Room 17

by Brynnathy

On June 28th, 1865, Agnes Cleveland, one of the richest and most powerful women in Virginia, turned 21. On that night, she was stabbed to death and burned by Harvey Brante, a member of the Clevelands's rival family. A hotel was built over the ruins of their home. There are rumors about this hotel..particularly Room 17.. Kathleen and her friends stay in this hotel. What will ensue?

On June 28th, 1865, Agnes Cleveland, one of the richest and most powerful women in Virginia, turned 21.

The Cleveland family, the third most powerful family in Virginia, threw a massive twenty-first birthday ball, inviting all of the equally rich and powerful families.

Well, except one.

The Brante family was the Cleveland's family rival, and the seventh most powerful family in Virginia. After a massive slave-stealing scandal, the family had fought for years over everything. Tensions rose when Agnes had an affair with the enemy, Harvey Brante, forcing them to end their love. Harvey, however, was not pleased. With a controversial history that had been covered up by money, he was free to overstep his bounds, knowing he would be backed up by his family.

Even if he murdered her, the Brantes would pay money to have it be covered up.

On June 28th, at the beginning of the ball, Agnes sat up in her room, humming to herself as she dressed for her evening of endless glory. As she was adjusting her curls, the window opened, revealing Harvey's soaked, tattered body. In cold blood, he stabbed Agnes in the throat, and several times in her chest. Standing over her body, he set fire to her room and held her cold, dead body as he wept. Soon, the whole home was in engulfed in flames, and what was supposed to be a wonderful evening became the cold-blooded murder of fifty seven men and women. After the fire, the relatives of the Cleveland family built a hotel in honor of that fateful night, called the Cleveland-Brante Inn, in hopes of bringing the feud to an end, in which they were successful. A few of Agnes's items were saved from the fire; a floral, white vase, a framed photo of the Cleveland's, and the mother Ethel Cleveland's chair. They put these items in Room 17.

Strangely, as Room 17 was rented out, men and women who rented that room ran out of the hotel in the middle of the night screaming and wailing, claiming there was a woman in that room who sat in a chair, staring blankly at the ceiling as she mumbled "Brante must burn" over and over.

It is now 1954. Kathleen Cauller and her friends, Sandra and Laura, are on a road trip and decide to stay in the Cleveland-Brante Inn. What they experience will not only send them screaming, but will change them and haunt them for the rest of their lives.