HAUNTED RESORT! It Was Built Over a Very Unusual Graveyard!
By MICHAEL ROVIN
KIGALI, Rwanda — The new manager of the Sunny Veldt Hotel became extremely concerned about reports of freakish occurrences throughout the resort."I started working here a month ago," said thirty-year-old Dajan Alkin. "On my first day, a guest complained that someone had cleaned out a jar of peanut butter they’d bought at the market. This was an impressive feat, since it was a pint jar and the guest had only stepped into the hall to get ice."
The incidents became more intrusive as time went on.
"While showering, I was hit by a blast of water," said tourist Ann Douglas. "I assumed the shower pressure had increased until I realized the spray was coming from behind me — and apparently out of nowhere!"
Alkin visited the rooms that had been disturbed, each time finding nothing. Finally, one guest gave him an important lead.
"I was awakened by a loud, trumpeting sound," said attorney George Stewart. "Groggy, I thought it was some sort of African wake-up call. But I quickly realized what the noise had been.”
When he told the front desk about the elephant in the room, Alkin decided to do some checking.
"I went into the hotel records and discovered that my predecessor knew about these, and many other strange, occurrences,” the manager said, “including large footprints in refrigerated cakes and gallons of missing nail polish. It suddenly made sense to me why he was so eager to quit."
Alkin examined the hotel's building plans and uncovered a shocking bit of history.
"The hotel was built on an elephant graveyard — a place where the animals instinctively went to die,” Alkin said. “The land was cheap and, since the elephant population had been relocated to preserves, no one thought anything of it. As a result of their action, the hotel has been haunted by the spirits of angry elephants."
Alkin consulted the hotel’s owners and began devising a plan to exorcise the gigantic apparitions.
"We’re going to relocate the guests and release hundreds of mice in the hotel,” he said. “If that doesn’t work, I don’t have a Plan B.
“I guess the hotel will have to be abandoned,” he added. “I suppose it would be fitting that it end up a white elephant!”