When my writers’ critique
group buddy, Dawn Storey, suggested that our members, Marilyn (Chica) Zapata
and I attend a ghost tour in Galveston, along with their husbands, we jumped at
the chance. As writers with vivid imaginations, we love hearing good stories,
and the possibility of seeing a ghost or two lured us down to the Strand area
for the “Restless Spirit” tour.
After bolstering our courage
with a couple of margaritas at The Originial Mexican Café, we hit the darkened
streets in search of ghostly adventures.
The photo at left shows
(left to right) Chica, Dawn’s husband, Doug, me and Dawn, listening to our
guide tell the story about an unfortunate death, many years ago, in a meat
grinder at a factory that is now the location of a Fuddrucker’s restaurant.
Folks in the building say you can still hear the clanking noise of the grinder,
even though it’s no longer there. Eyeww!!
We trudged through spooky alleyways (me, Dawn, and Doug) but
didn’t see nary a ghostly figure.
But when we stopped for a group photo in the alley, we
spotted an eerie shadow on the camera screen that appeared, not only behind
Dawn’s head, but wrapped around the front side of her body as well. Can shadows
do that? Yikes!
Later, we paused to check the photos on our I-phones for
signs of “orbs”—the tiny spots of light that signify the presence of energy
fields created by ghosts. In the photo are Dawn, Chica’s husband, Art, and me.
Here we are at left, perched on a window ledge, as we waited
for fellow tour members to take a break during the 2-hour tour for beverages
and pit stops.
After a while, I got tired of looking for ghosts, and began spotting UFO’s instead.
Look, there’s one now!!!
At the end of the tour, we took another group photo in front
of the Voodoo Lounge, the site of another gruesome murder. The place was closed
that night, with no one inside, but, in the first shot, notice the blue light
in the left window and the pink light in the right window. In the second shot,
taken just a few seconds later, the blue light has disappeared. Hmm…
In spite of the fact that we didn’t encounter any ghostly
apparitions during our outing, we had a fun time and returned home with a few spooky
mysteries to ponder. O-O-O-O-O-O!!!
More adventures to come!
