Mercure Stratford upon Avon Shakespeare Hotel

The hotel provided an information sheet on this hotel, saying "So if you go into [room 203] - be careful!" It is in this room that a workman was toiling away but when he returned after a brief departure, he found all his scattered tools lined up together neatly on the dressing table. An American guest awoke to find her return train ticket, which had been left next to her as she slept, ripped into tiny pieces. Another guest departed rapidly when she dreamt that she was being held down and couldn't escape despite struggling. When she awoke her right arm and side were bruised. Others who left earlier complained of an "unpleasant" presence in the room. A clairvoyant claimed to have picked up on a terrified young girl cowering in the corner of the room. She had long blonde hair and was holding a cat. The girl's name was Lucinda and was said to have died very young and that her father badly treated her. Lucinda, it is said, longed for friendship and help and didn't want people to leave her or her room.
Meanwhile seen roaming the corridor outside the room is a bearded man who wears a long brown cloak. Despite appearing to be solid, he would then vanish.

Dr Kate Cherrell, on her "Burials and Beyond" Facebook pages provides more information; "The ghost of Shakespeare’s daughter Susanna is said to haunt part of the hotel, specifically the room that used to be her bedroom. However, the hotel was never owned or operated by Susanna and her husband – that credit is believed to go to Hall’s Croft (a substantial 17th century building) and later, Shakespeare’s personal home, obtained via inheritance. Such is the way of Shakespeare and Stratford, where timelines, locations and stories blend into one amorphous melting pot of histories true and false.
Shakespeare aside, the ghost of a former maid named Elizabeth is said to wander the hotel’s corridors and kitchen. According to legend, Elizabeth had been stabbed by her lover in 1763, and spends eternity in her former place of work. There are countless other reports of fleeting spirits, such as the ghost of a soldier who haunts the lounge, yet they have not made such an impact as the hotel’s female ghosts. Arguably, the hotel’s most infamous spirit is known as Lucy/Lucinda, a ghost whose tale has been distinctly blurred as the years have passed. In one simple version of the tale, Lucy was a woman who took her own life in room 203, and makes her presence known by appearing near the bed, or hiding in a corner. However, the more elaborate tale places Lucy as a 14th century pickpocket, who lodged with her cruel uncle at the building that would become the Shakespeare hotel. After returning one day, Lucy was attacked by her uncle who took both her – and her cat – and bricked them into the walls of the building, in the place which would become room 203. A little while later, Lucy’s screams could be heard, having regained consciousness in her new prison. Both of their spirits are said to haunt room 203, with staff reportedly seeing the spectral feline on several occasions.
One former living (!) hotel guest commented on Tripadvisor that “I recall one night being awoken to [sic] my window blowing open and then my towels oddly rearranged in the bathroom. I just laughed it off but will never forget that night.” While it doesn’t sound like the work of a fearsome poltergeist, perhaps the odd disgruntled maid does indeed dwell within the hotel’s walls! "

Link: Travel Daily Media

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