Last Sunday saw a cold front heading through the Rocky mountains and dropping 4 to 5 inches of snow as far South as Walsenberg and LaVeta, Colorado.

The pugs and I headed out of Alva last Sunday morning and made our nightly stop at LaJunta, Colorado. Monday morning we headed West on Colorado highway 10 and took this and other photos of the snow scenes we encountered as we got closer to Walsenberg, Colorado.

This weekend is a lot calmer, warmer compared to last weekend. Did you get a look at the bright Hunter's Moon last night?

Have a safe Halloween of trick or treaters next week! AND... Happy Birthday to our son, Michael Wagner, October 26.
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NW Oklahoma Ghostly Spirits

Do you believe in ghosts and haunting spirits of the past? Are they for real... or can they be explained away?

With the Full Moon, October 26, 2007 (Hunter's Moon), and Halloween just around the corner our minds roam to the ghostly spirits that allegedly roam the northwest Oklahoma communities.

There is the ghostly, burnt spirit on Mildred Ann (Newlin) Reynolds who haunts the old gymnasium in Avard, Oklahoma. Mildred Ann died in a fiery car crash on a dirt road leading towards Avard in 1956. For more information on that mysterious death, check out our Okielegacy Mysteries.

I wonder if the 1910 ghostly spirit of Mabel Oakes still haunts the area around the Alva downtown square.

Then... there is the ghostly spirits (or vandals) of Alva's Old hospital. We did a search online of the Oklahoman newspaper archives and found more information about those spirits that may or may not haunt the Old Alva Hospital. Some of you might remember Ben Buckland and Dennis Brown who came to be the caretakers of the old hospital in 1971 when vandals or ghostly spirits began to take their toll on the old hospital in northwest Oklahoma.

In 1971, Buckland was part owner of a restaurant catering to college students and a consulting manager of an Oklahoma City FM radio station. Buckland was also a DJ for a local radio station. Brown was the job foreman for his father's lumber company in Alva, Oklahoma.

For two and a half months they occupied the old hospital and experienced numerous strange sounds, unexplained happenings which left them both on edge and about to move out. Brown and Buckland occupied eight of the 96 rooms in the old hospital starting back to October, 1971. They used the lobby as a game room with pool and ping pong tables. Buckland used a small office off the game room and Brown had a former surgery room for a bedroom suite.

Then there was this mysterious, unexplained phenomenon of a reddish-brown stain that measured four inches or so in diameter and located three feet from a floor drain in the sloping surgery floor, near the surgery room adjoining Brown's bedroom. Even if they mopped the floor to clean the stain, it would come back again within a week.

Another news article, dated February 28, 1972, written by Tom Boone for The Oklahoman mentioned Ben Buckland and two other young men occuppying the old abandoned Alva General Hospital in October, 1971 as caretakers to keep vandals away. BUT... were they vandals or ghostly spirits?

You can read those 1971 & 1972 news articles in the "Mailbag" section below.
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OkieLegacy Centennial Moment

We found this October 27, 1907 news article in The Daily Oklahoman. It was 100 years ago that President Roosevelt was turning 49 years old; Statehood would be given soon to Oklahoma, even though a strong lobby in Washington, headed by Frantz, was trying to stop Oklahoma's statehood.

Washington, Oct. 26, 1907 -- "In Washington today are many politicians from Oklahoma who desire either to help or hurt statehood. Some of them headed by Henry E. Asp are trying to prevent the government from giving statehood to the people. Others aided by Frank S. Monnett, former attorney general of Ohio, are urging the administration to sign the enabling act.

Undoubtedly the president will sign, but in the meantime the people of Oklahoma must understand that there have been here in Washington a well organized lobby which is trying to prevent statehood, and urging all the influence possible to prevent the final admission of the state. At the head of the lobby is Governor Frantz. With him are many Oklahoma politicians.

Nevertheless, today in Washington the admissions of Oklahoma is accepted as assured, and every man with influence admits that it is assured.

When the presidential proclamation is issued which will be within two or three days, it will declare for the admission of the territory to statehood.

