Kings Mountain

March 30th, 2013

There is nothing like an old picture of family member. A month or so ago two ladies came on my tour and one, the one who's sensitive to this stuff, had a great story from Kings Mountain. Her friends' grandmother was on her death bed and the family had all come to keep an eye on her. Well when it was this woman's turn, she sat in the room and saw a man at the foot of the grandmother's bed. Long old fashioned coat, little spectacles. She kept watch anyway.

When she was able to bring it up to her friend's mother, the woman ran and got an old photo of the grandmother's husband who'd died a few years before. The photo was not him as an old man but in his prime, looking like a fine country doctor.

The photo exactly matched the man she's seen at the foot of the bed.

Making Amends

March 30, 2013

Having issues with the dead is often considered explanation for a haunting. A month or so back, two men from Chattanooga, TN came on my tour and one shared a ghost story with me. Growing up in Delaware he had seen his grandfather four or more times in his room. This was over the course of several years. His grandfather would sit at the foot of his bed, or on top of his chest of drawers. As a child he remembered his grandfather's comb over, a telltale feature of the old man.

When the boy grew up he finally decided to make amends with his grandfather at his grave site. He hasn't seen him since that visit.

Pocatello, Idaho

Some people are constantly on the move. The other day a woman joined the tour. She was living in London at the time, but had once lived in Pocatello, Idaho. There was only one occasion in her life that she thought might relate to paranormal activity. While living in Pocatello, alone, no pets or roommates, the remote control to her television went missing. She searched her place, but for a year she couldn't find it. One day she came home from work to find it sitting in plane sight on her couch.

Madisonville, Kentucky

Madisonville Kentucky. I had a couple on my tour who were pharmacists and worked at home sending orders to hospitals. The last out of the house job he had was in a hospital and he sat at a desk in front of reflective glass. His office was next to the morgue. One week they brought a young woman into the morgue. He was sitting at his desk and saw a women pass by in the reflective glass. A moment later his assistant came in, white scrubs, and he asked if she had just been there. No, she said, she'd been in the cafeteria for the last hour.

About a week later the same thing happened. A moment later the assistant came in.

Peter Pan

A couple from Massachusetts shared a few of their ghost stories during a tour. They were driving home form a camp site when the woman saw the silhouette of a boy, like Peter Pan, leap three times past the car and disappear into a brick wall. She said nothing to her husband and he said nothing to her. About an hour later she mentioned it and he, matter of fact, confirmed that he’d seen the same thing.

Another time they were at an air museum in Massachusetts, taking pictures of an old WWII airplane on display, and there was a little boy in the cockpit. She insisted to her husband that a little boy had climbed into the plane, but he said no one could get into the plane at the height and angle it was set.

Gainesville, TX

When one person sees a ghost, they often blow off the sighting, crediting an overactive imagination. But when multiple people see the same thing, it is harder to dismiss.

Over the Halloween holiday two couples from Texas came on the tour and the men had seen a ghost together, many years before. Back in Gainesville, Texas they had been driving with their father at about 2 o'clock in the morning, all three in the cab of a pick-up truck, in a relatively unpopulated area, when a woman in a wedding dress ran into the road in front of them. They all looked at one another, stopped the truck, and got out to look for a body.

They hadn't heard a thud, but that didn't change what they had seen. But as much as they looked around it didn't matter, there was no one there.

A week or so later, they were watching the TV and a panel on a talk show were talking about the very same sighting. Apparently they were not the only ones to see her, and fear that they had killed a woman on the road.

Yucca Valley, CA

It isn't often these days that you hear of people dying at home, but it is good to know it still happens. A couple came on my tour from Yucca Valley, CA and they had taken care of his mother, in the house, until she passed. She was in her eighties.

She would always wear a throw over her shoulders; it was covered in roses. When she wasn't on the couch with the throw over her shoulders, she would have it fan folded, laid neatly on the arm of the couch.

A while after she had passed the wife came home from work one evening. She had laid the throw on the couch, using it to keep the dogs from getting hair all over the couch. After work she walked into the living room to find the rose throw fan folded on the arm of the couch.

She went to her husband, in a back room, and asked why he had moved the throw because she was trying to keep the dog hair off the couch. He didn't know what she was talking about. He hadn't folded the throw and certainly not in an ornate fan fold. Only his mother did that.