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of Salem's guests and visitors. The beautifully hotel is named for author Nathaniel Hawthorne, who spent his childhood in Salem and returned in 1846 to serve for three years as Surveyor of the Port at the Custom House. In 1849, he wrote The Scarlet Letter at his home in Salem. 1408. Six floors, 89 rooms and right in the heart of Salem. Easy walking distance to all major attractions. The staff is quite friendly and knowledgable. Going into the Hawthorne, I must admitt that we did not have much knowledge of its history and hauntings. We knew about room 325 and the experience of a man who claimed he had a visitor in his room. When it came to the sixth floor, we had NO knowledge of any paranormal activity on this floor.
of the paranormal kind. First, during the second day of our stay, neither of our key cards would open our room door. We had to go to the front desk and get new keys. Also on the second day, some items came up missing from our room that were in the room during the morning hours but when we returned to the room in the evening they were gone. Two books which I had purchased in Salem, a DVD which I had brought from home and a large comb that Lisa had in the bathroom. We searched the room completely, not once but twice as well as our car to double check that we did not take the items to the car. No luck, the items did not turn up. Our natural conclusion was that housekeeping took the items but the mystery is there were far more valuable items in the room that could have disappeared but did not. I don't want to accuse housekeeping of stealing the items and I won't. But I have no clue as to where the items went and why did they disappeared. I reported it to the front desk and asked if there was any significant amount of paranormal activity on the sixth floor. also told that two different guests had reported seeing a strange man like figure in rooms #612 and #617. Regarding our situation and items, I can't help but wonder if someone took the items to scare us. Perhaps something of paranormal nature did take the items. We can only wonder. To this day, we have never recovered them. Hawthorne to be aired on SCi-Fi television on Wednesday, October 24th, 2007. Very interesting as one of the first things they attempted was to leave a set of keys in a room on the dresser and see if they would disappear. Apparently as mentioned, other people have reported missing items. Well the keys never left the dresser, so much for that. TAPS went on to do their investigation and could not find any substantial concrete evidence to support the hotel being haunted. record evp from various locations on the sixth floor using both the digital audio recorder and the cassette recorder as well. I had no success until the last night of our stay from within our room (#606) when I captured a voice on our cassette recorder.  "What " 
keep an eye on all of my personal belongings. Haunted, can't say but do think some weird things happen at the Hawthorne Hotel. |