When congress meets it will insist that the senators and the representatives elected by the voters of Oklahoma shall be given their credentials.
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Speaking of Ghostly Spirits

When I was just a young girl, we lived in a two-story, white-framed house on the southwest corner of 7th & Church Street (703 7th street), in Alva, Oklahoma. Actually, it seemed it was a kind of duplex, but we didn't use it as such.

That house no longer exists in that spot, because a few years after we moved up to Skyline Drive, that 7th Street house was torn down to make way for the Presbytarian manse that was moved in from across the corner of Church and Seventh Street.

Being a shy little thing back then, it seemed to me that the closets in the old two-story house were a bit spooky. Did something happen in my early childhood days that made closets fill confining and spooky?

To this day, sometimes I have nightmares of walking through that old spooky house alone with the spirits from the past. Perhaps I'm searching through my mind for answers to why that old house felt like it was filled with ghostly spirits.

I have yet to find the answers!

Have you ever had any ghostly nightmarish experiences that you would like to share with us this Halloween? Send them along this way.
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Remember These Items From the Past

Do these items bring back some "old" memories! If you can remember most of all these, then you have lived! The perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care. How many of these do you remember?

Do you remember "Stallion" & "King" candy cigarettes? Plastic Army Men? Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water? soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles? coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes? Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum? Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers? Chief Pontiac signs? PF Fliers? Telephone numbers with a word prefix ... (Raymond 4-6011) - Party line?

Howdy dowdy? 45 RPM records? 45 rpm record spindles? Green Stamps? Metal ice cubes trays with levers? Beanie and Cecil? Roller-skate keys? cork pop guns? Marlin Perkins - Who was he??? Drive in movies? Drive in restaurants? Car Hops? Studebakers? Topo Gigio? Wringers Washing machines?

The Fuller Brush man (Red Skelton)? Sky King? Reel-To-Reel Tape recorders? Tinkertoys? Erector Sets? Lincoln Logs? 15-cent McDonald hamburgers? 5-cent packs of baseball cards? Penny candy? 25-cent a gallon gasoline? Jiffy Pop popcorn? 5-cent stamps? Gum wrapper chains? Chatty Cathy dolls? 5-cent cokes? Speedy Alka-Seltzer? Camel Cigarettes for christmas?

Falstaff Beer? Burma Sahve signs - "The Wolf is shaved so neat and trim red riding hood is chasing him Burma shave"? Brownie camera? Flash bulbs? TV Test patterns? Old yeller? chef boy-ar-dee? Fire escape tubes? Timmy and Lassie? Ding dong Avon calling? Brylcreem? Aluminum christmas Trees?
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Greenbrier College for Women (GCW)

"My mom attended GCW (as she called it) for 3 years, and always counted it as one of the happiest times in her life. She also taught there as an adult (one of her students was my dad''s youngest sister.) My dad attended GMS (also, what he called it) instead of the public high school, and although he wasn't a stellar student, it did help him get into Virginia Polytechnic Institute (now called Virginia Tech-my parents both called it VPI; my dad still does.) I have never had the opportunity to visit the campuses, although my dad and aunt purchased a brick on the walkway at West Virginia Carnegie Hall as a memorial to her. If you get a chance to look, her name was Dean Frazier Bell. It has the date of her birth and the date of her death: May 20, 1934 - January 8, 1998." -- Martha Dean Bell - Email: mdb.1966@yahoo.com - Vol. 7, Iss. 5 - Greenbrier College for Women
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Woodsmen Society

"I thought I had all the answers for you on "Woodsmen of America" and/or "Woodsmen of the World," but then I re-read your question and realized it concerns "Woodsmen Society." My great-grandfather was a member of "Woodsmen of America," as was Mr. Hatfield, and many other prominent NW Oklahoma Pioneers, but I too, find nothing about a "Woodsmen Society." I'll defer to others...does anyone know if this was an early predecessor to "Woodsmen of America" or "...of the World?" -- Scott Downs - Email: scottdowns@scottdowns.net
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Growing Up In Oklahoma & Kansas

"Good Evening Linda, We got a full moon and It's gonna be a clear and crispy nite here in Southern Okla. No frost warning for us yet. I think it is all up in your part of the state for tonite. I am sending along a few short stories of my childhood in Kansas, just before we were "transferred" to Oklahoma. As my stories relate we lived in a lot of little towns in Kansas. Just as we did in Oklahoma.

