3/12/16 (Original Date of Planned
Publication)
October 21, 2016
If you follow me
on Facebook, you'll know I've had a lot of personal stuff going on the last few
months. Even my blog, which I dearly love, fell by the wayside. I'm going to
give it my all from now on to get back to writing a blog at least every two
weeks. Cross your fingers and wish me luck!
Now back to where
I left off last March, the second part of Tyler ghosts, with another part yet
to go. This is an appropriate place to re-begin, since it's my favorite month.
I also happen to know that George Jones and Jericho Tours of Tyler do awesome
ghost tours this month.
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As I mentioned
in the first part of this tale, we're not quite through with the Tyler ghosts.
It was an awesome night with George Jones and his crew. Each time we thought it
couldn't be any more fun, something else caught our attention.
"You're
both gonna love this next place," I told Sarah and Floyd after we enjoyed the
McClendon House.
"You've
been there?" Sarah asked.
"Yep. That
was a couple years ago, when I got to spend some of the time with Jason McLeod.
You remember him, the author of those fantastic Dark Siege books?"
Jason McLeod and Me
We made sure we
got the address for the GPS, since we'd lost sight of our guide on the way to
the McClendon House and had to google the address. Following the mechanical GPS
lady's directions, we drove to what they call the haunted railroad warehouses
in Tyler. These buildings are spooky enough during daylight. At night, the
entire area is something you would think twice about entering unless you had
someone knowledgeable to lead you.
Though this was
my second visit there, I only know a little bit about them, things I've picked
up from George over the years I've been friends with him. I may be wrong on
some of the details, but I'll pass on to you what I think I know.
There were originally
five huge warehouses located, of course, beside a train stop. They were used to
store goods unloaded from, or to be loaded onto, trains for shipment. There
were several deaths connected to these buildings, but I haven't learned much in
the way of details. As of now, they are abandoned and used by permission as a haunted
location on George's tours and for a horror night show during Halloween month.
At times,
homeless people have sheltered in the warehouses. One warehouses burned down
years ago, and it's believed there were some homeless folks staying there when
that happened. Some think perhaps the building caught fire from the men trying
to keep warm with barrel fires. Now there is only a large bare place where this
warehouse used to be.
At least one of
the remaining four buildings, the one George uses for home base, is full of
various horror props. There are masks and makeup scattered over the walls and
tables, and tunnels lead through it, much like a fun house. Around some of the
bends in these tunnels, you'll run across other horror scenes bent on scaring
you. They're pretty realistically horrific, too. I won't spoil George's
business by telling you what the scenes are, since I'd urge anyone who can to
take one of George's tours, especially during Halloween month.
In 2016, George
added what he calls the Puzzle Rooms. There are three rooms that have only one
hidden exit. The players have to discover how to get out of the room by finding
and solving clues. They are timed on how quickly they can all escape within the
allotted hour.
Are these
buildings haunted? Very haunted! I'd even say extremely haunted. And not only
by friendly Caspers. There is more than one nasty malevolent, and George takes
measures against these types of ghosts. Are there other entities besides ghosts
here? Let's just say he has also run across more than one really bad entity.
However, from what I've seen and experienced, I believe part of what happens is
due to a mindset from some of the tour participants. Different types of people
go on haunted tours.
One: We have
those who are of the macho mindset (including some women), who are going to
taunt the entities they encounter to show off their supposed superiority. I'll
admit, I enjoy seeing this type of person get their comeuppance — and yes, it
happens, more frequently than these people expect.
Two: We have
those who want to be "scared to death" in order to (they hope) be
able to brag to their friends and relatives about what happened to them. These
types are the ones who usually end up having to be babied and soothed and taken
out of the tour, since they claim they are possessed or freak out with panic. On
this night, DoDad, one of the experienced Native American members of George's
staff, had to take a woman out of the warehouse when she started hysterically hyperventilating.
I'm not very
sympathetic to those types, either. No matter how many times you tell people
that ghosts and demons and devils are real entities, they won't take mental precautions.
They think it's all a fairytale. Well, some believe fairies are real, also, and
most of Grimm's stories are ghastly tales full of mean and nasty people. So these
types should take heed, but don't.
The third
category includes two types of paranormal investigators. Some are part of those
who taunt, only they claim to know what they're doing. Ninety-nine percent of
them do not. The other one percent are serious and take precautions, plus show
respect. The one percent gain my esteem in turn.
Sorry I went off
on one of my soap box tangents. I know you're more interested in the ghosts we encountered.
