Thursday, March 12, 2009

My Ghost Song about The 10,000 Delights Bed and Breakfast in Branchport, NY

In Robin Mead's Haunted Hotels.

This bed and breakfast was built in the 1850s and the current owner thinks that three ghosts still linger here. The innkeeper Vera Van Atta believes she was called by Bertha Jane Von Kamecke, the former owner, to restore the old property. Bertha, Rose and a mysterious man haunt this place. This place was written up in the book Haunted Hotels by Robin Mead.
Some of the stories Van Atta recited were that of Bertha putting her own framed pictures up around the house and moving a huge antique beveled mirror about five feet from the wall above the sink to the middle of the bathroom floor. Bertha also moved another rather large wall mirror into the middle of the floor in a room called the Blue Lounge.

Rose was another ghost who likes to stay in the Yellow Rose Room. Her presence is unexplained but she likes to open the bedroom door. Van Atta eventually put up a hook-and-eye latch to help keep the door closed but Rose has figured out how to open this as well. Rose also plays with different items in the room including the many dolls kept there. She also tampers with items that guests bring in like one guests music box that played late at night until the guest woke up and dealt with it. The third ghost is that of a mysterious figure of a man standing by the bed in the Medieval Room. A guest was woken by the smell of baking and found this man standing by the bed.

If you ever want to know
Where a Ghost would likely go
to escape all of the hum-drum
of her life...

Well, take a hint from me
it's a little B&B
called the 10,000 Delights...

There's an owner named Vera
who swears she's being haunted
She's got tattoos up and down her veins

And when she's telling stories
You'll feel the same shivers
regardless of your age...

She makes a damn good breakfast
probably dashed with her black magic
and you'll happy partake in what she bakes,

Cause she's haunted with her stories
and all of her Poltergeisties
and her B&B is one Ghostly estate...

There's an owner named Vera
who swears she's being haunted
who swears she's being haunted
who swears she's haunted...

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