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True Ghost Story Round-up

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Want to read True Ghost Stories?

Even though I research and explore haunted places all year round, when Halloween nears, this site gets even more searches than usual from readers looking for true ghost stories. In fact, I love paranormal stories so much I even wrote a travel guide to haunted hot spots here in north Texas. (It’s called Paranormal Texas – check it out!)

I also share a lot of true ghost stories right here on my website. To save you the hassle of finding them yourself, I’ve made a handy dandy list for you. So scroll on down and dive into some creepy true tales of spooky ghosts and paranormal experiences!

 

Veiled statue. (photo by Tui Snider)
Veiled statue. (photo by Tui Snider)

Check out these true ghost stories:

I hope you enjoy these true spooky tales of paranormal hot spots and ghostly encounters:

Did I Hear Ghosts at Elmwood Cemetery? by Tui Snider

Ghost Hunting in Mineral Wells, Texas

Glowing Tombstone in Springtown, Texas 

Listen to True Ghost Stories on TGWW Radio with Teal Gray & Tui Snider

Tui Snider’s True Ghost Stories Roundup from 2011

Tui Snider’s True Ghost Stories Roundup from 2012

Tui Snider’s Haunted Travel Blog Carnival 

 

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Historic Haunted Hotels of Texas

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Join me for an A to Z Road Trip!

I’m taking you on a road trip with me by sharing travel photos for this year’s A to Z Blog Challenge. So come along as we explore some of my favorite offbeat, overlooked and just plain interesting places in Texas… and beyond!

 

Today is letter H:
Haunted Historic Hotels

Staying at hotels and motels is an exciting part of any road trip. And some of the most interesting hotels I’ve stayed at have boasted guests who never checked out! Here are a few of my favorite historic haunted hotels in Texas:

Miss Molly's hotel in Fort Worth, Texas (photo by Tui Snider)
Miss Molly’s hotel in Fort Worth, Texas (photo by Tui Snider)

Miss Molly’s Hotel in Fort Worth

Unexplained phenomenon is so rampant at Miss Molly’s that this hotel (and former bordello) in the historic Fort Worth Stockyards district has become a mecca for ghost hunters. The venue is even included in the curriculum for parapsychology classes at Texas Christian University.
For more about my experiences at Miss Mollys, check out: 
My Coast to Coast AM Interview from Miss Molly’s in Fort Worth, Texas
Beckham Hotel in Mineola, TX (photo by Tui Snider)
Beckham Hotel in Mineola, TX (photo by Tui Snider)

Beckham Hotel in Mineola

With so many people passing through the doors of the Beckham Hotel over the years, it should come as no surprise that it is rumored to be haunted. The three most talked about entities include a woman named Elizabeth who allegedly died after falling down the staircase of the Beckham Hotel. (Some even claim that she appears on Mondays at 3:00 a.m.)
For more about the Beckham Hotel, read:
Beckham Hotel in Mineola, Texas
Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells, Texas (photo by Tui Snider)
Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells, Texas (photo by Tui Snider)

Baker Hotel & Crazy Water Hotel in Mineral Wells

Of all the places I investigated for my book, PARANORMAL TEXAS, Mineral Wells gave me the most bang for my buck!
If you’re interested in reading about some of my paranormal adventures in Mineral Wells, check out:
Ghost Hunting in Mineral Wells, Texas

*****I hope you enjoyed today’s post. Come back tomorrow for the next letter in the alphabet!*****

 

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If you are on Instagram, I’d be delighted to follow you! Simply follow my photo feed (@TuiSnider) on Instagram and I’ll follow you back!

What is the April A to Z Blog Challenge?

 

Each April, bloggers from all over the world participate in the April A to Z blog challenge, and you can too. It’s a lot of fun and it’s a great way to meet other bloggers.

To play along, all you do is make a blog post for each letter of the alphabet during April, then use the blog hop linky to visit as many other bloggers as you can. In addition to my personal blog here, I’m also writing A to Z posts for the the Story Dam writing community. You can check those out by clicking here: Story Dam’s Writing Quotes & Encouragement

Check out more April A to Z Blog Challenge Participants by clicking the link below:

Find out more about the April A to Z blog challenge, and check out the other participants!

