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Ghosts, Haunted Places Part of 'Weird Texas'
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| 10/28/05
Posted on 10/28/2005 8:28:35 PM PDT by hispanarepublicana
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To: elmer fudd
Could've been worse. Could've been a buzzard. I have this fear that I'm going to get to heaven and there's going to be a lengthy application process where I don't have all the information I need (balance on the mortage principle listed seperately from the balance on the mortgage interest, phone number of first employer, etc.)
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posted on
10/28/2005 9:47:48 PM PDT
by
hispanarepublicana
(No amnesty needed...My ancestors proudly served. [remodel of an old '70s bumper sticker])
To: hispanarepublicana
"I have this fear that I'm going to get to heaven and there's going to be a lengthy application process where I don't have all the information I need (balance on the mortage principle listed seperately from the balance on the mortgage interest, phone number of first employer, etc.)"
If that happens, you're in the other place ;)
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posted on
10/28/2005 9:52:39 PM PDT
by
Xenophon450
(In a world of spoonfed emotion, intelligence can save.)
To: hispanarepublicana
Kind of like that far side cartoon with the two old guys sitting on the park bench feeding the birds. There are a bunch of pigeons busy pecking at the ground and a little further back are two or three vultures just staring at the old men.
To: hispanarepublicana
Well, my Father passed several years ago and rests in Christ; but my mother sees him often. I'll tell her to ask him the next time she sees him...
;)
Actually, he lived much farther to the south of Athens - down in what we call "deep" East Texas, in what was once known as "The Great Western Wood".
Near Athens, there are tales of ghostly Spanish missionaries who follow the vestiges of the old trails which crisscross the area.
Not far away, one should find the last remains of Trammel's Trace, to the east. There you may encounter the memories of smugglers running guns and goods north and south along the old trail, long forgotten by all but those who still haunt it;
and to the south, go to Hwy 21, to the town of Douglass. There - into the darkened cover of over-arching trees, around the bend and down a nameless road just off the highway - you will see a grassy field open up and drop down into the shadows towards a natural landing on the Angelina River.
I have seen it in the moonlight, in the cold of winter, a wayside for the ghosts of those who stopped before me. Two centuries before, it was a lonely inn, an isolated stop along the way for Spanish travelers when Highway 21 was "The King's Highway".
I could not see quite see them, but I did not have to see them to know they were there. I spent only a moment, before moving quickly on down the road...
To: WillamShakespeare
I believe your hand on the face story. Up until I was about 20, I didn't believe in ghosts or spirits, but then I spent a summer in what turned out to be a haunted apartment building in Cedar City, Utah. Most unpleasant summer of my life. Every time I went to sleep in either of the bedrooms I would wake up gasping for breath with a feeling of intense pressure on my chest. After a while, every time I even stepped into one of the bedrooms, I felt like someone who was very, VERY angry was following me around and telling me to get out. I finally ended up spending the rest of the summer sleeping in the living room, which seemed to be free of "influences." (Oh, and I was *intensely* relieved when my downstairs neighbor reported the same occurences, since I thought until then that I was just nuts!)
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posted on
10/28/2005 10:29:44 PM PDT
by
Hetty_Fauxvert
(Kelo must GO!! ..... http://sonoma-moderate.blogspot.com/)
To: hispanarepublicana
The Cadillacs are just plain strange.
While I haven't experienced any of the things other people have mentioned, I've seen the Marfa lights at least 1/2 a dozen times. Just weird lights off in the distance that appear and disappear.
On the Texas A&M campus we're supposed to have several haunted buildings, most notably the Animal Industries building. Decades ago it was were all the meat on campus was processed. One night a man working alone in the basement sliced open his leg and bleed to death before being able to get out of the building and find help. Many people swear they've seen his ghost in the basement and in front of the freight elevator which he where he died. I had a class in there in 1999 and never saw anything unusual.
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posted on
10/28/2005 10:43:01 PM PDT
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COEXERJ145
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To: COEXERJ145
about 12 years ago my 14 month old daughter died in her sleep of SIDS. Needless to say I was grieving pretty hard, but I WASN'T crazy.
well for a while after she died, I'd hear things...like..I'd be lying away at night with the lights on reading a book and hubby snoring away next to me and hear very definite foot steps walk around the bed, stop by my head and turn and walk around to hubby's head and do it again and again. One morning(2 a.m.) hubby heard "someone" jumping in our daughters crib(which was in the next room.) for about 15 minutes(he timed it on the clock radio). Lots of little things like that happened for quite some time. I totally believe!
