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Ghost Busting At The Menger

October 31, 2009

I felt the chill begin at me knees, and swiftly rush to my heart. I felt as if I had entered an industrial freezer, but it was only the hallway of the Menger Hotel. Gooseflesh rose on my arm as I gasped. Beside me I heard my friend Judy gasp at the [...]

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Is Ghost Radar Real, Or Am I A Half-Bubble Off Plumb?

October 29, 2009

I told y’all that I was going to have some fun with that Ghost Radar application on my iPhone, didn’t I? Yes, I surely did. Anybody who reads here regularly already knows that I’m about half-bubble off of plumb, so I’m gonna tell you this story about my Ghost Radar.
This week I have [...]

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Scaring Ourselves Silly in San Antonio

October 27, 2009

The Menger Hotel in downtown San Antonio is our destination this Friday night. I did tell you it is haunted, didn’t I? My friend Judy and I are getting excited! We have our room booked (we are going to share a room, because we are a couple of scaredy cats) AND we [...]

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Ghost Story Giveaway Winners

October 19, 2009

Winners! I was giving away ghost story CDs for Halloween. What? You didn’t see? I thought I was going to give away five of them, but then found some others hiding in a drawer. I decided to give them all away.
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Ghost Story CD Giveaway For Halloween

October 6, 2009

I have five ghost story CDs to give away in a random drawing, just in time for Halloween.
You do NOT have to be a blogger to win!
My friends Jamie and Damien keep telling me to make a CD of my stories to sell … and I have one (from 2003), I [...]

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Haunted by Ghost Radar

October 1, 2009

I’ve had my iPhone for a year, and resisted all temptation to download any “apps” that were not free. I know myself well, and I could get addicted to the little games that Apple offers for that phone of mine. But, I caved.
Yesterday, at the suggestion of my friend Thorne, I shelled out [...]

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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 [...]

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Haunted House in Black and White

August 30, 2009

It’s probably not haunted — maybe. It certainly looked like it could be. We found it driving around in Boyd, Texas (which is another of those small towns in Wise County). Of course, I screamed, “Stop! It’s a Photo-Op!”
I wanted to wander through that old house, but it might have fallen [...]

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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 [...]

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Ghost Hunt at The Driskill Hotel. Part 1.

August 11, 2009

They told me our room was a “haunted room.” Supposedly the Driskill Hotel has a lot of ghosts walking its hallways. We went to Austin, Texas to try to see one. Actually, we went to see the bat colony take flight from under the Congress Avenue Bridge, but staying at the Driskill [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 as that thing is, [...]

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