Billy Wardle Happenings

 One thing that makes Kingman unique are the ghost walks.  the happen every year a couple weeks before Halloween.  King has plenty of cool ghost sgtories.  It seems most of the downtown stores have their own unique ghost stories.  The most unique is the guy whose head 0opped off when he was being hanged for the murder of his girlfriend.  He is seen dragging his head around, mostly haunting Lee Williams High School as he was buried there before the high school was built. Our tour guides.  Here telling the story of the ghost haunting Beale Theater Emma is portraying Madame Jack Black of the rabbit patch (red-light district) and her parrot.  The parrot died and was afforded a funeral with headstone and everything.  When the school was built and the cemetery relocated, so was the parrot. Repesentation of Hadji Ali aka Hi Jolly who was the camel coordinator for the Beale camel crossing of Arizona. Don't rememb er the story but in front of the olde...

For the ghost walk I mostly took pictures of re-enactors I know.  Some very interesting stories this year.  With the Chinese mafia murder they added an antique car in which the murderers arrived and drove off.    The Demkes and our neighbor told the story of the man who murdered his wife and then was hung and his head popped off.  This year we heard the story of a ghost at Brunswick Hotel from Paul David Placial and how the hotel was divided.   Chinese mafia murder in Kingman, The Rawls Brunswick hotel ghost, Paul David Ghost dance A new presentation inside the IOOF buiding Demkes and Rhi who owuldn't brak character for a pisture

Sheri,  Tony and I visited the Ghost Walk presented by Beale Theater for the very last tour.  We were on Tour A.  We were met there by a couple neighbors which made the tour funner.  The content of the tour was very similar, but after we heard and saw the story of the mother of Slaughter House Canyon, she stayed with us for the rest of the tour.  She was very creepy with her blood stained dress.  So even though the stories were the same, the experience was very different.  For the stories behind the stories . screaming lady of Slaughter House Canyon Lewis Kingman The bandit who was killed by a Buick in Kingman Al Jollie with the bloody lady behind The last Thriller dance  

 Last night I ventured out on tour A, and returned tonight for tour B.  Both tours start in the same location behind the city building.  More details of the history check here .  However after that they take different routes while coming together for the Thriller Dance.  Tonight we walked down Fourth Street, passing several business where ghost stories were told.  We then turned and went down Beale Street to Fifth.  Along Beale a couple more ghost stories were related, one about smashing wine bottles, and the other an accident which took place in the old Miner Newspaper offices.  To this point the stories were all told by our guide who was accompanied by his assistant--father.   However after turning north on fifth street we were met by three ladies of the red light district.  The madam talked about her pet bird Polly who was given a proper burial because he was so well liked.  The "Rabbit Patch" is the name given to the Red Li...

This is the sixth annual Ghost Walk by Beale Theater.  This is a very enjoyable presentation and worthy of any ghost story or history buff.   I consider myself both so I was in my element.  This is a review of the performance, but I have written up the stories which you can link to here .  There was a story about two brothers who burnt themselves up at the old jail.  This was complete with eerie lights and banging sounds.   We were introduced to Lewis Kingman.  The story of the Screaming ghost of Slaughter House Canyon was introduced.  This was complete with screams.  I missed some of the next presentation as we were still walking up when he started.  However the cowboy told the story of a murder, and the ghost that comes back once a year to ride off with his friends.   Hi Jolli of Hadji Ali told the story of the red camel ghost.  She indicated this ghost has been seen in Kingman above the "K" on the hills behind...