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Public Forums => Wrightwood History => Topic started by: ramunden on Nov 22, 04, 03:47:04 AM
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I've always been intrigued by hauntings, ghosts, and the like. Are there any notable hauntings in Wrightwood, or nearby towns like Phelan for that matter?
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Ask about the cowboy who rides the ridgeline along Pinon Ridge past JPL. They say you can hear the hoofbeats and his spurs jingling.
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Ask about the truck driver that pulls a set up hwy 2 during a full moon. They say you can hear his air horn blast when the moon is directly above.
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You may want to inquire about the Acorn Lodge. Someone told me years ago that it was supposedly haunted. I can not remember the details.....emm let me go ask my "ouiji board". ;D
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The narrow two-story cabin two doors down from Tangle Tamers (with the Confederate flag outside) was supposedly a brothel during Wrightwood's early days. Roger, the old bartender from the Wrightwood Inn, rented the cabin briefly during the 1990s and was so scared that he slept downstairs in the living room. He swore it was haunted.
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What about the LARGE rock house on the right side of Hwy 2, coming into town. It has a rot iron fence/gate and has the large metal garage built next to it. I'm sure that house has GOT to have a great history! Does anybody know anything about that house??
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Patchylou that was a topic some time back, but noone seemed to have any real history of it, just the names of a few former owners.
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Has anyone any firsthand experience with any of these haunts? I'd definitely like to hear some ghost stories straight from those who have witnessed it.
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The narrow two-story cabin two doors down from Tangle Tamers (with the Confederate flag outside) was supposedly a brothel during Wrightwood's early days. Roger, the old bartender from the Wrightwood Inn, rented the cabin briefly during the 1990s and was so scared that he slept downstairs in the living room. He swore it was haunted.
I've heard that for years too. Judy(who works at the minimart) lived there for a couple of years,she would know.I also heard that it and the little brown one next to it used to be one house,anyone know if thats true? What about that big rust colored barn shaped house a block east from mile high pizza,on the corner of walnut and Apple/Helen? I think las plugas lives next to it.It's suppose to be haunted too,I heard it was some new age type place way back in the day.
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OOPS....
I think you mean the big old brick red barn of a house called SKYDORE on the corner of Willow and Helen.
Skydore was built in 1935 by a woman considered to be more than a little, shall we just say, "off the beaten path".
She was the holistic healer / spiritualist of her time. I have heard that the house was used for a "sanitarium" and people sunbathed close to naked over there. Must have been the talk of the town.
There are four-and-a-half pages on SKYDORE in Pearl Comfort Fisher's "THE WRIGHTWOOD WOMEN".... A book(let) which is available to purchase at the Wrightwood Museum next to Mile High Pizza.
See KAY MULLENDORE beginning on page 19
Another good source of local history "WRIGHTWOOD'S PAST" by local Pat Corp Krig.... I also got that booklet at the museum a couple years ago.
If you are interested in local history and have not been to our little museum, you really should come see it. It is in the old WW Firehouse, just next door (downhill) from Mile High Pizza.
Although donations are always welcome, admission is FREE.
Open Saturdays AND Sundays and manned by friendly local volunteers.
COME SEE US SOMETIME.
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Thanks for the info, guys! I'll definitely have to stop by the Wrightwood museum and take a gander. Love the history of the area, and would love to hear about it from people who are particularly knowledgeable on it.
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I ran across an entertaining article in the Daily Press about hauntings in the Cajon Pass and High Desert. Not specific to Wrightwood, but probably close enough.
http://www.vvdailypress.com/living/haunting/
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That was an excellent article! Perfect, exactly the kind of thing I enjoy reading about.
I'll have to do some research and find out if there were indeed caravans attacked by Indians in the Cajon Pass. I'd read a great deal about the area's history, but don't recall anything like that. Thanks!
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You're welcome! I love ghost stories too but I can't read too many of them at a time -- I get too scared!
Chris
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Heh Leftfield, I had to give you a karma point for that one! LOL!
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Thanks Chrislynne. I think I would have more points but this is a tough crowd Im dealing with in here. They seem so......
dead. ;D
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The narrow two-story cabin two doors down from Tangle Tamers (with the Confederate flag outside) was supposedly a brothel during Wrightwood's early days. Roger, the old bartender from the Wrightwood Inn, rented the cabin briefly during the 1990s and was so scared that he slept downstairs in the living room. He swore it was haunted.
