In the Florentine Room on the tour last night, a 9 volt battery was found on the ground near the door to the hallway where the noise was heard (see previous post). It appeared to be somewhat damaged, as though it had fallen. It made a pretty good noise when dropped. Could the sound we…
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A really scary night on the tour.
This may have been the scariest thing that has yet happened to me on a tour. I was feeling a bit more spooked than normal myself. Someone was reporting that the batteries that she’d just put in her camera were already drained – a common occurence at supposedly haunted places, though I’ve not known it…
To Kill a Bull Moose….
In 1912, while campaigning for a third term as the nominee of the Progressive (Bull Moose) Party, Theodore Roosevelt was shot in the chest by a nut who thought the ghost of President McKinley had commanded him to kill Roosevelt in a dream. The bullet was slowed by a fifty page speech Roosevelt had in…
At the Congress Hotel…
At the Congress, where we recorded our recent podcast, security guards recently found noticed something odd on a message board outside of the Florentine Room, which most of the staff regards as the spookiest ballroom of the lot: This has “prank” written all over it, but the board IS sealed, and none of the guards…
Will Roosevelt’s Ghost Endorse a Candidate for 2008?
A few days before Super Tuesday, we ran a miniature investigation in the Florentine Room of the Congress Hotel, a hotel reputed to be haunted by Theodore Roosevelt himself, to see if we could get his ghost to endorse a presidential candidate. While Roosevelt may or may not haunt the hotel, he does have a…