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present upon closer inspection."

Owner Jane Canty reported guests leaving in the middle of the night because they'd become so frightened by the activity. She also said more than one guest has misplaced their keys and, after an exhaustive search, found them in the place they left them originally. Canty also expressed some hesitance in advertising the hotel as haunted because it is so active-but she didn't object to this article.

The Hotel Leger is happy and more than willing to offer tours to interested and curious guests. I believe this might be among the few places most will encounter something supernatural.

Address: 8304 Main Street, Mokelumne Hill, CA 95245
Rates: $55-$200 (July 2008)
Phone: 209-286-1401
Website: www.hotelleger.com

3. The Historic National Hotel: Jamestown, CA

Established in 1859, The Historic National Hotel offers nine antique filled guest rooms, touted as "quaintly Victorian, neat as new pins" by Karen Brown's California Charming Inns and Itineraries. There is much history here, and the ghost story originates in a time before the hotel was a hotel at all.

Frank Sullivan, a lucky prospector of the Gold Rush, had a granddaughter named Mary Rose who fell in love with a British soldier. Frank and his wife strongly disapproved of this relationship and used their influence to have the soldier shipped off to India where he was captured, chained, tortured, and eventually killed.

Mary took this news about as well as anyone would expect-even worse because she was pregnant with his child. At this time, The Historic National Hotel was the Motherlode Hospital, and Mary checked into Room 7 where she spent the majority of her time alone, speaking to no one.

Something went terribly wrong when Mary went into labor, and neither she nor the baby survived. Mary was interred and buried across the street, but guests at the hotel swear they hear moaning and see apparitions-one of a man wrapped in chains-in or coming from Room 7, and they think it's Mary. Though rumors abound that Room 7 is the most haunted, hotel proprietor Steven Willey asserts Room 7 is no more haunted than the rest of the hotel. "She's running around all over the place," he said.
Perhaps the most famous ghost of the National Hotel is 19 year-old Flora, better known as "Flo." According to history, sheriffs reports, and witness accounts, Flo arrived in Jamestown via a train where she met the man she'd fall deeply in love with and become engaged to.

On December 24, with Flo dressed in white, the couple

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