Grand Imperial Hotel

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• Dave Darling | September 13, 2015

  My wife and I stayed here a few years ago. We had a single room on the 2nd floor. During the first night I heard the floor squeaking from footsteps. I thought it was my wife going to the bathroom. In the morning she said she hadn't got up during the night. We decided to stay another night to see if our visitor would return. My wife heard footsteps the second night which she thought were mine, but I hadn't got up either. I believe we did have a the same visitor both nights.
  We stayed there again a few years later and requested the same room, but there was renovation going on and that part of the hotel was closed. We didn't have any visitors that time. I guess the ghost was resting during renovation. We do look forward to our next visit at The Grand Imperial.

• Dena Dickinson | July 21, 2019

  Currently staying here, tonight is second night. Loud banging in the room not only woke me up, but also my kids.

• Russell Davis | November 25, 2021

  Well,
  I can say my wife and I will from this point forward check any motel on Trip Advisor before you book a room for a stay in this beautiful but definitely haunted hotel! My wife and I recently took the train ride from Durango up to Silverton a month ago and we stayed the night at the Grand Imperial on the second floor. The rooms and bathrooms are beautiful along with a very comfortable period bed. The night was quiet with the small exception of a loud clunk of something metallic sounding hitting the bathroom floor around 12:30 am. I got up to check but nothing was on the floor.
  
  The next morning I got up and walked uotdside the motel and took some pictures around town and three pictures of the front of the Grand Imperial. One hour I was looking at the pictures I had taken and in several of the pictures of the front of the G.I. motel I noticed a person or figuere in an open window up on the second floor. I pinched my fingers to zoom in the the picture and was blown away by what looked like a skeletal figuere in the fifth window from the left in the picturer.
  
  I directly showed the picture to several of the hotel staff and the girl behind the counter fell back a few feet after seeing what I had captured. The staff told me the hotel was haunted and the owner and his wife will no longer stay overnight in their own hotel?
  When my wife and I drove home a few days later after taking the great train ride back to Durango I pretty soon after got on the internet and found that a lot of haunting instances have over the recent years occurred in this hotel. Many only recently especially during and after the hotel interior rooms and hallways restoration. My wife and I were told by the staff that some of the recent restorations had not been completed as the workers experianced nails and pieces of old dry wall were often being thrown at them with no one around.
  
  I made a modified copy of these pictures with the background and contrast lightened to see more of what was as it appeared in the background behind this figure. I do believe I can see in the enhanced contrast copy of the photo a set of skeletal hands on the shoulders of the original apparition? I also can see the right hand of the apparition resting on the window sill in the left bottom corner like the entity is sitting down. Other features I can see with the better background contrast are the rib cage bones along with a better defined spinal column of the entity also leaning at a curve probably while sitting down maybe in a chair?
  Others can make out what they see but I just saying see this for yourself.
  The pictures were taken with my eight-year-old Galaxy S-7 edge at 8mp. resolution.
  
  Rusty and Debbie Davis.
  Beaumont Ca.

• russell s davis | November 25, 2021

  Well,
  I can say my wife and I will from this point forward check any motel on Trip Advisor before you book a room for a stay in this beautiful but definitely haunted hotel! My wife and I recently took the train ride from Durango up to Silverton a month ago and we stayed the night at the Grand Imperial on the second floor. The rooms and bathrooms are beautiful along with a very comfortable period bed. The night was quiet with the small exception of a loud clunk of something metallic sounding hitting the bathroom floor around 12:30 am. I got up to check but nothing was on the floor.
  
  The next morning I got up and walked uotdside the motel and took some pictures around town and three pictures of the front of the Grand Imperial. One hour I was looking at the pictures I had taken and in several of the pictures of the front of the G.I. motel I noticed a person or figuere in an open window up on the second floor. I pinched my fingers to zoom in the the picture and was blown away by what looked like a skeletal figuere in the fifth window from the left in the picturer.
  
  I directly showed the picture to several of the hotel staff and the girl behind the counter fell back a few feet after seeing what I had captured. The staff told me the hotel was haunted and the owner and his wife will no longer stay overnight in their own hotel?
  When my wife and I drove home a few days later after taking the great train ride back to Durango I pretty soon after got on the internet and found that a lot of haunting instances have over the recent years occurred in this hotel. Many only recently especially during and after the hotel interior rooms and hallways restoration. My wife and I were told by the staff that some of the recent restorations had not been completed as the workers experianced nails and pieces of old dry wall were often being thrown at them with no one around.
  
  I made a modified copy of these pictures with the background and contrast lightened to see more of what was as it appeared in the background behind this figure. I do believe I can see in the enhanced contrast copy of the photo a set of skeletal hands on the shoulders of the original apparition? I also can see the right hand of the apparition resting on the window sill in the left bottom corner like the entity is sitting down. Other features I can see with the better background contrast are the rib cage bones along with a better defined spinal column of the entity also leaning at a curve probably while sitting down maybe in a chair?
  Others can make out what they see but I just saying see this for yourself.
  The pictures were taken with my eight-year-old Galaxy S-7 edge at 8mp. resolution.
  
  Rusty and Debbie Davis.
  Beaumont Ca.

• Russel Davis | November 25, 2021

  The original photo.