Cavalier Hotel
This large hotel has been around since 1918. Reportedly, it is haunted by the ghosts of celebrities that stayed there during the earlier part of the century. There have been reports of strange noises and whispering voices. Some have also reported their towels being a different color than they were when they first entered the room.
What happened to Vermont?! We got some GREAT haunted places here! We got a collage, a school, a LOT of houses. Put Vermont in and next time you make a site check a map!
Comment by Kayla | 10.8.2005 | 10:46 am
From: Richmond VA
What happend to the Hollywood cemitary man that place is incredibly haunted. Also we have a bunch of old houses here that are haunted.
Comment by Carrie | 10.13.2005 | 8:32 pm
i have actually visited this and it was pretty scarey!
Comment by katie | 11.7.2005 | 11:35 am
I went there too and it was scary!! My sister heard someone say thank you for coming closer as she got close to the Ballroom door. And I heard the piano playing and there was no one in the piano seat but the keys were moving!! It scared me half-to-death!!!!
Comment by Jamie Snyder | 11.19.2005 | 1:48 pm
I WANT IT TO OPEN AGAIN!
Comment by Jamie Snyder | 11.19.2005 | 1:48 pm
Who cares about Vermont?
Comment by Brittney | 12.9.2005 | 12:20 pm
I’ve heard the walls bleed inside the Cavalier Hotel.
Comment by Greg | 02.7.2006 | 12:12 am
what about philippines?
Comment by mia | 02.27.2006 | 8:00 pm
I stay at the cavalier quite often and it is open from like may to i believe september every year
Comment by Renee | 02.28.2006 | 5:28 pm
I’m new here. The Cav Hotel sounds great! Anything closer to Charlottesville? Ben through many other states and am really interested in your ghosts stories here. Always fun…looking for experiences! Any suggestions in addition to the Cav?
Comment by Jennifer | 03.27.2006 | 12:24 am
dude some of the comments are bull!!!
Comment by krys | 04.5.2006 | 9:07 pm
I stayed at this hotel for a night once. I live in that area, and wanted to have my birthday there. That night the window of our room opened on it’s own, and we heard some strange noises. . .like the rubbing of shoes on brick. After that we heard a sound like meat hitting concrete. We went to the front desk about it the next morning, and it turns out, the man who founded Coors Brewery comitted suicide in that room in the 1940’s. He jumped out the window. There are many haunted family cemeteries in Virginia Beach.
Comment by John | 04.24.2006 | 8:41 pm
I stayed at this hotel for a night once. I live in that area, and wanted to have my birthday there. That night the window of our room opened on it’s own, and we heard some strange noises. . .like the rubbing of shoes on brick. After that we heard a sound like meat hitting concrete. We went to the front desk about it the next morning, and it turns out, the man who founded Coors Brewery comitted suicide in that room in the 1940’s. He jumped out the window. There are many haunted family cemeteries in Virginia Beach.
Comment by John | 04.24.2006 | 8:43 pm
Dudes that place is whicked some would say scary but scary is my type of thing i love scary and i love to be scared too so for all yall scared cats go and find another place cause i want the scares if yall dont like to be scared alot…..LEAVE ME TO BE SCARED PLAESSSSSSSSSSE…..
Comment by Ce Ce | 04.27.2006 | 2:04 pm
This place sounds cool.
Comment by Joe | 05.17.2006 | 6:02 pm
What family cemeteries? I live in Virginia Beach, and I have not seen a single one. Besides, I think that you are making this all up! Haunted family cemeteries! Ha! If there are, then where are they?
Comment by Jim | 05.17.2006 | 6:07 pm
Well Jim, if you don’t believe me, then try this web-site: http://www.carolshouse.com/cemeteryrecords/ there are so many cemeteries in there that your head will spin! Some of them are in other states, but most of them are in Virginia Beach, or Old Princess Anne County. The creater of that web-site doesn’t mention the hauntings, but I have been to all of them, photographed every headstone, and gotten ghosts in half of the pictures. Go at night, maybe you’ll get all of the **** knocked out of you, dipstick!
Comment by John | 05.17.2006 | 6:15 pm
How do u no they were celebs?
