Post by evertron on Jan 4, 2004 1:18:55 GMT -6
Hi
I live less than a mile from this motel and know the owners well. They were surprised when I showed them you report on ghostly goins-on. I've lived in this area for about 50 years and have heard some of the old stories about this spot of which the current owner (last 15 years and owned by his father 10 years before)and some previous owners told me.
First, the murder took place some time in the thirties.
There was only the bar located there then (just east of
the motel) and it was called the "Bloody Bucket." The are was mostly farm land and the bar owner sold cattle on the side. One night his bartender told him a customer wanted to see him at the barn to the east.
When he went there someone hit him with an axe. Killed him. Never found out who done it. His widow and the bartender married about a six months later sold the bar and left town.
Now the ghost - not likely at the motel, it's only about twenty years old. The bar has been entirely rebuilt and is now a popular bar and restaurant. No talk about spooks there. The trailer park has been operating about twenty-five years. But... here's the kernel of fact: close by these buildings and trailers lived a gentleman - now deceased - who was known as a peeping tom. He was arrested a few times (This I know, as I was a jailor- dispatcher in the seventies) but most of the time he could "run like a deer." And yes, he wore flannel shirts as do about 80% of us males hereabouts.
And so, that seems to be the legend of the El Rancho ghost.
I really enjoy you site, yours, RON
I live less than a mile from this motel and know the owners well. They were surprised when I showed them you report on ghostly goins-on. I've lived in this area for about 50 years and have heard some of the old stories about this spot of which the current owner (last 15 years and owned by his father 10 years before)and some previous owners told me.
First, the murder took place some time in the thirties.
There was only the bar located there then (just east of
the motel) and it was called the "Bloody Bucket." The are was mostly farm land and the bar owner sold cattle on the side. One night his bartender told him a customer wanted to see him at the barn to the east.
When he went there someone hit him with an axe. Killed him. Never found out who done it. His widow and the bartender married about a six months later sold the bar and left town.
Now the ghost - not likely at the motel, it's only about twenty years old. The bar has been entirely rebuilt and is now a popular bar and restaurant. No talk about spooks there. The trailer park has been operating about twenty-five years. But... here's the kernel of fact: close by these buildings and trailers lived a gentleman - now deceased - who was known as a peeping tom. He was arrested a few times (This I know, as I was a jailor- dispatcher in the seventies) but most of the time he could "run like a deer." And yes, he wore flannel shirts as do about 80% of us males hereabouts.
And so, that seems to be the legend of the El Rancho ghost.
I really enjoy you site, yours, RON