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The Haunted Jane Street Hotel: Echoes of the Lost Sailors

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After tragedy struck and the Titanic sank to the bottom of the Atlantic ocean, the surviving crew members were sent to The Jane Street Hotel in New York. According to stories, they are still haunting the rooms, where the trauma of their tragedy lingers. 

In the heart of New York’s West Village stands a hotel where luxury and lingering sorrow intertwine. The Jane Street Hotel, with its vintage charm and storied past, hides a history steeped in tragedy. 

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Long before it became a fashionable stay for travelers in Greenwich Village, it was known as the American Seaman’s Friend Society Sailors’ Home and Institute, built in 1908. In 2008, it was restored and came back as a boutique hotel, often called The Jane.

Back then it was a refuge for sailors arriving from the high seas. But the souls who once found rest within its walls may never have truly left.

The Jane Hotel: at 505-507 West Street on the corner of Jane Street in the West Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City was built in 1907-08 as the American Seamen’s Friend Society Sailors’ Home and Institute, and was designed by William A. Boring as a hotel for sailors.// Source

The Titanic Tragedy

The hauntings are often linked to one of the most heartbreaking events in the hotel’s history. In 1912, after the sinking of the Titanic, the Jane Street building became a temporary shelter for surviving crew members brought ashore in New York, mostly British Sailors. 

The survivors of the Titanic stayed at the hotel until the end of the American Inquiry into the ship’s sinking. The surviving crew held a memorial service at the hotel four days after the ship sank. More than a hundred survivors were said to have stayed here after the accident. Afterward, the ASFS commissioned a plaque for the building, memorializing those who died in the sinking.

RMS Titanic: The largest ocean liner in service at the time, Titanic was four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, United States. on 15 April 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean, she hit an iceberg and sank. Out of the 2,224 people onboard, 1,635 died. Many of them are now believed to haunt different parts of the world. //Image: 1912 illustration by Willy Stöwer.

According to the stories, some of the Titanic sailors, still traumatized from the tragedy, went mad. One allegedly hanged himself. Although mostly the dead from a tragedy like this are said to be the ghosts, but this time, it is the spirit of the survivors that are still here in their afterlife. Many believe that the cries heard in the night belong to these surviving sailors, still mourning the shipmates they left behind in the freezing Atlantic.

The Haunted Jane Street Hotel

Guests who spend the night here speak of strange occurrences that defy reason. According to founder of the Haunted Manhattan walking tour, Brent Pedersen, people have even fled from their rooms because of the paranormal activity. Wailing and moaning echo down the narrow hallways, often in the dead of night when the city outside lies still. The elevators stop and move by themself. Doors creak open on their own, and the sound of heavy footsteps can be heard pacing through empty corridors. 

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Some visitors have reported seeing faint figures drifting through the dimly lit rooms, their features blurred like mist, vanishing when approached. Others speak of sudden, icy chills that move through the air, lingering only long enough to raise the hair on the back of the neck.

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According to Pedersen, a woman staying at the hotel heard a man weeping outside of her room. When she peeked outside, no one was in the hallway, but the crying continued. When she saw the face of a crying sailor in the mirror, she screamed and checked out from the hotel at once. 

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Another case was on the third floor. A guest staying at the hotel noticed a figure of a woman in white through a porthole on a door. The guest opened and checked, but the woman vanished. But when the door was closed once again and the guest checked, the ghostly figure was still there, on the other side of the porthole. 

Though the Jane Street Hotel has since been transformed into a trendy boutique destination, its past continues to whisper beneath the polished wood and warm lighting. Guests may come for the vintage elegance and charm, but some leave with stories they cannot explain. Perhaps it is only the old building settling in the night. Or perhaps it is the restless souls of sailors who still wander the halls, searching for the peace they never found at sea.

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The Haunted Devonshire Park Theatre: The Phantom Violinist of Eastbourne

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Could one of the musicians on the Titanic be haunting the Devonshire Park Theatre in Eastbourne, England? Who is the person behind the ghost said to still be playing the violin?

In the seaside town of Eastbourne, the Devonshire Park Theatre stands as one of England’s most elegant Victorian playhouses. 

Since its grand opening in 1884, the theatre has welcomed countless performers, audiences, and stories to its stage. But when the last curtain falls and the lights dim, it is said that not all who linger in the theatre belong to the living.

