THE "best" hotel in Dublin city centre loved by celebrities has a very spooky secret. The Shelbourne Hotel, located across from St Stephen's Green in Dublin , is a leading five-star retreat. And it is said to have been haunted by the spirit of a little girl.
In 1965, when the British medium Sybil Lee stayed in room 526 of the luxurious hotel, she heard a noise that sounded like a little girl crying. Sybil decided to respond to the noise, asking: "What is the matter?" And the little girl replied: "I'm frightened." When the British medium invited the child to enter her room, she could not see anyone.
The following morning, after waking up, she felt her right arm numb. Sybil alleged that she spoke to the little girl the following evening, who told her she was a seven-year-old girl named Mary Masters. The noted ghost hunter Hans Holzer discovered that the little girl seemed ill and used to live in one of the houses on which the hotel was built.
He also concluded that the little girl died in 1846 from cholera. And decades later, the Shelbourne Hotel hit the headlines in the US after the Hollywood actress Lily Collins shared in a TV interview with Jimmy Fallon that she believed to be haunted by the same spectre Sybil once spoke to back in 1965. Two years later, management at the 5-star hotel also admitted that on a number of occasions, terrified guests ran out of that same room screaming in panic.
Some of these claims were reported in an RTÉ documentary series, which found that, .