Would You Spend A Night In A ‘Haunted’ Hotel?
Mel and I have talked about ghost sightings and other supernatural occurrences many times on the show. She’s a big believer in those stories. I’m the skeptical one, especially when it comes to anything caught on camera. Current technology makes it so easy to edit and otherwise manipulate video images to look like whatever you want. Nevertheless, the stories keep coming.
Plenty of places, including historic hotels, claim to be haunted. Something awful happened there a long time ago…yada, yada, yada…and the victim’s ghost continues to wander the hallways. So here’s the question: If you booked a room in a historic hotel and then heard some of the other guests might actually be ghosts, would you still spend the night there? For one Major League Baseball player, the answer is a big fat “Nope!”
Too Spooky For Mookie
Sports Illustrated reports that Los Angeles Dodgers’ star Mookie Betts isn’t staying with his teammates during their series against the Milwaukee Brewers this week. The outfielder is refusing to sleep in a 130-year-old downtown Milwaukee hotel because it’s supposedly haunted.
Built in 1893, the opulent Pfister Hotel has long been a setting for alleged ghostly episodes. MLB.com has collected multiple stories about the hotel from visiting players. For example, Bryce Harper of the Philadelphia Phillies claims that he once awoke to find his clothes on the floor and a table moved to the opposite side of his room at the Pfister. He swears the latch was still on the door so no one could have come in. The unnerved Harper asked for another room.
Mookie Betts has stayed at the Pfister Hotel in the past, but the other ballplayers’ stories must have gotten to him. This time, he has chosen to rent an Airbnb with some friends. While the Dodgers might prefer to have all of their players sleeping under one roof, they probably also want Mookie to be well rested for their games against the Brewers.
More ‘Haunted’ Hotels
I guess it doesn’t really matter if you believe in ghosts or not. Once the seed is planted that a hotel is haunted, you’ll probably be wondering about every bump in the night. Fox News looked into some other hotels across America that purport to be inhabited by otherworldly spirits. Could you sleep at any of the ones below?
