Since 1932, there has been a woman spirit that visits when the theater is dark and quiet.  She is believed to be a woman who was a patron, and who also had dreams of becoming a performer, died during one of the performances.  They say her singing can be heard, day or night.  Once, during a performance in 1994, her voice was picked up during a live performance, and they said she was singing along with the performers.

Howard Hughes, supposedly haunts the second floor in and around what used to be his office, and is now a large conference room.  Employees have reported cold spots, and sudden passing of air, like someone walking by.  Twice, there have been reports of a tall male entity, walking around the corner to what used to be his office, and sometimes there is even the scent of a smoke.

Alexander Pantages, was a very gentlemanly man, and his ghost is said to have helped an older employee of the theater, after she fell down in the theater when it was dark, and she could not see.  Apparently, he took her by the arm and escorted her to the door and when she turned the lights on to thank him, there was no one to be found. 

I did not experience any paranormal activity while I was there, but it sure would be fun to go back, and see what I could find now.

In July of 2009, I moved my family 1200 miles away, to the city of New Braunfels, Texas.  This is the area that Chris grew up in, and we found out a few weeks after moving here, that he tagged along with us.  The way he lived his life and the way he treated people, made me want to be a better person, and his death made me rethink the way I was living, and taught me some valuable lessons.  He tried very hard to let me know he was here with us, and succeeded by contacting my father, and asking him to tell us that he just wants us to know he is here.  He requested some apple cider and a comic book, which we gladly provided, and we acknowledge him.  He was there to protect us from the darkness that we unknowingly allowed into our home.  We have since removed that negative presence, but Chris’s spirit remained.  We have caught him sitting on our stairs, and wandering in the hallways, always slumped over and appearing quite sad and depressed.  I wanted to do something for him, to allow him to move on and be at peace.  Just because he took his own life, does not mean that he should be made to wander unhappily in our physical world, or to be sentenced to Hell as some would believe. 

I decided that I would try to do something to help him move on.  So, last night during our circle time, with our candle and our sage, I said a few words about him.  I thanked him for being here and helping to protect us, and told him that it was time to go.  It was very difficult for me, as his death was very traumatic for me.  I don’t know if it even worked, but I have to believe that it did.  I hope that he can go now, and be happy…..he was a good friend and he deserves to rest in peace.  We all slept well last night.

You can see several orbs in this one, and they are all right behind or near my oldest daughter.

This was my first attempt at getting all kids to smile and look at camera at same time…..orb is in upper right of pic….

Again it is in same area, trying to get next to Jake….

Again, very faint in same area in upper right….

and again here you can see it clearly in the mantle……

This last photo is only one in bunch with this fog-like, vapor mist, figure….

My children never stop feeling like they are being watched, especially my two oldest….it has been difficult to sleep in our house, at least for me.

Then one day Professor Hans Bender was called to the scene. He worked at the Freiburg Institute for the Study of Parapsychology. He had been researching, and had known that most poltergeist activity was unknowingly caused by young people, mostly female. He discovered that there was an 18-year-old woman who really hated her job, and informed the lawyer that she could very well be the cause of their problems. Her name was Anne-Marie Schneider. The activity continued during the entire time she worked there, and ceased the day after she quit her job.

I believe this is what is happening in our family right now. I know that my daughter has a very strong spirit and an energy that is very powerful. Last night she woke up coughing, we are all suffering from allergies right now and hers seems to be worst at the moment. When she got up to get a glass of water and returned to her room she heard the fan light chain click, and then about five minutes later she heard it again. She laid in bed and then heard and saw her little brothers crib shaking. She said it shook for about ten seconds and then just stopped. JC was sound asleep, and didn’t budge. She text me at that time, asking me to come down stairs, and I told her I would be down in a minute. I then received a phone call from her about a minute later saying that she saw something push or kick on Jacobs bed, so I ran down stairs to investigate.

I did not see anything, except that my 11-year-old son had been awakened by something, but he wasn’t sure what it was. I stayed downstairs in the kids room for about fifteen minutes and made a few requests for the ghost to come back another time, because were all tired and did not want to talk now. The kids were able to go back to sleep and I was able to go back upstairs to work and the house was quiet for the rest of the night.

Yesterday, I decided that as soon as we can get the money, we are going to have to move. The kids will never be relaxed here because too much has happened. Every noise that they hear, spirit or no spirit, is always going to be a spirit, because that is the way they have been conditioned. It doesn’t matter how many times I tell them that it is a protective spirit or that it is not here to hurt us, it will never be the same. My two-year-old will always see the monster in the closet, my four-year-old will always want someone to go with here any times she leaves the room, my 11-year-old will always sleep with all the lights on, and my oldest daughter will never get any sleep. We will always hear someone walking up and down the stairs, because that is just the way it is.

Yesterday, my 11-year-old, Jake, was here sitting on the couch with his little sister when they heard something walk down the stairs. Jake usually handles it all pretty well, but this time he was sitting and saw and felt something put a hand on his knee and whatever it was held it there for a while. He was scared but did not panic, just sat there waiting for it to go.  He isn’t sure how long it was there, but was pretty excited about it and talked about it for the next few hours. They took a little longer than usual to fall asleep last night again, I think it was about 11:15pm. Definitely not the time school aged kids should be going to sleep.

So, I am not sure when, but we will have to move to see if we can get some peace and quiet. I know that there is a chance we will find more ghosts in a new house, or that these will follow us, but that is a chance we are willing to take. This had definitely not been fun!