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Ghost stories from SLO County: The haunted Paso Robles Inn
Published: October 21, 2013
The original Paso Robles Inn burned down in 1940 and was replaced by a new building two years later.
By Andria Strickley
This story originally appeared in The Tribune on Feb. 7, 2001:
When the calls come, it's usually after dark, and always from room 1007.
The phone at the front desk of the Paso Robles Inn rings, and when the clerk picks it up, there's no one at the other end.
The phantom calls have happened several times over the past few weeks, according to hotel management. Each time staff members have gone to investigate, there's been no one in the room.
At least, that's how the story goes as employees of the Paso Robles Inn relate what they say are the doings of a ghost they think might be haunting their hotel.
At first, inn management wrote the calls off to a phone system glitch. Then, they started joking that it might be a spirit doing the calling, with front desk clerks making log entries to the effect -- "The ghost in 1007 called me again."
When 1007 called 911 Thursday night, the ghost tale really took off.
When police arrived that night, the room, which requires an electronic key to open, was again found empty. To dial 911 from the inn's rooms, callers have to hit 8 and 0 before 911, said General Manager Paul Wallace.
"That's not a glitch, " Wallace said. "That's not someone (just) dialing 0."
After rereading a San Francisco Examiner article about the 1940 fire that destroyed the original hotel, Wallace began to theorize about who the ghost caller might be.
According to the article, night clerk J.H. Emsley discovered the fire on the second floor of the hotel on Dec. 19, 1940. Emsley rushed downstairs to the first floor, sounded the alarm, then died of a heart attack on the spot.
Wallace said the Thursday 911 call went out close to 9:05 p.m., the time Emsley sounded the alarm the night of the fire. Police records show the 911 call came in closer to 9:30, but Wallace stands by his theory.
Thanks to Emsley, all of the hotel's guests were evacuated safely. But Wallace said he thinks the ghostly clerk doesn't know that.
"I think it's unfinished business, " Wallace said. "He has no idea that the 200 guests were escorted out safely."
Police are skeptical about the ghost theory.
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Ghost stories from SLO County: The haunted Paso Robles Inn
Published: October 21, 2013
The original Paso Robles Inn burned down in 1940 and was replaced by a new building two years later.
By Andria Strickley
This story originally appeared in The Tribune on Feb. 7, 2001:
When the calls come, it's usually after dark, and always from room 1007.
The phone at the front desk of the Paso Robles Inn rings, and when the clerk picks it up, there's no one at the other end.
The phantom calls have happened several times over the past few weeks, according to hotel management. Each time staff members have gone to investigate, there's been no one in the room.
At least, that's how the story goes as employees of the Paso Robles Inn relate what they say are the doings of a ghost they think might be haunting their hotel.
At first, inn management wrote the calls off to a phone system glitch. Then, they started joking that it might be a spirit doing the calling, with front desk clerks making log entries to the effect -- "The ghost in 1007 called me again."
When 1007 called 911 Thursday night, the ghost tale really took off.
When police arrived that night, the room, which requires an electronic key to open, was again found empty. To dial 911 from the inn's rooms, callers have to hit 8 and 0 before 911, said General Manager Paul Wallace.
"That's not a glitch, " Wallace said. "That's not someone (just) dialing 0."
After rereading a San Francisco Examiner article about the 1940 fire that destroyed the original hotel, Wallace began to theorize about who the ghost caller might be.
According to the article, night clerk J.H. Emsley discovered the fire on the second floor of the hotel on Dec. 19, 1940. Emsley rushed downstairs to the first floor, sounded the alarm, then died of a heart attack on the spot.
Wallace said the Thursday 911 call went out close to 9:05 p.m., the time Emsley sounded the alarm the night of the fire. Police records show the 911 call came in closer to 9:30, but Wallace stands by his theory.
Thanks to Emsley, all of the hotel's guests were evacuated safely. But Wallace said he thinks the ghostly clerk doesn't know that.
"I think it's unfinished business, " Wallace said. "He has no idea that the 200 guests were escorted out safely."
Police are skeptical about the ghost theory.
CONTINUE READING: www.sanluisobispo.com/2013/10/21/2744326/ghost-stories-from-slo-county.html#storylink=cpy