Passive vs Active Hauntings: A New Jersey Hotel Encounter

I have explained how most haunts are passive, and some of the more remarkable ones are active. I’ve also explained that most Hotels, Motels, and Inns, are passively haunted due to the number of people emoting and leaving their energy imprinted in the physical structure. 

In October 2017, I was on a hunt in New Jersey. My partner and I unwittingly set up a reservation in the Riviera Hotel ( 169 Clinton Ave, Newark, NJ 07108 ).

It is an old hotel. The history on their website shows that it was built in 1922, and changed hands, after failing in the Great Depression of the 1930’s. It was purchased in 1949 by  George Baker (Father Divine). 

From our perspective, the neighborhood, and the hotel seem a bit sketchy. However, the parking was gated, and the hotel was inexpensive. 

It had an interesting tunnel-like pathway to the lobby from the parking lot, and a path to the elevators which brought us an uneven floor some seven floors up. Again, this is one of those cases where the feeling (as subjective as it is) is the only real way to describe it. There were ghosts there. They were not angry. They were not vindictive. They were not seeking any payback, though the hotel had at one time been home to a notorious New Jersey Gangster. They were bored.

It was like a retirement community where all the folks were just waiting for the end to come, but the end had come for these folks. And they were just waiting for whatever comes next. Whatever that is.

To be Continued