Zilker ParkEdited
Was walking late with some friends at Zilker park, could've sworn we saw a figure by the lake ahead of us, but when we walked over there nothing was there. We looked all around but I'm really not sure what we saw.
weird sounds when nobody is around, clear screaming but empty airport
Sammy Washburn told News4JAX that guests struggling to climb the tower sometimes report feeling a hand on their back guiding them to the top. She attributes the touch to Maria Andreu, described as a ghost dressed in white and one of the only figures reported there as a full-body apparition.
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Matador Network reported that the hotel is believed to be haunted by several spirits, including a woman in white at the rooftop pool. It said guests who describe encountering the female spirit most often report that she seemed to be checking on them or tucking them in while they slept.
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New Orleans & Company's roundup of haunted bars and restaurants states that the ghosts of voodoo priestess Marie Laveau, Jean Lafitte and Andrew Jackson are said to haunt the saloon.
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MySA reported that front desk staff occasionally take calls from guests who saw a maid in an old-fashioned uniform in the hallways; she does not answer when spoken to and then is no longer there. Tour guide Lauren Swartz and hotel staff connect the sightings to Sallie White, a chambermaid who died at the hotel in 1876.
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Siefken told Texas Public Radio that the 14th floor, where surgeries were once performed, carries a smell he compared to antiseptic bandages, and that the smell has persisted through renovations.
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Matador Network, citing NolaGhosts.com, collected accounts of a girl said to have been killed on the road in front of the hotel site and reported chiefly in Room 930, along with sightings of a couple in 1920s dress elsewhere on the property.
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Your AAA Network recounted a guest's account of waking to a weight settling on the edge of his bed, then seeing a female figure move toward him, run a hand through his hair and whisper to him. The account says he left the hotel that night.
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Explore, citing Secret New Orleans, reported claims of roughly 100 spirits in the building, including a girl named Ava associated with Room 930 and a couple said to walk the hotel and disappear through walls.
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Secret New Orleans also reported accounts from patrons who said a woman's voice whispered their names into their ears on the building's second floor.
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Kehoe House's website quotes Official Savannah Ghost Tours, which reports a belief that two Kehoe children died in the house and that William and Anne Kehoe are commonly reported as apparitions, most often in Room 201 and the cupola.
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Boston.com reported that the Hawthorne Hotel is often cited among Salem's most haunted locations, citing tour operator Beth Crowley on guest accounts tied to rooms 612 and 326. The article listed flickering lights, unexplained sounds and doors opening on their own among those reports.
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According to Nichols, the restaurant's pay phone had been out of service for years when it rang three times a few months after he took over the business. He answered and heard silence, and said it has not happened since.
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The inn reports a less friendly presence in the kitchen area, announced by a clinking sound like metal bracelets. Kitchen workers have reported pots and pans tossed about and spice jars thrown at them.
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CBS Colorado reported that guests have described a woman in a floral dress in room 661, the larger of the two tower suites, along with doors locking and unlocking on their own and knocking when no one is there. The same account lists flickering lights, swinging chandeliers and pockets of cold air among guest reports.
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Kathy Rippy Fleming, author of a 1995 book about the hotel, told the Post Independent that people still report cigar smoke at the front desk and a sweet perfume, and that a visiting group of investigators photographed orbs and what they described as a man's face in a mirror.
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Westword reported that while the hotel's top two floors were under renovation and a hotel historian was telling tour groups about former resident Louise Crawford Hill, the main switchboard began receiving calls from Room 904, which had been stripped of furniture, lighting, carpet and telephones. Operators said they heard only static, and the calls stopped after the historian dropped Hill's story from the tour.
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Westword's 2014 appraisal of the park collected accounts of disembodied voices whispering and groaning near the site of the mass graves, and of a singing woman, vanishing children and formless shadows on the grounds after nightfall. The same piece described visitors and neighbors reporting feelings of grief and dread, and difficulty rising from the grass as though weighted down, and said the reports came from unverifiable online sources.
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The house's operators say that since 1923, guests and employees have reported hearing voices and footsteps when no one was there, feeling an unexpected presence, and seeing figures in the halls. The operators suggest some of the spirits said to linger may be former members of Sarah Winchester's household staff or later museum staff, and state that they cannot say what causes the experiences.
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