Real Haunts

Situated on the Ohio River, the working class town of Brandenburg, Kentucky is an incredibly small place. With a population of barely two thousand people and exactly four square miles in size, there is not much that can be hidden from view. But amongst the serene natural backdrop, against the nearby creek, the Doe Run Inn is one very active paranormal place.

Is the Doe Run Inn Haunted?

The area that the Doe Run Inn rests on was formerly a Native American settlement in the late 1700s. It was recorded that Squire Boone called the nearby creek Doe Run because of the unusually large amount of deer that lived in the area. Originally, the Doe Run was first called Stevenson’s Mill and was an actual timber cutting building.

Over the years, the building ceased operations and was repurposed in 1901 into an inn due to a nearby water spring that was discovered and purported to have healing powers influenced by the Native American history. By 1958, a new set of owners added a restaurant and called it the Doe Run Inn and it was open for business. Decorated with over three centuries the Doe Run Inn is packed with plenty of history, and plenty of ghosts.

Ghosts of the Doe Run Inn

• The activity is spread out against a wide variety of sightings and stories. Laughter and voices of children can be heard at all hours both inside and outside room number twenty, which was formerly a children’s playroom.
• Amongst the furnishings in room number twelve is a rocking chair that is sometimes inhabited by an older man who can be seen slowly rocking in it.
• The reflection of a younger woman can be seen throughout the inn’s mirrors. Her dress is antiquated and her expression said to be somewhat melancholy.
• At other times, staff inside the Doe Run have had physical encounters as well. The apparition of a young mischievous Confederate soldier actually unties the shoelaces of employees and reties them very quickly causing them to fall over to the floor!
• Many times during simple landscaping of the inn, staff have reported seeing a woman dressed in white, edging herself along the creek as if looking for someone in it.

Most stories and accounts from visitors to the Doe Run are non-violent in nature. Nothing demonic or sinister is said to prey upon any visitors to the inn. Paranormal enthusiasts speculate that the inn has simply adapted some of the ghostly energy given off by the centuries of people who have visited the area. For whatever the case may be, in Brandenburg, it is without a doubt the most haunted place there.

The Haunted Shaffer Hotel in Mountainair, New Mexico

Many ghost sightings have been reported at the haunted Shaffer Hotel and several paranormal groups have investigated. Tell us your story in the comments below.

Whenever a haunted hotel is mentioned, most paranormal enthusiasts are quick to guess that something tragic happened early on during the hotel’s construction. Perhaps it was even built over the old horror trope of “a Native American burial ground”? However, when it comes to the Grey Whale Inn located in Fort Bragg California, neither scenario is correct. Why? Because the Inn is actually a former turn of the century hospital.

Is the Grey Whale Inn haunted?

Originally constructed by the Union Lumber Company in 1915, the Grey Whale Hospital was a beacon of medical hope that treated all sorts of patients. It 1923, the Union Lumber Company sold it and the hospital was renamed the Redwood Hospital. Again all types of patients were treated all the way up until 1971. Shortly thereafter the small hospital ended up closing and the property was suddenly bought up by a pair of owners, determined to make it into a trendy bed and breakfast inn.

Ghosts of the Grey Whale Inn

Reports of activity seemed to have begun to accumulate in the early 1980s. The most common complaint from travelers was seeing an elderly man peeping from behind the curtains in their room, this was reported to happen in both the day and night. Always upon inspection by hotel staff and the travelers themselves, nobody was to be found in the room and the curtains never appeared to have been disturbed.

Other reports are of a middle-aged woman who can be faintly seen at night, behind and beside the Inn, looking at and reaching down in an attempt to touch one of the many flowers bordering the walkways. Another report from a family who stayed when the Inn was nearly vacant, reported hearing the overhead bustle from the floor above them, almost a sound of hospital gurneys going down the hall in the middle of the night!

In a brief interview with an Inn employee, they claimed that not many full manifested visions are reported and instead that it’s mostly guest reports of hearing or feeling unusual sensations within the Inn itself. When asked what could be causing this, we were told, “It was a hospital for over fifty years and there was a lot of life and death going on in here every day. Don’t you think that would have an effect?” And just like that, before I could answer, our phone connection went out completely.

The Haunted Adolphus Hotel

“Going up?” The common lilt of a programmed elevator voice took on a macabre tone when guests at The Adolphus hotel in Dallas, Texas, heard the automated question playing on loop while a series of elevator doors opened and closed by themselves. The haunted elevator is far from the only fixture in this hotel that has become privy to paranormal activity. Other reports include staff watching windows fly open inexplicably and the music of a band playing along with sounds from a grand piano that was sealed away long ago reverberate through the hallways. However, when staff have come to inspect the sounds there are no instruments or musicians to be found. One former guest became terrified by their firsthand experience with these melodious albeit, spooky ghosts.

