Jody Dolph was working as a bartender in the Cruise Room of the Oxford Hotel in Denver, Colo. a few years ago when a gentlemen walked in wearing an old post office uniform. He sat at the bar and ordered a beer. Dolph told the man, "that will be $4.25." The man made a comment about how he remembered when beers were inexpensive. As he sipped his beer, he was heard to mutter, "the children" and "I have to get the gifts to the children." Then he left. Dolph picked up his beer bottle, shocked to find it was still full despite the fact she and several witnesses had seen him drinking from it. Subsequent research revealed that in the early 1900s, a postal worker was on his way to Central City (a town about 35 miles from Denver) to deliver Christmas presents to the children. He never showed up. It wasn't until spring that his decomposed body was found on the way to Central City, with all the gifts still in his possession.

A mother and daughter were spending the night in room 1012 at the Omni Parker House Hotel in Boston. The daughter awoke around daybreak to find a gentleman dressed in attire from the late 1800s standing at the foot of her bed. He sported a large grin, as if asking, "Are you enjoying your stay?" When she smiled back at the friendly apparition, he gracefully vanished. When the young woman descended for breakfast in the dining room the next morning, she was amazed to see her nighttime visitor on prominent display. It was Harvey Parker, founder of the venerable hotel.

When the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. opened in 1930, owner Harry Bralove needed some financial backing. He approached Henry Doherty, who agreed to become a minority shareholder in the hotel and took a suite of rooms where he lived with his wife until 1973. In addition to the couple, the suite of rooms was occupied by their adopted daughter Helen and the hotel's executive housekeeper Juliette Brown, who looked after the family. Early one morning, Juliette awoke feeling ill, and reached for the telephone. She died before she could complete the call and was discovered by a hotel engineer. Some time afterward, Helen Doherty also died mysteriously in the same suite. Once the Dohertys vacated the premises, televisions and lights were reported turning on spontaneously at 4 a.m., thought to be the time of Brown's death, and although the suite was unoccupied, guests in the adjacent room reported hearing loud noise coming from next door. The suite has since been redesigned, restored and renamed the Ghost Suite.