The ghostly principal is a restless spirit who may be unaware that he is dead.
The Michelago Primary School is located in Michelago, New South Wales, Australia.
Curtain Call
In Paris, Texas, about a hundred miles northeast of Dallas, residents say that the ghost of a murdered woman haunts the Plaza Theatre. This historic landmark opened its doors in 1926 and awed patrons with its plush interior, complete with a pipe organ, orchestra pit, and ornate foyer.
Soon after the grand opening, a young woman sat in the balcony, enjoying a Rudolph Valentino flick, when someone crept up on her.
Annabelle may have been so entranced with the larger-than-life figures on the movie screen that she did not sense the evil near her. She was attacked and strangled. According to lore, the killer escaped detection.
Annabelle forever wanders the theater, which is today the home of the Paris Community Theatre. Cast and crew report frequent paranormal activity.
Annabelle keeps everyone on their toes by borrowing and moving items. And some report that when her eerie shriek echoes through the building, it turns their blood to ice.
Poor Annabelle may not realize that it is too late to scream for help.
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PLAZA THEATRE
102 Downtown Plaza
Pans, TX 75460
(903) 784-0259
In Death They Don’t Part
Star-crossed lovers inhabit the Double Eagle Restaurant in Mesilla, New Mexico. They may be dead, but they are still in love.
Employees and customers have witnessed mugs gliding across the tables as if invisible hands were guiding them, heard the sound of disembodied voices, and been startled by the ethereal woman who appears outside the kitchen door.
What is the cause of this paranormal activity?
Locals whisper that it is the ghosts of teenage Armando Maese and his love, Inez. A century before the restaurant opened, the building was a stately mansion and home to the wealthy Maese family. According to legend, the snobbish Carlota Maese grew suspicious when she saw that her son noticed the lovely teenaged maid. Armando’s eyes followed Inez as she did her chores. Her gleaming black hair fell to her waist, and he saw a spark in her eyes as she smiled shyly at him.
When love blossomed, the Maeses’ other servants tried to hide the fact from Carlota for they knew she would not be pleased. Indeed she was not.
She was enraged. This was not the union she had planned for her son.
When she caught the young lovers in a compromising situation, she flew at them with a pair of scissors, intent on ripping into the maid’s flesh. Armando jumped in front of Inez to protect her. His angry mother accidentally stabbed him.
The couple bled to death in each other’s arms.
Some believe that the tragic lovers’ feelings were so powerful that they still linger in the place they met. When the empty chairs move at the cozy corner table, waitresses wonder if it is the young couple on a date.
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DOUBLE EAGLE RESTAURANT
2355 Calle De Guadalupe
Mesilla, NM 88046
(505) 523-6700
www.double-eagle-mesilla.com
Appetite for Murder
When a young boy suddenly appears near the stove in the Queensberry House in Edinburgh, Scotland, stunned witnesses know they have glimpsed the victim of a shocking tragedy. The servant boy found himself in an unfortunate predicament when he was confronted in the kitchen by a very crazy and very hungry James Douglas.
It was 1707, and James, oldest son of the Duke of Queensberry, escaped from his quarters and wandered into the kitchen. The servant boy was alone in the house. Everyone else was out, swept up in the excitement of the Treaty of the union .
The disturbed youth wrestled with the terrified servant and managed to mount him on a spit and roast him alive. James was enjoying his snack when the other servants returned to the shocking scenario.
The Queensberry House is now part of the Scottish Parliament complex. The 1686 house retains the infamous stove, and many have reported the inexplicable scent of cooking meat. Sightings of the 300-year-old ghost continue to this day.
Holyrood Road
On the Canongate in Edinburgh
Ghosts in the News
Business as Usual
THE ROBBERY VICTIM killed in his store in Sundance, Wyoming, is still tending to business, according to the October 31, 2005, issue of the Casper Star Tribune.
Paul Sharp operated his hardware store for thirty-three years until the morning of October 14, 1983, when he was brutally murdered. Paul’s widow, Ethel, who kept the business going for fifteen years after the tragedy, was often heard to say that she never felt alone in the store.
When Rocky Courchaine turned the store into a western gift and antique shop where he makes his own jewelry, he too, soon realized he was not alone. He told reporter Sean Conneely that late one night he looked up to see someone walking through the store. “I had left the front door unlocked,” he said. “So I figured someone had just wandered in.”