Hope

There is not much as anything left of Hope Oklahoma.  We have found the old cemetery and the church; which looks to still be in service.  We also find steps and a sidewalk that could have one side led to a house but no foundations.  Foundation to a possible well house is close by.

My research turned up only that the town possibly lived back in the 1880’s.  In trying to reach this place I suggest you use a pick-up truck for it is all back, dirt roads.  It can be a difficult place to find.

Eagle City

Originally named Dillon, the post office opened July 1902.  The name was changed to Eagle City September 4, 1909.

 

My research didn’t turn up much.  Wildfires have spread through the countryside destroying a lot of the old buildings.  As for why this town did not survive I can not answer.  Railroad tracks pass through the town, and there is an old grain elevator next to them.  One building that remains in the old filling station.  Another one reminded me of a small school. 

A few homes, a dog, and church still remain active.

I'm back

Well it's been a long time since I've been around and now it's time to get back into the paranormal world.  I've missed it.  We took a trip to Texas this past weekend and we stopped at a few cemeteries.  I realised that this is something I enjoy doing.  It's fun.  And I don't need to be part of some paranormal group or team to be a part of the paranormal world.

I'm going to set up a new web site dedicated to ghost towns and cemeteries.  When it is up and running I will post it here.

The Bell Witch

It was 1817 when the Bell witch first appeared to John Bell. Bell was near the cornfield one evening. He spotted a dog-like creature in the cornfield, and not wanting his crops crushed he brought up his gun and shot at the creature. The creature disappeared at once into thin air. That night it started: sounds of knocking and scratching at the front door as if someone or something was trying to get into their home. When someone would look outside nothing would be there.
This is how the haunting started. After the creature disappeared in the corn field, the Bell family became tormented by this strange entity for years.

The entity didn’t take long and found its way into the home. Once inside it began to harass the family and all that crossed the threshold. It most favorite person to torment was John. However, the children were also regularly attacked.

The Bell Witch’s haunting included disembodied voices, ghostly creatures, and incredible
violence. This included not only the family, but also visitors to the farm. Blankets were pulled off the beds while the children slept. There was violence toward to the family in acts of kicking and scratching, and hair pulling.

John wanted to keep the entities attacks on his family a secret. However, it became so overwhelming and he entrusted his secret in a friend, James Johnson. Johnson and his wife stayed the night at the Bell homestead, and was witness to the many strange things going on at the Bell house.

After a while, John asked the church Minister to visit his home. The Minister was going to bless the house and to perform an exorcism. The exorcism had no effect on the entity. The exorcism only infuriated the witch and she struck back with her normal use of violence.
　
John Bell died on December 19, 1820. Stories are told that the Bell Witch sang at his funeral. After the funeral, family and friends, stood watching his body being lowered into the ground. They were encircled with eerie winds and possible laughter of the Bell Witch.

After the funeral, the entity returned to the Bell home and affirmed that she would return in seven years. The Bell Witch kept her promise and returned in 1828. She kept the visit brief and remained at the cave for only a little while.

The Jersy Devil

Legend: Fact or Fiction -- you decide.
The following story was taking from the Shadowlands website.

It has haunted New Jersey and the surrounding areas for the past 260 years. It has terrorized towns and caused factories and schools to close down. Many people believe that the Jersey Devil is a legend, a mythical beast, that originated from the folklore of the New Jersey Pine Barrens.

One of the most popular legends says a Mrs. Shrouds of Leeds Point, NJ made a wish that if she ever had another child, she want it to be a devil. Her next child was born misshapen and deformed. She sheltered it in the house, so the curious couldn't see him. On stormy night, the child flapped it's arms, which turned into wings, and escaped out the chimney and was never seen by the family again.

Another story is that Burlington, NJ, also claims to be the birthplace of the Jersey Devil. In 1735, Mother Leeds was in labor on a stormy night. Gathered around her were her friends. Mother Leeds was supposedly a witch and the child's father was the devil himself. The child was born normal, but then changed form. It changed from a normal baby to a creature with hooves, a horses head, bat wings and a forked tail.

