For most people, elevators are just cramped cabins that scare the claustrophobic and help them get from floor A to floor B.
In general, this is true, plus a bunch of wires and cables. Therefore, not everyone will believe that unusual phenomena can occur here. But they do happen.
Most often, ghosts settle in elevators. Easton, Maryland has the Avalon Theater, built in 1921. For that time, it was a luxurious and expensive building with glass doors, a huge dome, and decorative walls. However, gradually the theater was visited by fewer and fewer people and at one time it even stood abandoned and closed, until closer to our years it was finally repaired.
Nowadays there are performances by bands and live music concerts, and the theater is also known for its "obsessive" lift.
This ordinary-looking elevator has a strange feature of itself opening and closing doors and going up and down. And it's not a technical problem, it was repeatedly examined and nothing unusual was found there. It's about a ghost that looks like a translucent lady in antique clothes. She has been seen exiting this elevator on several occasions.
According to researchers, this is most likely the ghost of a young actress named Margaret, who was killed in this elevator in the 1920s while she was rushing to perform in a vaudeville show. True, nothing is mentioned in the historical chronicles about this case, however, there are not many such old notes about this theater as a whole, so maybe the articles about the death of the actress were simply lost in the era.
Another building with a paranormal elevator is located at the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas, Texas. The hotel was built by beer tycoon Adolphus Bach in 1912, and in the 1930s, a bride committed suicide in one of the hotel's rooms by hanging herself.
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Since then, her spirit has wandered the corridors of the hotel, but she especially loves the elevator. Allegedly, the woman's face was repeatedly noticed in the elevator mirror, and the elevator doors can open and close on their own in the absence of technical problems.
Several hotel guests reported that they came to the 19th floor (it was there that the bride hanged herself), although they pressed a completely different button. There are also reports of hotel guests getting stuck in the elevator on the same 19th floor. There was a case when a person sat in a stuck elevator for 20 minutes, and then the elevator doors opened by themselves on the 19th floor.
As in the Avalon Theater, the elevator at Adolphus is checked after every such incident and has not yet found a single breakdown.
There is a three-story Kennesaw House in Marietta, Georgia. The apparently unremarkable house is no less a historic building, being built in 1845 as a cotton warehouse. Now it houses the city history museum.
The local elevator serves only 3 floors, but is perhaps the creepiest of the paranormal elevators. When people pressed the call button and the elevator doors opened, inside, instead of the elevator car, they repeatedly saw either a bunch of Civil War soldiers writhing from bloody wounds, or the same soldiers lying on the bloody hospital floor with bandaged wounds and in bloody bandages.
And sometimes a man in antique clothes and a military surgeon's bag travels with the passengers of the elevator. At first, he is mistaken for a museum worker, but when he dissolves in the air before their eyes, it becomes clear that it was a ghost.
Another building known for its ghostly elevator is the Algonquin Hotel in downtown Manhattan, New York. The 181-room hotel was originally conceived as a hotel for exceptionally affluent clientele who would live in luxurious suites. However, later it became an ordinary hotel, which, however, acquired a cult status, since it was a favorite place for writers, theater-goers, actors, artists and playwrights.
They gathered at a large table in the Pink Room of the hotel, and soon such meetings were called the "Algonquin Round Table." The meetings began in 1919 and lasted more than 10 years, and then abruptly stopped in 1932. And soon after that, the Pink Room was completely rebuilt.
However, in the elevator, you can still find the ghostly figures of lovers gather around the round table in the Pink Room. And sometimes guests even hear a disembodied voice humming a 1920s song.
Now, here's one specific case posted on Your Ghost Stories. It happened at the Hilton Hotel in Seattle, Washington. The girl and her mother came to the city to participate in a festive performance and one evening they left their hotel room to have something to eat, and when they came back, they decided to take the elevator.