[massacre man]

I wanted to take a shot at one. I tried to type it like a news story on a blog about haunted locations, I might try to turn it into a short story or something later because I like the idea.

NOTE: The hotel in question has requested that I remove the title as the reputation would scare away business.

In a certain hotel guests who are wise to the inn's history tend to leave toys on the dressers of their rooms to assure their safety from the beings dubbed "The Smiling Ghosts." Two female ghosts, one a mother and one a young child, are said to visit the rooms of the sleeping at night. The ghost of the little girl is searching for new playthings while the mother has much more sinister intentions.

The mother, who was found in the room with her eyes gouged out wearing the dress she wore when she was married, had just moved into the hotel room with her daughter after a fight with her husband. She was described by her sister as "a truly hopeful soul who always searched for the silver lining and tried to find the humor in any situation. There was almost always a smile on her face."

The daughter was found hung in the closet wearing a yellow smiley face mask she asked for because it "reminded of her of her mother," the sister says. She was an average student in the first grade, well-behaved, good grades, not much to complain about. Gabriel Bailey, who was working behind the desk the night the two checked in, had this to say: "[The daughter] was crying when they first got here but it took the mom no time to cheer her up. She was jumping around the chairs in the lounge, talking to the other guests."

Not much has changed with the little girl, at night she still plays in the hallways, still wearing the smiley face mask. She goes into the rooms of guests and rummaged through their things looking for toys and clothes. She's been reported to wave at the guests who awake and see her searching in their bags.

The mother's ghost doesn't want toys, she wants her killer. Her eyes are gone but that is rarely the first thing visitor's notice, that is more often than not the gigantic, haunting smile plastered on her face for eternity as well as her long, flowing wedding dress now colored a dark blood red. Since she has no eyes and is unable to see the guests in the bed, she listens for the scream of her killer. To get the scream out she appears at the foot of the bed and blows her icy, chilling breath onto the feet of the guest and when they awake she rises up and frightens them into shouting.

Many suspect the husband to be the killer, though this couldn't be proven and the mother was stabbed with a knife from the hotel's kitchen, to which only employee's have access. People who leave toys out on their dressers for the little girl are said to be spared the visit from the mother, the toys are gone by morning every time. Nobody has been killed by these two, but one guest has gone missing and is still unheard from to this day. So if you're traveling make sure to leave a toy out to keep from being visited by the angry spirit.