	Omni Mount Washington Resort 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. After her death in 1936, caretakers and managers prowling the property during the winter hibernation months reported catching glimpses of the Princess descending the stairs for dinner or lights switching on and off in one of the towers. The Princess often returns to a third-floor guest room at the Mount Washington Hotel, where her four poster maple bed still resides. Several guests staying in that room have reported being awakened to find a woman sitting at the end of the bed, brushing her hair. Hotel employees often pose for photos in front of the hotels veranda and one year, employees made a startling discovery in an enhanced photo. When the picture was blown up, viewers could see a woman in the window of the Princess’s room. No one had checked into the room and it was said to be vacant.
	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, but rumors spread that Helen died by suicide or a drug overdose. After the Doherty family left the hotel, televisions and lights would go on at 4am, housekeeping carts would be moved and people reported feeling a breeze in the hallway, as if someone had just run past them. In 1975, a man staying in room 863 called the General Manager to complain of noise in room 864 (Juliette’s bedroom); however, no one was staying in room 864.
	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. Charles Dickens performed the first American public reading of “A Christmas Carol” at the Omni Parker House in the 1860s. The mirror in which he practiced his reading now sits in the mezzanine level hall of the hotel. Guests have reported seeing his image in the mirror as they pass through the hotel. Charlotte Cushman, a renowned 19th century stage actress died in 1876 in her room on the third floor. Now, one of the elevators often travels on its own to the third floor, even when no buttons are pushed. Guests on the 10th floor of the hotel have reported the sound of a rocking chair keeping them up at night. There are no rocking chairs in the hotel. Bellmen have also reported bright “orbs” of light floating down the corridor of the 10th floor before disappearing. A security officer reported that late one evening he saw the shadow of a man on the wall in the Bosworth (oldest) section of the hotel. When he stepped aside to let the man pass there was no one there. He later realized that the shadow was wearing a stovepipe hat.
	Omni Royal Orleans Years ago, when the hotel had no central heat or air, a maid would warm the guest’s bed by placing a copper-bottom pan filled with hot coals at the foot of the bed and tuck the covers in all around the bed to keep the guests warm. Guests still report to waking up to find that the sheets of their bed are warm and tucked in snugly around them.