Ghosthunting Texas. April Slaughter

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Spotlight on Ghosts: The Bragg Light of the Ghost Road

       22 Dabbs Cemetery Frankston

       23 The Grove Jefferson

       Spotlight on Ghosts: Lady in Blue

       24 Ghost Train of Jefferson Jefferson

       25 Scottsville Cemetery Scottsville

       Spotlight on Ghosts: Stampede Mesa

       26 Spaghetti Warehouse Houston

       27 USS Texas La Porte

       Spotlight on Ghosts: Ghost Dogs of Orozimbo Plantation

       SOUTH TEXAS

       28 Grey Moss Inn Grey Forest / Helotes

       Spotlight on Ghosts: Ghost Tracks of San Antonio

       29 The Alamo San Antonio

       Spotlight on Ghosts: La Llorona

       30 USS Lexington Corpus Christi

       Visiting Haunted Sites

       Additional Haunted Sites

       Acknowledgments

       About the Author

      Welcome to America’s Haunted Road Trip

      DO YOU BELIEVE IN GHOSTS?

      If you are like 52 percent of Americans (according to a recent Harris Poll), you do believe that ghosts walk among us. Perhaps you have heard your name called in a dark and empty house. It could be that you have awoken to the sound of footsteps outside your bedroom door, only to find no one there. It is possible that you saw your grandmother sitting in her favorite rocker chair, the same grandmother who had passed away several years before. Maybe you took a photo of a crumbling, deserted farmhouse and discovered strange mists and orbs in the photo, anomalies that were not visible to your naked eye.

      If you have experienced similar paranormal events, then you know that ghosts exist. Even if you have not yet experienced these things, you are curious about the paranormal world, the spirit realm. If you weren’t, you would not now be reading this preface to the latest book in the America’s Haunted Road Trip series from Clerisy Press.

      Over the last several years, I have investigated haunted locations across the country, and with each new site, I found myself becoming more fascinated with ghosts. What are they? How do they manifest themselves? Why are they here? These are just a few of the questions I have been asking. No doubt, you have been asking the same questions.

      The books in the America’s Haunted Road Trip series can help you find the answers to your questions about ghosts. We’ve gathered together some of America’s top ghost writers (no pun intended) and researchers and asked them to write about their states’ favorite haunts. Each location that they write about is open to the public so that you can visit them for yourself and try out your ghosthunting skills. In addition to telling you about their often hair-raising adventures, the writers have included maps and travel directions so that you can take your own haunted road trip.

      There is an old song with the line, “The eyes of Texas are upon you,” but April Slaughter’s Ghosthunting Texas proves that at least some of those eyes belong to the dearly departed—ghosts. The book is a spine-tingling trip through Texas’ dusty small towns and cosmopolitan cities, from the panhandle to the Gulf of Mexico, and east and west across the largest of the Lower Forty-Eight states. Ride shotgun with April as she seeks out Indian and soldier ghosts at Fort Phantom Hill in Abilene. Travel with her to the Von Minden Hotel where the ghost of a World War II suicide can still be heard dragging furniture around, or to El Paso’s Plaza Theatre where several ghosts just won’t give up their seats. And who belongs to the disembodied female voice that whispers, “Please help! Someone is burning!” in the Caldwell County Jail Museum? Hang on tight; Ghosthunting Texas is a scary ride.

      But once you’ve finished reading this book, don’t unbuckle your seatbelt. There are still forty-nine states left for your haunted road trip! See you on the road!

      John Kachuba

      Editor, America’s Haunted Road Trip

      Introduction

      “THE BOUNDARIES WHICH DIVIDE life and death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where one ends and the other begins?”

      —Edgar Allan Poe

      To some, the idea that ghosts exist is nothing more than a product of an overactive imagination. To others it seems to be an amusing possibility, a deeply fulfilling spiritual experience, or a terrifying everyday reality. Whether you are a devout believer in the paranormal, a skeptic who finds there is a more logical explanation for everything, or simply someone curious about the ‘other side,’ one thing remains constant—the unexplained has always been among us and continues to evoke fear and fascination in all areas of the world.

      When I was eight years old, my family moved into a home where odd things happened almost daily. Initially my experiences frightened me, but as the years passed and I began to seek out an explanation, I learned that fear only made things more difficult. I wanted to know, to understand, to survive those things that scared me the most … and I did. It was the beginning of a journey for me that forever changed my outlook on life, as well as the afterlife.

      I know that ghosts and spirits exist. I have seen them and heard their voices. I have been touched by unseen forces and witnessed apparitions materialize and dissipate right before my eyes. Being an avid paranormal researcher and investigator, these things have become commonplace in my life and have taught me that just when I think I have it all figured out, I am faced with the realization that I still have a lot to learn. No one has all of the answers, but it certainly is an interesting pursuit looking for them and sharing our collective experiences with others in hopes that we may come across that one experience that turns us into true believers.

      I am often asked what it is I hope to accomplish in doing the work I do. Am I looking to convince others that the spirits of the deceased walk among us? The simple answer

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