Eddy Specter isn’t afraid of anything, which is a good thing as he runs the ghost tours and serves as a paranormal consultant for Galveston, Texas. His only stipulation? The ghosts aren’t allowed to follow him home.
Because one day, they did.
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Today, we interview Eddy Specter, a paranormal consultant and ghost tour operator who has dedicated his life to helping the ghosts that haunt the island of Galveston. We met Eddy through our previous guest, Jennifer. Follow Eddy Specter on social media at facebook.com/eddyspecter.
Learn about his services for haunted locations in and around Galveston, or book a tour with him at his website, eddyspecter.com.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Eddie Spector isn't afraid of anything, which is a
good thing, as he runs the ghosttours and serves as a
paranormal consultant forGalveston, texas.
His only stipulation the ghostsaren't allowed to follow him
home, because one day they didHear Eddie's stories about one
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of the most haunted cities inthe world today on Homespun
Haints.
Hello, hated loves, Welcome toHomun Haints.
(00:46):
I'm Becky.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I'm Diana.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
And today on the show we have a wonderful guest that
we were introduced to byJennifer, who was also a guest
on our show last season, the onewhose dead grandparents taught
her how to cuss as ghosts inFrench.
Yeah, that, jennifer.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
so this was somebody that she recommended to us we
asked her if she had anyprojects she was working on or
any books she wanted to promote,and she said Eddie Spector.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I want to promote him , so we got Eddie on the show
today.
He runs ghost tours and ghostinvestigations out of Galveston,
texas, which apparently isincredibly haunted.
It's like New Orleans, key Westlevel.
Speaking of our Patreon, whichJennifer is part of.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
We do have a new patron.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
What.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yes, rose.
Thank you so much.
Rose sent us such a sweet note.
Appreciate that so much, rose.
We're so thrilled that you'rehere.
Unlike Rose, though, somebodyelse left a comment recently
that they wished that ourepisodes were scarier, scarier,
so I thought I would sharesomething scary that actually
(01:54):
happened.
It was really late at night.
You might know that we have adog who's like incredibly floofy
.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
He is.
Yes, that's the one adjective Iwould use for him.
It's so much floof.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
That was the only way I could get talked into having
a dog.
I am a cat person through andthrough but it was like.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Well, what if we?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
got something that was basically a rug potato, rug
potato, so I'd taken him out atnight and I am a night owl.
I was up probably till like.
I don't know how late it was itwas at least 2am maybe three.
And my husband does this thingwhere he's like I'm going to bed
, take the dog out before you goto bed, and it'll be like 830
(02:35):
at night because he just does.
He's just done dealing with thedog, so that's his way of like
getting out of it and I have to.
You know it's my turn, so I stayup late, so it's probably about
two or three in the morning.
I go out into the backyard withmy dog to try and nudge him to
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use the bathroom.
We just put a fence in thebackyard.
Oh good, yeah, I'm glad to hearthat.
So anyway, he's out there andhe's about to go.
You know he's about to go.
Like a little trickle startscoming out, you know, just a
little yellow stream.
And then suddenly there's whatsounds like three giant knocks,
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boom, boom, boom, and we bothlike he's like and like he stops
midstream, he just likeclenches up, no more is coming
out.
I know that's going to be anaccident later that evening.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Fight or flight, yeah , yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
So he just clenches up and he starts barking and we
both looked at where it camefrom.
It came from the steps leadingfrom the driveway up into the
backyard.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
We have steps.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
But it wasn't like.
It was like a giant was walkingup those steps, Boom, boom,
boom, and we both stared at itand he starts barking and I
start yelling like who's there,who's there?
And we both knew something wason the other side of that gate.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Those were not human noises and you know how you can
tell.
Like we've talked about thisbefore, you can kind of hear the
presence of somebody, like theway the air moves around them.
Whatever this was was giant andthose pops they did not sound
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like.
It was not gunshots, it was notfireworks, it was not a car
backfiring.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Extremely ambitious acorns falling on people.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
And it was very even, it was three boom, boom, boom,
boom, boom, like that did youopen the gate?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
hell, no, are you kidding me?
Did you peer through the gate,through the slats.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I couldn't see anything.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
It was complete pitch darkness which, come to think
of it, was weird because we hadlights on pointing to it it was
just like an abyss of blacknessoh, so maybe something was
clouding the light comingthrough blocking it?
Oh gosh, yeah, because we havelights all around our house so
being able to see a disembodieddarkness, but not necessarily a
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shadow.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
It wasn't a shadow person I don't know, but I was
thinking about it becauseanother guest and patron that we
have on the show, cynthia, wastalking about how she saw
something similar yes we need toget her back on the show too.
So she, yes.
I would love to know what youall think, what yeah that, what
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was that I?
heard because something wasthere and was freaking terrified
, and so was the dog, holy crap.
He stood there and we both werethere until we were both sure
that whatever it was was gone.
And like the minute I was likeoh it's gone, he was like oh
(06:01):
it's gone and he turned aroundand ran back inside Still
holding his pee.
So that was fun to clean up thenext morning.
Yeah, it was terrifying.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I don't get scared you probably know, I don't get
scared right, she tells ghoststo leave her alone and so she
can go back to sleep, when right, haunting her at night in her
bed does not get scared easily,damn becky.
When was this?
What time?
oh, it's about a week ago a weekago okay, I was gonna say last
(06:32):
night I was just relaxing in myliving room, probably watching a
horror movie, and I wassuddenly startled by a huge,
loud bang that sounded like anexplosion.
That happened like maybe rightacross the street from her house
what?
And I looked out the window.
I couldn't see anything.
I didn't want to open the door,just in case it's like
(06:54):
marauders or something.
I don't know what it could be.
This is oklahoma.
I don't I don't open the doorwhen there's bangs, um, but so
I'm peering out the window andall of a sudden I see a bunch of
like blue and red flasherscoming down the street with the
sirens on.
I was like is it?
Is it ambulances?
Is it cops?
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Who is it?
Ah, who is it?
I never did manage to see thevehicle that that showed up, but
they turned into ourneighborhood and went about a
block do you think it could havebeen a gas explosion?
yes, that's exactly what I wasthinking, but I never saw any
smoke or flames.
