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I know this is a long shot but this is a question for people who have gone ghost hunting in many places and have a keen eye for detail.
I am 24 and have loved horror movies since my high school years. I am more than excited that I might get a stay at one of the haunted hotel rooms at the Stanley Hotel in Colorado which is where I live as a Christmas present. This is going to be the first (and hoping of many) ghost hunting adventures. I am also in a wheelchair so the fact that it is a hotel is perfect.
If there is someone who is well-traveled, are there other places I should look into? I know most of them are old but even if I don’t get to see the whole thing, I would love to check out more scary places in my lifetime.
I can walk and do stairs as well but I can only walk up like two or three staircases.
Thank you for reading this and I hope you stay safe!
Look into the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles. It's reputation speaks for itself. An episode of American Horror Story was filmed with this hotel in mind, though the name of it was changed for the show. As far as I know it's still open for business.
Look into the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles. It's reputation speaks for itself. An episode of American Horror Story was filmed with this hotel in mind, though the name of it was changed for the show. As far as I know it's still open for business.
Your post jogged a memory. I’m from Arizona, well not from Arizona, but live there currently (kind of).
Anyway, on azcentral.com there is an article called Arizona Haunted Hotels, list of 10. Or something like close to that. I remember reading it awhile ago, and I believe it’s still on the website.
I was planning on checking some of them out, but Covid, of course.
I don’t believe in ghosts, not at all. But at the same time, I’m not sure I would sleep well in these places as my imagination might get away from me. LOL!
I know this is a long shot but this is a question for people who have gone ghost hunting in many places and have a keen eye for detail.
I am 24 and have loved horror movies since my high school years. I am more than excited that I might get a stay at one of the haunted hotel rooms at the Stanley Hotel in Colorado which is where I live as a Christmas present. This is going to be the first (and hoping of many) ghost hunting adventures. I am also in a wheelchair so the fact that it is a hotel is perfect.
If there is someone who is well-traveled, are there other places I should look into? I know most of them are old but even if I don’t get to see the whole thing, I would love to check out more scary places in my lifetime.
I can walk and do stairs as well but I can only walk up like two or three staircases.
Thank you for reading this and I hope you stay safe!
Arguably the most haunted place in the world (if you believe in that stuff): Edinburgh Underground/Vaults in Scotland.
You can access some of it via various vendors giving Ghost Tours. I did. Fun, spooky, and full of history. Lots of deaths occured down there over the centuries - plagues where they literally walled in entire communities, murders, witch executions, morgues, bodysnatchers, wars.
But alas, no ghosts for me when I did the tour (since ghosts don't exist - yeah that's going to be popular to say in this forum, but it's the truth).
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Where we had our first experience was at the Palace Hotel in Port Townsend, WA. There is another hotel there to experience, Manresa Castle, and also the Fort Worden State Park is haunted.
While in the area, Seattle has ghost tours, closed now for COVID, but there are many documented incidents at Pike Place Market, Kell's Pub, and the Sorrento Hotel.
I am more than excited that I might get a stay at one of the haunted hotel rooms at the Stanley Hotel in Colorado which is where I live as a Christmas present.
I have been to the Stanley Hotel. Honestly, I didn't find it the least bit creepy. It's a beautiful building, to be sure, but nothing particularly scary about it. And it might disappoint the Stephen King fans to know that it isn't in the middle of nowhere. It's in the town of Estes Park. You can see the shops from the front porch.
I did spend the night in a supposedly haunted hotel in Bethlehem, NH several years ago. Nothing out of the ordinary happened. The only thing that kept me awake at night were the teenagers cruising the main drag till all hours of the night.
Where we had our first experience was at the Palace Hotel in Port Townsend, WA. There is another hotel there to experience, Manresa Castle, and also the Fort Worden State Park is haunted.
While in the area, Seattle has ghost tours, closed now for COVID, but there are many documented incidents at Pike Place Market, Kell's Pub, and the Sorrento Hotel.
At lot of cities have ghost tours now. It seems to be a big thing now and tons of fun. I wrote above about the one in Edinburgh and also did one in Prague. Never signed up for one in the US, I know my nearby big town of Memphis has one. New Orleans and Boston certainly must have them.
Even if you don't believe in ghosts (like me), everyone should do a few, they are full of history and lots of fun and have enough authenticy for the ghost hunter crowd to also take serious. Have a few drinks before the tour to get into the "spirit".
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