Mysterious Death in a Luxury hotel

The Savoy, is a historic luxury hotel located in the hill station, Mussoorie, in Uttarakhand state of India, owned by Hotel Controls Pvt Ltd ITC Welcomgroup Hotels.
The Savoy Hotel formally opened in 1902, two years earlier than the Taj Mahal hotel. It is said that the halls and corridors of this hotel are haunted by the ghost of Lady Garnet Orme, who was found dead in mysterious circumstances many years ago in early 1910s. Apparently strychnine had been placed in her medicine bottle, but how it got there no one could tell.

In 1911, a Miss Frances Garnett-Orme, a 49-year-old spiritualist, came to stay with her companion from Lucknow, Miss Eva Mountstephen, also a spiritualist who specialised in séances (attempting to communicate with spirits) and crystal-gazing. One morning after Miss Mountstephen returned to Lucknow, Miss Frances was found mysteriously dead, an autopsy revealed that she’d was poisoned with prussic acid, a cyanide-based poison. The murder was never solved and her doctor was also found dead a few months later, of strychnine poisoning. Miss Mounstephen was later arrested for allegedly tampering with her friend’s bottle of sodium bicarbonate by adding prussic acid to it, though the court found her not guilty. The case later inspired two works, Agatha Christie‘s first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) and also writer Ruskin Bond‘s In A Crystal

The ghost is known for wandering aimlessly in the corridors at night. Witnesses mention that on encounter the ghost of the lady seems to be looking straight at you with a blank expression. It is said that she’s still looking for the person who poisoned her.