Society & Culture
The Omni Parker House in Boston, Massachusetts, is one of three romantic historic hotels with haunted 10th floors. (The other two are The Skirvin Hilton in Oklahoma City and The Drake in Chicago.) However, the Omni Parker House may have the most active 10th floor of them all. Even better, the Omni Parker House is very open about its restless spirits. The concierges keep a “Ghostly Encounters” handout handy for your reading pleasure if you care —or should I say, “dare”— to read it. Of the eight stories on the sheet, half of them are about paranormal activity on the 10th floor. Are we now among those who experienced some? Perhaps. Which we'll get to, both in this description and the second half of this episode. Anyway, one of the stories on the sheet was about a Harvey Parker ghost sighting in room 1012. During my research into the haunted hotel, I came across Unpacked: A blog by Omni Hotels and Resorts. In 2016, they did a Haunted Hotels series. One of the hotels they featured was “Boston’s Omni Parker House.” This part of the article caught my eye: To those who knew Harvey Parker, such sightings — which have not been reported for two decades now — could hardly come as a shock.It reminded me of the “Most durable ghosts” entry in the 1989 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records, which I'd picked up to verify whether they really had named Pluckley the most haunted village. (They did. See "Related posts" below if you want to read more." But the "Most durable ghost" section began: Ghosts are not immortal and seem to deteriorate after 400 years. I don't know how durable ghosts are and whether or not they deteriorate after 400 years but say that was true. Harvey Parker died in 1884. He’s only 136-years-old in ghost years. So where did his ghost go? BONUS: EVP? I also included audio from a video recording when I was exploring the various allegedly haunted floors. It happened when I was on my way to check out room 1012. I wasn't investigating. I was just having a look around, but did I accidentally catch an EVP? Give it a listen and see what you think. Related Posts UPDATE: Guinness Responds to Most Haunted Village Inquiry Want more Haunt Jaunts? Jaunt with us online anytime at HauntJaunts.net. Read more blog posts, find Paracons and Horror Fests, or shop the Skareporium. Jaunt with Us Socially on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HauntJaunts Twitter: https://twitter.com/HauntJaunts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hauntjaunts/?hl=en And if you liked what you heard, remember to subscribe too. (Reviews are also always appreciated!) Host & Guide Courtney Mroch, Ambassador of Dark & Paranormal Tourism Intro Music Pumpkin Demon by WinnieTheMoog Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6866-pumpkin-demon License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Episode Music High Altitude by Rafael Krux Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5336-high-altitude- License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Horizon Flare by Alexander Nakarada Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4837-horizon-flare License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Marimba Thriller by Rafael Krux Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5335-marimba-thriller- License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Outro Music From https://filmmusic.io "Some Amount of Evil" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)