LET'S TALK ABOUT TAKING THINGS FROM A HAUNTED LOCATION. IS IT OK OR ARE WE JUST ASKING FOR TROUBLE?

Spanish Fort, Texas

We've all heard that you are never supposed to take something from a haunted location, right? Well, what if curiosity gets the better of you and you just can't stand it, you have to take SOMETHING? Just a small rock, just a small bottle of dirt, or maybe just this little, bitty piece of glass. That won't hurt anything and nothing bad will happen. Right? Wrong.

Everything that is anything has an energy and sometimes that energy can be attached to an object and sometimes it can be attached to a location. Stories and stories have been told about someone just picking up the smallest of objects from a haunted location only to find that they soon start experiencing paranormal activity or bad things start to happen or they suddenly start "seeing things" that they have never seen before...hence...ghosts.

Think of it like this. You are sitting in your living room just minding your own business when someone steps inside your house and takes your coffee cup you left sitting on the coffee table and then they just walk out. I'm pretty sure you would be like WHAT THE HELL and go after that person to give it back to you. Right? That coffee cup belongs to you in your house. That's what happens when you are in a haunted location and you take something from it. It is not yours, and it should stay where you found it.

So, before I tell you my story just let me say...I KNOW BETTER! But here we go...

A couple weekends ago, my boyfriend, Deak and I decided to take a long drive out to an abandon cemetery I had heard of Red River Station. Let me say, it was quit the chore to find this cemetery! We literally had to drive through farm land full of cattle to get to it. And it was in the middle of NO MAN'S LAND let me tell you!

Before we found the cemetery, we went to a very small community called Spanish Fort. At its peak, the town had numerous businesses and churches, a Masonic lodge, five physicians, four hotels, and several saloons. Spanish Fort became known as a very rough and tumble cowboy town, and at least 40 murders are said to have occurred during the cattle drive heyday. Native Americans long used the fertile areas near the Red River for farming and hunting. Taovoyas took over an abandoned French garrison here around 1750 to defend against Spanish incursions in the area. In 1759, in the Battle of the Twin Villages, a Spanish army under Col. Diego Ortiz Parrilla attacked the Taovoyas' fortified position, but were defeated by a force of both the Taovoyas and Comanche tribes. Anglo settlers later misnamed the area Spanish Fort after assuming that the Spanish forces had built a fortification there, rather than the French.

There is nothing left of this town but an old store front and a small wooden house that sits beside it.

Well, of course, we parked, got out to explore the two remaining building. There is nothing inside them and the windows have been broken out and the ceiling is all falling in. The perfect place to have a ghost hunt. Just sayin...:)

As I was walking around the old buildings and I found a piece of glass that I could tell was very old. Greenish in color and very thick. Not like you would see today. So, I picked it up and looked at it pondering as to what it used to be and stuck it in the pocket of my hoodie. Now, wasn't that a good idea??? NOT!!!!

Literally as we were getting back in the car, I pulled the piece of glass out of my pocket and showed it to my boyfriend, Deak. He asked me was I going to take it? And Deak has been with me long enough and been to many haunted locations and knows the "law of the lands" per say. I could see it in his eyes he thought I should put it back. I had one foot in the car and the other out, just staring at it, rolling it around in my hand, while my curious mind was saying, "Take it. It's just a piece of glass but how cool would it be to have something from that long ago". Then, the Becky Ghost Hunter voice was kicking in, saying "Don't do it! You know better!" But after a few minutes of the battle of the minds, I decided that it wouldn't hurt anything and stuck it back in my pocket.

This was on a Monday. We were off because it was a holiday. Martin Luther King Day. We finally found the secluded, abandon cemetery and I will tell you about that, next time. You won't believe THAT story!!!

