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| we were not alone The Nutt House Hotel |
As you have already heard we did a ghost tour this past weekend. We love them. Some of you think why the idea of a ghost tour? Well it's also a way of history. I really don't know how I would react if I ever saw a ghost in an actual ghost tour. I know I have witnessed them when I was younger. It never bothered me before to see one but as I got older I stopped having these encounters maybe because I would not react the same as when I was younger. As I get older the kick I get is the history in it. When you think about encountering a ghost you don't realize that you just encountered a piece of history. What is the definition or what does a ghost mean? First you would have to believe in ghost to understand the meaning. When you encounter a ghost does it give you chills of excitement or of being afraid? Is it because something still haunts where they have passed which could only mean that so many years have passed so many generations have traveled but that one ghost still remains there. That my friends makes it a part of history. So becoming a ghost hunter for me is to try to figure out the story that led me to the ghost.
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| a poem by an inmate on the walll |
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| the second floor of the jail cell |
Granbury is a little over an hour from DFW. You can come and go in that one day or stay in a hotel off the beach or a haunted hotel. Granbury has it's own history. If I happen to be standing at the same place in the square (downtown) a few years back I would have been killed for being a Mexican. Did you know that Bonnie and Clyde ate a sandwich under a tree on the lawn of the courthouse as they were on the run and the sheriff missed them by minutes. Did you know that they had their first hanging outside the jail and it took him almost thirty minutes to die that the town witnessed such horrible death that they never hung another person. Did you know that Mary haunts a room at The Nutt House Hotel, number four because she owned the hotel and demands it stays clean. Did you know that a haircut from a barber was fifty cents back then and that a person didn't like his haircut sliced the Barbers throat with the cutting shears used for his haircut. Did you know that when the Barnum and Baileys came to town for the circus a little girl was watching from her window and fell to her death and the circus never went back due to remorse. Did you know that in a saloon one night three preachers of the word of god after drinking got into an argument and they shot each other. Did you know that in a funeral home they would display your deceased body at the window for people to see for fourteen days for fifty cents a day.
So many ghost stories (history) that you just have to witness it yourself.
That day we met people from Frisco, Arlington, South Carolina, even the UK. You never think about the impact that a small town has on a person. Granbury is the sixth most haunted place in Texas. Granbury had 16 saloons and 18 brothels. Talk about some fun and trouble times. This to them was what Deep Ellum is to us. Before the tour we visited the jail. The jail no longer takes inmates but the thought of setting foot inside this building and stand inside the cell just gives you an eery feeling. How the years have passed by. As we started the night ghost tour the guide told us of an app that you upload onto your phone and you can detect any ghosts near you. The feeling of looking at your phone and it telling you that someone is just behind or in front of you makes you look up and you of course see nothing just blows your mind.
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| every day he gets gifts many pennies sometimes whiskey |
When we take day trips like this we always make it our business to stop at the cemetery. Why? Well because we look for the times of years that they have been there. The one year when the children must have passed from a horrible epidemic. The who had the money and who didn't by if the head stone is marked. In this case we were able to see where the famous Jesse James was laid to rest.
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| once was a funeral home where at this window would be real dead bodies being displayed |
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| if you open this door it will lead you to a mystery |
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| this staircase was built without knowing it would have caused two deaths |
Yes so much useless information that we are feeding our brain but it's an adventure. The unknown that once was there and now is history. So whether it's hunting ghosts or learning a piece of history I get a kick out of this stuff. Go on a ghost tour some are better than others. This being our second one was way better than our first. Sometimes it's the fact that one doesn't leave the place that they haunt just because they want their memory to live on. Go say hello, they welcome you.
As far as the app on your phone you have to ask Heather. She tried to turn it on when we got home and I told her "you better not".
Before I forget we are going to go back in May. May 18 to be exact for their second annual paranormal expo. The cost will be five dollars for a full day of mind blowing experiences. Will end at the cemetery but not for the weak. Picture yourself with total strangers just as it's getting dark at the cemetery. Well if you want to join us we can get scared together.
