Pair of Spurs players claim to have heard a ghost

There are a few ghost stories that have made their way around the NBA, an inevitability as teams spend more than 40 nights per year on the road in hotels and out of their comfort zone. 

The Skirvin Hotel in Oklahoma City has famously been the subject of a number of paranormal claims from players and media members, all reporting encounters with a maid who jumped to her death from the 10th floor. 

Add the Claremont Resort in Berkeley, California to the list of places you'll want to avoid on the road if you're afraid of things that go bump in the night. 

The Claremont has earned a reputation from multiple accounts of being haunted, and according to quotes given to Spurs Nation, San Antonio Spurs players Jeff Ayres and Tim Duncan are willing to corroborate the stories. 

Ayres: “You get in at whatever time. I took my room key. I could hear stuff in the hallway, like people in their rooms. So I’m thinking people are watching TV or whatever. So I get to my door, and my key doesn’t work, but it sounds like there’s somebody in my room. Like I hear a little baby, not crying but making noise. I’m like, ‘What the heck?’ I keep trying my key and it doesn’t work. So I go downstairs to get a new key, and I tell them (somebody’s in the room).

“So they call the room, and nobody answers. They’re like, ‘We can get you a new key and send you up with security and make sure nobody’s there, because there shouldn’t be anybody in there.’ Then they’re like, ‘We’ll just get you a new room.’ It was the creepiest thing. I heard a couple of other guys heard babies in the hallway, kids running down the hallway. Creepy. I really heard voices and a baby in the room, and there wasn’t anybody in there. It was crazy.”
 

Duncan: “I heard a baby in his room. There was somebody or something in his room, yeah. I definitely heard something. It wasn’t creepy, because I assumed it was really somebody in the room, and they gave him the wrong room. But when they told me the story the next day about calling up there and no one in the room, it’s at that point you get chills. I totally agreed with him. There was a baby there, absolutely. I heard about the history of the place, and I’d rather not (stay there again).”

Spooky stuff.