Weird hotel experience/Cult/ghost?
Hi everyone! I’ve never made a Reddit post before but this experience has me so freaked out I need to share. I’m not even sure if anyone will see this but it’s worth a shot:) it’ll be a lengthy post so i don’t know if that ruins or helps my chances
Back in June 2025 my husband and I took our son to story land on Glen, NH. They had a box there (with very little information) stating if you enter your name into the box on a piece of paper you could win a vacation. We said screw it why not. About a month later (July 2025) I got a call from Path Vacations saying my name was picked. We were stoked! A 3 day 2 night stay in any room of our choice for $450 at Steele hill resort in Sanbornton, NH. We decided to do it.
Fast forward to September 2025. We check in and get to our room (a two floor townhouse suite on the west side of the resort). As we are driving to the room I think to myself that there seems like a lot of cars in the parking lot and they’re all newer cars (Audis, BMWs, mini vans etc.) nothing extremely out of the ordinary happened during this stay except the only other person we interacted with was an elderly gentleman who told us it was a timeshare program and he bought it and really enjoyed it. I found it odd that out of more than 100 cars in the lot we didn’t see a single housekeeper, maintanence man, or guest throughout the entire stay. All restaurants and attractions were closed, there weren’t even any guests at the indoor water park when we went besides another family doing the same promotional stay on the same west side of the hotel. As well as Just the elderly man telling us we should buy the program. Still thinking nothing weird, we check out thinking we’d never hear from these people again.
Fast forward to January 2026. I just had our second child and was still in the hospital when I got a call from the same people at path vacations. I won another stay but this time it was 3 days 2 nights for $80 but we didn’t get to choose our room. We said screw it again and decided to go for it. on this call they told us we were mandated to join a 120 minute long meeting for the timeshare or they’d charge us full price for the stay. We thought why not 2 hours of our time for a nice small family vacation. It’s also important to remember that during this call they told me our children could be left in a playroom with a trained nanny who’s CPR certified. And they kept mentioning a she, leading us to believe that it was a woman who’d be sitting with my very young children.
Fast forward to April 2026. We’re on our way to the hotel. It’s a dirt road with no houses closer to the hotel. The road is so rough it tore a piece of plastic off of the bottom of my husbands car. But we made it to the hotel. We check in for our stay and I immediately notice all the nice cars again filling the lots. However, still no people. Every attraction is still closed. This time checking in we met a couple doing the same promotional stay. We parted ways and didn’t seem them on till later in the story. We got to our room, 28A. Not knowing at the time what I do now after some research, the room seemed okay. It was clean enough, and spacious. We ate dinner and my husband and children fell asleep on the pull out couch in the living room. I stayed up to clean and tidy the room up for the following morning. As I’m cleaning, I keep seeing a tall dark black figure standing on the landing of the stairs. I brush it off the first few time, but after a while and it still being there I started to feel the hairs stand up on my body. Then as I’m washing the baby’s bottles… two distinct knocks. I freeze. Do I wake up my husband? Of course. He goes to the door at the top of the stairs. Nothing. (I did research before writing this post. Room 28a has been called the worst haunted room on the property by previous workers and guests with a tall dark figure being seen, knocks being heard, doors being slammed, etc.) I go to bed thinking nothing of it because my husband assured me we were all okay.
Fast forward to the meeting at 10:30AM the next day. We stop at the play room and I freeze. There’s a young man who couldn’t have been more than 18 sitting with 2-3 young children. Not interacting with them. No playing, nothing. I look at my husband who’s holding our newborn and said absolutely not. I’m not leaving my baby in here. My toddler was excited about the other children so against my better judgement I let him stay. 2 of the children were siblings, an older sister and younger brother about the same age as my toddler. The strange thing was, the moment we walked in she looked at us as if she was trying to remember what she was supposed to do. She then suddenly picked up the smaller child and placed him in front of my son almost to entice my son to stay. The room was right next to where our meeting was so I was able to keep an ear out. I told the man that if my son started to cry to come and get my husband or I. Five minutes into the meeting I realized something fell out of my pocket while upstairs. I ran to get it. As I was running back I hear my son, bloody murder screaming. And no one coming to get my husband or I. I run in and asked what happened, all the man said was his friends left so he was sad. That was NOT my sons sad cry. That was his scared cry. I immediately take him with me to my husband. We finish the taking part of the meeting. They take us on a tour. The building we walked into for this meeting was an average size house. But when we walked down a staircase, we entered what must’ve been a 500 foot long hallway. It seemed impossible. How was I looking at our car in the parking lot from the lobby but still looking at our car from the same point of view after walking down 15-20 stairs? I couldn’t make any sense of it. And the hallways just kept going deep under ground until we were in a pool room. Now, this house was on the south side of the resort. How did it have the same view in the pool room as our hotel room did on the WEST side of the resort? It wasn’t adding up. Then they take us to a room. At first, I just thought it was a staged room and whoever did it was damn good at their job. But the more we toured this room, the more creeped out I got. Opened cereal boxes folded back closed, a half brewed pot of coffee with a half drank cup. A bowl of soggy cereal. Plates on the table. Cartoons on the TV. The bedrooms set up for a perfect 4 person family. Swimming gear drying in the closet. Like whatever family lived here, just up and disappeared. We finished the tour, said no, and got the hell out of there.
Fast forward to that afternoon. We took our kids to the indoor water park. Once again no employees, no housekeepers, no other guests besides one other family do the same promotional stay. I start talking to the mother and everything starts clicking. This is weird, things aren’t adding up and now this woman is telling me they took her on an entirely different tour in which she had to drive to. (I’ll go into more details if people want them) I’m officially scared but not realizing how serious it could be. We start walking back to the room after we finish at the pool and we see the little girl. The one who was coaxing my son. No parents. No sibling. Just a 5 year old girl running the halls of a resort by herself. She was the only other person we ever saw besides the two couples.
Now am I crazy or was this some weird cult or ghost situation? Please let me know what you think as I am extremely freaked out.