The first thing that ties the legends together is the name "Leeds". Whether the mothers name was Leeds or the birth place was Leeds Point, all of the stories include the name Leeds. Alfred Heston, the Atlantic County Historian, believes that the devil could be a Leeds or a Shrouds baby. He discovered that a Daniel Leeds opened land in Great Egg Harbor, NJ, in 1699. His family lived in Leeds Point. He also discovered a Samuel Shrouds, Sr. came to Little Egg Harbor, NJ, in 1735 and lived right across the river from the house of Mother Leeds.

In the week of January 16-23. 1909. During this week, the devil would leave his tracks all over South Jersey and Philadelphia. He was seen by over 1,000 people. This was his largest appearance ever.

The sightings and prints are the most substantial evidence that exists. Many of the theories on the Jersey Devil are based upon that evidence. Some theories can be proven invalid, while others seem to provide support for the Jersey Devil's existence.
The Jersey Devil has been seen by reliable people such as police, government officials, postmasters, businessman, and other people whose "integrity is beyond question.

Check it out for yourself, read the whole article here:
http://theshadowlands.net/jd.htm

Possible UFO . . . You decide

This was e-mailed to me and I thought I would share the story.

Dozens of residents of Canada’s capital city, Ottawa Ontario and nearby Gatineau, Que., witnessed an object streak across the night sky at about 10pm local time Monday night July 27 and crash into the Ottawa River with a “thunderous boom.”

The object had lights on it and appeared to change course several times, like a small plane struggling to stay airborn, before it hit the water.

It was such a sight that emergency rescue and search crews in the area sprung into action and began searching the area using sophisticated sonars and underwater cameras to try and figure out what the object was. Even helicopters from the Canadian Forces Base (CFB) in nearby Trenton took part. On Tuesday at 1:30pm, they discovered an object about 9 meters (30 feet) below the surface, but because of currents and nearby rapids, sending divers down would be extremely dangerous since they would be instantly swept away by the currents.

The mystery? Authorities and residents have no idea what this object laying at the bottom of the river is. There are no planes missing from the area, no other aircraft like helicopters, etc. are missing. There is no derbis, no oil slick and even space agencies that were contacted said nothing disappeared from orbit.

But the fact still remains - something fell into the Ottawa River Monday night that prompted a massive co-ordinated search by local authorities and the Canadian Military. They found an object below the surface and don’t know exactly what it is.

It truly is a UFO mystery at this point.

http://www.conspiracyjournal.com

Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper is the famed serial killer of the White chapel (England) murders. In the year 1888 he killed at least five woman. No one has ever been arrested or tried for these murders. His victims were woman who were prostitutes. He slit their throats and mutilated their bodies. All of the murders, were committed on Saturdays or Sundays.

How did he get he name? A letter was sent to the London Central News Agency by someone claiming to be the killer and called himself Jack the Ripper. It received world wide exposure.

Here is a profile as to who he might have been:

White male
Average height
Between 20 and 40 years of age
Had medical expertise
Right-handed
Single

Names places, and dates of his five victims:

Mary Ann (Polly) Nichols, murdered on Bucks' Row, Friday, August 31, 1888.
Annie Chapman, murdered at 29 Hanbury Street, Saturday, September 8, 1888.
Elizabeth Stride, murdered on Berner Street, Sunday, September 30, 1888.
Catharine Eddowes, murdered in Mitre Square, Sunday, September 30, 1888.
Mary Jane (Marie Jeanette) Kelly, murdered at Number 13 Miller's Court, Friday, November 9, 1888.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper
http://crime.about.com/od/history/a/ripper040721.htm

Timberidge Cemetery

Timberidge Cemetery is a few miles from the town of Catoosa, OK. It sits close to the area, know by the locals, Haunted Hallow.

The story goes like this. A young Indian boy was stopped on the road with his bike, and was hit by a car. The boy died and was buried in the cemetery. Since then, drivers have claim to see a young boy kneeling next to a bike. Some drivers have swerved to miss him and others clearly felt the car strike something. When they would pull over to the side of the road there would be no body. Some people have reported finding bloody hand prints on the fenders and damage to the front of their car.

Brumder Mansion

Brumder Mansion, Milwaukee, was built in 1910 by publisher George Brumder.

Throughout the years it has had many purposes; boarding house, parsonage, Lutheran youth-group coffee house/ music venue and even a hideaway for supposed prohibition-era mobster, Sam Picks. Today the mansion is a stylish bed and breakfast.

