Halloween Specials-Stay At Haunted Hotels For Spooky Experiences
October 11, 2007
If you want to try something different this Halloween then try spending few days in haunted places.
Here is a list of spooky places in California complied by California Association of Bed & Breakfast Inns - CABBI.com
Albert Shafsky House B&B Inn (Placerville): Albert Shafsky built his home in 1902 – and it appears his ghost has decided he will never leave. According to the innkeepers, he sometimes locks guests out of their rooms, leaves pennies in strange places and has even been seen standing at the foot of one guest’s bed.
Bissell House (Pasadena): With a well-known reputation as being a haunted building, current and prior owners have stories to tell that will have you looking over your shoulder. The Bissell House has felt its fair share of paranormal activity through the years, including unexplained voices and footsteps on an empty third floor, lights that seemed to have a mind of their own, and a women wearing a red dress, believed to be the restless spirit of Anna Bissell McCay.
Brannan Cottage Inn (Calistoga): Built in 1860, this inn has two haunted rooms open for vacancy for the brave … or the curious. Visit this month and you’ll find the historic inn is part of a local Haunted House tour with other ghostly haunts, lit up in creepy Halloween fashion.
Gate House Inn (Jackson): According to the innkeepers of this historic Queen Anne mansion, a “Garden Ghost” appeared soon after the severe overgrowth around the mansion was cleared away to make room for gardens. An innkeeper actually felt a “tap” on his shoulder while working alone outside and although the house itself has not experienced any paranormal activity, the surrounding land has a ghostly presence.
The Goodman House: This colonial revival foursquare home was confirmed as having a strong spirit presence by San Francisco Bay area medium and psychic Marge Cuddeback. Before it became a B&B, the house was converted into law offices. Rumors of haunting began soon after the lawyers occupied the building – including one attorney whose desk nameplate continually was thrown on the floor.
The Groveland Hotel Groveland, CA: “Lyle” is the resident ghost at this 1849 adobe B&B, located near Yosemite National Park. Lyle was a prospector who was found dead in his room with a box of dynamite – a tool of his prospecting trade -under the bed. Guests have long enjoyed his antics, including his penchant for removing women’s cosmetic items from “his” dresser in Room 15.
MacCallum House Inn (Mendocino): According to town lore, Donald MacCallum – born in 1880 as the only son of Daisy and Alexander MacCallum – has never truly left the second floor. Many guests over the years have testified to strange and unexplained happenings in one of the inn’s several rooms. It’s believed that Donald’s spirit still resides in “Room 4” – the bedroom where he slept from the time he was an infant.
National Hotel (Jamestown): Even non-believers have changed their attitude after staying in this 1859 Historic Inn. There have been so many accounts of slamming doors, clothing being dumped from suitcases and a women’s sobbing coming from the hallway that the ghost who resides here has been named “Flo”. It is believed Flo is the ghost of a woman who, in 1897, was found dead in her hotel bed with a note by her side addressed to her long-lost fiancé. Perhaps this mystery women still roams the halls in search of her lost love?
Queen Anne Hotel, San Franciso: This is deemed as one of America’s Most Haunted Hotels, this historic building was originally built for “Miss Mary Lake” as a finishing school for girls. An apparition believed to be Miss Mary has been seen so frequently that a popular “San Francisco Ghost Hunt” event begins nightly at the Queen Anne Hotel.
The Santa Nella House (Guerneville): This Russian River B&B is a Victorian farmhouse dating back to the 1870’s. Built by a prominent physician as his residence, the property has been an olive oil mill, a winery, a speak-easy, a stage coach stop and, since 1984, a bed and breakfast inn. With such an interesting past, it is not surprising that many have claimed it was haunted. In fact, many guests have reported strange activities – especially on the second floor.
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Savannah,GA - In 2002, the American Institute of Parapsychology named Savannah, “America’s Most Haunted City.” Based on Savannah’s history of fires, plagues, wars and voodoo, they determined Savannah was the perfect place for supernatural activity. With a recorded history dating back to colonial days, Savannah has many famous residents of a “spiritual nature”
Stay at the Marshall House - An Award-Winning Historic Hotel on Broughton Street, was voted Savannah’s Best Hotel In 2004 and 2005. This unique 68-room hotel has the perfect historic location downtown, in the heart of Savannah’s historic district. Walk two minutes in one direction, and you’re on River Street. Head out in another, and you’re in City Market. Savannah’s famous squares, historic homes and sultry night clubs are all within walking distance.
Haunted Story: The Marshall House, offers Haunted Hotel Ghost Tour packages but guests don’t need to leave this haunted hotel in Savannah to get that spine-tingling feeling. The 88-room inn, which has been featured on the Travel Channel’s “Haunted Hotels”, has been used as a hospital three times — twice during Savannah’s 19th century yellow fever epidemics and during the Civil War by the Union Army. Ghosts have been reported in the hallways and in the foyer& and even in guests’ beds!!! So many have found the city of Savannah an inexplicable mix of haunting and healing energies and all the more reason for you to explore her for your own journey’s sake.
