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Third Floor Mystery Ghost?

A recent guest at the hotel writes:

Hey Ed,

The night after we ran into you in the hall, Joan came running in after using the computer downstairs with tears in her eyes. I’d never seen her look so frightened! I’m the coward not her. She said there was a silhouette of a man in the reflection of the door as she waited for the elevator. She looked away and when she looked back it was still there.
Then in the morning we got a silent phone call. But that could of been anything or anyone.
Just wondering if those sort of things have happened to you or anyone else you knew?
Be safe in your haunted abode!

My money is on Larry the Hipster Ghost. Any other guesses.

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33 responses to “Third Floor Mystery Ghost?”

  1. Miss H Avatar
    Miss H

    If he had a hat on, it was the Man in the Hat Ghost, or else it might be the terrifying dark one from 325 that freaked the psychic out as well as the neighbors. The man in the Hat was often seen around the elevator, in shadow or reflection. He’s Harmless, and nobody seems to know who he was or what his quest is.

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  2. The Ghosts Avatar
    The Ghosts

    We’ll ask around. It could very well be Thom, the man in the hat, or perhaps Huncke came down to 3 — he had a lot of friends there and both have missed the Dead Tenants’ Meetings a lot lately (it’s been noticed). Certainly, we are getting very restless with this new management and we cannot be responsible for an increased frequency — and creativity — of hauntings. We can draw the line at bleeding walls, but we can’t promise much more. We’re not happy with the current situation and since we are almost all emotional energy, it will be impossible to keep a cap on it. Sorry David Elder. See you in your dreams.

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  3. Avatar
    Anonymous

    what floor was this on?

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  4. Avatar
    Anonymous

    Read the subject header. Third Floor.

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  5. Larry Avatar
    Larry

    It wasn’t me, dig. With all armstrongs to our group spokescat, we consist not just of emotional energy but also intellectual energy, we’re a groove, chicken. My guess is Thom, that cat is sadder than a map.

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  6. matt roberts Avatar
    matt roberts

    I’m writing from Laugharne, in south west wales – we’ve a ghost at the Browns hotel here that is reputably Dylan Thomas, wearing a hat and looking pensive. Hasn’t been seen for a few months here, maybe he’s on another writing tour… (ghost writing like sebastion faulks?)
    i’m enjoying reading….

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  7. David Elderooni Avatar
    David Elderooni

    Larry, you commie beatnik.

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  8. Larry Avatar
    Larry

    I’m beat, not a beatnik, dig. As this cat once told me, “Beatniks are skirts from Vassar and Sarah Lawrence who put on black capris and black turtlenecks and make the scene at The Bitter End on weekends, chicks who drink wine instead of whiskey, who have long legs, and long French cigarettes whose smoke curls and dissolves into a gray mist that veils and flatters them. They want to talk about the philosophy of Jazz or how much they hate Eisenhower or about Proto Beat Motifs in Depression Era Literature, and all you want to do is slip your tongue between those sweet red lips, and take her home with you that night, when you’re both stumbling, legless drunk on Greenwich street at three in the morning where some dirty saint smelling of his own piss tells you, “Step up son, Jesus in on his way” and the chick says, “Oh that’s so… so perfect,” — and you kiss her in the doorway and kiss her all the way up three flights to your breathless cage, falling into your Lily Whites and if you can still get it up making love with such intensity it‘s as if fucking her is the only thing standing between you and a gas oven. Sometimes they sleep with you and sometimes they don’t, sometimes they cry afterwards with no explanation, sometimes they don’t cry, and Sunday bright they scrub off the eyeliner and mascara, take off their black capris and turtlenecks , put on their pinned tartan skirts and bulky sweaters and tuck their hair behind matching headbands to catch the train at Grand Central for their leafy green and golden schools and greek letters. Sometimes you see them again, sometimes you don’t. For most of these babies Beat is fashion, not passion, all party and no hangover, a few laughs and thrills on the way to prosperous Missusdom. 999 out of a thousand don’t marry poets. But that one, that one is a Queen. She’s Beat.”

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  9. The Ghosts Avatar
    The Ghosts

    Quite right, Mr. Roberts. Dylan is here, didn’t think of him, another notorious no-show at meetings I might add. You are right as well, Larry, we are emotional and intellectual energy, what deists might think of as the spirit or soul. And David Elder and Marlene Krauss, sadly, are what Larry might refer to as a yarddogs.

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  10. Larry Avatar
    Larry

    It’s like this cat Cassady told me about Stanley Bard, “He knows time.” Stanley’s got his boots on. David Elder, you and that Battle you’re teamed with should give Stanley back the twister. Grit those crumb-crushers and do the right thing. You got a ticket to Palookaville, Clyde. Dig? Gotta split, I have a fine dinner waiting for me at a clambake on the roof. Open all your windows. The Gabriels will be growlin, man. Someone said Diddley might stop by to jam.

