The famous hotel in Ooty was
once used to be the summer residence of Maharaja of Mysore. Built in 1844, it
was during the shooting of Bollywood horror thriller Raaz that this haunting
took to fame. It is said that the hotel was once shut down due to incidents of
haunting.
It was shot to fame during
the shoot of Raaz, when Bipasha Basu told in an interview about the haunted
stories she was told about the hotel. The incident is of Saroj Khan and her
troupe when they visited Ooty for a shoot.
After settling for an early
night due to a morning shoot, the crew was kept aware by someone rearranging
furniture in the room above. When they tried calling reception, the phone was
dead. Desperate for sleep, some went down to complain, only to have the receptionist
escort them outside pointing upward to show there was no floor above.
