Living with Legends
Hotel Chelsea Blog
Category: Ghosts
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Dear Ed, My mom, sister, and I stayed at the Chelsea hotel a few weeks ago. The three of us decided to take a spur of the moment trip to New York before I had to go back to teaching in the fall. Because it was such a last minute trip, none of us had…
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Hi, I am writing to share a recent experience I had at the Chelsea Hotel. I was hoping to post my story and get some feedback to see if anybody has experienced the same: ______________________________________________________________________________ My boyfriend and I decided to visit New York City this month. It was our first time, and we…
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A bold psychonaut writes in with his tale of otherworldly adventure at the Chelsea Hotel: Though I’ve traveled the world in search of the strange and miraculous, the Chelsea hotel is the only building I have yet found that permits such an easygoing communion with the dear departed. (I still live at the Chelsea, of…
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All this week, as part of Halloween celebration we'll be running letters from guests who have had ghostly experiences at the Chelsea Hotel. It's not surprising that this guest experienced a negative energy on the first floor, as that one is the most haunted floor in the hotel: I stayed last week, was given room…
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When we asked Chelsea Hotel historian Sherill Tippins for a ghost story for Halloween, she sent us this essay by by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Flynn, a labor activist and women’s rights advocate who worked for the IWW and helped found the ACLU, was national chairperson of the U.S. Communist Party, while she was…
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Yesterday’s interview with "The Ghosts" has encouraged even more people to report ghost sightings. A blog reader writes: I was living in a large apartment with another person for a few months. It was not a good relationship & it was constant fighting & arguing. In the room was a small walk in closet. It…
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Regular Legends readers have no doubt encountered the words of the ghosts who regularly leaves mysterious comments on our blog. I’m sure you’ve all been wondering just who this being was in life, and what he’s doing hanging around the hotel when by all right he should have long since passed on to his eternal…
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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…
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It seems that Steven Spielberg is launching a social networking site for people who have encountered ghosts or other manifestations of the super natural. The site ought to get a lot of traffic from this place, that’s for sure. Spielberg once saw a ghost at a hotel called the Excelsior House and fled in terror. …
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He was the angel-headed hipster who dragged himself through the Negro streets at dawn, looking for an angry fix. He was the man who taught Bill Burroughs how to shoot heroin, and helped him grow marijuana on his farm in Texas. His exploits are recounted in Ginsberg’s Howl, Kerouac’s On the Road, Burroughs’ Junky, and…
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