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Curious about my books? I’ve got 3, so far…


To read about more weird, offbeat, and overlooked places, check out my best-selling travel guide: 
UNEXPECTED TEXAS: Your Guide to Offbeat & Overlooked History, Day Trips & Fun Things to do near Dallas & Fort Worth
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For ghost hunting hot spots, check out my best-selling travel guide to haunted places: 
PARANORMAL TEXAS: Your Travel Guide to Haunted Places near Dallas & Fort Worth
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For a strange-but-true tale of Texas history, check out this bizarre piece of West Texas history: 
The Lynching of the Santa Claus Bank Robber

 


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History, Haunts & Legends Paranormal Conference in Jefferson, Texas

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What is Jefferson’s History, Haunts and Legends?

History, Haunts, and Legends (HHL) is a one-day paranormal conference held in Jefferson, Texas twice a year: once in the spring and once in the fall. Jodi Breckenridge, who leads the Jefferson Ghost Walk, created this event in 2006, and it has steadily gained momentum ever since!

Historic Cemetery Symbols Talk

I’m so excited to be giving my Historic Cemetery Symbols presentation at History, Haunts, and Legends on November 7, 2015. I absolutely love the town of Jefferson and have been dying to attend HHL, but it’s just never worked out for me in the past. For once, I’m not out of town or booked elsewhere, so I can finally attend!

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HHL Daytime Events

History, Haunts, and Legends offers Daytime Events and Nighttime Events. Daytime events include a full roster of speakers, numerous vendors, and a psychic gallery. HHL’s Daytime Events are hosted at the Jefferson Visitors Center (305 E Austin St, Jefferson, TX 75657.)

Speakers and Vendor schedule: The doors open on Saturday, November 7, 2015 at 8:00 a.m. This gives attendees time to drink coffee and don name tags. Guest speakers start presenting at 9:15 and will run all day. (Read on for a full list of speakers and more info about the vendors.)

Psychic Gallery with Dakota Lawrence: At 4:00 p.m., medium, Dakota Lawrence, offers a psychic gallery. Tickets for this event are an additional $35. Seating is limited, but there are still a few seats available as of this writing.

Dinner Break: Around 5:30 or 6, there’s time for a dinner break. People can relax, grab a bite to eat, and get prepared for some ghost hunting, if so inclined!

HHL Nighttime Events

Evening Paranormal Investigations: For its Nighttime Events, History, Haunts, and Legends offers paranormal investigations at 6 haunted hot spots in historic Jefferson, Texas. These spots were all chosen because they are haunted hot spots.

A different paranormal investigation team will be set up at each haunted location. This way, conference attendees can see how different groups conduct their investigations, while also experiencing different haunted locations. To keep these locations from being overly crowded, HHL’s Nighttime Events attendees will be divided into 6 groups.

Each group will spend 45 minutes at each location. It’s like a bar hop, except instead of boozing it up, you are moving from one haunted hot spot to another throughout the evening!

HHL: Paranormal Investigations

Here’s the list of Haunted Locations in Jefferson, Texas that History, Haunts and Legends attendees with tickets to HHL’s Nighttime Events will be investigating:

Hale House
Segal-Wharton
Claiborne House
Three Sisters Cottages
Old Kahn Saloon
Old Mill

HHL: Who is speaking?

The History, Haunts and Legends paranormal conference is going to be jam-packed with interesting speakers, including my talented friend and TGWW Radio co-host, Teal Gray, who will be giving a presentation on Interspecies Communication.

As I mentioned earlier, I’m also giving my Historic Cemetery Symbols talk at HHL in Jefferson, Texas this weekend. (Jefferson has some gorgeous historic cemeteries, too, so I plan on doing some research while I am there!)

Other History, Haunts and Legends paranormal conference speakers include:
Larry Flaxman – Author
Brad Klinge – Paranormal Investigator, Producer
Chris Melancon – Paranormal Society of New Orleans
Jeromy Jones – Paranologies (ghost hunting equipment)
Cathy Nance – Photographer, Woodlands Paranormal
Maria Santos  – Psychic Medium
Dr. Rita Louise – Author, Medical Intuitive
Mitchel Whitington – Author
Terri Jones – Author
Martha Decker – Author

Dakota Lawrence – Please note: Dakota is not a speaker, per se. He will, however, be giving a Psychic Gallery at 4:00 p.m. for an additional $35.

HHL: Who are the vendors?

Jodi Breckenridge has rounded up a wide variety of vendors, for History, Haunts, and Legends. I am really looking forward to seeing what these folks have to offer!

