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During the 112 years the building stood.

The Burkdale Palace Hotel gained a reputation as the most haunted hotel in Britain.

The 200-foot-long building opened its doors in 1866, who is in Southport, Mercyside, along

the northwest coast of Lancashire.

Right from the very beginning, there were rumors the grand hotel was cursed.

One story claims that the hotel was built facing the wrong direction, which drove the

architect William Mangal into a deep depression.

The hotel's opulent front doors and windows were meant to be facing the west toward the

sea, but instead for some unknown reason the construction crews built it facing east.

While the story goes, William threw himself off the building's roof just days before its

grand opening, although some versions claim it was actually Mangal's younger brother who

took his own life that day.

Then on December 9, 1886, tragedy once again crossed the hotel's threshold.

That was when a lifeboat disaster occurred just offshore.

The hotel was used as a temporary mortuary for the bodies of 14 lifeboatmen, who drowned

after venturing out in a storm to rescue another ship that had run aground.

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