I'm often asked why I make so many Halloween customs. When you scroll through my custom horses, you'll notice that a huge portion of what I make are Halloween horses, sometimes using my own ideas and other times inspired by previous Halloween decorators made by Breyer. Honestly, Halloween decorators are so much fun to make. They're challenging without being impossible, they're unique and they're popular. Most importantly though (and I totally understand if after this post you think I'm a weirdo and stop following my blog though I'm hoping the majority of you will find it interesting) is my own experiences with the paranormal. If y'all don't mind, I'd like to drift a bit away from the model horse hobby and take you on a ghost hunt. Well, actually several ghost hunts because, aside from Breyer, I'm a huge believer in spiritualism. I can completely understand if you're a skeptic and if you stop reading right here. It's ok. If you do decide to continue, I would like to share with you my own experiences with the paranormal. Anyways, we'll start with the first time I ever encountered a ghost. Actually, I didn't realize it at the time that I did, until I got home and reviewed the pictures I took on my camera. It was at Washaba Street Caves in Saint Paul, MN. My husband grew up there, and we were visiting relatives when he suggested going to this place reported to be one of the most haunted places in Minnesota. I wasn't expecting much. It was a tour, so I figured with all the people around, nothing would show up. Then, we got to near the back of the cave and the guide (dressed in 1920s attire back in the day when Washaba was a speakeasy during prohibition) told us to take pictures while he tried to summon the spirits. He said that this back area was the most haunted part of the cave, and that we were bound to catch something. I saw nothing in real life, but when we got back home, I was shocked to find an orb sitting right over the man's hand as he was speaking to them! In a couple other snap shots, I saw a yellow and red orb, which I thought was weird, but unfortunately I lost the pictures in a move since that time so I don't have them to show you. However, I do have a few pictures I've saved from more recent years. The first was taken at the Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, WV. This is reportedly one of the most haunted locations on the east coast, and hubby wanted to see it. We took a daytime ghost hunt, as I wasn't up to par at the time at the thought of being there in the dark with the spirits, and it didn't disappoint. Honestly, it was this location, not necessarily the Wabasha Street Caves, that got me interested in the paranormal. During an EVP session, hubby ended up capturing this floating orb/mist on the bottom left of the screen close to the dowsing rods. Although we didn't catch anything else in photos, we did get some words on the spirit box in a different room, in which we heard a loud boom as we were leaving the room, both of which were caught on video. Another time we heard what sounded like someone dropping marbles in a sink. When we went into the room we heard it coming from, it stopped. We walked back out and started down the hallway, then it started up again. We returned to the room to again find nothing and the sound stopped. On our way out into the hallway this time, I got cold chills all of a sudden, and goosebumps on my arms/legs despite it being a warm, humid June afternoon. I truly believed that I walked through whoever was in that room making those sounds and that was my body's reaction. Our final encounter that day was while my husband was recording a video. A ball of light flashed in front of his camera while I was talking to the tour guide. Although I can't add the video on a free Weebly site, maybe one day I'll upload it to my Youtube channel. It's raw footage, and obviously we're complete amateurs so it's not going to be a Ghost Adventures quality documentary, but it's still interesting. Last weekend, we stayed in Gettysburg at the Tillie Pierce House. This was our first stay in what was known to be a true haunted house, as it was a field hospital during the battle. Now let me tell ya, if you're into ghosts, Gettysburg has it going on! The place is so haunted that the people who live there are meandering with spirits on a daily basis, and they've got plenty of stories of their own. To get back to horses for a moment, we did go on a guided horseback ride through the battlefield, which is really cool and I highly recommend to all you horse lovers. We rode the battlefield the last time we were in Gettysburg a couple years ago on our own horses but this time we had a narrator to tell us what we were riding over. Hubby was on a pretty little palomino named Disney, who was very, um... shall we say... mare-ish, and I rode Blue, who ironically shares a name with our dapple grey at home. This Blue, however, was a fleabitten grey with very little actual grey, mostly white. He was probably a dapple grey at one time and then faded to white as he got older. I did think his pink nose was adorable! He was fun to ride, one of those horses that isn't so barn sour they just follow the leader. He actually listened to my commands, and every time we'd stop, he'd look back at me as if asking what we were going to do next. Disney, on the other hand, sure made sure we kept our distance. She was side-eyeing Blue the whole ride LOL. After our 2 hour ride, we went back to the hotel until 11 PM when we decided to take a ghost tour in town that went to the Jennie Wade House (who was the only civilian to be killed during the war) and the Orphanage. Again, as with the Wabasha Street Caves, it was a big group so I didn't think we'd be likely to catch much, and I was correct with the Orphanage. We didn't really get much activity there. The Jennie Wade House, however, was a different story. Only two things in the house are original: a clock and a bread pan. Jennie was apparently making bread on that bread pan when she was shot, and when I took a picture of the bread pan, I caught this: Apparently Jennie is still baking bread in the exact same place where she was shot over 100 years ago. It was the only picture in the house that I captured that had a mist both times I took the picture. I tried it again to take a better one but the mist was still there, though not as bright. In another part of the house, the guide said it was haunted by a little boy, and that he particularly liked this trunk: While taking a picture of the trunk, I saw a ball of light flash through the lens of my camera. I didn't catch the ball the first time, but I did the second time. Was it the little boy? After leaving the attic where the trunk was, we headed down to the basement, where Jennie's father is still said to reside (and where Zak from Ghost Adventures was pinched in the rear after climbing on top of her dead "body"... yeah you'll have to look that one up if you've never seen it) and for some reason, I felt drawn to this hallway, so I started filming. I ended up capturing a video of what looked like the shadow of a little person peeking from behind the veil that was covering the hallway. I truly wish I could upload videos to share it with y'all because it creeped me out! Not only that, but I saw it out of the corner of my eye before I realized I caught it on video. It was pitch black down there and everyone on the tour was sitting down, so I see no other logical explanation. One picture that I can share with you though is a picture I snapped of the battlefield on the way back from our ghost tour. I figured since we were walking down the road beside it, why not? At first, I didn't see anything, but then on further inspection, I ended up zooming in on what I thought looked like a soldier staring back at me beside the tree on the far left. It was night so there should have been nobody else on the battlefield since the park closed at 10 PM, and honestly it looked too transparent to be a living person. Note the hat he's wearing. This was the first full body apparition I've ever caught as of yet. This was it, however, as we were woken up at 5 AM to the sound of footsteps and someone heavy breathing down the hallway, past our door, and ended at the stairs before we heard no more. The owner said she never stays at the house, and the only other people in the house at the time were in the room to the right of us while the stairs were to the left. I thought maybe it was one of them and they had asthma or something, only to find out that the footsteps had woken them too, and that they were both still in their room sleeping when it happened. Who was it then? Well, the only explanation I can come up with possibly a soldier who had a pierced lung and died while the house was used as a field hospital.
While this isn't all the haunted places we've been to, it should give you an idea of the inspiration behind my Halloween horses. I hope you enjoyed this post, even though it wasn't really horse related. Please feel free to share any paranormal experience you've ever had. Take care until the next post :) 6/23/2020 01:01:14 pm
I really enjoyed this article! I believe in the paranormal as well. 6/21/2021 04:01:37 am
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