Here’s just a partial list of vendors who will be attending the History, Haunts and Legends paranormal conference in Jefferson:

Linda Anthony Hill – Author
John Cappello – Psychic/Medium, Aura Photography
Ka Horne – Psychic Artist
Olyve Abbott – Author
Kimberly Ridgeway – Spiritual Healer
Diana Leggett – Blue Road Institute

Tickets, Admission, More Information:

$35 Daytime Events Ticket: This tickets lets you enjoy all the speakers and vendors during the day.
$50 Nighttime Event Ticket: This ticket pays for your paranormal investigations at 6 different haunted locations in Jefferson, Texas.
$75 VIP Ticket: This ticket covers both the Daytime *and* the Nighttime events, and is a fabulous deal!. (Plus, if you attend the Jefferson Ghost Walk, this dual ticket is a mere $65.)
$35 Psychic Gallery Ticket: This ticket is exclusively for Dakota Lawrence’s psychic gallery.
Jefferson Ghost Walk: Speaking of the ghost walk, visit the Jefferson Ghost Walk website for more information on how to attend. (I highly recommend this tour! Even my skeptical, science teacher husband enjoyed Jodi Breckenridge’s tour. You learn a lot about the town of Jefferson’s history in a very entertaining manner!)
For History, Haunts and Legends Tickets and more information call: 
903-601-3375 or 903-665-6289

Read more about Jefferson, Texas

Jefferson, Texas is a picturesque town chock full of fascinating history and haunted lore. To read more about fun things to see and do in Jefferson, check out these articles from around the web:

Here’s a photo essay I wrote called: Jefferson, Texas: Simple Pleasures, Ghosts, & Bigfoot in the Little Easy.

The river plays such a big part in Jefferson’s history, that it’s well worth taking a ride on the Turning Basin Riverboat Tour.

Great article about Jefferson, Texas by Chet Garner, aka “The Daytripper”: Haunting Hospitality in Jefferson.

Find out why the Houston Chronicle calls Jefferson: The Most Haunted Town in Texas

A blogger named Pat Austin shares her tips for: Taking a Fun Trip to Jefferson

Want to read more like this?


To read about more weird, offbeat, and overlooked places, check out my best-selling travel guide: 
UNEXPECTED TEXAS: Your Guide to Offbeat & Overlooked History, Day Trips & Fun Things to do near Dallas & Fort Worth
.

For ghost hunting hot spots, check out my best-selling travel guide to haunted places: 
PARANORMAL TEXAS: Your Travel Guide to Haunted Places near Dallas & Fort Worth
.

For a strange-but-true tale of Texas history, check out this bizarre piece of West Texas history: 
The Lynching of the Santa Claus Bank Robber

 


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FREE WEEKLY NEWSLETTER: For updates on my offbeat travels, books, & other fun stuff (such as postcards from the road!) subscribe to my newsletter using the form below. Each week, I’ll let you know the Historic Cemetery Symbol of the Week, who Teal Gray & I are interviewing on our show that night, and any other fun or interesting news. You can also mix & mingle with me by clicking this link & “liking” my Facebook Author Page:

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Love True Ghost Stories? Check this out!

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True Ghost Stories, with Prizes for Treats!

Later this month, Teal Gray and I are hosting a special streaming radio show in honor of Halloween. Instead of just having one or two guests on the Teal Gray Worldwide Radio show as we usually do, we are inviting people to call in and share their best real life ghost story.

Listeners can then vote for their favorite true ghost stories. The top 3 paranormal tales will be announced on our show the following week.

And, yes, there will be PRIZES!

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2 Ways to Win Ghost Hunting Goodies!

First way to win: Help us spread the word!

You can win prizes simply by helping us spread the word about this contest. Just use the Rafflecopter gizmo below. It’s easy to use! Just scroll down and get started. Plus, you can enter daily.

We want to get the best true ghost stories possible for our contest, but we need to get the word out. Your help is greatly appreciated!

You can enter daily, & the more times you enter, the better your chances! Three winners will be chosen at random (so the more times you enter, the better your chances! You can enter daily.)

Please note: Due to the high cost of shipping overseas, physical prizes will only be sent to those with an address in the USA. We can, however, send you ebooks as a prize, no matter where you reside. 