Comment by b-dog | 05.31.2006 | 9:25 pm
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Comment by Big Bill | 06.7.2006 | 1:49 am
I’ve only been to the hotel in va Beach once, just to look. I has it gives me the creeps (like watching the movie The Shining). I have been (twice) to the Chamberlen hotel @ Fort Monroe in Hampton. The first time at night with my husband just to look around the “cool old hotel”. We went to the top floor and when to elevator door open, well it just felt wrong to get out the elevator. I went back to the desserted top floor during the day with some friends. I didn’t see anything, I can’t explain it, I felt like there was somthing there just out of my sight. I felt scared for no reason and this is before I knew the ghost stories. I can bet you money if you could get up there at night, you won’t last long.
Comment by tay | 06.11.2006 | 7:44 pm
are certain rooms that are haunted or is it just the whole 6th floor?
Comment by george | 06.30.2006 | 5:16 pm
Just wanted to know if there is a certain room or floor in the Old Cavalier Hotel that is haunted or what. What is the story about an old man who hangs around there? I would L-O-V-E to go and have an experience.
Comment by Donna | 07.8.2006 | 4:48 pm
your all just ***
Comment by Kelsey | 07.10.2006 | 7:09 pm
umm kaay ;; tats cool but how is that scary maybe its jus yur imagination ?? ;; ever thought of that ?? ;; NO YU DIDNT!!
pfft crazy ppl:S
Comment by chelssssss | 07.10.2006 | 7:13 pm
I stayed at the amaller Cavalier across the street from the haunted one. We stayed there for a national dance competition that summer, and my mom called her father to tell him where we were (he spent a lot of time in VA Beach), and he knew right off the bat that the one across the street was haunted. He told us about the cat and the guy who committed suicide, but didn’t know much else.
My mother and I then asked one of the people who worked at our hotel what happens there. The cat is actually someone’s spirit in disguise, I believe the guy who committed suicide because the cat started to show up the day after the guy killed himself, and one of the people who worked their was the irst to notice and believe it.
We also talked to a woman who worked at the haunted Cavalier. She would set all of the tables in one of the dining rooms. She would leave the room, come back, and all of the dishes and glasses would be turned upsidedown. She didn’t find it as much scary as she did “annoying.”
That’s my two cents.
Comment by Cat | 07.14.2006 | 5:57 pm
I have lived in virginia beach my whole life but never spent the night there. i was there for a few hours for my friends birthday and she said the door kept unlocking by itself during the party. After everyone left and they were falling asleep they heard whispering. We also talked to people that worked there and some people would tell us it was haunted but others said they didnt know. The lady at the front desk said a couple nights ago there was a lady who opened the window, said hello and shut it…about 1 in the morning. The scary thing is there isn’t anything to stand on outside the window. She also said the water turns on and off by itself and it happend in the bath room next to the front desk.
Comment by ashley | 07.26.2006 | 7:25 pm
Hey dudes…..just respect each other’s opinion and to those who are just giving bull to this site remember you are not cheating us but yourself!
Cav hotel is one hell of a place. I believe its haunted coz Ive checked it out and i cn feel that odd hair-raising vibrations around me. But what the heck! a haunt is a haunt. each one has his own experience and degree of haunting may vary but bottomline is that everyone has the right to be HAUNTED. Just enjoy the ride.
Comment by Gerard Alexandre | 08.3.2006 | 4:24 am
Hi- I have stayed at the Cavaier on the Beach across the street from the old Cavalier but have investigated it. It is not just cool place to look for ghosts, it really is very pretty. While walking around at night I did hear someone playing piano but no one was in the music room. It does seem to have a lot of history and good energy around it. It is worth checking it out.
Comment by Dana | 08.11.2006 | 6:29 pm
SO, we began our adventure in the late hours of last night….we totally saw that cat walking around, and those walls looked like they had dry blood, we went inside and the pool would spalsh by itsself and no one was jumping in.. we heard that meat slapping noise it was weird… so we decide on the top, and climb up the but didnt make it up ha. anyways we found a mysterious jungle gym, and were freaked out totally and saw the coors brewery man.
Comment by scooby doo crew | 08.12.2006 | 12:11 pm
SO, we began our adventure in the late hours of last night….we totally saw that cat walking around, and those walls looked like they had dry blood, we went inside and the pool would spalsh by itsself and no one was jumping in.. we heard that meat slapping noise it was weird… so we decide on the top, and climb up the but didnt make it up ha. anyways we found a mysterious jungle gym, and were freaked out totally and saw the coors brewery man. sff
Comment by scooby doo crew | 08.12.2006 | 12:11 pm
Look Big bill first maybe u can find a name that anyone would actually care about Second maybe u should go and ask ur momy to tell u 1 then u can try to make someone care about what u r saying ok? and i bet u have a big head!
