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THE LANGHAM HILTON HOTEL

London, England

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The Hotel

The most haunted hotel in London is said to be the Langham Hilton Hotel. The Langham Hotel on Regent Street is the original grand hotel. The gray granite Victorian masterpiece sitting on Portland Place at the head of Regent St. has a history as rich as its decor. The Hotel was built between 1863 and 1865 at a cost of £300,000. It was then the largest and most modern hotel in London, and the first to have hydraulic lifts in England. The opening ceremony was performed by the Prince of Wales.

It was visited by the likes of Napoleon III, Oscar Wilde, Antonin Dvorak, and Arturo Toscanini. Arthur Conan Doyle set Sherlock Holmes stories such as A Scandal in Bohemia and The Sign of Four partly at the Langham. Later celebrity guests included Noel Coward, Wallis Simpson, Don Bradman and Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia.

During World War II the hotel was used in part by the Army and then damaged by bombs and forced to close. After the war, it was occupied by the BBC as ancillary accommodation to Broadcasting House, and the corporation purchased it outright in 1965.

The building was reopened the as the Langham Hilton in 1991 after a £100 million refurbishment. The new owners extended the hotel and carried out other refurbishments between 1998 and 2000. The Langham Hilton today is a five star Hotel with nearly five hundred rooms and suites with state of the art facilities.

The paranormal activity and ghostly goings on at Langham Hotel became apparent whilst owned by the BBC. Reportedly there are at least five ghosts that make regular appearances at the hotel. The most active is the ghost of a German prince or nobleman who threw himself out the window of an upper floor room. Guests returning to their rooms in the early hours have reported seeing his apparition walk through closed doors, his appearance is often accompanied by a drop in temperature

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