Spooky Tales and Haunted Weston Ghost High Jinx

What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other. - Orson Welles, Mr. Arkadin.

OddsnEnds - 

• Spooky stories from Reddit users demonstrate a plethora of paranormal: Ghosts, precognition prompts, unexplained voices, anonymous phone calls originating from numbers that don't exist. Weird but true. (Naturally, I can't write about this without the DVD player wigging out. Stuck when it doesn't usually have issues.) Reddit. 
• Ghostbuster's wish granted. Sacramento rocks this 5-year-old's dream. CNN.
• Lavender for calming. The scent works on mice. UPI.
• Animals Ghosts. Meet Spot, described by people who never met him while he was alive. Seen in the home his family once lived in and where he was buried when he died. The Dodo.

Ghost Tales of Weston - is sold out. At least one group of attendees on the ghost tour had an interesting encounter last weekend at the Benner House. Formerly a B&B, now an overflow site for the Saint George Hotel.

As the tour party gathered, the presenter at the site said an odd cloud of fog emerged from the house and wafted above them. The fog was followed by an excited teen who ran out of the house and told everyone he had heard voices and footsteps. Staying behind while others in his group had gone out, he was alone.

Lively paranormal activity continues at the Weston Bend Candle Company. (A Paranormal Research group was visiting Saturday night.) 

Last February, on a very slow day, the owner thought he heard someone at the door. No living being was seen entering but a calling card appeared on the floor inside a space occupied by a display rack that would have been impossible to walk through. Water droplets formed the shape of a boot print, as if snow had been tracked in and traces were left melting on the floor. He showed me the photo he took. Definitely a footprint.

Nicolette is featured on the Weston Ghost Tour. 

No doubt you've heard of haunted objects. Weston is home to a statue/doll who can no longer occupy the front window because she tends to ice up the glass. (sold to private owner)

Verna K. writes about Nicolette in her book Ghost Tales of Weston. Page 36, Adams Mayfair.

A timely highlight, reported last weekend and posted October 20th, by a Main Street Galleria customer to Haunted Places.

She took a picture of The Saint George Hotel having no idea it was haunted. Check out the very curious image in that window on the second floor.

And the post just previous is by Chris Williams who told me about his unnerving experience at The Saint George when he attended the Ghost Tales event last year (2017). I am glad he posted it.

Numerous homes and businesses are known to be haunted in Weston. Very few are open to the public in general and some that are don't mention their ghosts..

Ghost Tales of Weston, Page 83. The Price-Loyles House, built in 1857, is absent from the Ghost Tour but will be featured on the December Candlelight Homes Tour.

Actively haunted, the owners who bought and restored this historic home confess they altered their plans to live in the home full time due to the fact they are uncomfortable being in the house alone at night.

Photo evidence hints at the paranormal presence in their residence. The focus is a mirror in the bedroom. Other than furniture, the room was empty. However, a couple - smartly dressed in period clothes - appears clearly visible in the reflection.

Wendy's Coffeehouse Interviews -
Terry McKenzie: Price-Loyles House, one of the most haunted homes in Weston, Missouri.

Thank you for listening!

Stay curious. 

Weston Missouri Ghosts, Haunts and a Supermoon - 2016 Ambiance

Supermoon over Price-Loyles house in Weston, Mo
aka Daniel Boone house

“Oh, very good,' interrupted Snape, his lip curling.

'Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter.

'Ghosts are transparent.”

- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince



Couldn't have asked for better timing this year. Center stage in October: Ghosts, Orbs and a Full Supermoon. 


Weston's 2016 Dining with Ghosts and Walking Ghost Tour kicked off the
first of three SOLD OUT nights with perfect fall weather.

Several Main Street shops host ghosts.
Top floor of this
building is now storage
- Basketballs can be heard on the old court.

Crisp and warm night air, light breezes
and the sound of an occasional walnut dropping. The highlight of the night: an Owl serenade.

Perennial favorite, Weston Cafe has been the scene
of some of the town's darker history. 

More recent sightings of the unexplained include
a guest from the 2015 Ghost Tour apologizing
for almost running into the woman volunteer 
who was working back in the kitchen. 

There were no volunteers working in the kitchen. 


To add a bit of background - 
tour volunteers have said the Cafe location
has a different feel to it and at least one who is said to have had a sighting chooses not to return.

Others simply prefer not to go any further than the front of the cafe. The 2015 guest had requested to use the restroom and met the kitchen "volunteer" in passing on her way out.

A new site earning a stop on the tour this year is the Weston Bend Candle Company. Stepping into the store, one is immediately immersed in a world of wonderful aromas.

The back story: Now occupying a corner, the candle store had been located in the middle of the same block. The old location still retains a very pleasant aroma hinting of its former retail incarnation.

No paranormal activity had been experienced at the prior location. Might have been due to that location being converted from an alley when the space for stores was at a premium. Different story now.

Unusual activity began shortly after the owners began moving in. While working to get the store up and running, the owner thought he saw a shadow, similar to a person crossing the room in the unoccupied front area of the store.

The movement was subtle enough he wasn't quite sure what it was he saw, except he knew whatever it was, it was an odd thing to witness in an unoccupied space. The experiences are varied and the activity continues. An eventful tour.