El Paso
Just a note – I apologize for the non-haunted nature of some of these posts…I created a travel blog, but apparently Word Press prefers that I post the pictures here instead. Luckily most of my travels include some aspect of hauntedness, so you shouldn’t be too disappointed.
Below are photos from Ft. Bliss in El Paso, Texas, including their “Old Town” that shows what the original Fort looked like.
We did go on a ghost tour in downtown El Paso, but my pictures aren’t anything worth posting. We were all but “guaranteed” an apparition, knock, voice or cold gust of air in a couple of the locations…and then nothing happened. I don’t doubt the places are haunted, but you never PROMISE anything on a ghost tour — as if it were in your control!
After that are pictures from El Paso’s “Mission Trail” — three Spanish missions near El Paso that are still serving as Catholic churches today. Each of these missions had contained a church on the site since the 1600s; however, most were rebuilt in the 1800s, which is what stands today. One of the churches sells small wooden crosses made from the wood floor that had to be removed from the 1840s “version” of the church. That church also had a huge cemetery across the parking lot. The oldest graves Char and I could find dated to the early 1900s, but some stones were so worn that we couldn’t make out a date. There were also lots of plain, unmarked, hastily constructed white wooden crosses. The cemetery appears to have a lot of poorer people buried there, but there are some stunningly elaborate graves as well.
