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Once the room was set up, we moved into an adjacent room to watch all the action on our security monitors. Since we would only be separated by a wall, we had to be extra careful not to get too loud during the surveillance portion; guests often have funny reactions to strange things happening in their rooms, so we are often apt to break out in laughter.
Historic Anchorage Hotel Once the guest had settled into the room and gone to bed, we began to hear some rather odd sounds. At first it sounded like something was dragging across the floor in the guest room. Then it turned into a series of rapping sounds that actually woke up the guest. He sat up in the bed and was peering into the dark for whatever was making the noise. We were both excited and amused by all of this until we heard a series of strange bangs coming right from the wall that separated the two rooms. On this particular trip, we had a pair of production assistants who were quite superstitious; when they heard these sounds, they immediately left the room and went to the hotel lobby! These odd sounds continued for almost an hour. The strange thing to me, though, was that the noises sounded familiar. Like something I had heard before, but I couldn’t put my finger on what the sound was. Then I remembered a story that the manager had told to me and the team earlier that day—a story involving a customer who had stayed on the same floor we were on. While she was checking out from her room at the hotel, this customer told the manager that she had been visited by a ghost. She said that she was
