Hotel Padre (Bakersfield, Calif.)
1.**BOURBON ORLEANS HOTEL (NEW ORLEANS)**
New Orleans is famous for hiding several haunted hotels . The Bourbon Orleans Hotel is one of the oldest hotels in this ranking. It was built in 1827 as an event hall . Later, it would be converted into an orphanage where dozens of children and nuns would die, after an outbreak of yellow fever. And here we already have two ideal elements to create a horror story: religion and children . It is said that it is possible to see the ghosts of nuns and children who died in the 19th century.
If you want to live a paranormal experience in this hotel, We recommend that you stay on the sixth or seventh floor, which is where "the most activity" takes place. Guests who stay in them report hearing moans and cries and feel presences.
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2.**HOTEL SORRENTO (SEATTLE)**
This Seattle hotel hides one of the most curious and peculiar stories. It is said that the ghost of Alice B. Toklas “rests” here, inventor of the marijuana brownie . Toklas published a recipe book in the 1950s, and in one of them she described how to cook a cannabis-infused brownie. The Sorrento hotel was built in the year 1909 and part of its land belonged to the old house of Toklas. Neighbors say they have seen strange things around the neighborhood. But in this case, room 408 of the Sorrento hotel is the one that concentrates the most paranormal activity , although the specter of Toklas, in a long white dress, also wanders through the hotel corridors. Other guests swear they saw a presence dressed in black and they have come to differentiate a slight mustache on the figure of the ghost.
Many are the guests who claim to have seen it and if you ask any of the residents of this neighborhood, they will quickly confirm that the ghost of Toklas is real and not a legend. In honor of her ghost, the Sorrento hotel offers a special cocktail baptized as Ms. Toklas. alcohol and spirits , a perfect night of fun at the Sorrento hotel.
It is said that the ghost of Alice B. Toklas, inventor of the marijuana brownie, “rests” in the Hotel Sorrento
3. **CORONADO HOTEL (SAN DIEGO) **
One of the most famous and historic hotels in America. It opened its doors in 1887 and has given shelter to dozens of famous . It is a luxury hotel, located on one of the most spectacular beaches in San Diego (California) and we recommend spending a night here, if you're not afraid of ghosts.
Kate Morgan is the protagonist of this story . This 24-year-old girl entered the hotel in the year 1892. According to the employees of the time, Kate looked sad, but she was hoping to meet someone, possibly a lover. . After five days of solitude in the hotel and having bought a gun, she took her own life in her room at a shot in the head.
Hotel employees will confirm the story: strange events occur on the third floor of the hotel , where Kate Morgan was staying. Flickering lights, noises that you don't know where they come from, televisions that turn on by themselves and drops in temperature, are the ways in which Morgan seems to manifest her presence. Curiously, the room in which the young woman took her own life is one of the most requested by visitors . There is a book dedicated to the figure of Morgan, entitled Beautiful Stranger: The Ghost of Kate Morgan and The Hotel del Coronado.
Is everything as peaceful as it seems at the Hotel del Coronado?
4.**PADRE HOTEL (BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA)**
We can tell you dozens of stories about this hotel and it is up to you to believe them or not, but we have experienced some of them firsthand. The Father Hotel It is one of the best places to stay in this California city: it is elegant and with good service. While the hotel shines for its style, spending a night in one of its rooms can be terrifying.
Let's start with the story of the famous footprint. In the hotel reception you can see a "burnt" footprint that supposedly belongs to a five-year-old girl . This girl died in the hotel in the 50s. It was then that a fire broke out on the seventh floor of the building, in which dozens of people died. According to a well-known medium who visited the hotel for an American television program, “ this girl lost her life in the fire, but she has no bad intentions ”. The receptionists will tell you that the maintenance workers have tried to remove the print dozens of times, but always reappears . You might think that this is a marketing strategy, but the first time we were able to verify the existence of the footprint, we saw how the hotel had made an effort to hide it behind an armchair , which made us think that they don't really want visitors to see it.
The famous footprint of the Hotel Padre
The thing is not there. In this hotel there is a lot of paranormal activity , especially at night and on the seventh floor. The worst room is 704 , where your belongings can be blown up in the middle of the night. In our case, the last time we stayed at this hotel, we stayed on the sixth floor, after being offered a suite on the seventh and deciding to decline. What was our surprise when in the middle of the night the radio turned on while we were sleeping, making a strange noise. A few minutes later, just at midnight, the phone's alarm went off. Before going to sleep we had checked that there were two alarms: one at 4AM and another at 4:05AM . We never set an alarm for 12 o'clock at night. A bit strange and more so when you are trying to raise the temperature of the room and it is still eerily cold.
Days later, when we returned to the hotel for work, we decided to ask employees the stories shared by guests and most agree: alarms and radios that go off by themselves in the middle of the night, hair dryers blowing out, and nights in which guests are plagued by endless sessions of nightmares that include screaming children Y They play next to the beds.
Padre Hotel: one of the best places to stay in this California city
5.**HOTEL CECIL (LOS ANGELES) **
A hotel surrounded by macabre stories located in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles . We do not recommend staying in this place, since despite being affordable for the pocket, it is in a somewhat dangerous area and with high rates of begging. But inevitably, the Cecil hotel has achieved great fame in recent months, as it has become the "Hotel Cortez" of the fourth season of the series. American Horror Story . This is the place chosen by the producers to record some of the most gloomy scenes of the cult series.
And we are not surprised that the Cecil hotel has become a film set for a horror series. In Traveler we have stayed in this hotel and we can assure you that it gives goosebumps . We have not lived any paranormal experience in our stay, but the truth is that the guests who visit this hotel seem to be taken from the very American Horror Story and they are most extravagant.
The hotel was built in 1927 and since then it has been accompanied by stories of disappearances, suicides and serial killers. . Without going any further, last year one of the hotel guests disappeared without a trace. The body of Canadian Elisa Lam was found 19 days later in a tank in the building , after hotel guests complained that the "water had a strange taste". Indeed, during those days all the lodgers were showering and brushing their teeth with water contaminated by the decomposing body. The causes of the young woman's death and how her body reached the rooftop tank are unknown. a restricted area under lock and key and security code.
The hotel published the video of a security camera in which we can see the girl talking to herself and gesturing in a very strange way, as if she were under the influence of some drug. However, no evidence of drugs was found at autopsy. Almost two years have passed and her death is still surrounded by mystery. Police closed the case as “involuntary suicide” , but the truth is that the video that shows the last minutes of the girl is disconcerting.
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Hotel Cecil photographed in 2012
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