History And Ghosts All In One
Hello everyone.
My name is Jamie Roush and I am the founder of Historic Haunts. I have been a certified Paranormal Investigator and Ghost Hunter for many years. I have always been interested in the supernatural and had my first experience at a very early age. The reason I have started Historic Haunts is to share my investigations with people, help answer paranormal questions, and to be there for people who need their home or business investigated. Plus to hopefully help the non believer to become more open minded and realize ghosts do exist.
We answer any questions you may have and do investigations free of charge. We go in believeing a place may or may not be haunted, and if we find real proof that it is we will show it to you. If we think a place is not haunted, then we will explain to you why we believe that.
We never use ouija boards to try and conjure up the spirits. We also do not practice in seances. Honestly, we don't believe you need to use these to contact the spirits. If they want to be contacted, they will contact you first.
About Ghost Hunting
Just because a building is old, doesn't mean that it is haunted.
Ghost hunting is not always as exciting as tv makes it out to be. Sometimes you can spend hours doing research and setting in buildings and not see or feel a thing. Then there are times there is so much activity it is unbelievable! You just never know what will happen on an investigation.
Robert the Doll
The East Martello Museum on S. Roosevelt Boulevard in Key West is Robert's permanent home where he sits on
display for those who dare to visit. Robert's original home is The Artist House Bed &
Breakfast where he lived with his owner Gene Otto and his annual temporary home is at the historic Customs
House Museum. Robert was said to have been given to Gene
by a Bahamian girl whose exact relation to the family remains
one of Robert's many mysteries. Many believe the girl was the
daughter of ill-treated servants of the Otto family. Speculation
as to his creation include that the doll contains a crystal or
was made much like a voodoo doll, thereby creating his evil
entity. Whatever his method of creation, Robert is possessed
and his ongoing activities continue to be reported to us.
Robert is one of our most popular tales and many of our
tour customers visit Robert at East Martello for themselves.
One of Robert's favorite activites is to prevent his photo
from being taken. Visitors have reported a variety of camera
malfunctions and Robert's favorite trick is to black out his
own photo, while leaving the remaining film unharmed. He
frequently creates electric and electronic fluctuations and has
been said to move his toy lion from one knee to the other
and to tap on his glass display case.
Mill's Poem of the Schuylkill
"Above the highway, rising bold,
The pillard Mifflin house behold,
Where men and dames of high degree,
Were often wont of old to be.
Come shuddering now the stories told,
Of ghostly figures strutting bold;
Of dark recess and double floor,
And never shutting chamber door;
Of noises strange and flashing light,
Oft heard and seen at dead of night."
Ghostly Quotes
"True love is like a ghost, which everyone talks about, but few have ever seen."
"I wouldn't give a hoot about anybody who doesn't believe in ghosts."
~Dr. W.A.R. Goodwin
"Tomorrow-today will become yesterday, and today is the birthday of tomorrow's ghosts."
~Terrence Whitaker
"All houses in which men have lived and died are haunted houses; through their own doors the harmless phantoms on their errands glide with feet that make no sound upon the floors."
~Longfellow
"How do you turn off a ghost?"
"The dead say nothing, and the dead know much, and the dead hold under their tongues, a locked up story." ~Carl Sandburg
"The spirits of the dead who stood in life before thee are again." ~Edgar Allan Poe
"You best start believing in ghost stories, Miss Turner, your in one." ~Hector Barbossa
"Lemur means ghost in Latin."
