JahaRa
Abominable Snowman
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- Albuquerque, NM,U.S.A.
My grandmother bought a hotel in 1945 after my grandfather died. She decided it would be the best way to support herself and 3 daughters. It is in a small town in northern New Mexico. After she died my mother's youngest sister bought out her and her older sister and ran it for about 12 years. Then my mother's oldest sister bought it from her as she got married and her husband got transferred to another town. That aunt ran it until the early 80's when her husband died and she wanted to do something else. At the time that she had the hotel there was an oil bust so she did not have much business and supplemented the hotel business with bookkeeping jobs.
My aunt was able to get the hotel on the historical registry so no one could tear it down. She decided to turn it into apartments and almost had it finished when she sold it. The woman who bought it had made her living buying property and fixing it up and selling it. My dad's sister worked for her. (this is getting a little long winded, sorry). Anyway, that woman finished the apartments and kept the building as a rental property for several years. When she died her family sold it to a crazy woman who turned it into a restaurant and bed and breakfast. The first thing she did is go to the local paper with a story of hauntings. She made them up as her descriptions were of Victorian age ghosts but the hotel wasn't built until 1930. My mother and some of my cousins got angry and wrote letters to the paper, but only my mother's letter was published as it was completely literate and very angry, pointing out all the inconsistencies. My cousin that still lives in that town, who is the daughter who worked for the older woman who originally bought the hotel, was also bothered. She was acquainted with the new owner and had already decided she was crazy. She said if that hotel was haunted why did we never notice? I spent many nights there with you guys and we never had any hauntings. I was visiting so decided to rent a room at the bed and breakfast and find out about this woman. I realized the hotel still was not haunted but she was, omg, so many entities around her. I think a lot of the stories are not really about a building but more about a person, who either wants attention or walks around in a cloud of disembodied entities. She was both.
Since 2007 she has been trying to sell the hotel and has not had any buyers because of the price she wants for it. 7 times what she bought it for. So she rents a few rooms out and rents the basement to a shop owner.
Here is her website. https://www.hauntedplaces.org/item/miss-gails-inn/ I looked for her original page where she had the history but it is gone. It looks like now she is trying to get ghost hunters to go there.
My aunt was able to get the hotel on the historical registry so no one could tear it down. She decided to turn it into apartments and almost had it finished when she sold it. The woman who bought it had made her living buying property and fixing it up and selling it. My dad's sister worked for her. (this is getting a little long winded, sorry). Anyway, that woman finished the apartments and kept the building as a rental property for several years. When she died her family sold it to a crazy woman who turned it into a restaurant and bed and breakfast. The first thing she did is go to the local paper with a story of hauntings. She made them up as her descriptions were of Victorian age ghosts but the hotel wasn't built until 1930. My mother and some of my cousins got angry and wrote letters to the paper, but only my mother's letter was published as it was completely literate and very angry, pointing out all the inconsistencies. My cousin that still lives in that town, who is the daughter who worked for the older woman who originally bought the hotel, was also bothered. She was acquainted with the new owner and had already decided she was crazy. She said if that hotel was haunted why did we never notice? I spent many nights there with you guys and we never had any hauntings. I was visiting so decided to rent a room at the bed and breakfast and find out about this woman. I realized the hotel still was not haunted but she was, omg, so many entities around her. I think a lot of the stories are not really about a building but more about a person, who either wants attention or walks around in a cloud of disembodied entities. She was both.
Since 2007 she has been trying to sell the hotel and has not had any buyers because of the price she wants for it. 7 times what she bought it for. So she rents a few rooms out and rents the basement to a shop owner.
Here is her website. https://www.hauntedplaces.org/item/miss-gails-inn/ I looked for her original page where she had the history but it is gone. It looks like now she is trying to get ghost hunters to go there.
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