George always
has experienced and respectful paranormal people helping him out, so for the
first couple hours, they led us through the warehouses. We started with the
first one, the home base warehouse, which is sectioned off into tunnels. This
warehouse did have electricity, and there were wires strung down the tunnels to
provide light. However, whenever we used any equipment, we made sure it was
kept well away from any source of electricity so we wouldn’t encounter any interference.
There were
various stops along the way where our guide investigators had previously
discovered hotspots, places where the lingering ghosts would interact. Anna
Lee, my trigger object Raggedy Ann doll, got such a workout that we had to
change her battery during the time we were there.
Our first stop
was a place where I felt saddened. We had been informed by our guides that it
was where a little girl sometimes made contact. If you follow me, you know I
feel strongly that any child ghost needs to be crossed into The Light. However,
since this wasn't my investigation, I couldn't take charge and intervene.
When we halted,
I immediately felt paranormal energy around my legs, at a height that appeared
to indicate a child ghost. I didn't get a sense of unhappiness from her, just a
feeling of joy that she had someone there to "talk to." Still, I
could imagine her loneliness when left to wander all on her own.
"She's
here," one of the guides whispered, confirming what I felt.
I sat Anna Lee
on the floor, and she immediately lit up. Over the course of the next half hour
or so, the little girl truly did enjoy playing with Anna Lee. But several other
pieces of equipment also activated, including KII's, indicating a few other
ghosts making themselves known. I mentally communicated and relayed what I
heard. It was pretty mundane conversation, nothing memorable that sticks in my
mind as messages or warnings.
On into this
warehouse, down a few more tunnels, we halted at a place where contact had
previously been made with one of the workers who had been killed in a warehouse
accident. This ghost was pretty darned strong, and while he wasn't interested
in a toy like my doll, the KII's buried themselves several times.
The first time
was when one of the guides asked, "Are you here, (name)?" (I'll
admit, it's been a while since I made my notes on this experience, and I didn't
write down names. So sorry.)
Anyway, we were
inundated with flashing KII lights. There were more questions asked, and they
were specific enough to this worker that there was no doubt we were connecting
with him.
Communications
at a few other stops in this warehouse indicated the ghosts we had already
contacted followed along with us, two of which were the little girl and the warehouse
worker. It was an interesting trip through the tunnels.
I kept waiting
for some of the ghosts I'd met on the previous visit to pop in, especially the
one with the ugly face who kept peering around a tunnel corner. On that trip, George
had watched me do a crossover and experienced the wind rushing through that enclosed
warehouse when several dozen lost souls went into The Light. He'd asked me if I
could do that again, so his wife Heather could experience it, and I did. Hopefully
the reason that homely-faced ghost didn't contact us is because he now resides
in The Light, where he should be.
Unfortunately,
the little girl wasn't one of the ghosts who went home. Child ghosts usually
take special handling and coaxing, since they are usually very frightened of
any sort of change. Our own crew has yet to fail in this type of crossover,
especially since we have Sarah Brigdon with us. Sarah has a special touch with
children.
We had three
more warehouse to go through, and George also had the puzzle game planned.
We'll talk about that in the next blog.
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Writing news is going
to (hopefully) start picking up. I am back at work in spits and sputters on the
next diary, Ghost Hunting Diary Volume VI.
I'm probably a little over half finished, and Angela already has the cover
done. When I get a little further into this book, I'll reveal it to you and
explain what's behind it.
Thrall
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As I said, this
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have some more free things in mind down the road for the people who subscribe.
Those will still dribble out slowly, since <knock on wood> the interference
of stuff in my personal life right now has also slowed to a trickle. We won't
talk about shopping and Black Friday seasons being on the horizon. I'll find
the energy for those.
Our weather in
Texas has gone through its hot season and it actually cooled down into the high
eighties. Then on Friday, we hit the seventies. Yippee for us! We sure did have
some cold, nasty fronts go through in the spring and early summer, though. The
bluebonnet crop again was rather dismal. Perhaps next year we'll get a better
bloom.
The fronts
brought a lot of flooding, which repeated itself more than once. My sister Ann
and I stayed overnight at one of the gambling boat hotels in Bossier City a
while back. Ann was rather disappointed that the Red River didn't rise enough
to float our beds the next morning, especially since our rooms were on the
first floor <teasing on that>!
We were lucky in
our choice of hotels (Boomtown), since the hotel and casino at the Louisiana
Downs racetrack had to be evacuated, along with several subdivisions and
businesses. I'm sad that so many people lost their homes and businesses in
Louisiana and Mississippi, as well as now in the Carolinas. Mother Nature won't
be denied, however. Please don't ever drive into water over the road. Remember:
Turn around, don't drown.
Fingers crossed
I will see you sooner next time, with a report of a really scary situation that
happened on one of George's tours.
Boo!
T. M.