I swear this.
This, this noise couldn't havebeen more than a block or two
for me all right, so it was aalien landing or something
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exploding that wasn't a house.
Like a ghost.
Like a ghost exploding in thenight, as they say in all the
classic stories of ghostsexploding in the night.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
This is why we don't bother to tell legends from
Oklahoma guys.
There was ectoplasm everywhere.
It got into all the creases andcracks, the unmentionable parts
of my body.
I was like just scraping it out.
It was so gross, that stuffgets everywhere.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
It's like sand Gums up your chickens.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
All right.
Well, guys, we want to knowwhat were these bangs.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
So what do you think these bangs were?
Becky, your best replicationwas kind of like a pounding
noise.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yeah yeah, it didn't sound like a gun.
It's because I'm in Georgia.
I hear a lot of that too.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Yeah, I know exactly what that sounds like.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
It sounded like something banging on wood, but
this was wood the size of ahouse, like a giant coming up a
giant set of stairs.
It was unlike anything I'veever heard before, that's
disturbing.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Did you feel vibrations when you heard it?
No, let us know what you think.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
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What happened, honey?
I was out with the guys andthey well, and, and they said I
wasn't spooky enough.
Oh honey, how could they saythat to you?
You're hella spooky.
You think so, Of course.
After all, you came up with theectoplasm being ghost jizz
theory and you've been scratchedby more horny ghosts than
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Today on the show, we arethrilled to bring on Eddie
Spector.
We met him through anotherguest that we heard from last
(10:40):
year, Jennifer, and he issomebody who is truly embedded
in the paranormal world.
He is the owner and operator ofGhost Tours of Galveston County
.
He also is a paranormalinvestigator, as you can imagine
, and of course, he's got a tonof stories.
Eddie, thank you so much forbeing on the show with us today.
(11:01):
Welcome.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Thank you so much.
I heard some great things andit was funny how I heard about
you.
I was looking myself up, as onedoes on Google, and I said what
was this?
Somebody mentioned me on thispodcast and I listened to the
podcast.
I said, oh well, that's verynice of them to mention me.
And so I became a fan,naturally.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
We asked Jennifer if she had any businesses or books
that she wanted to promote whileshe was on our platform.
She said yes, eddie Spector'sGhost Doors in Galveston County.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
We said okay, made me smile, trust me.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Well, us too, so we're excited to hear from you
today.
So Galveston County, I'massuming, is the county that
holds Galveston, texas.
Yes, how haunted is that area.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Galveston is considered one of the most
haunted cities in America, ifnot the world.
It is a vortex of energy andmajor events.
I believe it's in line with theley lines that are across the
earth.
It has seen its share of death,lots of death, and that island
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was called Snake Island when itwas first there and it was
inhabited by the Curranquas,native Americans, and they were
considered cannibals.
But they were very interestingcannibals.
They never ate of their own.
They were very specific, theywere nice about that.
But the Curranquas were there.
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We had many pirates.
The famous pirate Jean Lafittewas there.
We had civil wars and diseases,and you got to understand.
Galveston was a major vesselfor immigrants as well, kind of
like its own Ellis Island.
Lots of people from all over theworld um ended up in galveston
and brought with them lots ofdiseases yellow fever,
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tuberculosis, you name it.
We had it.
Um, we had a lot of mysteriousfires that would pop up out of
nowhere.
Um, and we also had the greatstorm of 1900, one of the
biggest natural disasters everto hit amer.
Well, you had over 8,000 peopleperish on the island and in the
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surrounding areas.
Well, they didn't know what todo with them.
You know they couldn't burythem.
And so the authorities wentaround with rifles and whiskey
and got volunteers and saidhere's your whiskey.
We need your help to gatherthese bodies.
If you can't handle it, sorry,we're going to turn you around,
shoot you in the back, put youin the carriage.
We don't have time for this,we've got to do this.
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And so they got volunteers realquick and they gathered all
these thousands of bodies andput them on barges and sent them
out to sea.
Three days later they came backthousands of bodies on our
beaches.
oh, they just washed up.
Yes, now what do you do withthese people?
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Well, they decided to burn them.
Well, you can't burn them rightaway, they're waterlogged.
So they took them and they wentdowntown to the Strand and said
, oh, is this a cold storagebuilding?
Perfect, it's a makeshiftmorgue.
Now we we're going to squishthe bodies and lay sulfur on top
of them to get the water out,and all that, and then burn them
.
And so they had piles of bodiesall over the island burning all
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over the place.
And then afterwards theydecided to raise the island.
That storm brought in a 17-footstorm surge, and so they built
a 17-foot wall along the beachand then razed the island,
raising over 2,100 buildings andthen filling the bottom with
sand.
Oh, wow, when I say that,remember there were bodies
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everywhere, so they just buriedthem and just laid streets down
and all that stuff.
So we have a very prominentcemetery on 43rd and Broadway,
which is the oldest cemeterythere, but the entire island is
a cemetery.
You're walking on the Strandduring Mardi Gras partying.
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You're walking on people, andso I make it a point when I tell
these stories to respect thesepeople that you're walking on.
And ever since then the islandhas just been filled with energy
.
When you go over the causewayyou could just feel it like a
blanket on you.
You just go, oh boy.
But I do have to say 95% ofthose people and they are people
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.
People need to remember thatthese ghosts are just people and
treat them as such, withrespect.
95% of them are good people andthe other five well, they cause
a lot of trouble.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
What kind of trouble?
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Oh well, messing with people closing down businesses
quite a bit because they can'tkeep the electric going.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
That's not fair.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
There was a 1980s disco bar or something like that
and they had to close downbecause they couldn't run the DJ
booth.
The ghosts would just mess withit.
I mean, they would have newequipment with cables and
everything Doesn't matter,You're closed down.
We don't like that.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Huh, whoa, yeah, whoa .
So when you open a business onGalveston, make sure to make
some sort of an offering towhoever's in the land.
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
With your business?
Absolutely, that's good advice.
You give tours, you doinvestigations.
