Bourbon Orleans Hotel Haunting

In the spring of 1996, my wife, daughter, and I stayed four nights in the Bourbon Orleans Hotel. Nothing out of the ordinary happened until the last night of our stay. We were staying in an interior suite on the sixth floor, with a king-size bed for my wife and I, and around the corner in a nook a queen bed for our daughter (then 13). After turning out the lights around 10 PM after a long day of sight-seeing, my wife and I heard light footsteps (as of a small child) running on the carpet from the opposite end of the room, seemingly stopping suddenly right at the foot of our bed. It was pitch black, and I addressed our daughter, asking what she was doing out of bed, at the same time turning on the bedside table lamp and expecting to see her at the foot of our bed. Instead, we saw the covers of our daughter's bed rustle as she stuck her head around the corner, still in bed. Although my wife and I both heard the footsteps very clearly, our daughter, who was only a!

bout 20 feet away from us, heard absolutely nothing. We could not explain the footsteps we heard so clearly. Nothing further happened that night, and we left the next day as planned. Prior to this incident, we had no knowledge of any "ghosts" or other unusual activity associated with the hotel. We were subsequently told that the infirmary of the children's academy had been located on the sixth floor.