From: To: Subject: [IGHS] Newsletter, February 22, 2004, San Antonio, New Mexico Date: Sunday, February 22, 2004 1:34 PM ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Remove Link To Unsubscribe from Newsletter: Click on Reply To or send email to ighs-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com for an automatic removal from this newsletter. Mission Statement: The Ghostweb is the official Web Site of the International Ghost Hunters Society. Membership in the IGHS is always FREE. The IGHS is dedicated and committed to the research, documentation, education, and investigation of ghostly phenomena recorded through EVP, digital, film and video photography. The IGHS is a society of ghost believers, ghost hunters, and ghost researchers with over 14,000 members in 87 countries worldwide. Travel Along with Dave & Sharon: Join us as we start our fourth year of RV traveling as we explore America's Most Haunted Sites. We had a dream and now we are living that dream of traveling across this great land in our little house on wheels with our Welsh Pembroke Corgi dog named BooBoo. We are currently investigating haunted sites in New Mexico. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ International Ghost Hunters Society Newsletter February 22, 2004 from San Antonio, New Mexico Dr. Dave’s Notes: We are staying at the Bosque Bird Watcher’s RV Park in San Antonio, about ninety miles south of Albuquerque. San Antonio started out as the site of a mission founded in 1629. Eventually a small settlement grew up near the church. When the Santa Fe Railroad came through and sent a branch line off to the Carthage-Tokay coal mines, the town moved south a bit and clustered around the station. The post office faces a mere trace of a foundation that contains the makings of an American legend. The tracks were torn up in the 1890s. Today the town's gravity has shifted toward U.S. 380 and I-25 with a post office, gas station, grocery store, and a bar-restaurant as the main buildings. It was at this location that A. H. Hilton, who came to San Antonio in the 1880s, opened a successful mercantile store, the Hilton Mercantile Company that also served as the Hilton Hotel, and bank. On Christmas Day, 1887, his son Conrad was born. Thirty-two years later Conrad Hilton, who started in San Antonio as a baggage carrier for his father's guests, bought his first hotel. The world-renowned Hilton Hotel had its beginning in this small town. During the three days that we have been here, we have investigated the 1854 Fort Craig. Fort Craig played a major role in the largest Civil War battle fought in the West and was the turning point for the Confederacy expansion into the West. After the battles in New Mexico, the Confederate Army was retreated back to Texas, losing the resources of the West. Fort Craig was the largest fort in the West and provided protection against the Apache and Navajo raiding parties that attacked the settlers. Fort Craig lies on the banks of the Rio Grande River, just south of Black Mesa. We got some good EVP recordings at the guard house, which was just inside the entrance to the fort. Sharon got five good etheric voice recordings using our Vehicular Technique that we describe in our How to Record and Analyze Ghost Voices booklet. We learned form the Bureau of Land Management Host, who manages the Fort, that a small village, La Mesa, was washed away years ago from flooding. La Mesa was on the south side of Black Mesa. This probably occurred at the same time that La Marcial was washed away as it was on the north side of the Black Mesa. Back in the 1920s the Rio Grande was much wider and had a lot more water then it does today. So many small villages built along the banks were destroyed either by fire or by flooding. It is interesting in that Fort Conrad, built in 1851, was about eight miles north of Fort Craig in the Bosque de Apache Refuge area. This marshy low land is filled with birds of all kinds. However, whoever designed Fort Conrad did not understand that marsh and swamp land were breeding grounds for the mighty mosquito. Thus, the Fort Conrad soldiers suffered from malaria and in 1854, Fort Conrad was abandoned in favor of Fort Craig built further away from the Rio Grande River. In addition, it was discovered that Fort Conrad was built on private property and therefore the military was trespassing. The owner of the Bosque Bird Watcher’s RV Park told me the story of how as a little girl in the late 1920s, her father had built them an adobe house out of mud and straw. They had no petitions up, just the mud walls. Her father got permission to gather wood from the old Fort, as it was decommission and was just rotting away. Her father gathered the wood, the bent nails that they straighten themselves and the wood for the walls and floors of their home. It was apparently common in those days for the local people to use the wood, nails, and windows from old Fort Craig in the construction of their homes in the San Antonio region. After our investigation of Fort Craig, we met up with Cindy Cribbs, John, and Jerry Santoniello, all