Taking the Kids: Grabbing some last-minute spooky fun
New Orleans prides itself on being one of the most haunted cities in the country with ghost and cemetery tours (plenty of voodoo) and plenty of haunted hotels. Guests at the Hotel Monteleone report that they’ve seen ghosts of employees and children playing in the hall, including a young boy named Maurice said to be searching for his dead parents.
Can you smell the cigar? The Bourbon Orleans is home to an elderly ghost who reads his newspaper in the lobby while smoking a cigar. Guests say they smell the cigar before seeing the ghost.
See Marilyn Monroe? She lived in room 1200 at the Hollywood Roosevelt at the beginning of her career and guests report seeing her reflection in the room’s mirror.
Guests report that Charles Dickens’ spirit may be felt on the third floor of Boston’s Omni Parker House where he once stayed and where the ghost of the hotel’s founder, Harvey Parker, still roams the halls.
Happy Halloween!
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