Hi guys....<br /><br />I&#039;m trying this again.  I had finished this long saga about my trip and accidentally closed the window/browser.  There was no way I could start it again and have dinner on the table at the time specified.<br /><br />So...dinner is done and I&#039;m changing to the mid-level version.<br /><br />Old ghost town<br />Pretty Opera House<br />REAL old hotel with parts in ruin<br />Supposedly very haunted..okay going to be long again..<br /><br />MAN I HAD THE TIME OF MY LIFE.....IN FACT I CAN&#039;T REMEMBER HAVING MORE FUN AT ANY TIME IN MY LIFE.  That includes Six Flags over Texas when I was 13.<br /><br />Try to imagine a place out literally in the middle of no where.  Then it be desolate, ruined..as in falling apart, and in the dead of night.  IT WAS SOOOO COOL&#33;&#33;&#33;<br /><br />Two workers there pretty much gave us a tour and the history of the place.  One was a guy that was kind of a manager type.  He told us several stories, one of sitting out by the cat graveyard and literally being pushed almost out of his chair.  He&#039;s seen several things in the Opera house itself.  The other lady is also one of the caretakers and is partially psychic.<br /><br />Imagine a small time theater.  A bunch of seats with one row in the middle.  Somewhere around 2:00 am me, Marty (psychic caretaker), and Trish (other team member) are sitting in the pitch black (flashlights off).  Trish is on one side and Marty and I are on the other.  Marty is up say second row and I&#039;m in the back maybe fourth from the rear.  She hollers for someone to come quick and switch seats because she&#039;d &quot;getting something.&quot;  Well Trish is closer but in the pitch black I come charging down blindly to get to that seat first.  Gosh it was hilarious.  I then remembered to turn on the flashlight and switched with her.  Sat down, turned it back off and NOTHING&#33;  Oh well....<br /><br />At that same time the walkie goes off from one of the guys to come quick to the Sunset Room which was a big room for the miners...big scary... AWESOME room.  The three guys were about a fourth of the way into the room and from the back of the room suddenly large booming footsteps were coming toward them.  They turned on the flashlights and they stopped.  Turn off lights and they start back up again.  One of them said the guy had to be very large to make steps that heavy.  It totally turned our skeptic leader into a believer.  Sooooo... Trish and I go in turn off our lights and first start sweet talking to it.  Jimi had said it started when they started provoking and talking about whiskey.  Well 20 minutes of sweet talking did nothing.  We started provoking.  I said things I&#039;ve never said before....  I felt bad talking to even a ghost that way.  The audio is going to be outright hilarious.  Well a whole lot of NOTHING&#33;  We must have tried for over an hour.  We even got Jimi back to piss it off and nope...nada.  BUT Jimi went down to the end of the room to get a recorder and he saw a head pop out of a window.  I had been seeing dark shadows but figured my eyes were playing tricks on me and probably that was the case.   It was well over 110 inside the buildings with not much air circulation so sweat was just pouring off of us.  Once the activity started no one even realized it was hot any longer.  <br /><br />I just kept wanting to pinch myself...I&#039;m really here and I&#039;m really doing this.  I&#039;m not afraid much of anything.  It was awesome.  The place was as bad if not worse than Freddy or Michael Myers places.  I&#039;ll post a few pics here.<br /><br /><img src="http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e319/shaunnaprentice/opera6.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" /><br />The sunset room...the room where the heavy footsteps were.<br /><br /><img src="http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e319/shaunnaprentice/opera1.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" /><br />A bath room...countless rooms all in ruin.  This whole run down part is known as &quot;Spooky Hollow.&quot;  It&#039;s like a big dorm setting for the miners.  They could have easily been jail cells at Penn State..<br /><br /><img src="http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e319/shaunnaprentice/opera4.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" /><br />Ceiling in one of the hallways.<br /><br /><img src="http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e319/shaunnaprentice/opera8.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" /><br />Not too far into spooky hollow...<br /><br /><img src="http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e319/shaunnaprentice/opera2.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" /><br />Our monitor...<br /><br /><img src="http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e319/shaunnaprentice/opera5.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" /><br />Criss Angel did some promo and set up some crazy props..blood, other weird stuff for some show of his.<br /><br /><img src="http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e319/shaunnaprentice/opera3.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" /><br />Another pic of the sunset room...these are only lit up because of my flash with my camera set to night shots.  Otherwise we just had little flashlights but I&#039;d turn it off before I used my camera so most shots like these are taken in pitch blackness.<br /><br /><img src="http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e319/shaunnaprentice/opera7.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" /><br />The Opera House where we were sitting in darkness with the psychic.  FYI... I&#039;m very skeptical on those sorts but I do think some people are more sensitive.<br /><br /><img src="http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e319/shaunnaprentice/DSCF0342.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" /><br />At the entrance to Spooky Hollow...thought it looked very serial killer(ish).  <br /><br /><img src="http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e319/shaunnaprentice/opera9.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" /><br />Oh and the bat in our room.  I had to get a shot before they came and took him/her outside.  Was really cute when they got a bucket...clinking to the bucket with the wings outstretched as if to say..hey..I was taking a nap&#33;&#33;&#33;<br /><br />Lots more pics that I have to go over.  I have been sleeping a lot to get caught back up.  It&#039;s good to be back though.  Next stop we think is a graveyard in Virginia City, Nevada on Halloween.<br /><br />Jackie...it&#039;s great the first day went good for you&#33;  <br /><br />Steve..just wanted to say I&#039;m sorry about Lynda&#039;s dog.  That is always hard.<br /><br />Jim..hang in there buddy.  <br /><br />Everyone have a great evening&#33;&#33;