the halls today (she is said to be looking for her husband). About two hours away is the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem (also haunted - but then again, what house in Salem isn't?), which hosts an annual Halloween Costume Ball.
New Mexico: An old Sante Fe Trail outpost (which is linked to Jesse James and Billy the Kid), the St. James Hotel reportedly still sees visitors from the Wild West. One Trip Advisor traveler attests to hearing a scream at 3 a.m., and to seeing a ghost vortex through a camera lense. Even if you can't find any ghosts, every few months the hotel hosts "Murder Mystery Weekends," a two-night event where guests become Annie Oakley or Doc Holliday and try to solve their own murder mystery.
Texas: Lyndon B. Johnson waited for the results of his presidential race in 1964 in the Driskill Hotel in Austin, Texas. While LBJ's ghost can't be found wandering the halls, the ghost of a young girl playing with a ball still teases the guests. Request a room on the fifth floor of Hotel Galvez in Galveston, Texas, and you might catch a glimpse of a young widow who committed suicide there many years ago.
California: Guests staying on the fifth floor of the Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego claim to hear footsteps coming from above, even though the hotel does not have a sixth floor. If you'd rather get out of the city, visit the ghost town of Bodie just outside of Yosemite National Park: the J.S. Cain House reportedly has a specter who likes to flip the lights on and off when rangers' families are trying to sleep. While visitors can't sleep in the town, they can camp or sleep in the motel (John Wayne slept here!) in the nearby Virginia Creek Settlement.
England: Now, you won't find any "real" ghosts in this hotel, but the Alton Towers Hotel (of the famed U.K. theme park) will make you think there are more than just disgruntled souls lurking in your room. The hotel has five designated "Scare Rooms," complete with mood lighting, blood-stained walls, mutilated props, and a frightful cast starring the grim reaper and an evil clown that will make you wish you had stayed home that night. Thankfully, the fright fest stops around 2 a.m.
We'll be sleeping in the comfort of our own rooms tonight, thank you. For more chilling stays, check out Reuters' complete list of haunted hotels.
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