Happy Halloween '06

Happy Halloween everyone. In the spirit of tonight's festivities, here is a list of franchise haunts to chill the bones of you and your kin...

• Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza: During the hotel's construction in the 1930s, one of the laborers was killed. His body was never found. Never ever. Enter "The Lady in Green", who has been seen at the mezzanine level. It is believed that this is the worker's widow, seeking his body as proof that he's dead. Her husband seems happier in the next life without her. Read more...

• Ritz Carlton Kapalua is built upon ancient Hawaiian burial grounds. Cross the spirits at the wrong time and they may take up human sacrifice again!! Of course, if you give them poi, they may become your friends. (Source: Haunted Accomodations)

• Here's one more from Hawaii, the Hilton Hawaiian Village. It seems the ghost of a beautiful woman in a red dress has been seen wandering the halls. In 1959, an employee saw her vanish before his eyes, as he was escorting her to a room. Some say she is the ghost of a woman murdered in a tower room, others say she is none other Pele, the Hawaiian goddess of volcanoes.

• A McDonald's in Cuero, Texas was built over an old service station in which numerous tragedies occurred. Diners and workers at this McDonald's have heard unexplainable sounds. The toilets often flush by themselves, and many times in the last few years, the walk-in cooler was switched off from the inside during the night.

Getting scared yet???

If that won't do it for you, then read the real life horror stories of what can go wrong in buying a franchise, in Tales From the Dark Side ... oooooooohhhhhhh....