What are some of your ownpersonal experiences that you
would like to share with us?
Speaker 3 (16:24):
I was born around here in Webster and my mom was
the spiritual side of the familyand my father was the more
disciplined scientific side.
He did two tours in Vietnam andhad security at NASA.
And my mom, whenever we livedin a new house, if it was
haunted she would just casuallytell us kids so-and-so, hung
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himself on the stairs and I sawhis spirit the other day in the
kitchen.
But don't worry, he's not goingto bother you, just nonchalant
that experience going throughall the haunted homes that my
mom would tell me about.
And then during the tours Ialways have ghosts following me
around.
I've had multiple psychics saythese ghosts just follow you.
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I don't know what's going onand I suspect it's because I
tell their stories and they'regrateful and things like that.
A lot of intuition comes aboutwhen I do these tours and I have
to open it and close it.
When I'm in Galveston and Iprepare myself, I say okay, you
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have this allotted time to speakwith me, take over whatever you
got to do, show me whatdirection you need me to go.
But then I got to shut it off.
I have to say okay, that's it,otherwise I'm very drained, I
can't bring that home oranything like that.
Wife doesn't like ghosts athome.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
So have you ever accidentally brought something
home?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Oh gosh, yes, this was before I told them no, and
my first wife at the time.
I live on a boat.
As you can see, this is a boatback here.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
That is the coolest.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Well, it's the best thing you know anyway.
Um, I guess this was about 16years ago.
I was on the boat with my wife.
She was crocheting a blanket orsomething like that, and she
put the the roll of yarn, uh onthe counter.
And at this time I had like amini studio, I had an amp and
guitars and electric drums, andwe went to bed and she got up,
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went to work.
I got up and I went in thereand that ball of yarn was strung
across the room through themini blinds and then crossed the
room underneath my amplifier,what, as if you'd have to pick
it up and lay the yarn there andthen back across the room lying
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on my guitar.
Whoa.
And I said, dang, okay, youwant some attention, all right.
And so when my wife came home,I said look at this.
And she said why did you dothat?
I said no, I didn't do that,but you know what could have
done this?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
And she says whatever you brought home, get rid of it
.
Immediately I said, all right,you know, if I was single I
would have been having fun, youknow.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Yeah, let's do this.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Let's document this and figure this out.
But I said anyone here we gotto keep it in Galveston, kind of
like, whatever happens inGalveston stays in Galveston.
That's pretty much what I hadto do.
But yeah, keep it on the shore.
Yeah, I have to.
What I had to do, but yeah,keep it on the shore.
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Yeah, I have to.
Even my current wife now,christina, she's really cool
with that stuff, but not at home.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Yeah, fair that's fair.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Of course I want my stuff to work.
I want the TV not to go offwhen we're watching.
No, I do have this one psychicin-house psychic Sari.
She says there is this onepsychic in-house psychic Sari.
She says there is this onespirit that hasn't been on the
boat but he stays on the dockand just watches every once in a
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while.
That's not creepy at all.
I've seen his.
It's kind of like the fumesfrom gasoline or something like
that.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Oh yeah, the shimmer in the air that's what I see, oh
cool it's okay.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
It's okay.
It's like he's.
It's like he's been here for awhile in the marina and he's
making sure I'm okay, or if I'mdoing okay around the marina,
like he wants to make sure themarina is okay or something.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
I'm not sure maybe a guard or something previous
guard yeah interesting though.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
So many cultures believe that ghosts can't cross
water, and yet these ghosts arecrossing water and getting onto
your boat, okay, well, thatdoesn't work.
So much for that theory whatare they going to cross next?
Salt?
Speaker 2 (21:07):
brick dust.
Maybe they can cross water whenthey're riding on somebody's
back.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
I don't know well, you know people.
People say that, oh you know,so the ghost haunts the entire
block.
I said yes, you have to realizethat spirits can move anywhere
at any time.
For example, you know, when youpurchase an item at a thrift
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store or something, that spiritis attached to it and then it
will take it home and thenyou'll have the spirit there.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
So spirits are able to go anywhere Can you think of
like a reason why spirits wouldattach to an object or a person
instead of a location, and viceversa.
I mean, why would they haunt aspecific location if they're
able to go wherever they want?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
scrambled, um, like when you go through something
horrific like death, and youbecome a spirit.
I don't think you retain itdepends.
Retain the ability to thinkcorrectly.
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You may, your brain may beswiss cheesed or something, and,
um, you may feel lost.
And if you see something thatreminds you of something that
you could hold on to be it, youknow a certain picture frame.
You're like oh, I know that, atleast I know that I'll hold on
to that.
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You know, to feel safe in theconfusion of death.
That's my theory.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
That makes a lot of sense.
The same with a building right.
If you recognize it, you are, Iguess, essentially a scholar of
Galveston.
You must know every bit of darkhistory there is to know about
the place.
You already told us how theentire thing is one giant
floating cemetery.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
It's the second story above the first story.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
What are some other dark tales of Galveston that you
find particularly interesting?
Galveston that you findparticularly interesting.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Oh well, I will tell you this one story and it leads
to what you're asking.
I had this girlfriend at thetime.
She had this premonition of abuilding that didn't exist and
she saw it.
She saw the windows andeverything and she knew it was
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at this certain location.
And we went to the location andshe said it was right here, but
it doesn't exist.
It was like a little parkinglot or something next to the
other building.
I said, okay, well, let's justinvestigate.
We're right next door to a giftshop that have books and
(23:52):
everything.
Let's, uh, let's just look.
And I'm running through thebooks we found somebody took a
picture of that block and showedan existing building that
extended to that building andthe windows looked exactly how
she envisioned.
And I said, okay, so thebuilding did exist.
All right, this is brilliant,we're on the right track.
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And so we go to the RosenbergLibrary, the oldest library in
Texas, and we go to the topfloor where they have all the
archives and I look through the.
Well, actually, I spoke to thewoman up there.
I said I have a proposition foryou.
We're investigating to find outwho owned a certain building
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within 100 years.
Can you help me?
She goes gosh, okay, what block.
And we showed her the block andwhere it was.
