Encyclopedia Of Haunted Places by Jeff Belanger

Author:Jeff Belanger [Belanger, Jeff]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-01-12T07:00:00+00:00

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Encyclopedia of Haunted Places

cemetery has its own share of paranormal

Shain Wolstein has worked at the Ar-

activity, including cold spots and appari- chives since 2001, but didn’t know anything tions of Indians on horseback charging about the ghosts there until his second day through the cemetery grounds.

of work. “I was down in our basement,”

Is the Little Bighorn Battlefield truly Wolstein said, “and we’ve got these old fire haunted? The various personal accounts bells that are physically disconnected, but and the bloody history of the location com- they tend to just go off at random times.

bined certainly make for a very convinc- Finally, I came upstairs and asked about ing case. At the site of what has been called them and my boss just said, ‘Don’t worry the “worst military disaster in U.S. his- about it—it’s fine.’ Sure enough, she finally tory,” it is not hard to imagine that rest- told me that they go off all of the time and less spirits still roam the battlegrounds.

it’s our cue to get out of the basement, that

they [the ghosts] just don’t want us there

—Melanie Billings at that particular time.”

Writer/Paranormal Investigator

Wolstein may have started the job a

bit of skeptic, but he’s a believer now. He

says he experiences something unex-

plained almost every day. Some supernatu-

BUTTE-SILVER BOW ARCHIVES

ral events were as simple as seeing a

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darting shadow out of the corner of his eye,

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but others were a bit more significant, such

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as doors opening and closing on their own,

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hearing disconnected telephones ringing,

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phantom footsteps, and murmuring voices.

But one strange event repeated itself ev-

The Butte-Silver Bow Archives is a trea- ery single day. Wolstein said, “Every morn-sure trove of artifacts from these fa- ing I’d come in, and on my desk I’d have mous mining towns. Even the building it- this picture of one of our ex-mayors. It was self is a relic—originally the Quartz Street hanging on the wall, and my desk was prob-Fire Station built in 1900, it was the fire ably about four or five feet away from it.

chief’s headquarters until the 1970s. The Well, this picture would be on my desk two-story brick building with its four ga- every morning for about a year. Finally, rage bays housed 22 men and the fire chief. one time I was here late at night because Since 1981, the building has been home to we were doing a film project, and I actu-the Archives—a living testament to the ally saw the picture fly off the wall about region’s history. There are many docu- five feet away, and land on my desk.”

ments; personal artifacts including jewelry,

Up to this point, Wolstein had experi-

mining tools, and clothing; family heir- enced a lot of strange phenomena, but he looms donated to the Archives; and many had never seen any of the spirits present old photographs, newspapers, and other in the old fire house. That changed on documents. But according to many local Halloween of 2002. He said, “I decided to legends and even some

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