I've heard about that! Supposedly, the water upstairs would turn on-and-off randomly. Some say that they saw a white figure in the window.
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;D ;D ;D too funny!
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who knows
i'm up for a spook :f_fullmoon:
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SKYDORE was not a sanitarium, it was used as a hospital and meeting place during the civil war!! Also, off of hwy 2, going out of town, was a dump site, which I believe in the last 6 yrs or so they built condos on!! A friend and I took the time for a weeks about 10 yrs ago to go digging and found many interesting things from old Wrightwood!! There are also many old dumpsites in Phelan, You just have to know how to look!! And don't wait for a full moon to hear and feel the many spirits
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You may want to inquire about the Acorn Lodge. Someone told me years ago that it was supposedly haunted. I can not remember the details.....emm let me go ask my "ouiji board". ;D
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There's been several stories. All of them seem to be of a playful ghost that enjoys "hiding" things temporarily.
Thanks for the REAL STORY on Skydore!
I had originally presumed it was much older than 1935...
Until I read about it in Pearl Comfort Fisher's book...
Her book is where I got what turns out to be my MISinformation....!
THANKS AGAIN!
P.S. Considering the topic: Has anyone ever reported Skydore to be haunted?
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Rosalee Johnson, who has recently passed away (Bob Clyde's sister) used to tell me stories during the time I lived at Clyde Ranch. She told me about the indians coming up to the ranch for water when she was a young girl. She didn't tell me anything else about the indians.
That was an excellent article! Perfect, exactly the kind of thing I enjoy reading about.
I'll have to do some research and find out if there were indeed caravans attacked by Indians in the Cajon Pass. I'd read a great deal about the area's history, but don't recall anything like that. Thanks!
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Rosalee Johnson, who has recently passed away (Bob Clyde's sister) used to tell me stories during the time I lived at Clyde Ranch. She told me about the indians coming up to the ranch for water when she was a young girl. She didn't tell me anything else about the indians.That was an excellent article! Perfect, exactly the kind of thing I enjoy reading about.
I'll have to do some research and find out if there were indeed caravans attacked by Indians in the Cajon Pass. I'd read a great deal about the area's history, but don't recall anything like that. Thanks!
Just curious, but are you the lady that used to make apple pies many years ago. My stepdad used to love the pies from Clyde's Ranch made by a lady who rented the house there. He said they were as good as the pies his mother made when he was a kid back east.
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Can someone explain to me how to attach a file for viewing. I have an entry from the guestbook from Skydore and I don't see how to attach it.
This will tell you how to do it ;)
http://www.wrightwoodcalif.com/forum/index.php/topic,1897.0.html
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I lived there from 1992 to 1994. I made alot of pies and my daughter made candied apples. The Clyde's allowed us to sell them in the packing shed where they sold the apples. So, I guess it would depend on when the pies were bought.
Yes that was the time! Thank you for making such awesome pies. My stepdad was always wishing he could have bought more of your pies after you stopped selling them. You made him very happy and he always commented how good they were, up until he passed away in 1997.
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So does anyone have anymore haunting stories from Wrightwood? Please share.
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I have heard about a ghost that roams the area of helicopter hill, they say it looks like an indian, head band and all.
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Wad there a recent siting?
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An indian at the top of helicopter hill? Pretty entertaining since the locals were not head dress wearing indians. Maybe a b movie actor died up there in costume.
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Well maybe thats why it was a rumor, or he is a really lost soul.
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Maybe the head band is throwing people a curve. It's actually the spirit of a hippie
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Maybe the head band is throwing people a curve. It's actually the spirit of a hippie
Yeah....and he is still on a bad trip! :crazy:
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LOL, to funny mr hillbilly.
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This doesn't count as a confirmed haunting... but one night I was reading in my living room when I saw my cat's gaze transfixed on the stairway behind me. Nothing unusual, cats always do that. But then I saw that my dog -- who would normally be barking at my cat -- was staring at the same place. Neither animal was making any other move. So I turned around... didn't see anything. But I still got up and took a ceramic cross off the wall, and then went up and blessed the staircase!
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It's been a while since we've had a topic get so far out of hand like this one did during the past week. There were way too many comments that did not relate to Wrightwood History including religious beliefs.
