Laura H.

I came with two friends to Thomas House this past weekend on a Ghost Hunt package. One or two weekends every month, the Ghost Hunt Weekends crew led by Chad Morin rent out the entire hotel and for $99 a person, you get one night's lodging, dinner, a midnight buffet, breakfast and all kinds of ghost hunting activities through the night. All other times, Thomas House operates as a bed and breakfast and puts on plays and shows throughout the year, but the ghost hunt weekends seem to be a primary part of their business and plays a prominent role on their website. This review is for the hotel itself, not the GHW organization. Thomas House is beautifully eerie on the outside, located in the small town of Red Boiling Springs about an hour and a half from Nashville. On the inside, it's packed full of antiques, including an entire room of creepy dolls. There are beautiful chandeliers all over the hotel, and the rooms are of good size, clean and comfortable (if you're able to sleep through the night). We stayed in a room with a double bed then a single bed in a small attached room and had plenty of room. Built in the late 1800's and the site of fires, murders and even a cult at one time, the hotel provided plenty of paranormal experiences for our little group of first-time ghost hunters. I was very skeptical these would be staged by the hotel or GHW crew, but there's no way what we heard and saw could have been set up, as there were times the three of us set out on our own and left the larger group (there were about 40 guests there in total). With so many people roaming over the property, there would have been no way to anticipate who would be where to stage the voices and lights we saw and captured on video and voice recorder. The owners live in the hotel along with their son, daughter-in-law and grandson. They were very kind and gracious and were always around for questions or a chat. The food was Southern inspired and while it wasn't gourmet, it was perfectly acceptable and sustained us through the long night. The hotel has been featured on Paranormal State and Ghost Hunters, and the weekends quickly fill up, so if interested, I advise you make reservations at least a couple months in advance (longer if you want a specific room, such as room 37 featured on Ghost Hunters).