From: "james hill" (jim.maureen@juno.com)
To: obiwan@ghosts.org
Subject: Brookdale Storie
Date: Friday, October 08, 2004 9:56 PM
About 3 years ago I moved to Santa Cruz and I was not familiar with the Brookdale Lodge. My family and I just moved there so we decided to take a look in the motel because we heard it was haunted.
Well I was about 13 at the time and my sister 14 and we both were so excited to be in a haunted place we decided to look around. We first walked into the Mermaid room where you could see underneath the pool and it was dark and we both were scared but there was nothing to be afraid of. We were just spooked but we still wanted to look around. We then went back into the dancing room with the checkered floor and we walked up onto the stage with the fireplace and we both got strange feelings so we left.
I then decided to go to the bathroom and my sister went to look around herself. Well I walked into the bathroom and went in to a stall. I then heard the door open. I thought it was my sister so I looked underneath my door but I saw no one. I then got ready to leave the stall when I heard footsteps but there was no one there. I was in shock. I couldn't believe what was going on.
I waited in the stall for a few more minutes, then the bathroom door opened and then shut. Some one had come into the bathroom and I never saw who. I thought it might have been the little girl who died there but I never saw her. We then left the Lodge and we came back a few months later for a birthday and I found myself wanting to walk alone and be alone. I thought if I was alone the little girl would come to me she never did. To this day I've never seen her.
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