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Stay at the Haunted Hotels of San Jose

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

Stay at the Haunted Hotels of San Jose

San Jose is the region in Northern California known as Silicon Valley. It was founded as the first town of Nueva California as a Spanish colony. The city offers a wide variety of cultural, recreational, business and entertainment opportunities. Hence, many tourists decide to stay at the many hotels that guarantee a pleasurable, comfortable and resting experience.

Haunted hotels are the perfect place to experience thrill and comfort at the same time. It can also test one’s bravery. Many of the haunted hotels have a past history, sheltering unwanted spirits. Below are the three haunted hotels in San Jose.

Ramada Limited

Ramada Limited is a three story Motor Inn by the San Jose Convention Center. It is located at the center of the downtown area. This hotel is just 3.5 miles from the airfield and 3 blocks away from the San Jose Say University.

Hotel amenities include free wireless high speed Internet, continental breakfast and a parking area. The hotel also provides modern equipments at the fitness center as well as outdoor pool with Jacuzzi, sauna and a steam room. Guestrooms are equipped with refrigerators, coffeemakers, data ports and direct dial phones. Functions and special events can be held at their spacious meeting rooms.

You can enjoy all these amenities with a thrilling and unforgettable stay for one or two nights. Guests and workers had experienced people screaming because of a green glowing light and rattling locker doors. A diversion couple also happened to disappear on thin air at the ballroom.

Hyatt Hotel St. Claire

Hyatt Hotel is a deluxe Lakspur Hotel at the heart of downtown San Jose. It is just three miles away from Mineta International Airport and a walk-away from San Jose McEnergy Convention Center. The hotel offers elegant and enchanting accommodations that suit one’s comfort. This hotel presents a free-spirited region with better services and cuisines. Guests who want to experience business or pleasure can be dazzled with the luxurious and stylish setting of Hyatt Hotel.

Some people who visited the hotel believe that it is haunted. Stories indicate that the hotel has a resident ghost titled Julia. She is a prominent young woman who was married at the Palm Room in the 1930s. Her fiancé forsaken her at the altar and she took her life at the basement.

Guests experienced hearing footsteps of a high heeled woman and background photos that contain a wedding gown train with bride’s feet. There was also a strange incidence at the second and sixth floor.

Unwanted sightings are just one part of the hotel’s exciting offers. The hotel’s first rate amenities and services are the important features you can’t afford to miss. This includes complimentary World wide web access, a mobile office, business center, lobby and restaurants. Guest rooms are equipped with flat screen televisions, Microsystem CDs with MP3s and audio cables.

Hyatt Hotel also offers a resting evening entertainment at the restaurants like I1 Fornaio and Panetteria. I1 Fornaio offers trusty Italian dining for 220 seats, while Panetteria has a wide array of baked goods.

The hotel also offers more than 10,000 square feet of meeting spaces. The modern trusty venues can accommodate 450 guests. Hyatt also advocates exclusive perks for discounts, gift cards and hot deal pricing on packages.

Winchester Mansion

Winchester mansion is a 162 acre residence of Sarah Winchester. The mansion is continuously constructed from 1884 until her death on 1922. It was estimated to cost about .5 million.

The story of the haunted mansion started when Sarah Winchester’s husband and son died. A medium told her to move west and build a home for the deceased spirits killed by Winchester rifles of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. Sarah’s family was cursed and the only way to save her life from death is to build a home for the spirit to reside in. Sarah will live as long as she keeps on building the house.

It originally has seven storeys before it was reduced to four after the 1906 seism struck the building. It was prefabricated entirely with redwood and a floating foundation. There are 160 rooms with 40 bedrooms and 2 ballrooms. It also has 47 fireplaces, 17 chimneys, 2 basements and 3 elevators.

Today, the home is owned by the Winchester Investments LLC and declared as a Historical Landmark in California.

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Haunted Houses of Maryland

Friday, August 7th, 2009

Haunted Houses of Maryland

Rich with tales of civil war apparitions and ghosts of former hospital patients, Maryland is a say that has a colorful paranormal history. This day we’ll focus on just a few of the homes that have attained the ghastly reputation of being haunted -in case you’re in market for some haunted real estate of your own.

