Oklahoma!

Location: The Stone Lion Inn; Guthrie, Oklahoma

Date: June 2-3, 2006

By this time we were totally into ghost hunting and looking for places to go. After seeing The Stone Lion on the Sci-Fi show Ghost Hunters, we wanted to give it a try. So we found ourselves about thirty miles outside of Oklahoma City staying at a bed and breakfast renowned for owner Rebeccah Luker’s “murder mysteries.”

After hearing our reason for coming she gladly shared her own stories of the old house. Its past was quite intriguing; it was owned by a very large family in the early1900s and later turned into a funeral home. While she lived there with her two boys there were plenty of strange happenings; her son even saw a young girl who they called Augusta because of the stories of the original family. She later moved out, but her best friend and the new housekeeper has seen a man in the basement and is the only person brave enough to stay in the house alone – but only in the day time.

Augusta's Room

The house had a definite eerie feeling in parts, and our room was supposedly the most active in the house. People heard children rolling a ball across the floor on the third floor above it, and some guests had even been woken by a child’s hand touching their face. In our opinion, the creepiest part about the room was the women’s lingerie painted on every yellow wall- or, maybe, the black mannequin in front of the window.

Orb in the basement

We visited the third floor and the basement that afternoon, but nothing happened. After the murder mystery we decided to try the basement again before heading up to our room.

Another orb in the basement

In the basement we got some orb pictures, but the story with them is much more interesting than they are alone. There were two very dark corners in the back of the basement, and the one on the right side was crazy. As soon as my dad approached the corner he got what he called a “frozen to the bone” feeling and had to back away. My mom and I were using the rods, and both sets became highly active. They crossed all the way around us, showing high activity. 

In the other corner my dad had a similar feeling, though not as strong, but the rods began a peculiar dance. My mom called me over to see; both rods were swaying back and forth in unison. As soon as I held mine up they began the same thing. We had never encountered this before, and my mom even thought that whatever was with us might have been playing a joke.

We tried some EVP work, but the recorder got nothing. I had over 9 hours of audio to go through from the basement and the room, but found nothing.

If creepy feelings and strange photos can count for anything, then, yes, there was something there. However, we didn’t hear any toys rolling or get woken up by a small child. The only thing that kept us awake was that weird mannequin.

Hayley.