From: timmadams1@home.com
To: obiwan@ghosts.org
Date: June 26, 2001
Subject: Brrokdale Lodge experience
This occurred several years ago, sometime around 1995. On one of our visits to the Brookdale, a girlfriend and I commenced to the bathroom before making our way to the rest of the lodge. We'd been there several times before and were familiar with it's history, both starlite and possibly a little sinister in it's previous years.
That evening the bathrooms were a little less than spotless and were omitting a scent I wouldn't expect to be a popular one at the perfume counter. This particular evening we were dwelling on it's starlet history, particularly Marylyn Monroe's visit to the lodge. We were discussing the possibility of Marylyn Monroe using this public restroom...which toilet did she use?...did she put paper on the seat first?...did she leave this smell? and other in depth inquires that derive from a few glasses of wine and a poorly kept bathroom.
Now the door of this restroom had a common hydraulic closing mechanism that allows for the door to be opened without effort and close slowly behind you as not to slam shut. Now my friend was the first to leave and the door closed normally behind her. A few seconds after the door had completely closed I reached for the door, opened it and began to walk through. Halfway upon my exit the door SLAMMED shut. Since I was not entirely out of the doorway it struck my back so hard that it sent me flying into my friend waiting about 5 feet from the door. My hand was nearly caught in the door jam as I was sailing through but was somehow agile enough in that split second to pull it away. Needless to say she witnessed the door slamming shut and saw that I hadn't pulled backwards on the door or any variation there of to cause the incident. With that we ran the hell out of that hallway but reluctantly returned to attempt to repeat the same action of the door, but with no success.
For all I know it was some kind of backdraft or freak failure of the hydraulics. We were saying some pretty rude things about famous visitors in that restroom that night. We could only wonder wonder if perhaps any of them were in there listening and thought they'd let us know there disapproval.
-Joanne
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