Spell Caster Ghost Tours

08/19/2024

You've heard all about the SuperMoon—when the Moon is closest to the earth—and maybe you're even familiar with what defines a Blue Moon—the third Full Moon in a quarterly season of four Full Moons, this one between Solstice and Equinox (thanks, Farmer's Almanac!).

Tonight's True Blue SuperMoon will be the 1st of 5 SuperMoons in a row! But why is it called Blue when it's clearly not a shade of azul? We love folklore around here at Spell Caster Ghost Tours, so we did a little digging and discovered that this Moon is also called "The Betrayer Moon."

Some think this came from the mispronunciation of the word "belewe" or "belewen"—an Old English term for betrayal. Others think that it was dubbed The Betrayer Moon because it fooled folks on their worshipping timeline, throwing Lent's position off on their calendar. Or maybe it was a cheeky comment someone made regarding the promise of one Full Moon a month.

Who knows, but either way, get out there and soak up that Big Moon Energy tonight!! According to NASA, your next chance for a True Blue SuperMoon won't be until January and March 2037.

HAPPY HOWLING!

08/12/2024

October Is Right Around the Corner! (Thank Goddesses)
How Are You Ushering In The Season of the Ghost?
How About An Overnight Ghost Hunt?
https://spellcasterghosttours.com/ghost-hunt-talbot-commons/

Saturday, October 12th, We Are Investigating the Old First Presbyterian Church and Fellowship Hall (now Talbot Commons Hotel) in Taylor, Texas. And You Can Too!
The Overnight Paranormal Investigation includes Your Hotel Room, Dinner, Ghost Hunt, and Breakfast.
https://spellcasterghosttours.com/ghost-hunt-talbot-commons/

*Bookings Available for Double and Single Occupancy*

Start the Season of Samhain with a Spell Caster Ghost Hunt.
https://spellcasterghosttours.com/ghost-hunt-talbot-commons/

08/12/2024

Round Rock's Legend of the Hairy Man dates back to the 1800s.
Was he real?
Is he now a ghost?
Or do we have a Bigfoot in Central Texas?

In 1891, the Austin American Statesman reported that a strange man had come to town. The man’s name was George Cook, and his entire body was reportedly covered in four-inch long brown hair. According to the reporter, three of his four children displayed the same unusual trait.

Cook was a farmer who received many offers to join museums, circuses, and freakshows but steadily refused, preferring his peaceful life with his family. Although there is no evidence of Cook losing any of his children when he moved to the area from Pennsylvania, it does prove that some exceptionally hairy individuals were living in Texas around the time the Hairy Man of Brushy Creek was wreaking havoc on folks on the wagon trail.

Read more about the Local Lore.
https://spellcasterghosttours.com/hairy_man/

And let us know if you've seen him!!

Round Rock's Hairy Man Legend tells of a feral man covered head to foot in long, shaggy hair frightening travelers by throwing rocks and dangling from branches as they navigate the dark desolate road.

08/04/2024

Got some goodness to share!?!?

The Alchemist Bazaar is back!

But first we are looking vendors to participate in a gorgeous new market filled with vintage, art dealers/creators, and imports from around the world.

will be the stage for this unique event which is located in historic downtown Taylor, TX.

September 14th, 2024
10am - 3pm
Location: The Venue
Signup here:

https://form.jotform.com/242165944497165

08/01/2024

Tonight!!!

Tomorrow night The Loose Screw will be hosting a book signing and excerpt reading! We hope you join us for this really fun evening! Spell Caster Ghost Tours own Madame Gretchen will be available for Tarot and Oracle readings for those who are interested!

07/27/2024

Thanks to Alchemy for bringing us on board to shuffle and deal!
Come out! It’ll be fun and entertaining at the very least. 😉✨🃏

It’s happening! Starting the first Friday of August, we will be hosting for Tarot Happy Hour! Come and have your cards read by the incredibly talented Gretchen and have glass of wine or some mezcal and oranges with us!
August 2nd, 2024
DM are secure your space 5pm-7pm
Donation based- pay what you can!

