What are some ghost stories about the biltmore house?

Answer 1

Ultimately, it is not possible to know for certain if any building or facility is haunted or not since there continues to be a debate between skeptics and believers over whether ghosts and other paranormal phenomena exist. However, rumors do abound about supernatural happenings at certain facilities with the name Biltmore.

The brainchild of entrepreneur John McEntee Bowman, the Biltmore hotel in Coral Gables, Florida is whispered by some to still be inhabited by the spirit of Thomas "Fatty" Walsh, a gangster who was killed there in 1929. According to legend, elevator sometimes stops on the 13th floor of the lodging facility and some females have reported an odor of cigar smoke, a habit to which Walsh was partial.

Built in 1923, the beautiful Millennium Biltmore in Los Angeles has also been the object of ghostly tales including that of a woman in a black dress who perished there just after WWII and allegedly was later seen wandering the first floor of the hotel.

Other places with the same name also have their own rumors of a ghostly presence or two. The Biltmore Estate in Asheville, N.C., for instance, is thought by many to be haunted by the spirits of its onetime owners George and Edith Vanderbilt with the sounds of long-ago swimming soirees emanating from the pool area.