I hope you enjoy these few tales. Kenneth

1939 Near Peabody, Kansas -- I remember starting school at Wilcox. It was a small, 2 room, country school. Kindergarten thru Eighth grade. According to Willaverne, my older sister, the principal and his wife were the teachers. They were Mr. and Mrs. Ulverton West. I can't remember them that well but they had to be dedicated people to be there, in those hard times.

Ms. West taught Kindergarten thru the 4th grade and Mr. West taught 5th thru Eighth. Each morning you stood up and said the pledge of allegiance to the flag. There were some little German kids who wouldn't stand up or recite the pledge. This caused quite an uproar at that time but remember this was about l939 or '40 and Germany was taking over Europe. I'm sure these German families had relatives back in the Old Country.

I saw my first and only Klu Klux Klan meeting somewhere out in the Kansas prairie. This is quite sketchy in my memory. (I am about 6 or 7 yrs. old. I remember them burning a cross, and they all had their hoods and sheets on. But it wasn't in someone's yard it was just out in the prairie. Mother scolded me. And said I was never to tell that we had gone to a KKK meeting. It was my understanding that curiosity was the reason we went. And it was!

My Mother and Dad were both Christians, members of the Masonic Lodge and Order of the Eastern Star. They both attended lodge and Chapter on a Monthly basis.

Ghostly Spirits of Alva's Hospital

"I had polio in the fall of 1952 and was in the north wing of the old hospital for 9 weeks. I was 4 years old and my Mother stayed with me for the entire time. I was treated by Dr. Traverse. I still remember all the toys I got (nearly all had to be burned) my Mother reading to me for hours on end, and my favorite driver at the old ABC Speedway, Pee Wee Long, coming up to my room and standing in the doorway to say "hi!!!" -- Edward Lyon - Email: goldbug66@gmail.com
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Hunter's/Harvest Moon of October

Full Hunter's Moon - October With the leaves falling and the deer fattened, it is time to hunt. Since the fields have been reaped, hunters can easily see fox and the animals which have come out to glean. Full Moon names date back to Native Americans, of what is now the northern and eastern United States. The tribes kept track of the seasons by giving distinctive names to each recurring full Moon. Their names were applied to the entire month in which each occurred. There was some variation in the Moon names, but in general, the same ones were current throughout the Algonquin tribes from New England to Lake Superior. European settlers followed that custom and created some of their own names. Since the lunar month is only 29 days long on the average, the full Moon dates shift from year to year. -- Farmers Almanac - Full Moon Names

"The Hunter's Moon (also known as Blood Moon or Sanguine Moon) is the first full moon after the Harvest moon, which is the full moon nearest the Autumnal equinox. The Hunter's Moon and Harvest Moon are not brighter, smaller, or yellower than during other times of the year. But all full moons have their own special characteristics, based primarily on the whereabouts of the ecliptic in the sky at the time of year that these moons are visible. The full moons of September, October, and November, as seen from the northern hemisphere - which correspond to the full moons of March, April and May as seen from the southern hemisphere - are well known in the folklore of the sky.

In general, the moon rises about 50 minutes later each day, as it moves in orbit around Earth. All full moons rise around the time of sunset. The Harvest Moon and Hunter's Moon are special because - as seen from the northern hemisphere - the time of moonrise on successive evenings is shorter than usual. In other words, the moon rises approximately 30 minutes later, from one night to the next, as seen from about 40 degrees N. latitude, for several evenings around the full Hunter's or Harvest Moons.

Thus there is no long period of darkness between sunset and moonrise, around the time of these full moons. In times past, this feature of these autumn moons was said to help hunters tracking their prey (or, in the case of the Harvest Moon, farmers working in the fields). They could continue tracking their prey (or bringing in their crops) by moonlight even when the sun had gone down. Hence the name Hunter's (or Harvest) Moon.