#76574

07/24/2024

So excited to be a part of this magickal evening
Join us on Aug. 1st, 7pm, to celebrate A Coven of Crows book series with a reading from the author, d. l. struble.
And Spell Caster will be reading Tarot and Oracle cards!
Hope to see you there!!
Best Witches!!


https://www.facebook.com/events/514144351096765?ref=newsfeed

07/18/2024

At a creek crossing, he pulled out a six-shooter and double-barreled shotgun, killing all three men.

Who was John Wesley Hardin?
Why was he in Round Rock, Texas?
Meet this Texas-born Outlaw who would now be considered a Serial Killer.

John Wesley Hardin is one of the Wild West most notorious Outlaws. A Texas man whose reign of terror crossed borders, what was his connection to Round Rock, Texas?

07/15/2024

We're Always Brewing Something Up in Our Cauldron... Look What's Happening This October!

OVERNIGHT GHOST HUNT at TALBOT COMMONS in TAYLOR, TX

Solo Ghost Hunt Booking Discount is Available!! Reach Out for More Information.

https://bit.ly/4bLWIsa

https://spellcasterghosttours.com/ghost-hunt-talbot-commons/

07/08/2024

Another Georgetown Ghost Hunt. Thank you to ! MCO has been our starting location for our Ghost Maker Tour since we started in Feb. 2022, and tonight they let us come in to do a little Paranormal Investigation.
We couldn’t be more grateful to MCO & Kendall for all of the support…we’ll let you know what we found lurking in the shadows ✨

07/05/2024

There are much prettier historic buildings in the French Quarter than the LaLaurie Mansion - the Beauregard-Keyes house, the Pontalba Building, and the Ursuline Convent, to name just a few. Still, none are as famous for their exhaustive, storied, and sensationalized past as the infamous building on the corner of Royal and Governor Nichols.

I was a ghost tour guide in New Orleans for about three months. I always took my eager tour groups by the LaLaurie Mansion. Anticipation and expectations had become natural responses as we walked up to the building on Royal. Camera phones would come out, and hands would rise with questions and thoughts. Everyone hoped to get a personal story, a secret, or a picture of something unexplainable in the window.

As the nights went by, I, too, began to feel disappointed that nothing ever happened. Not that I expected much, with six other tour groups standing around the Mansion as if it were a sideshow, staring and gawking with the same hopes and expectations, but I always wanted to be one of the few tour guides who had a personal experience in front of the building that had become New Orleans' biggest celebrity.

It was a Saturday night in May when I walked my group of 20 in front of the LaLaurie Mansion. Our timing was impeccable. We arrived and discovered we were one of three tour groups. I scored us a premium spot across the street so everyone could see the Mansion. I began my story with her sordid history and worked my way into the hauntings. Just as I began to talk about the man who had been murdered inside the building when it was a boarding house, I felt something tug at my purse hanging across my body. Now, it’s the French Quarter at 9:30 on a Saturday night; naturally, my brain immediately went to “I’m getting rolled.” It only took two seconds to remember that I was standing in front of 20 people and that the tugging was on the bag, lying quietly against the front of my body. I grabbed it with both hands and watched my guests' expressions change as they watched me stutter twice and jump back into the story. I kept it to myself, questioning if it had really happened, but I never forgot about it.

I gave my last Ghost Tour on a hot and balmy July night six weeks later. I was excited to move into a new position with a growing Ghost Tour company. Still, a part of me was a little sad to be stepping away from the energy, the excitement, and the unpredictability of French Quarter nights. We were met with half a dozen other tour groups as I brought my sold-out tour of 28 people to the LaLaurie stop. So we politely made our way down Royal, turned right, and planted ourselves under a replica 19th-century street light across from the infamous window where the little girl, Leah, allegedly lost her life.

I had grown so comfortable with the stop that I took liberties in my presentation of the story, worked my way backward chronologically on the Mansion’s history, and introduced the legend of Leah leading up to Madame LaLaurie's climactic end. The other tour groups were shuffling past us as I pointed to the now enclosed space that was once a window and waited as my guests took out their cameras/phones. I gave them a few moments as I looked around and noticed that we were the only tour group left standing in front of the Mansion - this was a first.

I brought everyone’s attention back, “All right, y’all! We’re gonna run over time. We need to get back to the story. We’re going to talk about the tragic death of little Leah.”

