The Haunting - BW Thines (Rundelania)

Stories from the Elk Hotel

The Haunting

By B.W. Thines

The other day I was talking to Burt Button, who lives on the third floor. Burt claims there is a ghost lurking on the third floor and that it was at his door last night. I asked Burt, “How do you know it was at your door?”  He said he heard the door knob being turned. Burt said this all occurred around two a.m.  Burt is one of our more rational residents so I would not just dismiss what he said.  I reviewed the camera footage from that floor and it did not show anyone at Burt’s door on or around two a.m.
Ahmed Abdoman claims to have talked to a spirit that roams the third floor halls and claims it speaks a foreign language.

Our Indian resident Chewie Yoofood got together with Burt, Ahmed and others on the floor for a séance to summon this spirt.  During the séance they summoned a male spirit that was a German soldier.  Chewie told me he could not understand what the connection this spirit had with inhabiting the hotel.

I was taking to Ed Carr, the Hotel Manager about this matter over coffee Saturday morning.  Ed remembered a German guy that lived at the hotel during the 60s into the 70s and that he died in his room.  Ed said he would check the archives to see what information he had on this guy.  Ed got back to me Wednesday morning on what he found, and it was one great story.

Ed said the guy he remembered was named Siegfried Munster and he did live in room 302, the same room that Burt Button now resides in.  What is even more interesting is that Siegfried did serve in the German Army during World War Two. He was captured by the American Army in 1943 and brought to America to serve his time in a Prisoner of War camp that was located in Geneva, New York.  After the war was over the prisoners of war were given their freedom.  Some of the Germans returned to Germany, but some were granted U.S. citizenship.  One person granted citizenship was Siegfried Munster.

Before he was drafted into the German Army in 1939, Siegfried was an apprentice optical lens maker.  Siegfried worked under a senior craftsman for four years before the war. A fter being released from the POW camp Siegfried got a job at Eastman Kodak because of his knowledge in optical lens manufacturing...continued

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