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Haunted Mountain Ski Resorts

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At first glance a mountain ski resort does not seem an appropriate place for ghosts. But if you take into consideration the fact that the majority of winter mountain ski resorts are built in places where terrible and chilling events had once taken place, the image of an uneasy soul does not seem so out of place any more. The New England, for example, abounds in ghost stories. These stories and the ghostly visions themselves penetrated into woods and villages surrounding the resort area and left their traces there.

The hotel “Mount Washington” situated in the skiing area Bretton Woods in New Hampshire has been famous for its ghosts for many years. They say that the ghost of Caroline Stickney, the wife of the man who had built the hotel, still lives in the tower suite. The ghost leaves hand letterings on the walls and regularly switches the light on and off. Earlier this phenomenon could be observed only in summer, but now the hotel is open all the year round and winter guests also speak about their meetings with the “princess”. Caroline got this name inter vivos when after her husband’s death she married for the second time. Her second husband was Aimon Fosine-Lucin, a French prince. The hotel has a rather rich history. In 1944 it hosted the International Currency Conference. Therefore, now and then you may seem to observe a ghostly group of diplomats sitting around a huge stone fireplace and discussing the economic problems.

Ghost stories surround most Vermont hotels. Guests of the hotel “Brass Lantern Inn”, situated in the village of Stove, have told about amusing tricks of the ghosts. Guests of the hotel “Grand Mountain Inn” tell about a ghostly dancer who tap-dances on the third floor during the snow storms.

Mary Todd Lincoln and her children liked to stay in the Manchester Eqinox Hotel situated close to the Stratton resort. They say that this place remained her beloved even after her death. The hotel “White House Inn”, situated in the resort “Mount Snow” close to Wilmington, is inhabited by the ghost of Clare Brown, the wife of the baron who had built the mansion.
In the West ghosts terrorize not only prominent hotels, but also numerous towns abandoned by miners and cowboys in the last century.

A luxurious hotel “Timberlane Lodge” is situated on the giant slopes of the mountain Mount Hood. This hotel was built during the Great Depression and is considered one of the most beautiful wooden buildings of its time. Due to its unusual country style it often becomes an object of shooting. Namely this hotel appeared in Jack Nicholson’s movie “The Shining”. After seeing this movie many of the hotel guests declared to have seen a host holding an ax in his ghostly hand and wandering along the corridors or a white shadow hiding in the bushes.

The hotel that had inspired Steven King to write his short story is called “The Stanly Hotel”. It is situated in Estes Park near the national park Rocky Mountains. The hotel is proud of its connection with “The Shining”. It even has its own horror room, and each Halloween the hotel gives the ball called “Shining”. There is a small cemetery of domestic animals in the wood near the hotel, that had inspired Steven King to write one of his short stories under the title “The Pet Sematary”.

They say that in the town of Breckenridge, Colorado, lives the ghost named Sylvia. She was the wife of a miner who had lived in a pension situated at the site of the modern popular restaurant “Gold Digger”. However, there is one more version according to which Sylvia was one of the women of the best city brothel which had occupied the place of the new restaurant.

The town of Purgatory situated near the resort Durango Mountain gained its fame as an old city full of ghost stories. The railroad connecting Durango and the gorge of Silverton is sometimes visited by the ghost of an old railroad worker who had lost his legs as a result of an accident with trolleys. People, who stay in John Whane’s room of the hotel “Rochester” situated in the town itself, declare to have seen a ghost of the women wearing a Victorian garment.

Crestid Bute, Colorado, is an old miner’s town transformed into a ski resort. Restored town houses hide numerous stories and evidences of meetings with ghosts. Local citizens swear to have seen a ghost trying to stop a car on the road to the town. Others tell about ghost women looking out of the windows of the hotel “Slogars” or dancing in the hotel “Eldorado” early in the morning.

Nowadays, according to people’s stories, mountains of New Mexico are full of ghosts of the local Indians. Citizens of the village of Taos Pueblo consider the mountain Taos to be sacred, however, a mountain ski resort was nevertheless opened there. It is believed that the resort Santa Fe is also founded on sacred Indian lands. The town of Ruidoso is situated further south, on the territory of the resort “Ski Apache”, where ghosts of the Apache Indians live together with ghosts of soldiers who had once camped in the fort Stanton, as well as with the Small Billy’s ghost. And do not forget about Roswell, the centre of the American ghost stories.

In the north, in Canada, a castle-like hotel “Farmon Banff Springs” offers rooms to hundreds of skiers and snowboarders who ski in the three neighbor resorts of “Norquay”, “Sunshine” and “Lake Rose”. There are several ghosts in this hotel. Their existence was proved by numerous evidences. To these ghosts belong a ghostly herald, who has been opening the doors of the hotel to greet the guests and repairing the lightning since 1960, and the ghost of the bride who had fallen from the stairs after entangling in the train of her wedding dress. They say that she is still wandering along the hotel corridors. Sometimes she is seen dancing in her elegant but “unlucky” dress.

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Article Submitted On: November 18, 2007