Every hotel you stay at has its stories and over your career you will probably hear them all!  During my flight attendant career, I ran into plenty of “haunted” hotel stories.

One particular ghost story I heard the most and sort of experienced for myself was in Raleigh-Durham, NC.  Every stay invoked a telling of the modern Romeo and Juliet story, details varied, but the plot was always the same:

In the service elevator a boy and girlfriend took their lives.  The girl’s family was sending her away.  The guy worked at the hotel.  When she told him of her family’s plans in the service elevator he came up with a suicide’s way out.  The obvious story goes from there.

In flight attendant school we were told about pilots’ tendencies towards superstitions, so, to say the least, we NEVER rode that elevator.  The pilots also refused to sleep on certain floors at the hotel, because in the past year three flight attendants had committed suicide.  I couldn’t help but wonder why our company had us staying at this doomed and depressing little place.

One time I rode the “Haunted Elevator” by myself.  I ended up spending two and a half hours in the broke-down thing stuck between floors.  Maybe I should have listened to the pilots.  At least I was returning with a new Sudoku book and a pencil from the gift shop!  Always find that silver lining!

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