The first stop on our tour is the Paint Branch Home in the city of Adelphi, which is currently being used as a retirement home. A former slave house, the spirits that haunt the estate don’t appear to be violent, but have been known to linger around bedrooms and fill the home with their singing. Songs of the dead can be bone chilling indeed!

Next up is the forsaken mansion on Asylum Road in Catonsville. Whispers and loud noises can be heard from inside in the house, even though the property has been vacant for many years. Some have even claimed to see people travel around the yard, only to disappear into the ether a moment later.

In Ellicott City, Oak Lawn is a stone home that dates back almost two hundred years. Reports of paranormal activity include disembodied footsteps, flickering lights, and the smell of food cooking. Due to the ghost’s penchant for food, he became known as the Cooking Ghost, and has become a regular fixture on the property.

Also in Ellicott is a home known as Lilburn. It’s reputed to be one of the most haunted places in the say of Maryland. There’s constant speculation as to who is actually haunting the home, as a number of people have died on the premises. Inexplicable noises, windows refusing to stay shut, and strong odors in empty rooms are just a few of the happenings reported by witnesses. One of the staff members in the home also claimed to have seen the ghostly figures of a man and a girl wandering around, as well as hearing a child’s cry coming from one of the rooms.

In the unincorporated town of Urbana, Landon Home has become particularly famous for its resident ghost dogs. In the primeval days of the house, a massive number of dogs died in the basement area, leaving behind panicked scratch marks on the walls and unsettled spiritual energy. The dogs have been heard barking by a number of witnesses over the years, with no rational explanation. In addition to the dogs, the apparition of a friendly female spirit has been spotted on the estate, as well as the specter of a Civil War officer.

In Perryman, the legend of the Perryman Mansion has grown over the years thanks to its remote location and imposing demeanor. It hasn’t been lived in for a number of years, and has fallen into an advanced say of disrepair. Common reports include mysterious voices, horrible stenches, and collections of animal bones both in and outside the house.

Finally, visitors to Towson’s Hampton Mansion have heard glass and china breaking, as well as the crashing of chandeliers, where no objects could be found. A former butler has also been seen roaming around the home from time to time, apparently unaware that he’s long since been discharged from his position.

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Abandoned Places to Explore

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Abandoned Places to Explore

Most tourists select their destination by the landmarks that they can see there, visiting Paris for the Eiffel Tower and Rome for the Coliseum. But if you want to see places that the world has forgotten, that have stood desolate and lonely for years, then there are places crossways the world that will give you this opportunity. Below is a list of places in USA that might take your fancy. Explore the majesty of these buildings and places of interest, and discover why they were forsaken in the first place.

1)      Lyric Theatre, Birmingham, Alabama – in its heyday, the Lyric Theatre, in the historic theatre district, saw performers like Mae West and the Marx brothers, often filled to the hilt with tourists and people wanting a piece of the action. The last performance was 1958, and the theatre has stood forsaken ever since. Be careful if you visit this once glistening theatre, the infrastructure is very unstable.

2)      Candler Mansion, Atlanta, Georgia – A national historic site, it once belonged to the son of the founder of Coca Cola. As part of his private house, there was a individualized installation and a ballroom on the third floor for parties. The property was sold to the say that used it as an asylum for alcoholics and mental patients, giving it an altogether eerier purpose. It is now owned by a nearby university, but is believed by the locals in the area to be haunted by th ghosts of its past.

3)      Tugboat Graveyard, Staten Island, New York – this is where boats that have been wrecked and ruined are left, all from the primeval 20th century. It’s nearly Davy Jones Locker, but on top of the water.

4)      Waverly Hills Sanatorium, Lousiville, Kentucky – once a hospital for the tuberculosis outbreak in USA in the primeval twentieth century, it was shut and reopened as a hospital for old people. It has a creepy atmosphere, compounded by the fact that there is an underground tunnel that was used to take the dead away without causing attention. It is believed to be one of the most haunted places in the state.

If any of these places sound like a dream to visit when you are on holiday this summer, then grab your bad, Travel Insurance and fly!

Lynnewood Hall was one of the finest mansions built in the USA. Two of the members from the Widener family who lived here died on the Titanic. The fate of the mansion is locked in a legal effort as she sits there rotting away. Her fate is uncertain.