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- Dillon, South Carolina - Haunted Hotel Room Keeps Low Profile
Mysterious power outages, ghostly apparitions, and dogs going crazy are some of the manifestations reported to us by guests of Room 305 at the South of the Border Motor Inn (a.k.a. "Pedro's Pleasure Dome") in Dillon, South Carolina. ... [11/11/2007] Complete News Story - Dillon, South Carolina - South of the Border - Haunted Room 305 Room 305 is not haunted. I stayed in this room (before I read about it being haunted) with my mother and two kids - nothing happened. I'm a very light sleeper and I'm very jumpy, but nothing happened in this room! [Cindy, 06/15/2005]South Of The Border:
Address: I-95 - US 301/501, Dillon, SC [Show Map]
Directions: I-95 exit 1 in North Carolina. Follow the billboards.
Hours: 24/7/365 (Call to verify)
Phone: 843-774-2411 - Dillon, South Carolina - South of the Border To everyone who thinks room 305 at South of the Border is haunted. IT'S NOT. I repeat IT's NOT. I am a freelance journalist and stayed in that very room the night of Saturday March 29, 2003 and I did not see, hear or feel anything at all. I stayed in that room specifically because I read these postings and I am doing a travel piece. I wanted to see for myself. Nothing happened, absolutely nothing. Not exactly exciting material for my piece, but it is the truth!! [Kris Antonelli, 04/13/2003][RA: Thanks for the warning. BTW, Kris made her name as a journalist after an award-winning expose on Snipe Hunting. Next assignment: Unmasking the talking Paul Bunyan statue!]South Of The Border:
Address: I-95 - US 301/501, Dillon, SC [Show Map]
Directions: I-95 exit 1 in North Carolina. Follow the billboards.
Hours: 24/7/365 (Call to verify)
Phone: 843-774-2411 - Dillon, South Carolina - South of the Border - Haunted Room Power Surge I had learned of the South of the Border motel room 305 being haunted. I stayed at the motel (not room 305) with my 4 kids, two dogs and one cat on Sunday. We drove by the so called haunted room 305 when the power to my brand new Chevy Conversion Van went dead! My dogs went crazy, they would not stop barking and my kids were completely FREAKED out! After about one minute the power returned to the vehicle and we were out of there like a set of rims at a P DIDDY Concert.
The rest of the night I was so freaked out that I could not sleep, so I went to the front desk and told them what happened.
I found out that two people on separate occasions had perished in that room. One was a woman whose husband had left her alone for awhile as he was getting some unmentionables at the Dirty Old Man Shop. When he returned she was DEAD.
The next victim was the reverse -- a woman left her husband alone for a while, and when she returned he also was dead. This was all confirmed by a security officer during my stay over this last weekend. [Tony F., 09/03/2002]
South Of The Border:
Address: I-95 - US 301/501, Dillon, SC [Show Map]
Directions: I-95 exit 1 in North Carolina. Follow the billboards.
Hours: 24/7/365 (Call to verify)
Phone: 843-774-2411 - Dillon, South Carolina - South of the Border: Adios, Senor Schafer
Alan Schafer, the man who created one of the greatest tourist traps in history, died on July 19 from leukemia at age 87. Schafer was the promotional genius behind South of the Border, I-95's most prominent vacation stop.... [07/22/2001] Complete News Story
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