If you have had an experience with the paranormal or want to, this is the place for you. You will find ghost stories,unexplained pics, inexpensive ways to investigate a haunting, ghost hunting tools and equipment for your everyday Ghost Hunter. No fancy equipment required. Spirits and the whole "after life" has been questioned for centuries. Lets see if together, we can't come up with some answers. Take a haunted ghost tour with me to Goatman's Bridge! Evil never was so kind.
Behind Every Cloud is a Kindred Spirit (BECKS)I lost my grandfather when I was 17. I had a VERY difficult time getting over it. How could I still communicate with him? I loved him so much I didn't think I could live without him. I read everything I could get my hands on to do with the "afterlife" and that started it all...the love of Ghost Hunting and the Paranormal. I have been researching the paranormal for over 37 years!! It is my way of staying in touch with my grandfather. Being a Ghost Hunter is not always as exciting as it seems on TV. Many nights I have sat in the dark and not a thing happened. BUT it is those times you DO get that one voice, that one explainable picture or have an experience that sends chills down your back that makes it sooo worth it all!!! My purpose of this blog is not to make people believe in ghosts but maybe to open their minds just a little bit... I LOVE this crazy thing called Ghost Hunting. It is as much a part of me as breathing. I am just a girl that refuses to accept we can't still contact our loved ones after they die. My grandfather won't let me.
Looking for Ghost Hunting locations? Sometimes we are wanting to do something so badly that we OVERLOOK what's in your own backyard. And ghost hunting is no different. I have traveled all over world in search of some of the most haunted places, and come to find out one of the most haunted places I have ever been is right "in my own backyard"......Goatman's Bridge.
This past Saturday I went to support my good friend Tui Snider who was speaking at the Dallas Public Library. Tui is an amazing author with several #1 Books on Amazon. She was talking about her new book 100 Things To Do In Dallas Fort Worth Before You Die Tui Snider which I might add is a #1 New Release on Amazon. In her book she names several places for you to visit around the Dallas, Fort Worth area, and some of which are haunted! She also tells you about other things like restaurants, museums, shopping, history and sport hot spots. Listening to Tui got me to thinking....everyone needs to take a close look around their area, it just might surprise them with what they find! And before I forget, I want to give a shout-out to Donna and Denise who was at Tui's lecture who had came on one of our Overnight Special Events at Goatman's Bridge. It was great to you guys again. Have fun on the Queen Mary! Sorry, got off track. LOL
For instance, Tui named several places around Dallas, Fort Worth that are haunted and I have not heard of them! Places like The DeGolyer Mansion at the Dallas Arboretum and The Lizard Lounge. You can bet I will be checking those out!!!
Me and Tui
Tui Snider
One of the fun things we got to do after Tui's lecture was go to the VERY HAUNTED The Sons of Hermann Hall. I had been wanting to check it out for a couple years now. First, I just want to say that the two guys that showed us around were awesome! They were soooo nice and told us we could just go wherever we liked. I'm sorry, I didn't catch their names but I do know one was on The Board. They told us about the eerie feelings they get late at night when closing up and that some people have seen a spirit of a lady. Also, some well-dressed ghostly concertgoer's have been spotted.
Donna and Denise
Tui and Larry(Tui's husband)
Larry told us to put our best foot forward. You can see we're not used to that. LOL
Wait! I have a "best foot"???
One of the guys that showed us around.
Now, The Sons of Hermann has a lot of local musicians come in and play as well as a night of dancing. And not just any "dancing" it's SWING DANCING!!! How fun is that??? This place did not feel negative in anyway to me, as a matter of fact, just the opposite. It was a very relaxed, easy feeling, sounds weird but really....almost a "happy" feeling. Which doesn't surprise me given how friendly the staff is and being so open to having the public come in and play music. Heck, if I were a ghost I would want to hang out here!
Anyway, ghost hunting is awesome know matter where you are, but be sure not overlook what's right in front of you. So, get out there and HUNT!!!!!
Electronic Voice Phenomena-EVP's that's what we say here in the paranormal world but you guys already knew that. :) One of the MOST exciting developments in the field of the paranormal is the use of technology to capture unexplained human voices or sounds. That's what we LOVE right??? A voice that is answering our questions or saying something that we KNOW we didn't say.
So it is ALL ABOUT GOATMAN'S Bridge this week because I want you guys to join me next month for the Fall Tours starting back as well as watching Zak and the crew from Ghost Adventures this weekend on Sat. night at 8:00CT on the Travel Channel.
OLD ALTON BRIDGE, Hickory Creek, TX-Old Alton Bridge (sometimes called Goatman's Bridge - see below) is a historic iron through-truss bridge connecting the cities of Denton, Texas and Copper Canyon, Texas. Built in 1884, by the King Iron Bridge Manufacturing Company, it originally carried horses and later automobiles over Hickory Creek at a location that once was a popular ford for crossing cattle. The bridge takes its name from the abandoned community of Alton, which between 1850-1856 was the seat of Denton County .
Long story...short.....There was a black goat farmer named Oscar Washburn. He started becoming well known around the community for selling goats. Oscar put up a sign on the Old Alton Bridge that said "this way to goatman's". This was back when the KKK was VERY present in Denton County. They did not like that Oscar was becoming successful. So one night they decided to wait for him on the bridge. When Oscar came to the bridge to cross on his way home, the KKK grabbed him and hung him over the side of the bridge. Later that night they came to check on Oscar and make sure he was dead. They found nothing hanging over the side of the bridge but a noose. No body....no Oscar. This scared the KKK because they didn't want him to talk about what had happen to him so they went to his house.....only to find that Oscar wasn't their but his wife and children were. The KKK drug his wife and children out of the house and brutally murdered them. I have spoken with Oscar several times and he is such a kind, sweet spirit. But there is also a spirit I have talked to named Steve and he is a different story! I believe he was the Grand Dragon of the KKK for the North Texas area. He has no remorse for what he has done.
I have had soooo many experiences here!!! Some not so good! I have awesome EVP's, pictures of dark shadows, orbs, balls moving on their own and this is the ONLY place that I have EVER been that I have actually been grabbed. I believe Steve gabbed(not touched, but GRABBED) my leg while I was sitting in a chair telling him that I knew who he was and what he did! It was VERY SCARY!!!
When I just need my "ghost fix" I just head out to Old Alton....because I know there.....someone ALWAYS wants to talk or be seen.
Oscar Washburn
Old Alton Bridge
The filming for the Bio Channel and I can say it was a
dream come true for me to have my work
recognized.
