Bisbee: Part One - Arrival and Walk Around Town

I decided to break the trip up into four different parts. There were several things that happened, which would make for one very long post.

There were six of us that went to Bisbee on this trip. Along with myself, there was Mike, his sister Kelly, his other sister Tricia, and a married couple, Marsi and Billy. We started out having breakfast in Phoenix and left for Bisbee around 11:00 am. The road trip down there was scary because of the pouring rain. Every time the truckers went by our car, we were covered with water making it hard for Kelly to see. Things changed when we got near Bisbee, Mother Nature decided to excite us with snow. We were not sure at first that it was snow coming down; after all we are from Phoenix or southern California. Once we did, it was like giddy little children were in the car.

The three hour drive took us four hours to get to the Copper Queen Hotel. After parking and heading to the hotel, it continued to snow. Mike wasn’t prepared for that and had his flip-flops on. After getting our rooms, he quickly changed into his sneekers. Mike, Tricia, Kelly and I stayed in room 401 (again) and Marsi and Billy stayed in room 404. Marsi and Billy have never been to Bisbee so we decided to walk around the town first. Before leaving Mike put his recorder in the bathroom and shut the door, while I put mine on the nightstand near some cookies. Mike arranged the cookies side by side to see if they move while we are gone.

The snow had disappeared and turned into rain by the time we got outside the hotel. After walking a short distance, the rain stopped. Since Kelly had been to Bisbee several times, she became our tour guide, pointing out all the history and places known to be haunted. In Bisbee, there are owners whose stores, restaurants and bars have many stories of ghosts haunting their establishments. Many of the homes there are shared by ghosts as well. We made our way to the Oliver House and knocked on the door to see if we could go inside. No one answered so we left. We went back to the Copper Queen Hotel to regroup before having dinner.

When we got back to room 401 it had an unsettling feeling. Mike noticed that the cookies were now on top of each other when he clearly put them side by side. Kelly noticed that one of the small shampoo bottles from the hotel was lying on the floor outside the bathroom door. Everyone swears that they did not put it there or moved the cookies. While we were puzzled and scared about what we saw, Marsi and Billy came in our room and said that a drawer was opened on their nightstand. Billy clearly remembers closing it. Marsi said that the pen on the dresser moved. She put it next to the pad and found it on the pad. Before leaving for dinner, Mike put his recorder in their room (404) on the bed, and put the pen in the center of the pad with the tip pointing towards the top. He said that doing that was a tip he got from Ghost Hunters. In our room we put the cookies back side by side and next to my recorder. We added other items as well.

After dinner, we went to Circle K and then to the Bisbee cemetery. (Our experience at the cemetery will be my next Bisbee post.) When we got back to the room, nothing had been disturbed in room 401. However in room 404, the pen Mike placed on the pad had moved. It was lying sideways and only the tip was still on the pad. They even tried to debunk the movement by slamming the door shut to see if the pen moved, but it didn’t.

We reviewed our recordings left in the rooms. On my recorder, we caught some banging noises and shuffling like something plastic was being moved. Could that have been the cookies moving? We don’t know but the recorder was near them. Mike’s recorder in the bathroom got more action. He caught some strange banging noises and footsteps that sounded like they came from inside the bathroom. These footsteps sounded like they were made by boots. Later in the recording, he caught a kids voice saying, “You wanna play a game?” followed by footsteps. It also sounded like it came from the bathroom. There were no kids staying on the fourth floor according to the hotel employees, so we can’t explain this one. On his recorder in room 404, there was shuffling sounds, weird banging, and some movement. It could have come from the hallway, but we just don’t know. Our adventure continues…..

I just wanted to add, sorry for not commenting much last week. Along with planning for this trip, I helped my daughter out and watched my granddaughter more times than I usually do. This kept me away from my blog reading time. I plan to get caught up this week hoping that nothing else comes along to stop me…..thanks.

~Julie~