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-KMC THREAD KILLER-
Well as it turns out this thread got derailed in a hurry, I was searching up ghost stories out of boredom.
I recommend this thread be merged with the "Ghost stories!!!!!!!!!!!!" thread just to keep the thing on topic, meanwhile I have one to share; it's not my own, it's actually a guild officer's of mine in the Pod People guild in WoW. (Infernalbill from Whisperwind, to give him full credentials)
Most Canadians probably have heard about the Banff Springs Hotel (which very oddly is coincidentally parallel in many ways to the Overlook Hotel, which is the setting of "The Shining"😉. There's been many weird happenings around the place, such as the famous ghost of Sam the doorman, who mysteriously appears to help visitors with lighting and plumbing and when they accidentally lock themselves out of their rooms, also the staircase that leads to nowhere, the dead bride, etc. I personally want to meet this Sam.
Anyways the officer (we'll call him Bill) was young and with a couple of his buddies at the time. The hotel has a sub level, which is an outdoor/indoor swimming pool, another common area floor above that is referred to as the Mezzanine level, and above that is the actual reception area/lobby.
This hotel actually does house an official thirteenth floor. Fun part. Unlike many other hotels.
So Bill and his little buddies were having fun in the Mezzanine and since they were goofing off and being lazy they decide to take the old fashioned elevator up one level to the lobby instead of simply taking the stairs. Yay for lazy. So the elevator does come down and goes "ding!" and the door opens, everyone goes inside and they press "L" for lobby. Nothing happens and the door stays open despite them mashing "L".
Then they get out and do it again for the next elevator, and the malfunction repeats, and before long all five elevators are on that floor and doors open. One particularly stubborn kid remains in the fifth elevator mashing the "L" button while Bill and the rest of his friends walk out again and are pacing around the elevator to see if anything works.
Just then all five elevators at the same time go "ding". The kid in the fifth one has time for a short "What the - " before the doors close. His more fortunate friends are stuck gazing at the elevator floor indicator (a needle, not a light)
All five elevator doors close at the same time.
All five elevators ascend, right past the lobby.
All five elevators stop at the 13th floor.
By now Bill and his friends are kind of freaked out, they're like "Oh God, time to get outta here." but Bill, being the un-supersticious fella he is, decides to try it. So he calls the elevator down, gets inside, presses "L" repeatedly. The door closes and he starts to rise.
And like before it goes right past the lobby.
1st floor, 2nd floor, 3rd floor. Bill goes "No way."
4th floor, 5th floor, 6th floor. Bill goes "Oh man this is not real."
7th floor, 8th floor, 9th floor. Bill goes "I am out of here." and presses the numbers to get off at the 10th, 11th, and 12th floors wildly.
10th, 11th, and 12th floors. The elevator does not stop.
Bill: "ON NOES I AM GOING TO DIE"
13th floor: "Ding!"
So the door opens upon a plain normal looking hallway, and he peeks out and sees a strangely dressed kid standing in front of a mirror at the end of the hall nearest to him. What was weird was that the reflection looked subtlely different from the actual image in ways. Other weird kid turns around and sees him and starts walking rapidly towards him for some reason. Bill shits a brick. (Not literally) Bill begins mashing on "L" again. Nothing happens. More button pressing. The doors start to close. Weird kid breaks out into a sprint. Doors close just in time and takes him down to the lobby in a cold sweat.
There he finds the first trapped kid sitting on a chair near the other tourists milling around the hotel lobby, and from what it looks like they apparently saw the exact same thing.
This is all true actually, and next time I visit Banff I'll have to check out the hotel, including the elevators. But I ain't going alone, no way in hell.
Maybe they have a #1408 room.
Or #1309.