Devonshire Park Theatre by Oast House Archive

The Violinist from Titanic Haunting the Orchestra Pit

For decades, whispers have circulated about a ghostly musician who haunts the Devonshire Park Theatre. Some claim to have seen a man dressed in white tie and tails standing silently in the orchestra pit or seated among the stalls, his instrument cradled gently beneath his chin. The figure, shimmering faintly in the low light, is said to vanish the moment one looks twice.

Reports of this spectral violinist date back to the 1960s and 1970s, when both staff and visitors described fleeting glimpses of him during rehearsals and late-night performances. Though sightings have become less frequent in recent years, those who have experienced the haunting speak of a deep sense of melancholy that seems to hang in the air whenever the mysterious music begins.

For a time, locals believed the apparition to be none other than John Wesley Woodward, the Titanic’s heroic cellist who famously continued to play as the ship went down in 1912. 

John Wesley Woodward: (11 September 1879 – 15 April 1912) was an English musician. Born in West Bromwich. A memorial plaque was erected to Woodward on the promenade in Eastbourne depicting the Titanic as it sank.

In Eastbourne, he played the cello both at the Grand Hotel and in the local orchestra. While in Eastbourne he joined the White Star Line musicians, playing on transatlantic ships. On 10 April 1912, he boarded the RMS Titanic at Southampton for her maiden Transatlantic voyage. Five days later, on 15 April 1912, the ship hit an iceberg and he and the other musicians famously continued to play as the Titanic sank. Their final tune was, according to some survivor accounts, “Nearer, My God, To Thee”. All members of the band, including his friend Jock Hume, drowned, and the body of Wesley Woodward was never recovered.

The theory gained traction due to Woodward’s connection to Eastbourne, where he is memorialized with a plaque at the Bandstand. However, researchers later discovered that the ghostly musician could not be Woodward, as the spirit has always been described as a violinist, not a cellist.

Who, then, is the phantom that haunts the Devonshire Park Theatre? 

Paranormal Investigation at the Theatre

The mysterious violinist is perhaps not the only ghost haunting the theatre though. According to a spokesperson, they actually had a few paranormal investigators at their venue in 2005. According to a medium visiting and doing the investigation with them, they believed that a ghost haunting the place could have been Murray King who was an actor and licensee of the venue in the late 1800s up until the 1930s. Could this also be the identity of the mysterious violinist? 

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The Ghost of the Captain Smith from the Titanic

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After the Titanic sank in 1912, people started talking about seeing the ghost of Captain Smith around the world. Even after all these years, his death and afterlife have an air of mystery surrounding it and he has become one of the most well known ghosts from the Titanic tragedy.

Captain Edward Smith, a man once regarded as unsinkable as his ship, was among those lost to the icy depths. Throughout his life, he had never been involved in accidents, until he was in the midst of one of the biggest tragedies at sea. 

RMS Titanic: The largest ocean liner in service at the time, Titanic was four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, United States. on 15 April 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean, she hit an iceberg and sank. Out of the 2,224 people onboard, 1,635 died. Many of them are now believed to haunt different parts of the world. //Image: 1912 illustration by Willy Stöwer.

Straight after the tragedy of the Titanic, people started to tell stories about seeing his ghosts, and those stories have evolved, travelled across the world and even today, new stories emerge from those claiming to have met the ghost of the Captain. 

The Life of Captain Smith

Edward John Smith was a British sea captain and naval officer, born in 1850 in Stoke-on-Trent in England. At the age of 13, he left his childhood home and went to sea. In 1880, he joined the White Star Line as an officer, beginning a long career in the British Merchant Navy.

There were many witnesses that came forward with different stories about him. Some of the earliest accounts of the captain’s demise turned out to be people that wasn’t even on the passenger list. So what really happened that night? Most witnesses said he appeared on the bridge of the Titanic just moments after impact, asking what happened. .

“An iceberg, sir,” First Officer William Murdoch told him. The rest is history, and also a bit of mystery. Some say that he went into shock, and that he became quite passive when the work of getting people into the lifeboats started. 

Captain Edward John Smith at the Titanic bridge on the morning of April 10th, 1912

Some say that he shot himself with a pistol, wireless operator Harold Bride, said he’d seen Smith “dive from the bridge into the sea.” Some say that he was swept off by a wave. Titanic fireman Harry Senior, Smith jumped off the ship with “an infant clutched tenderly in his arms,” swam to a nearby lifeboat, handed off the child and swam back toward the Titanic, saying, “I will follow the ship.”

