Haunted Headlines
Posted By itwas1793 on January 13, 2010
Sports fans can now blame it on the strange:
From the blog Ball Don’t Lie comes word of the Knicks hightailing it out of Oklahoma City because the hotel they stayed in, The Skirvin Hilton, is haunted.
For two days, several players had trouble sleeping because they were convinced that their downtown hotel, The Skirvin Hilton, is haunted.
“I definitely believe it,” Jared Jeffries told Frank Isola of the New York Daily News. “The place is haunted. It’s scary.”
Eddy Curry claims he slept for only two hours Sunday night because he couldn’t stop thinking about ghosts roaming the hotel. … For years, guests staying at the Skirvin Hilton have reported strange noises and ghost sightings. … the hotel’s original owner had an affair with a maid that led to a pregnancy. To avoid scandal, the maid was locked on the top floor where she went crazy, gave birth and then jumped out a window killing herself and the baby. Since then, guests have reported hearing a wailing infant [and]
seeing naked female ghosts…
Reminds us of the Renaissance Vinoy Hotel in St. Petersburg, Florida, which has a similarly strange story of its own. In 2003, several members of the Boston Red Sox admitted to seeing an apparition of a man dressed in 1930s garb who would vanish into thin air.
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