from Albuquerque who joined us for an investigation of San Pedro. San Pedro was a small village that lies east of San Antonio that started at the turn of the century. San Pedro consists of over a dozen buildings including a two-room school, a long adobe residence, and an attractive adobe and wood church with steeple. San Pedro, settled principally by the Tefoya and Montoya families, was an old Spanish agricultural community along the Rio Grande, but the riverbed is dry now because canals have altered the natural course of the water. Grapes were a specialty of the area with wine "sent all the way to Kansas," according to a resident. Eventually some of the citizens became miners, commuting to the nearby coal towns of Tokay and Carthage. The schoolhouse was WPA - built in 1936. Ironically, it closed shortly thereafter. The San Pedro Catholic Church is partially hidden among some trees southwest of the school. The building next to it was a barbershop. The large adobe directly north of the church was the home of a prominent landowner. Visible from U.S. 380 is the sand swept and desolate San Pedro cemetery. The old village is no more, but there are newer homes that have been built in and around the old adobe ruins. All that remains today of the original old village are the ruins of an old two room school house, a few scattered abode and a small area that has the ruins of their old abode church, and a dozen abode homes. The old adobe homes in this area were still being used until a fire was started when a dog knocked over a candle and the fire spread during a 40 mph wind storm spreading the fire to the adobe homes across the street. The burned out landscape is suitable for any Stephen King's novel, especially about spooky ruins, curses, and wolves that howl at night. We will be posting some of these spooky landscapes and abandoned adobe ruins on our travel page within the next few days. Watch for them! We were surprised that anyone would still be living in these 100 year old abode homes, but there were at least three occupied homes at the time of the fire. Most of the adobe homes were missing portions of their roofs and all of the windows lacked glass panes. The walls were standing and some of the homes still had some of their old furniture. It felt like we had stepped into a time when the people built their homes out of mud and straw. It was hard to imagine this land filled with vineyards when it is so dry and barren today. We learned a little more about our American heritage by learning about the people who settled this great land of ours. San Antonio Ghost Conference on June 19th: We are preparing for our 2004 Annual Ghost Conference that will be held in San Antonio, Texas on June 19 at the Menger Hotel. The Conference for the third Saturday in June will focus on the ghosts of the Alamo, the Menger Hotel, and San Antonio, ghost photography, EVP recordings, and EVP evaluations. No psychics or mediums will be speaking, as we are a scientific based organization focusing on using scientific tools for recording and documenting the existence of ghosts. There will be a special investigation on Friday night for Inner Circle members. All events are within walking distance of your haunted hotel and meeting place. Special room rates of $95 at the Menger, just ask for the International Ghost Hunters Special, as long as rooms are available. We will have limited seating due to the meeting room limitations, so do not delay registering with Dave & Sharon. Check out http://www.ghostweb.com/alamo1.html. Digital Ghost Photography Handbook: Confused about orbs? What are dust orbs and how do they relate to real ghost orbs? Read our 20 page thermal bound book or download the PDF book and discover how digital photography is the wave of the future. We have been using digital since 1994 and we share with the reader, which are the best digital cameras on the market today. We also share what to look for when purchasing a digital camera and provide some protocols to avoid falling into the dust orb trap. Check it out at http://www.ghostweb.com/booklet2.html. How to Record and Analyze Ghost Voices: Susan Olson of Riverside, California writes, "I LOVE your new EVP booklet! For a long time now, I have experimented with digital recording to no avail. The information in your booklet helped me to get better recordings without background static! Thanks so much and keep up the good work!" Our book, How to Record and Analyze Ghost Voices is the best definitive publication on this subject and we have shipped this book around the world. This twenty-one page book will provide step by step detailed instructions on how to use our secret techniques for successful recording and analyzing of ghostly voices. This new thermal bound book is an easy to read size of 8.5x11 inch bound with a clear plastic cover and a white plastic back cover. The book is USD$10 plus Priority Mail shipping of $4 for a total of USD$14. We will ship this book to Canada by International Air Mail and to Europe by International Ground Mail for the same price. The book can also be downloaded as a PDF file