The reason for the shorter-than-usual rising time between successive moonrises around the time of the Harvest and Hunter's Moon is that the ecliptic - or plane of Earth's orbit around the sun - makes a narrow angle with respect to the horizon in the evening in autumn.

In the northern hemisphere, the Hunter's Moon appears in October or November, usually in October. Traditionally, it was a feast day in parts of western Europe and among some Native American tribes, called simply the Feast of the Hunter's Moon, though the celebration had largely died out by the 1700s. There is a large historical reenactment by that name in Lafayette, Indiana during the early part of October." -- Wikipedia.org - Hunter's Moon
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Ghostly Spirits of Alva's Old Hospital

"I, too had my tonsils out at the old hospital, in 1938. My sister was born there in 1933, but it wasn't built when I came along in 1930, so I was born in the previous hospital located near the square. During WWII I understand that downtown building was where the sugar rationing board was located." -- Barbara Walters Hodges - Okielegacy Ezine - Ghostly spirits of Alva's Old Hospital View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Alva General Hospital Ghosts

"I do remember another article about how one of Buckland's roommates, who was living in the former nursery portion of the hospital was 'babysitting' a hand grenade. One day it exploded, blowing out some windows on the back side of the hospital. Shortly after that, Buckland and his roomies moved out, leaving the old hospital vacant again (except for the pigeons that came and went as they pleased through the blown out nursery windows." -- Scott Downs
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Born In Whizbang, Oklahoma

"My mom was born in Whizbang (Denoya), Oklahoma on May 18, 1923. Her name (then) was Viola "Dovy" Duncan, daughter of A.C. "Ace" Duncan, (my grandpa) who was an oil field "roustabout". We have family photos of him on horseback, with a six-shooter strapped on his hip. Mom says that was one dangerous place back then. She's still living, down in Leesburg, Florida, if anyone's interested. Her name now is Vi Miller." -- Danny Miller - Email: bertadan@hotmail.com
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October, 1907 New States Notes

These little tidbits are from The Daily Oklahoman, dated October 26, 1907, entitled: New State Notes:

"Enid passed a lively week having a street carnival, all the women in the territory attending a Federation of clubs meeting, two theatrical performances, and prayer meeting on both Wednesday and Thursday nights."

"To those Oklahoma towns that predict ruin because of prohibition, we suggest that they look at Bartlesville, a town that never new a saloon, and the biggest best and grandest little thing on the new Oklahoma map, says the Enterprise.

"A twelve-year-old Seiling boy was dragged a mile by a runaway horse and jerked off with the saddle on a barb wire fence and never get a scratch. He had better he careful for Providence seems to be preserving for him another fate and he might be nominated on the republican ticket for governor of Oklahoma some day."

"Kansas man on his way from parsons with a trunk and suit case full of liquor confided to a boyish looking fellow traveler what a "slick" thing he was, posing as a Muskogee real estate man but in reality being the "smoothest whiskey peddler in Indian Territory." The fellow traveler, who was a son of U. S. Marshall Darraugh, had the smooth and slick one arrested at Vinita and his trunk and valise confiscated."

"The oldest building in the new state, is the old log church at Ft. Gibson, near Muskogee, which has been used continuously since 1832 Among noted officers of the army stationed there and attending services were Winfield Scott, Zachary Taylor, Robert E. Lee, Geo. B. McClellan, Jefferson Davis and others. Washington Irving, Henry W. Longfellow, Henry M. Stanley and other famous literary characters and explorers have worshiped within the sacred walls of the old church. Efforts are being made to preserve the old building. Oklahoma should spare neither pains nor money to preserve the historic old church."
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Spectre of Old Alva Hospital Being Haunted Rattles Nerves of Caretakers

[The Daily Oklahoman, dated 14 Dec. 1971, pg. 38]

Alva, OK -- "Everyone's heard of a haunted house, but just how many people have come across a haunted hospital?

Two young Alva men think they are living in one - the old Alva General hospital which closed last July to make way for the new Share Memorial Hospital.

