The Haunted Hotel That’s Spooked NBA Players For Years 👻🎃
The Lead
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🗓️ 28 October 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
For many full moons, a famous hotel in Oklahoma City has been keeping NBA players up at night -- and perhaps even influencing the outcome of their games. And the sheer number of players that say they've had paranormal experiences there is enough to make the hair on the back of your neck stand up. Today, on a special Halloween episode of our show, Steve Lackmeyer, co-author of a book about the Skirvin Hotel, walks us through the historic building's eerie history and explains the legend of the ghost that supposedly haunts it. Then, he tells us about some strange experiences he had at the hotel that even he, a staunch ghost skeptic, cannot explain.
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| 0:42.0 | For many, many full moons, a famous hotel in Oklahoma City has been seriously spooking NBA players. |
| 0:50.0 | Opposing teams who have stayed at the skirvin not only have heard voices, but supposedly have shared stories of furniture moving and spirits being seen. |
| 1:00.0 | Some of the next players told the New York Daily News they didn't get much sleep at the skirvin. |
| 1:05.0 | Forward Jared Jeffery says it's scary. |
| 1:08.0 | In the sheer number of players that say they've had paranormal experiences there is enough to make the hair on the back of your neck stand up. |
| 1:18.0 | Jeff Ayers of the Spurs said, I get to my room and my key doesn't work. |
| 1:23.0 | But it sounds like there's somebody in my room. Like I hear a little baby. |
| 1:27.0 | Tim Duncan also went on the record talking about it. There was a baby there. |
| 1:31.0 | Absolutely. I heard about the history of power at the hotel. |
| 1:34.0 | He saw the bathroom door open up on its own. |
| 1:37.0 | I remember that I left my bathroom door open, but I got up and it was cool. |
| 1:42.0 | Derek Rose stayed in James Johnson's room because he was so scared of seeing a ghost or hearing a noise. |
| 1:48.0 | James Johnson's a walkie-talkie. |
| 1:50.0 | Specifically from NBA players. |
| 1:52.0 | I never believe it. |
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