Second way to win: Tell Us Your Best True Ghost Story

How to enter: Best True Ghost Story Contest On-Air
Teal Gray and I will choose up to 12 listeners to share their ghost stories on our show. So, if you have a good spooky story to share – that happened to you – please email me at TuiSnider at gmail.com. I will get back to you as soon as possible to let you know if your story sounds suitable.

Here’s what we are looking for:
1. Keep it brief: You must be able to tell your story in 5 minutes or less.

2.  If needed, we can read the story on your behalf: If you want, we can read your true ghost story on your behalf. We promise to do our best for you, since this is a contest! Since we have listeners all over the globe, if you live in a time zone that makes it hard to listen live, or if you simply feel too shy to be on-air, or whatever… we still want you to have the opportunity to enter the contest. (We already have one story that we will be reading for a person.)

Please note: Due to the high cost of shipping overseas, physical prizes will only be sent to those with an address in the USA. We can, however, send you ebooks as a prize, no matter where you reside. 

Prizes for Spreading the Word:

 

Three winners will be chosen at random from those who help us spread the word about the True Ghost Story contest on Teal Gray Worldwide Radio. We really appreciate your help! Here are the prizes Teal and I are giving out:


First, Second & Third place winners will all receive the spiffy SainSonic SS5650 Non-Contact Instant-Read Laser IR Themometer Gun Wide Temperature Range(-50~650°C) Yellow-Grey (pictured above) which you can take with you on paranormal investigations and use to detect sudden changes in temperature!

In addition, the First Place Winner will also receive signed copies of all 3 of my books, (Unexpected Texas, Paranormal Texas, &  The Lynching of the Santa Claus Bank Robber) as well as a road trip postcard from me!

Please note: Due to the high cost of shipping overseas, physical prizes will only be sent to those with an address in the USA. We can, however, send you ebooks as a prize, no matter where you reside. 

Prizes for True Ghost Stories:

GRAND PRIZE – true ghost story


GRAND PRIZE WINNER: Wins signed copies of all 3 of my books, (Unexpected Texas, Paranormal Texas, &  The Lynching of the Santa Claus Bank Robber), The Ghost Meter EMF Sensor (pictured above), as well as a road trip postcard from me!

SECOND PLACE – true ghost story


2nd Place WINNER: Wins signed copies of all 3 of my books, (Unexpected Texas, Paranormal Texas, &  The Lynching of the Santa Claus Bank Robber), a handy-dandy Natural Quartz Crystal Pendulums 12 Facet Reiki Charged (pictured above), as well as a road trip postcard from me!

THIRD PLACE – true ghost story

3rd Place WINNER: Wins signed copies of all 3 of my books, (Unexpected Texas, Paranormal Texas, &  The Lynching of the Santa Claus Bank Robber), and a road trip postcard from me!

Please note: Due to the high cost of shipping overseas, physical prizes will only be sent to those with an address in the USA. We can, however, send you ebooks as a prize, no matter where you reside. 

Follow the Steps Below to Enter the Contest Right Now & Help Us Spread the Word!

All you have to do is either login via Facebook or by using your email address (which will be kept private!), then follow the steps in the Rafflecopter gizmo below to be entered into the contest to win ghost hunting equipment and signed copies of my books.

You can enter each day, so y’all come back now, ya hear?

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Want to read more like this?

 

To read about more weird, offbeat, and overlooked places, check out my best-selling travel guide:  UNEXPECTED TEXAS: Your Guide to Offbeat & Overlooked History, Day Trips & Fun Things to do near Dallas & Fort Worth.

 

For ghost hunting hot spots, check out my best-selling travel guide to haunted places:  PARANORMAL TEXAS: Your Travel Guide to Haunted Places near Dallas & Fort Worth.

 

For a strange-but-true tale of Texas history, check out this bizarre piece of West Texas history:  The Lynching of the Santa Claus Bank Robber

 

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FREE WEEKLY NEWSLETTER: For updates on my offbeat travels, books, & other fun stuff (such as postcards from the road!) subscribe to my newsletter using the form below. Each week, I’ll let you know the Historic Cemetery Symbol of the Week, who Teal Gray & I are interviewing on our show that night, and any other fun or interesting news.  You can also mix & mingle with me by clicking this link & “liking” my Facebook Author Page:

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Paranormal Expo: Hill House Manor in Gainesville, Texas

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Unique Paranormal Event in Gainesville, Texas

I’m honored and excited to be giving a talk on Historic Cemetery Symbols during a unique paracon at the end of this month. Simply called “Hill House Manor,” this event combines the fun of a paranormal expo with the thrill of ghost hunting at historic haunted sites.

