Twitter’s Dear David

Adam Ellis

Adam Ellis shared this disturbing encounter with a child ghost on his Twitter account back in 2017.

He first posted—

“My apartment is currently being haunted by the ghost of a dead child, and he’s trying to kill me.”

Illustration Adam Ellis drew.

He then followed this tweet up with an illustration, he drew after seeing this ghost sitting in a rocking chair at the foot of his bed.

He described what he saw—“he has a huge misshapen head that is dented on one side.”

This ghost then came to him in “a dream” and explained he had been killed when a bookshelf had fallen and crushed his head.

Cats at the front door.

During this time, Adam’s cats began to act strangely. They sat at his front door, crouched down and sniffing at the bottom crack for four nights in a row. They refused to move.

Adam snapped several photos of the hallway at the entrance to his apartment. He used two different cameras, but despite this space was well lit, his photos came out pitch black.

Dark hallway

One of his followers on twitter then took one of these photos and “brightened it.” This revealed a figure standing at Adam’s door.

 

Brightened photo showing figure.
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Ellis had another dream where David “dragged him.” He woke up the next morning with a bad bruise on his arm. At this same time, he began to receive strange phone calls, multiple times a day that didn’t show up on his Caller ID.

When he answered a weak voice would say, “hello.”

Adam now concerned, set up a video camera in his apartment. His first recording captured his green rocking chair moving on its own. This link is to Ellis's twitter account where you can view this chair moving.

Ellis began to see this ghost child standing on his roof. He snapped several photos, but the figure moved too quickly. But he finally captured the image he saw.

Image Adam Ellis captured on his roof.

A screenshot of one still from the video.
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Adam set up another video to record while he slept. He then captured the most disturbing image of all. This recording shows the ghost running over his bed, and then it ducks down by the side of the bed, only to pop up and then duck down again.

Here is a link to a twitter feed that still has a gif of this video.

Adam Ellis after this moved and got another job.

Haunted Brookdale Lodge

Original Lodge

The Brookdale Lodge near Boulder Creek was built in 1924. It has many unique features. 

One interesting feature of this lodge is that a past owner built a dining room or “Brook Room” as it is called around a natural stream so guests and visitors sit and eat in a room with a stream rushing through it. 

Another fascinating feature is that the lodge has many secret tunnels and hidden rooms within its walls. These were built in the 1940s and 1950s when gangsters frequented the lodge. Their activities resulted in rumors being circulated that there are bodies buried beneath the Brookdale.

The Lodge was originally a lumber mill that was turned into a campground and lodge in the 1900s, for tourists who visited the beautiful redwoods in the Santa Cruz Mountains, in California. 

Like most popular resorts in this state, the lodge has hosted many famous visitors. Including, Marilyn Monroe, Tyrone Power, Joan Crawford, and Rita Hayworth. President Herbert Hoover also visited the lodge.

The Brookdale has several resident ghosts that have been seen over the years. 

The most frequently seen ghost is a young girl by the name of Sarah Logan. She was a six-year-old niece of a past owner. She tragically drowned in the dining room’s creek. 

She is described as wearing a blue and white Sunday dress. She is seen walking through the lobby, or playing near the fireplace, that sits between the lobby and the Brook Room.

One visitor who was a little girl at the time she and her family stayed at Brookdale, saw the ghost of Sarah Logan. 

As she and her family ate in the Brook Room, she spotted a young girl in an odd dress playing near the indoor stream. She pleaded with her parents to let her go play with this girl. They refused her request and she remembers she was perplexed that they did not see the girl she was pointing out.

Sarah is known to approach guests crying for her mother. When they respond by turning to look for her mother she vanishes. 

Two recent owners were so disturbed by her presence—they both saw her run silently across the lobby floor and then disappear through the office window—they called in clergy and a psychic to get rid of her ghost. 

Their attempts failed, Sarah is still seen at the lodge today.