The Commodore Hotel started life as the Queens Hotel in 1854. It served an upper class clientele and was quite posh. It changed ownership a couple times before it was owned by a German named Otto Humbert. During his tenure, on May 7th 1915 the Lusitania was sunk by German u-boats. It was only 18 miles from Cobh. The hotel was pressed into service as a make-shift hospital for the survivors and as a morgue for the deceased.
Many of the hauntings at the hotel center around the moaning of people in pain and pacing footsteps back and forth. Hotel guests also claim to experience unexpected cold spots.
Another intriguing tale from the early 1900s centers around a young woman who checked in with her young child. The baby was often heard crying, inconsolably. The next day the woman checked out of the hotel without the baby. Shockingly, the baby is later found dead in a small suitcase.
Guests can still hear the anguished wails of the tormented infant.
The hotel staff will neither confirm nor deny the tales of ghostly hauntings. One clerk said “some people get very unnerved by the supernatural so we do not want to frighten them away from staying at the hotel.”
Peldyn
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