The hotel was built in the 1860s, and was 3 stories high. It was partially destroyed by fire in the 1890s, and was rebuilt 4 stories high. In 1931 there was a major earthquake, almost flattening the city and sending fire throughout the town killing 261 people. The Masonic was rebuilt again, three stories again. There is a fourth but they never completed it. The building is still a hotel, with a restaurant downstairs and an Irish bar behind the kitchen wing. Before the bar is a series of passageways that were the old staff quarters, but now isn’t used as one of the chefs died in the bath. In the hotel room there have been natural deaths as well suicides. Witnesses report music would sometimes come on by itself, in the cellar, lights would turn on ahead of them, apparitions, and cold spots.
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- |60.234.101.xxx |2009-09-11 23:25:00 Jan, living in Napier NZThis might explain a scarey experience my partner and I had in 2007. Before shifting to Napier we decided to "suss the place out" and stayed at the Masonic Lodge in the left corner balcony room that overlooks the sea and is nearest to Herscells St. About 2am we were woken by very heavy footsteps, definitely a woman's in heavyheeled shoes not a man's, striding down the hallway in a very hurried, agitated manner and stopping at the end, which happened to be outside our door. We listened to this several times and then realised to our horror, they were not RETURNING the way they had come. Just clonk-clonk-clonk, a very quick, forceful walk to the end of the building then.... nothing. We ended up sitting up in bed watching the doorhandle, scared it was going to turn, but it didn't. Then we also realised the hallway was carpeted, so how come we could hear 'her' on WOODEN floorboards? . We consoled ourselves that it must be security (even though we couldn't explain the footsteps b...
