Ghost Tours at Galveston's Hotel Galvez
If you're looking for a Halloween season happening that will haunt your memory, take a tour of Galveston's historic Hotel Galvez for a possible glimpse of one of the Queen of the Gulf's ghostly guests. Although typically reserved only for those who have booked a room, this year the public can explore the mystery of the ethereal elementals which reportedly have made the hotel their otherworldly home.
A commanding presence on the Texas Gulf Coast since its construction in 1911, the Hotel Galvez may have welcomed both Presidents and paparazzi magnets over the years, but perhaps its most famous patron is the forlorn phantasm which resides in room 501. Perhaps in the hope that she would be reunited with her beau in the beyond, a young woman forfeited her life on the premises upon hearing that her seafaring fiance had met his end. Not until the sailor's return to the hotel was it was learned that the news had been false. To this day her soul is said to still wait for her love in room 501, from whose windows she had peered out on the waves which she had believed had taken him from her forever.
Hotel Galvez's sad specter is not alone as she ambles through the afterlife at the regal retreat. Visitors may also feel the presence of a friendly phantom near the portrait of Bernardo de Galvez which hangs in a hallway, or even in the ladies loo. Hotel concierge Jackie Hasan will take sightseers intrigued with the supernatural on a one hour tour of the hotel, using an electromagnetic field detector and an infrared thermometer to determine if the departed make an appearance.
Interesting Fact: The Discovery Channel series Ghost Lab will turn the spirits of Galveston into TV stars when an episode filmed at Hotel Galvez airs this fall.
Tickets for the tour are available for $10 per person at the hotel's gift shop. Ticket holders also receive a 20% discount at Bernardo's Restaurant at Hotel Galvez.
When: Tours are .conducted for the public at 5:30 p.m. each Thursday from October 8 - October 29, 2009
For more information:
- visit www.hotelgalvez.com
Take a sneak peek at Hotel Galvez and its paranormal patrons in the following ABC12 Eyewitness News interview with Hotel Concierge Jackie Hasan:
Labels: Galveston, October Festivals
posted by Grace Sydney @ 11:59 AM
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