Hotel or inn
A Waikiki dancer and a figure reported over a wife’s bed
A caller who gives their name as “[name withheld],” from San Diego, tells Art Bell about a night in Hawaii about two years earlier. They watched a Waikiki dance show, became unsettled by the female dancer, and returned to their hotel room. The caller says their sleeping wife then woke screaming and clawed at the room door. Afterward she told them something had stood over the bed looking down at her. The caller ends by saying they concluded the dancer’s “familiar” had followed them to the room. The story is left unresolved.
Nightly object movement and a brother’s singed hair in a modern home
A live caller tells Art Bell that their current home has had unexplained activity since the family moved in when it was newly built. The caller reports objects moving, vanishing, and reappearing. The caller says their older brother’s hair began burning while the brother read a book. The caller also reports nightly activity aimed at the caller and their mother, and interference with their music equipment. Art compares it to a poltergeist. The call ends with the activity still going on.
Fireplace doors, an orb, and moaning in a Branson-area bed and breakfast
[name withheld], from St. Louis, Missouri, tells of staying with their mother at a bed and breakfast outside Branson, in Walnut Shade. One morning alone, the caller reports, fireplace doors opened and closed, shopping-bag handles moved on request, a toilet and interior doors operated by themselves, and a glowing orb appeared in the stairwell. The caller says their mother did not believe them. On another night they heard moaning behind a downstairs bed, and their mother dismissed it as a wild imagination.
A hooded figure at a California motel, later described by the writer’s son
Art Bell reads a letter from an unnamed woman. She says that on her 1997 honeymoon she woke in a California motel room to a hooded figure in a dark brown cloak leaning over the bed and stroking her cheek. She says it rose and dissolved into mist, and her husband searched the locked room. Thirteen years later, she says, her eight-year-old son ran in at sunset and said he had seen a ghost near her bedroom window that was [quote withheld] She asks Art what it means. He answers that he has no idea.
Gateway Gazette article read on air: The lady in red at the Mizpah Hotel, Tonopah
Art Bell reads a newspaper piece he identifies as the Gateway Gazette of Thursday, October 28. The article, titled [quote withheld] is by staff writer [name withheld] and is about the Mizpah Hotel Casino in Tonopah, Nevada. It strings together a bar patron's remark about a “hologram” of a woman in the elevator, the legend of a “lady in red” said to have been murdered on the fifth floor, a keno board said to light up though it is not connected to power, and stories from several named employees. Bell stops reading partway through the article, saying there is more.
Glowing human-shaped figure at the foot of a bed in a Kauai resort
[name withheld], calling from Kihei, Maui, Hawaii, tells Art Bell a story they say they first told him briefly a few years earlier. The caller and their wife [name withheld] were staying at the Coco Palms resort on Kauai, before Hurricane Iniki. [name withheld] says they woke in the night to a large, glowing, human-shaped figure at the foot of the bed. The caller was petrified and unable to move, and closed their eyes. Days later, [name withheld] says, the caller’s wife told them she had seen it too. She described a very large Hawaiian figure that floated in through the window and stood at the foot of the bed, and she called it “very pissed off.” [name withheld] guesses it was a Hawaiian ghost reacting to a local woman with a white man. [name withheld] says they both got “chicken skin.”
Knocking, pulled covers, and a figure in 1920s dress on a hotel's fifth floor
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld] from Sacramento, a stuntman, describes one night on the fifth floor of a large hotel in Coral Gable, Florida, while working on a film. They report knocking at their door with nobody outside, their bed covers being pulled off them repeatedly, and a man in 1920s formal dress at the end of the hallway. The next morning, they say, a woman at a hotel historical society booth told them the place is [quote withheld] She also said the fifth floor had been the morgue when the building was a wartime hospital. They then asked to be moved off that floor.
Reported music, elevator doors, and a rooftop push in a Saskatoon hotel building
A caller who identifies themself as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell they work in an old hotel building in Saskatoon that they call “the Haunted Hotel.” They report unexplained music and thumps, elevator doors that work by themselves, a shoulder grab felt by a coworker named [name withheld], smells of fresh bread and coffee at night, a push they felt while on the roof, and a name given through a Ouija board. They offer their own explanation, a psychic impression of the place, and the host ends the call for time.
Cold plume and opening door in a Beijing hotel bathroom
A caller who identifies themselves as [name withheld] from Phoenix tells the host about a stay with friends in Beijing, China. The caller reports that while showering at the Hua Bei Hotel, they heard a knock and a door pushed open. The bathroom became super cold, and a gigantic plume entered and blew open the shower curtain. The caller says they took it to be a presence, possibly an old Chinese warrior. It went away after the caller placed red Chinese dream catchers around the room.
Reported poltergeist activity at the Provincetown Inn, Cape Cod
An unidentified caller tells Art Bell a family story about the Provincetown Inn at the tip of Cape Cod. The caller says their uncle, a former California contractor, took a caretaker job at the inn about twenty years earlier. They say the uncle and his wife reported a thrown wooden spoon, footsteps upstairs with nobody there, and an empty stairwell after the uncle stood waiting with a gun. The caller adds that they and their brother later visited with cameras. They also say their uncle's research linked the building to lumber salvaged from an 1870s whaling wreck. The host cuts this part of the broadcast off for time before the caller can give more detail.
A voice and an arm on a hotel staircase, then news of a brother's death
A caller from Canton, Michigan, tells Art Bell that on October 7, 1983, while playing a band job at the Fordney Hotel in Saginaw, Michigan, they woke at the top of the hotel stairs, felt an arm around them, and heard a voice say [quote withheld] The caller says their mother telephoned the next night to tell them their brother had committed suicide. The brother then “visited” them for about a week and a half, which they describe as feeling a cold stare, and which they say comforted them.
Motel night clerk takes a call from an empty room
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, tells Art Bell about their most recent ghost encounter. About three years earlier they worked the night shift as a motel desk clerk. The caller reports that around 1 a.m. the desk phone showed a call from a room with no registered guest. A brief old woman's voice said it had the wrong party. The caller found the room empty, with the phone on the hook. Their own explanation is that the dead mother of a resident in the next room had been looking for her son. The host notes that the motel phone system is private.