30 Horrifying Hotel Stories That Make ‘The Shining’ Look Like Child’s Play

22. Alarm clocks went off without warning

My wife used to work night audit at a hotel on the oregon coast. She experienced quite a bit there with guests and the unexplained.

Mostly room 303 was there least rented room. When ever she walked past it at night the alarm clock in the room would go off. House keeping would claim that it was unplugged.

The front desk has a log book of guest complaints and most of those complaints were about room 303. Some examples are: pounding on the walls, feeling watched, seeing people, phone or alarm going off, tv turning on or off, bathroom light going on or off, hearing whispers or breathing and many more.

23. We could hear the whispers of children

I worked at a BnB in Savannah, GA for a while when I wasn’t in school. It was downtown so the building was a really old house that had been converted and updated a bit.

It had 4 floors including the “garden level” (slightly below street level but the effective 1st floor is the 2nd) and not surprisingly the higher up in the house you got the nicer the rooms.

As with most of Savannah, most of the buildings are supposedly fucking haunted as shit. Like filled to the brim, ghostbuster backpack level full of ghosts just all over the place. This BnB wasn’t the worst for stories, there was an old condemned house not far away that the parents starved their daughter in the top bedroom that was pretty creepy but I don’t think any murder went down in ours.

I do remember on the top floor landing if it was really quiet you could hear what sounded like children running around and sometimes you’d hear whispers.

I remember a woman I knew worked in another BnB and she claims she opened the dumbwaiter and there was a human torso standing in there. She shut it and it was gone when she reopened it.

Holly is the author of Severe(d): A Creepy Poetry Collection.

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