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A ghost meter is used to detect the
electromagnetic frequencies emitted
by otherworldly presences.

A trio of ghosts haunt the Williamson Museum: A woman in white and the spirits of
a little boy named Zack and a little girl called Faith.

Continued from the previous page This century-old pocket watch Author Doug Lytton holds divining
inexplicably began running again. rods which are believed to help users
AMELIA, ZACK AND FAITH communicate with the spirit world.
100-year-old pocket watch in one of the
Williamson Museum, 716 S. Austin, has museum’s display cases. It had never been EAST SIDE HAUNTS
three ghosts: Amelia (lady in white), Zack wound, and yet when Danelle returned to
(a child) and Faith (a little girl). open the museum the next morning, the The east side of the Square is where most
watch was ticking. of the paranormal activity takes place.
I met Danelle at the Williamson Mu- All kinds of thoughts were going through The Georgetown City Council Chambers
seum and was able to use some of the my mind trying to apply logic to what I building, located across the street from
ghost hunting tools for myself. Danelle had just experienced. I wondered whether Gumbo’s, used to be a funeral parlor.
demonstrated a spirit box which is a ra- energy, which science proves cannot be Locals speculate that through the early
dio frequency noise box and if spirits are destroyed, is simply redeployed for those years, many departed souls were not at
listening, it may produce a detectable hu- souls that are not at peace when they die? peace and therefore sought habitation as
man voice, perhaps answering questions; their discarnate spirits were loosed into
nothing was actually answered this time. the cosmos.
The electromagnetic frequency (EMF)
detector did light up when I stood in the I spoke with Bob Brownfield, a ghost tour
hall in the middle of the museum. Danelle guide and Sun City Texas resident. Last
handed me a set of divining rods and sug- October, leading up to Halloween, Bob
gested I ask a question of Amelia. conducted a tour of the old jail which was
built in 1877. Apparently, in the 1880s, a
“Hi Amelia, if you’re with us, please make prisoner had committed suicide in one of
the rods cross.” the cells. The group of men taking the tour
wanted Bob to turn off the lights while
Amazingly, a precipitous drop in tempera- they went into the cell. At first, the men
ture occurred in the space where I was were joking and making light of the en-
standing, and the rods slowly crossed. I tire ghost idea, but this flippant attitude
did not make them cross.
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“Amelia, if Zack is with you, please un-
cross the rods.”

Again, the rods uncrossed. This is what I
would call an unexplained phenomenon.
A slight chill came over me.

Another unexplained occurrence was the

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