our trip down The Yeller Brick Road to see Lewis Black was fun.

the monster museum I wanted to visit was closed. as was most anything else, cause Monday. and off season. but googled haunted locations, walked and drove past some and took pictures. found the memorial to the massacre victims in Lawrence in Oak Hill Cemetery. me giving directions to cemetery was very stressful to Kevin. room 524 at our hotel was haunted by a shy little ghost named Gustavo who is our travel buddy. he makes sure ALL my adventures are spooky. rain, rain, rain. and lots of car naps. one of the nicest rooms we'd ever had. full. sized. fridge. and a DISHWASHER.

today we voted. seems super important. mice at farm again. way to go, exterminators. (insert eye roll here.)

went trunk or treating with KJ, Ann, & Izzy.

brought fun memories of trick-or-treating with the kids. did the haunted school bus. started The Scooby Doo & The Gang quilt. Happy Halloween!

when you're a hammer everything looks like a nail........

good nights sleep. am I finally (yet again) at the end of the seasonal choking-on-my-own-snot crud? first day of the month, so clean sheets. vaccum. Rip meds. feel like making more Basement Barbies. another Scooby Doo Gang quilt block or 2. Hello, November.

it really IS November. I blogged on a blank draft from the other day. I. am. not. a. crazy. person. well, I probably am. but it IS November 1st. Bigfoot told me so.

I always have to rewatch any Ghost Adventures episode of somewhere they investigated that I finally made it to.....

during a whirlwind trip out west with Tracy & Chris, I added some more to the list! I am awesome, I think....

Mizpah Hotel, Tonopah, Nevada.

this episode was in 2011.

Ghost Adventures experience: Zak, Nick, and Aaron were locked down from dusk to dawn. They were renovating while they were there. THe elevator wasn't working. (door did open and shut for Aaron, though.) Hotel built over a mineshaft (most of town was). Lady in Red was a kept woman who was seeing customers on the side and got caught and murdered. A dead senator on ice in a bathtub. GA got evps, a board in the hallway repeatedly knocked down.

our experience: Tracy had rented the Lady in Red room on 5th floor on Hotels.com, but they gave us the room beneath it - we had lights blinking in weird sequences when we first got there - other YouTubers had rented The Lady in Red Room a day or 2 before Tracy. we prowled the hallways, stairwells, and rode the elevator up and down. They had cat balls, a go pro, a camera on a tripod, EMF meter. the hallways were spooky. our 4th floor hallway felt the spookiest of all. we didn't get to go in Jack Dempsey dining room or the basement, the ghost tour was full. it is truly a beautiful old building. you could look out our window (we were in the Jim Butler suite) and our window overlooked the Jim Butler motel next door. we also found a statue of he and his wife.

Jerome Grand Hotel, Jerome, Arizona.

Chris & Tracy had stayed there previously, they had lots of activity in their room. Tracy said she wouldn't stay again. We took pictures outside and walked around.

Ghost Adventures were there in 2011. it was first a hospital, 9000 recorded deaths. "spooky." "feel eyes on you." The building down the hill was part of the hospital. they investigated it, too. 2 maintenance men committed suicide on site. a guy beheaded by elevator.

Goldfield Hotel, Goldfield, Nevada.

episode shot 2013.

why is it so haunted? fire? flood? murders? suicides? the mining company? Room 109 ghost of Elizabeth, pregnant and chained to a radiator. rocks thrown. poltergeist activity. Zak got aggressive. GA did video analysis in. the. room. we. stayed. in. at. Mizpah. Hotel. standing right. where. I. slept. on. an. air. mattress. Jay sat on the bed where. Tracy. slept. we are rockstars! I am such a groupie. BOOM. mic drop.

our experience: we stopped to take pictures and peek in windows, a woman was there working on building and she. let. us. in! got to walk around first floor and bsement, she told us some stories. We stood on the stairs! she said it was original carpet. she pointed out various rooms to us. told us that the GA guys were walking around town interviewing people and that's how they got into the hotel. it is for sale. being restored.

Clown Motel, Tonopah, Nevada.

2015

the hotel was blue when they were there. no big clowns on outside of building but the sign. they interviewed a maid, not the medium maid who was our tour guide. The clowns hand moved. on camera. he was missing last 2 fingers on right hand when they were there. no gazebo by cemetery.

we wore matching IT shirts and clown masks for pictures. did the official $10 tour. our guide had worked there AND at the Mizpah. so got stories for both. she lived in the trailer court right by cemetery and sat on her porch after the kids went to bed and talked to spirits. it was cold, windy, and rainy. got to go inside several rooms. this was a bucket list item. can't believe I've been there!

Goldfield High School, Goldfield, Nevada.

they also investigated this on the Clown Motel episode, 2015. they got a demon. negative energy. a little girl murdered and buried under school???

our experience? we took pictures outside.

mom mentioned a family vacation next summer.

KJ suggested an Axsom Family Reunion. Fernwood (where we had our anniversary party last year) would be big enough. and not too far for mom to travel.

we brainstormed some group activities....KJ could bring his Nintendo Switch and 4 controls. a football to toss. some board games. make s'mores. another family ghost hunt. bring a book for Kids Bedtime Story....just hanging out and spending time with each other. no frantic rushing here and there. and Mom could retire to her room whenever she wanted.

had a fun ghost hunting weekend.

watched the original Poltergiest in a haunted movie theater....then went to The First Known Paranormal Investigation at The Kelly Theater.

I think this is the first year I forgot to post a pic of dad on Facebook on the anniversary of his no longer being with us.

maybe it was last year? but I was out west visiting Tracy last week and then I realized that it had come and gone. which means I've moved on, I guess. because no matter how bad it hurts, life goes on. it just does. I still miss him and think of him. he was my dad. best one I ever had. and although he wasn't perfect, I think he was a good man. a real pull himself up by the bootstraps do whatever it takes to take care of your family kind of man. and I married a man like that.