Boo! The most haunted hotels in the US revealed just in time for peak spooky season

These guests have overstayed their welcome.As the spookiness of Halloween approaches, a new report reveals the most haunted hotels in the US — based on guests recounted tales of seeing, hearing, and even feeling so-called ghosts and other freakish phenomena.Travel booking engine Hotels.com, which noted a “significant rise in interest in spooky getaways” this month, pored over thousands of user reviews left on their site compile the terrifying list.Across the nation, with a significant concentration in The South and Southwest, the experts identified 13 places where guests are most likely to get a good scare.“We’re working on adding guaranteed ghost sightings but these spirits are hard to pin down,” joked Melanie Fish, a spokesperson for the site.Leading off the list with a “boo!” is the Bourbon Orleans Hotel in New Orleans, where guests alleged encounters with the spirit of a little girl, supposedly friendly, who checked in and never left.“Book 305 and maybe you will see the little girl my husband woke up to see,” one guest claimed.

“[He] woke up to getting poked on his feet and saw a little girl standing by the bed.” The building, originally a theater in the early 19th century, has a particularly colorful history, according to Ghost City Tours, which corroborated the guest’s experience.“When yellow fever swept through the city during the late 19th century, the nuns of the Sisters of the Holy Family prayed and cared for the sick orphans in their care” on the premises, according to the site, noting that room 644 is also eternally occupied.“The haunting sounds of lilting children’s laughter echo in the hallways of the hotel.

Guests of the hotel have experienced the back of their shirts being yanked, only to turn around and find the hallway completely empty.”A phantom Confederate soldier from the Civil War supposedly also roams the hallways of the historic hostelry.Elsewhere in The City that Care Forgot, Hotel Provincial’s buil...