The Paranormal Hotel

NOTE: This homepage for The Paranormal Hotel posts is under construction. There are about 30 posts in total, so far, and it will take me a while to get them all revised and linked.

The hotel where I work is a like a hybrid of a flea-bag hotel, a 1940s-style rooming house, and a budget motel for low-income travelers. (In form if not function, though, it is technically a modern multistory hotel, located just beyond the edge of St. Paul.)

At the hotel, we get all kinds. I’ve seen a lot go down at this place. Some of it has been good; much of it has been sad; a little of it has been frightening. I call it the paranormal hotel not because it’s particularly haunted but because it’s such a strange place — one that absolutely captures the essence of the literal definition of paranormal:

Para- / par-ə / Prefix. ”Alongside, near, beyond, altered, contrary to.”
normal / nawr-muhl / Adjective. “Conforming to the standard; usual; regular; natural.”

 

 Click on a TITLE (not the photo) below to be taken to the appropriate post.

Knock, knock
2015.05.14

The Holidays Edition
2015.01.02

A bad night.
2014.10.23

The one I’ll remember as Momma
2014.06.14

The Hotel, described. (Part 1)
2014.05.29

Checking Out (quitting 1)
2013.06.11

Cody’s story / Paranormal Hotel
If I get killed …

Cody’s story / Paranormal Hotel
Echoes of ‘Fatal Attraction’

A Tuesday afternoon domestic.
2013.02.16

A haunted TV in room 566?
2012.12.10

FML
2012.10.17

Freaking Out on a Friday
2012.09.01

 

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The original photograph, used to make the section image / sharing image “The Paranormal Hotel,” was taken by Petra Sell, and can be found on Flickr, HERE. It is licensed CC BY 2.0 (Attribution 2.0 Generic.)

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