During World War Two, there were so many instances of people back home having supernatural experiences or crisis apparitions at the time of their loved one’s death overseas that it launched a never before research initiative to understand the phenomena.
A crisis apparition happens when someone we know, a mother, father, friend, child, brother, or neighbor or friend dies and at the time of their death something happens. It can be the movement of an object, a clock stopping, a light turning on and off, a dog barking. Whatever it is that happens, you know it when it happens, and you immediately associate it with the death of the person you cared about. When the other side reaches out to us, it is in a way that we can understand.
My favorite story is of a woman who received the phone call that her grandfather’s death is imminent. She got into her car to drive to his home. While she’s driving, she smells cigar smoke. It is profound, it fills the car, she looks at the clock and notices that it is 10:00 PM. When she arrives at her grandfather’s house, she discovered that he had passed away at 10:00 PM. and something everybody knew was that he loved cigars.
When thinking of the unexplainable, water in general has a long history of supernatural beliefs. Austin, Texas, is surrounded by water. On three sides. Shoal Creek on one side, Waller Creek on the other side, and the Colorado River on the south.
In some cultures, it’s believed that. Evil can’t cross water.
It is extremely common for legends to emerge around haunted locations.
A good example is the Driskill Hotel in Austin, Texas. It is believed the Driskill is haunted by many ghosts. Austen Ghost Tour guide Monica Ballard wrote a book about all of the stories she heard and still hears as a tour guide with the original Austin Ghost Tours. She collected stories from the maids, the cooks, and the people who stayed there as a guest.
One of the most common ghosts of the Driskill is supposed to be. Colonel Driskill, the man who built the Driskill Hotel. We sometimes have a hard time believing this because six months after the Driskill opened, it closed and Colonel Driskill never stepped foot in the building again and he died years later and not even in Austin. Yet his ghost, or the ghost believed to be him, remains a long. Tail within the Driskill building. The original Austin Ghost Tours has tried very hard to find out who this ghost that seems to be like Colonel Driskill is, and we are still stopped.
Sometimes in life a person can become extremely attached to a particular location. The reasons for this are endless. Here is an example of a haunted house.
A woman moved into her house as a newlywed and lived in that location until the day she died at 80 years old. She saw her children go to school, grow up, and perhaps die. Her attachment to the house is very strong and full of emotion. She lived there with her husband, who had died long before her. She buried plants that he loved in memory of him. Every Sunday, she put on Chanel number five before church. And cooked a pot of beans for when they returned to make Sunday dinner. After she died, the children sold the house, and a new couple moved in. And sometimes on a Sunday, after going out, they would return home in the house to smell cooking beans and every now and then in the bathroom was a whiff of Chanel #5.
Some of the haunted buildings in Austin, Texas, which Austin Ghost Tours has discovered are public buildings. The Stephen F Austin Hotel, The Omni Hotel in downtown Austin., Green Pastures Restaurant, and the town lake, to name a few. The Colorado River itself is supposed to have some kind of untoward entity in it. Barton Springs has long been known to be a very spiritual place. The Elizabeth Nay Museum.
The Capital of Texas has long been telling stories of ghosts appearing in the hallways, the Senate chambers, in the Legislature chambers and in the private quarters of elected officials. One of those stories includes – a horse. Way back before the capital was the capital, it was a hill that allowed the new settlers to look in every direction. And keep safe because there was a war going on between the indigenous people and the new people coming to the land. Therefore.
The hill was first used as a Ranger station for the Texas Rangers.
At the original Austin Ghost Tours, we discovered that that particular Ranger location was the western most point when the capital of Texas had yet to be established. And what that meant was the most important structure was the structure that kept the horses safe. So it was a location that had stables because that was how Rangers got word to and from other rangers. It was the horse that allowed the Texas Ranger to keep the countryside safe. It wasn’t uncommon for rangers to ride from station to station and their horses die upon arrival. The death of a horse who ran shard was not uncommon. When Monica Ballard, our tour guide, was a tour guide at the capital, she remembers going down to the basement of the capital, which is now. Many offices that go deep underground and feeling a swish go behind by her and hearing the sound of what sounded like a horse running and leather creaking. And at that time, she didn’t know that property had once been a Ranger station. But she’s not the only one who’s had the smell and sound of a horse or horses on the Capitol grounds.
