Comments on: Ghost Story

By: Krescent Crucet

Krescent Crucet — Sat, 05 Jun 2021 23:49:58 +0000

Hi Diana,
The Menger Hotel itself is also known to be haunted!

By: Carole bryant

Carole bryant — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 14:01:51 +0000

Laurie, …a perfect analogy, “the Alamo is to Texans what culloden is to the Scots”.

By: Marion Noid

Marion Noid — Sun, 01 Nov 2015 22:40:20 +0000

Diana, you have an open mind and an observant nature. I thank God that he also gave you the gift of writing so clearly. Bless you for sharing. I have had “paranormal” experience in my life, also. My experiences have been much like your own. We both belonged in that time and space.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Sat, 31 Oct 2015 22:31:31 +0000

I would also add:
The Alamo is to Texans much like Culloden is to Scots.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Sat, 31 Oct 2015 22:28:27 +0000

It’s the “Daughters of the _Republic_ of Texas” not the “Daughters of Texas.” They saved the Alamo from certain ruin and established it as a “shrine of Texas liberty.” I’m not surprised to know ghosts can be heard there. It’s a haunting place, even more so when one knows details of the Alamo story and its significance in the fight for Texas independence from Mexico.

By: Diana

Diana — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 16:25:44 +0000

Thank, Rainey!

No offense was intended toward the Daughters of Texas, I assure you. [smile] It was, as you fortunately perceived, merely a painting of the apparent atmosphere of the place–an apparently hapless attempt to evoke respect in a place devoid of anything apparent to the casual onlooker…but there is indeed something there worthy of respect (and by extent, in all such places, whether the casual onlooker is fortunate enough to see it or not).

Best,

–Diana

By: R

Thu, 28 Aug 2014 05:31:31 +0000

Did I just somehow preempt my comment? Oh well, it wasn’t that good anyway.

By: Rainey

Rainey — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 05:28:48 +0000

Sorry. Not “waving it about”— Just “waving”…
—R

By: Rainey Lewis

Rainey Lewis — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 05:20:21 +0000

Hi Diana.
Thank you for the story of your Alamo ghost. I particularly love ghost stories, and yours is just great.
I visited the Alamo some time ago, and it’s remarkable to me how the dusty memory of an old incident like that takes on a brand new shine with the rubbing up of another person’s experience. Just one more example of the importance of human connection through writing. You enriched both my immediate moment and my own recollection with your charming remembrance. Your vivid account summoned me to be right there with you.
I also wanted to mention that you gave me a good lesson in the discipline of writing with your story. As I am a huge fan of yours, I was more than a little shocked at first to feel disappointment with you, making as you did small snooty fun at the expense of the poor clueless Daughters of Texas and their inept (as you saw it) efforts on behalf of the Alamo. Especially catty was the line about the lady with the sign “waving it about”, insisting on quiet, to honor the place. You made her sound quite daft, quite loony with the ‘waving about’ bit. So I admit to having been a bit offended for them, and perhaps hurt, that a hero of mine, you, would be so deprecating towards such an innocent, thankless, and quite right endeavor.
Then—
you turned it around with your abrupt intersection into the wonderful masculine entity that inhabited one of the Alamo’s dark corners, bringing to life his particular heroism, and reminding by inference the many terrible sacrifices human beings made there.
From one voice to its opposite, and it was seamless.
Thank you for the lesson. I’m trying hard to pay attention and learn.
I just adore you.
—Rainey

By: Diana

Diana — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:53:08 +0000

Dear Amy–

Yes–though my impression of him was not of someone in any distress.

–Diana