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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wicht" data-source="post: 588919" data-attributes="member: 221">Article: Does Fisherman’s Ghost Haunt Historical Hotel?When one walks into almost any room in the Historical Hotel Renard in Cape Truman Virginia, they will almost immediately be struck by the smell of fish.  The odor permeates every floor.  What is the reason for this peculiarity?  Some experts believe it to be the only one of the physical manifestations of the ghost of Captain Jeremiah Troutsnape, a seaman who died in 1965 in room 33.“It is quite possible for a spirit to manifest itself through odors,” comments Dr. Hi-lo Lee, chinese parapsycholigist and an expert on ghosts, “There have been many documented cases of it all over the world.  I once personally encountered a ghost in Hamburgst, Germany who whilst never seen with the eye smelled strongly of Saurkraut and sausages.”There are other signs of an otherworldly entity in the Hotel Renard.  It is a well known fact that the walls in room 33 continually exhibit a slimy, oily substance on their surfaces and then there is the handprint.  A black handprint that some think might be of blood has been on the ceiling of room 29 for years.  One resident of the hotel complained of the noises that awoke him each night.  “It’s horrible,” said the hotel guest, who wished to remain unnamed, “I can’t hardly sleep.  This voice starts singing a horrible off-key song about fish every night and it echoes through the whole room.”Another guest speculates that perhaps it is the ghost that is responsible for the hot water shortage experienced each morning at the hotel.Dr. Lee agrees, “The drop in ambient temperature around a spiritual manifestation is a well known phenomena.  If this ghost takes to dwelling in the water pipes out of a life-association with the water, then it is entirely likely that the water would be cooled by the presence of the spirit.”While Rachel Wilkenson, the young lady who works the front desk at night refused to comment on the ghost of Jeremiah Troutsnape, her employer Douglas Johnson, a native of Cape Truman, was very vocal in his denial of the ghost’s existence.  He refused to comment or speculate on the reasons for the handprint, the odors or the hot-water problem but he did acknowledge that there was often singing to be heard in the hotel at night.“But I don’t believe it is a ghost,” he was quick to clarify, “Probably just one of the other residents who had too much too drink.”Though Mr. Johnson was understandably quick to argue that there was no ghost in his beloved hotel, others are not so sure.“Captain Troutsnape was an ornery old fisherman,” said one long-time resident of the small Virginian port, “It would be just like him to stink up a hotel out of sheer meanness after he was dead.  We was all surprised when he died so sudden like when he did.  We thought he was so mean he would be sure to outlast the rest of us.  He always thought he would too” The Hotel Renard, from the outside, looks as peaceful as the rest of Cape Truman.  But inside its walls, there is the possibility that the restless spirit of an angry fisherman walks the halls in a ghostly and ghastly effort to outlast the rest of the small sea-side community.  </blockquote>

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