To Whom it May Haunt:
My name is Jinx and I am a tour guide at the 1886 Crescent Hotel. Saturday, June 25th, I was giving the 10 o’clock expanded tour which arrives on the third floor around 10:30, where I had an experience I will not soon forget.
If you have not taken a ghost tour, we encourage guests to “ghost hunt“ by taking pictures and such throughout the tour in the spaces we tell stories. Often, guests assume other patrons walking the halls are spirits, which is usually easily debunked.
I finished telling my large tour group about our “Lady in the Mist“ on the north side of the hotel when I noticed one if our brass luggage carts at the back of the hallway. Hanging on the cart was a young girl. Her hair was a little longer than her shoulders and very dark. She wore a black dress with what looked like tiny pink flowers. I thought she looked pretty creepy, and the guests would get a kick out of that as they took their pictures. I did not want to point her out to the guests and embarrass her, but I stared hard at her, trying to see her face and make eye contact, which proved to be very difficult, like it was blurry or kept changing. To be honest, though, I’m getting older and chalked this up to poor sight and lighting. Several guests looked back in the direction I was staring, and they all stayed in the area to snap their photos after I had made my way downstairs to the second floor.
When the group had congregated, I said sarcastically, “Did anyone see that creepy little girl up there on the luggage cart ?“ as I assumed someone had at least seen her if not taken pictures with her in them.
There was silence from the group… 18 other people standing in that hallway had not seen this little girl! Not one person had a photo of her.
I had to continue my tour so I wasn’t able to go back to investigate. I followed up with several employees and the front desk to see if anyone had seen the girl in question. In hindsight, she was swinging her hips, hanging there and the cart was not moving. Looking at the height of the space in the cart, she must have been about 6. Also weird that a girl that young would be hanging around in the hallway alone at that time of night. If it was a spirit and she revealed herself to me, I hope I can discover why. I’m honored that she would try to connect, and I hope she liked my stories.