Which Vice-Presidential Candidate Owns a Haunted Hotel?
- Posted on August 9, 2012 at 9:37pm by
Mytheos Holt
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Ohio Senator Rob Portman, seen by many as the frontrunner for the Republican Vice Presidential nomination, and by just as many as one of the less interesting candidates in the race, may have a skeleton in his closet.
Literally.
…Or, at least, a few ghosts in a closet that his family owns.
According to Yahoo News reporter Chris Moody, Portman’s family owns a very old, and apparently very haunted hotel in Lebanon, Ohio, which besides having multiple rooms named after famous historical figures, also apparently has an infestation of spirits so pervasive that its own employees are frightened to go on the top floor (where most of the hauntings take place).
Not that this in any way phased the fearless Moody, who decided to stay in the hotel for a night – in one of its most infamously haunted rooms, no less! Check out some of the highlights of his account, and a few photos, below:
I reserve a bed on a Monday night, requesting the “Harriet Beecher Stowe” room—a supposedly haunted space where countless ghost hunters have reported signs of paranormal activity.
I arrive early that afternoon. The clerk checking me in notes that I’ll be sleeping in the haunted room next to a bed full of creepy dolls that one of the ghosts likes to play with at night. She assures me I’ll survive.
“We haven’t had a casualty yet,” she says dryly, and hands me my key.[...]
"Sarah's room," one of the more haunted rooms
Before the sky darkens, I settle into a table at the hotel restaurant, prepared to quiz the staff about their own experiences with the haunts of the Golden Lamb. My waitress shows me a hand with a nasty scar that stretches across three fingers, which were sliced open when a porcelain sink collapsed on her in the basement. She had just finished telling her colleagues about how all the ghost talk was hogwash when the sink came crashing down.
Now she’s a believer. And she keeps her distance.
“I won’t go upstairs, I won’t go downstairs, I won’t go in the tunnels, nothing,” she says. “No, thank you. Everybody knows, they don‘t ask me any more because I’m not going.”
By the end of my stay, I met three staff members who refused to venture to the top floor.[...]
The 3rd floor of the Golden Lamb Hotel
The next day, I caught up with Portman to ask him about his own experience with the supernatural at his family’s hotel. [...]
“I have not seen the ghosts,” he told me. “But my mom used to tell stories about hearing the chains at night of the ghosts walking down the hall.”
With a twinkle in his eye, he smiled and added: “You never know.”
You never know, indeed. And if Portman is the Vice Presidential pick, he would hardly be the first major political figure who has been the object of supernatural visitation. Nancy Pelosi already has more than enough experience in that department.
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Mr.Fitnah
Posted on August 11, 2012 at 6:54amIf by haunted you mean cluttered no doubt.
Report Post »flatbroke
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 6:56pmEnergy is never distroyed, its just rerouted or changes its form,perhapes another demention, this includes life energy as well.
Report Post »smokie
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 1:36pmI’ve been to this restaurant/hotel many times. The pictures aren’t showing the place that well. It’s actually well regarded, well maintained, and a beautiful place to have dinner. It’s on the national
Report Post »Register and many many presidents have stayed there.
The staff at this hotel are excellent. I’ve not had any haunting experience there, but I’ve always had a pleasant time..
Azurite
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:11amI live in a haunted house called the United States of America. There are plenty of demons to go around, including the Chief Demon otherwise known as Beelzebub, (Bub for short) alias the Kenyan. There is another one who rules the House who gives us all the shaft by the name of John *****.We have a zoo full of nefarius cloaked beings masquerading as conservatives other wise known as RINO’s. The biggest trick or treaters are the bankers aided and abetted by all the other members of congress. All in all we have a Dead Zone that rules this haunted house.
Report Post »txdave22
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 12:29pmActually seems like god is pro choice and pro gay rights if you look at the success/failure of those issues.
Radical ‘christian’ right been praying for years for overthrow of roe and for gays to go away, go straight, (would you really like a gay to marry your daughter?)———–no success on either abortion or gay rights for ‘christians’, so either god is very progressive or doesn’t exist.
