FROZEN IN TIME-THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS YOUNG WOMAN VOWING TO GET REVENGE!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!   

Well, here we go again!!!  Another year to "make things happen"!  Do what you want to do......be who you want to be......love who you want to love.....start that diet for the 5th year in a row....but MOST OF ALL.......ghost hunt your butt off!!!! LOL

My new year is bringing sooooooo many NEW THINGS that I am soooooo excited about........a new radio show, a new book and hopefully many more investigations of unbelievable haunted places!!! So you guys hang on......it's going to be a FUN RIDE!!!!!!!!!!!

I thought I would post a short and sweet story today because.......well..........just because I liked it. lol

So here we go.........oh wait before I forget.....be sure and watch in the next couple of weeks for my posting on the VERY HAUNTED LEMP MANSION in Saint Louis.  I just got to do a quick visit there this past Monday and I'll tell you all about it as well as hopefully have some ghostly pictures to show you and if I'm lucky maybe even a couple of Class A EVP's!

Ok....back to my story.

Vivia Thomas was the daughter of a wealthy Boston businessman and attended the finest schools.  One day, at a social gathering, she met a handsome army officer.  After a whirlwind courtship, they got engaged.  Vivia was on cloud 9 about her engagement but soon her happiness would turn into a terrible tragedy.  Shortly, before her wedding, the young officer disappeared, only leaving a note to Vivia that said he was going out west in search of adventure.  What a loser!!!!(Sorry, personal feelings got in the way there)  Vivia was enraged and embarrassed by the sudden disappearance of her beloved solider and SWORE she WOULD get her REVENGE!!!!!

After many hours of restless sleep, she found out that he had been stationed at Fort Gibson in Indian Territory.  Vivia came up with her REVENGE plan.......she would cut off her hair, put on men's clothes, and depart for Fort Gibson to enlist in the army.  Now, this girl was "TICKED OFF". lol Careful not to get caught, she watched the young officer and waited for her chance to put her DEADLY plan into action.  On a cold day in December an opportunity presented itself.  She stationed herself with a gun behind a rock she knew her ex-finance would ride by, and as he did, she shot and killed him,  When they found him, they assumed he had died at the hands of the Indians and brought his body back to the fort to be buried.

At first Vivia was extremely continent in knowing that she had gotten her revenge!!!!  But then guilt set in.  Each night she would go to his grave and weep.  On a frigid January night in 1870, she was overcome by her grief and weep herself to sleep.  The next morning, they discovered her frozen body.  The fort's doctor examined her corpse and found that the young soldier wasn't actually a man...the frozen body was that of a woman.  A priest in whom Vivia had confided then came forward, and her whole tragic story unfolded.

Today, you can find Vivia buried at Fort Gibson National Cemetery in Oklahoma in a place called the Circle of Honor.  The Circle of Honor is for solider's who in some way "stood out" in the army.

Vivia's ghost is often seen weeping in soldier's uniform for her solider's forgiveness.  Who knows, if that peace will ever come.

THE ALAMO-THE MENGER HOTEL(SAN ANTONIO)- SO MANY GHOSTLY EXPERIENCES TO NAME THEM ALL!!!

I was asked to re-post my blog on the Alamo for someone that is doing a project on the Ghost of the Alamo.  The two previous post are about the Alamo and the Menger Hotel right beside the Alamo.  I did my research paper on the Ghost of the Menger when I was trying to get Certified in this field.  I went to the Menger and ask permission to investigate.  Let me tell you....I went alone...and ask to stay in the most haunted room with the most activity.  I did not really have any experiences in my room BUT every other place in this hotel I had plenty!!!!

1st-  One of my FAVORITE places ever....great pics(orbs, mist, ect) and lots of paranormal activity is...of course....The Alamo in San Antonio Tx.

Originally named Mission San Antonio de Valero, the Alamo served as home to missionaries and their Indian converts for nearly seventy years. Construction began on the present site in 1724. In 1793, Spanish officials secularized San Antonio's five missions and distributed their lands to remaining Indian residents.  A small band of Texans held out for thirteen days against the Centralist army of General Antonio López de Santa Anna.  Although the Alamo finally fell in the early morning hours of March 6, 1836.

As with any battle ground, there are lots of spirits that remain behind...for so many different reasons.  Some because they died so tragically that they don't even realize they are dead, some because they knew this place as home and don't want to leave, some because maybe they feel they have "unfinished" business...such as the battle itself....maybe they are still "battling".  Who knows?  The one thing I can tell you is that there is no shortage of ghosts around the Alamo, you need MORE than just one night to see and do all there is to do.  Reports of soldiers, canons, cries, guns and many more sounds are found here.  And Pics.....Some of my most interesting and favorite photos are from the Alamo. 

So, pack up the EMF meters, K-2's and your camera and head to San Antonio for the weekend.

The Alamo, 2009-Nice orb

One of my FAVORITE all time photos!
A solider standing in front of the Alamo.
We could not see him at the time, but the
girl to the right was actually there.

 

 

2nd- As long as your at the Alamo, DO NOT miss the opportunity to go to the Menger Hotel right next door. 
The Menger is located adjacent to the Alamo and first opened in 1859, just 23 years after the battle at the Alamo, by owner William Menger and architect John Fries.

 I had soooo many experiences here.... from the minute I opened my door and the radio was playing...which the bell hop had just told me...one of the things that people were experiencing was the radio already being turned on in their rooms before they checked in.  He also told me the maids were NOT allowed to listen to the music or leave the room if any music was playing!!!Around 3:00am I heard very LOUD footsteps walking up behind me while my head was down taking some reading in one of the hallways, but when I looked up there was no one there!(so loud that I actually said out loud "excuse me, let me get out of your way) voices, cold spots, strange noises and even the elevator opening and closing on its on!........ I'll have to tell you about THAT later...and even a photo with a picture of a face in the courtyard, I believe to be Guston Borlum the sculpture of Mount Rushmore.  DON'T pass this one up!!! 

Courtyard at the Menger Hotel



The Menger

Inside the Menger



Orb in courtyard





A face I believe is Guston Borlum



Guston Borlum
 

I can say that I LOVE this place!!!  And if you look hard enough you can find secret stairways, dark closets and many places that I'm not sure to many people know about unless they are looking.

Anyway, hope this helps a little with your paper.  And thanks for writing me and letting me know you were doing the paper on me and ghosts! :)