HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!!!!!!!!  What a GREAT Halloween!!!!  I LOVE THIS NIGHT!!!!Thank you to each of you who continue to read my blog.  I want you to know I am trying to figure out why I am having such trouble posting my pictures!!! I sit down to write with you guys and am running into all kinds of problems with the site.  Hang with me, I'll get it fixed soon.  Don't forget to take your own pics tonight.  You know they said this is the night that the dead walk freely amoung the living.

Houston-Jefferson Davis Hospital-10-2011

This is back behind the Jefferson Davis Hospital.  It is said this is where they burned bodies that had died from sickness.

I am trying to upload several pictures from my trip to Houston a couple of weeks ago, but having computer problems, so it is making it hard for me.  Hang with me, I'll get there. :)

Wettermark-Orb?

Wettermark-So a orb or reflextion-Glenwood Cemetery

More beauitful headstones at Glenwood

                                                                     

Glennwood Cemetery, Houston, Tx 10-13-11



Weeping Angel in Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, Tx 10-13-11




Weeping Angel




Just had to get a close up of the Angel's face.

Glenwood shares characteristics of other 19th century romantic garden cemeteries: It was established in a rural area (as Houston existed in 1871). It was built on a site with a distinguishing natural feature. Glenwood’s design takes advantage of the ravines leading to Buffalo Bayou to create a rolling landscape unique in Houston. It was landscaped in a naturalistic style with curving roads and walkways. Newspaper accounts of 1871 compared Glenwood to such well-known garden cemetery parks as Mount Auburn in Cambridge, Mass. (1831), Laurel Hill in Philadelphia (1836) and Green-Wood in Brooklyn (1838). Architectural historian Stephen Fox has written that Houstonians of the late 19th century considered Glenwood to be not only a cemetery but a landscaped park. Improvements in streetcar transportation brought increasing numbers of visitors to Glenwood on pleasant Sunday afternoons.
This is the most beautiful and peaceful place.  Lots of overhanging trees and extremely well kept.  The grounds are made up of deep, green grass and they keep all the headstones washed down so each and everyone of them look like they were just placed there yesterday.  If ever in Houston, do not pass on seeing this cemetery. 

We were there in the day because the gates close at 5:00pm so you cannot get in after dark.  Or not through the gates anyway. lol  There are many stories of ghost in this cemetery.  Unfortantly, we did not encounter anything unusual, and the ONLY possible orbs we caught, is in the corner picture of the Wettermark headstone.  I'll let you decide if it is an orb or just a reflection of the sun.



Ghost stories as children

So, with Halloween coming and everything being all scary, it makes me think about the "old" ghost stories that I was told as a kid.  Growing up, in my family, was soooo fun!!!  My mom and dad always did really cool stuff for us on Halloween.  They would pile us all the the back of a pickup truck and take us down to the river along dark, overshadowed dirt roads at midnight.  Dad would kill the truck and act like it wouldn't start.  Just scary the pants off us!!!!!  They rigged up chairs to fall in the attic, lights going out, you name it, my parents always made Halloween such a fun time for us kids and all the neighborhood kids as well.  Thanks, mom and dad for all the sleepless nights.....lol

Sorry, back to the ghost stories.  I thought it would be fun if everyone would tell about the ghost stories that they remember as a kid.  The one I remember was of the MONKEY PAW!!!!!!  Just monkey paw alone sounds scary right.  To make a long story short, if I recall the story went something like this..... a sailor came back from the sea and brought a monkey's paw.  This monkey's paw would craw around and kill people, blood would be everywhere and just when you have every ones attention....you grab them and scream!!!!!!  Yes, as a 6 or 7 year old kid, it works every time!!!!!

So, what's your story???  I would love to hear it because I may need to use it sometime. lol

Follow up to the Jefferson Davis Hospital in Houston,Tx

Below are the pictures I had mentioned before of the Jefferson Davis Hospital in Houston, Tx.  They don't look like much, but trust me.... a creepy place.

 The Jefferson Davis Hospital in Houston, Tx

One of the hallways in the Jefferson.  Notice the floor.  In all the
renovation, the floors still look like the orginial
floors from when it was a hospital.



Each "artist" that lives here has
paintings or art sitting outside their doors.




An orb going up to one of the floors.




See, the hallways aren't the best.




Trying to be brave....and go upstairs.



Anyone up for a ghost hunt???

Ok.  I have had several people ask for me to take them on a ghost hunt, so I think I will get a group together and go here somewhere locally.  If your interested, just email me and let me know.  I am going to try and think of somewhere really cool for us to go, or if anyone has any suggestions of places we may want to go please let me know.  It will be soooo much fun.  I am going to pick a weekend and a time and we will all just meet up and go.  FUN FUN FUN  I'll keep you informed.

Ouija Boards- Just say no! Tonight on SYFY 10-5-2011

Ok  Just want to share this story really quick.  The SyFy Channel did a program on Ouija Board where a lady was just playing with it to see if she was going to have a baby or not.  Don't play with these boards folks.  Bad Bad things can happen if you don't know what you are doing.  You need to call it up on the computer under Paranornal Whitness-Virgina-2008-Ouija Board. And watch it.
You might want to watch this first before letting your kids watch it.  But keep it in mind that around Halloween Ouoija Boards seem to find there way out for playtime at Halloween,  Just  watch it if you can.

