Hotel Breakers - Haunted?

Nah. Mandate the ghosts and wear them out to the point where they are too tired to scare the guests.

Dang i might not ever stay there again lol

The mug story is interesting. Was the mug on a spoke sticking off a rack? Did the spoke have a lip on it or hook on the end that would require it to be lifted up to remove from the rack? You said it was spinning, do you mean it was spinning on the rack or when it hit the floor?

The banging on the door could be a number of things and is very difficult to really investigate here. The elevator shaft being so close to the room could have something to do with it. Mechanical devices can sometimes produce noises that are not heard or occure at regular intervals. It is also possible your neighbors knocked on the wrong door and then quickly entered the room next to yours.

We also can not dismiss the possibility of employees having fun with the legend and playing jokes on guests. For all we know they could be reading this thread laughing at what they had caused.

None the less I would love to see a true formal investigation of Hotel Breakers. The long history this place holds coupled with the reported strange happenings would make a great Ghost Hunters Episode. I don't think CP would be down with it even if it were in the off season but you never know. I'm sure some people here have tried to put this in motion.

I actually don't recall how the mugs are held onto the display. But when I say that it was spinning, I mean it was spinning from the time that it left the rack, which is why I find it so odd. If it just would have fallen off of a spoke or whatever, it just would have fell. This come off and was flipping around...

Yes, the door banging is hard to analize. That's why, for me at least, I'm more likely to believe there was just some mischeif. I'm positive this wasn't mechanical. This was something banging on the door. The elevators run all the time and this was the first time we ever heard a noise like that. And if it was someone else, like maybe the people staying next to us, they were able to key into their room and not make any noise whatsoever. Possible, yes.

Nyone have any pics

That is very interesting in regards to the mug. I can't think of any reason it would spin from start to finish. And you described a few other people's who's attention was drawn to this all at the same time. Obviously some odd event happened if you all were drawn to look at it. I can picture what you mean, kinda like when a really hot girl goes walking by. All the guys eyes (and some girls) are drawn to her. Even if you can't see her, you know everyone is looking at something interesting.

Every time I have stayed in the old rooms off the Rotunda, the alarm clock has gone off shortly after check-in while I was in the room. This has happened in different rooms and on different years.

Maybe the park can do ghost tours to rooms where occurances supposedly happened as a halloweekends event. What do you think of that idea

P.S. I heard that the Breakers was considered as a shooting location for the Shining. Apparently Cedar Point wouldn't allow this because it would cause too much traffic on the causeway. Is this true or is it just a stupid rumour?

With this discussion of ghost's in the breakers- What would you do if

one night after the park closes and your in your room watching tv and a

ghost appears and say-sit's down in the chair and was talking to you?

Would you try to talk about cedar point from their time or leave the

room and request another room?

I would be gone before it even had a chance to talk. lol. I have had many personal experiences...and I do not like them. I will watch every episode of Ghost Hunters, and think it is the coolest thing. But not when it is happening to me. :)

The Breakers hotel was indeed the original location scouted for filming of The Shining, however, the script involved staging a car accident on the causeway, something the park didn't agree with. However, the photos and notes on the Breakers hotel were kept and were used as reference for some of the details on the "Shining" hotel.

Not sure why they would have used Breakers with an amusement park luming in the background. And for the life of me I can't remember there being a car crash in that movie. Maybe it hit the editing room floor.

I worked for the CPPD for a season (everyone calls them security but they are actually a real police department). They have about 12 full-time year round officer's who patrol the properties in the off-season, and about 100-130 seasonal officers during the summers.

I remember hearing a story about one officer receiving a call that there was someone in the Hotel Breakers after hours when nobody should have been there or something like that. She went to check up on it, and in the rotunda she looked up and saw two individuals, a man and a woman, in 1920's style clothing looking down at her from the 3rd or 4th balcony. I remember her saying that they looked just as surprised about seeing her as she them, and were pointing down at her talking to each other but she couldn't hear their voices. She ran out of the hotel as fast as she could. Now it was about 3 years ago when I heard this story, so I could be off, but that was basically it.

I heard another story from an employee about a phantom front desk clerk. I guess one night people were checking in late, a clerk came to the front desk and took their info. He then went into a back room, and a different clerk came out--very confused when they said someone had already helped them, swearing there was nobody else back there.

As far as the Merry-Go-Round Horse:

It is a commom misconception that the "Armored Horse" in the town hall museum is the haunted horse. The horse on the right is the Military Horse, which is the supposedly haunted horse. The original carousel was moved to Dorney Park in PA, but they kept the 3 best horses in the museum. I am unaware if anything happens in the Town Hall because the horse is there. I often would walk through there on slow nights, and never heard/saw anything or "got the feeling." I did take a picture of the horse and had some weird blue mist show up in it though.

There used to be an old coast guard station at the end of the point where Lighthouse Point is. I don't know if it's still there or not. One of the older officers who's worked for the department a long time told me a story about hearing loud heavy footsteps running down a metal ladder in there which scared the hell out of him and his partner. He also told me about a child's shoe that was up in the attic. There was about an inch of dust in the attic, and you would see footprints if someone walked through there. This shoe would change positions, and you could see a trail in the dust where it moved to and from. Only problem was there was no footprints leading to the show. Maybe very strong ants?

I can tell you first hand that employee housing is haunted. I lived in the Bayside Apartments (the red brick apartments you see on your left right immediately before crossing the causeway), had a few experiences there. One night I saw a girl in the bathroom mirror standing through the doorway in the room behind me as I was brushing my teeth, turned around, nobody was there. I know, very classic horror movie-ish ut it happened, and its bothered me since. Another night I woke up and thought someone was going through the clothes in my closet. My eyes focused and nobody was there. Another time, all of our bathroom stuff was knocked off the counter onto the floor all by itself. It had to jump the sink and we had things lined up against the back of the vanity, so things totally denied the laws of gravity.

Thats about all I got. I heard other stories about the ball room and Frontier Trail having ghosts, but noting specific enough to mention here, just that they supposedly are haunted. So thats about it. If anybody reading this were the people who told me these stories, I hope its ok that I shared and that I got it right.

^ This dude is good at telling ghost stories! ;)

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Really good stories, very entertaining. A few points about the hotel rotunda story. Since she was a police officer called in to investigate people trespassing, when she saw the people shouldn't she have run up to the 3rd floor to confront them rather than running out of the hotel? If someone called to say there are people in the hotel, shouldn't she expect to see people? Why is it assumed they were ghosts, when the intruders were obviously seen by others. Maybe it was the officer's friends playing a joke on her pretending to be ghosts?

I have closed Town Hall twice during Halloweekends and saw or heard nothing out of the ordinary and I walked right next to the horses with the lights off and got no weird vibes, although there is a glow from the lights outside comeing in and i had a very small flashlight so that could of helped.

http://http://www.forgottenoh.com/Counties/Erie/cedarpoint.html[url][url][url][url]

http://www.theshadowlands.net/places/ohio.htm (This has the story of Breakers, Just scroll down to Sandusky)

In 04' when I was getting extra hours during halloweekends cleaning rooms at the breakers, I had heard about all of the "ghost stories, feelings, apparitions, etc, etc" and kept getting distracted and wandering around the rotunda and Bon Air trying to catch a glimpse or a "feeling" of anything weird. I even took pictures with my camera. Nothing. I was bummed.

My dad is a "medium" and when I was mucn much younger, we stayed in the tower, and a certain section of the hotel he felt something trying to lead him to a certain part. I couldn't tell you where that part was, I can't even remember how old I was when that happened.

My dad is an extra large.

Post of the year candidate.