Haunted Holiday Inn, Totowa/Clifton, NJ

Their restaurant and the room we stayed in are both haunted. The restaurant is made up to look like some kind of horror show with animated monsters, a corpse in an electric chair, stacks of skulls, and the front end of a car sticking through a wall. But the scariness is not all fake .

When we passed by it after it had closed, my sister and I both had a feeling of a man's spirit in there. A hotel employee added some back-up to this when he told us that a man had died of a heart attack on the dance floor when an animatronic mummy had come unexpectedly out of its upright sarcophagus at him.

Also haunted is the room we stayed in - I think it was 206. After we went to bed, I saw the curtains move as though someone was pushing past them, and both of us heard knocking and scratching on the headboards of our beds. I eventually managed to go to sleep (we lived for nearly ten years in a haunted house); but my sister was awake long enough to see my camera rise slowly into the air from the table between our two beds, and then descend again. She said that after that point, she pulled the covers over her head!

Did the restaurant ghost follow us to our room? Who knows? In any case, it was NOT the world's most restful night...