Fun Filled Weekend

If you’ve ever been to a paranormal expo before, you know the drill. You spend the day listening to fascinating speakers share paranormal expertise. You cruise through vendor booths, mixing and mingling with like-minded souls, while loading up on interesting books, crystals, jewelry, and ghost hunting equipment. You might even get a psychic reading while you’re there, too.

But then night comes, and after hearing about paranormal activity all day long, you’re absolutely dying to take part in a real life ghost hunt of your own. But where to go? What to do?

<shameless plug>If you’re in north Texas, of course, you can always buy a copy of Paranormal Texas, my best selling travel guide to haunted sites. It’s full of paranormal hot spots you can explore!</shameless plug!>

Paracon Fun with Ghost Hunting Thrills

But what if someone hosted a paranormal open house where the fun didn’t end at 5pm? What if you could attend a paracon in an actual haunted location? A paranormal weekend that included investigations each night?

Well, folks, that’s exactly what you get this August 28th and 29th over in Gainesville, Texas! The vendors and speakers will be set up in the historic (and haunted!) Santa Fe Depot (605 E California St, Gainesville, TX 76240) from 1:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. on both Saturday, August 28th and Sunday, August 29th, 2015.

Read on for more details!

Date, times, price, location, yada, yada…

Price: $60 COVERS EVERYTHING! You get to hear the speakers, see the vendors, and attend paranormal investigations on both nights.
How to  buy  tickets: For tickets and more information, visit: ASAP Entertainment LLC’s website 
Where: Santa Fe Depot, 605 E California St, Gainesville, TX 76240
When:
Speakers & Vendors at the Santa Fe Depot: August 28 & 29 from 1:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. each day.
Nightly paranormal investigations: General admission includes paranormal investigations of haunted locations, including the Hill House Manor and the Gainesville’s Hanging Tree, from 8:00 p.m. – midnight each evening.

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Who is speaking at Hill House Manor’s Paranormal Weekend?

Jereme Leonard – Cajun demonologist

Jereme Leonard has been in the paranormal field since 2008. He was part of a regional TV show that investigated landmark structures in Louisiana Mississippi. In, 2009 Jereme was part of a high-profile demonic possession case, which changed his course from paranormal investigator to demonologist. Jereme Leonard has appeared in books and TV shows such as “Out of the darkness” by Joy Stinson, “When ghost attacks” -Destination America, “Swamp Monsters” -Destination America and “American supernatural: The Curse of Julia brown” on The Weather Channel.

Scott Gruenwald – Paranormal Investigator

Scott is a self-described “Para Whore” who you may recognize from such TV shows as “Paranormal Paparazzi” and “Ghost Adventures.” Here’s how he describes himself: “Comic books, tree forts, video games, hide and seek, action figures … catching frogs? These may be things you would use to describe the average fifth grader, or myself. You see, I’m a player. Hold on a minute. When I say player, I mean I live to play – from the moment my Batman alarm clock wakes me up to when I rest my head at night in a fort made of couch cushions. I love life and playing keeps me young.”

Dash Beardsley – Haunted Tour Guide

Dash Beardsley, Galveston’s premier paranormal expert, also known as “The Ghostman of Galveston” is the creator of The Ghost Tours of Galveston, which began in 1998 and has been rated the #1 Ghost Tour in America. Last year, he started an exciting annual event in Galveston, Texas called “Dash Beardsley’s Wake the Dead Horrorcon.”

Selena Roane – Empath & Radio Host

Selena Roane is the founder of FEAR Paranormal Society, a paranormal investigation team. She is also the host of Close to Death, an internet show about virtually anything paranormal. Selena is an empath and is currently working on developing and enhancing that ability. Selena attends and speaks at various conferences and has led numerous investigations. She was included as an investigator on the “Shadows of 66” documentary with Chip Coffey, Brad and Barry Klinge in 2013. The paranormal is Selena’s passion. She is continuously researching and learning in an effort to deepen her knowledge and enthusiasm for the field.

Tui Snider – Bestselling Author, Photographer, Radio Host

Tui Snider is a globetrotting author, photographer, public speaker, radio host, musician, and travel blogger. She loves exploring mysterious places, strange-but-true history, cemetery symbolism, and haunted lore. So far, Tui has published 3 bestselling books inspired by the quirky and mysterious state of Texas. Meanwhile, Tui’s photos of offbeat and overlooked places have appeared in FOX Travel News, Coast to Coast AM, easyJet, and other publications. Tui Snider’s presentation for the Haunted Hill Manor event is a photo-laden exploration of Historic Cemetery Symbols.

