My 50th birthday (January 16) party was spent at the Hawthorne Hotel, in their Lyceum Restaurant, in Salem, Massachusetts. The Lyceum Restaurant was built on the location formerly occupied by the home of Bridgette Bishop, one of the most famous "witches" to be hanged during the Salem witch trials.
It was a shared birthday party with my Mother (February 8) and my son Brian (January 23) , and together we were having a 158th birthday party on February 2, 1992
We had balloons and great fun. The guests included my wife and my two other sons, Cliff and Josh.
We entered the hotel into a cloud of smoke. It looked like a TB ward in there, as a well known Russian hypnotist was selling his smoke ending class, and the participants were all sitting in the lobby waiting to go in and having their “last cigarette”. Through the cloud of smoke we went, which had dissipated by the time we left.
My new baby was home with a sitter for the first time.
The reason I bring this up was not because it was brought back to me through wondrous nostalgia, but because on “Ghost Hunters”, on TLC, they were all in the Lyceum Restaurant and the Hawthorne Hotel looking for ghosts!
For the most part, this investigation was uneventful except there was an odd incident where the restaurant's computers (where the waiters place the orders and print the bill from) seemed to have their monitors go on and off for no apparent reason other than as a response to Lisa & Grant asking spirits to make themselves known. This event culminated in one of the receipt printers spitting out a receipt that said "1:26 Good Morning" (1:26 am was the time).
The restaurant's owner was asked about the monitors going on and off and about the unsolicited "good morning" receipt and she claimed none of that activity was normal for her computer system . There were many other non technical ghost items never quite proven or disproven.
This brought back the ghost of a memory, and I thought I’d share it with you.
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We had balloons and great fun. The guests included my wife and my two other sons, Cliff and Josh.
We entered the hotel into a cloud of smoke. It looked like a TB ward in there, as a well known Russian hypnotist was selling his smoke ending class, and the participants were all sitting in the lobby waiting to go in and having their “last cigarette”. Through the cloud of smoke we went, which had dissipated by the time we left.
My new baby was home with a sitter for the first time.
The reason I bring this up was not because it was brought back to me through wondrous nostalgia, but because on “Ghost Hunters”, on TLC, they were all in the Lyceum Restaurant and the Hawthorne Hotel looking for ghosts!
For the most part, this investigation was uneventful except there was an odd incident where the restaurant's computers (where the waiters place the orders and print the bill from) seemed to have their monitors go on and off for no apparent reason other than as a response to Lisa & Grant asking spirits to make themselves known. This event culminated in one of the receipt printers spitting out a receipt that said "1:26 Good Morning" (1:26 am was the time).
The restaurant's owner was asked about the monitors going on and off and about the unsolicited "good morning" receipt and she claimed none of that activity was normal for her computer system . There were many other non technical ghost items never quite proven or disproven.
This brought back the ghost of a memory, and I thought I’d share it with you.
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