The Eldridge Ghost

If you've ever been into the Eldridge, there's a good chance you've seen the picture we keep on the front desk of the ghost that lives in the hotel. Speculation and professional accounts attest that the ghost is most likely Colonel Eldridge, whom the hotel is named after. They say that ghosts tend to stick around when they have unfinished business. I'm not sure what Colonel Eldridge's unfinished business might be, but it might have to do with being undenominational, or that 3 of his 7 children died in infancy. There's also the Beetlegeuse hypothesis. In Beetlegeuse (which is a movie with Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, and Michael Keaton) the Maitland's die, and after they die, they are trapped to live out their afterlife in the house they lived in while they were alive.


In any case, we occasionally have ghost hunters come and do some exploring at the Eldridge. CLICK HERE to view our channel 6 news report from one of the hunts. More recently though, we had a paranormal investigation team come and take some pictures. They noticed something interesting in these pictures which I am going to share with you now!



This is a picture of Colonel Eldridge's chair. This is a chair that we keep in in the maintenance cellar in the basement. We never move it because it is the chair where Colonel Eldridge sits. You'll notice to the right of the chair, on the concrete, the shadow of a bearded face. Here's a profile of Colonel Eldridge so you can compare.




Here we have a picture of the basement exit door that leads out the back of the hotel. The shine in this photograph is clearly the flash from the camera, but look closely and you can see what appears be a skull or outline of a face.




This is a shot of the Eldridge lobby with one of our handsome night auditors coming off the elevator. Again here, you can see a spirit lurking behind Brandon in the elevator.




We discovered from the ghost investigators that when cameras take pictures of the supernatural, that often times the camera will not pick up the photons from through a spirit. So, when the picture comes out, it comes across as an orb. With that in mind, take note of these two pictures that were taken in the Big 6 room in the basement of the hotel. You'll notice that the orb moves from one picture to the next.






Happy Spooky Halloween!