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lapfog_1

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4. I'll tell you one
Tue Mar 13, 2018, 12:02 PM
Mar 2018

Many years ago I was visiting Boulder CO... my company put me up in the Boulderado Hotel and I was assigned a room on the third floor. I had no idea that this hotel was "haunted" and wouldn't believe ghost stories even had I heard about them.

Anyway, I went to bed relatively early and woke up around 3am by the intense smell of bacon frying... And at first I thought "great... it must be around 6 and the kitchen is getting busy and I just happen to have a direct ventilation to the kitchen". Then I checked the clock. WTF? Got out of bed and even went into the corridor to see if maybe a room next to mine someone had a hotplate and was making themselves a late night BLT. Nothing. The smell was only in my room and was strongest in the corner next to the closet. The ventilation grill was near the window.

As I checked out in morning I mentioned to the desk clerk about the smell... and he just laughed and said "well, I see that "Sally" was with you in 302 last night".

This was before the renovations that renumbered the rooms and which now leave the room I was as office / work space.

I'm a scientist and not a "believer"... but I sure can't explain it.

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