Fifteen minutes later she comesback with blueprints and the
deed and all this stuff.
I'm like like, oh my gosh, andso we find out who was who the
owner was, and um, oh, and bythe way, this another part of
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this premonition she had was shesaw an old crooked man, I don't
know like just spine crooked orsomething.
Well, doing research on thegentleman who owned the place,
he was an old man with a caneand he was involved with what we
would say child trafficking orsomething like that gotcha it
(25:22):
was like a lot of bad stuff anduh, that led to for the research
about the place and we heardthat a lot of children went
missing around that area andthat was just devastating.
It really kills me, you know.
But I've also heard thatthere's quite a few kids that
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follow me around, which is fine.
A couple of psychics say it's alittle girl and I'm like, oh,
that's cool.
So whenever I'm doing a tourand I start to walk, I kind of
just speak to them and just say,how are you doing?
You doing, okay, all this stuff?
Another interesting story aboutchildren During the great storm
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of 1900, there was an orphanageand there were about 40 kids and
the nuns didn't know what to doand they panicked and what they
did was they divided the kidsup and they tied rope to
themselves and to all thechildren, like 10 kids or
whatever.
Well, the idea was not to losethem but, on the downside, if
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one goes, they all go.
They're all tied together, andso after the storm, they found a
body and then, pulled up therope, found another body, pulled
up the rope, found another bodyoh my gosh and there's a
Walmart on the seawall therewhich is where the orphanage was
, and that place constantly isbombarded by hauntings of these
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children because in the toysection they would have all the
toys on the shelves but the nextday they would have toys all
over the floor as if childrenare playing with them.
They would have toys all overthe floor as if children are
playing with them and I reallywish they would be cool about
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showing those security tapes,but it's Walmart and they don't
want anything to do with any ofthat.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Our corporate trumps your ghost interests.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Going back to the premonition that your girlfriend
had of the building, did youever figure out why it was that
she had that vision?
Was it just so that you coulddiscover this information about
these children?
Was it so that you know youcould tell their story?
What do you think it was?
Speaker 3 (27:48):
That's a great question, you know.
I mean premonitions come to usin the strangest ways.
They just pop in there and youcan't explain it.
And every single person I'vetalked to I mean just recently I
interviewed a gentleman I'lltell you about this guy, he's
pretty interesting Asking himhow did you get this premonition
(28:09):
?
What was going through yourmind?
What time of day was it?
What did you eat?
You know what color shirt wereyou wearing?
You know I'm very intense withthe details when it comes with
it, but these things just pop inthere.
And I suspect that because weask for these things like Lord,
(28:29):
help me understand who I shouldhelp, or anything like that, and
then you get a premonition, youdo the research and it shows
that here I'll give you a littlestep, but you've got to do all
the work and then, once you doall that work, it pays off, and
so I guess the reasoning is anice little cycle you ask for it
(28:50):
and it just shows up, and thenyou work for it and then there
it goes.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
And you are thankful for it.
Yeah.
Was her premonition kind oflike in a dream, or was she
walking down the street and sawsomething that wasn't there?
Speaker 3 (29:04):
She said she was dreaming of it.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Did this sort of thing happen to her a lot.
Every once in a while, not notso very much but it wasn't
completely out of the blue, sono, she was open to it when she
told me it was like ohinteresting, I'm like all right,
let's get to work.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
It wasn't like oh my god, you know right.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
So you had a concept of why it happened and what you
were supposed to do after that.
That's awesome I think, that'sreally great.
Just having that you know thatpreparation for asking God who
should I be helping, or you knowwhat would, where would my
talents be the most useful, andthen just being open to
listening for signs and thenimmediately taking action on it,
(29:44):
I think that's just a great wayto live.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
I get phone calls for the ghost tours, but I also get
phone calls for paranormalconsulting.
The other day I get a phonecall and it's a gentleman over
at a bed and breakfast inGalveston and he says hey Eddie,
there's a gentleman here and hewants me to tell him where the
ghosts are here.
(30:11):
And he wants me to tell himwhere the ghosts are.
And I'm a little confused and Ican't really help him but I
knew you were the person to callthere you go, thank you, go
ahead and give him my number and, uh, we'll go from there.
Well, he calls me up and, um,he's a japanese fellow, his name
is Max and I interviewed himyesterday because he was given a
(30:33):
message to either keep doingyour regular job or to work for
God, and that message was soprominent he was like well, I
guess I'll work for God thatmessage was so prominent.
He was like well, I guess I'llwork for God, you know.
And so what he does is he goesto all these haunted places and
(30:58):
his goal right now is to releasespirits who are stuck here
through prayer.
You may find it unorthodox, buthe has reasonings behind it.
He shouts this stuff.
I mean he goes to a spot and hejust yells and does all this
energy waving and all this stuffand he's just oh really
passionate about it and itdrains him.
(31:21):
So I mean I find it veryfascinating.
He does not do anything, butthat.
He does not do anything, butthat he just drives to different
locations and hopefully theLord will provide some funds.
And just after he left my boatfor the interview, he texted me
and showed a picture of thisreally nice Mexican dinner.
(31:43):
He said look what I just gotfor free.
I said oh man that's good onyou.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
So he just travels and says, where are the ghosts?
Speaker 3 (31:52):
everywhere he shows up.
Yeah, he was super busy inGalveston.
He had to go twice because Itold him the entire place, you'd
have to go to every corner.
He was there all day yesterday.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
So people will be able to find out about
everything you're doing on yourwebsite at eddyspectorcom,
correct?
Speaker 3 (32:10):
That's correct.
Yes, it will lead you to all mysocial medias, which I update
quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
You are a fascinating person, eddie, from everything,
from the fact that you live ona boat and you know all these
things about the history and theghosts and experience so much
yourself.
It's been such a delight totalk to you.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Absolutely.
Thank you for coming on theshow.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Of course, and any time.
Thank you too.
It was a pleasure.
You guys are lovely.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
We love talking to you too.
We'll definitely have you backon.
We'll follow up with Max too,just so we can get his story as
well.
Thanks for the referral.
Painted Loves, what do youthink?
Would you drive over the groundchoked with bodies in Galveston
?
