Showing posts with label Verna Kowertz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Verna Kowertz. Show all posts

War of the Worlds Halloween Homage: Embers & Dust plus 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 - 
  • 15 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. People (Naturally, I can't write about this without the DVD player wigging out. Stuck when it doesn't usually have issues. Note: the issue, apparently, is the word 'temperamental'. )
  • Ghost stories in general. 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.

Embers & Dust, inspired by the War of The Worlds radio broadcast, Sunday, October 30, 1938.



Find out more about the short and its director: pbiesemans.com.
Embersanddust.com.
Embers & Dust on Facebook.

Ghost Tales of Weston - Friday night 10/26 is filling and Saturday 10/27 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. I'll update with results of their investigation when available.)

Last February, on a very slow day, the owner thought he heard someone at the door. While no living being was seen entering, 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 one fair lady doll who can no longer occupy the front window because she tends to ice up the glass.

Verna Kowertz 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.
Verna Kowertz: Main Street Galleria and Ghost Tales of Weston 2018

Thank you for listening!
Stay curious. 

Verna Kowertz, living with the Ghosts and Ghosted in Weston, Missouri

"To those ghosts who are at home and content, self-aware in their altered presence, we are the quirk. Uncomfortable in our evolving density, bumping up against them, spooked by their presence, we demand their reassignment. "Get out of my space!" In that fashion, it's the living who haunt the dead.

On with the circus, the dog and pony show and all manner of corporeal entreaties to shove the clearly dead onward in their departure. So be it. Amused ghosts oblige the living their ignorance in believing all phantom encounters imply engagement with one who has somewhere else to depart by masking their imprint until the corporeal has upgraded a density or two.

Stubborn ghosts carry on - rattling the shells of living, until they realize the form is the ghost. When formless-in-presence fully, one can opt to lighten up in any form and/or persist with the self-enhancing task of enlightening the densities. Cheers to the Revelation!" - Talking to Nightlights II



Wendy's Coffeehouse Interview with Verna Kowertz on Weston Ghosts - Podcast link 


OddsnEnds - 
  • After a time - decades as it were - the vast amount of encounters ascribed to the Non-Proof category suggest an incredible blind spot akin to intentional denial. Another case for the NON-proof yet UNexplained, they're here. Regina-Leader/Canada
  • Recent note on Lord Mountbatten's UFO sighting includes report, drawing of the craft and occupant description. TheSun
  • Prince Phillip believes - HuffPo
  • Ariel Phenomenon with John Mack - 1994. NON-proof yet UNexplained multiple witness, widely corroborated UFO encounter. Bonus = years of trauma resulting from the event. New release date: 2018. New Promo with Dan Aykroyd
  • Really, they're here. From those who opt not to deny the presence. ET Contact: They are Here won Best Documentary Feature at the Philip K. Dick Film Festival. About: Writer/Director/Producer Caroline Cory
  • Voyager Golden Record - ET friendly - seeking Earth audience NPR
  • Earth 80 million years ago. Ancient History clues on climate change? Zealandia
Sorry, the studio lights
were a bit hot.

Just for fun - 8-Ball Questions for inquiring minds:

"Will Aliens land on the White House Lawn?" Not sure I added a time frame. I was thinking 'this year'.

Timing is always a big bugaboo - and now the term "aliens" might have a different hue. Oh well. It's out there.

And the reply is something in the neighborhood of an affirmative. "As I see it, Yes."




Real or Unreal? Ghosts are illusive. Inspiring the curious, Most Haunted says this image - is real - the one real ghost image the show has managed to capture in 15 years of doing the program.



And the search goes on...

In Weston, Missouri, one of the most popular events of the year is the annual dining with Ghosts at Verna Kowertz' Main Street Galleria. Like many other buildings in Weston, the space is haunted.

St. Joe Newspress has more background on Verna and the ghosts.

Reservations at westongalleria@gmail.com
In the 17 plus years Verna has had the building, numerous encounters have been reported by guests and employees, including a curious text message that registered at the same time  on the cell phones of each person in the shop. New hires are asked if working in a haunted building will be a problem.

Weston is popular with paranormal groups due to the availability of the haunted sites and the proximity to Kansas City. Local civil war history is documented.  


On the walking tour - a few of the locations:
Benner House Bed and Breakfast. (Rocking Chair Ghost)
Saint George Hotel. Ask about the children.
Weston Bend Candle Company. (Fantastic aroma.) Owners, Jeff and Angie, report several incidents - including chimes ringing with no wind, being tripped, hair pulled and doors locking inexplicably. Candles have been known to pop off the shelf. Fox4KC Another post on Weston Bend Candle Company from 2016.
 


Walking tour ...Ghosts of Weston
Ghost Tales of Weston and Ghost Walk is an annual event and it does fill up. All nights were sold out last year by October 12. This year, the dates are October 20,21,27,27. Dinner and Walk. Reservations are required. Limited Seating. 816-640-2825.

*Note: Wear comfortable shoes. Some uphill streets and a few brick sidewalks. Check the weather conditions.




Other Area Haunts in and near Weston, Missouri - Haunted Places
Specifically, The Saint George Hotel
Trip Advisor had a post from 2014
I talked with Verna about my experience at a Haunted Hotel in Santa Fe, New Mexico where our dog also had an encounter. Sagebrush Inn
When I looked for a few more perspectives on that incident, I found another report that included a dog. Ghosts of America

Update on Board Camp Mine - mentioned in the post. Open for tours. No crystal mining TFN. Site

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