ghost story tours
by the table rock community club
Actual photograph in the collection of the Historical Society. April 21, 1921.
Come listen to stories, told in a haunted place or two in the village of Table Rock, home of history and ghosts.
Contrary to stories about us on the web, there is no "paranormal" activity here. There is only "normal" activity. These stories are not about ghouls and monsters and poltergeists. They are about actual events and the consequences. Here. Are they true? Listen then judge for yourself.
Our stories are actual stories. This is not a "ghost tour" where someone will gesture to a building and tell you that it is haunted and tell a few lines about it -- "The ghost of a woman murdered by her mother-in-law is sometimes seen running about." You will hear the whole story.
Some tales are short, such as about the the ghost of our Opera House, a 2nd story opera house built in 1893.
Some tales -- if you can stick it out in the darkness -- are involved such as the story of the horse thieves hung on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day at the end of the Civil War. Hear about Hannah Jane G_____'s death by typhoid fever in 1857, or about the dentist and his little dog. You may hear about some of our more unusual hauntings. Cow ghosts, for example. And, of course, there is our famous Dentist ghost and his little dog. As you can tell, our ghosts can be fun, but more often find themselves in sad, or tragic, puzzling, or odd circumstances. Or circumstances that may seem odd. To you.
You may go to a variety of places to see such things as the haunted mirror, made from the town's old horse-drawn hearse, the trap door, the graves of conductors of the Underground Railroad. You will probably be privileged to go into spaces not open to the public, second stories no longer used, basements of buildings over 100 years old.
Where will these stories be told? Let us surprise you....
Contrary to stories about us on the web, there is no "paranormal" activity here. There is only "normal" activity. These stories are not about ghouls and monsters and poltergeists. They are about actual events and the consequences. Here. Are they true? Listen then judge for yourself.
Our stories are actual stories. This is not a "ghost tour" where someone will gesture to a building and tell you that it is haunted and tell a few lines about it -- "The ghost of a woman murdered by her mother-in-law is sometimes seen running about." You will hear the whole story.
Some tales are short, such as about the the ghost of our Opera House, a 2nd story opera house built in 1893.
Some tales -- if you can stick it out in the darkness -- are involved such as the story of the horse thieves hung on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day at the end of the Civil War. Hear about Hannah Jane G_____'s death by typhoid fever in 1857, or about the dentist and his little dog. You may hear about some of our more unusual hauntings. Cow ghosts, for example. And, of course, there is our famous Dentist ghost and his little dog. As you can tell, our ghosts can be fun, but more often find themselves in sad, or tragic, puzzling, or odd circumstances. Or circumstances that may seem odd. To you.
You may go to a variety of places to see such things as the haunted mirror, made from the town's old horse-drawn hearse, the trap door, the graves of conductors of the Underground Railroad. You will probably be privileged to go into spaces not open to the public, second stories no longer used, basements of buildings over 100 years old.
Where will these stories be told? Let us surprise you....
stories told by sharla cerra
of the table rock historical society
curator of the extensive vintage photograph collection
2019 tours
meet at the round up bar & grill at 7 pm
saturday, october 19
saturday, october 26
for reservations: [email protected].
some previous tours
more
We are not kidding about our ghostly history. This is from the July 9, 1880 Nebraska State Journal:
Actual photograph from the collection of the Table Rock Historical Society.
Actual photograph from the collection of the Table Rock Historical Society. The little girl to the left is obvious. But what about that baby at the bottom right... This is the 50th anniversary gathering of a couple who were some of the first-wave settlers of Table Rock. Names have not been included, to protect the family.
This lady is from a well-known merchant family back in the day. Her name is not included, to protect her family.