Comment by b-dog | 08.22.2006 | 6:19 pm
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Comment by b-dog | 08.22.2006 | 7:27 pm
hey guys im George and ive been investigating the cavilier for a while!! I have alot of evp recordings of people laughing and horses making nosies even the sound of the mallot hitting the ball playing crokeh i dont know how to spell that word lol but one night me and my friend jeremy were sitting by the revene and it was really foggy coming off the water and i heard a woman say ” hello” like she was lost and then i heard foot steps coming up the stairs to us from the cazebo. another acount was when this couple came up to me in december and were dressed up in wedding gown and suit and they were all happy and smiling and i said “HEY ” they were like tonights our wedding night, i said ” congradulations” i wasnt really interested in talking to these people i had my friends there, then next thing i know they walk right into the cavalier to my astonishment the doors were locked , later i realized i had seen ghost but they appeared to be real looking HEy if anybody wants to join up with me and start a ghost investigation team let me know message me on http://www.myspace.com/georgeafly
Comment by GEORGE | 09.2.2006 | 5:41 pm
Hey guys theres also a house out in suffolk that i go to with alot of my friends so if you want to go let me know!!!! I have alot of pictures from Granby cemetary scary ones!!! I have E.V.P. from The francis plantation house off of va beach blvd. of a little girl saying ” there’s a tree by me” very creepy I really want to find people that are good ive been doing this for most of my life and i grew up here in chesapeake, now im chillin in va beach most of the time most of you guys might know me i use to play guitar with metal band ” laid to rest” and i played with the guitarist Scottie from norma jean remember message me on my myspace at http://www.myspace.com/georgeafly
Comment by GEORGE | 09.2.2006 | 5:46 pm
I Have lived in Virginia Beach my whole life, and I have stayed at the Cavalier for my sisters birthday. I would say I was about 10 years old, but I did not have any experiences while I was there. But there are books on it being haunted, and it looks very haunted, eventhough I have not had any experiences.
Comment by Leslie | 09.17.2006 | 12:45 pm
I also live here in Va. Beach. Me and a friend went and met up about 10:30 one night to go check out the Cavalier. We snuck inside the elevator and took it up to the 6th floor. We checked it out, East Wind, and did not see anything, and as we headed toward the elevator, we noticed a man we saw at the front entrace to the place, security. We said hello, jumped to the 4th, 3rd and 2nd where we got out of the elevator, and decided to hurry up and take the service stairs down further as much as they would allow us to go. We got past the kichen, down into the boiler room. That place was creepy. We entered into a dark hallway, but did not come totally prepaired, so decided not to venture there any further. We decided, while down there to look around the other direction. Got past the linen cage, and notice a large room with old furniture and beds. Past that, we saw another old room, dark, and a hallway past that. We got creeped out and decided to get outside to see if we could see anything. Well, no go. But, I did just balls out walk up to the man who was security and started to ask questions, and told him what we were doing. I told him how far we had made it. At that point, we did find out that there are alot of tunnels aunder the hotel, and we were well on our way when we saw the hallway past the old furniture. We have promised to go back in the winter to really dig deeper in this place. It was fun and exciting. We cant wait to go again!
Comment by Hope | 09.29.2006 | 10:02 pm
Wow, a lot of these stories sound very fun and exciting! Usually, when I go to Va. Beach, I stay with my aunt off of Shore Dr. but I’ve only stayed in one hotel other than my aunt’s house. Next time, I’ll try and go to the Cavalier because I’ve never had a real experience…just some things happened to me in my dad’s townhouse. For example, every once in awhile I will hear footseps going up and down the stairs. Also, this one time, the front door was closed and me and my dad were watching a movie and the way the t.v is turned when can see the reflection from the front room and the hall. Well, when the screen was black for a couple seconds I saw something run across the screen real quick. It was the reflection from the front room. I paused for a few seconds and looked at my dad beside me and asked “Did you see that?” and he says “yes i did”. i was a little freaked out by this moment lol. I have a bunch of stories to tell though…its really exciting but kind of freaky to experience something like that. But I love the phenomena of ghosts, spirits, and whatnot.