“[Smith] took one of the children standing by him on the bridge and jumped into the sea,” fireman James McGann recounted. “He endeavored to reach the overturned boat but did not succeed. That was the last I saw of Captain Smith … He held the little girl under one arm as he jumped into the sea and endeavored to reach the nearest lifeboat with the child.”

Thomas Whiteley, a first class steward, also described seeing the captain trying to help a baby into a lifeboat.

“Some women tried to drag him on the boat, but he pulled away from them and said: ‘Save yourselves,’” Whiteley recalled. “I saw him go under, and he never came up.”

Author Wyn Craig Wade wrote in The Titanic: End of a Dream, “Captain Smith had at least five different deaths, from heroic to ignominious.” His final moments remain shrouded in uncertainty, inspiring stories that he either took his own life or was swept away by a wave only to return to his doomed vessel. 

Though his body was never found, his spirit may not have stayed at sea. 

The Ghost of Captain Smith and his Final Goodbye

One of the strange phenomena that happened after the Titanic sank, was the widows of sailors and crew members waking in the nights, hearing their names called out by their loved ones, or seeing their ghosts, long before they knew about the ship sinking. 

According to one eerie legend, his wife, Sarah Eleanor Smith, saw his ghost appear in their home before the world had even learned of the Titanic’s fate. This must have been in their home in a red brick, twin-gabled house named “Woodhead” on Winn Road in Highfield, Southampton, Hampshire.

She claimed he stood before her in her drawing room, dripping wet and silent, as if to say his final goodbye. He walked across the carpet to the window, not saying a word before vanishing into thin air as he reached the window. According to Mrs. Smith, this is when she learned about her husband’s death. 

The Haunted Britannia Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool

This was not the last time people claimed to have witnessed his ghost roaming though. Another place he is said to have haunted is the Adelphy Hotel in Liverpool, a hotel often dubbed, the most haunted hotel in the UK.

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It is said that The Sefton Suite in the hotel is an exact replica of the first-class smoking room on the ship. A paranormal researcher claims to have witnessed three men haunting the room, saying it was Smith together with two other naval officers who also went down with the ship. It is however disputed that the Sefton Suite is a replica or built by the same craftsmen that the myth claims. 

From left to right: First Officer William M Murdoch, Chief Engineer Joseph Evans, Fourth Officer David Alexander and Capt. Edward J. Smith seen on the Olympic.

His Ghost Haunting Baltimore

One of the strangest stories though, is how a mariner claims to have seen the captain in different places in Baltimore, Maryland over a 17-year period and that he hadn’t died at all. Peter Pryal was a businessman who claimed to have been a Quartermaster on the steamship Majestic for the White Star liner over 30 years ago when Captain Smith was his captain..

Mr. Pryal said that he saw the Captain on a Wednesday morning, and to confirm it was him, he went to the same spot that Friday and saw the Captain again. At 9 o’clock the following Friday or Saturday morning, he went to the corner of St. Paul and Baltimore Streets where he had seen him last and stood on the corner for almost an hour. To his astonishment, he saw the same man approaching him, he said, ‘Captain Smith, how are you?‘ The mystery man replied, ‘Very well, but please don’t detain me, I am on business.’

Mr. Pryal  followed the man to St. Paul and Fayette Streets. Several times the supposed Captain turned to see Mr. Pryal followed him, and he ducked into the Calvert Building to try to lose him in the crowd. He caught up with the Captain as he was boarding a car or a train to Washington  and the Captain said:

‘Be good, shipmate, until we meet again.’

Mr. Pryal was shocked as he believed him to be dead. He had a nervous breakdown in public and got himself home, but his doctor attested that he was: “absolutely sane and not given to hallucinations.” But what really happened here? Did he see his ghosts? Did he uncover the truth that the Captain had in fact survived? Or was it all just a big misunderstanding?

The Haunting of the SS Winterhaven

In the 70s, another ghost story emerged connected to the Titanic and the ghost of the captain. Although there aren’t many sources for this story online before 2008. In 1977, Second Officer Leonard Bishop gave a tour of the SS Winterhaven. A soft-spoken brit was among the passengers, and something about this particular passenger felt different, although Bishop couldn’t explain why. He turned away for a minute, and when he looked back at the passenger, he was gone. 

