Ghosts of Galveston by Kathleen Shanahan Maca

Author:Kathleen Shanahan Maca
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2016-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

A nun from the Sisters of Charity Order, with two orphans in her charge. Courtesy of the Rosenberg Library, Galveston, Texas.

Still singing hymns, the nuns tied clotheslines around the waists of the children and then lashed nine each to themselves. One survivor remembered Sister Katherine holding two of the smallest children in her arms, promising not to let go.

The wooden dormitories of St. Mary’s Orphanage, 1890. Courtesy of Rosenberg Library, Galveston, Texas.

As they finished tying the knots, the winds dashed the boys’ dormitory to pieces, sending debris battering against the orphans’ shelter. The impact collapsed the girls’ dormitory building and forcefully sucked the sisters and children into the surging water.

Only three boys survived, by clinging to a tree throughout the night.

In the following days, the bodies of the nuns were found scattered across the shore, half buried in the sand. The heavy, coarse dresses and habits these brave women wore had made it impossible to stay above the water once they were wet. Each nun’s group of children were still tied to them, and Sister Katherine was still devotedly embracing the two little ones she had vowed not to release.

The orphanage victims were buried where they were found.

Reports of ghostly occurrences have been taking place at Walmart for years, and most accept them as the restless spirits of orphans lost in the hurricane. Most are heard but rarely seen.

One particularly sad manifestation is the whimpering sob of a small girl who cries for her mother. Usually heard by several people at a time, no amount of searching reveals a living child at the source of the noise. It eventually fades away.

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