Comment by Jessica | 10.2.2006 | 12:18 pm
I have lived here for around 15 years now. I have been to the cavelier a few times for Christmas functions. They use to hold the Holly Ball there. The place is great historically, and yes does remind you of “The Shining”. Once during a Christmas party during their renovations, the small ladies room was rather full, so they allowed us to use one of the just renovated rooms on an upper floor (forgot which one) When we (my husband and I) got off the elevator you could just feel something. Could hear/feel old music playing. We looked around for speakers, but couldn’t find anything that was working. We had a few drinks (liquor for him and ice tea for me) so we were not swaded. When we got into the room the bathroom door (which is like a pocket door) was wide open, it closed fine while I was in there and opened fine coming out, but wouldn’t close again until my husband was inside! That swaded us!! no elevator needed I think we flew back to the ballroom!
Comment by CJ | 10.30.2006 | 8:59 pm
I have stayed at the Cavalier Hotel but I didn’t have any experiences like the tales say. I do, however, believe it is haunted. I got a “feeling” even tho I didn’t have any experiences. Also, Adolf Coors did committ suicide at this hotel, but it was not in the 1940’s, it was June 5, 1929 and he did jump out (or fell out) of a window.
Comment by Sherry | 11.1.2006 | 10:38 am
I have lived 10 minutes from the Cavlier Hotel my whole 22 years of life. I have never had any weird or creepy experiences myself, however, I have a friend whose grandmother manages the building. She has lots to tell, and I will tell her about the website so she can relate all her experiences!
Comment by Mandy | 11.8.2006 | 3:49 pm
ummmmmmmmmmmmm enough w/ the swearing b-dog……god STOP SWEARING ON THISS SITE and noyb mean NONE OF YOUR BUISNESS!!!
Comment by noyb | 11.21.2006 | 9:08 pm
THAT’S SPOOKY,BUT I’d like to see it for my self that would be cool. I think?
Comment by charmagne | 12.24.2006 | 8:25 pm
George, If you still read this stuff, please contact me at yardmanbill@fortrobinhood.com I would love to get together and investigate some paranormal stuff. It actually is very interesting to me and my family.
Comment by Frank | 01.7.2007 | 1:05 am
I live in Virginia Beach and have heard stories about the Cavalier Hotel but have never actualy been there. If anyone wants to investigate this I would be very willing to. The problem is that I don’t have the first clue as to how.
Comment by Justin | 01.8.2007 | 4:46 pm
A couple of weeks ago I was in Virginia Beach doing some paranormal work. A co-worker who was giving me a ride back to my hotel told me about the Cavalier and some of the ghost stories associated with it. She told me that I had to check it out for myself. We would only be about 10 mins out of the way and although it was closed we could walk around and look at it. We got there and the place was like the Overlook from the Shining (a very common association with the Cavalier). Walking around, looking in the windows was like stepping right into teh 20s or 30s, you could almost feels the spirits. Well, we began walking accross the circular drive towards her car and she stopped me and told me that I had to see in the front door windows. Just as we got there and she started to tell me where the halls all led we heard a gigantic crash. Turning around we could see that a huge piece of what we later discovered to be a huge piece of the buildings granite ledge from the roof, smashed down right about where we would have been if we hadnt stopped. I exclaimed “wow, cool” (LOL) and we started investigating a bit. It appeared that nowhere in the front was there any facet missing but only on one of the angled sides. The next morning we both went indepently to take photos and confirm that observation. I am very excited at the idea of going back once they are open and doing a full investigation there. After all The large piece of granite would have had to travel roughly 55feet or more laterally to be able to land where it did on that windless night! I use a piece of that ledge as a paperweight on my desk back in Chicago, just to remind me that if something is meant to get you, it will!
Comment by Michael | 01.23.2007 | 3:42 pm
I went to HS in Va Bch in the late 70s. We had proms & stuff at the Cavalier & there were never any stories of hauntings or weird experiences. It is just a gorgeous historic hotel. In the 90s I stayed there overnight, and nothing happened.
I’m not a skeptic–I would love to have any paranormal experience–but I just don’t think it’s that easy to have something occur. I lived close to the Thoroughgood House (supposedly also haunted) & even trick-or-treated there for years, and there was never anything going on in my presence or that anyone I knew ever experienced. I also worked at the Chamberlin Hotel in Hampton, and nothing happened … except monstrously huge cockroaches right before customers’ eyes in the dining room!
I think a lot of these stories are just good stories that take on a life of their own. How many of you stayed at the Cavalier just to see a ghost? See, it’s good salesmanship to have a haunted reputation! Post some photos of weird stuff & I’ll start to believe. But until then, just enjoy the architecture & history. Not all old things are scary!
