I’m really enjoying traveling and talking to people about their ghostly experiences. Most of the successful conversations have been with waitresses at various establishments along the way. Yesterday, we stopped in Walden, Colorado, a town about halfway between Steamboat Springs, Colorado and Laramie, Wyoming. The town is a picture perfect Western town with log cabins,…
Category: Freaky Friday
Off Your Rocker
We’re traveling this week and next week, bringing Andrew to the MTC (Mission Training Center) in Provo and dropping Sarah and Ian off in Rexburg. On the way, we stopped at a Cracker Barrel Restaurant and saw all the rocking chairs lined up in front of the building. And, of course, it reminded me of…
Winneshiek Theater
Winneshiek Theater is the oldest continuous running amateur theater in the United States. With that claim to fame – small wonder that it should have its own ghost. The ghost of Winneshiek has been heard by many – but never seen. Often actors standing backstage can hear the familiar footsteps upstairs in the Green Room,…
The Summer Walk
This story was told to me by a friend who had just spent several weeks visiting with her sister, Penny, in Georgia. I’ll tell it to you the same way she told it to me. It was getting late, but we had promised each other that we were going to exercise every day. This day…
Nurses
I survived the loss of power for twenty-four hours, but with no power comes no internet. So, this morning’s Freaky Friday doesn’t have as much research or backstory, but I hope you still find them interesting. A few months ago, I wrote a Freaky Friday based on a book written by a doctor who had…
Friends (Part Two)
Last week I introduced you to Charity and Timothy Friend of Cumberland, Maryland. Well, this week I’m going to skip to the end of the story. We had finished walking around the downtown for close to two hours and we were all ready to go home. Timothy and my husband had been having their own…
Friends (Part One)
Last weekend my husband, Richard, and I drove to Dover, Delaware to participate in the blessing of our nineteenth grandchild, Blake. We left our home early Thursday morning and then ended our driving day in Cumberland, Maryland. Let me give you a little history about Cumberland. It was named by English colonists after the son…
Show Me State
On my drive back and forth to and from Branson, Missouri, I passed several large billboards that really intrigued me. They advertised the Missouri State Penitentiary Tours. Paranormal Tours. I don’t think I’d ever seen anything like that – so I decided to do a little research. Located near Jefferson City, Missouri, the Missouri State…
Eureka!
A few years ago, my family spent a week together in lovely Branson, Missouri, for a family reunion. We had 34 people at the Fall Village Resort, and the adults were outnumbered by the children by four. (I won’t make you do a math word problem – we had 15 adults and 19 grandchildren.) I…
Floors
Several years ago, my daughter, Sarah, and her two-year old son, Ian, were staying with us for part of the summer. And when Sarah is home, the activity in our house increases. I think it’s because we have a little one in the house again and the “Grandma ghost” is trying to watch over him. …