If so, you're bound to have aspooky day.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
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Slash submit.
Eddie Spector isn't afraid of anything, which is a
good thing, as he runs the ghosttours and serves as a
paranormal consultant forGalveston, texas.
His only stipulation the ghostsaren't allowed to follow him
home, because one day they didHear Eddie's stories about one
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of the most haunted cities inthe world today on Homespun
Haints.
Hello, hated loves, Welcome toHomun Haints.
(00:46):
I'm Becky.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I'm Diana.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
And today on the show we have a wonderful guest that
we were introduced to byJennifer, who was also a guest
on our show last season, the onewhose dead grandparents taught
her how to cuss as ghosts inFrench.
Yeah, that, jennifer.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
so this was somebody that she recommended to us we
asked her if she had anyprojects she was working on or
any books she wanted to promote,and she said Eddie Spector.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I want to promote him , so we got Eddie on the show
today.
He runs ghost tours and ghostinvestigations out of Galveston,
texas, which apparently isincredibly haunted.
It's like New Orleans, key Westlevel.
Speaking of our Patreon, whichJennifer is part of.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
We do have a new patron.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
What.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yes, rose.
Thank you so much.
Rose sent us such a sweet note.
Appreciate that so much, rose.
We're so thrilled that you'rehere.
Unlike Rose, though, somebodyelse left a comment recently
that they wished that ourepisodes were scarier, scarier,
so I thought I would sharesomething scary that actually
(01:54):
happened.
It was really late at night.
You might know that we have adog who's like incredibly floofy
.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
He is.
Yes, that's the one adjective Iwould use for him.
It's so much floof.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
That was the only way I could get talked into having
a dog.
I am a cat person through andthrough but it was like.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Well, what if we?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
got something that was basically a rug potato, rug
potato, so I'd taken him out atnight and I am a night owl.
I was up probably till like.
I don't know how late it was itwas at least 2am maybe three.
And my husband does this thingwhere he's like I'm going to bed
, take the dog out before you goto bed, and it'll be like 830
(02:35):
at night because he just does.
He's just done dealing with thedog, so that's his way of like
getting out of it and I have to.
You know it's my turn, so I stayup late, so it's probably about
two or three in the morning.
I go out into the backyard withmy dog to try and nudge him to
(02:57):
use the bathroom.
We just put a fence in thebackyard.
Oh good, yeah, I'm glad to hearthat.
So anyway, he's out there andhe's about to go.
You know he's about to go.
Like a little trickle startscoming out, you know, just a
little yellow stream.
And then suddenly there's whatsounds like three giant knocks,
(03:19):
boom, boom, boom, and we bothlike he's like and like he stops
midstream, he just likeclenches up, no more is coming
out.
I know that's going to be anaccident later that evening.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Fight or flight, yeah , yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
So he just clenches up and he starts barking and we
both looked at where it camefrom.
It came from the steps leadingfrom the driveway up into the
backyard.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
We have steps.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
But it wasn't like.
It was like a giant was walkingup those steps, Boom, boom,
boom, and we both stared at itand he starts barking and I
start yelling like who's there,who's there?
And we both knew something wason the other side of that gate.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Those were not human noises and you know how you can
tell.
Like we've talked about thisbefore, you can kind of hear the
presence of somebody, like theway the air moves around them.
Whatever this was was giant andthose pops they did not sound
(04:32):
like.
It was not gunshots, it was notfireworks, it was not a car
backfiring.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Extremely ambitious acorns falling on people.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
And it was very even, it was three boom, boom, boom,
boom, boom, like that did youopen the gate?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
hell, no, are you kidding me?
Did you peer through the gate,through the slats.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I couldn't see anything.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
It was complete pitch darkness which, come to think
of it, was weird because we hadlights on pointing to it it was
just like an abyss of blacknessoh, so maybe something was
clouding the light comingthrough blocking it?
Oh gosh, yeah, because we havelights all around our house so
being able to see a disembodieddarkness, but not necessarily a
(05:19):
shadow.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
It wasn't a shadow person I don't know, but I was
thinking about it becauseanother guest and patron that we
have on the show, cynthia, wastalking about how she saw
something similar yes we need toget her back on the show too.
So she, yes.
I would love to know what youall think, what yeah that, what
(05:41):
was that I?
heard because something wasthere and was freaking terrified
, and so was the dog, holy crap.
He stood there and we both werethere until we were both sure
that whatever it was was gone.
And like the minute I was likeoh it's gone, he was like oh
(06:01):
it's gone and he turned aroundand ran back inside Still
holding his pee.
So that was fun to clean up thenext morning.
Yeah, it was terrifying.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I don't get scared you probably know, I don't get
scared right, she tells ghoststo leave her alone and so she
can go back to sleep, when right, haunting her at night in her
bed does not get scared easily,damn becky.
When was this?
What time?
oh, it's about a week ago a weekago okay, I was gonna say last
(06:32):
night I was just relaxing in myliving room, probably watching a
horror movie, and I wassuddenly startled by a huge,
loud bang that sounded like anexplosion.
That happened like maybe rightacross the street from her house
what?
And I looked out the window.
I couldn't see anything.
I didn't want to open the door,just in case it's like
(06:54):
marauders or something.
I don't know what it could be.
This is oklahoma.
I don't I don't open the doorwhen there's bangs, um, but so
I'm peering out the window andall of a sudden I see a bunch of
like blue and red flasherscoming down the street with the
sirens on.
I was like is it?
Is it ambulances?
Is it cops?
(07:15):
Who is it?
Ah, who is it?
I never did manage to see thevehicle that that showed up, but
they turned into ourneighborhood and went about a
block do you think it could havebeen a gas explosion?
yes, that's exactly what I wasthinking, but I never saw any
smoke or flames.
I swear this.
This, this noise couldn't havebeen more than a block or two
for me all right, so it was aalien landing or something
(07:37):
exploding that wasn't a house.
Like a ghost.
Like a ghost exploding in thenight, as they say in all the
classic stories of ghostsexploding in the night.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
This is why we don't bother to tell legends from
Oklahoma guys.
There was ectoplasm everywhere.
