The employees of the Gold Mine Hotel, at one time, were permitted to lodge in an unused area of the hotel for a nominal rent.
When Adrianne first came to work for the hotel in 1977, she took a room at the end of a hall on the 2nd floor. Although happy to be employed and on her own for the first time in her life, Adrianne had trouble sleeping in the room, right from the start.
Every night she would awaken three or four times, and although there was nothing definite that caused her to wake, she had always been a very sound sleeper. As time went by, she found herself rousing more and more often, and was finding it difficult to perform her duties every day due to exhaustion. Psychics and ghost tracers visited the hotel often, so one evening Adrianne asked one of them to come to her room.
The psychic asked Adrianne to leave and stayed alone in the room for five hours that night. He later told her that the room in which she now resided used to be a guest room, as were all the other employee suites. He said there had been a fire in that area of the hotel a long time ago and that a five year old girl had tried in vain to wake her mother and alert her to the danger. Finally, after the heat and smoke became unbearable for the little girl, she escaped the room. The mother perished and was the only casualty. The little girl comes every night, haunted by the sleeping image of her mother and tries once again to rouse her. He said that the girl's nightly spectral demonstration of love, was what kept waking her up at night.
Adrianne moved to a different room the very next day, but oddly enough, no one since then has reported a similar occurrence. Maybe they just accredit it to insomnia.
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