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Cavalier Hotel

| Wednesday, February 16, 2011 | |
The Cavalier Hotel in Virginia Beach is haunted by a number of disturbing ghosts.
Cavalier Hotel
In 1929, the hotel owner mysteriously fell out of the 6th floor window and plummeted to his death on the concrete below. Nobody knows if he jumped out himself or if he was pushed.
But that’s not the only tragedy that has occurred in the Cavalier Hotel. Years ago, a young girl was staying in the hotel. She had a pet cat that she smuggled into the hotel, because at that time, pets were not allowed in guests’ rooms. During the night, the cat escaped and wandered down to the pool where it fell in. The young girl went looking for her cat and tried to save it. Unfortunately, both the girl and her beloved cat drowned in the swimming pool.
Ever since then, guests at the Cavalier Hotel have reported seeing a trail of wet footprints and pawprints leading down one of the hotel’s hallways. Though the girl’s ghost has not been sighted, people only occasionally report hearing the strange sounds of a cat meowing coming from the pool area.
Some people were exploring the hotel and went up to the 5th floor where they encountered an elderly black man dressed in an old-fashioned bellboy uniform. The visitors said he waved his hands at them and told them to go back down and not continue up to the 6th floor. When they asked why, the man’s eyes grew wide and he replied “There’s ghosts up there!”
When the people went back down to the lobby, they talked to the hotel manager who told them that the hotel hadn’t employed bellboys in decades.

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