Spooky

Cause of Death: Can't remember

"Well I've been wandering the area around the hotel for… who knows how long at this point! I remember when the original hotel was built, the one Gracey and his brother ran in life. Good man, Gracey, though I do believe that there were sever- oh am I getting off topic again? Anyways, you wanted to know how I died? I remember it quite well, even though it was a significant while ago, long before anything was built in this spot, before it was the hotel it was a field, or maybe it was a forest before the hotel, and I do seem to recall it being an ice field for some period of time, around 200 years or so, or was it only 3 months? I’m fairly sure there was a lake in this spot at some point, so it may have only been that that was a particularly bad winter.

Oh yes! My death… Rather bloody affair, I think, I’m certain it wasn’t sickness. Though it could have been the scarlet fever, awful disease, terrible rash and cough. No blood though. You know, it amazes me the leaps and bounds of progress that have been made in the field of medicine. Back when I died, a cold was practically a death sentence! Now you can have all sorts of terrible infections and things and come out the other side as hale and hearty as before. Of course, you’re right, getting off topic again. I do believe it was a sword that did me in, or maybe an axe, perhaps a spear, those were prevalent in my days. Useful, a spear. Light and with plenty of reach keeps you quick and out of the enemies hands, fat lot of good that did me! Maybe. Or perhaps it wasn't a blade at all, you know-”

You listen to Spooky's rambling for several more minutes, and while you learn several interesting things about ornithology, etymology, martial history, geography, and several other disciplines, you learn almost no real information about the nature of his demise.