Spend the Night in the First Crypt Hotel in The Gasp Menagerie
I love hotels. The chains are fine, but what I really like are unique, individually owned hotels. They all have so much history, different feels… different “vibes,” for lack of a better word. It doesn’t surprise me that so many hotels are the subjects of paranormal investigations and ghostly legends. Historic buildings coupled with so many souls coming and going, it just begs the imagination.
CNN tells us about an inn in Lewiston, Maine, that has taken it to the next level. Forget spooky; they’re inviting you to spend (most) of the night in an actual tomb.
The Inn at the Agora was converted from a rectory to the inn it is today, but it came with an interesting bonus space: the crypt of the rectory’s first monsignor. Thomas Wallace was the first priest in the church and oversaw the construction of the church and rectory. We’re told that he loved the area so much that he had a mortuary chapel and crypt built for his use, and in 1907 he did just that. In 2009 the church closed, his body was moved, and the inn was created.
Current owners converted the crypt into a one-of-a-kind hotel experience. The actual crypt, just big enough for the coffin, has a custom coffin for two ready for sleeping. The chapel area now has a sitting room complete with a TV and a library of 60 horror movies. You can even order a midnight meal served in the space.
The only catch, besides the potential of getting seriously claustrophobic, is that you have to leave before 2am. There’s no bathroom in the space, so Maine law restricts the use as an actual hotel room. Guests must also rent a regular room at the inn, which drives the price up, but is there anywhere else you can sleep in an actual grave that hosted a corpse for over 100 years?
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Have a weird story? Potential evidence of the supernatural, or at least something hard to explain? Spot any creepy critters out there roaming the wilds? LET ME KNOW! I’d love to talk about it and possibly write it up right here in The Gasp Menagerie. You’ll get appropriate credit, of course, and everyone else will get fresh creepy (as opposed to fresh Creepy, which, trust me… nobody wants that) to enjoy. As always, I can be found at mrdark@dreadcentral.com.
Now get out there, find some weird, and let’s get this party started.
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