SAN DIEGO ( KSWB/KUSI ) — The average traveler looking for a hotel may hope for a room with a view, but come the spooky season, maybe you would prefer a room with a boo.
Historic Hotels of America, a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, recently released its 2024 Most Haunted Hotels of America list. On it are places where “generations of staff and guests pass along the tales of spectral Revolutionary War soldiers, the smoky silhouettes of U.S. presidents, the melancholy spirits of tragic would-be brides, unexplained footsteps, as well as friendly phantom bellhops and engineers.”
“For some historic hotels, the past is not only present in their historic architecture and authentic character, but also — according to legends — in the ghostly spirits attracted to the historic hotel,” a spokesperson for the program noted in a press release revealing the list.
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The oldest on the list is Concord’s Colonial Inn in Concord, Massachusetts, which has been serving guests since 1716. Part of the hotel served as a hospital during the Revolutionary War, and it is rumored some of those 18th-century patients never left the inn.
The nearby Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Massachusetts also made the list. The hotel is often considered one of the most haunted in the country, according to Historic Hotels of America. Guests have reportedly seen a ghostly woman, as well as furniture moving on its own. They’ve also claimed to hear noises, or experienced faucets and lights being turned on and off. Some say they smelled fresh-cut flowers when none were around.
The hotel has seemingly embraced its haunted history, appearing in the Salem saga of the television show “Bewitched” in 1970 . The operators have also hosted several spooky events, including: an unsuccessful séance to communicate with Harry Houdini in 1990; an investigational visit from the “Ghost Hunters” in 2007; and an annual haunted Halloween Party.
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Also ranked among the most haunted hotels in the country is Hotel del Coronado in San Diego…