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🗓️ 10 September 2018
⏱️ 15 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hotels are places of refuge. |
0:05.0 | Whether you're on vacation or a business trip, it serves as your temporary home. |
0:13.0 | Some hotels have had a long storied history, |
0:16.0 | and as you'll see in this list, many of them aren't pleasant. |
0:20.0 | These are the five most haunted hotels in America. |
0:26.0 | Number five, Shanley Hotel, New York. |
0:40.0 | Built in 1895, the Shanley Hotel in Naponic, New York takes the term haunted seriously. Enough so that every guest who spends the night has to be over 16 years old and supposedly made to sign a waiver just in case something happens. |
0:49.0 | One look at it would make you think twice about even approaching the property, let alone spending the night there. |
0:56.0 | It sits on a street corner with its distinct Dutch colonial architecture and peeling white paint, |
1:02.0 | like it was pulled straight out of a horror film. |
1:04.6 | While the building has had several different owners, the most notable one is James |
1:09.2 | Shanley. He bought the property in 1895 and lived there with his wife Beatrice and their children. |
1:17.0 | James and his family were happy there and welcomed various famous guests including Thomas Edison and Eleanor Roosevelt. However, despite the ups, the family was |
1:26.7 | beset with tragedies. Beatrice gave birth to three children, but all of them died before they even turned a year old. |
1:36.6 | In 1911, the Hotel Barbara's daughter died when she wandered and fell down a well. Then in 1918 Beatrice's sister died on the property when she |
1:46.0 | suffered from influenza. Even James himself died in the hotel in 1937. These are just some of the more notable deaths that occurred |
1:56.1 | here and with so many it's no surprise that rumors of hauntings would surface. |
2:01.6 | Those who have stayed at the hotel say that paranormal experiences come with it. |
2:05.6 | There have been reports of cold and hot spots, apparitions, children's laughter, |
2:11.7 | the feeling of being touched and watched, and even objects moving on their own. |
2:17.0 | One of the more popular apparition seen is the ghost of 3-year-old Rosie Greger, was the daughter of the hotel barber who died in the well. |
2:26.0 | A boy that lived next door also was killed nearby when he was run over by a car. |
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