Ghostly Encounters: True Stories of America's Haunted Inns and Hotels

A good night's sleep is not guaranteed...There's nothing like an old-fashioned bed-and-breakfast or inn for beautiful antique decor, delicious hearty meals, the luxury of times past. But the guest houses featured in this unique guide offer much more: phantom servants watching from the upper floors, eerie footsteps echoing in hallways, and ghostly voices calling from the other side. Now Frances Kermeen, the former owner of "the most haunted house in America, " takes you on a one-of-a-kind tour of America's most bewitched places to stay. Feel the chills as you visit:Rooms where women should not stay the night alone-unless they want a romantic encounter with a spectral loverThe beautiful Key West inn that's terrorized by a doll with a ghastly chuckleA certain hall in a coastal California hotel where a female apparition calls enticingly to male guests through a door at nightThe Utah hotel where poltergeists torment the maids and frighten young schoolchildren. These and other goulish tales await you in...Ghostly EncountersSKEPTIC, INNKEEPER, BELIEVER...NOW SHE'S YOUR INSIDE GUIDE TOAMERICA'S MOST HAUNTED HOTELS!When Frances Kermeen purchased the old Southern mansion in Louisiana, she was sure it would make the perfect quiet period hotel. But after seeing a candelabra floating up the stairs, hearing voices coming from a stilled gramophone, and learning about an irate foreman who stalks the grounds a century after his death, she soon discovered that The Myrtles was "America's Most Haunted House." And when The Myrtles became front-page news across the country, her business boomed.