‘I stayed within the roughest city within the wild west the place even the ghosts carry weapons’
The Daily Star’s paranormal expert Brocarde travels to some of the world’s strangest places and this time, she encountered a gun-toting cowboy ghost
Brocarde explored The Overland hotel this week
This week for my Terrifying Travel’s column I travel back in time to a town that was once filled with outlaws and murderers. Pioche was once known as the deadliest mining town in the Old West and unsurprisingly it’s home to one of Nevada’s most haunted hotel, The Overland.
Arriving in Pioche is like stepping back in time, the whole town looks like a movie set. It’s hauntingly quiet even in the height of the day, but it really comes alive after dark, but not with the living, the dead.
The Overland Hotel, has been burnt to the ground once, and resurrected, it boasts about its several resident ghosts and entities so evil that some don’t even make it through the night.
If fleeing in the night became necessarily, it’s only made more terrifying that you are a good 40 miles from the next town and several hours from the bright lights of Las Vegas. So I resided myself to the fact, that no matter what, I was staying put.
I cautiously walked up the steep staircase to The Victorian Suite, a suite your Grandma would feel quite at home in, it had a yesteryear charm, with it’s multiple rooms, and a dining table that looked set up for a seance.
I dumped my bags and headed to the saloon bar, the bartenders pour was ample enough to make you see stars or ghosts. The saloon was virtually empty, just a few lonely souls pouring money into the slot machines hour after hour.
When I retired to my room, the energy shifted, it was very heavy and instantly apparent that the veil between me and the afterlife had lifted.
In terms of sleep I had zero, opening my eyes to the apparition on a cowboy holding a gun, was enough to ensure that no sleep was on the cards.
I wasn’t frightened when I saw the cowboys ghost, just transfixed, he may have been swinging his pistol but it felt like a regular patrol rather than a murder mission.
Either way I was unsure if a human can be shot by a ghost, and luckily I didn’t find out. In my state of sleep deprivation I followed the cowboy ghost down the stairs and onto the empty pavement, he disappeared into the night and I walked around the town in complete darkness and silence.
The sky was filled with stars which was weirdly mesmerising and a distraction from the ghosts of the Wild West.
So Nevada’s most haunted delivered as promised, I was satisfied that I had ticked another ghost variant off the list and I was off across the desert to another adventure.
