California
San Diego, California
U.S. Grant Hotel
Built by Ulysses S. Grant, Jr. to honor his
father, the hotel has been a San Diego landmark since its
1910 opening. Thirteen US presidents, countless celebrities
and the rich of San Diego’s society graced their halls.
The building has been on the National Register of Historic
Sites since 1979.
The Grant Hotel, included in the 1995 book "Great American
Haunts," has a resident ghost. The most frequently
seen and written about is Fannie Chaffee Grant, the first
wife of the hotel's builder who was instrumental in getting
it started. She died, almost a year to the day before its
grand opening. Her husband remarried a few years later and
moved with his new bride into the hotel.
Besides its ghost, the hotel has 33,000 square
feet of stylishly graceful, historic and distinctive ballrooms
& event space, 270 elegant and tranquil guest rooms
including 45 suites, a romantic roof top terrace, an unprecedented
renovation to restore the historic ambiance of this world-class
luxury hotel.
This story came from the husband of a woman working in the
hotel. He was on his to join his wife at the hotel and hoping
to meet up with “Fanny”. This happened as the
hotel was undergoing its complete renovation and Fannie,
the resident ghost reportedly still haunting it. There are
many, many reports of people seeing her, especially around
a certain basement area.
Two days ago, Kim (my wife) and a hotel employee
were discussing IT stuff in the room next to where Fannie
is constantly "seen", which is also the IT center
of the hotel. There was also a maid going from room to room,
cleaning up. The maid had cleaned up, headed to another
room, and my wife was discussing things with the hotel employee,
with her back to the door. The employee was facing the door.
Next to the door, was a trash can.
As they were talking, the maid walked back into the room, and let out a scream. All the trash in the trashcan laid spread out all over the floor, and as Kim said to me, "It was as if someone had carefully laid out every piece of trash so it was all spread out evenly." The employee said, "Kim, I've been talking to you, facing that trash can the whole time, and never saw a thing! One minute it was full, the next, all the trash was all over the floor."
The maids and employees who've been with the hotel for a
long time have all sorts of stories and very willing to
share them with those who ask.
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