A few years ago my boyfriend at the time decided to
surprise me for my birthday and take me to the Hydro
Majestic in Katoomba for the evening as I had always been
fascinated by the hotel.
We arrived and unpacked and got dressed for dinner. During
dinner there ws a flash storm and all power to the hotel
went out. We continued dinner over candlelight and were
escorted to the guest lounge for drinks. The hotel is
eerie enough in broad daylight but by candlelight it
really is overwhelming.
After a few drinks as there was
not much else to do in the dark we returned to our room to
sleep. We were staying in the newer white section located
on the right hand side of the Hydro which I am led to
believe was built after a fire sometime in the early 20th
century.
I remeber being woken from my sleep and at the
time felt a strong uneasiness. I was on the right side of
the bed nearest to the wall. I kept trying to fall back
asleep but was unable. Everytime I turned to lay on my
left hand side I was compelled to turn back onto my
right. After a time I got up to make my way to the
bathroom (this is how I know I wasn't dreaming) and
everything seemed to happen in such a short space of time.
I climbed back into bed on my left hand side, was
compelled to turn to my right and thats when I saw a
ghostly figure of a woman enter the room. She appeared to
be wearing a gown or robe of some sort and it was as
though her hair were held up in a towel. She held my gaze
the entire time as she entered through the closed door,
straight past the bed and out through the right hand wall.
The whole time I was unable to break the gaze of the
apparition which appeared in a greenish grey with various
colours around the outline like an aura. I was unable to
move or speak the whole time the apparition was in the
room.
The strange thing was that as the woman passed through the
right hand wall the whole room seemed to be larger on that
side than it really was and instead of blank wall there
were cupboards that the woman appeared to move through.
After this had happened I was able to fall straight
asleep - something I had not been able to do all night.
The next morning at breakfast I was explaining what had
happened to my partner (especially the part about the room
appearing different and the cupboards). He told me I was
dreaming and dismissed the whole thing. As we were walking
back to our room which was located at the very end of the
hallway on the right hand side, we were following a
cleaner. My boyfriend got the shock of his life (as did I)
when the cleaner walked straight past our door into what
appeared to be a false door at the end of the hallway
which led into a room adjoining our room on my side of the
bed and along the side of the wall in this room were the
same cupboards I had described from the night before.
Ever since I have tried to find any information I could
(with no luck) as to the hauntings that are supposed to
occur within the Hydro to see if anyone else has seen this
same woman.
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