April Slaughter by Ghosthunting Texas

Bill thought it may have been Charlene coming to see if we had experienced anything interesting, and that she might have someone with her. He and Allen decided to go upstairs to check it out, but upon inspection found the entrance door still locked and no one in the building besides the team. I was curious about whether or not the voices would show up on the audio recordings, and was absolutely thrilled to hear them on playback! What was being said could not be deciphered, but voices were indeed captured.
    Investigator Victoria Dupree was surprised when her stool was suddenly pulled slightly away from the bar.
    “Something just pulled my stool back,” she said calmly. All of us kept our attention on her in hopes that the action might be repeated. It was not.
    All throughout the evening, we received some auditory response to nearly every question we asked. Hours upon hours of reviewing the recorders produced a record number of EVPs from one location for the team.
    As the clock struck 1:00 A.M., the team was growing a bit tired and we decided to start packing everything up in preparation to leave. We thanked Bill for his time and graciousness, and
promised to be in touch with what we found during our initial investigation of the building.
    As anyone who often ghost hunts will tell you, reviewing data takes a great deal of time and attention. Over the course of a week following the investigation, every member of our team pored over hours and hours of audio and video. Charlene and Bill were obviously very eager to hear what our results were, and I spoke often with them as small pieces of information flowed in from the team.
    We knew that Charlene believed the Bull Ring was haunted by the spirit of a man, but we were certain that a majority of the recordings captured were of a female voice.
    “I have never seen or heard anything from a woman in this building,” she said. “I don’t know why a woman would be here.”
    I explained to her that spirits are not like the living, in that they are not bound by physical limitations. Whoever it was we had captured on tape may not actually have a tie to the building at all; it was possible that this woman was just passing through and chose to interact with us. There really was no way to know for sure at that point.
    Interestingly enough, friends of Mike and Jenny Bornstein—the building’s previous owners—made a visit shortly after we had conducted our investigation and spoke with Charlene and Bill about some of the odd things the Bornsteins had experienced during their years there. Mike had often seen shadow people in the basement and had it almost completely boarded up. He avoided going down to the lower level of the building as much as he could, and felt very strongly that the basement was haunted.
    Charlene spoke to me about another interesting tidbit as well—Mike and Jenny had often talked about a prostitute who may have been killed in the building, which Charlene had never heard of until then. Mr. Bornstein had often seen the apparition
of a woman in a red dress, and associated this spectre with the spirit of the unfortunate lady of the night.
    “It really made no sense to me that you came in and captured a woman’s voice, because I had never heard of anything tragic happening to a woman here,” she said. “Do you think it might be her?”
    “I can’t say one way or another, but it certainly is possible,” I replied.
    As more and more is uncovered about the ghostly history of the Bull Ring, perhaps information might surface to identify not only those who frequented the building in life, but those who continue to visit from the other side of the veil. One thing is certain—the Bull Ring is haunted. By whom and for what reasons, I do not know, but I look forward to unraveling the mystery one EVP at a time.

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