Mark Elliot Fults – Trance Medium, Artist, Author

A native of Chattanooga, Mark E. Fults is a locally known self-taught psychic, artist, trance medium, songwriter and now storyteller. In his book, Chattanooga Chills, Fults shares a lifelong collection of well-known and obscure ghost stories set in the rich historical landscape of Chattanooga, Tennessee. From Native American burial grounds to the Civil War battlefields, from elegant hotels like the Read House to a lynching on the Walnut Street Bridge, Chattanooga has ghosts, some of whom Fults has met personally.

Teal Gray – Psychic Medium, Radio Host, Author

Teal Gray is an intuitive, empath, tea-leaf, coffee ground, and tarot reader with over 25 years of experience. As a writer, sacred and haunted site traveler, radio host and founder of Teal Gray Worldwide, Teal has amassed many paranormal and unexplained experiences gaining a greater understanding of the unknown. Sharing that knowledge with is her passion. Teal Gray will be offering a *FREE* Psychic Gallery at the Hill House Manor event. Do not miss it!

Hill House Manor: Event Schedule

FRIDAY – August 28, 2015
Registration starts at: 1p.m.
1:30 TO 2:15 – Selena Roane
2:30 to 3:15 – Scott Gruenwald
3:30 to 4:15 – Dash Beardsley
4:30 to 5:15 – Tui Snider
5:30 to 6:30 open Panel Discussions
7:00 Conference ends for the day
Dinner break
8:00 Meet at Hill House to begin investigations of the Hill House Manor and the site of the Great Hangings of 1862.*
VIP lock in: Midnight until sunrise.

SATURDAY – August 29, 2015
Registration starts at 1p.m.
1:30 to 2:15 – Jereme Leonard
2:30 to 3:15 – Mark Fults
3:30 to 4:15 – Scott Gruenwald
4:30 to 5:15 – Dash Beardsley
5:30 to 6:30 – Teal Gray Gallery Reading
7:00 Conference ends for the day
Dinner break
8:00 Meet at Hill House to begin investigations of the Hill House Manor and the site of the Great Hangings of 1862.*
VIP lock in: Midnight until sunrise.

*During the Investigations one group will be Investigating the Hill House Manor and the other group Investigating the of the Great Hangings of 1862.

Want to read more?

To read about more weird, offbeat, and overlooked places, check out my best selling travel guide: Unexpected Texas.
For ghost hunting hot spots, check out my best selling travel guide to haunted places: Paranormal Texas.
For a strange-but-true tale of Texas history, check out: The Lynching of the Santa Claus Bank Robber. Happy travels!

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Mineral Wells: Did I Hear Ghosts in Elmwood Cemetery?

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I heard children giggling when I took this photo! (photo by Tui Snider)
I heard children giggling when I took this photo! (photo by Tui Snider)

Two Paranormal Investigations in Mineral Wells, Texas

As I mentioned in yesterday’s post about Haunted Hill House, my husband and I spent last weekend with with our dear friend and talented psychic, Teal Gray, over in Mineral Wells, Texas for a writing research trip. Part of that research included participating in two different paranormal investigations.

The first investigation took place at Phil Kurchoff’s Haunted Hill House. You can read all about by following the link I shared above. The second investigation was at the Crazy Water Hotel. This historic venue is not open to the public and difficult to gain entrance to, so I leapt at the invitation extended to me by Greg Stephens, a founding member of Texas Research & Investigation of the Paranormal (a.k.a. TxRIP) to participate in a paranormal investigation at the historic Crazy Water with his team. I will share more about that experience in the future. I’m waiting until Texas RIP has a chance to review all the evidence they gathered, which can be a time-consuming process!

Until then, suffice it to say that I saw an anomalous ball of light whizzing around with my naked eyes at one point. Meanwhile, the team’s cameras caught a vortex spiraling over my head immediately after I stood up to investigate a strange noise we all heard. Weird stuff, indeed!

Since Haunted Hill House and the Crazy Water Hotel are both notorious paranormal hot spots, I expected the unexpected during my visits. I did not, however, expect a paranormal encounter while visiting Elmwood Cemetery in Mineral Wells…

Why do people expect graveyards to be haunted?

