HSA Tour – 18 March 2010
My name is Celynda. I’m a recent graduate from Flagler College sporting a major in English and a minor in Theatre. I started working here in January and I’ve already got some interesting stories under my belt, including simultaneous meter readings between three meters at the fort, and an abundance of activity from a young boy named James down at the Tolomato Cemetary (he’s my favorite, by the way).
On Thursday, I went out with a group including two girls about my age who were both incredibly sensitive to the paranormal happenings around town. While we were at a haunted hot spot in the Minorcan District quite infamous already for its activity), one of them saw a woman’s face on the second floor. Now this location normally has activity on the west side of the building. I’ve always been a bit wary about the house, and sometimes I feel I’m being watched when I stand on the south side of the house. The face seen on this particular evening was seen on the east side. I’m starting to wonder if our dear ghost,just follows us around to every side of the house until we leave the area. Quite an interesting concept. I’ll have to keep my eye out for more proof.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930)

Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826)

Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.
Mary Ellen Kelly

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832)

But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead—a dead parent, for example—can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.
Jacques Derrida (1930 – 2004), Quoted in New York Times, January 23, 1994

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go
Back to their quiet graves below.
Theodosia Garrison

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
Edmund Spenser (1552 – 1599)

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
Joseph Conrad (1857 – 1924), Under Western Eyes, 1911

Listen . . . With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break free from the trees And fall.
Adelaide Crapsey (1878 – 1914)
Source: November Night

What beck’ning ghost, along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
Source: Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, 1717

The good he scorn’d Stalk’d off reluctant, like an ill-us’d ghost, Not to return; or if it did, its visits Like those of angels, short, and far between.
Robert Blair (1699 – 1746)
Source: The Grave, line 586, (1743)

The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment. . . . We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet’s father, this greatest science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.
Alfred Whitehead (1861 – 1947)
Source: An Introduction to Mathematics

GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear.
Ambrose Bierce (1842 – 1914)
Source: The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)

SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks.
Ambrose Bierce (1842 – 1914)
Source: The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

People believe in supernatural influences.~ They always have.
Isaac Asimov (1920 – 1992)
Source: Forward the Foundation (Foundation Novels (Paperback)), Page: 177

I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the mockingbird. Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the form of a bird, or as a being which will haunt them if any harm is done to itself or its eggs.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826)

Where’er we tread, ‘t is haunted, holy ground.
Lord Byron (1788 – 1824)
Source: Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto ii. Stanza 88.

Many people don’t believe in ghosts or the spirit world because they think there is no proof in the Bible that they exsist. Many people believe it is against God or spirits are tied in with the devil. Well, after reading The Complete Book of Ghosts by Paul Roland I finally have proof ghosts, spirits, and apparitions in the Bible.

Thank you, Paul Roland, for helping me get the message across, they do exsist, just read the Bible.

Taken From Paul Roland’s The Complete Book Of Ghosts
‘So Saul disguised himself, putting on other clothes, and at night he and two men went to the woman. “Consult a spirit for me,” he said, “and bring up for me the one I name” 1 Samuel 28:8

Communication with spirits was forbidden by the Old Testament (Deuteronomy 18:9-14), but conscious awareness of the higher worlds for the purpose of self-realization or enlightenment had been practised since biblical time by initiates of Merkabah, a forerunner of the modern Jewish mystical teaching known as Kabbalah.

Spirits are not acknowledged explicitly in the New Testament although their exsistence is clearly implied, most notably in Luke 24:39, when Jesus tells his followers: ‘Touch me and make sure that I am not a ghost, because ghosts don’t have bodies, as you see that I do!’

In 1 Corinthians 15:50 and 2 Peter 1:18 it is stated that flesh and blood cannot enter the celestial kingdom; in John 3:13 it is noted that heaven is for spiritual beings and that we are all spirit in essence and will return from whence we came: ‘And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from the heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.’

St. Paul attempted to clarify the idea that Jesus had risen physically from the tomb and in so doing made a distinction between our earthly form and our spirit: ‘There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial is another…There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body. (1 Corinthians 15:35-44).

Elsewhere, in 2 Corinthians, St. Paul speaks of having attained seperation of the spirit and the body at will and having ascended ‘in the spirit’ to the third heaven, which was a technique he may have mastered as an initiate of an aesthetis sect of Jewish mystics who practised merkabah- an advanced form of mediation which translates as ‘rising in the chariot’.

The Kenwood Inn has a very unusual history of haunting. First off let’s talk about Lavender. She was a beautiful woman staying at the Kenwood Inn in the late 1800’s –early 1900’s. She was staying there because she was having an affair with a prominent Dr in the area. She was desperately in love with him, and wanted nothing more than to have him for herself. She begged and pleaded with him to leave his wife, but he refused. He knew that doing so would ruin his stature in the area so he refused. Lavender gave him an ultimatum either he told his wife or else she was going to. She also said that she would go through town and tell everyone that would listen thus ruining him. He couldn’t allow this to happen, but how to stop her. That very moment he stabbed her to death in that very room. We have had many people on our tours that stay in the inn, one couple wanted to share with us the events that had happened to them the last time they stayed there. The wife had reported seeing a woman walking from her side of the bed to her husbands; she would stand there for a moment then vanish. This went on for the first few nights. He however said he saw nothing. Finally on day three of their stay he was waked up by someone caressing his face and a woman’s voice saying”I love you and I will never leave you.” He thought this was his wife, and rolled over to say “I love you too” only to have her snoring in his face. He then saw a woman walking around the bed and toward the door then she vanished!
There is more to come on the Kenwood Inn………………
Once again I hope to see you in the Hearse. Jeannine

I am sure you have already read Jeannine’s experience with Frank in our 1990 Hearse?! Well, I have had my own experience!!
One day I took Frankie (the hearse) to run some errands for the store when my cell phone rang. As I was talking on the phone the person on the other end kept asking who was in the car with me. I replied no one and they insisted that there was a man in the car with me. They said they could hear him talking but couldn’t make anything out that he was saying. When I arrived at the store, I got out of the car and heading into the store. The person on the phone asked, “Where did he go?” I was like, “Who!?” They still swore that someone had been with me and when I got out of the hearse the voice stopped.
This happened yet again when I left the store. I had to make a phone call and the person I was on the phone with wanted to know who was with me. I never heard anything but whoever I was on the phone with clearly heard a man’s voice. If it had been interception on the cell phone it wouldn’t have only occurred in the hearse!
Another experience while driving Frankie is seeing an elderly gentleman, in his mid 70’s, in the back of the hearse. I have only seen him in the rearview mirror and when I turn around to see if there is really someone in the car with me, there is clearly no one there. One night when following Jeannine, in the hearse, back to base I clearly saw a man setting in the back while she was driving. I called her to let her know she had company and she never saw a thing.
There are so many more stories to share about our 1990 hearse Frankie but I want you to come and experience them for yourself on our tour.
~Jamie