There were countless legends about this ancient hotel and the reports of hauntings numbered in the hundreds. No one could fully remember the reason it had been abandoned for over half a century. She’d done some research into the background of the Mayfair Hotel for a school report years earlier, and all she’d been able to unearth was in the late thirties a murder was reputed to have taken place here. A young couple vanished after checking in to spend their honeymoon. The staff at the time refused to speak about it, undoubtedly ordered to keep their mouths shut. In the years that followed, of course, rumors circulated and grew exponentially with each decade. Reports of shrieking, ghostly sightings and blood-spattered walls abounded until the place closed. New owners attempted to reopen once but they closed again within a few months. That was back in the forties. No one had tried since. The locks had been broken for as long as she could recall, but the place remained deserted anyway. Even the homeless avoided the Mayfair, and that should have been enough to keep her outside.
