As a part of Italian tradition and superstition, the artisans and laborers who built the Mount Washington Hotel varied the number of steps to the second floor (thirty-three from the registration area and thirty-one in the South Tower) to confuse ghosts in the hotel.

The stairs haven’t confused one ghost in particular. Carolyn Stickney, the widowed bride of the Mount Washington Hotel’s owner, played a principal role in the development of the hotel and visited the hotel season every year. She became known as “the Princess” after marrying French royal, Prince Jean Baptiste Marie de Faucigny Lucinge, and often held extravagant parties in her own private dining room, now called the Princess Lounge... Read More

Omni Shoreham Hotel

Recently remodeled, the aptly-named Ghost Suite at the Omni Shoreham Hotel is a ghoulish retreat for those who love the paranormal.

The Doherty family, original shareholders in the hotel, lived in a suite of rooms with a housekeeper, Juliette, from 1933 to 1973. Juliette awoke one morning at 4 am not feeling well and died reaching for the phone.

The Doherty’s daughter, Helen, also died under mysterious circumstances in the family’s suite. No one ever found out how it happened... Read More

Omni Parker House

The renowned Omni Parker House Hotel is known for being the longest continuously operating hotel in the United States and as the home of the Saturday Club founded by 19th century literary greats Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

What is lesser known, however, is that the Parker House is also one of America’s most haunted hotels. The ghost of Harvey Parker, the hotel’s first owner and a perfectionist who kept his hands in every detail of the hotel and restaurant operations, is said to roam the hotel. He often appears to guests to see if they have enjoyed their stay... Read More

Omni Royal Orleans

Many years ago, before becoming the Omni Royal Orleans, the old St. Louis Hotel constructed in 1960 on the corner of St. Louis Street and Royal Street had no heating or air condoning. The hotel was destroyed in the the New Olreans Hurricane of 1915.

It is told that a maid who died during the hurricane of 1915 at the hotel still comes to visit guests to warm there beds... Read More