And once, a room on the fifth floor was deadbolted from the inside yet there was no guest or employee in the room at the time. The elevator in the hotel often ascends to the fifth floor of its own accord. Guests and employees report the most supernatural activity in the basement and on the fifth floor. Some people believe it functions as a portal to the supernatural world. There, in the wall behind the bed, rests one of the hotel’s original cornerstones. His favorite floor is the fifth floor-and his favorite room is 506. He is known for many activities, including turning TVs on and off, shaking guests’ bags, and opening windows. Eldridge was a longtime owner of the hotel who rebuilt it twice following two burnings in 18. The ghost of Colonel Shalor Eldridge supposedly roams the quarters of the Eldridge Hotel. In downtown Lawrence, there’s one hotel guest who refuses to check out. Turns out, Donegan always wore a top hat and tails.” The Folly Theater will be celebrating its one hundred and twentieth anniversary this year, and perhaps Donegan will stop in to commemorate the special occasion. “By the time they got there with their keys, they couldn’t find any trace of this person. “He saw what appeared to be a gentleman with a white top hat and tails,” Williams says. The director of development at Folly Theater, Brian Williams, recalls a recent sighting when a police officer looked into the window of the Folly while it was closed and claimed to see a man at the bar. Donegan is rumored to still be taking up residence in Folly Theater to this day. The story of Joe Donegan, the manager of the theater from 1900 to 1922, is one few people know. Hundreds of performances have graced the stage, and the theater has three decades worth of stories to tell. (They are sold out for the year, but information about future sessions can be found on their website at ).Ĭonsidered one of the most historically rich buildings in Kansas City, the Folly Theater has experienced it all since it opened in 1900. The abandoned buildings are not open to the public, but Belvoir Winery offers paranormal investigations at night led by members of the Paranormal Research Investigators. Travel Channel’s Kindred Spirits also explored the property and reported making contact with the spirit of a past hospital resident who took his own life, as well as with child spirits. A paranormal investigator claimed he saw shadow figures during one of his many investigations of the grounds. One member reported being grabbed on the arm by a spirit while exploring the old buildings.
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The property has been investigated by a TV crew for the Travel Channel’s Ghost Adventures. Employees say they’ve heard footsteps, seen doors open and close and lights turn on and off, and heard kids running through the halls. In other buildings, visitors have reported hearing a piano playing on its own. Stories are told about the orphanage building as a space filled with the spirits of children who wander the halls singing nursery rhymes. A small room in the winery building houses “George,” the skeleton of an Odd Fellows member who died in the 1880s and donated his body to science he was later returned to the IOOF to be used in initiation rituals. There is also a cemetery located on the northern end of the property where the remains of nearly six hundred people are buried. The other buildings-the old folks home, hospital and nursing home/morgue-are abandoned and in various states of decay. The property today consists of the old orphanage, which is now home to Belvoir Winery & Inn. This chapter of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows goes back to the early twentieth century and was built to provide care for its members, widows and orphans on what was then a two hundred and forty-acre farm in Liberty. The Odd Fellows compound in Liberty has a long-running reputation for being haunted.
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