Another Story From the Jefferson Hotel

Another Story From the Jefferson Hotel

Another story about the Jefferson Hotel. My birthday is on Halloween and for my present my friend booked rooms 18 and 19 for the Friday before it. There were 4 of us and we actually didn't think that anything would happen but we'd have fun just the same.

A chuck key ended up in one of my friends hands that she swears that I handed her (why I'd hand her that is beyond me). My friend and I were in room 19 and decided that nothing was going to happen and decided to call it a night at about 10:30. Around 11:30 one of my friends in room 18 was ready for a cigarette and since there's no smoking in the hotel I went out with her for a cigarette, it's after this that all hell let loose.

Shortly after I went back to my room, my roomie and I heard a scream coming from one of our friends in rm 18, and in entering the room there was an overwhelming smell of a floral perfume, it was so strong that it was hard to take. She said that the closet door kept opening and that the window shade kept flying up on it's own. I personally checked the door and it would be impossible for it to open "on it's own". She also said that the luggage rack had moved from the back of the closet to where it was up blocking the entry to the closet. I put it back to the wall and about 15 minutes later the door was open again about 3 inches. When I fully opened it, the rack was back at the opening again, not leaning like it had fallen but had been physically moved and standing in the doorway. This happened a total of 4 times that night.

We decided to abandon room 19 since nothing had happened except the cigarette smell that kept occuring at the rocking chair. When we went in to get out belongings the whole room had been ramsacked by our invisible friends. All the dresser drawers were now opened, the blankets had been thrown off the bed, the luggage rack from that closet was now out of the closet and opened up just in front of the room door (about 6 ft from the closet), my camera had been moved from the night stand to the bed, mini blinds had been raised about 2 feet up, and my birthday flowers moved from the night stand to the dresser nest to the room door.

When we went back to room 18 the pictures above the beds had been switched one for the other, the picture between the windows was upside down and the mirror had been moved sideways. When we had taken off our shoes we just tossed them on the floor and now they neatly arranged, and one pair of shoes had one shoe string missing and the other shoe string had been tied in a very neat bow.

We went into room 19 again one friend said that she had seen the rocking chair rock and when leaving the room I witnessed it myself. When we got back in room 18 some of the grapes that we bought were on the floor and in one of the beds under the covers. The next day while we were at a store I found a strange brand of mints in my purse, they belonged to none of us along with a grape (my purse had been zipped closed the whole time) When we left I put the mysterious mints, grape and the chuck key on the dresser saying that I wasn't taking anything home from this place.

It didn't stop when we left. About an hour out of town my friend that had said that I'd given her the chuck key found the chuck key in her purse and accused us of putting it there. The when we stopped for gas, 2 of 4 of us was out of the car and when I leaned over to the passenger seat to get my purse the over whelming smell of that floral perfume was there in my truck! I shouted for my sleeping friend in the back seat to lean up front and take a whiff. She went pale! In the store I checked my purse for anything that didn't belone and all was well.

On the road I asked the other girls to check their purses for anything that didn't belong and one found an ink pen that wasn't hers. I advised her to chunk it out, when she opened the window to do so the perfume smell came back but was only around my seat. When we got home I checked my purse one more time, ok, so I'm paranoid by now, and there in my purse was a tissue that was saturated with that floral perfume!

I went there as a nonbeliever but not anymore! This place will make the most staunch nonbeliever into a believer!

~ J

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