Seen Something Strange?

Sender: Steve Fencepost

Story: Well as it goes Seensomethingstrange, i actually have a very amazing ghost story. My second cousin happens to own the oldest hotel in Florida, the Florida House Inn. Other than being the oldest hotel in Florida, the Florida House Inn is also one of the most haunted places in North America!
This summer we went to go visit my second cousin, Joe, and his family while vacationing near Fernandina Beach, Florida (the location of the Florida House Inn). During our conversations the subjects of paranormal activity arose. I had the chance to hear several stories of his.
Perhaps the most common story is that of room 16. Joe had several British film makers staying at the inn (room 16 to be exact) and Joe had scheduled breakfast with them the next morning of their stay. During breakfast one of the film makers leaned forward to Joe and asked very quietly "is our room haunted?" She continued to explain that during the late hours of the night that she awoke to a man and a child standing at the foot of her bed. She said that they didn't scare her and she just went back to sleep. After further research, Joe found that a few years back (sorry, i don't remember the actual year...) a boy and his father went out fishing and never came back. A week after the father and son where declared missing, a 15 foot alligator was caught in the very spot they where fishing. Joe tells me that guests are constantly telling him about strange experiences in room 16.
They told us several more stories of soldiers walking down the hall, banging on peoples' doors, brooms floating, and countless more stories of strange voices in the night, but Joe managed to save the best story for last...
One of the hall ways in the Florida House Inn has no windows or any source of additional lighting. Guests started complaining about the lack of light in the early morning when they needed to get somewhere. Joe soon put a small lamp on a table to provide guests with proper lighting. The morning after installing the lamp, Joe discovered unplugged. He plugged it back in and the next morning, what do you know, it is once again unplugged. This continued for several more weeks until one morning when Joe was inspecting the hall to see if the lamp was plugged in, not only was lamp unplugged, but the outlet was GONE!!! Electricians the next day confirmed their was NO ELECTRICAL WIRES RUNNING IN THE INTIRE HALL!!!
Hope you enjoyed! And sorry for any typos!
-Steve Fencepost

My Response:

Just call me Investigator, not exactly shorter, but its better than seensomethingstrange.  Anyway, this has to be the most interesting ghost story I have recieved ever! I did some research and found that the hotel was once used as housing for officers of the North during the Civil War. That could explain the soldier aparitions. I don't think i can explain the electrical outlet problem though, that just baffles me. The voices could be from the bar (I read online that it had a bar), because according to reviews of the hotel by guests, you could here people talking and the band down at the bar because their voices reverberated off the walls in some rooms. Wait, I think I might just have an explanation for the outlet one! It could be that someone (or something) was messing with Joe, causing his mind to think there was an outlet there, when there wasn't, like seeing illusions or a mirage. Some prankster guest might have put a fake outlet there than came back after a few weeks and took off, or a paranormal entity (ghost prankster lol) was messin with him.