Some of my favorite historic buildings are churches. Not the grandiose, gilded ones that I view more as art museums, but the more spartan ones that were built through the passionate faith of their artisans. Recently, I met two caretakers who confided in me that spirits visit their rural parish and, while at first it [...]
“I wonder if the spirit here is a child. The owner said that the ghost tugs at people’s clothing,” says our lead investigator, Sharon Leong. Our group is participating in the Nevada Ghost Series, Historic Truckee Ghost Hunt Field Trip class. The Leong sisters, Anne and Sharon, are the most creative ghost hunters I know [...]
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My friend, uncomfortable with his new business space, wanted to know if I could come by. He explained that he and his business partner opened a music/video recording studio in an old renovated house just west of downtown Reno. Soon after settling in, weird noises (laughter, talking and stomping up the stairs) had begun. The [...]
St. Mary’s Arts Center, the former hospital and orphanage for the 1870s’ silver boom town of Virginia City, Nevada, isn’t the most haunted place I’ve visited, but it’s still quite active. A passerby may mistake this three-story, red brick building as a large, stately mansion with its long driveway lined by parched, thin trees. A [...]
For many months after my life-altering Goldfield Hotel experience (GFH), I’d have rather been pinned to the ground and covered in fire ants than to enter that haunted edifice again. I stayed mentally overwhelmed. The experience loomed over me every day. I was unsure of what I knew. Frightened of what else could happen. I [...]