An older female ghost has been identified as Susan. She likes to hang out in the Gold Room. There is another younger ghost that likes the third floor, especially Marion’s Room. A third ghost is male who enjoys the Parlor and George’s Suite.

Northern Alliance of Paranormal Investigators has had the opportunity to investigate this old house. Some things they picked up on were EVP’s of voices, a string instrument, and a whistle. Two investigators reported of having felt a gentle touch. The evidence obtained does offer a possible haunted bed and breakfast, and that these ghosts are friendly.

www.naparanormal.org.
http://www.brumdermansion.com..
http://www.hauntedhouses.com/states/wi/brumder_mansion.cfm

Haunted America

I have gathered a list of some of the most haunted places in America.

Stone Lion Inn, Guthrie, OK
Abandon Hospital, Guthrie, OK

Bachelor's Grove Cemetery, Midlothian, IL
The Old Slave House (Hickory Hill), Junction, IL
Lincoln Theater, Decatur, IL

The Lemp Mansion, St. Louis, MO

Villisca Ax Murder House, Villisca, IA

The Winchester Mansion, San Jose, CA
The Queen Mary, Long Beach, CA
Alcatraz, San Francisco Bay, CA

Bobby Mackey's Music World, Wilder, KY
Waverly Hills Sanatorium, Louisville, KY

Myrtles Plantation, St. Francisville, LA

John Stone's Inn, Ashland, MA

Bell Witch Cave, Adams, TN

Gettysburg Battlefield, Southern PA
Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, PA

The Stanley Hotel, Estes Park, CO

Saint Augustine Lighthouse, St. Augustine, FL

Happy hunting.

The Guthrie Masonic Boys Home

Here are the legends of the boys home.

One of the head mistresses was cruel. One time she punished a 6-year-old boy and beat him to death. She buried his body in the basement of the home. When questioned about the boys disappearance she said that the boy had run off. Over the follow three years four more boys disappeared.

The plumbing in the orphanage broke and in order to repair it the workers would be digging about in the basement. So the head mistress decided it would be best to move the bodies. One of the custodians noticed her strange actions and followed her to the basement. He watched her dig up the remains.

Also a nurse working at the home hung herself in the bell tower, they say she had anger issues and was probably unstable with reality. Other reports claim that there were graves in the backyard.

Ghostly encounters include an entity of a little girl who pleads for protection, a woman has been seen walking down the main hallway, a dark shadow has been seen in the bell tower and has been known to hover around people, and sounds of crying and screaming children.

The Masonic Children’s Home opened it’s door on December 31, 1907, in Atoka OK. In 1910 the home was moved near El Reno, OK. September 1922 was when the doors at Guthrie were open. The home remained opened until 1977. In 2000 it was privately bought and remolded into a residents.

Oklahoma City ghost caught on tape

On July 17 2003, a ghost was caught on a surveillance camera at an auto storage lot in Oklahoma City. The woman watching the event sent out another employee to take a look. The employee reported not to have seen anything unusual. The ghostly image looked human-shaded and floated around in a circular pattern as if searching for something.

After this story aired on television a family came forward claiming the woman was there daughter, Tracy Martin. Tracy died from the injuries she received from a horrible car crash on June 30. Then 18 days later her truck was moved, from the place it had set when it was brought to the lot, just hours before the image appeared on the video camera.

A well known and respected paranormal group, of the area, conducted an investigation and found no evidence of any other paranormal activity at this location. Experts in the field of video editing all agreed that the video couldn't be explained and that it would cost thousand of dollars on equipment to recreate this video.

Another paranormal group viewed the video and afterward they thought they could recreate it. Using the stage illusion called “pepper's ghost” they claimed that they were successful at recreating the video.

I have listed both paranormal teams links and the youtube link for you can decided for yourself.

http://www.ghouli.org/investigations/puckett.htm

http://www.rockymountainparanormal.com/puckett.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-IeOkSvhlc

Lizzy Borden

The famed Lizzie Borden, did she murder her father and step-mother. We may never know the what really happen. This has became one of the most famous unsolved crimes of all time.

