LYCEUM RESTAURANT-SALEM MASSACHUSETTS-IS WITHCRAFT INVOLVED IN THIS HAUNTING???

First, let me say I am sorry for posting a day late.  I have been at a conference for my "day job" as an HR Manager and just flat couldn't get the time to post.

Being out on the road and having to eat out a lot, I thought I would write about a VERY haunted restaurant. So here is a short post about the Lyceum Restaurant in Salem Massachusetts.  PLEASE if you have visited this restaurant I would love to hear from you!!!

This haunted Salem restaurant was built upon the former site of Bridget Bishop's apple orchard.  It's believed that Bridget's restless spirit haunts the building to this day!  In 1692, that's right.....1692.....she was accused of witchcraft.  Found guilty, Bridget spent the next year in prison, until the fateful day that she was led to the gallows and hanged.

Sadly for Bridget, she would come to be memorialized for being the first witch to have been executed in the Salem witch trials.

Years later, a historic lecture hall was built on the site of the apple orchard; it would host such notables as Hawthorne, Thoreau, Emerson, and the prominent inventor, Alexander Bell.  In fact, in 1877, history was made from this location, as Bell demonstrated his invention here and made the first public phone call.

In 1989 George Harrington purchased the building, and the Lyceum Bar & Grill soon opened.  Ever since, employees and patrons alike have witnessed scores of unexplained phenomena.  Above the hectic activities of a bustling restaurant, many people have heard a female voice whisper in their ears.  Shocked patrons have given George countless photos depicting unexplainable light anomalies.  Some employees have seen the ghostly image of a woman starting out a second-floor window, only to have her vanish upon their approach.  And there are those that have caught the sweet, succulent scent of apple blossoms in the air.  When the staff are questioned about the origin of the floral aroma, they state that it's a gift from Bridget.



No comments please!!  This was
a long...long...time ago!!! LOL

 

Now, I have been to Salem and I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!  But I went before the Lyceum Restaurant was opened.  If you get the chance to go to Salem DON"T PASS IT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!  For ANYONE interested in the paranormal....this is a gold mine!!!!  And hey....stop in and say "hi" to Bridget for me. :)

REAL????????? FAKE??????????? YOU TELL ME....

Hi everyone!  Man I missed you guys!  What.....it's been like a whole 7 days since we talked?? LOL

Well, in honor of APRIL FOOLS DAY I thought I would do a special post instead of my scheduled post on Ghost Apps.  Now, don't worry....for those of you who were wanting to know about new ghost apps  I hope to post those by the end of the week. DEAL?

Ok... Here are some pictures.....You tell me....are they REAL ghost pictures or are they FAKE.  How good are you.... :)  I thought this would be fun since April Fools Day is about what is real and what is not.  Lets have some fun today.

The answers are at the bottom of the post.

Enjoy your Tuesday.  And go out and TRICK someone....

(1)Orbs? Real or Fake

(2)Vortex-ghostly appearance? Real or Fake

(3)Orbs or dust?

(5) Scary Ghost? Real or Fake

(4)Apparition? Real or Fake

(7)Real ghost? Real or Fake

(6)Orb? Real or Fake

(9)Orbs or Dust?

(8)Apparition? Real or Fake

(11)The REAL Troy Taylor?

(10) Real or Fake

(13)Portal to other side? Real or Fake

(12)Real witch?

(14)Real or Fake

(16)Real or Fake

(15)Real haunted house or Fake

(17) Real demon or Fake

(18) Real apparition or Fake

 

ANSWERS:

 

1-Did you guess orbs?  You would be wrong.  Sorry.  This is just rain in a cemetery in Houston that I thought was cool. 

 

2.-Vortex? Real. This was taken by Rhonda Sherman in Jefferson Texas.  She was with us on a tour.  The weather was very clear that night.  No fog or mist anywhere.

 

3.-Orbs? Real.  I took this of a friend of mine as she slept in the Driskell Hotel in Austin, Tx.  I told her she should have gone with me to investigate. LOL

 

4-Apparition? Real.  This was taken by Craig Deacon(my boyfriend) at The Grove in Jefferson Tx.  Where a lady wearing white was suppose to watch out the window waiting on her husband to return.

 

5-Ghost? NOT!  My boy Tanner. LOL

 

6.-Orb? Fake.  Just rain.

 

7.-Ghost? Fake.

