Haunted Seguin by Erin O. Wallace

Author:Erin O. Wallace
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2014-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

THE SEGUIN–GUADALUPE COUNTY HERITAGE MUSEUM

THE POST-SLAVERY POTTERS

The co-founder of the Ripcrew team Wiley Uzzell stated, “No sooner than we walked into the large bottom-floor portion of the building, everyone’s K2 meters lit up and the hairs raised up on all our arms. We knew we were in for a wild ride when this happens.” This is exactly how the evening began when initiating the first paranormal investigation at the Seguin–Guadalupe County Heritage Museum, located at 114 North River Street in downtown Seguin. The supernatural energy of this building was exhilarating, and the team was anxious to take on this investigation with intense examination. Not one person who entered that building doubted that it was occupied by something paranormal. The team members didn’t question whether the building was haunted; that had already been answered just by walking in. Their task at hand for the evening was now to determine who or what was causing the haunting.

This two-story structure with a balcony is an outstanding red brick building constructed in 1898 by Henry Troell, a German immigrant who had moved to this area prior to 1860. It had Victorian-era pressed tin ceilings, pine floors and even original Seguin bricks on the walls. The second floor served as Seguin’s Kempen-Stein Opera House for several years, while the bottom floor served as a series of small businesses in the beginning. It housed a haberdashery, a furniture store and a clerical business. It is mostly known for being the Red and White Grocery and the popular S&H Green Stamps Store. When the last store closed, it became Strom’s Black Belt Academy and many other different businesses until 1992. This is when the Baenziger family decided to donate the building to a private association if it would transform the structure into a public museum.

In April 1998, the Heritage Museum had its official opening, showing cultural attractions and receiving visitors from all around the United States. This building has a charming historical background but certainly not the type that would generate the forceful paranormal activity that was being registered by the paranormal team. With no recorded deaths, any violent events or even hefty remodeling currently in progress, there was no reason for this type of intense activity. Then someone made the comment that maybe it wasn’t one particular spirit lingering within but rather the museum’s rotating examples of the area’s immigrant and ethnic heritages were causing the activity. It was as though a light bulb went off in everyone’s heads. From that point on, everyone focused on the artifacts.

As the team members went from display case to display case, they noticed a certain pattern being formed. All activity was coming from the case housing the Wilson Pottery. The closer and more focused they led their research in that direction, the stronger the evidence developed that this was the source of the energy. The team decided to step outside and discuss the history of this pottery collection with the museum’s staff members on hand. They went to

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