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Room 7 of the Mason House: Orb photos taken in a haunted hotel in Iowa
   

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Room 7 of the Mason House Inn

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About Room 7, Joy says, "We have a newspaper account of a murder that took place in the Inn. A Mr. Knapp was stabbed in the heart and died in [Room 7]. He was trying to get into a bed that was already occupied. (He had been visiting the tavern and was confused as to which room was his.) The man in the bed thought he was being robbed and took a saber out of his walking stick and stabbed Mr. Knapp in the heart.

"Several guests have told us that something violent happened in Room 7 and they get a bad feeling in that room. This room is directly above the kitchen and I often hear footsteps up there when no one else is in the house. I will go up to see if a visitor has come in off the street and is taking a "look around." There will be no one up there, but the bed looks like someone had been laying on it. It will be mussed up. I think Mr. Knapp is still trying to get into bed.

"My daughter was in that room making the bed one day and as she bent over to tuck in the sheet, she got patted on her fanny. Thinking it was me trying to play a joke on her, she turned around but no one was there. She left the room fast and would not go back up there with out me."
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