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Haunted hotels - 3/2/2010 5:25:47 PM

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We have occasional threads here about ghosts and hauntings. USA Today had a recent article about haunted hotels and special tours I thought some of you would appreciate.

"Haunted hotels' ghost stories can be good for business"

By Gary Stoller, USA TODAY

"Hotels have long served as settings for ghost stories, and many are reputed to be haunted. Horror writer Stephen King helped popularize the notion of haunted hotels when he wrote The Shining, inspired by the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colo. Author Bruce Raisch, who wrote Haunted Hotels of the West, says Arizona alone has 24 with the reputation. Hotels are part of ghost tours in New Orleans, San Antonio and other cities.

Some hotels, such as the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, Ark., are proud of their reputation for being haunted. The Crescent advertises it in hopes of attracting the curious. Other hoteliers dismiss guests' tales and would just as soon the notion that they're harboring ghosts be exorcised for fear of scaring guests away.

"It's a touchy subject," says Charlyn Keating Chisholm, a travel writer who lists haunted hotels on the About.com website. "Some hotels fear it will scare off customers, and others worry guests who are looking for a supernatural event will feel cheated if they don't experience one."

Chisholm says she's noticed that more hotels are becoming comfortable with going public with ghost stories."

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/travel/2010-02-26-hauntedhotels26_CV_N.htm

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RE: Haunted hotels - 3/2/2010 5:31:02 PM

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Can I bring my baby, in a stroller?

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RE: Haunted hotels - 3/2/2010 5:34:05 PM

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Only if you don't drink

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RE: Haunted hotels - 3/2/2010 5:36:04 PM

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No deal Zeph; I demand to see the manager and have one of her staff look after my kid whilst I get plastered. The customer is always tight.

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RE: Haunted hotels - 3/2/2010 5:40:09 PM

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*shrugs* not my rules. I'm fairly sure that the ghosts cannot consume alcohol either.. something to do with spirits in spirits

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RE: Haunted hotels - 3/2/2010 5:40:39 PM

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you better not tell me to watch my language.....

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RE: Haunted hotels - 3/2/2010 5:42:24 PM

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quote:

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you better not tell me to watch my language.....

watch yer language

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RE: Haunted hotels - 3/2/2010 5:47:09 PM

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Never mind hauntings, the advert that drew me to this hotel says "liquor at the front, poker round the back". I demand to see the manageress, in private, about the apparent lack of said promised diversions.

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RE: Haunted hotels - 3/2/2010 5:49:51 PM

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"liquor at the front, poker round the back".

Soooo DREADFUL

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RE: Haunted hotels - 3/2/2010 5:51:38 PM

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I know Kittin, but if you only realised how long I've been keeping that one in reserve; a suitable thread for its deployment comes up so rarely.

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RE: Haunted hotels - 3/2/2010 7:51:37 PM

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The Queen Mary is supposedly very haunted and a hotel. I can see her from my window. I want Sinergy to take me there for champagne brunch.... yummy... I am also hoping that I experience something myself

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RE: Haunted hotels - 3/2/2010 10:09:59 PM

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RE: Haunted hotels - 3/2/2010 11:55:08 PM

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RE: Haunted hotels - 3/3/2010 12:24:41 AM

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Kinda of off topic...

The Pizza Hut in Mount Pleasant is haunted. One ghost has goosed me one night when I was doing dishes after the close of business. I thought it was the assistant manager or my BF at the time, but they both were in the office. Now I refuse to go there unless someone comes with me (so they can get goosed themselves).

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