Von Minden Hotel - Schulenburg TX Haunted Place

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  Shadow man by the stairs

  I saw a shadow figure of a man while i was there. My friend & I were walking from our room to the bathroom across the hall & I made her go with me bc I was scared as soon I opened the door I heard footsteps & I put my arm in front of her before she walked out into the hallway & I said do you hear that & she said yeah & I looked to the left & she looked to the right & I heard her gasp & thats when I saw him. He looked like he had just walked up the stairs & he stopped & as soon as we saw him we could feel exactly what he was feeling & then he just disappeared into the wall right in front of him. I felt those overwhelming feeling of sadness & hopelessness like it literally made me want to help him bc I felt so bad for him after feeling his emotions which is quite the opposite reaction I thought I would ever have bc normally i would be terrified & run away not feel like I needed to help him especially since im terrified of haunted hotels or anything haunted for that matter & i just went so my friends wouldnt think i was a scaredy cat. I looked at her & I said did you feel that? & she said like the overwhelming feeling of sadness & hopelessness & I said yup! I said I felt bad for him like I wanted to help him & she said me too & I was like nope! We're not going to the bathroom I'll hold it the rest of the night! Also another really weird thing which I dont know if I have this story correct bc its a little different from the one in the description above but they told us about the man who had jumped from the 2nd floor once he found out his girl was cheating on him while he was at war when he came home but I remember them saying he got hung up on something on the way down & it ended up h@ng!ng him like I said dont know if it true or not but I got that story from someone & I almost think its true bc we had a couple years prior lost a friend from taking her own life in that way (the part idk is true or not) normally I would not share this with random strangers but there is a reason I have to to make what happened to us make since. Apparently the girl who set that trip up had requested the room he took his life in whether we were actually in that room im not sure bc there seemed to be some confusion & I was going hmm idk I would have requested this room for our group considering what we went through like 2 years prior to this loosing a friend in that manner. I was right it was a bad idea it was so weird we all walked into the room & we were immediately drawn to the window & looked out of it & as we were my friend who had passed popped into my head at that exact moment & apparently the feeling was mutal between every single one of us bc I asked & that creeper all of us out or the majority of us out like we were being taunted by the spirits there reminding us of our friend in that exact moment as we looked out the window trying to figure out where he may have gotten hung up (the part of the story im not for sure is true) bc the fall didn't seem far enough down to make someone pass either to me unless you went head 1st or something & then our friend pops up in all of our heads & got this overwhelming sadness that came over us & then we were like that was eerie & not cool. To me it felt like they were taunting us or the shadow figure maybe was already at work maybe making us experience that as a way of telling us what happened to him idk either way I didn't like it. Later I was looking around the room & opened the Bible in the drawer & was flipping through it bc I was like idk maybe something is in here seemed like a pretty new Bible so I wasnt really thinking that it was from that time seemed to new but then I found a unaliving note once again I think someone was trying to mess with us or make the experience more real or something bc the note looked once again to new & just didn't seem to fit the time period I perceived this to have happened in considering he had come back from war when he did this but idk but I dont think it added up. But between all of that I was throughly spooked. They had told us that they generally saw ghosts in the ballroom & other places but I dont remember being told about the shadow man which I have a feeling was the one who took his own life but im not sure just based on how much sadness & hopelessness was projected onto us by him like we could feel what he was feeling I have a feeling that was him. I swear I was told that this place was called the heart break hotel or something but I know this is the place bc there are not too many hotels that have an old movie theater attached to them so I knew this was the hotel bc over the years I had been looking for it bc I couldn't remember where it was & then I saw this & knew when I saw it. I have never seen a ghost before then or since then so I can say this place is 1000% haunted & if you want to see the shadow man sit in the hallway looking towards the stairs bc thats where we saw him I belive we were on the 2nd floor but we were either in the room where he took his life or close to it meaning on the same floor so if you ask the staff there they should know. We went there when I was 15 & im now 33 years old so I dont remember what room but I can say this place is definitely haunted.

  Posted 7/28/25

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  My experience.

  So there was an opening that I entered from with my friend and we explored the place. We went through all the floor pretty quickly but had to leave when my friend had to use the restroom. I wasn't scared but when we went inside a second time, a random chest was in the middle of the hallway on the fourth floor. I opened it but nothing was inside and it stank. We went back to the first floor where the theater is and we were checking out the antique stuff like old records. My friend had told me that she had heard a woman speak but she doesn't know what she said. After that, we had made our way out of the building. We didn't know the history until now, and I had no clue that it could've been haunted.

  Posted 7/13/23

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