Lizzie was born, to Andrew and Sarah Borden, in Fall River Massachusetts on July 19, 1860. She died of pneumonia on June 1, 1927. She had one older sister, Emma Borden. She was acquitted of murdering her father and step-mother. No one else was ever arrested or tried for the crimes.

It all began on August 4, 1892. Emma was not at home and the maid, Bridget Sullivan, was in her room resting. She had gotten sick earlier that morning. Mrs. Borden was upstairs tiding up the guest room and Mr. Borden was out on errands. Lizzy was out in the barn looking for fishing lures for an upcoming fishing trip.

At 10:45 Mr. Borden returned home and laid down in the sitting room for a nap. Around 11:00 Lizzy woke up Bridget saying that someone had broke into the house and killer her father. When Bridget asked about Mrs. Borden, Lizzy replied that she had received a telegram asking her to visit a sick friend. Lizzy didn’t believe that she was in the house.

Bridget and a neighbor woman discovered the body of Mrs. Borden shortly after the doctor arrived at the house. Apparently someone had attacked both Mr. and Mrs. Borden with a hatchet. Mrs. Borden received 18 blows to the head and face, and Mr. Borden received only 11 blows to the face.

Lizzy was arrested on August 11, 1892, and spent 10 months in jail awaiting trail. The jury only deliberated for one hour and a half. Reasonable doubt, because no murder weapon was found and no blood evidence was noted. The trail received a enormous amounts of national publicity.

The home of Lizzy Borden, 92 Second St., is now a Bed and Breakfast.

Sacred Heart

Sacred Heart was the first catholic community in Oklahoma. Father Felix was the first priest to celebrate mass at Sacred Heart, May 13, 1877. The service was held outside.

The town or monastery began to grow, and by the end of the year a two-story building, a school, and a farm had been built. The school started out for Indian boys. The first nuns, five sisters, arrived in 1880. They begun the school for girls, St. Mary’s Academy and Convent.

By 1884 the community had its own carpenter shop and tool house, blacksmith shop and stables, and bakery. The farm offered many animals as well as gardens, orchards, and vineyards.

Sacred Heart was a government contract school. St. Benedict’s Industrial School, for Indians, housing both boys and girls until the late 1890s. It also included college studies. The college taught classes in the finer arts of painting and music as well as a chemical lab. Basic classes of English, math, and business were also required teaching.

Then devastation struck the community and it never fully recovered. The fatal night was January 15, 1901. Fire broke out in the dinning room of the boys school. It quickly spread out of control. Within hours most of the building were gone, the boy’s and girl’s schools, as well as the college, the monastery and convent, even the church. Temporary wooden building were put into place for both schools.

Today a two-story building and the bakery are the only remains to remind us of this once great school, and the priests cemetery and the nuns cemetery are still keep up and clean. The church was rebuilt east of the community with a small cemetery.

Waverly Hill

History
Waverly Hills was one of the biggest hospitals for “The White Death” or Tuberculosis.
Contraction on Waverly Hills Sanatorium began in 1908. It started out as a two-story frame building. It opened on July 26, 1910. Originally it was set up to hold 50 patients. However with so many people carrying the disease a new hospital was build. Opening its doors on October 17, 1926, it provided accommodations up to 400 patients.

Because the disease was easily transmitted the staff had to live on the grounds. This was also the reason for the famed tunnel or “The Body Chute”. The tunnel was used to transport the dead out of the hospital without the patients knowing of other patients dying. It continued as a tuberculosis hospital until 1961.


Legends
In 1928, one of the nurses committed suicide by hanging herself on the fifth floor in room 502. She was unmarried and pregnant at the time.
In 1932, another nurse that worked in room 502 was found dead on the grounds. She either jumped from the roof patio, falling several stories to her death, or she was pushed from the roof patio. No one know for sure which one.
People have either seen or heard a child known as Timmy. There are reports of an elderly woman, her wrists wrapped in chains and bleeding, running out of the front door begging for help.