Take your choice.
Also, because of the increase in gay millionaires and support for gay rights from even straight billionaires, bezos, gates, singer, etc, surely you can see a pattern here. Or maybe just too stupid.
Even gay boys having some influence on pub platform, which i think hilarious. Maybe when they‘re done they’ll redecorate your houses. Before you send the gays to africa or wherever, better check with your wives, they may never get their hair done again or their flowers arranged.
Just kidding guys, actually gay big money is in silicon valley, seattle, so better not use those i pads, i phones, buy anything from msn, amzn, lots of gay millionaires all those places.
Report Post »Krutch
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 10:30amAdd a ghost to your motel/hotel or restaurant/bar and see the patronage expand. People will believe just about anything. Just look at the example we have in the white house!
Report Post »Really, I watch the ghost crap shows on TV and admit they are entertaining. Sometimes.
But to think every creak or bang is a dead person trying to scare ya is insane. Anyone who sits in the dark by themselves will hear something or be convinced they are not alone because it is human nature. Our minds do this to us. Our unconscious guilts causes us to invent such things.
Our stupidity causes us to give power to idiots like obama and his ilk!
Diane TX
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 2:49amI once lived in a haunted house, and because I actually saw the ghost woman, I’m a believer. I also heard ghost children – running and giggling in the Lee Mansion.
Maybe because I have been clinically dead twice, I’m sensitive to the area between life and death.
Report Post »jujubeebee
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 6:55amI believe you Diane.
Report Post »js1964
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 7:06amI live in a haunted house. I find them helpful. The ghost let me know when the house caught on fire on the outside porch. The fire was outside so smoke detectors would not go off. They saved my family. They have done other very helpful things threw out the 15 years I have lived here.
Report Post »atechgeek
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 8:33amMe too .. I have seen them in my old house … not a dream .. I was totally coherent and it was mid day. No question in my mind that they exist and there is an existence after death. Remember .. energy never just goes away .. it simply changes state.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 11:11pmI’ve been in and around Cincinnati nearly 30 years and this is the first time I have heard it was haunted. The selling point of The Golden Lamb is it‘s antiquity and it’s past visitors: Charles Dickens, Daniel Webster, Mark Twain, Presidents Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, Benjamin Harrison, George W. Bush, John Quincy Adams, U.S. Grant, Martin Van Buren, William Howard Taft, Ronald Reagan, and Harriet Beecher Stowe among others.
Report Post »Jerry Frey
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 12:36amI’m from Cincinnati. This is old news about the Golden Lamb.
Report Post »Wango
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 11:08pmPortman is so deathly dull they have to invent a ghost to spice him up.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 11:14pmWANGO
Report Post »Do you live in Southwest Ohio or close to it? If not, what do you know about Senator Portman, other than what you hear from the MSM.
Wango
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 1:12amAT&T . . . Ever hear of a little town called Miamisburg?
Report Post »jujubeebee
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 6:58amNot so sure you are right about Portman………..could be you are just believing the media propaganda. Portman has not had the exposure Pawlenty has because Pawlenty did the debates. Now there is a no charisma guy for sure. I hope Romney does not pick Pawlenty. Dull!
Report Post »joey g
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 10:01amagre …he gets the vp pick..i vote for the libertarain
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 10:51pmWell know we know which cub reporter drew the short straw today. What’s your next career move, National Enquirer?
Report Post »marybethelizabeth
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 10:28pmIt figure that theblaze writer who is the most detached from the real world wrote a story about ghosts.
I wonder if young Mr. Holt is still afraid of the dark and cries for his mommy to tuck him in at night.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 11:19pm@MARYBETHELIZABETHCAROLBETHMICHELLEBETHBETHBETH
Report Post »You sound, very much, like you speak from experience.