It's not easy to moderate comments and opinions of so many different personalities. The Forum rules are in place as a guideline to help moderators avoid extremes within reasonable limits. Posted comments many times drift to others subjects and generally return back to the topic being discussed. It's up to moderators to keep an eye on topics and help guide the discussion within reasonable limits. There have been many times that I've split a topic when it appears that a separate topic would be something forum members want to discuss.
I've rolled this topic back to where the bulk of off topic discussions started. If someone wants to discuss Ouija boards that relate to Haunts in Wrightwood then it's OK to post here as long as it doesn't take on a religious discussion. If it's going to be a general discussion about Ouija boards then it belongs in another topic in the Just For Fun Forum.
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I stumbled onto this topic and I can't believe nobody's brought up the racoon saloon.
I have been told by several former/current employees that-
-this ghost is a previous owner who fell off the icy roof and broke his neck while putting up christmas lights in the 1980's
-he likes to pinch the female employes, sort of shove past people and enjoys breathing down your neck when you are working at the register.
-i think also there was something about pulling a stool out from under somebody as they were in the process of sitting down once.
I had an encounter there that lead me to the ask questions which lead to me learning the above information-
I'm sure this could be explained as some elaborate electrical somethingorother but i highly doubt it-
I was there late with my brother in law and the bartender-(i shouldn't say their name without asking) being the only others there. My brother in law and i were sitting on stools in front of the old cd jukebox (that's now been replaced by that high tech crap) we were just a few feet in front of it and sort of half facing it. Our songs had just run out a few minutes ago and we were looking for 1's to load it back up with songs. The cd "book" or what ever you call it, the pages inside behind the glass in the jukebox you flip with the buttons started randomly flipping around forward a few, back and then forward and then fast and then slow, very random but very fast at times. This went on for about ten or fifteen seconds and we were both staring at it from about two feet away. I thought it was pretty strange but afterwards my brother in law said he had noticed the arrow page turning buttons were moving (being pushed) during this, i had not noticed that but i was fixated on the pages. (he was much more freaked than myself) that is until we told unnamed bartender what had just happened and if there was something wrong with the jukebox. At that point the uneasy look we got made the hair stand on my neck. That's when we were relayed the info at the top of my post.
I have not heard anything since, but it's been a while and i'm not quite the night owl pubcrawler i used to be!
There have to be more stories, i'll ask-
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That's pretty freaky. And to think, I went there for New Years.
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where is the racoon saloon I wanna make a note to myself to never go there :o
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where is the racoon saloon I wanna make a note to myself to never go there :o
Well you shouldn't have to worry about that for another 5 years or so Funky, since you can't go in the Racoon Saloon until you are 21. Who knows what changes will take place in those 5 years. ;)
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I never had my butt pinched at the Raccoon! Does the ghost pinch everyone, cause I'm feeling left out. I'll be there in the morning for bloody marys so we will see.
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I never had my butt pinched at the Raccoon! Does the ghost pinch everyone, cause I'm feeling left out. I'll be there in the morning for bloody marys so we will see.
LOL! Another excuse for some low life to pinch a ladies rear! Lets blame it on a spirit...that should make it okay! he he!
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So that's what Heaven is like. You get to come back and pinch butts while being invisible! By golly there is a GOD!
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I was at the Raccoon all weekend and not one pinch. I think it is a hoax!But it was fun watching the parade while drinking lots of beer.
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How about the haunts that exist in the kitchen area of Camp Mariastella.
Maybe we can get YoMama to express his experience with the Kitchen there.
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YoMama does have a lot of experience with kitchen equipment...
Maybe he can share with us the small stove/oven at the San Andreas Grill...;D
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Back in the mid -fifties it was owned by some retired boxer. I don't remember his name but when he was in town I remember he would give us lessons.
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YoMama how about it?
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Whoa!! And you stayed there alone? :o I would have set a new land speed record out of there!
Perfect story for Halloween.
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Wait, wait, I got a story too. I grew up in a house down in Fontana that was built in the 20's. It had an attic and a basement. I hated this house because I had to come home to it everyday only to be by myself untill my parents would get home from work around 6:00 every night. I would always hear noises coming from the attic and can remember calling my mom to hurry up and come home from work. Well one morning around this time of year, it was still dark outside. I was getting ready for school (I think I was about 7 or 8). Had all the lights on in the kitchen and dining room and was sitting at the dining room table eating my cereal. Next thing I knew I got this chill up my back and something told me to turn around. I turned to face the kitchen and saw what appeared to be a spirit. It was short like child size and seemed to be a boy. It floated across the kitchen floor from the hallway to the back door and then disappeared. Now let me tell you, I was FREAKED OUT! I jumped out of my chair and ran straight to my parents room screaming. My mom told me I was seeing things that weren't there. Well a few years later we found out that there was some sort of house fire long before we lived in it and that a little boy had died in the house. Is that freaky or what?!