This would all fall into place years later, when Bishop stumbled across a photo of Captain Smith and saw that it was the passenger that he had taken on a tour. 

Haunting his Childhood home in Stoke on Trent

Another place Smith is said to be haunting, is his childhood home in Stoke on Trent in Staffordshire. The home was built in the early 19th century and was used as a corner shop by Captain Smith’s mother. He lived there until he was thirteen and he went to sea. 

Most of the ghost stories come from the house owners, Neil and Louise Bronner who rented the house out to many tenants for a decade before they sold it in 2012. Many came back with a ghost story or two. 

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There have been those who claimed to have seen his ghost in the bedroom. A man was alone in his bed one day and saw the apparition in the captain. The man in the house had apparently been at sea himself. Neil also got a phone call about a uniformed man walking around in the kitchen. 

On a side note, there used to be a story circling around that a mirror from his home was haunted by him as well. According to the story, he put it on his dressing table before setting sail on Titanic. According to the story, his maid kept seeing his face in the mirror on the anniversary of the sinking. 

According to the story, her name was Ethelwynne, and was offered to take one item from his home when he went down with the ship after the vessel hit an iceberg on April 14, 1912 as a keepsake and in lieu of wages. She chose this and had it in her and her family’s possession until it was found in an estate sale.

Eventually the mirror ended up in auction houses with the story attached to it, and landed in ghost hunter Zac Bagan’s collection. But how true is this story though? Coincidentally, the auction started a couple of months or so in 2018, when a couple in Belfast snapped a picture in a bar they claimed was his ghost. How much of a coincidence is it that the two different hauntings of the same ghost appeared so close together? Kenny Biddle for the Skeptical Inquirer did a longer piece about why the mirror and its haunted story was most likely not true at all. 

His Ghost in a Pub in Belfast

Talking about the picture snapped in Belfast, this is perhaps the lates sighting and big story about the ghost of the Captain. 

Cheryl and Luke Arkless were in Robinsons bar in Belfast one evening in 2018. The couple, both 34 at the time, were visiting from Devon and sat down for a drink on July 29th. Cheryl’s mother in law took, in a matter of seconds, three pictures of them. According to themselves, they felt a cold wind on their backs, but didn’t think much of it until they were back in England and saw something strange in the photos. As Cheryl herself stated:

‘I called my husband and he said it was probably a person walking behind us very fast. But the thing is, everything around us is crystal clear apart from that blur. I was very skeptical at first but now I really think it looks like a man. There is a strong ‘Titanic’ background in the bar, and the more you look at the more he resembles the captain. On the right-hand side behind us, a band was playing, so he looks as if he is watching the band.’

According to ghost hunters Paranormal Investigations UK, they analyzed the photo and tested it for manipulation. According to Cheryl, they told her the photo was untampered and unexplainable. Now, why this bar? According to Cheryl, the pub had not experienced anything like it when she called and let them know about the picture. 

 It’s important to note that the pub is filled with original memorabilia from the Titanic like letters and post cards written on board, first and second class China from the White Star Line vessels. Could it have been Captain Smith haunting the bar close to where the Titanic first set sail? 

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How Did the ‘Titanic’ Captain Die? New Book Reveals Conflicting Accounts of Tragic Last Moments

Baltimore Mystery Man

What Was the Titanic’s Captain Doing While the Ship Sank? | HISTORY

Captain Smith of the RMS Titanic Seen After His Death: 1912 | Mrs Daffodil Digresses

SS Winterhaven

HMS Titanic

Robinson Bar in Belfast

Couple shocked after ‘ghost of Titanic’s captain photobombs them’ in Belfast pub – Irish Mirror 

Childhood home

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Haunted Mirror

Haunted mirror ‘possessed by the ghost of the Titanic captain’ up for auction

The Provenance of Captain Smith’s ‘Haunted’ Mirror | Skeptical Inquirer

The Ghosts of the Britannia Adelphi Hotel: Shadows in Liverpool

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The current Britannia Adelphi Hotel is the third building here used as a hotel, and filled with ghosts according to rumours. From the dark basement to the haunted suites in the upper floors, this Liverpool hotel is often dubbed Britain’s most haunted one. 

In the center of Liverpool stands a grand and opulent hotel whose luxury hides a darker history. The Britannia Adelphi Hotel, once hailed as the most elegant hotel outside of London, has long been a magnet for both travelers and the supernatural. 

