The Calico Ghost Walk

Okay, first off, this was something that just honestly couldn't match expectations. I had built them up too high. That being said, it was still fun.

The Calico Ghost Walk had retired, but was brought back for the Halloween weekend. Small groups of around 25-30 people were led on a tour in which the real history of the town was explained, along with reported sightings/encounters of ghosts where they were actually reported. So we walked about town for about an hour and a half, listening to ghost stories. Pretty cool.

We weren't allowed to take flash photography, which really sucked. Maybe as many as half of my photos came out simply flat black. The rest just got the lights that were still on.

So did we see anything? Maybe.

Okay, so at the top of the town, across a bridge, is the school house. Supposedly one of the more haunted places in the town. A few kids (one little girl died there, hit her head on a rock) and even a teacher are supposed to be there. We were there for a bit and I looked back across the bridge to the top of town. There, at what turned out to be a drinking fountain but looked like a box, was the shape of a man, tall, well built, wearing a hat (something like a cowboy hat, but with a smaller brim, like a derby or something) and the distinct impression he was looking at me. My first thought was wow, I saw something! and get a picture. Then I began to think no, it's just a Halloween decoration, that's all. So after several long moments, I tried to get Amanda's attention to see what she could see. But it was gone.

The big problem? One of the dumbasses in our group decided to leave the group and walk back to the water fountain. He and his wife were so big and out of shape they literally couldn't stand for more than a few minutes at a time; they sat down everywhere we went. So it's probable that I actually saw this dumbass at the water fountain. I'm just not sure; what I saw was taller, thinnner and wearing a hat. The dumbass was average height, fat and not wearing a hat. No one in our group was wearing a hat. So I'm left conflicted.

Did Amanda experience anything? Perhaps. At one point walking back, she thought she saw a shadow pass across one of the windows in one of the buildings, but as soon as she tried to focus on it, someone in our group walked past her line of sight and it was gone. At the school house, she thought she saw shadows on the roof, but again, it might have been nothing. That was the location that did give her a bit of the creeps though. And finally, that's the only spot where baby Lorelai reacted. Quiet for hours before and quiet afterwards, she started kicking and whatnot only at the schoolhouse. Kinda strange.

Would I do it again, at Calico or another ghost walk? Sure. Do I want to hunt ghosts for real now? Hell yeah.