Haunted Bartlesville, Oklahoma
By Rita Cook
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Rita Cook is a writer and editor with over 1000 articles to her credit in the past 10 years. She has also written four books.
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Haunted Bartlesville, Oklahoma - Rita Cook
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INTRODUCTION
Let me just tell you from the get-go that I am a big believer in ghosts. If you have read my other two haunted books in this series, then you know I believe in and love ghosts. They exist, they are real and they are a part of the reality that we live in every day.
I personally believe in ghosts because the home I grew up in was haunted. It was (and still is) just an unobtrusive house that was built in the 1950s in Dallas, but it had so many ghosts while I was growing up that the house always felt extremely overcrowded. I also used to see the spirits out of the corner of my eye. I never knew what it was really, but I know I saw a movement, and there was a certain unexplained energy that was always present. When you’re a kid, you don’t really think about it, but nevertheless the ghosts were happy to be there.
I have never been able to actually see ghosts in their ethereal form (no, I am not the ghost whisperer and you’ll likely not find too many people who are). I may have seen a ghost or two, but other than that, any sighting has been out of the corner of my eye.
However, I can feel them.
Let it be understood, too, that if you do go to the locations listed in this book searching for ghosts and find none, seeing a ghost may not be your talent. But keep your feelings, ears and even your nose open—subtle changes will let you know what’s going on around you. And remember, we aren’t all living in a television drama like The Ghost Whisperer. It really isn’t as easy as the show makes it look, at least not for most people.
Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
Regarding my house, I will say that I think the ghosts left with my mother when she died several years ago. Even though she was a true God-fearing woman, she was also a true ghost magnet and a believer in ghosts. Now that my brother lives in the house, I haven’t felt a thing; he is not a ghost magnet, and I’m not sure he even believes in ghosts at all.
There are also two stories that convince me that ghosts do exist and that they live among us, which is one of the reasons I decided to write this book. While in my twenties, I moved away from Dallas to Chicago and then to Los Angeles. I didn’t come back for twenty years, but during the time I was gone, my mom would always call me and tell me stories about the ghosts that were bumping around in my old home. (She and my dad stayed in that large house in Dallas until they both died.) Once, my mom called me up and said she had seen smoke coming out of her trash can in the bedroom. She smoked, and she said she thought she had accidentally put a lit cigarette in the trash can and that it had sparked a fire. However, she looked inside the trash can and couldn’t find anything on fire. She went back to her business, and a few moments later, she saw the white filmy smoke coming out of the trash can again. She knew what it was this time, and she called me to tell me about it.
I suggested that she call a parapsychologist who could tell her what she needed to do to get rid of all these ghosts in her house. She thought about it and said she would call. The next day, she called and told me that she had spoken with a parapsychologist, and the woman told her what she needed to do in order to get rid of the ghosts. My mom said simply, You know, they’re not hurting anybody. I think I’ll just keep ’em.
That was my mom.
By the way, if you do need to get rid of a ghost, the best thing to do is send it to the light; it might be a lost spirit that hasn’t crossed over, and you sending it on its way could be one of the most generous things you will ever do.
Another time, I brought a friend of mine with me on a trip to see my parents at my old childhood home (it was the holidays), and we took some photos. My friend and I had just bought a digital camera and had not heard about the orb phenomenon yet. We were taking photos, and in almost all of the photos of my mother, there are orbs surrounding her. It was eerie. I have never taken photos of that many orbs again in my life, but my husband, who is a photographer, took quite a few images in my childhood home before my mom died, and you could always bet there were one or two orbs hanging around