Attention: OpalCat
I’ve posted before about a poltergeost in my house but this really freaked me out…
For the record, no alcohol was consumed prior to the events in this story.
Every year, my girlfriends and I take the weekend after Thanksgiving weekend and go to Eureka Springs. We stay in a house or B&B. This year, the B&B we stayed in is called “Home Suite Home” and we were very pleased with it (the first night but not the second!). It used to be the school in Eureka. More on that later.
This year, we decided we’d go on the Crescent Hotel Ghost tour. (This is the hotel that OpalCat mentioned in her post in the aforementioned link.) We thought it would be fun. It never crossed my mind that something would actually happen to us. So, we show up for the tour and before we go in, I wanted to take a pic of the hotel from the outside. My digital camera starts doing weird things. I’m looking at the lcd screen and there were blue lines like interference going back and forth. I didn’t know what it was but the camera still worked. So, I snapped a few pics.
OK. Inside, during the tour. We hear about all the “happenings,” rolling our eyes quite alot. The guide tells us that the hotel had, at one time been used as a cancer hospital by some quack named Dr. Baker who swindled his patients out of untold fortunes. One end of the hotel )called “The Annex”) had been where the terminal patients had been locked up to basically scream themselves to death. She says, “People frequently see 2 nurses walking together or a nurse with a man in a wheelchair or a nurse pushing a gurney with a body on it. Or the “energy” will manifest itself as orbs of light” Yeah, whatever. So, we go up to the next floor and I was the first one up there. I snapped a picture looking towards The Annex. I always use the screen while taking pics, never the viewfinder. Anyway, when I looked at the pic I had just snapped on the screen, there was what looked like a white dinner plate hanging on the wall. It’s in the pic but not there in real life. So, I ask the guide.
Me: Is this what you meant about “orbs of light?”
Guide: Yes. Boy that one’s really big and bright. I’m surprised you didn’t see “someone” there.
Me: I can assure you I did not.
Guide: Ususally, if they are that large, they’re transluscent. Or if they are that bright, they are usually pretty small.
Me: Um, OK.
So, I take several more pics but don’t see anything else. Next, we go to the basement where the morgue was. There is no way to describe the feeling I had there except to say that I believe I was in the presence of evil. The guide talked about several specific “ghosts” that are commonly experienced in the basement: one likes women’s jewelry and unclaspes necklaces and bracelets. While we were there, one woman’s earring came off twice. When she reached down to pick it up, the back was still on it both times. There was just this suffocatingly dark and sinister feeling there. I can’t describe it.
So, after the tour, one friend and I are still walking around the hotel taking more pictures (evil feeling is gone, only felt it in the basement) and we get several more pics with orbs. When we come down the stairs, my firend who drove us there jumps up from her wingback and says,
Friend:ARE YOU MESSING WITH ME?! I swear to God, if you are I’ll kill you!
Me: Whaaaaa???
Here’s what happened to her while we were taking pics after the tour: she (Susan) and the fourth friend were sitting in the lobby waiting for us and thought we’d left aand gone to the car. So, they head out. On the way, the car alarm starts to go, along with the car next to ours. They start running to the car and Susan is hitting the car alarm trying to make it stop. She hit the button 10-12 times. It wouldn’t go off. So, she stops running, is standing, looking at the alarm fob, not touching anything and the alarm goes off and the alarm of the car next to ours stops. She and other friend look at each other and take off running as fast as their legs will carry them back to the hotel. On the way back, they have to pass the diningroom with massively tall windows. They are about 20 feet from the windows and hear a BANG BANG BANG on the glass. They look in the window but don’t see anyone (they thought it was me, messing with them). While still looking at the windows where no one is standing they hear BANG BANG BANG again. They run into the hotel and to the diningroom but there are just a few servers going about their business, no one near the window. They sit down in the lobby and a few minutes later, we join them and Susan asks if I’m “messing with” them.
So, now, completely freaked out, we go back to our B&B. When we get there, the front door (accessible only with a combination keypad) is open but we were the only ones staying there. So, we thought one of us had left the door ajar when we left. We search thoroughly but there’s no one in the place and all our packages from the day’s shopping are still there. So, we’re standing around, looking at each other, wondering what to do when we heard from upstairs a BRING! BRING! BRING! like the sound of a schoolbell! There was nothing in the place that ould have made that noise. No clocks, no watches, cellphones, vcrs.
We couldn’t get out of there fast enough. We packed our stuff and left. It may sound silly but, even in the light of day even now, we all say we’d leave again. No regrets.
When I got home and looked at my pics and printed them, there were about 12 with orbs of light, including the pics I took outside before the tour when my camera was experiencing the interference (that, btw, has never happened before or since). They are not merely refractions of light…one set is the exact same hallway where I got a pic of an orb that was visible on the lcd screen and I took another one without moving my body from it’s spot. The orb is farther up the hallway. I’ve been all over the web looking at photos of orbs and read about conditions in which orbs can be faked. None of those conditions existed at the time. If you want to see the pics, email me and I will send them.
It’s the most scared I’ve ever been in my whole life.
mmm…