This week’s photo challenge subject is Eerie! This got me to thinking about what eerie photos do I have and then my thoughts turned to just a couple of photos that I have which I took in towns of haunted places. What could be eerier than that?
This first photo is of the Cary House. It was after taking this photo that I discovered there appears to be a ghost in the upper right window of the photo. To me, I can see the transparent image of a woman in Victorian dress. She is in the upper quarter of the window with her head just near the top of the window and she has a lace collar that comes from around her neck, over the shoulders to a “v” at her chest. It is said that guests at the hotel smell perfume, and that ghosts roam the hall, often times jiggling the door knobs, scaring the guests.
Cary House
I wonder if it is her perfume that guests can smell? I trimmed the photo so that maybe you can see her better in this photo!
The window with the woman
Just across the street from the Cary House is the Hangman’s Tree. Placerville was called “Hangtown” due to the number of hangings that occurred in the town. The original hanging tree is located inside this building…It is said that in the bar, which is now closed due to renovation, glasses fly off the shelves, and the jukebox comes on by itself.
Hangman’s Tree is actually located inside this building.
This next place is…The Jerome Grand Hotel, located in Jerome Arizona. Before this was a hotel it was a hospital. Visitors to the hotel claim to hear voices, smell cigar smoke and have lights turn off and on by themselves. Medicinal smells waft through the halls…
The Haunted Jerome Grand Hotel
Down in Murphys CA, the historic Murphy’s Historic Hotel is said to be haunted by three spirits. One is a prospector who guests and staff sometimes see sitting hunched over in the bar…Of the other two, one is a woman who oversees the hotel, and the other is a child who runs the hallways.
Historic Murphys Hotel – Est. 1856
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One of the first lessons we learned in school physics is that matter can neither be created or destroyed. If this is true then our physical matter must take on some other form after we pass away………….possibly this is why we have spirits as their matter was changed to an ethereal form of energy……who knows?
Good thinking, and something that I believe in. We are all ripples in the lake that never go away!
ahahaha.. I would like to enter the hangman’s tree.. 😀
Wouldn’t that be wild to be sitting there and having the jukebox come on? I wonder what song the ghost would chose…
Probably, “Bring me to life” hehehe.. 😀
Hee hee!
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It does look like there is an image in the Cary House window. In your travels I was wondering if you would have a photo of the Grand Hotel in Jerome. While living in Sedona, we always enjoyed visiting Jerome during the week of Halloween. We often had dinner at the Grand Hotel.
See anything eerie there? 🙂
No I didn’t, but it was always great fun! 🙂
Very cool! I like exploring the ghost stories. I see two small children with an adult behind them in that window.
Thanks! Now I have to go back and look at that photo again!
There are two kids in the window!
Aren’t these old historic buildings fascinating? I stayed at the Cary Hotel once and was fortunate (or unfortunate, depending on your perspective) to not detect any eerie goings-on, unless you count the breakdown of the elevator – one of those old ones with the sliding iron gate – and my room was on the top floor!
They are indeed!
I would like to visit all of these places!
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