So, the whole time I have this piece of glass, this nagging little voice keeps saying, "You shouldn't have taken that." And I keep thinking, "It will be fine". So, we found the glass on Monday and Tuesday comes along. I have a miniature schnauzer named...you guessed it Kasper, yes after the ghost but spelled with a "K". You know how you know your dogs habits and how he or she acts, well I noticed that Kasper would sit on the end of the couch just starring at the staircase. Like, intense staring. This is something, I had never seen him do before. He wasn't barking or growling, just staring. I would ask him, "What's wrong boy?" and he would just look at me for a minute and go back to staring. hhhhhuummm Clue-number one that something is not right. When I tell you this went on all day and night, it went on all day and night. Finally, we go to bed around 10:00 and he sleeps with me at the foot of my bed.

It was around 10:15pm and I was on the phone with Deak telling him goodnight when all the sudden, Kasper jumps off the bed and starts barking and runs into the living room. (Just for the record, he is not a barker. Very rarely does he bark other than when I first arrive home) I can hear a loud man's voice but can not tell what he is saying. I tell Deak "Just a minute" because I am so confused as to what is happening. Even Deak hears it on the other end of the phone and asked "What is that"? Well, I have an Alexa in my living room as well as every other room in my house but ONLY the living room one had turned on. It was a man's voice not a song, but it was so loud that I just turned it off without really paying attention to what it was saying. Here's the even stranger part. I have all my Alexa's connect to one group. This mean whenever Alexa is on, it plays on all the Alexa's in the house NOT JUST ONE! So, not only am I puzzled about how it came on by itself, I am confused as to why it is not playing on all the Alexa's. hhhhuuummm Clue number two something is not right.

Now, it's about 3:15am in the morning and again, Kasper awakens me by jumping off the bed, barking and runs into the living room. I sit straight up and from my bed I can see down the hallway a bright light and I can hear that the TV is on. What the hell? I didn't leave the tv on. Can I So, I get up and go to the living room, and sure enough the tv is on. I turn off it off, and go back to bed with Kasper. Clue-number two something is not right. I do find it strange, but not strange enough to keep me up so I fall back to sleep, as does Kasper. Then, 4:00am rolls around and all the sudden my living room Alexa comes on with some man talking! Can this really be happening in the same night??? I jump up and run to the living room and nothing was happening and the Alexa was off. What the hell??? Am I losing my mind?

I finally go back to sleep and before I knew it, it was 6:00am and time to get up for work. As I got ready work, I couldn't help but think of all the things that had happened the night before. It was just to much!!! Holy cow!!! WHY? Why was I having so much activity in my house?

The thought did cross my mind, could it be the piece of broken glass I picked up and brought home? Of course not! It was just a small piece of broken glass lying on the ground. So what?

I went to the kitchen to make myself my usual glass of chocolate milk. I got out the milk, mixed the chocolate syrup in, stirred it, and set the glass on the counter to put the milk back in the refrigerator as I do every morning. But THIS morning, I turned around and knocked the glass of chocolate milk off the counter and it fell to the floor shattering into pieces and milk went everywhere! Damn! I had never done that before. As I started to pick up the pieces of broken glass, I suddenly had some clarity on what was going on. I am a BIG BELIEVER in signs and how much more of a "sign" do I need than picking up a piece of broken glass? My sign was obviously the glass I had picked up from Spanish Fort was the cause of all the things happening in my home. It couldn't have been more clear!!!

So, I went to my bedroom, got the piece of glass out of my nightstand and immediately took it out to the garbage, which how perfect that it was trash day as well. I dropped it in the garbage bag and said a little prayer then took it out to the street to be picked up by the garbage truck.

Here's what I want people to know. It doesn't matter how big or how small or how insignificant an object may seem, IT DOESN'T BELONG TO YOU! You have to think of it like this. A stranger walks in your house and takes something of yours, and turns around and walks out. Are you going to just sit there and let them go, or are you going to try and find them and get the object back? Spirits are no different. These things belong to them.

So please, don't take anything that isn't yours. What started happening to me at my house, was very minimal compared to what really could happen. Much more dangerous things can be attached to an object. So, be careful and be safe.