Post by Graveyardbride on Oct 20, 2014 12:17:59 GMT -5
Wild West Ghost Excursions
Fort Concho National Historic Landmark in St. Angelo, Texas, was built in the 1860s. This isolated outpost was abandoned in 1889 and is now a museum. One Christmas, tour guide Conrad McClure was tending the fireplace when suddenly, he says, a shadowy form in soldier’s garb brushed past him. Examining the fort’s records soon thereafter, McClure discovered that only one soldier died at the fort, 2d Sgt. Cunningham. An alcoholic, Cunningham was hospitalized for liver disease and released for the holidays. He died in his barracks on Christmas Day. McClure has also seen the spirit of the camp’s surgeon. Several drifters were murdered in one of the buildings in the 1890s and their phosphorescent ghosts haunt the museum’s library, once Officer’s Quarters No. 7.
Taos, New Mexico. Several ghosts hang around this scenic mountain town. The spirits of New York socialite and patron of the arts Mabel Dodge Luhan and her Indian husband Tony are said to inhabit their former home. Las Palomas de Taos Adobe (above), where they once entertained such illustrious guests as D. H. Lawrence and Georgia O’Keefe.
Just north of the Plaza, the Governor Bent Museum is haunted by a less savory crew. On January 18, 1847, Governor Charles Bent found himself confronted by a mob protesting American rule in this former Mexican province. Attempting to address the crowd from his terrace, he was shot with bullets and arrows and scalped. His family managed to escape by digging through an adobe wall. His murderers were hanged and their ghosts still linger at the site of their grisly deed.
The spirit of legendary mountain man and Indian fighter Kit Carson lingers in Taos, too, haunting the Kit Carson Home & Museum, his former home.
Source: Peter Jensen, Discovery Travel.