Post by Graveyardbride on Nov 24, 2013 19:41:35 GMT -5
Is Room 242 Really Haunted?
TUCSON, Ariz. – All my life people have been telling me that Hotel Congress is haunted, but they can never explain why. Some say there are some visitors that never checked out when a fire in the basement advanced to the third floor of the hotel while authorities were trying to apprehend John Dillinger and his gang in 1934. I had never heard the story behind Room 242 in 1993. Aric Allen filmed a hard-boiled, noir YouTube video reminiscing about what might have happened the night of the suicide.
“I traveled to Tucson in October to visit family,” Allen explains, “but took the opportunity to check into the ‘Suicide Room’ at Hotel Congress. I learned about the haunted room a few years back when I was trying to recall the events of a night that changed my life – I was at the hotel about years ago when a woman in room 242 killed herself.”
One of the reasons he made the video was because of all the false ghost conspiracies he read on the internet. “Once I started searching the event on Google, I came upon many ‘paranormal investigators’ looking into this ghost sighting, Allen said on his blog.”
The link below will take you not only to Aric Allen’s YouTube video, but a video by a paranormal investigator, so that you can get a sense of the amateur, con-man bullshit that happens around things that are hard to explain. That’s one of the reasons I wanted to tell my tale and show a little more respect for the unexplained.
I have stayed at the hotel and never experienced any kind of paranormal activity. But I haven’t stayed in room 242, or 212, or the infamous 220. Sometimes I think a ghost drinks my beer when I’m not looking, but I have yet to prove that.
www.tucsonweekly.com/TheRange/archives/2013/11/21/tucson-ghost-stories-is-room-242-really-haunted
Source: Henry Barajas, The Tucson Weekly, November 21, 2013.