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"There's a sofa, a writing desk, faux antique armoire, floral wallpaper. Carpet's unremarkable except for a stain beneath a thrift-store painting of a schooner lost at sea. The work is done in the predictably dull fashion of Currier and Ives. The second painting is of an old woman reading bedtime stories - a Whistler knockoff - to a group of deranged children while another Madonna and child watch from the background. It does have the vague air of menace. The third and final, painfully dull painting, the ever popular "The Hunt". Horses, hounds and constipated British lords. Some smart-ass spoke about the banality of evil. If that's true, then we're in the seventh circle of Hell."
Mike Enslin
Hotel Dolphin
Hotel Dolphin
Category: Business
Continent: North America
Country: United States of America
State: New York
City: New York City
Points of interest: Room 1408
Residents: Gerald Olin
1st appearance: 1408 (short story)

The Hotel Dolphin is a luxurious hotel located on 61st street in New York City. It has earned itself a rather bleak reputation over the past several decades, owing largely to rumors of Room 1408 being haunted. For more than sixty years, Room 1408 has allegedly been responsible for a string of bizarre, inexplicable occurrences including forty-two deaths, twelve of which were suicides and at least thirty "natural" deaths. Due to these happenstances and the legend surrounding the room, hotel manager, Gerald Olin kept the room vacant for more than twenty years.

Those who stay within the room for more than a brief moment were said to be subject to nightmarish visions and intense psychological turmoil. An unseen force was said to play havoc with electronic devices, causing digital wristwatches, pocket calculators, and cell phones to stop functioning or to operate unpredictably.

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Room 1408
Room 1408 is located on the thirteenth floor of the Hotel Dolphin, but due to the superstitious nature of the hotel's staff, it is identified as being located on the fourteenth floor. The sum of the numbers 1408 added together equals thirteen, a number classically looked upon as being one of ill omen. Writer Mike Enslin spent an evening in Room 1408, seeking to debunk stories of its haunted history. He soon learned the truth however as he was severely burned and nearly driven mad after spending only a few hours in the room.:
The hotel is owned by the Yasuko Corporation. Some Asian cultures have beliefs regarding certain numbers and avoid them when building businesses like hotels, offices, and apartment buildings, even when built in other countries. Some believe places like hotels in countries with beliefs about numbers avoid the number 13, but that it has to do more with accommodating western culture. Some put a bible in rooms due to this also. The Dolphin Hotel in 1408, does not have a 13th floor.
Buildings in some parts of China avoid the fourth, fourteenth, twenty-fourth, etc. floors, as the word "four" (Hanzi: 四) sounds like "death" (死 – pronounced "sì" and "sǐ", respectively) in Mandarin, the predominant language for the country, and most other varieties of Chinese. A small number of buildings also follow the American tradition of omitting the thirteenth floor, with the fifteenth floor immediately following the twelfth. Another variant found in Vietnam is naming floors 13 and 14 as floors "12A" and "12B" respectively. In South Korea, buildings tend to include the fourth floor in spite of similar pronunciation issues in the Korean language, though some newer buildings may substitute the letter F in the place of the number 4.

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