| Ghosts & Haunts In Missouri Ramada Inn Six Flags Stories I worked at the hotel one summer as a room attendant (cleaning lady) and am also a resident of Eureka where the hotel is located. I have many experiences with this hotel. The hotel is now called the Holiday Inn, and was the Ramada only a few years ago. In the early 1800s Indians who lived on the land where the hotel grounds are made these huge springs. When travelers heading west would pass through the Indians would give them water, so the area became well-known. With the westward expansion came more and more people, so the government bought the land and hired Irish masons to build this huge barn in the shape of an L that could accommodate many people. After the Civil War some big-wig from St. Louis bought the barn and used it as a stables. Supposedly, one girl who lived there, either with the veteran from St. Louis or a family that stayed at the barn, died tragically. There are many variations of the story of Aggie's death, but the most popular versions are that she was run over by a carriage or that she fell from a window in the barn. Either way, her ghost has been both seen and heard around the hotel. Where the banquet hall and the restaurant are is still the barn that was built in the 1800s. The family who bought the hotel in the 70's restored and built onto the barn, adding a pool and nearly 200 guest rooms, turned it into the resort we all now know and love sometime in the 80s. Back when it was still the Ramada Inn, some friends and I were there staying over-night. We were all gathered in the put-put area (it's indoors near the pool in the center of the hotel) late one night talking, and the topic of ghosts came up. This was before I ever worked there or knew the whole story, but I said that I had heard the hotel we were in was haunted. Right as I was saying that I felt someone distinctly brush the top of my hand. We were sitting on the floor in a circle and my hands were stretched out behind me. No one could have touched my hand without my knowing. Another time I was staying at the hotel I went upstairs to where the banquet hall is and sat for a while. It was very late and I was accompanied by a couple friends and a security guard from the hotel. As we sat there after a while we heard some noises coming from down the hall. We looked and it seemed as though there was a fog on the ground at the end of the hall that just kept going down the other way until we could no longer see it. My first day working at the hotel the girl I was training with had something strange happen to her. She was putting the fitted sheet on her bed, and it was halfway on, when she suddenly felt a rush to go to the bathroom. When she came back from the bathroom her sheet was no where to be found. No one else was in the room with her and no one would have been, we were all too busy cleaning before it was quitting-time. If someone would have come into the room, she would have heard them. She came and got the gal who was training us and told her someone had stolen her sheet. The trainer followed the new girl to the room, only to find the sheet under a pile of blankets on the other side of the room. Many people I've talked to that worked at the hotel as well have reported hearing someone running down the hall near the banquet hall, seeing mists in the banquet hall, hearing laughter coming from the banquet hall, seeing lights flicker, TVs turning on mysteriously, water turning on in the bathroom only to stop was soon as the door is opened, doors closing and opening, and many other spooky happenings. Are they true? Who knows. Go stay a night at the hotel and find out. If I were you I wouldn't stay in the hospitality sweet. Its the only room located inside of the old barn. Just another Ghost fanatic! MK I once stayed at this Hotel about a year ago, and I was wondering around at night looking for a dryer. I passed a rather big painting of a little girl who I was later told is named "Aggie". When I came back to the same spot, I could have sworn her eyes were looking a complete different direction and that the position her shoes were in was different. Then, my curiosity and I started looking around more, and many more things around that area dissapeared and reappeared when i came back and I hadn't seen a soul on that floor. B Page Back |