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  11. Voice of Translator Avatar
    Voice of Translator

    You have a barbecue at the clambake do you, Larry?
    For those who need a dictonary:
    http://members.aol.com/gethep/jive.html

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  12. The Coward Avatar
    The Coward

    Hey Ed, you left out the part about my ipod and speakers being shoved off the dresser at around 1:05 am, right in my line of vision. This was all on the 3rd floor btw.

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  13. The Ghosts Avatar
    The Ghosts

    We love the third floor, and we often meet their to converse. As you know, we communicate with scents, or rather, our communication manifests in the earthly realm as smell. This is why the third floor so often smells of what Glennon Travis mistook for marijuana.
    Coward, Elaine is usually behind musical mischief of all kinds. A beautiful singer from Rhode Island, she died young, with a song stuck in her head, and sometimes the frustration of this overtakes her when she confronts music-related onjects or music itself. We dare not seat her near Janis, Jimi, Dee Dee or Virgil at any gatherings and you can be sure she did not attend last night’s “clambake” on the roof.
    Larry the Hipster Ghost wanted me to pass along a message. “The clambake was solid murder, all armstrongs, and we blew our wigs until the small chimes. The fine dinner was chrome-plated, radioactive. Some cavewoman, dig, chick in skins, showed up and sang jazz and Diddley was righteous!” He adds that he is now “busting his conk” trying to get someone in the hotel to channel and write down his unrecorded poems. It’s not so easy for us at the best of times but so much more difficult these days, under the False Pope regime. The internet is a breeze compared to normal human-ghost communication. We move and communicate so well in the ether.

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  14. guest Avatar
    guest

    The third floor is so haunted.My friend was about to open the door to our room and she heard typing in our room. But the room was empty. We saw strange shadows too.

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  15. matt roberts Avatar
    matt roberts

    funnily enough, dylan was seen with a bunch of others hanging by the clocktower late last night by an 89 year old drinker, who lives and breathes the same air that dylan doesn’t here in Laugharne.
    rumours abound that he was collecting some support for a mission to the chelsea.
    he thinks he’s the dead centre of here…

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  16. Sanguina Avatar
    Sanguina

    Hi everyone,
    I am ‘Joan’ in the above post! Yes, we also both saw the speakers and iPod go flying off of the dresser in plain sight, tried to debunk it with some vibration experiments, but it didn’t rattle itself off, it straight FLEW. Landed a good foot from the dresser I’d say. And the man in the reflection WAS wearing a hat, so who is that then? The man in the hat ghost? I looked behind me (in the reflection that is where he was standing) and there was no one visibly there, but when I turned back his reflection was still chillin’ in the same place. I must admit I freaked a bit but regret it now, wish I’d just said ‘hey.’

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  17. The Ghosts Avatar
    The Ghosts

    Dylan wasn’t at the clambake so he might very well have been by the clocktower in Wales. He doesn’t need to raise money, though, it is useless to us. All we need to travel in the ether is a thought, or a feeling. If you see him again, do tell him we’d be very pleased to see him at the next meeting.
    Lovely Joan, the Man in the Hat is Thom, a once great writer who is haunted by the idea that he never fulfilled his possibilities. He broods and has a bad temper sometimes, and is occasionally envious of the living, but deep down he is a Great Soul.

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  18. The Ghosts Avatar
    The Ghosts

    Sigh. Larry passes along another message: “Occasionally envious, Pops? Dig, the Cat in the Hat is salty six brights outta seven.”

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  19. The Coward Avatar
    The Coward

    The third floor did always smell like marijuana. Maybe Elaine didn’t like my song selection?

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  20. Avatar
    Anonymous

    When you read over the documents you not only stumble over the usual spin about restoring the hotel “to an era of excellence,” but you are again reminded of the man’s unmitigated ego. David Elder, when was that era of excellence you so desire, the 50s when Dylan and Miller were in residence? The 60s when Cohen and Jefferson Airplane and Jimi and Janis were here? The 70s when Patti Smith and Sam Shepard and Mapplethorpe and the punk movement were here? the 80s and 90s when Milos Forman and Julian Schnabel and scores of others were here? (You know, when Stanley was running the place.) I mean, can ya be a little more specific. Without more details, it just sounds like a lot of ignorant bullshit useful for getting rid of those pesky long-term tenants and securing a loan. Second, what makes you think you are capable of bringing about some remarkable transformation in this beautiful place? Still waiting for that resume, Elder. Trust me. Nobody is going anywhere except you and Krauss.