To: hispanarepublicana
Hi, hispanarepublicana. Interesting thread......
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posted on
10/28/2005 11:30:06 PM PDT
by
indcons
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To: hispanarepublicana
When I was 13, I was in the middle of a bridge overlooking a dam upstream of a series of mill races. As I looked over the rail, I felt someone shove me from behind. I whirled around expecting to see either my brother (who was fishing down at one end of the bridge) or one of my friends from school. There was no one there.
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posted on
10/28/2005 11:38:14 PM PDT
by
aruanan
To: hispanarepublicana
I bought a copy of 'Weird Texas'. It's a great book.
I was a little disappointed they left out the mysterious, ancient, underground wall which surrounds Rockwall ,Texas.
To: COEXERJ145; Army Air Corps; indcons
At the old Chemistry Building at TTU, a woman with the janitorial crew encountered a student who was trying to steal an advance copy of the exam. I think he'd come in through an underground tunnel. He decapitated her and left her body sitting up behind a desk or at a lab counter. It's said she haunts the building and the tunnels as well, particularly around finals and midterms.
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posted on
10/29/2005 11:49:55 AM PDT
by
hispanarepublicana
(No amnesty needed...My ancestors proudly served. [remodel of an old '70s bumper sticker])
To: after dark; SunkenCiv
mysterious underground wall? tell, tell!
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posted on
10/29/2005 11:51:04 AM PDT
by
hispanarepublicana
(No amnesty needed...My ancestors proudly served. [remodel of an old '70s bumper sticker])
To: hispanarepublicana
Also, there are reports of a deceased Chem prof who loiters in one of the study rooms and occasionally tutors students (they usually discover, later, that their tutor was "not of this world").
There are other spots on campus (Dairy Barn, Museum, Quack Shack, etc.) and in the Lubbock area that are reported to be haunted.
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posted on
10/29/2005 11:53:22 AM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Army Air Corps
I didn't know about the Dairy Barn and Quack Shack being haunted!!! What's the stories on those?
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posted on
10/29/2005 11:54:41 AM PDT
by
hispanarepublicana
(No amnesty needed...My ancestors proudly served. [remodel of an old '70s bumper sticker])
To: hispanarepublicana
When I worked in on campus as a student, I often engaged the veteran guards in conversation about weird and funny things that they have seen and heard on campus.
One guard told me about when he worked the night shift with a few other guards at the Quack Shack.
One night, he and the other guards were making their rounds and ensuring that all the offices, exam rooms, and labs were locked and secure. They finished checking their floors and met at a kiosk on the ground floor to chat and while away the time until their next rounds.
While sitting at the kiosk, they heard a door slam on the floor above them. Then, they heard heavy footfalls on the floor above them. A few seconds later, the elevator switched-on and they heard the doors for the ground floor (about 20 feet from them) open and they heard footfalls coming near the kiosk. The footfalls went around a corner. The guard with whom I spoke stated that he peeked around the corner only to seek a dark form moving down the hallway and turn left at the end of the hallway. He immediately scurried down that hallway to see what was down there. He reached the end of the hallway and turned left only to find a dead end.
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posted on
10/29/2005 12:02:12 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: hispanarepublicana
Dairy Barn
Another guard who once worked the night shift near the main library stated that about midnight, a white mist occasionally forms near the silo adjacent to the old Dairy Barn and begins to move eastward and passes in front of the student union building and crosses University Avenue only to dissipate near the shops across the street from campus.
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posted on
10/29/2005 12:05:02 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: hispanarepublicana
HR, there is a three volume set of Texas ghost stories that cover three geographical regions of the state.
When I return home from my office, I'll post the bibliographic info here for you and everyone else.
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posted on
10/29/2005 12:09:16 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: after dark
"I was a little disappointed they left out the mysterious, ancient, underground wall which surrounds Rockwall ,Texas."
Wow. This is the first time that I have heard this. What is the story behind it?
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posted on
10/29/2005 12:11:09 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Army Air Corps; Professional Engineer; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; SF Republican; Baynative; ...