Comment by Sally | 01.24.2007 | 3:19 pm
Im just getting into paranormal studies, and would be more than interested in checking out the Cavalier,or any other local haunts… anybody wanna go , contact me @ samgfrazier3@cox.net
Comment by Sam | 02.4.2007 | 1:50 pm
I went to the Cavalier and its definitely haunted. Me and my mom were walking past the room with the piano and we heard the piano playing so we went to check it out and it was playing by itself
Comment by Amanda | 02.9.2007 | 1:04 pm
I have not stayed there, nor do I have any experiences to discuss. However, I recently learned about the Cavalier while I was on vacation a couple weeks ago. When I was told it was haunted, I did research and stumbled across this page. I would just like to thank all of you that have shared your experiences. Some of them sound really creepy! It was great reading them. I’m looking forward to going back to VA Beach soon and spending a night in the Cavalier!
Comment by Andrew | 02.11.2007 | 9:31 am
in my opinion,this story sounds like a load of lies.wy would old celebrities wanna haunt a stupid hotel? wouldn’t they wanna haunt their old mansions or somthen?
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Comment by Yo MOMMA | 03.23.2007 | 8:32 am
My friend and I visited the Cavalier Hotel tonight just to check it out. We both live here in VA Beach and have been fascinated by the “spookiness” of the Hotel. We entered the old hotel in to the lobby and up to the front desk. We were met by the manager and told him we were there just to check it out to possible rent a room in the near future. He told us we were welcome to look around. I couldn’t resist but to get my camera. Before I got the camera, we toured the check-in desk level and wandered our way around. There was a door to the right (ballroom) just past the library )I think it may have been the Pocahontas Room. The door was closed as we passed it. We walked straight until we came to a pool table. It was there we both started to feel something creepy. We then walked toward the pool and at the same time we both decided to turn around. There was an unwelcome feeling that we both felt. Once I went and got my camera and came back in to the hotel, the door to the Pocahontas Room (that was closed) was open. Since this is off-season, the hotel was scarecely occupied. I then took a picture in to the Pocahontas Room. I immediately noticed some “orbs” in the picture. One in particular that was noticable. We took about 3 pictures when all of a sudden my camera died. As I was walking in to the hotel, I put brand new batteries in my camera. After only 3 pictures, my camera died. This was just as I was about to take a picture of the piano and the large picture above it. I can’t wait to be able to reserve a room and see more!!! I was creeped out but in a curious way.
Comment by Karen | 03.30.2007 | 1:32 am
HEY GUYS . I USED TO WORK THERE, AT THE NEW ONE. MY BOSS WOULD SEND ME OVER TO CLEAN FOR SPEACIAL FUNCTIONS. YES IT IS HAUNTED. THE POOL AREA IS ONE CREEPY PLACE. THE UPPER FLOORS DO FEEL LIKE YOU ARE IN THE MOVIE THE SHINING.
Comment by JEANETTE(JAY JAY) COX | 06.16.2007 | 8:34 pm
Holy ****.
I would’ve never thought that place to be haunted.
I’ve never stayed there, but we stay in Virginia Beach every year in a Holiday Inn closeby with a glorious view of the neighboring Cavalier Hotel.
The Hotel doesn’t exactly look like your typical ‘haunted’ place. My word, it’s a beauty. I’ve actually considered marrying next year when my fiaance and I tie the know. Hah.
You should all have a look at it.
You’ll find it’s quite elegant despite its “haunting”. http://www.cavalierhotel.com/
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Comment by Brie | 07.12.2007 | 11:35 pm
(This was prior to me stumbling across this site tonight) My husband and a very close friend of ours decided it would be fun to go for a stroll around the place. We first noticed a cat or a fox dart almost out of no were across the lot and up a grass hill, we entered and (had to use the bathrooms!) I got a spook from one of the soap dispensers being so loud! Though there was nothing unusual about the bathroom, or the entire bottom floor, it was all very elegant and quiet, we made our way to the stairwell, it was Stifling hot! We made our way up to each floor and upon reaching the sixth we walked down one of the wings and my mate stopped and asked if we’d heard a sound, he claimed it sounded like a wet packing noise.
We decided to leave after that and walked to our car through the hotels small grove of trees we had stopped and were talking a bit and being silly and behind us heard a sound like someone jumping out of a tree, or a heavy footstep in the grass. I am of course not convinced, but a little freaked out after I came home and found this site with stories of a cat and a man that had committed suicide!
