Hotelier utilizes ghosts
An enterprising Karoo hotelier has decided that his establishment’s ghosts must pay for their other-worldly board and lodging.
There are rumoured to be poltergeists, the ghost of a woman who hanged herself in her lonely hotel room, as well as paintings that change character at various times of the month.
Donald Lamont, manager of the Swartberg Hotel in Prince Albert, a town at the foot of the majestic Swartberg Pass, said he, himself, had not seen any manifestations, but that several staff and guests had sworn they had had ghostly experiences.
However, a receptionist at the hotel, which was built in 1886, has told of seeing a vase flying across a room, leaving behind the flowers it had contained!
There are two huge oil paintings in the hotel restaurant and staff and guests alike have sworn these have changed character - objects depicted in the art works have moved position - at certain times of the lunar month.