 

8.-Apparition solider? Real.  I took this at the Alamo.  The young lady to the right is a REAL girl, but there was NO ONE else around!

 

9-Orbs? Real.  At an old cemetery in Terrell.

 

10-Apparitions? Real.  I took this outside of the McPikes mansion.

 

11.-The Real Troy Taylor?  Real.  I follow Troy's findings in the paranormal world. That was to easy, I know. :)

 

12.-Witch? Nope.  Just me having fun. LOL

 

13.-Portal? Real.  This was taken at a hospital.  This man was showing me around and I was just taking a picture of him.  He was standing in front of a concert wall.  NOTHING was on the wall.  Do you see that it looks like it's an open ended tunnel with a stairs and greenery, trees?  He was telling me, that all the employees felt there was a portal in this area.

 

14-Ghostly girl? Fake.  Photo shopped.

 

15-Haunted House? Real. I took this in Salem, Mass. and this is just the way the picture turned out.  I did not change my settings on my camera.  It's strange, this is the ONLY picture that turned out like this...with the "shading".

 

16-Ghostly Children? Fake.  Photo Shopped again.

 

 

17-Real demon?-Fake.  Just a cool picture I found.

 

18. Real Ghost? Real.  This is one of the first paranormal photos ever taken that has yet to this day, been debunked.  It is said to be the REAL DEAL and they call it The Brown Lady ghost.

 

 

Well, hope you had fun playing....till next week......Happy Hunting. :)



DO THEY....OR DON'T THEY???

One of the questions I get asked a lot is "do ghosts or spirits PROTECT us?"  My first response is YES!!!  But here's the deal....spirits can act as that "little voice" in our heads that tells us to THINK TWICE sometimes when we normally wouldn't.  Kinda like.....I NORMALLY would take my dogs out every morning to go potty and never look down.....I would just open the door and let them out and step out right after them......been doing it the same way over and over again for years........BUT........on a particular  morning I got up and started my NORMAL routine as always to let the dogs out.  I opened the door......the dogs ran out.....and for SOME REASON.....I have NO idea WHY.......but this morning that "little voice" in my head.....said I needed to look down.  So.....I looked down before stepping out and thank goodness I DID because there was a BIG SNAKE laying right where I normally would have stepped.  Just Good Luck?....Intuition? or SOMEONE watching out for me!!!  I bet you can guess which ONE I think it was!!!

On Facebook, there is a group from Salem, Mass that is always posting the coolest pics so it made me think of a photo I took..... that I think shows spirits or ghosts whichever you prefer to call them...protecting a young boy.  Oh....I have to throw this in......if you don't follow me on Facebook please do!   It's Becky Vickers-Becksgh.  OK....back to the story.....

I went to Salem back in 2005 and I can tell you it was AMAZING!  For someone that is interested in the paranormal I can't think of a better place to be!!!  Anyway, I had taken a ghost tour around the city and of course we walked by an old cemetery where most of the "accused" witches where buried.  Around the cemetery was a rod iron fence with spikes on the top. You can see them in these pictures.




The above pics show the fence around the cemetery.  As we walked around listening to the tour guide, there was this young boy that wasn't at all interested in what was going on.  You know....he was just doing his OWN THING.  Anyway, we stopped in front of the cemetery and the little boy jumps up on a stone ledge that was around part of the cemetery.  I was trying to pay attention to our tour guide but I was sooooo uneasy about this little boy on this ledge!  He was hoping back and forth and his parents weren't paying any attention at all!  I remember thinking to myself......there are a lot of spirits here.....could you PLEASE watch over this young boy because IF he falls......one wrong move....he will fall straight onto those spikes on top of the fence!!!!  Well, below is the picture I took of him on the ledge..........and well......you tell me........do you think anyone heard me???  One on each side....

I DO believe spirits can PROTECT us, maybe not in a physical sense...but they can give us CLUES to help protect ourselves. They can come to us in a dream, we can hear a tiny little voice, see something we may have not noticed before....but they TRY to get our attention...the best way they can to help protect us and guide us in the direction that God intended us to go. :)  We can't have the mind set that our loved ones WILL ALWAYS protect us from harms way....but when they can.....THEY DO!!!

Close up of the orb in pic #2

I just wanted to post a couple more pics that I thought were so cool that I took at the same cemetery.  I don't think they were protecting anyone....but I think THEY definitely wanted to be seen.

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Look how thin the headstones are.



A man was stoned to death in this exact spot
because he would not confess to being a witch.