Somebody needs to set up a web cam to try to catch the Dairy Barn mist. Meanwhile, here's some dark cloudy Lubbock Halloween weekend reading:
Lubbock Stories: Tech folklorist knows where the ghosts are haunting Tech professor emeritus of English, Kenneth Davis, tells a story. In the late 1960s, a distinguished professor from a western engineering school retired and came to Texas Tech University, where he began a chemistry program. The professor was popular and well-liked by students and faculty, said Kenneth Davis, professor emeritus of English at Tech. "He conducted a study hall in Holden Hall and he helped students with first and second semester chemistry," Davis said. Does the angel really shed tears? Here's a brief bit of Lubbock lore. A born and bred Lubbockite told the story of her ritual initiation into a high school peer group one night in late September. The story involved the statue of an angel that dominates the vista near one entrance to the City of Lubbock Cemetery. According to the storyteller, she was in her early teen-age years when she heard the tale. Friends told her that, after sunset, if she ran fast as she could from the front gate of the cemetery to the carved statue and touched the angel's feet, the stone, winged figure would shed tears. The House with the Gables On Oct. 31, 1950, a vacant two-story frame house at the corner of 50th Street and the Tahoka Highway burned to the ground, erasing from the scene what perhaps was the most mysterious landmark in Lubbock's history. Every town has its haunted houses and its legends, and it was around "the house with the gables" that was woven Lubbock's tale of discovered buried treasure and spooks. A haunting tale Old building gives workers eerie feelings Many who work at the Texas Tech Ex-Students Association look as if they've seen a ghost, when actually they say they've only heard and felt its presence. "I used to have these sensations that someone was walking behind me and running their fingers along my back," said Dana Gamble, business manager. CEREBRAL SPECTER When darkness falls in a haunted house... When my editor wanted me to spend the night on Friday the 13th in a haunted house, I jumped at the chance to do it. I'm not into all this booga-booga stuff, but if something should happen, I could get a great story. After I found a haunted house in Lubbock, I bragged to everyone that I knew how I planned to spend the night there. The Lubbock Lights 'Flying whatsits' visited the South Plains several times The 'flying whatsits' continued to zoom through Lubbock skies Friday night as numerous residents reported seeing flashes of light flying at "unbelievable speeds" and at least one person showed up with photographs of what he said he saw in the sky. Identity of the strange objects continued to baffle all who claimed to have seen them and three Texas Tech professors who examined photographs taken by Carl Hart Jr., 18-year-old amateur photographer of 2332 Nineteenth Street, could offer no explanation.
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Original A-J Article about the 'Flying Whatsits'
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Photo of a sign in Lubbock
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1977 Article about the Lubbock Lights
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Computer enhanced photo of the Lubbock Lights
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Area Stories A Haunting Tale Ghost hunter meets match in old hotel The sun had disappeared before I parked at the Commercial Hotel in Floydada. When I got out of the car, the air had a pleasant crispness to it, and an almost-full moon began to make its way across the sky, occasionally veiled by fingers of hazy clouds. As fall nights go, Oct. 26 was perfect for ghost hunting. Michelle Ruddell, new owner of the old hotel, stood holding the screen door for me. She bought the old building recently at an auction, and said she's making it into a Women's Christian Job Corps office called The Maker's Mansion. Wayland's ghost never reached her goal The Plainview campus of Wayland Baptist University is haunted. At least that's what some alumnae believe, including history professor Estelle Owens. The history professor told the story of young woman, perhaps 20 years old, who was obsessed with succeeding as a musician. Plainview High School haunted by Herkie Though no one seems to know exactly when or how the tale began, Plainview High School reportedly has a ghost. According to the book "Phantoms of the Plains: Tales of West Texas Ghosts," by Docia Schultz Williams, a ghost named Herkie is said to haunt the school auditorium. Old Matador jail home to mysterious guest In the tiny town of Matador, a relic of a jail reportedly houses a disembodied soul. Matador, population about 800, is northeast of Lubbock between Plainview and Paducah along Highway 70. The old county jail, in use until a few years ago, was built in 1891, complete with its own trap door for hanging horse thieves, murderers or worse, said Lucretia Campbell, Motley County clerk. Revenant stalks Bailey County jail Frightened jailers have told sheriff's deputies that something haunts the jail in Bailey County. Many jailers and several inmates report that a ghost is loose in the facility, said Deputy Sheriff Eileen Ciampoli. |
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posted on
10/29/2005 12:13:12 PM PDT
by
hispanarepublicana
(No amnesty needed...My ancestors proudly served. [remodel of an old '70s bumper sticker])
To: hispanarepublicana
I should tell the story of what happened to some neighbours of mine when they lived in Big Spring: glowing feet walking on the staircase...
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posted on
10/29/2005 12:16:52 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
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