for $10. Upon payment of the $10, we will send an email with the address and password to download the file. The download saves time and saves the postage for shipping the book. Traditional techniques for recording ghost voices are outdated and far less successful. Sharon and I have an accumulated 28 years of experience in ghost research and in evaluating ghost tools for field investigations. Along the way, we have discovered many hidden techniques that enable us to be tremendously successful in recording the voices of the dead. No special equipment is required as all equipment that we recommend is off-of-the-shelf products purchased at any Radio Shack store. Our new book will disclose our time tested techniques in a step by step procedure that is easy to understand and to apply. The book, available via PayPal or through our Online Secure Order Form, will become a resourceful guide to understanding how to perform the investigation and how to operate the software for evaluating the ghostly voices. Check out the book at http://www.ghostweb.com/booklet.html. We ship via Priority Mail through the Post Office, not the slow boat to China known as Media Mail that takes several weeks to arrive at an address. CD Version Home Study Courses: We offer two CD versions, one with the Home Study Course in PDF format that can be read by any hardware or software with the free Adobe Acrobat Reader, version 4 or higher. This option is for those using the Mac Operating system or PC computer with an operating system that is not Windows based. We also offer the second version on the CD as the HTM version for PC computers using Wins95, Wins98, WindowsMe, and WindowsXP. The added features of this CD version, includes color photographs of spiritual orbs, spirit energy ectoplasm, a full body apparition and samples of ordinary airborne dust particles we call dust orbs that fool so many people. The separate Photo Analysis CD is now a part of the CD version. In addition, a printed copy can be made from CD, as in the printed version. We have also added ghostly EVP voices captured by us during our travels, such as the Confederate rebel commenting about the 20th Maine boys at Little Round Top or the Peyton Place Gossip found in a 1753 Cemetery about Mary is a Peach. Listen to an old miner recorded at a mining camp in Nevada or the ghostly morbid whine of a ghost dog, perhaps standing over the body of his murdered master captured in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon where a 1900s rancher and his family was murdered. The CD version is “HTM” based, this is not a “PDF” version, but a true “HTM” version that opens and functions as a web page. We have updated the material and even included a message from Dr. Dave Oester. Buyers from around the world have purchased the new CD version. We pay the shipping charges for Priority Mail in the USA, International Air Mail to Canada and for ten dollars more, we ship it by Global Priority Mail to Europe and Asia. More information is available at http://www.ghostweb.com/cgh.html. IGHS Printed Home Study Courses Since 1998: We offer the premier Home Study Course program on the Internet. We offer the best and most comprehensive ghost hunting and paranormal curriculum available. We have trained more students in this field than any other paranormal organization. We set the standards and the protocols for field investigations that followed by the ghost hunting community. We offer the premier Home Study Course, sharing all of our experiences and knowledge gained over the last dozen years. Read more about our premier Home Study Course Program at http://www.ghostweb.com/mainhsc.html. 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It says that you are a Registered Ghost Hunter/Paranormal Investigator in good standing with the International Ghost Hunters Society and it has our signatures and web address. Order the ID Badge at http://www.ghostweb.com/id_badge.html. Password Memberships: We offer a special membership in our Ghostweb Ghost Galleries. Due to the size of these ghost galleries, we have to limit the number of people because of the bandwidth consumed by downloading the photos, spirit voices, and ghost videos in this area. If you want to view over 9,000 ghost photos, EVPs, and videos, check out our membership program at http://www.ghostweb.com/pass.html. IGHS Membership Certificates: The IGHS offers a beautiful Membership Certificate. The membership certificate is valid for one year Check it out at http://www.ghostweb.com/memcert.html for more information. Kind regards, Dave, Sharon & BooBoo International Ghost Hunters Society Copyrighted 2004 by Dr. Dave Oester All Rights Reserved. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Our next book is spooky! American Hauntings Investigated, due out in Spring 2004 San Antonio Ghost Conference -- June 19, 2004 -- San Antonio, Texas http://www.ghostweb.com/alamo1.html Dave Oester, Ph.D., DD. Sharon Gill, Ph.D., International Ghost Hunters Society Web URL: http://www.ghostweb.com Email: MagicDimensions@aol.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~