Comment by Wires for Nerves | 07.18.2007 | 12:56 am
(This was prior to me stumbling across this site tonight) My husband and a very close friend of ours decided it would be fun to go for a stroll around the place. We first noticed a cat or a fox dart almost out of no were across the lot and up a grass hill, we entered and (had to use the bathrooms!) I got a spook from one of the soap dispensers being so loud! Though there was nothing unusual about the bathroom, or the entire bottom floor, it was all very elegant and quiet, we made our way to the stairwell, it was Stifling hot! We made our way up to each floor and upon reaching the sixth we walked down one of the wings and my mate stopped and asked if we’d heard a sound, he claimed it sounded like a wet packing noise.
We decided to leave after that and walked to our car through the hotels small grove of trees we had stopped and were talking a bit and being silly and behind us heard a sound like someone jumping out of a tree, or a heavy footstep in the grass. I am of course not convinced, but a little freaked out after I came home and found this site with stories of a cat and a man that had committed suicide!
Comment by Social Occult Machine | 07.18.2007 | 1:00 am
Oh lame! Sorry for the double post and spam! This website was acting funny x_x or perhaps it was my crappy connection X3
Comment by Social Occult Machine | 07.18.2007 | 1:02 am
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Comment by Doc | 07.27.2007 | 11:36 pm
The cav hotel has quite the history behind. Many famous people have stayed in the Cav throughout her glory days. People such as Al Capone, Adolf Hitler, an yes the man who started a brewery. The hotel has very many ghostly storys behind it. Such storys like the curse of room 666 where the brewery man jumped an took his own life. Other storys about hearing someone drowning in the pool in the early hours of the morning. There is a ton of history in this hotel. there are alot of secrets rooms an halls in the cav. there are the abandonded elevator shafts in the cav where a child suposedly road his bike down an fell to his death. an yes these elevators are no longer used but still exist. then there is the narrow stair case on the 7th floor that leads to a heavly chained off door. Storys about a secret room where the man who started the cav lived in. His ghost has been seen walking up the narrow stair case late at night. The hotel is fun to explore. if you get the chance you should stay there one night. an if you got the balls stay in room 666.
Comment by steve | 08.5.2007 | 4:21 pm
Screw you steve.
Comment by John | 08.6.2007 | 9:57 pm
Though many of these stories may seem false or exaggerated to some people they are not for I myself am a paranormal investigator and have been staying the the newer Cavalier across the street for about two weeks now doing interviews of both new and old cavalier employees and interrogation/investigation of the Haunted Cavalier hotel. I do not know all of the stories but I believe that the Coors man committed suicide in the 1920’s during the Great Depression and the cat is a different soul that haunted Coors the night of his death. This is just a guess but I think I may have a good lead on the amazing mysteries of this charming, enchanted hotel. It’s a great get-away very cute and mysterious, I think they offer tours now also. Be cautious though: While I was there I saw the haunted piano, a cat with red eyes, the elevator broke down, the stairwell was ghastly and hot, and there is a strange meat-slapping sound as well as some whispers and color changing towels.
contact me at crstngrbr@hotmail.com
Comment by Crissy | 08.9.2007 | 10:44 pm
Crissy,
I am writing this from the front desk of the Original (Haunted) Cavalier. I just wanted to expose you as a liar; there is no one that has inerviewed employees of either building recently.
That said, I have a new story that has been confirmed by different guest on different nights. . .a woman walking through a door with a dog following her across the lobby. Of course the piano incident has happened a couple times. I have also heard about a waiter walking through a wall in the Pocahontas room. There is a window in a room behind the front desk (the room is spooky itself) that looks onto the pool so I will have to keep my eyes peeled for the drowning kid.
Just tonight some people came in asking about some things, they took some pics in the music room and I witnessed the orbs in several places in the pic. It could have been light reflections, but didn’t seem entirely reasonable for that to be the explanation.
Will let you all know if any other activity is observed by me.
Comment by Matt | 08.20.2007 | 9:14 pm
Every year my family and I go to VA. Beach, we live in New Jersey so VA. Beach is a great get away. On our last day which was yesterday the 20th my mother,sister,brother and I went to the Cavalier Hotel just to see how much the rooms go for…it’s not expensive at all. A nice very helpful African-American lady gave us a tour of the hotel, well I must say beautiful hotel. This is hotel is so different from anything we saw. Everything from the atmosphere,the rooms, scenery made it so amazing. Now i know this may not be so thrilling but as all of us went on the elevator to go back to the first floor the elevator doors kept opening and closing…at least three times. We were all freaked out! We plan on staying there next week for a week…we are so excited.