Even though I constantly read and hear about haunted graveyards, a part of me resists the idea. Of all places, why on earth (literally!) would a spirit hang out at a cemetery unless they had spent a lot of time there in their life, as a groundskeeper, or something like that?

Haunted theaters, hotels, ballrooms, and houses, on the other hand, make sense to me. Of course, I realize there is no cosmic rule saying that paranormal activity must make sense to little ole me before it can happen. I just wanted to clarify that although I visit historic cemeteries on a regular basis, I rarely go there expecting to see, or in this case hear, ghosts. I usually visit historic graveyards for research purposes, to clarify the spelling of a person’s name, for instance, or to photograph interesting cemetery symbols.

Historic Elmwood Cemetery in Mineral Wells, Texas (photo by Tui Snider)
Historic Elmwood Cemetery in Mineral Wells, Texas (photo by Tui Snider)

My Paranormal Experience

On this particular day, Teal Gray, Larry, and I were traipsing through Elmwood Cemetery in Mineral Wells, Texas on a mission to fulfill photo requests for members of Findagrave.com. (If you’ve never checked out Findagrave, you’re missing out!) Here’s the deal: sometimes after folks figure out where their ancestors are buried, they live too far away to visit the graveyard in person. They will then put in a photo request on Findagrave, hoping that someone nearby will fulfill it. I’ve used Findagrave so much for historic research that I figure it’s about time I started giving back by fulfilling some of these photo requests. (And, hey, if you are on Findagrave, be sure to friend me! I only recently made my public Findagrave profile there.)

As the three of us fanned out and started looking at headstones, Teal pointed to one and told me to check out its epitaph. The headstone is quite faded and hard to read, but from what I could tell, it describes a man named Richard Dyckerhoff, who was born in Germany and died in Mineral Wells, Texas. Mr. Dyckerhoff’s epitaph reads, “The orphans true friend.” Isn’t that intriguing? I’m curious to learn how he earned such an impressive title.

But here’s the fun part: as I knelt in the grass and steadied my camera to photograph Mr. Dyckerhoff’s headstone, I heard children giggling. The laughter seemed to be coming from about 10 feet away and slightly to my right. It was quite loud!

I immediately stood up and looked over, fully expecting to see little kids. As I rose, a mental picture flashed through my head, too. It was brief, but quite detailed: I “saw” 3 little kids ranging in age from 5 to 7 standing behind a nearby tree with their hands up to their mouths to stifle giggles.

The sound was so convincing that I actually walked forward and peered around the tree, then looked all over the place to see if there were any children in the graveyard.

There were not.

Even so, the sound was so “real” that it took me a minute to accept that there were no living children in the graveyard with us. It was so weird! The experience didn’t make me feel creeped out or scared – just baffled.

I finally returned to take another photo of the headstone and as I did so, I once again heard a brief giggle, but not as lengthy this time. In retrospect, I should have taken a few photos of the area where I heard the sound coming from. Maybe I would have caught something anomalous on film!

We remained in Elmwood Cemetery for another half an hour and in that time, I didn’t hear any more giggling or see any other people there besides my husband and Teal Gray.

Beautiful trees at Elmwood Cemetery in Mineral Wells, Texas (photo by Tui Snider)
Beautiful trees at Elmwood Cemetery in Mineral Wells, Texas (photo by Tui Snider)

Have you ever seen or heard a ghost?

The experience reminds me that while people often ask, “Have you ever seen a ghost?” I have heard strange things way more often than I have seen them. I suppose that this could mean that of The Four Clairs, I tend more towards clairaudience than clairvoyance.

What about you? Have you ever seen or heard a ghost? Which of the Four Clairs is dominant for you?

Want to read more?

To read about more weird, offbeat, and overlooked places, check out my best selling travel guide: Unexpected Texas.
For ghost hunting hot spots, check out my best selling travel guide to haunted places: Paranormal Texas.
For a strange-but-true tale of Texas history, check out: The Lynching of the Santa Claus Bank Robber. Happy travels!

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Tui Snider having fun on a Texas road trip!
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Filed Under: Blog on Writing & Life, Cemeteries & Symbolism, Haunted Travel, Historic Cemeteries, Travel Photo Essays Tagged With: author Tui Snider, graveyards, haunted history, historic cemeteries, Mineral Wells, Paranormal, Texas

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