I talk a little bit under my FUN STUFF on the right side blog about this, but there is a warning.

You decide!

Misc pics

These are just misc. pics I thought were cool

A pic of a really cool old tree in the rain(Houston Cemetar).  Just made for a really CREEPY pic.  I love it!!

The founder of the Pfister Hotel in, Milwaukee,was Charles Pfister. Charles Pfister has been spotted surveying the lobby from a vantage point on the grand staircase. He is said to visit the hotel to make sure that guests are well taken care of and that the hotel is running well. This mysterious visitor has also been seen strolling through the minstrel's gallery above the ballroom and passing through the storage area on the ninth floor.

The visitor is described in the same terms by the people who see him: "older, portly, smiling and well dressed". Witnesses who claim to have seen the visitor and a portrait of Charles Pfister, say that the visitor is Charles Pfister.

If these reports are true, the spirit is a welcome guest at the grand hotel.

This hotel is awsome!  See the orb?



Another cool pic of an orb



Mr. Pfister keeping a watchful eye...




Sleeping beauty

ssshhh...I just took this photo this month at the MOST HAUNTED HOTEL IN TEXAS....THE DRISKILL.  My friend and I went to Austin just for a quick girls weekend.  She does not believe in ghost but knows that it's really my passion so she agreed to stay at the Driskill. 

This hotel is beyound beautiful!!!! Anyway back to my story...I was going to wonder the hotel one night and she was to scared to go. So I said.."ok stay here with the ghost by yourself".  I went and did my thing and returned to the room around 12:30am.  The hotel was built back in the 1800's so I figured maybe their were "souls" that maybe loved this hotel and this room enough to "visit" it again.  So before I even walked in the room I snapped a few pics of our room while my friend slept.  And look what I got!  Orbs over my friends bed.  I could not hardly wait for the morning after I downloaded my pictures and saw the orbs.  I knew she would freak out if I woke her in the night to show her the pictures.  She would have made us pack our bags and leave. lolol

Needless to say, the next morning she FREAKED OUT.  I also told her that I am sure it didn't mean anything but the last part of the word DRISKILL is KILL!!!!!

If you get the chance, check out the Driskill is Austin.  It is a little expensive, but the staff and service is soooo worth it!  Not to mention it is full of stories of hauntings.....







Halloween

Hey everyone, before I forget, I would love to hear all your scary Halloween stories, or if you have cool Halloween pics please email them to me and I will post them so we can discuss them.

This is my FAVORITE ALL TIME Holiday!!!!!  Ghost shows everynight on SYFY Channel for the whole month of Oct.  YEAH!!!!!!

Jefferson Davis Hospital in Houston, TX

Hi everyone.  I know its been a while since I posted last, but I have just been very busy.  I didn't forget you. :)

Above are pictures of the Jefferson Davis Hospital in Houston, Tx  that were taken a couple of years ago.  This landmark was built in 1924 and often referred to as one of the most haunted buildings in America, was built atop a burial ground for confederate soldiers, slaves and city leaders.  The Jefferson Davis  Hospital sits creepily along the Buffalo Bayou near White Oak Dr.  The building was recently renovated and transformed into the Elder Street Artist Lofts.  The hospital is said to have spirits such as nurses, doctors, and patients that still roam its halls.  Many have gone into this place and have had their own personal experiences such as being watched , seeing shadows, and smelling sterilization solutions in certain areas.

This hospital was built upon a site of about 3,000 graves of civil war and yellow fever victims, from when it was a cemetery in the 1800's.  During some excavation work done in the area, approximately 60 "black earth graves" were uncovered.  The common characteristics of these graves were the orientation of graves East to West(the head), and body was wrapped in a shroud and buried without a coffin.  Because the graves were filled with fresh soil of high organic nature they are called "black earth graves".

I went to the Jefferson Davis Hospital a couple of years ago, and I have to tell you...IT IS CREEPY!!!!! A friend of mine took me there, during the day, but HE was to afraid to get out of the car and come in with me.  So, I put on my "big girl shoes" and went in alone.  The smell, oh man... the smell of sterilization solution was overwhelming!!!!!  To the point I thought I was going to be physically sick.  That really bothered me, because how could that smell be that STRONG back from the 1800's????  It wasn't in just a couple of places, it smelled that way the whole time I was there.

There are people living here so you have to be respectful of that.  The are signs that say "Residents Only" but.....lets just say....I must not have seen that sign until I had left. lol ssshhhhh   I just snapped a few pictures in the entry way and it was deadly quite.  I walked up and down the hallway taking pictures, which I will post later, but you could absolutely feel what it was like a long time ago when it was a hospital...the sadness...the concern, much like you would feel in a hospital today.  The residents have the doors decorated in their own styles, but that doesn't matter at all.  You still feel sadness.  I decided to be really brave and go up stairs.  The were very narrow and creepy.  I have to say that after all my years of going to "haunted places and graveyards" this place really made me uncomfortable. I walked all the way to the top floor on the stairs taking pictures.  I didn't stay long, even though it was in the day, I just wanted to get out of there.

I am posting this post about the Jefferson because I am going back to Houston next week and will be revisiting this place.  Hopefully, this time at night.  I was hoping that maybe someone could tell me what you know about this hospital or have been there and had personal experiences.  I would love to know more about this place.

That's it for now, you guys take care.