Comment by Lezet | 08.21.2007 | 5:32 pm
Matt you liar! You can’t get onto Real Haunts on a business computer. Even if you did, you’ll probably be experiencing a lay-off in the next few days.
Comment by John | 08.23.2007 | 12:57 am
if i went there and my towels turned green i would not wash my buttwith it!! thats just weird
Comment by Nicky | 08.25.2007 | 10:40 am
I’m in the navy stationed down here in virginia beach and when i got here people on base told me the story of the “haunted hotel near the beach.” Being curious me and some friends stayed there for an entire weekend. Unfortunately nothing paranormal happend to us while we were there. We even brought along cameras and explored during the night and not one thing. Maybe it was just an off night or two for the ghosts.
Comment by JIM | 09.21.2007 | 11:28 am
I’ve stayed at the Oceanfront Cavalier twice now. Sadly both times were off season so I am yet to stay in the haunted building. I snuck in there today to have a look around, it’s really beautiful. Hopefully next summer I’ll stay over there. The pool area is really intimidating! I’m not even sure why, I’d like to find somewhere that catalouges all the recorded deaths/accidents there.
Comment by Zhandra | 09.25.2007 | 1:28 am
My husband and I visited Yorktown, VA. When I was a young child and teen, I saw a lady in white below my bedroom window. My aunt was the only one who believed me because there had been 2 car wrecks near our road by drivers who say a woman in white dart accross the road. In Yorktown it was about 9PM and my husband wanted to drive thru the battle grounds in our car. It was ok until we turned on this one road and I suddenly felt like something had come over me and I could not breath. He quickly stop the car and said I had a glow. He turned the car around and we left the area and I was fine. The next night we drove back into the battle grounds just a short distance and I felt very strange as if something had me by the throat. I ask him to please get us out of there fast. Once we were out of the grounds I was again find. I still love to visit Yorktown but not the battle fields at night.
Comment by Carol | 10.15.2007 | 9:17 pm
Me n my friends were new to the area. We are in the navy n got stationed on NOB. We heard about hotel cavelier through a friend n on night decided to go check it out. There was about six of us and we went to the hotel around 1-2 am. we looked around the front n walked the perimeter of the hotel since it was closed. After walking all around it we got back to the front we realized that alot of things had changed. Sum window blinds that we realized were closed on the 6th floor when we first arrived there were then open n we seen a shadow if sumthin in one of the windows on the six floor. Now im not saying i blieve in this haunted ghost stuff but i will leave everyone to come to there own conclusion.
Comment by Sadie Grant | 10.15.2007 | 10:37 pm
i know the family that owns this hotel.. the story about the man who threw himself out the window, well from what i am told by the family it would be to murder more than suicide due to the fact he didn’t open the window before you jumped out of it, he went right through the glass. and they say that nothin really happens around that room.. the only thing that does happen is the hotel doors do open a bit on their own but that is about it…
Comment by annabelle | 10.19.2007 | 9:33 am
i know the family that owns this hotel.. the story about the man who threw himself out of the window would appear to be more murder than suicide due to the fact that he threw himself out while the window was still closed.. like through the glass and everything.. they don’t really hear to much from that room either.. the only that really does happen is the elevator doors do open alot on their own but that is about it.
Comment by annabelle | 10.19.2007 | 9:36 am
The Cavalier is not as old as they have listed on this site. However the Coors’ story is true and the meat slapping concrete sound is common. There is some mystery as to whether he committed suicide because of the beginning of Prohibition or if it was an accident. The windows in this building are large and you could easily fall out before they were blocked from opening all of the way like they are now.
Comment by E Rew | 10.25.2007 | 2:57 am
WEll my queston is isnt there any stories about Lee County, Virginia? It’s one of the most spooky places I have ever seen, and I know there are strange things that happen in this town. I have lived here my whole life and have experienced many paranormal things. In Big Stone which is may be a 30 minute drive from here there was a house just recently tore down. The queston is why? The house was beautiful and from the outside it looked like a good family house. In the past years a few families have lived there and moved out of that house saying that doors would open and close, things would fly out of cabinets, and many other strange things happened. May be the house had a electrical problem so there for they tore it down or may be all the families that lived there in the past few years let there story be known to show there are real evil in that house!
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Comment by Tara H. | 11.14.2007 | 4:25 pm
My mother, friend, and myself snuck into the old Cav hotel to check it out a bit. There was definitely some very strong energies there; especially in the piano room, pool room, and the upper floors. Another good place is the inside entrance to the bar. I got a couple of small orbs in pics, and on the sixth floor I got one photo that was inexplicably dark. All the other pictures were normal in terms of flash. I plan to have my wedding on the grounds next fall, and will probably stay in the old hotel if we can.
