(random photo of a "creepy man" snagged off the web)

MAN IN THE HALL!

In the first season when we all lived here together there was an odd visual that took place one afternoon. One of the housemates saw a man -a stranger- walking in the second floor hallway passing room #12 area going toward the back stairs. This was unusual indeed and they pursued him as he entered a room. They asked one of the other housemates in the room, "Who was that? And where did he go?"

The man was nowhere to be found. He'd seemingly vanished.

The second spotting of possibly this same man took place when Nancy Coplin and her crew were filming for an actual ghost investigation in the hotel one night. They were part of the Pennsylvania Ghost Hunters Society. The halls were dark. A man -a stranger- stepped in front of them and actually spoke. He apologized for possibly getting in their way. Then when Nancy's crew came outside and asked the rest of the hotel folks who the man was no one had any idea. Nor could he be found. Nor would he be found because they were in the hotel alone. There was no one else in the building.

A third story took place where a man -a stanger- was spotted in the second floor hallway while the hotel was supposedly empty. And then he was gone. These stories are all associated with the second floor hall.

The forth and most recent spotting took place on the afternoon that newest hotel resident Aimee Kast was moving into the building. She was carrying boxes of her things from the first floor up the stairs to the second floor. She was in the building entirely alone. Suddenly when she reached the top of the stairs she screamed with fright as she saw a man down at the other end of the hallway. He was back by room #12 area and the back stairs. She dropped her things and ran out of the building and would not return inside until I got home later that evening.

"I saw a man," she was completely freaked-out. "He was just standing there at the end of the hall."

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PSYCHIC IMPRESSIONS?

Psychic Sydney Mulligan discussed a man-ghost who lurks around the building. She felt he enjoys toying with people. She said he dresses kind of old fashion. She felt he used to live here back in the day. He was kind of a hillbilly hotel village idiot who had some position here of employment within the hotel. She said he thinks of himself as kind of a dandy, imagining himself well-dressed, and he did dress up, but he was really just "off". She said he's part of the place now.

She also believed he had a second friend-ghost who was a doctor who would visit from Philadelphia. She thought this doctor was kind of a dark figure.

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HE IS ALSO IN THE HALL BATHROOM

There is a funny story associated with this potential creepy man-ghost. Everyone visited was aware of "him". And many a guests didn't like to go alone to the bathroom at the end of the dark hall because they claimed they felt him or imagined he was lurking around back there.

The bathroom at the end of the second floor hall has a radio in it that is connected to the lights. So when one turns the lights on the radio turns on as well. But there is a time delay. So the radio kicks in about five seconds later.

One evening Steph went into the bathroom and closed the door.  She was all alone. She wasn't worried about any man in the hall or in the bathroom with her now. Instead, she was thinking to herself, she claimed later, how ghosts were stupid, how she'd never seen any ghosts, how the man in the hall wasn't real, boo, ghosts are dumb, etc. Then the radio kicked in and began to play. The song playing was, "Girl Watcher" by the Okaysions!

"I'm a girl watcher, I'm a girl watcher...
Watchin' girls go by, hey, my my
I'm a girl watcher, I'm a girl watcher...
Here comes one now"

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FOOTSTEPS IN THE HALL

The painter and sculptor George Turner moved into the Grand Midway Hotel for a few weeks while he worked on his beauty statue. He stayed on the third floor. He carved her from wax with a knife and spoon.

One afternoon I was doing some work reading in the the Cairo Room, room #6 on the second floor, when George came downstairs and said from outside the door in the hallway, "I'm going up the street to get a cup of coffee. I'll see you in a few."

There were no animals or other people in the building. But instead of George leaving, I heard him walk away down the hall, wood creaking and solid footsteps.

Then in about a minute I heard George walk back up the hall and stand just outside my door...

Then I heard George walk away far down the hallway, wood creaking and footsteps again...

Then I heard George walk back up the hall and again he seemed to be standing, hovering? waiting?, just outside the door. This went on for a few minutes. It was so odd, I was wondering just what the hell George was doing out there.

Then I heard the downstairs door swing open on the first floor as George came in... George wasn't even in the hall! He was just returning with his cup of coffee from up the street having been gone the entire time.

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THE MAN IN THE HALL
-by Joey

the man in the hall..i am so grateful that i was not the only person to see him.

me and jim were there alone. he was outside fixing his chainsaw and i was in his room getting dressed. i opened the door to leave but i turned around to get my sandwich off the dresser. when i turned around again to go out the door i saw a real-looking guy walk past the door towards the back stairs. i went into the hall and he was totally gone. in 2 seconds he vanished.

i ran outside and told jim. he told me to stay outside by the door and watch the front and the back doors incase the intruder tried to get out. he grabbed a weapon and went to search the hotel.

a while later steve came home from baseball or something like that and jim came out and we told steve about it. i was told again to guard the door and yell if anybody came out. we all figured it was some local guy wanted to see inside the place and that he was just hiding.

they searched the entire building. never found anybody.

i didnt get to see his face, just his back as he walked passed. he had short dark hair and was fairly tall, that's about all i remember of that.

there you go blair, i told you i would post them some day.