A Ghost Story For The Haunted House

September 1, 2009

A couple of days ago, I showed y’all some pictures of a dilapidated old house in Boyd, Texas. I thought it looked likely to be a “haunted” house, but told you that I’d have to figure out a ghost story that would work for it. I asked, “Got any ideas for a ghostly tale to [...]

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Ghost Hunt at The Driskill Hotel. Part 2.

August 12, 2009

We continued traipsing through the halls of the Driskill in our search for some kind of ghostly presence. In the bar, the leering steer hanging on the wall was a bit frightening. I’m not fond of hanging dead critters on the wall, but then I guess the management had to prove that this is Texas [...]

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The Haunted Driskill Hotel in Black and White

August 10, 2009

On our recent trip to Austin to view the bat flight at Congress Avenue bridge, we stayed at a landmark hotel. The Driskill Hotel is located on Brazos Street in the heart of downtown Austin. It was built in 1886 by a fellow named Jesse Driskill, who was not only a cattle baron, but had [...]

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Resistance. Part Three of The Ghostly Adventures At The Woodbine.

February 10, 2009

She resides over the piano at The Woodbine Hotel in Madisonville, TX. This picture of the mannequin was one of many photographs I took at the hotel last week. I wandered through the hotel, after dark, with my camera on the tripod while I took random pictures in the hopes of capturing an image of [...]

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Another Verse To The Ghost Story At The Woodbine

February 9, 2009

As I told the students at school in Madisonville about the ghostly footsteps I had heard in the hotel in their town, their mouths dropped open and their eyes grew as big around as breakfast sausages. All of them wanted to know more, and I promised I would go on a ghost hunt and send [...]

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Just My Imagination?

February 5, 2009

… the walls breathe … I heard them. I awoke at 2:30 in the morning at the historic Woodbine Hotel. I should have been able to sleep. The bed is quite comfortable, the temperature in the room was fine, I’d had a soak in the jacuzzi tub in my room before bed and I was [...]

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Bulldog “Ghost Tours” Bite!

July 22, 2008

Come explore The Holy City’s streets, cemeteries, back alleyways, churches, and join our experienced and fully-licensed tour guides on a 1 1/2 hour walking tour through the dark edges of Charleston’s Haunted Historic District. You’ll hear fun and chilling stories of Charleston ghosts, haunted houses, voodoo, and Lowcountry superstitions. This is the only Charleston SC [...]

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A Ghost Tale from Texas

October 31, 2007

It’s Halloween tonight, and the children will be running through the streets on a mission to fill bags with candy. But, some believe that spirits walk tonight. It’s a good time to sit in front of a fire and tell spooky ghost stories. Because sophiagurl wants it (and what she wants, she gets!), I’ve posted [...]

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Thursday Thirteen #9—A Ghost Hunt

May 9, 2007

Though I had stayed at Ye Kendall Inn in Boerne last November, I didn’t have the forethought to have my camera with me at the time. I was disappointed not to have been able to capture the beauty of the place. I also didn’t know the history of the hotel; so I didn’t realize that [...]

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Serena of the River. A Texas Tale.

April 17, 2007

Imagine a bundle of energy packed in a 5’8″ frame, with a shock of almost orange hair, a face covered in freckles, and a laugh that starts as the sound of a chicken cackling over a newly laid egg and ends as a donkey’s bray. If you’ve got that in your mind, it’s the storyteller [...]

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At The Catfish Plantation, You Get More Than You Pay For

April 4, 2007

I had a hankerin’ for fried fish. I like to eat fried crappie (that’s pronounced like “croppy”) but you have to catch crappie for yourself, and I don’t fish. I did until Daddy made me bait my own hook and take my own fish off the line. Those squishy worms were nasty, but I didn’t [...]

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“Mirror, Mirror On The Wall”

January 26, 2007

Out flew the web and floated wide- The mirror crack’d from side to side; “The curse is come upon me,” cried The Lady of Shalott. “The Lady of Shalott” Alfred, Lord Tennyson Whew! I tripped on the enormous oval mirror that stands in our bedroom. Fortunately, I caught it just before it crashed. As big [...]

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Haunted Eureka

January 5, 2007

Yesterday I wrote that my husband and I chose to stay at The Crescent Hotel when we went to Eureka Springs, Arkansas for a visit. I said that we wanted local flavor and didn’t want the intimacy of a bed and breakfast. I lied. We stayed at The Crescent, because it’s haunted. I confess that [...]

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