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Skydore house/cabin on the corner of Willow and Helen is nothing but a pile of rubble. From what I understand it was demolished today.
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Wasn't that house on the map of historical homes?
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Anyone heard about any happings at our old house. I have had a few friends and tenants tell me a few things. The brick house on edna and lark.
LOCal
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He may be too scared to finish ::)
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CAMP YO MAMA!
Wow, you're an appreciated literary artist and you can fix my dish washer. Man, I love you ;) ;)
P.S. Is rust in my dishwasher rack covered in my Buyers Home Warrenty? ;) ;D
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YoMama, you've got me hooked! What happened next????
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He was so scared re-telling the story he skipped town for a few days ;)
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"He was so scared re-telling the story he skipped town for a few days."
Did he whitewater raft out of town, or travel by more conventional means?
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Hey Yomama, some of us are still on the edge of our seats. Pleeeease tells us more. :o
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I want to hear the rest of the story too!
Well i have seen a cowboy ghost go down the hall a few times when watching tv, havent seen him seen him lately. Just a harmless spirit, no big deal.
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A cowboy ghost? That's interesting. I believe I have also seen a cowboy ghost, but not indoors. This is not something that I talk about because it sounds so strange. Has anybody else seen or heard of a cowboy type ghost, perhaps in lone pine canyon?
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I haven't heard of a cowboy ghost on Lone Pine but I have heard of the top half of an Indian that walks (or not) through that area. I have also heard about an old lady that walks through houses "looking for the children." Yikes!
My Dallas house was haunted when I was a kid. I hated being alone in the house too. I'm also pretty sure there's something on the stairs in our Wrightwood house, but that sounds more alarming than it really is. Like dl_lvr_4evr's ghost, it's not worrisome. It's the Dallas house that freaked me out.
And let me add my plea to the others -- YoMama, where are you?!
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yo mama, i have to hear the end of the story.
you wouldn't tease people by starting to play a song and then suddenly stop and walk offstage.
really, you can't take your football and go home.
wrightwood (moderator), someone has to finish this ghost story.
otherwise, i'm going to have to tell my mama.
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knock knock. can yomama come out and play? oh, why not? he saw what? ghosts! do you think he might tell me about them? oh, okay. so when he stops crying he might come out and tell us all about it. great. thank you. bye bye.
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Thought i would tell my little ghost story while waiting for yo mamas most anticipated ending.
Before I moved to Wwood I lived in Ashland, OR in a little 2 bedroom house. One of the rooms was an office/sewing room with a window that faced the front yard. I would sit in front of the window and sew 3-5 days a week after work. Out of the corner of my eye I would always see a shadow walking by and then disappearing around the corner of the house. The first time I thought it was just my imagination but then it kept happening!! Every time I sewed I would see this shadow! I talked to the neighbors and they said nothing bad ever happened there and then a few of my "hippie" neighbors offered to do a seance to try and channel the spirit. I declined but one day they were over having a few drinks and we ended up doing the seance. My neighbors said it was a young man who had been in the military. After that night very weird things started happening. The front door started to pop itself open and then slam itself shut and we always heard noises coming from the attic...big heavy footsteps!! I talked to another friend who was in to that sort of thing and she told me that by holding that seance we let the ghost into our house where as before he was only outside in the yard!! I was totally freaked out. Things finally got so weird that I was never in the house alone...not even for a minute!! We stuck it out because we were moving back to wwood 2 months later but those last few months were very eerie......
Still gives me the chills.....
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My cousins lived in a haunted house (yes, I'm a believer).
Little things started happening - flowers on the mantle would be on the floor in the morning, the vase still on the mantle. Water would turn on by itself, a lot of creaking in the house - but these minor things could be explained away until one day when my cousin was babysitting her younger siblings. She was in one room with the kids and heard a crash in the living room. No one else was home. She went into the living room and the vase was broken on the floor near the fireplace, but the flowers were strewn throughout the room, like someone had thrown them - but they didn't land in a bunch, they were strewn individually throughout the room.
This freaked my cousin out, who was a teenager at the time and was already witness to the other weird things going on in the house. She immediately went next door to await the return of her mom and sister.
