Local Motel with Activity within its Walls: Chattanooga, TN

  In 2010 a friend of mine and I, were asked to investigate a local motel here in Chattanooga, by the manager.   He claimed that he had several personal experiences at this location, which for legal reasons shall remain nameless. Most, he claimed, took place in the bar area or in his room where he stayed. He witnessed stuff falling off the shelves in his room and in the bar, where he often sat to watch the door.  He said that he would always feel something moving past him but when he turned and looked, there was nothing there.

 Having been an employee working there myself, people would always tell me that it was haunted.   I never believed in ghost or ever even really thought about it, but curiosity finally got to me.  So when someone I knew decided to sell his ghost hunting equipment, I decided I would give this so called Ghost Hunting a try.  And now, that’s all I do!

 Unfortunately, this motel has some bad history too.  At this location there have been murderers, rapist and drug dealers that have stayed here in the past. Not surprising that ghosts are present. Supposedly in the bar area, attached to the motel, a man and his mistress were sitting at a table enjoying their night, when his wife walked in and shot both of them dead.  On the first investigation we did there, we got a photo of a mist like shape, sitting in one of the chairs by the table where the man and mistress were shot. Even though we never did catch any EVPs in the bar area it was always an interesting place to investigate.

 When it comes to checking out and investigating the actual rooms, we got to do that a lot. The manager would always let us do it free as long as we never disturbed anything in the rooms.  It was a very exciting place to investigate, believe it or not. This place seemed to be really active.  There were at least 4 to 5 rooms in which people claimed they had experienced something paranormal. The first room we checked out was room 271.  The claims were of a shadow figure being seen and very uneasy feelings experienced by the people staying there. Even an article was written about this room in a local paper.  There had been at least one confirmed death reported.  A guy was shot on the back side of the second floor and staggered into this room to die on the bed.

 Another room that was investigated was room 170.  Let me tell you, this room was creepy and made me feel very uneasy.  The story that was shared with us, was that a woman had lived in this room for about a year.   Unfortunately she had cancer and was dying.  It was said that she was so sick her face was sunken in and skull-like.  Sadly the cancer finally took her life, but before it did, she told the manager that when she passed away, she would return to this room she had called home.

 So one night when we were investigating this room, my fellow investigator was taking EMF readings. When he got around the entrance way, he got a spike on the meter and asked if I would take a picture of the area.   When I reviewed the photograph later, I realized that I had caught a small orb-like object right where he had been standing and it looked exactly like a skull. Not saying this was paranormal but it certainly seemed plausible.

 I actually stayed in room 265, one of the rooms that was reported to have strange occurrences in it.  I myself never really felt anything strange in this room, but we did get some unusual EMF readings that I couldn’t explain.  We also got a flashlight to turn on and off for us on command a couple of times, but nothing significant. There was one occasion where we invited a couple of friends, and fellow investigators over to visit.   While we were sitting there doing an EVP session, we suddenly heard a voice come from the bathroom area, which said ‘hey’.  We knew for certain that the room behind us was empty and didn’t have an occupant, because it was being used for storage.  To this day we have no clue what the entity might have wanted.    

 I’m not sure how many entities are present or why they stay at this motel, but it seems some still like to call it home.   So think about this the next time you are staying at a motel.  That creak you heard might not have been the building shifting.  It is possible that you might not be alone in your room.  There may be unseen occupants left over from previous visits.

Author: Richard Reed