Suddenly, one beat after I said her name, the street light went dark.
No pop, no noise, just black.
We all looked up. I was silently thrilled. I couldn’t have planned it better. After a few whispers and audible concerns, I brought myself and the group back into the story:

“Some say Madam LaLaurie chased her right out the window, while others claim she jumped to escape the relentless torture and cruelty. But one thing we know for certain is that people still claim to see the ghostly apparition of a little girl roaming the courtyard and the 2nd floor of the Mansion. Many believe it’s little Leah.”
And just like that, the street light came back on.
✨
Before you ask or suggest, there’s already a buyer. 😔

A Houston energy trader bought the LaLaurie mansion for $2.1 million in 2021. Here's what to know about the listing now.

07/04/2024

07/01/2024

Congratulate and Celebrate with the Good Folks Curio Mrvosa!

Today marks 🎉3️⃣🎉 years since we opened our doors!

To celebrate, this Saturday is officially Customer Appreciation Day at Curio Mrvosa Books and More 🥰

We can’t thank you enough for your continued support. We love y’all and are so happy to be here in downtown Taylor!

📖 We’re open
Monday 11–4
Tuesday closed
Wednesday–Saturday 11–6
Sunday noon–4

📚 Buy new books online anytime at the link in bio or DM to place an order

06/27/2024

I was on a plane from Cape Town to Johannesburg and grabbed an in-flight magazine. I opened it to the Monthly Things To Do in Joburg and saw "Kinky Friedman Book Signing." I missed it by two days. I still think about that moment of "What are the chances?!?" And I still feel a little bummed ...

RIP KF

Richard Samet “Kinky” Friedman, a musician, writer and University of Texas at Austin alumni, has died, according to a post made on his official X page. Friedman was 79 years old.

06/24/2024

A Big Thank You to Local Georgetown Photographer Joe Toth for capturing Zander and Guests on the steps of the Historic Williamson County Courthouse during our Ghost Maker Tour. (Police es**rt was a bonus that night!)

06/23/2024

We jumped at the opportunity to do a Paranormal Investigation in this Old Church turned Taylor, Texas Hotel, and the evidence of a Haunting inside the Talbot Commons Pocket Hotel is intriguing.

A Ghost Hunt inside an Old Church turned Hotel in Taylor, Texas.

06/14/2024

I know it’s not “on brand” - but we’re devoted to the welfare of animals. Main Street - Taylor, Texas Taylor, Texas - Municipal Government … Let’s get the city to allocate funds where they’re needed…

Y'all. We and all of our TCC fosters, and our board members are exhausted. We are NOT A RESCUE! We are also NOT THE SHELTER! We don't have a facility. We were not created with the intension of becoming a rescue. We formed so that we could raise funds to supplement the medical needs of the animals at the City Of Taylor, Texas Animal Shelter Their medical budget only covers spay/neuter, nothing else. And monetary donations made to them CANNOT be used for major medical.

We really don't know where people get the idea that because we're a non-profit money just falls out of the sky into our bank account or something.

We have almost 30 kittens in foster right now. Most of them are either sick with coccidia, upper respiratory infection, ringworm, or any combination of the above.

Why do we have that many kittens in our care???? Because the City of Taylor Animal Shelter has closed intake. Why???? Because they don't have enough employees to care for any more cats/kittens, even though they have plenty of room in the cat building. If you live in Taylor, you need to start emailing your council representative and the City management to express your concern as to why we have a nice new remodeled shelter and intake is closed.

We also have a diabetic dog, Buttercup, that our board member and a volunteer had to trap because animal control couldn't go out to get her and son (Ridge) that were dumped.

We desperately need a new foster for Buttercup since her current foster is going out of town next week. We provide all supplies.

We also need more visibility to hopefully get help and donations. We've never been in this position before. However, we can't get behind telling people to "put it back where you found it."

Something has to change and the only way we can see it happening is if everyone affected by this situation (all the tax payers of Taylor) speaking up to your representatives and animal shelter management.

By the way...last budget session the council approved an admin position at the shelter instead of an additional kennel tech position (the people that take care of the animals and clean the shelter) even though that additional kennel tech position had been BEGGED FOR every single year since at least 2015.

RANT over. Taylor, Texas - Municipal Government fix your screw up PLEASE!

*photo of last kitten the shelter denied and that is now in our care for attention.

