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Jefferson, Texas is known to some as the most haunted small town in Texas. There are many stories associated with the town and with the many old buildings in the town, the Jefferson Hotel being no exception. While most guests and employees have not had any ghostly experiences, there are several stories that have been told through the years.
Guests at the one hundred and fifty year old building on the historic Jefferson waterfront regularly report similar occurrences. Whispers from nowhere, orchestra music from a closed dining hall, knocks on walls and headboards, the smell of cigar smoke in the smoke-free building, faucets opening of their own accord, and doors pulling back when pulled shut!!! People who have been the only guests in the hotel have heard the click-clack of footsteps walking the halls in the middle of the night - even though the hall is carpeted! Children have been heard laughing and romping throughout the hotel in the middle of the night. A child calls for mama, a baby cries, but no children were staying in the hotel! A former desk clerk named Michael was ending his shift. It was the middle of a slow week and there were no "paying" guests staying at the hotel overnight. Michael made his rounds upstairs, turning off lights and locking rooms before leaving for the night. He was closing the last door in the long, dark hallway when the doors started opening and slamming shut all at once! Lights turned on and off as Michael dashed downstairs and phoned his friend Phyllis, a desk clerk at the Excelsior Hotel across the street. Phyllis reports that Michael was in a complete panic when he called, screaming that he was alone in the hotel but that "all heck" was breaking loose upstairs! He said he could hear doors slamming and the sound of footsteps and someone dragging furniture. Michael locked up and waited in the street for his ride that night. Then there is the story of a couple in ROOM 5 whose young son awakened them repeatedly because a man in a long coat and high boots would not go away. Whispers and repetitive knocks are common occurrences. At times there is a thick white cloud with a thin, long-haired blonde in the mist. She seems to be emotionally attached to a bed that was moved from ROOM 12 to ROOM 14. A ninety year old man reluctantly told his tale of wandering the hotel at one in the morning after not being able to sleep. He saw the petite blonde woman floating down the stairs smiling at him, only to disappear before she reached the bottom step. He said he never believed in ghosts until he saw her! Walking into some rooms, one can get the feeling of being watched. In ROOM 19 a man told his wife to go back to sleep when she awakened him with rants about a petite woman who chilled the wife's arm with a touch of her hand. Another woman took one step into the same room and refused to stay there - stating that she could tell the room was haunted. Directly under ROOM 19, ROOM 20 seems to be another very active place. Two older women staying there kept waking to the sound of running water from the bathroom they'd turn off the spigot, only to wake to its splashing later in the night. One night, a woman was staying with her husband in ROOM 24 near the front of the hotel. She happened to wake up at five the next morning, so she got up and went into the hallway to make coffee. As she turned, she noticed a nice-looking man dressed in western clothes go into the entrance foyer down the hall to ROOMS 20 and 21. Thinking it strange that she had not heard any doors opening or closing she went down the hall to investigate. The doors to both rooms were wide open, and there was no-one in either room! On another occasion, a girl was hired to stay a few nights while the owners were away. She wanted to be next to the only guest staying that night as she was uneasy about being alone all night in the hotel. So she decided to sleep in ROOM 23 downstairs. She was awakened about three in the morning to the sounds of scrapping and banging in the room above her as though someone was moving furniture. Needless to say, she didn't get up and check it out! The next morning, the people in the room next to her asked if she had heard loud noises from upstairs the previous night. It seems that the scrapping and banging had also awakened them at the same time! There are rumors that one of the hotel's specters might be Mrs. Schluter, the woman who ran the hotel during the 1890's through the roaring 20's. A story circulated by some tells of an 1890's bride who hung herself when the groom sent word he was not coming to marry her. The sounds of someone crying has also brought people wide awake, and they never discover where the weeping is coming from It echoes from everywhere. Camera crews from various local TV stations and radio stations have all had their own weird experiences while taping programs in the hotel, from cameras not working in certain areas of the hotel to recorders turning themselves off and on. Pictures, after being developed, showed strange anomalies in them. The identities of the hotel phantasms remain as mysterious as their advent. Is there one ghost or many? A psychic years ago said the hotel has seven nonpaying guests! Story from:
www.historicjeffersonhotel.com |
In this two hour program, Jerry and his producer, Roberta Scott drive to Jefferson, billed as the most haunted town in Texas. The program begins with Jerry talking with a listener about true ghost stories as he winds his way through the hills of East Texas to take part in a ghost hunt with the Dallas Metroplex Paranormal Investigations group. The remainder of the program consists of a series of interviews with residents of the haunted Jefferson Hotel in downtown Jefferson and at the ghost train depot. Interviews include Vicki Isaacs, founder of the paranormal investigation group, and Dr. Rita Louise, well known psychic and alternative medicine practitioner, who tells Jerry about the communications she is having with "the other side", as they explore many locations said to be haunted in Jefferson.
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