How to cope with staying in a haunted hotel – my experience of the Eldridge KS
Have you ever stayed in what you thought might be a haunted hotel? Here’s my direct experience – before I knew the hotel was haunted.
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Haunted Hotel? Isn’t that a cliché?
I have always been able to sense atmospheres in locations or buildings, but often thought it was something most people could do…but didn’t talk about.
This misconception went on for a number of years – until I had the good fortune to work with a spiritual medium that finally confirmed my gifts.
I used to feel and sense things in specific places for ‘no apparent reason’.
The back stairs
For example, once I was at business meeting in a medieval house in Lewes, Sussex, UK to get partner insurance.
I kept hearing words that a woman had died in this old house by falling down the steep stairs at the back. It was one of those staircases behind a door that older houses sometimes have.
The owner went a little pale at the gills when I asked him this question.
He replied that yes, the history of the house indicated that a woman had been pushed down the stairs by her husband in the 1800s and had died as a result.
Houses have Akashic Records, too.
Mediumship can be part of spiritual awakening
As I’ve continued onwards on my Spiritual Journey the unusual experiences have never ceased to amaze me.
The last thing I would ever have labeled myself is a spiritual medium, yet on the journey, I keep having these odd experiences.
The Eldridge Hotel in Lawrence, Kansas has been one experience out of many and yet still came as a surprise.
What I have learned is that to truly understand these experiences we must learn to embrace our gifts and begin to accept that we live in a system of energy or consciousness.
Then we become less fearful of the experiences and understand them better.
Initially, it’s understandable to be fearful – after all – we are taught to fear death at a pretty young age in Western Society.
The cold spot in the corridor
I knew nothing of the Eldridge Hotel’s reputation before we went there during spring Break 2011.
To celebrate our wedding anniversary, my then-husband and I took the girls on a short road trip around Kansas via Manhattan and ended up in Lawrence, Kansas.
We booked a lovely dinner in an Italian restaurant for the second of our two nights in Lawrence and had no idea we had also booked into a haunted hotel!
Spirit made sure that I knew, though.
We booked into the hotel and made our way up to the 5th floor where we had been given a suite since it was available – at the end of a long corridor.
As we walked down this corridor I suddenly felt a huge cold patch of air that seemed to hang there…warm on one side, warm on the other, cold in the middle.
I said to my husband (a very in-body person)
There’s a cold spot here – can you feel it?
Like many people, his response was to laugh and shake it off.
Puzzled, I entered our suite
At this point, the voice started in my left ear.
Very genteel, southern, and polite, a military officer said that there were many entities in the hotel.
Since I had little ones, he suggested I should take particular care.
He kept talking and talking enough to make me raise the issue again with my husband.
So we got out our laptop and decided to google.
Whilst this was going on, I became aware of one being that was in flames through my psychic awareness.
This being was screaming and running up and down the corridor outside.
There was also another that I wasn’t sure what/who it was – just not very nice intentions at all, let’s put it that way.
Haunted Hotel comes up on Google
As we googled, up came the headline “haunted 5th floor of the Eldridge Hotel, Lawrence Kansas“.
Oh, dear.
According to several websites, the presence of Col. Eldridge is often felt, especially in room 506 (luckily not our room).
In room 506, he likes to blow his breath on a tall mirror and steam it up in the presence of guests.
Other reported manifestations have included: –
- the cracking of a water bottle in the middle of the night
- an air conditioner randomly switches on
- watching your luggage shake all by itself.
In fact, the Eldridge is such a haunted hotel that it has earned a feature on A&E’s Biography show My Ghost Story.
Luckily for us, I had bought some Frankincense oil with me and a crystal, so I cleared our room using energy.
Whoever the ghost was that talked to me (and it could have been Col. Eldridge for all I know), he said he would guard the room that night to ‘help the little ones’.
Despite the clearings, I found it hard to sleep and much to my husband’s chagrin, we kept a bedside lamp on all night.
Despite my energy clearing work, this didn’t prevent surrounding energies from blowing words and songs under an outside door leading to a small balcony.
Not quite the romantic stay we had been expecting.
Another haunted hotel gave me the chills
The same year we stayed in the Eldridge we also took a road trip to Charleston, SC in order to visit my then husband’s parents.
On the road, we stayed in a very modern Holiday Inn with a pool just outside Nashville, Tennessee.
I had an odd dream that night which I just couldn’t put down to the big dinner and lemon drop martini I had the night before.
I dreamed that a young man came into the room holding a bloody knife – and wanted to tell me that he had been murdered. This dream repeated a couple of times during the night.
Check if you really are in a haunted hotel
The next day I thought I would check if it was happening again, so I approached a desk clerk and asked her if the hotel had experienced any hauntings.
She leaned in, and in genuine distress (because she didn’t want her boss behind her to hear) said: –
“They are here!”
Have you ever stayed in a haunted hotel?
10 Responses
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SO many times I have lost count. I’m now in the habit of protecting the room with energy before I go to sleep. I don’t know what it is about hotels but I’ve found earth bound spirits do tend to linger in them. I’m not sure if it’s the constant hustle of human energy or what but there is a reason for the cliche’.
Tell me about it Monica. Maybe it’s just the sheer amount of footfall of humanity in hotels! Often they are built in very powerful places energetically, too, where people like to meet and hang out. Maybe that is it.
I agree though, new or old I always clear a space when I stay away from home now!
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