It got into all the creases andcracks, the unmentionable parts
of my body.
I was like just scraping it out.
It was so gross, that stuffgets everywhere.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
It's like sand Gums up your chickens.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
All right.
Well, guys, we want to knowwhat were these bangs.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
So what do you think these bangs were?
Becky, your best replicationwas kind of like a pounding
noise.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yeah yeah, it didn't sound like a gun.
It's because I'm in Georgia.
I hear a lot of that too.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Yeah, I know exactly what that sounds like.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
It sounded like something banging on wood, but
this was wood the size of ahouse, like a giant coming up a
giant set of stairs.
It was unlike anything I'veever heard before, that's
disturbing.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Did you feel vibrations when you heard it?
No, let us know what you think.
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You're hella spooky.
You think so, Of course.
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Today on the show, we arethrilled to bring on Eddie
Spector.
We met him through anotherguest that we heard from last
(10:40):
year, Jennifer, and he issomebody who is truly embedded
in the paranormal world.
He is the owner and operator ofGhost Tours of Galveston County
.
He also is a paranormalinvestigator, as you can imagine
, and of course, he's got a tonof stories.
Eddie, thank you so much forbeing on the show with us today.
(11:01):
Welcome.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Thank you so much.
I heard some great things andit was funny how I heard about
you.
I was looking myself up, as onedoes on Google, and I said what
was this?
Somebody mentioned me on thispodcast and I listened to the
podcast.
I said, oh well, that's verynice of them to mention me.
And so I became a fan,naturally.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
We asked Jennifer if she had any businesses or books
that she wanted to promote whileshe was on our platform.
She said yes, eddie Spector'sGhost Doors in Galveston County.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
We said okay, made me smile, trust me.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Well, us too, so we're excited to hear from you
today.
So Galveston County, I'massuming, is the county that
holds Galveston, texas.
Yes, how haunted is that area.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Galveston is considered one of the most
haunted cities in America, ifnot the world.
It is a vortex of energy andmajor events.
I believe it's in line with theley lines that are across the
earth.
It has seen its share of death,lots of death, and that island
(12:08):
was called Snake Island when itwas first there and it was
inhabited by the Curranquas,native Americans, and they were
considered cannibals.
But they were very interestingcannibals.
They never ate of their own.
They were very specific, theywere nice about that.
But the Curranquas were there.
(12:28):
We had many pirates.
The famous pirate Jean Lafittewas there.
We had civil wars and diseases,and you got to understand.
Galveston was a major vesselfor immigrants as well, kind of
like its own Ellis Island.
Lots of people from all over theworld um ended up in galveston
and brought with them lots ofdiseases yellow fever,
(12:50):
tuberculosis, you name it.
We had it.
Um, we had a lot of mysteriousfires that would pop up out of
nowhere.
Um, and we also had the greatstorm of 1900, one of the
biggest natural disasters everto hit amer.
Well, you had over 8,000 peopleperish on the island and in the
(13:11):
surrounding areas.
Well, they didn't know what todo with them.
You know they couldn't burythem.
And so the authorities wentaround with rifles and whiskey
and got volunteers and saidhere's your whiskey.
We need your help to gatherthese bodies.
If you can't handle it, sorry,we're going to turn you around,
shoot you in the back, put youin the carriage.
We don't have time for this,we've got to do this.
(13:32):
And so they got volunteers realquick and they gathered all
these thousands of bodies andput them on barges and sent them
out to sea.
Three days later they came backthousands of bodies on our
beaches.
oh, they just washed up.
Yes, now what do you do withthese people?
(13:52):
Well, they decided to burn them.
Well, you can't burn them rightaway, they're waterlogged.
So they took them and they wentdowntown to the Strand and said
, oh, is this a cold storagebuilding?
Perfect, it's a makeshiftmorgue.
Now we we're going to squishthe bodies and lay sulfur on top
of them to get the water out,and all that, and then burn them
.
And so they had piles of bodiesall over the island burning all
(14:17):
over the place.
And then afterwards theydecided to raise the island.
That storm brought in a 17-footstorm surge, and so they built
a 17-foot wall along the beachand then razed the island,
raising over 2,100 buildings andthen filling the bottom with
sand.
Oh, wow, when I say that,remember there were bodies
(14:38):
everywhere, so they just buriedthem and just laid streets down
and all that stuff.
So we have a very prominentcemetery on 43rd and Broadway,
which is the oldest cemeterythere, but the entire island is
a cemetery.
You're walking on the Strandduring Mardi Gras partying.
(14:58):
You're walking on people, andso I make it a point when I tell
these stories to respect thesepeople that you're walking on.
And ever since then the islandhas just been filled with energy
.
When you go over the causewayyou could just feel it like a
blanket on you.
You just go, oh boy.
But I do have to say 95% ofthose people and they are people
(15:23):
.
People need to remember thatthese ghosts are just people and
treat them as such, withrespect.
95% of them are good people andthe other five well, they cause
a lot of trouble.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
What kind of trouble?
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Oh well, messing with people closing down businesses
quite a bit because they can'tkeep the electric going.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
That's not fair.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
There was a 1980s disco bar or something like that
and they had to close downbecause they couldn't run the DJ
booth.
The ghosts would just mess withit.
I mean, they would have newequipment with cables and
everything Doesn't matter,You're closed down.
We don't like that.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Huh, whoa, yeah, whoa .
So when you open a business onGalveston, make sure to make
some sort of an offering towhoever's in the land.
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
With your business?
Absolutely, that's good advice.
You give tours, you doinvestigations.
What are some of your ownpersonal experiences that you
would like to share with us?
Speaker 3 (16:24):
I was born around here in Webster and my mom was
the spiritual side of the familyand my father was the more
disciplined scientific side.
He did two tours in Vietnam andhad security at NASA.
And my mom, whenever we livedin a new house, if it was
haunted she would just casuallytell us kids so-and-so, hung
(16:46):
himself on the stairs and I sawhis spirit the other day in the
kitchen.
But don't worry, he's not goingto bother you, just nonchalant
that experience going throughall the haunted homes that my
mom would tell me about.