Ben Buckland and Dennis Brown came by their unusual home after vandals began to take their toll on the outskirts of this northwest Oklahoma community.

Buckland, part owner of a restaurant catering to college students and consulting manager of an Oklahoma City FM radio station, and Brown, job foreman for his father's lumber company here, serve as caretakers for the old hospital.

In the 2 1/2 months they've occupied the place numerous strange sounds and unexplained happenings have occurred which have sometimes left them on edge. Word of the mysterious goings-on has gotten out to their friends. They still have the friends, buy they'd rather not come calling at the pair's "haunted" residence.

"At first we were afraid of an overstock of company here -- but we've never had that problem," Buckland quipped.

The two men occupy eight of the 96 rooms of the old structure. The lobby is now a game room with pool and ping pong tables. An eight bed ward is now their living room. Buckland uses a small office off the game room and Brown has a former surgery room for a bedroom suite.

Brown has numerous stereo tapes which he enjoys listening to for relaxation. At least he used to like to relax with them.

"The first day we moved in, we were sitting in my bedroom listening to my tapes when a tape broke," Brown said, adding, "I've never had a tape break. Well, we fixed it and turned it on again. The tape broke again. That tape broke three times while we were watching it."

"If you're looking for an explanation," Buckland said, "after the tape broke three times is a row ... one of the guys helping us move said 'Maybe it's too loud; maybe you're offending them (the ghosts).' So Dennis turned it down and the tape didn't break anymore."

Other things have happened since then.

"Sometimes we'll be sitting there listening to the stereo and one side of the stereo will quit playing for no reason," observed Brown. Both men have checked the wires numerous times and found nothing amiss.

A stain in the surgery room adjoining Brown's bedroom is another unexplained phenomenon. The reddish-brown stain measures about four inches in diameter and is located three feet from a floor drain set in the sloping surgery floor.

When they mop the floor the stain disappears, but is back again within a week.

Brown tells of having a childhood fear of shower baths after having been trapped inside a shower by a sliding door and nearly being scalded as a youngster.

Recently he went to his room for a record album. The former surgery room's door closed and the shower came on. This sent Brown hurrying back to the game room without the record.

Despite these and other strange events the men have no plans for moving from their "haunted" hospital home.

"It's been a really good experience. I'd like to live here until forced to move out," Brown said.

Buckland observed, "It's been most interesting. I'll live here as long as the administrators need me."
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Ghosts Provide Bad Moments, Good Stories

[The Oklahoma, dated Feb. 28, 1972, pg. 13, written by Tom Boone]
"Ghosts, whether you believe in them or not, make good stories. So, for whatever they are worth, here are four of them.

Three were told to me by women, whom I shall call Mrs. Funstrom, Miss Schermer and Mrs. Smith. Those are not their real names. All of them live in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area.

The fourth was told by Ben Buckland of Ada. That is his real name. The ghosts never identified themselves.

Story No. 1 -- At first Mrs. Funstrom thought it was teenagers who were getting into her home while she and her husband were out. She's not certain yet that it wasn't.

The first time she realized something was amiss, she said, was when she came home one day and found deep scratches on the dining room table. The scratches were in the shape of a strange design.

Then other furniture began showing similar scratches. Thinking vandals were responsible, Mr. Funstrom changed all the locks on the house.

One day Mrs. Funstrom was away from home for awhile. She had left the dog outside, she said. When she got home the dog was inside. All the doors and windows were locked.

sometimes she would leave the cat inside and find it outside when she came back a few hours later.

More and more furniture became scratched, "Everything new we got, a week or two later it would be scratched too," she said. "One time I got a new teapot. I was careful to examine it when I took it out of the box. But in two weeks it was all scratched. i hadn't even used it."

A new set of aluminum cookware and a new vaccuum cleaner were scratched shortly after they were bought.

The Funtroms kept a piggy bank for loose change. Mrs. Funstrom kept a check on how much money was in it. "I would check and find that a few dimes and nickels had been taken out," she said. "The next time I'd look, they'd be back."

Her husband told her it would be impossible for anyone to get into the house without leaving evidence. They tried setting traps.

