HANS HOLZER AND THE SHELBOURNE HOTEL In 1965, the Shelbourne hotel drew Hans Holzer, noted ghost hunter, his wife, and British medium Sybil Lee. Sybil was accompanying Hans on a tour of Dublin’s notorious haunted locations, and they decided to stay at the Shelbourne. One night, Sybil was lying in bed in room 526 (although some reports state that it was room 256) when she heard a noise that sounded like a little girl crying. She responded to the noise, saying “What is the matter?” and a small child’s voice replied “I’m frightened”. Sybil invited the child to come into her room, and although she could not see anyone, she felt a small figure climb onto the bed next to her and a woolly material brush against her cheek and right arm. In the morning when she awoke, her right arm was numb. The following evening, Sybil spoke to the ghost and the ghost told her that she was a little girl, aged seven, named Mary Masters. The night after, Sybil went into a trance and held a full conversation with the little girl but she could not recall any of it. Hans discovered that Mary seemed to be ill, and that she was also asking for her big sister Sophie. He concluded that Mary must have been one of a group of children who used to live in one of the houses that the Shelbourne was constructed from. He also concluded that Mary died in 1846 – and this was a date that Sybil had been writing down the day before, but she had no idea why. - Brief History The Shelbourne hotel was founded way back in 1824 by Martine Burke, who had acquired three townhouses overlooking St. Stephen’s Green. He turned them into a hotel, naming it The Shelbourne after William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelbourne. Many celebrities and known personalities have stayed at the hotel over the years, including Alois Hitler, Adolf Hitler’s brother who worked in the hotel in the early 1900’s. In 1922, the Irish Constitution was drafted in room 112, which is now known as the Constitution Room.
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