When the rest got home, they went into the house and there was the sound of furniture moving on the second floor. They had two huge St. Bernards, and the dogs could not even be dragged up the stairs and pulled away, absolutely refusing to go upstairs -- which was not in their nature.
All of them went to the neighbor's to await my uncle's return.
While the house was empty, the lights could be seen turning off and on by the neighbor's daughter who was out in her car with her boyfriend. She thought it was my uncle playing games with her, only to find out when she went into her house that no one was home.
Their house is listed somewhere as a haunted house. I'll have to ask my aunt about it - I haven't heard about it since I was a teenager myself.
When they moved into the house, all the rooms upstairs were painted very dark colors - seems like one was painted black. The upstairs was like a square divided up into four rooms - no hallways. You had to go through one room to get into another. I always thought the house was very strange. They had lakefront property. It really was a creepy place.
They moved away, and like I said, they found it listed as a haunted house in some book of haunted locations.
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Not sure how to post, but I am going to try to add to haunts.
When I lived up there between 1965 and 1971, we used to hang out at the "Edna House". I believe that was the name of it. It had a bigger house in the front, and if you went around the back, there was a smaller house attached to it. I knew all the people who lived there, so was in both parts of the house frequently. If you were in the front of the house, which was 2 story, we would always hear chains in the upstairs. If you were in the back house, you would always hear people walking around above you, even when we knew no-one was home up there. One night, I was asleep in the back house, and I woke up to someone or something hovering over the bed, and an awful laughing noise. Scared me to death. In the years to come, all of us had done research, because I was not the only person to have this experience. People had scetches of what they say, and we all came up with a name that sounded like Geniver or Genavive. We later found out that there was an old grave under the house, or a cemetary or something, a witch hunt took place way back when, and there was indeed a Gwenivere that was hunted down as a witch and buried there.
I never slept at that house again.
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Merle,
Our house was on the corner of Edna and Lark the big brick one. Which house are you talking about? was it close to us?
LOcAl
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from where I lived, we walked across to the other side of town.
I lived accross from Our Lady of the Snows. Lots of different people rented the house. Tom Shelton lived in it for a while, then a bunch of ski instructors from Holiday Hill had it. In the main house, it was a two story, with the upstairs being one big loft. Then around the back of the house, was a small one bedroom house attached. I can't remember exactly where on Edna it was.
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I went to visit the San Fernando Mission one day. I started to go down in the cellar and half way down I had to turn around.
I had the feeling that in a previous life I had either been killed down there or killed someone down there.
Never did hear or see anything, just the feeling that I shouldn't go any farther.
I was picking 'em up and puting 'em down pretty fast getting out of there. ??? :o
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I currently rent the two story red house on Irene (the one that used to have the confederate flag) and we have had some very unsual and kind of creepy experiences.
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Really?....what kind?
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Is that the tall skinny house at the top of town?
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Yikes!! :o My 5th grade teacher had mentioned that this was a highly "spritual" area from the slide and such... I always feel like some thing is in the woods when there's a full moon. Maybe because the energy level is high or something...
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My father usually writes things for Wrightwood history, but the "Haunts" caught my attention. I was excited to write a forward for my dad's "History of Big Pines"...and dad talked me into sharing it with you.
Nice job Jordi! I love your dad's stuff and this is really good too. Thanks for sharing it.
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Absolutely true:
Sometimes when I eat the barbecue at Jensen's Market, and often when I eat the menudo at the Mexico Lindo buffet, I am later followed by a lone cow--a boy cow, judging by the shadow he makes.
He follows me through the village and actually appears through the pine trees and walks through walls. I don't know why he follows me. He just has a mournful stare, and seems to be missing about a quarter of his left hind end, as well as a quarter of his stomach.
This never happens when I eat the chicken!
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SKYDORE was not a sanitarium, it was used as a hospital and meeting place during the civil war!! Also, off of hwy 2, going out of town, was a dump site, which I believe in the last 6 yrs or so they built condos on!! A friend and I took the time for a weeks about 10 yrs ago to go digging and found many interesting things from old Wrightwood!! There are also many old dumpsites in Phelan, You just have to know how to look!! And don't wait for a full moon to hear and feel the many spirits
Desertdar, where did you hear that? Civil War? What civil war are you talking about? Skydore was built about 50+ years after the civil war with the yanks and confederates was fought.