And then during the tours Ialways have ghosts following me
around.
I've had multiple psychics saythese ghosts just follow you.
(17:08):
I don't know what's going onand I suspect it's because I
tell their stories and they'regrateful and things like that.
A lot of intuition comes aboutwhen I do these tours and I have
to open it and close it.
When I'm in Galveston and Iprepare myself, I say okay, you
(17:28):
have this allotted time to speakwith me, take over whatever you
got to do, show me whatdirection you need me to go.
But then I got to shut it off.
I have to say okay, that's it,otherwise I'm very drained, I
can't bring that home oranything like that.
Wife doesn't like ghosts athome.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
So have you ever accidentally brought something
home?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Oh gosh, yes, this was before I told them no, and
my first wife at the time.
I live on a boat.
As you can see, this is a boatback here.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
That is the coolest.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Well, it's the best thing you know anyway.
Um, I guess this was about 16years ago.
I was on the boat with my wife.
She was crocheting a blanket orsomething like that, and she
put the the roll of yarn, uh onthe counter.
And at this time I had like amini studio, I had an amp and
guitars and electric drums, andwe went to bed and she got up,
(18:35):
went to work.
I got up and I went in thereand that ball of yarn was strung
across the room through themini blinds and then crossed the
room underneath my amplifier,what, as if you'd have to pick
it up and lay the yarn there andthen back across the room lying
(18:58):
on my guitar.
Whoa.
And I said, dang, okay, youwant some attention, all right.
And so when my wife came home,I said look at this.
And she said why did you dothat?
I said no, I didn't do that,but you know what could have
done this?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
And she says whatever you brought home, get rid of it
.
Immediately I said, all right,you know, if I was single I
would have been having fun, youknow.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Yeah, let's do this.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Let's document this and figure this out.
But I said anyone here we gotto keep it in Galveston, kind of
like, whatever happens inGalveston stays in Galveston.
That's pretty much what I hadto do.
But yeah, keep it on the shore.
Yeah, I have to.
What I had to do, but yeah,keep it on the shore.
(19:49):
Yeah, I have to.
Even my current wife now,christina, she's really cool
with that stuff, but not at home.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Yeah, fair that's fair.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Of course I want my stuff to work.
I want the TV not to go offwhen we're watching.
No, I do have this one psychicin-house psychic Sari.
She says there is this onepsychic in-house psychic Sari.
She says there is this onespirit that hasn't been on the
boat but he stays on the dockand just watches every once in a
(20:17):
while.
That's not creepy at all.
I've seen his.
It's kind of like the fumesfrom gasoline or something like
that.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Oh yeah, the shimmer in the air that's what I see, oh
cool it's okay.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
It's okay.
It's like he's.
It's like he's been here for awhile in the marina and he's
making sure I'm okay, or if I'mdoing okay around the marina,
like he wants to make sure themarina is okay or something.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
I'm not sure maybe a guard or something previous
guard yeah interesting though.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
So many cultures believe that ghosts can't cross
water, and yet these ghosts arecrossing water and getting onto
your boat, okay, well, thatdoesn't work.
So much for that theory whatare they going to cross next?
Salt?
Speaker 2 (21:07):
brick dust.
Maybe they can cross water whenthey're riding on somebody's
back.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
I don't know well, you know people.
People say that, oh you know,so the ghost haunts the entire
block.
I said yes, you have to realizethat spirits can move anywhere
at any time.
For example, you know, when youpurchase an item at a thrift
(21:34):
store or something, that spiritis attached to it and then it
will take it home and thenyou'll have the spirit there.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
So spirits are able to go anywhere Can you think of
like a reason why spirits wouldattach to an object or a person
instead of a location, and viceversa.
I mean, why would they haunt aspecific location if they're
able to go wherever they want?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
scrambled, um, like when you go through something
horrific like death, and youbecome a spirit.
I don't think you retain itdepends.
Retain the ability to thinkcorrectly.
(22:16):
You may, your brain may beswiss cheesed or something, and,
um, you may feel lost.
And if you see something thatreminds you of something that
you could hold on to be it, youknow a certain picture frame.
You're like oh, I know that, atleast I know that I'll hold on
to that.
(22:36):
You know, to feel safe in theconfusion of death.
That's my theory.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
That makes a lot of sense.
The same with a building right.
If you recognize it, you are, Iguess, essentially a scholar of
Galveston.
You must know every bit of darkhistory there is to know about
the place.
You already told us how theentire thing is one giant
floating cemetery.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
It's the second story above the first story.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
What are some other dark tales of Galveston that you
find particularly interesting?
Galveston that you findparticularly interesting.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Oh well, I will tell you this one story and it leads
to what you're asking.
I had this girlfriend at thetime.
She had this premonition of abuilding that didn't exist and
she saw it.
She saw the windows andeverything and she knew it was
(23:32):
at this certain location.
And we went to the location andshe said it was right here, but
it doesn't exist.
It was like a little parkinglot or something next to the
other building.
I said, okay, well, let's justinvestigate.
We're right next door to a giftshop that have books and
(23:52):
everything.
Let's, uh, let's just look.
And I'm running through thebooks we found somebody took a
picture of that block and showedan existing building that
extended to that building andthe windows looked exactly how
she envisioned.
And I said, okay, so thebuilding did exist.
All right, this is brilliant,we're on the right track.
(24:12):
And so we go to the RosenbergLibrary, the oldest library in
Texas, and we go to the topfloor where they have all the
archives and I look through the.
Well, actually, I spoke to thewoman up there.
I said I have a proposition foryou.
We're investigating to find outwho owned a certain building
(24:36):
within 100 years.
Can you help me?
She goes gosh, okay, what block.
And we showed her the block andwhere it was.
Fifteen minutes later she comesback with blueprints and the
deed and all this stuff.
I'm like like, oh my gosh, andso we find out who was who the
owner was, and um, oh, and bythe way, this another part of
(25:02):
this premonition she had was shesaw an old crooked man, I don't
know like just spine crooked orsomething.
