Thursday, August 27, 2015

Hotel Ghostly: Part 2



Our buggies ascend to a small staircase and into a balcony overlooking the Hotel's Grand Foyer, where a variety of spooks, specters, and apparitions have gathered for a swinging wake. Most of the ghosts are from the late 19th century and early 20th century, while other hail from the 18th century, Middle Ages, and the Ancient World, even from recent times. Ghostly guests disembark from a hearse parked outside and pass through the front desk.
 Many spirits seated around a small tea table filled with decayed food and broken china. Three drunken ghosts swing on the grand chandelier with a glass of champagne in their hands, as wraiths fly in and out of the grand bay windows. Six spectral couples in vintage evening attire hover 3 feet from the dance floor provided by music from a phantom pianist. 


As we leave the macabre celebration in the ballroom, we move into the a series of rooms in the hotel. 
A small bathroom displays a corpse can be seen in a bathtub as water sprays on us. 

Guests finds themselves in an abandoned playroom, where old antique toys move by themeless. You can hear a haunting melody from an old music box and children's giggles.   

It seem we have stumbled into The Honeymoon Suite, where a couple must have spent their wedding night and finale days of their lives. The furniture in the rooms seem to a tell the couple's story, such as a large four poster bed, and a wedding cake molded with age. 
Standing near the window of the suite is a ghostly apparition dressed in a victorian bridal gown as she hovers five feet from the floor. Her entire face is covered with veil, while her eyes illuminate within the darkness. In her hands she holds a weathered rose. 

Just before we escape through the window, we see yet another entity dressed in bellboy outfit hold a pice of luggage. His head would disappears from his shoulders, then reappears in the luggage he is holding. 

As guest leave the hotel, the buggies will spin and fall backwards. Down into a grove a trees with claw like branches as if their trying to grab them. Our buggies land on the ground as we venture into the hotel's grounds. A once thriving place once home to maintained grounds, living flowers and ornate statues, now becoming a playground for the dead. As specters, ghouls, and appertains from different times periods come out fro a swinging wake.


One of the ghost that guest will encounter is an old time rag time band play a jazzy version of Grim Grinning Ghosts.

 A troupe of skeletons and zombies dance to the sounds of macabre music makers. Accompanied with five marble busts, singing in a barbershop quintet. 




Moving on, a group of childlike ghosts partake in activities in a small playground. Such as swinging on the swing sets or at the teeter-totter. While a group of ghosts ride on turn of the century style bikes on top of a hill around a tombstone. 




We then pass a couple of ghosts in Edwardian era attire sharing a cup of tea, while socializing with one another.



To the left is a body of water lit with an natural green light, where a skeleton can be seen floating on a rubber raft. 

Turing a conner, we see a skeletal figure holding out his blower hat while  thumb , as if trying to hitch a ride somewhere.

We then enter through an underground tunnel with a series of ornate mirrors on the wall. Within the reflection is a manifestation of the same entity we meet earlier in our buggy.




We then disembark our buggies in the Hotel kitchen/pantry, complete preserved body parts in jars, hanging knives and dried up herbs. We then walk our way through the Hotel's staff corridor and the gift shop.  

On specials occasions, a lucky family will spend the night at the Hotel's guest room.

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Hotel Ghostly Walkthrough: Part 1




Among the hustle and bustle of Main Street USA, stands a once grand yet ominous Gothic Victorian building with ornate domed towers, bored up windows and arabesque architecture. The Main Street Grand Hotel was once a thriving tourist destination for it's extended stays, now in a state of disrepair and neglect. Yet somehow we seem to be drawn to this building. Yet dissipate it's decrepit appearance, we seem to be drawn to it, like a siren's allure.

We pass through a plaque that inscribes Main Street Grand Hotel, which is now written over with a paint like substance titled "Hotel Ghostly under new management".

We make our way through the courtyard, with overgrown vegetation and crumbling statues.
  
We then enter a small hallway and into a lobby of the hotel. While we are waiting, we may notice a few intresting details around the room. Such as luggage that seem to be forgotten, names written down guest in the register book. The doors to the elevator are then finally opened by a castmeber in bellhop uniform that escorts us to the lift that will carry at least 13 or 15 guests. 

Inside, the elevator is lavish and orate with light fixtures, wallpaper, and some seated cushions for guests to sit on.
Once guests have assembled inside, the bellhop closes the grated doors and pushes a button that will takes us directly to the upper level of the hotel. The floor starts to shake and light flicker on and off. The elevator comes to a complete stop, yet we have not reached our destination. The bellhop attempts to bring the elevator back in motion. Suddenly, without warning the entire lift is consumed in total darkness then plunges into 10 feet below with a rush and comes to a complete stop. 

The bellhop escorts us to a hallway adorned with candle lit sconces and portraits on both sides of the wall.

Turing to the right, we come across a ornate staircase covered with enormous cobwebs that attach from the walls to the furniture. Here we find ourselves waiting to board one of the long line of buggy shaped vehicles, moving ponderously through the dark, forbidden hallways that lay ahead. Once we have seated on our buggy, we an unseen force lowers our safety bar.

We pass under a curtained archway and come across a gallery with four portraits that morph into macabre images of demons and skeletons. 

Moving on we find ourselves in the hotel lounge or sitting room. Where invisible spirits are engaged in activities, such as a game of chess, reading a book, sharing a cup of tea or relaxing. An large arm chair rocks back and forth under it's unseen occupant's weight. A group of invisible players can be seen playing a game of poker, the whiff of cigar smokes seem to be coming from within the darkness.

We then find ourselves in the hotel kitchen where it seems to take a live of it's own. Pots and pans clang on the ceiling as poltergeist activity prepares a meal, such as stirring an enormous soup pot on the stove.    

We ascended a few flights of stairs to the upper floor of the hotel. 

 Upon a entering the second floor, we come across a hallway lined with doors on both sides that seems to stretch into infinity. A candelabra hovers in mid air. 

Coming up is a grand music salon, furnished with musical instruments, antique sitting furniture and caged raven cawing menacingly at the guests. A shadowy phantom can be seen on the rays of the moon from the large bay window, play the piano, accompanied by a harpist and cellist.
We then journey past through a series of doors lined on both sides,as their knockings and banging can be heard upon the wooden doors. It seem we must have disturbed someone enteral slumber.  

Near the end of the corridor, we come across an archway that leads to a hallway lined with doors on both sides that seems to stretch into infinity. A candelabra hovers in mid air. 

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Hotel Ghostly Preview

This is a random idea I came up with of combinging The Haunted Mansion and Tower of Terror.

Backstory: Opened in 1885 by entrapanuer millionaire Vincent Highcliff. The Main Street Grand Hotel was the number one place to visit with it's luxurious rooms and extended stays for it's guests. Unfortunalty during the early 20th century, the hotel began to fell on hard times. After a series of insidents that involved the tragic demsies of hotel staff and guests. The hotel was forced to shut down in 1933. Over the past decades, many wayward ghosts and lost souls began to take up residents in the abaondoned property. Even mortals are invited too, if they survive.