Grand Hotel

Staff at the Grand Hotel tell of a maintenance man who met a black mass with red eyes behind the theater stage that knocked him off his feet and never returned to work, and of a man in a top hat playing the piano at three in the morning; guests describe women in Victorian gowns in the upstairs halls, and figures in 1800s clothing in the hotel, in employee housing and on the grounds, along with an unsettling presence and objects that move on their own. Island ghost tours say the land was an early military burial ground and that remains were found when workers dug the foundations, which has become part of the hotel's haunted reputation. The Grand Hotel opened in 1887 and is one of the best-known resort hotels in the country, famous for its long front porch and for the island's ban on cars.