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"Haunted" Inn Victim of Mysterious Fire
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Northern California's Brookdale Inn & Spa, nestled amongst redwood trees in between Saratoga and Santa Cruz, has a rich legacy attached to its name. Famous formers guests include Marilyn Monroe and President Herbert Hoover, and in recent years, it has served as a music venue in addition to a conventional inn and providing apartment housing. Interest in the Brookdale, especially from a contingent of would-be ghost hunters and believers in the afterlife, remains high, as it's also said to be haunted.
Considering its past—which is equal parts nefarious and revered—speculation about the cause of a recent fire began to fly after the ashes had settled. The Silicon Valley Mercury News reports that flames began to consume the property late Tuesday afternoon, though the guest portion of the inn and its restaurant were seemingly not affected. Apartments on site, however, fell victim to the fire. Regarding the cause of the unfortunate events, the Mercury had this to say:
A maintenance worker at the inn speculated the fire could have been electrical because it appeared to start in a vacant room filled with mattresses. Some of the apartments behind the inn also burned in 2005.The owners were working to restore the hotel to its 1920s splendor, when it was one of the most popular lodges in the country. The lodging area where people can rent rooms for the night had been remodeled, she said. Workers' quarters and one other building had yet to be completed.
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MLB Players Insist Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee is Haunted
What causes a fully-grown (possibly even more than fully grown, *ahem*), athletic man (who has no problem with objects coming at him at 85 miles per hour) to sleep with a baseball bat beside him while he stays in an opulent, luxurious old hotel? Ghosties, of course.
Apparently, a bunch of ballplayers are going around claiming that the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee — where many, many pro baseball and basketball teams stay when they're in town to play the Milwaukee teams — is totes haunted.
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The Hotel Boulderado Turns 100
What’s not to love about Boulder, Colorado?This town of just over 100,000 people was the first in the country to tax itself to preserve open space. Its university, University of Colorado at Boulder, offers valet parking for bikes. Its eclectic roster of residents includes aerospace engineers, Buddhist practitioners, retired Olympians and culinary stars.
For weekend warriors, it’s less than an hour drive from Denver International Airport. If ever there was poster child for proving that having an eco mindset doesn’t mean having to sacrifice the finer things in life, Boulder would be it.
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Halloween Hotel Thrills Continue Through November
Over 50 years ago, the murder of the Black Dahlia froze Los Angeles, embroiling the whole city in a mystery so deep it was never solved and so controversial that it is still being retold through books, movies, music, and late-night ghost stories. And of course, like all good stories, it began at a hotel. Cue creepy music.
The Millenium Biltmore was the last place the victim, The Black Dahlia, was seen before she was seen dead, in lots of pieces and so it makes sense that her story be told starting in the same place.
If Halloween doesn't scare your socks off on Friday night, then sign up for the Black Dahlia Bus Tour on Saturday, Nov. 1 to really round out your terrifying weekend. The tour is part of Esotouric's Noir November Sampler:
Creepy, right? The deadly drive will cost you $58 per person. Register at the Esotouric site.The tour takes us from the human hustle of Main Street to the serene lobby of the Biltmore (the second-to-last place she was seen alive), to the newspaper offices and the Greyhound station where she checked her bags, and concludes at the site where her bisected body was found in Leimert Park and with a little known suspect who lived nearby.
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Vampire Expert Alleges Haunted Happenings at the Bowery Hotel
We're well aware that the Bowery Hotel has questionable neighbors, but we're wondering if anyone has had any experience with the hotel's more ghastly guests?
We were geeky enough to take a walking ghost tour of the Lower East Side last week, when our guide (who specializes in vampires!) had us stop to check out a hidden marble cemetery just behind the Bowery Hotel on Second Avenue (not to be confused with the more conspicuous marble cemetery around the corner on Second Street).
Our guide then proceeded to tell us about how just about every night at 1 a.m., the hotel's elevators go haywire--an occurrence that allegedly happens often enough it no longer fazes the staff.
We thought about hanging around the Bowery Hotel to check out this purported paranormal activity, but we were scared off when told about the wait for a table at Gemma.
Got a Ghostbuster-like Bowery Hotel story? Let us know.
[Photo: Casey Kelbaugh for the NY Times]
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Fall Foliage Hotels :: Ohio's Granville Inn
Ask anyone where to see fall foliage, and they'll chime in the same answer: New England. But look, folks, wherever there are maples, elms, beeches, and hickories, there's gonna be foliage.
What about those buckeye trees? Yes, nobody ever thinks of Ohio when it comes to trees turning, but The Ohio Department of Natural Resources reports that mid-October is going to be a choice time to see the colors change before the leaves drop.
There's no place better to snuggle up than in a picturesque, hilly college town, with peaceful sidewalks perfect for strolling, and one of the best beer bars in the entire state...
That place is Granville, Ohio, a half hour's drive from Columbus and home to Denison University.
The Granville Inn has 30 guest rooms, with deliciously low rates that start at $99. The rooms are equipped with free internet access, cable, and crammed with antiques. Although, we do admit it does give off a "night at Grandma's" sort of vibe.
