Ghosts of Country Music: Tales of Haunted Honky Tonks & Legendary Spectres by Matthew L. Swayne

Author:Matthew L. Swayne [Swayne, Matthew L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Body; Mind & Spirit, Country Music, Ghosts, History, Music, Non-Fiction, Paranormal, Supernatural
ISBN: 9780738751726
Google: wuHcDQAAQBAJ
Amazon: 0738748633
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Published: 2017-01-08T00:00:00+00:00

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Chapter 11

Supernatural Studios

and Record Company

Headquarters

Studios are where musicians turn inspiration into revelation. Literally, these are places where spirit is created and preserved. It’s not just their musical inspiration that is maintained for posterity. Some believe that these hit factories are also capable of retaining paranormal forces.

You won’t have to tell that to people who have experienced strange, inexplicable activity while recording or assisting at these studios.

In our next section, we will visit some of country music’s most famous recording studios. They are also some of country music’s famously haunted recording studios. Some are haunted by multiple ghosts, according to experts. Others are haunted by multiple gold and platinum award-winning artists, like the King himself—Elvis Presley.

Up first, though, we will hear the creepy backstory behind the haunting at one of Nashville’s greatest star-making machines—Capitol Records.

Capitol Records: Spectre Check on Mic One

Historians indicate that the site where Capitol Records’s world famous Nashville studios rests was developed while country music was just a bunch of people picking guitars and banjos on porches and singing in rural churches. Country music and Capitol Records grew up together in Nashville, you might say, and, over time, a parade of country and western careers were made and shepherded into celebrity status right there at Capitol Records, including some supernovas of the country music universe.

Tourists hoping to catch a glimpse of a ghost in Nashville now believe that the studio is prime ghost hunting ground. Most trace the paranormal problems on the property well back into distant Nashville history. According to the legend, a mansion was built on the spot at the turn of the twentieth century. By all accounts it was magnificent. But, despite the ostentatious new digs, the owner of the mansion and his two daughters were never accepted into Nashville’s high society. In the South, there’s a difference between new wealth and old wealth. And new wealth just doesn’t fit in.

Eventually, the father died and left the property to his daughters. Why the daughters never found husbands is a subject of a lot of speculation—gossipy speculation. Some say they were perfectly happy without men in their lives. Others suggest that the public shunning of the family by the social elites ensured the poor girls would live and die as spinsters. Those who believe the family was unhappy say that’s the reason that the home—and now the property itself—is haunted. When the mansion was torn down to make way for the new building that included office space for Capitol Records, the hauntings commenced in earnest.

At night, or early in the morning, when the building was otherwise still and quiet, employees who were alone in the building—especially those unlucky enough to be working on the building’s eleventh floor, the center of the haunting—would swear that they heard footsteps trudging down the halls. The footfalls were distinctly human, they said. But as the workers followed the sound to its origin, they discovered nothing. Nada. Nobody.

Just an empty hall.

Other witnesses haven’t just heard manifestations of the spirit world, they have actually seen the effects.

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