Behind the crystal chandeliers and marble halls lurk whispers of ghostly figures, disembodied voices and strange tapping noises from the walls, and something much more sinister said to dwell on the third floor. Guests have checked in expecting a night of comfort only to find themselves face-to-face with the unknown.

A History of Grandeur and Ghosts

A hotel has occupied this site since 1826, when it first replaced Ranaleigh Gardens, one of Liverpool’s earliest public recreation spaces. The original building gave way to a second hotel fifty years later, which was purchased by Midland Railway in 1892. By 1911, the current Adelphi Hotel replaced the old ones. When it opened its doors, it quickly became a symbol of wealth and sophistication, welcoming guests from across the world.

Famous figures such as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, and Laurel and Hardy once graced its rooms. Even Roy Rogers brought his beloved horse, Trigger, to stay within its walls. Yet despite its polished surface, the Adelphi has always seemed to carry something restless beneath its grandeur, as though the echoes of its past refuse to fade.

The Haunted Adelphi Hotel

According to the stories, Adelphi is haunted because of the many deaths and suicides that have taken place here since it opened. 

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There are plenty of ghosts believed to haunt the hotel. One of them being a bellboy, 15 year old Raymond Brown, who was trapped in the baggage lift and died in 1961. He can now be seen picking up guests’ bags and carrying their luggage before he disappears around a corner or slips into the shadows. 

In the elevators there is a whistler who is breathing down people’s necks and tapping them on the shoulder. A female ghost who is pickpocketing the guests, rifling through their belongings in the early morning, vanishes when she is caught.

In the basement it is said that a lady wearing Victorian clothing is haunting. Among the many tales, one rumor stands out—accounts of a demon that prowls the upper corridors, growling and whispering in a voice not of this world.

The Haunted Third Floor

The most haunted floor in the hotel is said to be the third floor. This is according to the staff. There have been several reports about people getting sick when staying there for too long, and people also claim to have seen shadows and ghostly figures at the end of their beds. 

It is said that this shadow is the ghost of a man known only as George in a tuxedo and a toothbrush mustache. He is said to stand silently by people’s bed, his expression unreadable, before fading away into the shadows. 

Some believe it is the ghost of a man who took his own life inside the hotel in the 1930s. It is said that he died in the elevator in the hotel or fell to his death. He is also said to call out to people from a particular window on the Brownlow Hill side of the hotel.

The Haunting of the Titanic Crew in The Sefton Suite

It is said that The Sefton Suite in the hotel is an exact replica of the first-class smoking room on the ship. It has later been disproven by the hotel itself. But this myth is perhaps the reason people think that Captain Edward Smith, who went down with the Titanic in 1912, is haunting this hotel. 

A paranormal researcher and author Tom Slemen claims to have witnessed three men haunting the room, saying it was Smith together with two other naval officers who also went down with the ship.

“During one talk, there was standing room only, and I and many other people saw three men standing at the far end of the room who were dressed as naval officers with white caps and dark jackets with all the braiding. The middle officer, who looked about sixty, had a white beard and stood about 5 feet 7 or 8, and the trio were there one moment then gone the next, and there were gasps of shock when this trinity of ghosts vanished.” Source

 It is also said that a woman in a grey Victorian dress is haunting it. 

The Living and the Dead

Today, the Adelphi Hotel continues to welcome guests into its 402 rooms, each richly decorated with touches of old-world charm. Visitors can enjoy fine dining beneath sparkling chandeliers, relax in the sauna and marble swimming pool, or sip a quiet drink in the bar. Yet as night falls, and the last lights dim, the grandeur takes on a different tone. The laughter from the dining halls fades, replaced by faint whispers down long corridors and the creak of unseen footsteps.

For some, the Adelphi is a place of elegance and nostalgia. For others, it is a labyrinth of shadows and memories that refuse to die. Whether George’s ghost still stands watch or something far darker prowls the third floor, one thing is certain—those who stay at the Britannia Adelphi Hotel never quite leave as they arrived.

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The Haunted Britannia Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool

Cumbrian ghost hunter Louis Dee explores Liverpool’s Adelphi Hotel | News and Star

The Eerie Legends of Adelphi Hotel Liverpool – DeadLive Events

Spookiest things to have ever happened at The Adelphi Hotel – Liverpool Echo