THE STORY
Reported Haunting
The Palace Hotel is associated with reports of ghostly apparitions and unexplained activity experienced by guests. Witnesses have described phantom footsteps, mysterious voices, and shadow figures throughout the historic hotel.
The Palace Hotel was formerly a brothel that closed down during the war, when it was refurbished and opened as a historic hotel. The Palace Hotel is believed to be haunted by at least ten spirits, including the former sea captain who constructed the hotel. The most well known apparition seen in the hotel is the ghost of a lady in an old-fashioned blue dress. She mostly appears in Room #3 and #4, and her presence is often accompanied by the aroma of perfume. The doors of these rooms often fly open at night when there is no one around, and people staying in these rooms have reported hearing moans and having their beds shake violently. A happy presence is felt on the lower floor of the hotel, and is believed to be that of Captain Tibbals, the former owner and builder of the hotel. In Room #3, people have reported seeing an old woman in a black dress standing near the stove in the kitchen of the room, but when they approach her, she vanishes. The ghost of friendly little boy, known to staff as Adam, has been seen running around on the third floor of the hotel before fading away, along with a menacing shadowy apparition that has been known to follow guests throughout the third floor corridor. In the hotel basement, the apparition of a homeless man wearing a plaid shirt has been seen by staff. The former owners of the hotel had given him a residence in the hotel, and after he passed away, he returned to the hotel and has haunted the building ever since. The apparition of an Indian woman and her ghostly children haunt various levels of the building, where they apparently died in a fire. Various other misty apparitions and paranormal activity have been reported in the historic hotel.