Well, doing research on thegentleman who owned the place,
he was an old man with a caneand he was involved with what we
would say child trafficking orsomething like that gotcha it
(25:22):
was like a lot of bad stuff anduh, that led to for the research
about the place and we heardthat a lot of children went
missing around that area andthat was just devastating.
It really kills me, you know.
But I've also heard thatthere's quite a few kids that
(25:46):
follow me around, which is fine.
A couple of psychics say it's alittle girl and I'm like, oh,
that's cool.
So whenever I'm doing a tourand I start to walk, I kind of
just speak to them and just say,how are you doing?
You doing, okay, all this stuff?
Another interesting story aboutchildren During the great storm
(26:08):
of 1900, there was an orphanageand there were about 40 kids and
the nuns didn't know what to doand they panicked and what they
did was they divided the kidsup and they tied rope to
themselves and to all thechildren, like 10 kids or
whatever.
Well, the idea was not to losethem but, on the downside, if
(26:34):
one goes, they all go.
They're all tied together, andso after the storm, they found a
body and then, pulled up therope, found another body, pulled
up the rope, found another bodyoh my gosh and there's a
Walmart on the seawall therewhich is where the orphanage was
, and that place constantly isbombarded by hauntings of these
(26:59):
children because in the toysection they would have all the
toys on the shelves but the nextday they would have toys all
over the floor as if childrenare playing with them.
They would have toys all overthe floor as if children are
playing with them and I reallywish they would be cool about
(27:22):
showing those security tapes,but it's Walmart and they don't
want anything to do with any ofthat.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Our corporate trumps your ghost interests.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Going back to the premonition that your girlfriend
had of the building, did youever figure out why it was that
she had that vision?
Was it just so that you coulddiscover this information about
these children?
Was it so that you know youcould tell their story?
What do you think it was?
Speaker 3 (27:48):
That's a great question, you know.
I mean premonitions come to usin the strangest ways.
They just pop in there and youcan't explain it.
And every single person I'vetalked to I mean just recently I
interviewed a gentleman I'lltell you about this guy, he's
pretty interesting Asking himhow did you get this premonition
(28:09):
?
What was going through yourmind?
What time of day was it?
What did you eat?
You know what color shirt wereyou wearing?
You know I'm very intense withthe details when it comes with
it, but these things just pop inthere.
And I suspect that because weask for these things like Lord,
(28:29):
help me understand who I shouldhelp, or anything like that, and
then you get a premonition, youdo the research and it shows
that here I'll give you a littlestep, but you've got to do all
the work and then, once you doall that work, it pays off, and
so I guess the reasoning is anice little cycle you ask for it
(28:50):
and it just shows up, and thenyou work for it and then there
it goes.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
And you are thankful for it.
Yeah.
Was her premonition kind oflike in a dream, or was she
walking down the street and sawsomething that wasn't there?
Speaker 3 (29:04):
She said she was dreaming of it.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Did this sort of thing happen to her a lot.
Every once in a while, not notso very much but it wasn't
completely out of the blue, sono, she was open to it when she
told me it was like ohinteresting, I'm like all right,
let's get to work.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
It wasn't like oh my god, you know right.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
So you had a concept of why it happened and what you
were supposed to do after that.
That's awesome I think, that'sreally great.
Just having that you know thatpreparation for asking God who
should I be helping, or you knowwhat would, where would my
talents be the most useful, andthen just being open to
listening for signs and thenimmediately taking action on it,
(29:44):
I think that's just a great wayto live.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
I get phone calls for the ghost tours, but I also get
phone calls for paranormalconsulting.
The other day I get a phonecall and it's a gentleman over
at a bed and breakfast inGalveston and he says hey Eddie,
there's a gentleman here and hewants me to tell him where the
ghosts are here.
(30:11):
And he wants me to tell himwhere the ghosts are.
And I'm a little confused and Ican't really help him but I
knew you were the person to callthere you go, thank you, go
ahead and give him my number and, uh, we'll go from there.
Well, he calls me up and, um,he's a japanese fellow, his name
is Max and I interviewed himyesterday because he was given a
(30:33):
message to either keep doingyour regular job or to work for
God, and that message was soprominent he was like well, I
guess I'll work for God thatmessage was so prominent.
He was like well, I guess I'llwork for God, you know.
And so what he does is he goesto all these haunted places and
(30:58):
his goal right now is to releasespirits who are stuck here
through prayer.
You may find it unorthodox, buthe has reasonings behind it.
He shouts this stuff.
I mean he goes to a spot and hejust yells and does all this
energy waving and all this stuffand he's just oh really
passionate about it and itdrains him.
(31:21):
So I mean I find it veryfascinating.
He does not do anything, butthat.
He does not do anything, butthat he just drives to different
locations and hopefully theLord will provide some funds.
And just after he left my boatfor the interview, he texted me
and showed a picture of thisreally nice Mexican dinner.
(31:43):
He said look what I just gotfor free.
I said oh man that's good onyou.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
So he just travels and says, where are the ghosts?
Speaker 3 (31:52):
everywhere he shows up.
Yeah, he was super busy inGalveston.
He had to go twice because Itold him the entire place, you'd
have to go to every corner.
He was there all day yesterday.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
So people will be able to find out about
everything you're doing on yourwebsite at eddyspectorcom,
correct?
Speaker 3 (32:10):
That's correct.
Yes, it will lead you to all mysocial medias, which I update
quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
You are a fascinating person, eddie, from everything,
from the fact that you live ona boat and you know all these
things about the history and theghosts and experience so much
yourself.
It's been such a delight totalk to you.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Absolutely.
Thank you for coming on theshow.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Of course, and any time.
Thank you too.
It was a pleasure.
You guys are lovely.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
We love talking to you too.
We'll definitely have you backon.
We'll follow up with Max too,just so we can get his story as
well.
Thanks for the referral.
Painted Loves, what do youthink?
Would you drive over the groundchoked with bodies in Galveston
?
If so, you're bound to have aspooky day.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Homespun Haints is hosted by Becky Kielimnik and
Diana Doty and produced byHomespun Haints Media LLC.
Editing and music by Becky KKilimnik.
Show notes by Diana Doty.
If you have a ghost story andyou'd like to be considered as a
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