Two businessmen arrived for a mid-week stay, unaware that the hotel — built in 1880 and once the starting point for local haunted tours — still had stories to tell. The lobby was eerily empty, no staff at the desk, no guests in sight. They approached the old, slow elevator… and that’s when they saw her.
A pale, elegant woman dressed in turn-of-the-century clothing, ankle-high lace-up boots, wide-brimmed hat. She smiled politely and stepped back, saying, “You can drive the elevator.”
She pressed for the second floor — a level closed to the public for renovations. As the doors slid open, the woman seemed to float out, gliding silently down the dark hallway. The men noticed, horrified, that she had no visible feet.
Locals say the hotel is one of Parkersburg’s most haunted spots, and the passing of its famed storyteller, Susan Sheppard, has only deepened the mystery.
Is the lady in the elevator a remnant of the hotel’s Gilded-Age past — or something darker still lingering in the halls?
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