Where is Mouser?

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Had a GREAT trip to one of my favorite weekend get-a-ways; Bisbee, Arizona.  Last time I was there over a year ago, I took the Old Bisbee Ghost Tour and learned of all the haunted locations.  One of the most haunted was the Oliver House Bed and Breakfast.  Before I get into my trip, here’s a little bit of Oliver House history…

A historical home in Bisbee, the Oliver house is haunted by several spirits. Edith Oliver built the house for executives of the various mining companies until they all merged in the Dodge Phillips corporation.

The house has also served as a boarding house for miners. The story was told that in the late 1800’s the wife of a local deputy was having an affair with Nathan Anderson, a mining employee. Her husband found out about it, went to the house and killed the both of them. Nat was shot at the top of the staircase to the second floor while entering his room. He was shot in the head, between the eyes, and in the back. After killing the two of them, the husband headed downstairs and killed everyone in the parlor.  He then drove to the edge of town and committed suicide. A total of 27 people died in the house, including those from the mass murder.

This sounded GREAT!  So I booked a room and specifically asked for the room that Nathan and the deputy’s wife were in when they were murdered.  So I got the “Passion” room and this was looking up to be a great weekend.  Off I flew to Tucson to spend the night and get an early start to Tombstone in the morning and have a late breakfast/early lunch.  After some Geocaching, off to Bisbee to see if an early check-in for a nap to escape the heat.

After some driving around to figure out how to get to the house, a narrow path (photo below) was found that lead to the entrance from a public parking area.  That was the first sign of creepiness.  Went up to the front door and it was locked so I rang the doorbell.  The “inn keeper” opened the door and was able to check in the room.

Turns out there were no one else checking in that day (or night) so all the rooms were open to, I assume, keep them aired out.  Which comes to one of the reasons I feel why there was no one else checking in – NO AIR CONDITIONING!  And it was around 100 degrees!  YEOW!  It was hot.  I went around and took several pictures of the rooms downstairs and upstairs.  As well as the hallways.  Later on after I took a shower and a nap, I went down to wait for the Ghost Tour and was looking through the pictures on my camera.  Everything looked normal with lovely pictures until I got to the picture I took at the top of the stairways looking down the hallway and my room (photo below with closeup).  There I saw the first ORB.  Here’s one definition of what an ORB is;

In the world of paranormal experts, there is cause for debate regarding the exact definition of an orb. Psychic Sylvia Browne has said that orbs are always angels, but the majority declare orbs to be a mode of transportation for spirits. The exact definition of an orb is basically a ball of energy. They manifest themselves most often in photographs. In pictures, they either look like a ball of light, or like a large see-through bubble.

As you can see in the picture, this single orb in the entire picture is right in front of my room.  The next picture I took was INSIDE my room and in this picture, you could see several orbs floating around!  So this really spooked my out.  Later on, while on the tour and we were at the location where our guide talked about the Oliver House, I mentioned about the Orbs I found in my room that weren’t found anywhere else in the house.  So everyone wanted to see the pictures and get spooked.  The guide (Renee, I think) was saying that NO one stays at the Oliver House unless they wanted to experience the ghosts.  I personally think it’s because they don’t have AC.

That night, because of the heat, I took a couple of fans from the other rooms and position them around the bed to keep cool.  Didn’t help much at all.  I also kept my camera next to me in case something spooky happened.  Nothing did.  Until the next morning…

As I previously mentioned, I took a shower on Saturday when I checked in.  That morning, I went to take another shower before checking out and when I looked up, I saw a read blotch where the tile meets the ceiling that I don’t remember seeing the day before!  And there was nothing else in the whole bathroom and bedroom that was painted red.  Don’t know how or why this got there but I had to take a picture before checking out.

This was a very spooky and exciting weekend.  So maybe the Orbs were actually reflection of dust or pollen.  But it’s still fun to think that it’s actually spirits and had a great weekend.  Found some very cool Geocaches and went on the very cool Copper Queen Mine Tour (a must do).  The Oliver House Bed and Breakfast isn’t exactly a great place to stay.  First, the rooms were small and old.  There was NO AC.  Which made it horrible to sleep.  And there was no breakfast included in the “Bed and Breakfast” part of the deal.  So if you want to stay in Bisbee, I would highly recommend just about anyplace else besides the Oliver House.   Especially at the $100+ room rate they charge.  My next visit to Bisbee will be at the haunted Copper Queen Hotel.  THEY have AC!

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