This story didn't happen to me. It happened to my parents
and little brother (who fortunately was sound a sleep at
the time so he never knew). It just happened 2 nights ago
in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia....
Anyway on with the story. My parents rented a large room
with 2 double beds in an inn in Lunenburg Saturday night
and Mom and Dad stayed in one bed and my brother in the
other. About 1am my mom was woken by what sounded like a
baby crying. She ignored it for a while and just went back
to sleep. but she couldn't sleep because the baby was
really loud and it sounded like it was coming from their
room over in the corner at the end of my brothers bed. She
figured it must be a baby in the room next door. She said
the baby sounded not much more then maybe a year old and
sounded really sick. She later heard what sounded like the
mother singing to the baby about an hour later.
She tried to get back to sleep. But she kept getting woken
up and at about 4am she finally got up and went to the
bathroom (shared bathroom out in the hall) and decided to
just see if she could offer the people in the next room
any help. She knocked really softly on the door and a
woman came to the door looking slightly sleepy and
annoyed. Mom asked her if everything was ok and if they
needed any help and the woman gave mom a weird look and
said "No everything's fine.".
So my mom went back to their room to try and get some
sleep. She still couldn't sleep because the baby was still
crying. This went on for another hour or so and the cry's
lower and lower and the singing louder and louder. Then
all of a sudden the cry's stopped with a deep breath and
then the singing stopped and what sounded like a loud
strangled sob and light wail occurred. Then quiet. Mom
again got up and just went to listen at the door and
everything seem fine so she figured the baby just stopped
crying and the mom was overcome with exhaustion or
something and made the little cry.
The next morning (well same one I guess) at about 11am my
parents and brother checked out of the inn. The Inn keeper
asked my parents if they enjoyed their stay and had a good
nights sleep. Dad and my brother said yes right away but
my mom must have looked disturbed because the inn keeper
pulled her aside and asked if she was ok. Mom said yes
then said don't take this as a complaint because it's not
but she said I didn't sleep well because of the baby
crying. The inn keeper looked at her really funny and
said "Dear, what do you mean?" Mom explained what happened
the night before and the annoyed/puzzled look on the other
woman's face when she knocked on the door asking if there
was anything she could do to help. The inn keeper laughed
and said "No wonder dear, she had no children and
certainly not a baby. In fact, your son was the youngest
person here last night!"
My mom was stunned. She was like how's that possible! The
the inn keeper went on to tell my mom that the room they
stayed in used to be a nursery when the home was a single
family home and sometime in the early 1900's there was a
young mother with twin babies and one of the babies was
really sick. The baby died but the night the baby died
supposedly the baby cried all night and the mother sang to
her trying to soothe her!
Supposedly a lot of people had heard the baby but the inn
keeper decided not to make it known because she was scared
it would scare away customers. All I can say is next time
my parents go to that inn I want to be there!! And they
said they would go back and request that specific room to
see if they can see anything!
Contact me here: illusions@fall-back.org
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