Thursday, September 19, 2013

Researching the Bird Cage Theater in Tombstone, AZ







I am working on the next book in my True Tales of Ghostly Experiences series. For those of you who are unfamiliar with my work, these books feature real ghost stories from all over the world. The first book was focused on a single family and their incredible haunted experiences. The one I am working on now takes a look at famous hauntings from the old west. I grew up in Arizona, so I am very familiar with the legends surrounding Tombstone. I remember visiting there as a child and feeling like the term "ghost town" was more than just  a way to say it was abandoned. You can actually feel the presences lurking about. Of course Tombstone lived up to its name in terms of death and murders. There were countless battles between the Native Americans and those who sought to invade on their land. Tombstone was founded in the search of gold and silver, a venture that sparked an series of attacks by the local Apache who felt that the miners were raping the land. There were even some rather brutal murders of some of the miners near the area where Tombstone was later founded. One of the miners was even found with a rock drill forced right through his body! Later in history, the infamous Bird Cage Theater was formed. This was a hot bed of prostitution and wicked gun battles. At least twenty-six murders were committed inside the walls of the small saloon. Now the reports of apparitions, phantom sounds and celestial orbs are abundant. You can read all about it in my next book, True Tales of Ghostly Experiences Two: Spirits of the Old West, coming to Kindle this October. In the meantime, you can always pick up a copy of the first title, The Ghost Family of Pennsylvania and see how one family dealt with a series of paranormal activities!

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