New Orleans, LA – With 200 years of ghostly legends involving Voodoo curses, Spanish moss-draped oaks encircling duels, cold-blooded murders, stories of Revolutionary War-era Pirates, Civil War soldiers, and Jazz, New Orleans has earned a serious reputation as one of America’s most haunted cities. The nightlife of world famous Bourbon Street can be filled with dark shadows of ghostly figures and ghoulish delights. Spirits of the dead are said to mingle with the living here at many local night spots.
Some tourists and many locals can not account for strange images in “Ghostly Photos” they have taken but one thing is certain: The Crescent City’s most famous street is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and spirits of all kinds are said to flow freely.
Stay at the Hotel Monteleone New Orleans — a hotel that has proudly stood as a favorite haunt of Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner, Truman Capote, movie stars, dignitaries and royalty since 1886. The hotel sits in the French Quarter, one block from shopping on Canal Street, Jackson Square and Bourbon Street. The family-owned and operated hotel boasts a rich literary history, in which famed literary figures such as Tennessee Williams penned their novels here. The rotating Carousel Lounge offers live entertainment Wednesday through Saturdays.
Haunted Story: Many people who visit the Hotel Montelone New Orleans don’t want to leave. Some never do… generations of hotel guests and staff have regularly experienced events that would cause even the staunchest skeptic to take pause like a restaurant door that opens almost every evening and then closes again, even though it is locked and an elevator that stops on the wrong floor, leading a curious couple down a hallway that grows chilly and reveals the ghostly images of children playing.
Long Beach, CA: Home of the haunted Queen Mary, permanently moored in San Pedro Bay.
Stay at the Queen Mary Hotel - floats adjacent to the Russian submarine, Scorpion, and the ship provides access from her pier to the Catalina ferry. The Aquarium of the Pacific and Long Beach Marina are less than two miles away. Art Deco ambience permeates the Queen Mar Hotel with brass-and-nickel fixtures and vaulted ceilings. Piped-in classical music serves as a reminder of the era’s original resplendence. Measuring 1,019 feet in length, the hotel features original art, and 1930s dinnerware and furniture.
The Queen Mary Hotel features three harbor-view restaurants, an on-board spa, a bar, wedding chapel, a three-level, 45,000- square-foot exhibition hall, and conference and reception space that accommodates up to 2,000 attendees. Cabaret, comedy and live-music shows are presented in the ship’s salons throughout the week.
Haunted Story: From her beautiful Art Deco hotel staterooms and salons to her darkest corridors and machinery rooms in the bowels of the ship deep below the water line, the Queen Mary has been a constant source for stories, articles and documentaries about supernatural sightings and other unexplained activity aboard the historic 1936 ocean liner. Do ghosts really exist aboard the Queen Mary? Investigations by a number of paranormal experts seem to verify the ship’s ghostly passengers, however more than 1.5 million visitors each year are invited to explore for themselves. Most of the restless spirits seen throughout the ship are believed perhaps to be former crew members and passengers who may have met an untimely death while sailing aboard the Queen Mary but no one knows for sure. Throughout the year, the Queen Mary offers regularly-scheduled day and night guided and self-guided paranormal tours of the haunted ship. There’s also the very popular Dinner with the Spirits that begins with a decadent meal with a paranormal expert in award-winning Sir Winston’s restaurant and concludes with a tour of personal paranormal discovery though especially haunted areas.
A Ghost Fest event featuring investigations with paranormal researchers is presented annually, and twice monthly at midnight, there are ghost-hunting tours, complete with high tech sensing equipment. The Ghosts & Legends Show, open daily, offers dramatizations of some of the ships most popular ghostly encounters.
Austin TX – One only needs to take a quick downtown walking tour to enlighten them on the history of Austin, its many undead residents, and the spooky events that go on from Sixth Street to the Capitol itself. Even a skeptic will see the city of Austin in a whole new light!
Stay at the Driskill – Located in downtown Austin, the Driskill Hotel was once the showplace of a cattle baron. Located seven miles from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, this historic 12-story hotel is adjacent to Sixth Street entertainment district and less than one mile from the Texas State Capitol Complex. Palatial guestrooms and suites span from the Driskill’s Traditional Wing, built in 1929 featuring the colorful surroundings of the Texas Hill Country, to the Historic Wing’s vaulted decorative ceilings, detailed woodwork and balconies. Both wings include original art, lavish draperies, and opulent beds featuring Frette Italian linens. Gargoyles and busts of The Driskill Hotel’s owner and his sons still peer out from high above each entrance, and shorthorn steer heads adorn the outer walls.
Haunted Story: Colonel Driskill himself is said to wander through the original side of the hotel. His ghost is marked by the smell of cigar smoke and a fascination with bathroom lights. The spirit of a young child bouncing a ball haunts the first floor lobby, the ladies bathroom on the second floor near the bar, and along the stairs leading to the mezzanine. In 1887, while the Texas Senate was in session, the daughter of a Senator fell to her death while chasing a ball down the grand staircase. Her death was the first at the hotel. Within a week she was back running around and playing. Her spirit is also the first recorded ghost at The Driskill.
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