JACKTHETOAD
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 11:21pmMost of us can‘t wait until you’re a ghost, MBE. I think the only way you’d have people under you is if you were a caretaker in a cemetary.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 7:02amMARYBETHELIZABETH, Gee, not reading your regular dosage of HuffPo? They are currently running a story about Philip Varney’s new book on California Ghost Towns. Quit your whining, it’s puff piece article, something of minor distraction and does have some interest.
Report Post »Go read your ghost town stories now.
Bruce P.
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 10:15pmGhosts are like an honest politician…people claim to have seen them but there’s no scientific evidence they exist.
Report Post »lainpa
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 10:37pmLOL, Bruce! Same thing with a pro-life democrat!
Report Post »OlefromMN
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 10:01pmThere goes Portman as a potential. Although it means absolutely nothing, it would be used ad nauseum to keep the “masses” distracted from Obummer’s record.
Report Post »woodyee
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 9:57pm“Which vice presidential candidate owns a…”
Who gives a fk?
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 11:25pm“WHICH VICE-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OWNS A HAUNTED HOTEL”
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Did I miss the news?! Don’t they mean POTENTIAL Vice-Presidential Candidate? Personally, I don’t think Senator Portman will be picked.
soybomb315_II
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 9:56pmvery strange. Is this enough to upset the biblical christians who oppose the pagan holliday of halloween?
Report Post »Master.Debater
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 6:22amThat is the way the left thinks. They think they can Christine O’Donnell him.
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 9:52pmGhosts? Call 1-800-xxG-HOST. Guaranteed exorcism – no harm to ghosts.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 7:09amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9We2XsVZfc
Report Post »Mutiny
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 9:50pmYes, why talk about his views and political stances on issues when we can talk about his hotel.
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 9:43pmRon Paul?
Report Post »Obama/Paul 2012: Yes We Can Legalize Heroine!
soybomb315_II
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 9:51pmyou are obsessed
Report Post »Mutiny
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 9:53pmSo if they do legalize it are you going to start doing heroin? I am not. Some people need government to tell them what to do(sheep/model). Some dont(Me). You should vote for Bloomberg also, he believes he knows what is best for you also. Michelle Obama also thinks she knows what is best for you and your kids. You going to try and get her elected after Obama stomps Romney?
Model you are actually really bad at this.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 9:57pmThat shot was 2 left and 1 down.
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 10:02pmThe only question here is, how many User Names per person are we dealing with. Sadly, I‘m afraid I’ve only outwitted and infuriated one poor, miserable person. Too bad.
Report Post »soybomb315_II
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 10:27pmI count two….one plus one
If you can read time, you will notice that the two posts were separated by 2 minutes. Considering the length of Mutiny’s post, that hardly leaves enough time to log-out and post
But if you have such a small view of the world that you cannot fathom two people disagreeing with you – then you should seek help
Report Post »soybomb315_II
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 10:28pmnot including darmonk….I dont know what he is talking about
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 10:28pm@MODEL82A1
Report Post »Come on, we are all still pulling for you here. Reload, adjust for the wind, fire when ready
Mutiny
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 10:29pm@model
You havent outwitted anyone and the only post you have made that ticked me off in the least is you saying you hoped a guy and his family were killed in a jihads terror attack. That was over the line and you are a jerk for it.
You never respond with facts or even witty comments. How could you possibly think you have outwitted anyone. Get out of the basement and go ask mom to come down and help you.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 9:40pmJoe Biden’s head is haunted, does that count?
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 9:52pmI assume Pelosi has a haunted head too. Since she claims spirits talk to her.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 10:00pmIt is actually her butt that keeps talking to her, and ironically, it is where she does most of her talking from. She has a really bad gas problem, and those spirits that “Talk” to her, are really just her own farts. No one has the heart to tell her.
Report Post »marcus_arealius
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 10:55pmYes, that counts.. but Biden’s brain is very small, very very small.. and cold too, about the temperature of Pluto. That means his head is mostly empty space.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 11:03pmRemember, Nature abhors a vacuum.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 7:07amRATIONAL MAN, Don’t forget Hillary. Remember when she claimed to be channelling former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt? I think there might have been some others too.
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