But there's alcohol! Wine Spectator has given wine list an Award of Excellence for four years straight, and the hotel is on the National Register of Historic Places. It's also purported to be haunted. So you could have some ghost-hunting to go with your leaf-peeping too.
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Hotel Fights Museum Over Who Gets to Use Accused Murderer's Name
Oy. This world.
Lizzie Borden, the Massachusetts Sunday school teacher who was accused of murdering her mother and stepfather in 1892, committed her (alleged) famous crime in a home in Fall River, Mass.
That home is now a lucrative bed and breakfast (no, we don't know why anyone would want to stay there either) named after the lovely Lizzie herself! It features historical tours and a giftshop, essentially functioning like a museum. Unfortunately, someone up in Salem, Massachusetts wants to start up an official Lizzie Borden Museum (using her name and all)...and that's not gonna fly with the B&B owner.
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The Ultimate Haunted Hotel :: A Former Sanatorium Will Reopen as Hotel
Add another to the list of haunted hotels: A former Ford employee purchased the abandoned, vandalized 30 acres of Waverly Hills Sanatorium in south Louisville for $225,000 in 2001, and is now determined to turn the spooky property into a first-class hotel complete with spa and business center.
Currently this gutted old hospital for tuberculosis patients, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, hosts paranormal camp-outs for $100-a-head and was the subject of a six-hour feature on the Sci Fi Channel. Even wikipedia-ing this place will give you the heebie-jeebies. So will night-vision goggles and thermal sensors be part of the mini bar?
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Happy Hotel Halloween
Happy Halloween y'all! In honor of the best holiday ever, we decided to drop in some links to our favorite scary hotels and stories.
· HotelChatter's Top Haunted Hotels: Places with known ghosts roaming about.
· Haunted Hotels: More places with ghosts.
· Hotel Carter: Not haunted, but quite possibly the scariest hotel ever.
· Bed Bugs: Let's hope these critters don't getchu!
· Chateau Marmont: We have no idea if actual ghosts roam this place but the whole Belushi overdose and its proximity to Hollyweird make is scary enough.
· Gramercy Park Hotel: If the deep red carpeting and hallways don't scare you, nor does the rest of the decor, then think about all the dead souls who used to visit GPH and how pissed they must be that Ashely Olsen is making out with Lance Armstrong there.
· The Magic Castle Hotel: Any hotel adjacent to a spooky castle where magic is performed on a nightly basis is scary. 'Nuff said.
[Photo: Angela_ronald]
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HotelChatter's Favorite Haunted Hotels
Halloween is one of our favorite holidays here at HotelChatter and not just because we like to dress up our dog in dandy outfits and eat candy, but because its gives us a chance to spotlight some of the Haunted Hotels that we write about throughout the year. These hotels may be haunted but that's not all there is to them. So here are our top picks for a frightening but fun stay.
· The Timberline Lodge: HotelChatter Maven Annie0007 just wrote about this the other day as part of her Oregon Hotel Trail Guide It was the set for Kubrick's scary The Shining movie but the food here is out of this world.
· Hotel Del Coronado: Who knows if this San Diego hotel is haunted or not. Paranormal researchers believe it is but when we stayed there nothing funny happened. Instead we enjoyed the beach, spa and hotel lounge. Still, the story of the ghost Kate Morgan is pretty scary and the hotel is pretty darn old.
· The Hollywood Roosevelt: Some reports say Marilyn Monroe shows up in her namesake suite, others report a man dressed in black skulking around a ball room. Either way, if you don't see ghosts you will see celebs.
· The Ocean Edge Resort: The hotel has a weepy widow who roams the halls (doing pretty standard ghost stuff) but you can bring the kids along for a ghost-hunting package.
· The Stanley Hotel: This place inspired Stephen King to write one of the scariest books-turned-movies of all time, The Shining. So you know you will be freaked out here whether you see something or are just imagining the Red Rum twins.
Have your own favorite Haunted Hotel? Let us know.
[Photo: Riv]
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Hotel Del Coronado Ghost 'Speaks'
We've written about the famously haunted Hotel Del Coronado and its creepiness before. Legend has it, a 24-year-old preggers golddigger named Kate Morgan checked into the hotel under the false name Lottie Bernard. A few days later, she was found dead near the hotel's back entrance and her death was ruled a suicide.
This was 1892, by the way, and girlfriend has been hanging around the hotel ever since. She pulls the cliche ghost-y moves like slamming doors and randomly turning on TVs, nothing new, but people have also reported an ultra-freaky indentation on pillows (like a head is resting there) that keeps reappearing despite fluffing or tossing the pillow. Ew.
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Hotel Ghosts Caught on Tape
We've written numerous times about the haunted Stanley Hotel in Colorado, which prompted Stephen King to write his novel, "The Shining" after a stay here (which was then made into the movie with Jack Nicholson and the Red Rum twins.)
Now, thanks to YouTube we get to see the Sci-Fi Channel's in-depth look at what it's like staying in the most haunted room of them all, Room 401. We actually got a little scared but still think it is suspicious that all the paranormal activity is happening off-camera.
Related Stories:
· Haunted Hotel Gets Some Camera Time [HotelChatter]
· Haunted Stanley Hotel, Colorado [YouTube]br>· Stanley Hotel reviews [TripAdvisor]
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