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  21. JT Avatar
    JT

    Hello everyone~ I can’t claim ever witnessing this apparition however here on the fist floor (the one directly above our lobby) there is a young “sedated-looking” girl that walks the hallway between the west end of the hallway and the elevators. She disappears before going further… these occurances happen after ten p.m. and there is never any “contact” made…. I have reported this to the management on more than one occasion. (Being psychic- perhaps gives me a bit of an edge in this area)…. take care all~

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  22. The Ghosts Avatar
    The Ghosts

    It could be several spirits. Any more details, JT? manner of dress, era of dress, age etc.

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  23. JT Avatar
    JT

    Hi: To respond to your question- the “apparition” appears to be in her late 20s (perhaps early 30s’) and she wears very little… She is a brunette, with “wild” looking hair. She appears “high” although I hesitate to use that term as this may not be the case at all. You ask about her “fashion-style”… In fact, her state of “dress” is what caused me to take notice in the first place as she appears to be very skimpily dressed- and by the way, she appears as real as you or I… She didn’t appear aware of my presence at all….

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  24. The Ghosts Avatar
    The Ghosts

    Well, it’s not Nancy or Janis. It’s likely Edie, as she went brunette before she died. Dear sweet Edie, youthquaker, heartbreaker.

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  25. JT Avatar
    JT

    Hi- thanks for your response. Would you know of where I could view a pic of Edie? I would love to compare notes and see if this is the lady I witnessed…. thanks, JT

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  26. At Your Service Avatar
    At Your Service

    This is what she looked like when she died in California:

    Previous:
    http://images.google.co.in/images?hl=en&resnum=0&q=edie%20sedgwick&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

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  27. FOR JT Avatar
    FOR JT

    Hree is another photo of edie with dark hair:

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  28. JT Avatar
    JT

    Hi- I really want to thank you so so so much- I am now totally convinced that the second photo you posted IS THE LADY I saw!!! many thanks, JT

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  29. Ghostfacers Avatar
    Ghostfacers

    A ghost – or spirit or apparition – is the energy, soul or personality of a person who has died and has somehow gotten stuck between this plane of existence and the next. Most researchers believe that these spirits do not know they are dead. Very often they have died under traumatic, unusual or highly emotional circumstances. Ghosts can be perceived by the living in a number of ways: through sight (apparitions), sound (voices), smell (frangrances and odors), touch – and sometimes they can just be sensed.

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  30. The Ghosts Avatar
    The Ghosts

    You’re right about most things except for one: we know we’re dead in terms of your universe.

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  31. Steve Charles Avatar
    Steve Charles

    First floor female sad ghost- room 120 connection?
    Hello- I just posted soem information on this in another part of this blog, I am a bit sensitive to some “energy” you may say, although I do not nurture it- it is a bit of a pain to me really- I do not like the otherworldiness of it and it is what it is but anyway sometimes I cannot keep it out, it is in my family.- anyway I stayed at the hotel last week, I am an accountant by trade believe it or not. I was originally given room 120 I usually do not mind staying anywhere as long as it is in a good location and relatively clean everything else was booked- when the clerk gave me room 120 I really did not get a good feel but thought I was just tired. I went into the room and the stuff just started coming to me, like I said I do not like it I get the emotions and sometimes the physical feeling of the energy- this energy is not malevolent or dangerous- it’s shy, it stays in the back of the room near the bathroom, and goes there when people stay in the room and usually doesn’t bother anyone. It is a sad girl (yes kind of strung out) and something with her chest -she couldn;t breath real well, somehow I get a “j” in the name anyway. I couldn;t stay- it is the same as having someone in your room and this energy was just bringing me down , I was moved to room 915 which was much lighter in many ways however was woken up at 4 AM exactly – someone goofy was trying to put a glow in the dark frisbee in my hand, nothing scary and got right back to sleep. Not sure if what I felt in the back of room 120 is related to the other posts here but may be.

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  32. The Ghosts Avatar
    The Ghosts

    That might well be Janis. She tends to hover around the 1st and 3rd floors. As for the frisbee, we have no idea.

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  33. Steve Charles Avatar
    Steve Charles

    Hello- I had posted a message last week about staying at the hotel on Tripadviosr.com, I recanted my stay which I enjoyed and did include that it felt or looked like someone was trying to hand me a glow in the dark frisbee at exactly 4 AM,- I received the post below in response from another TripAdvisor poster- kind of strange but I guess confirmation I was not imagining?! Has anyone else ever mentioned?
    your Chelsea Hotel stay
    From: sopranofan9865
    Hello there –
    I just read your Chelsea review and almost fell off my chair. We just stayed there last night (10/12) and my daughter’s friend awoke at exactly 4 am and experienced the same glowing which didn’t come from the clock radio or anything else, Let’s face it, the room are pretty dark lol. May I ask which room you stayed in? That was the first thing he told me this morning and he said it freaked him out. He loved the bohemian shabbiness of the hotel otherwise. Hope to hear back from you soon!

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