“I stayed years ago..2004. I had the worst paranormal experience…stomping above my room…like people running around…people running up and down the huge hall outside my room…and no one was there…you could see down the hall from the peephole in my suite. It was then that I noticed five or six men and women walking into my room at the tune of music….women smoking cigarettes and men with black hats on…they walked straight through my window and were gone,” recalled the shaken guest. “Then a negative energy…Black looking hair in the mid-air was swirling in front of me before coming very close and disappearing…”

Perhaps the most chilling story is that of a ghost who is referred to as the “lady in white” who has long taken up residence at the hotel. In the 1930s, a bride-to-be was left at the altar. Inconsolable from the heartbreak of watching her dreams of “happily ever after” become dismantled, the woman’s “body was found, hanging a few feet from where she was due to say her vows.” Several accounts speak of the bride-to-be taking up vacancy on the 19th floor, where the sound of her footsteps can be heard along with the sobs of a broken heart. Along with the noises, many guests have often seen the ghost of the woman fully materialize and “accompanied by a music box playing a 1930’s tune.”

Other incidents include loud bangs, unexplained knocking, and the chilling sense of an invisible presence enveloping the rooms and hallways. The historic hotel is bathed in luxurious fixtures, and rich with the possibility of a paranormal experience you won’t want to miss.

Whether its history as a hospital or its proximity to the Alamo where hundreds of men once fought and died is to blame, the Emily Morgan Hotel has a long history of hauntings. Today, the staff receives a regular stream of reports from guests about paranormal activity, and it is known as one of the most haunted sites in Texas, if not America.

Emily Morgan History

Originally built in 1924 as the Medical Arts Building on the Alamo Plaza, this Gothic-revival influenced building sets the spooky stage with the unique architectural feature of terracotta gargoyles that portray various ailments. Patients were treated there for more than 50 years until the building was converted to offices in 1976 and to a hotel in 1984.

Ghosts of the Haunted Emily Morgan Hotel

Eager ghost hunters are encouraged to book a room on one of several particularly active floors as well as checking out the haunted elevator. The fourteenth floor was once the crematorium as well as being a hospital and surgery floor along with the twelfth. On these floors and on the eleventh, people report experiences such as smells of alcohol and the sense of being touched along with unexplained noises such as the sound of a hospital gurney rattling around. The ghost of an elderly woman weeping is often seen on the eleventh floor.

The ninth, seventh and third floors are said to be particularly haunted as well. On these floors, people have seen apparitions and heard strange noises. One of the most terrifying experiences happened to a guest staying on the third floor.

Haunt Reportings

A woman was awakened in the middle of the night to a humming sound, and woke to the sight of a young girl sitting at the foot of her bed inviting her to sing a song. Apparently this did not frighten her enough to seek another room because on the following night, she reported the sensation of someone crawling into bed beside her.

Another guest was tormented by the sound of clanking chains in her room on the eleventh floor. She was so frightened that she phoned the front desk, and the woman working there promised her a full refund if the problems continued. The following morning, the guest mentioned the conversation to the desk clerk who informed her that a woman had not been working the previous night’s shift. To whom or what had the guest been speaking?

Going Up? Down? Unexplained Elevator Activity

The peculiar behavior of the elevator at the Emily Morgan cannot be attributed to mechanical failure as it has been inspected many times. However, it is said to take guests repeatedly to the hotel basement that was formerly the hospital’s morgue. It also stops on floors without being called to them and sometimes will travel back and forth between floors six and seven.

Ghosts of the Alamo

There is little doubt that along with the many tragedies that must have played out on these floors when it was a hospital, the ghosts of the Alamo dead walk the halls of the hotel as well. More than 600 men fell in battle there in 1836, and their bodies were stacked and burned. Many suggest that their violent end and lack of a peaceful resting place has caused their spirits to continue wandering all these years later. Perhaps they do not even realize they are dead. They may still be enacting the old battle that killed them.

Ghost enthusiasts in search of a scare are sure to find one at the Emily Morgan Hotel. If they aren’t visited in their own room by restless ghosts, we suggest a stroll around the hallways or a ride in the elevator might be a good place to entice an encounter with the spirits that haunt the Emily Morgan
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Reported haunting locations at the Emily Morgan

• Alamo ghosts are said to roam the halls of the Emily Morgan. Book a room with a view of the Alamo and search for the ghosts of Davy Crockett, William Barret Travis, and Jim Bowie.
• The Emily Morgan elevators have been repeatedly inspected and have a clean bill of health. However, they mysteriously make calls on their own to visit the 6th and 7th floors. Take a ride for yourself and find out.
• The 3rd floor is haunted by a little girl and other spirits.
• The 7th floor you might see apparitions.
• On the 9th floor, objects have reportedly moved around by themselves on tables and many unexplained eerie noises have awoken guests in the middle of the night.