06/10/2024

Ahhh… Spirits of a bygone time.
Grab your parachute pants and hair gel.

and Alchemy are taking over for a night of 80s music, Aquanet, and dancing. Presale tickets will be $7 or $10 at the door. Stay tuned for all the deets! ✨

06/05/2024

Tuesday Night Investigation at an old church in Taylor, Tx.

06/03/2024

This is Georgetown!!
Thank you to all of our Guests who have joined us on our Georgetown Ghost Tours!!
✨
https://spellcasterghosttours.com/cities-georgetown/

06/02/2024

Big Thanks to New Wave Paranormal for joining our Ghost Maker Tour in Georgetown!!

06/01/2024

We could easily add to this list. ✨

REVEALING the 13 most HAUNTED places in Texas 👻 > https://www.travellerselixir.com/haunted-places-texas/

05/30/2024

DEAD BANK ROBBER REWARD PROGRAM.

The 1920s was declared the Golden Age of Crimes. Travelers Insurance Company reported that bank robberies and retail store stickups jumped from 17 to 965 in its Dallas office alone.
On average, 4 Texas Banks were robbed a day.

So, the Texas Bankers Association decided to take matters into their own hands and established the DEAD BANK ROBBER REWARD PROGRAM.

A $5,000 cash reward was offered to individuals for the killing of bank robbers. That’s about $90,000 today.

For those lacking in morals, this was an opportunity for to make cash.

One night in January 1928, a group of men parked beside a roadside outside of Lubbock, waiting for the robbers who had hit the Sylvester Bank earlier that day. They opened fire on a man driving to Post - just outside of Lubbock. The man was a scout for the Gulf Oil Company - NOT a Bank Robber. The Shooters aimed for the man’s head and had he not leaned down in the front seat and kept driving, he would have been killed.

The president of the West Texas Oil Scouts Association sent a telegram to Taylor’s own Texas Gov. Dan Moody - letting him know the $5,000 Dead Bank Robber Reward Program was not a good idea. Moody had the Texas Rangers look into the matter.

Texas Ranger Frank Hamer learned that bank robberies were Increasing - he discovered that some local law enforcement tricked these robbers, only to ambush them after and split the rewards.

But bankers refused to withdraw the bounty. Their point was that if somebody could be convinced to rob a bank, then they were bank robbers in the making - And should be killed.
Ranger Hamer didn’t give up. He went on to describe a heinous set-up at a bank northeast of Midland.

A deputy picked up four laborers from Mexico and offered them work. The deputy let the workers out in Stanton, TX, in front of the Home State Bank.

Suddenly, the church across the street went up in flames. The citizens gathered to help save the church. The deputy and his friend began shooting the laborers, killing two and injuring the third.

The deputy claimed they saw the four men preparing to rob the bank.

The deputy and his friend were tried and prosecuted.

In 1964, Texas’ Dead Bank Robber Reward Program was quietly discontinued.

Texas Ghost Tours and Haunted Vacations Around the World.

05/22/2024

For Goth’s Sake!!! Get your darkness to Curio Mrvosa. 🖤

Happy World Goth Day 💀🖤🦇

📖 We’re open
Wednesday–Saturday 11–6
Sunday noon–4

📚 Buy new books online anytime at the link in bio or DM to place an order

05/22/2024

Thank You to New Wave Paranormal for joining us and documenting our Taylor's Spirits After Dark Ghost Tour!!

30 seconds · Clipped by Gretchen Upshaw · Original video "I Took a HAUNTED TOUR in Taylor, Texas (Secret Societies) (Tarot Readings) (Haunted Sanitarium)" by...

05/13/2024

Round Rock Ghost Tours are LIVE!

Read About the Ghostly Cowboy Inside One of Round Rock's Favorite Downtown Restaurants.

Join Spell Caster on a Round Rock Ghost Tour to Hear More Stories and Legends of the Small Town Just Up the Road from Austin.

Who are these ghosts that haunt Round Rock's Louisiana Longhorn Cafe? It was all eerie hearsay and spooky stories until I walked into the basement of the Louisiana Longhorn Cafe in Downtown Round Rock, Texas, and was met with the same feelings the staff have been experiencing for over twenty years.

05/13/2024

Are Words Spells that Manifest as Residual Energies?