15 Most Haunted Hotels

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10 – Akasaka Weekly Mansion,

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  • Tokyo is Japan’s supernatural epicentre, and is home to spirits like the Noppera-bō, a blank-faced changeling known to terrorise humans.
  • Akasaka Weekly Mansion is one of the most haunted places in Tokyo. It’s an extended-stay apartment where guests have reported all sorts of goings-ons.
  • Over the years, many guests have reported apparitions, ghostly mists and the sensation of disembodied hands stroking their hair and touching their private parts at night. Men reported the sensation of female hands touching them, while female guests reported strong, rough hands holding them down while they slept.
  • One female resident even made the claim that an unseen entity threw her out of bed and dragged her across her room by her hair. Needless to say, she departed the building quickly, screaming into the night.

9 – Le Pavillon Hotel,

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  • New Orleans’ Le Pavillon Hotel, built in 1907, has been described as ‘A place where guests can instantly conjure the days of genteel luxury and glittering nights.’ Guests can also expect to have brushes with the dead.
  • Le Pavillon is reportedly haunted by at least five ghosts. The most famous of these is Adda, a melancholic teen who was killed by a runaway carriage sometime in the mid 1800s. Adda has been known to bump into people in the lobby, claiming to be lost, then vanishing.
  • There have also been reports of a grey-haired woman in black and a spectral couple holding hands. Some have also claimed to smell phantom cigar smoke and lady’s perfume.
  • The most amusing reported sighting is of the hotel’s resident spectral hippie. Apparently, a young shoeless man in psychedelic clothing and bell bottoms has been seen running around and disappearing through walls. The hippie ghost is a prankster, often charged with hiding objects and yanking blankets off unsuspecting guests.

8 – Talbot Hotel,

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  • England’s Fotheringay Castle was built circa 1100. It was the birthplace of Richard III (whose remains were found recently beneath a parking lot) and was where Mary Queen of Scots was tried and beheaded.
  • The castle fell into ruin and was demolished, but parts of it were salvaged. Notably, the castle’s oak staircase found its way into the nearby Talbot Hotel of Oundle, Northamptonshire.
  • Legend has it that Mary walked down those very stairs on the way to her execution. The mark of the crown, which was on Mary’s ring, was found on the staircase’s wooden banister. Mary has been dead for over four hundred years, but has not been at rest. Her ghost has been seen walking down the staircase, furniture has been moved around, and her portrait has been known to leap from the wall.

7 – Grand Hyatt Taipei,

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  • Most haunted hotels are centuries old and have some history behind them, but Taipei’s 852-room Grand Hyatt hotel was only built in 1989. Just because the building is relatively new, though, doesn’t mean the land is without an unsettling history.
  • The luxurious Grand Hyatt was built on the site of a World War II Japanese prison camp and execution ground. The earth was so poisoned by death and despair that paranormal experiences abounded in the modern hotel.
  • Locals shun the place, believing that it is haunted by the ghosts of several executed inmates. Even action star Jackie Chan reported feeling disturbances and stormed out of his suite in the middle of the night.
  • At a loss, the hotel’s management turned to feng shui experts, who installed wind chimes, amulets, and Buddhist scrolls in the lobby to frighten away spirits.

6 – Fairmont Banff Springs Hotels,

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  • Located high in the Canadian Rockies, the chateau-style Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel is a beautiful medieval castle in the wilderness. It was built to encourage western tourism and sell train tickets back in 1888, and is dwarfed by the adjacent Rocky Mountains in Banff National Park.
  • Although management firmly denies any paranormal activity, guest accounts tell a different story.
  • One frequently witnessed spirit is that of a young bride who allegedly died in a tragic accident right before walking down the aisle. She fell down a stone staircase during her wedding and caught fire from a torch as she tumbled. Guests have reportedly felt a draft along the hotel’s marble stairwell where she tumbled to her death.
  • The other, nicer sighting involves the spirit of an elderly bellhop named Sam McAuley. Sam died in 1967 following the announcement of his retirement. He so adored the hotel that, after he passed, he reportedly continued to work there. Ninth floor guests report the white-haired bellhop helping them and vanishing before they have a chance to tip him.

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