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guest room names—Comanche Moon, Terms of Endearment, Evening Star, and Cadillac Jack among others. Adorning the main floor fireplace mantel are the author’s Golden Globe and Oscar award statues. It is said that Mr. McMurtry himself visits the inn from time to time.
    Judy McCollough, an associate of mine from Texoma Researchers Investigating Paranormal Phenomena (T.R.I.P.P.), suggested that Allen and I visit the Lonesome Dove Inn after her team had the opportunity to investigate the building on two separate evenings.
    “We conducted two investigations at the Lonesome Dove Inn and even spent a night as guests to work in a little photography and EVP work,” Judy said. “I had a very strange experience where I felt as though there was a young male spirit trying to communicate with me telepathically. I had never had anything happen to me like that before. I reached my hand out a couple of
times where I thought this boy might have been and I actually felt an odd tingling sensation.”
    Judy also described the images and information she was being given by the boy.
    “He said he had died from egg allergies. He had gotten ill, and the first visit he made to the doctor didn’t help much as he returned a second time and apparently did not make it. He told me he was eight years old. It was a very bizarre incident. Nothing was captured on recorders we had set up in the room, but just as I stood up from sitting on the sofa, a team member of mine snapped a photograph and a fluid-looking orb was seen in the chair where I thought his spirit might be.”
    Judy went on to describe several other instances where her team members experienced strange things at the inn.
    “One of our team’s sensitives, Suni Hoffman, explained that she believed she too was communicating with the spirit of a little boy and that it might have been the same one I had encountered earlier. She felt as though he had been repeatedly kicking her leg in the Desert Rose room.”
    Paranormal experiences are not limited to ghosthunters at the Lonesome Dove Inn. One guest reported that he had woken late one night to see a woman dressed as a nurse standing beside the bed holding a pillow. When he asked her what she wanted, she offered to provide him with another pillow. When he declined, she left the room.
    A family spending the night in the Cadillac Jack room set up a video camera and talked about how they had made their trip to the inn because they had heard it was haunted. When they returned home from their stay at the inn, they reviewed the footage and could clearly hear an unfamiliar and eerie voice order them to “get out.”
    The beauty and welcoming atmosphere of the Lonesome Dove Inn is enough to attract anyone, but a ghostly encounter
is always a draw for Allen and me as we find new places to visit. When we arrived late one Saturday evening, Mary Webb graciously welcomed us in and offered us a tour of the home. As we made our way upstairs, I commented to Mary about the exceptionally wide the staircase.
    “During its years as a hospital, they had to carry people in on stretchers with someone holding either side. It had to be wide enough to accommodate that,” Mary explained.
    After having a quick look at all of the guest rooms on the upstairs floor, I asked Mary if she had ever experienced strange things in the inn.
    “One day in particular, I was downstairs in my room at the end of the hall,” she said. “I was the only one in the house that day when I heard what I knew were footsteps right above me on the upstairs floor. My son was next door at the time, and I quickly called him over to come and look around the house to see if anyone else was in here. We looked and looked all through the house and couldn’t find anyone. That was a little eerie to me. I am familiar with the creaks and noises this house makes, but those footsteps weren’t something I could mistake for an old house just making noises.”
    “I wonder who the spirits are that haunt your