Comment by bathory | 12.19.2007 | 3:31 am
Hotel was actually bullt in 1927. Closed in 80’s and most stuff auctioned off. I ‘m sure that made some ghosts real mad.
Comment by getitright | 01.8.2008 | 8:59 pm
Oooo I Love the Cavalier!!! I’m getting married there next February!!! Oh its so Beautiful and I do think it has a lot of history in it, if not some spooks! Last night my family and I went there to go talk to the wedding coordinator and he took us over there. Awww gorgeous. Since its off-season its completely dead but its better that way. In a weird way I want something spooky to happen while my wedding is taking place. It would be so memorable. My fiance and I are getting married at Old Donation Episcopal church, Va beach, which is the one of the oldest churches in the area. It dates back to 1692; a very old building. So keeping the older feeling i wanted a historic building to have the reception…its perfect. Its like you walk into the 1920’s. When you walk in to the building
the cold air hits you and this distinct smell lingers in the air. Totally awesome. Can’t wait!
Comment by Samantha | 02.7.2008 | 10:25 pm
thats realy scary and once I went to virgnia beach
Comment by jessica | 02.11.2008 | 9:00 pm
I want to stay in this hotel, but are their certain rooms that are haunted? If so, what number are they?
Comment by Brett | 02.15.2008 | 3:38 pm
hey do you all really think this is true
Comment by jessica | 02.15.2008 | 11:37 pm
I dont know about the cavalier because ive never been there. But there is a lot of places in Virginia that are haunted.
Comment by Brett | 02.16.2008 | 11:37 am
ok heres the deal yes i have heard many stories of the cav and i like the fact ppl are talking but sty on topic i dont care that you wanna argue about sports i wanted to read about paranormal activity and if and one in the va bch area wanna get together lemme know crazytasty200@yahoo.com
Comment by EJ | 03.6.2008 | 11:23 pm
i have lived in Virginia Beach for 20 years and i am very familiar with the hotel and i have heard that it was haunted. i have never stayed in the hotel, but me and a couple of my friends have seen the lights flickering from a long ways. and even up close. if you ever visit VA beach go to 70th street about 12 or so and u can see the lights flicker on and of. and i know that no one is doing it on purpose cause u would have to shut power to the whole building to do that.
Comment by john | 03.10.2008 | 4:47 pm
When I visited the hotel, the 7th floor was closed because it was haunted. Years ago a women killed herself along with other people. Also during WWI they drained the pool to help dieing solders. It is very creapy to go into the basement at night it is abandoned, dark, and full of old furniture.
Comment by T | 03.15.2008 | 10:46 am
I’ve also lived in Virginia Beach and I’ve stayed in the Cav a couple of times. I was outside the room for a moment and when I came back in the items I placed on the bed were on the shelf on the other side of the room. Friends have also told me weird thing about the Cav.
Comment by lacy sticky hands | 03.28.2008 | 3:20 pm
Hi, I’m from Soouth Africa and wehave loads of ghosts here. If anybody is interested in a fewstories you can email me at tondringdrummer@gmail.com
Comment by Melissa van Niekerk | 03.30.2008 | 5:39 am
I applied at the newer Cavalier Hotel as a cleaning maid and I got hired. But the good news is, instead of working at the newer one, they sent me to the old one to stay and work at. Tomorrow will be my third day and I’ve got to remember to bring my camera and video camera. The old building is beautiful and there are a lot of closed off doors that make me curious. I haven’t gotten to explore the whole building yet but it’s a goal that I will make. I haven’t experienced anything scary yet, but hopefully soon. I believe in ghosts and would love to have an encounter with one. Will update when I have more to report!
Comment by Jessica | 05.1.2008 | 10:43 pm
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Comment by Jessica | 05.6.2008 | 1:53 pm
I was cleaning the mens bathroom in the lobby today,and one of the urinals flushed by itself, and I wasn’t even near it, but someone else was with me and heard it too. I also heard something fall on the floor, but there is nothing in there that could become attached from anything and fall, so I’m not sure what it was.
Comment by Jessica | 05.10.2008 | 7:53 pm
I went to the cavalier once and tay said it all. It scares you to death! I am staying there one night this summer and I am so excited but scared!
Comment by elaina b. | 05.16.2008 | 7:25 am