Sometimes they would drive away, park their car and sneak back to the house to wait for someone to try to get in. No one tried. Still the scratches became more numerous -- on tables under an ash tray or a book, on a silver tray wrapped up and put away.

The incidents started in 1966 and lasted about three years. Now they have stopped, Mrs. Funstrom said.

"I don't know that I believe in spirits," Mrs. Funstrom said. "i don't believe I do.. I don't know what it was."
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Good Ghost Stories Continues

[The Oklahoma, dated Feb. 28, 1972, pg. 13, written by Tom Boone]

Story No. 2 -- Miss Schermer, living alone in a large house, awoke one night and saw a man standing at the foot of her bed. Actually, it was not a man, she said. It was a man from the knees down, wearing blue jeans.

A few nights later, she woke up and found a man in blue overalls at the foot of her bed. This time he was all there except his head, she said.

Some time later, she said, she came across a woman wandering through the house as though she were inspecting it. Then the woman disappeared. Whatever they were, they've gone now.
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Ghosts Good Stories Continues [The Oklahoma, dated Feb. 28, 1972, pg. 13, written by Tom Boone]

Story No. 3 -- Mrs. Smith owns two horses and keeps them on the acreage where he home is. One day a couple of years ago she put some grain in the barn for one of the horses.

It went in to eat, Mrs. Smith said, "But something would chase it out again." The same thing happened with the other horse.

She was puzzled, but not concerned particularly. The, one evening as she was getting ready to go out, she began hearing the muffled sounds of gunfire outside.

"And there would be shouts as though there were a group of men," she said. "me, I was scared silly." Then, she said, there was a thundering sound as though a great many horses were running up and down the length of her house, right outside the windows.

When she looked out, nothing was there.

The sounds were repeated several times in the following months, but she never saw a thing.

Both Mrs. Smith and mrs. Funstrom called on Charles Rhoades for help. Rhoades, director of the New Age Center in Oklahoma City, is a firm believer in the existence of spirits and supernatural forces. he is, among other things, a ghost chaser.

"I go to a house and invite the spirits to leave in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost," he said.

Since Rhoades' visits to their homes, the women said, they have had no more trouble with univited guests.
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Ghosts Good Stories Continues

[The Oklahoma, dated Feb. 28, 1972, pg. 13, written by Tom Boone]

Story No. 4 -- Last October Ben Buckland and two other young men moved into the old abandoned Alva General Hospital to act as caretakers and to keep vandals away. Since then, strange things have been happening.

Take the reddish-brown stain, for instance. It is on the floor of what used to be the hospital's operating room. Buckland said he and the others would clean it up, but within a week it would return.

There are no leaks in the ceiling and no way for water to get to the spot. Still, even though it disappears when the floor is mopped, it keeps reappearing in the same shape within a week.

One of the other hospital residents had a stereo tape player, and he turned it on the day they all moved in. The tape broke. he repaired it, and it broke again... And again.

Finally someone suggested maybe the recorder was too loud and was offending the ghosts. One of the fellows turned the volume down and the tape didn't break any more.

In December, Buckland said, the three men were sitting on the hospital porch talking about ghosts. One of them said he could take anything they could dish out so long as they didn't fool around with the shower.

He admitted then that he had a tremendous fear of showers stemming from the time he was three years old and was severely burned when he accidentally turned off the cold water as he was taking a shower.

The next night, as he was dressing to go out on a date, the hot water suddenly came on in his shower. He decided he would move out.

Buckland said he and some other fellows were helping his friend pack a couple of days later. They got to talking about the shower incident, he said, and while they were talking, the shower came on again. Again it was just the hot water.

Buckland doesn't live there anymore, either.
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Roosevelt Promises Separate Statehood

Roosevelt Promises Separate Statehood, but then says he doesn't see it coming around soon.

Washington, Oct. 26, 1907 -- "President Roosevelt announces through Senator Fline of California today that he will use his influence for separate statehood for Arizona and New Mexico. The president, however, expressed the opinion that nothing in that direction could be accomplished at the next session of congress."
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