Other occurrences
There is a feeling of dread everywhere, photographs of orbs, evp’s of footsteps, and shadow people.

http://www.therealwaverlyhills.com/index.htm

Skirvin Hotel

History
The Skirvin Hotel located in Oklahoma is one of the most haunted hotels in the state. W.B. Skirvin began building the hotel in 1910. In 1911, the Skirvin Hotel was ready to open its doors. The hotel had two towers rising up to 10 stories with over 200 rooms. Back in the day it was known as the finest hotel in Oklahoma. It was one of the first buildings to have air conditioning and running water in each room. Expansion came in 1930 with a third wing, also 4 more stories were added increasing the rooms to over 500.

Mr. Skirvin moved his family and their pets onto the ninth floor of the hotel. In October, 1979 the hotel was listed on National Register of Historic Places. W.B. Skirvin died in 1944. The hotel closed down in 1988, however it had a full complete make-over and has recently reopened.

Legend
The legend goes like this: Mr Skirvin had an affair with one of the maids working at the hotel. When she became pregnant, she was locked up in a room on the top floor. She still remained there after giving birth to her child. Soon she became depressed and unstable. With child in hand she jumped through a window. To this day no one knows the name of the maid, however the former employees named her Effie.

Other occurrences said to happen are as follows: Females reported hearing the cries of a baby in the middle of the night, men said that while taking a shower a naked female would appear in the shower with them and/or they would be propositioned by a female voice, things would be moved, and the maid's carts would move down the hallway when no one was around.

Shadow People

Shadow People, what are they?
We don’t really know, however there are several theories.

One theory is shadow people are another way for ghosts to manifest. It takes less energy to reveal itself as a shadow then it does as an apparition. Most reports say that they appear as dark forms, silhouettes, seen with in the peripheral vision. Their movement can be swift especially if they realize they have been seen. They are mostly seen at night, however they can be seen in the day time hiding in the shadows.

　
Other theories are the imagination, demons, time travelers, interdimensional beings.

The imagination, illusions, our eyes are playing tricks on us, or real shadows caused by passing vehicle headlights. Demons, the dark shade of these beings led’s us to speculation. Time travelers, people from the future visiting us in the past. Interdimensional beings, some theorize that there are parallel dimensions and sometimes these dimensions cross into our world. Possibly allowing us a glimpse into another dimension, and the people who live in them.

Franks box or the Ghost box

Frank Sumption is the original creator of the Franks box or the Ghost box in 2002. However, some say that Thomas Edison was working on a spirit communicator. He never finished it. The box was built as a way to communicate with the spirit world. It allows for two-way communication.

The ghost box is used as an electronic method of spirit communication best categorized under ITC, Instrumental Transcommunication. ITC is the use of electronic video and audio equipment of communicate across dimension with discarnate human spirits.

The box scans AM and FM frequencies in a uninterrupted manner, creating white noise. Which is believed that ghosts can use to communicate with. This white noise is amplified. The box works interactively because you ask questions directly to the ghosts and receive answers back. How the box works seems to be affected by the strength of radio signals in an area. Poor signal quality reduces the ability for ghosts to make contact.

Continued research and experimenters have received positive messages, as well as negative messages.

A couple of tips when using the Franks box are that the box needs a good signal to work properly. If Am and/or FM stations are being picked up than the box will work. If the signal is weak try to strengthen the signal using an antenna. When communicating with ghosts ask plenty of questions. Give a reasonable amount of time for answers to come through.

http://frank.xm.com
http://ghosthuntersofamerica.com/FRANKSBOX.htm

Website

I have our website up and going. www.okghost.webs.com Check out our site and sign the guestbook.

There is a lot of personal things going on in my life right now, I will not be doing any investigations for a while. I hope to be back soon.

Theories and Dimensions

I was recently at a paranormal class about theories. The instructor talked about the M-theory, so I came home and tried to do research on this topic. This theory is about alternate dimensions and parallel worlds.

The instructor commented about that instead of getting photo's of ghosts or voices of ghosts that what if a parallel world or dimension had crossed into our world. And what we thought were ghosts were actually people in this other world.

The more I thought about this the more is does make sense as one theory to explain the sighting of ghosts. But I'm not 100% for sure on this.

On some of my research on the M-theory this is what I found on wikipedia. M-theory is a new limit ( the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent) of string theory in which 11 dimensions of space time may be identified. M-theory is not yet complete; however it can be applied in many situations. The "M" in M-theory could stand for master, mathematical, mother, mystery, membrane, magick, or matrix.