Lake Tahoe is a Strange and Wonderful Place full of old tales and even some new ones.
Showing posts with label West Lake Tahoe Area. Show all posts
Showing posts with label West Lake Tahoe Area. Show all posts

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Ehrman Mansion Mystery

At the Ehrman Mansion at Sugar Pine State Park, park rangers believe they have come in contact with a ghostly visitor.

Heidi Doyle, a State of California park ranger, said she and other rangers held a "stakeout" one night after someone found an indentation in a bed that was in a bedroom once occupied by Sydney Ehrman.

"This happened for several nights in a row," Doyle said of the indentation. "Thinking that it was a homeless person, rangers did several all night stakeouts, only to come up empty handed. The indents stopped appearing and have not re-occurred since."
Source:FarShore

Saturday, August 2, 2008

Spirit of Dick Barter

The Spirit of Dick Barter is siad to haunt this island in Emerald Bay. He was in a storm on the lake when his boat tipped leaving him holding to the side. The next morning he made it home with two frost bitten toes, which he amputated himself. This expierence lead him to dig a grave for himself on the island and said that he wished to be buried there.

In 1873 he drowned in another boating accident. His body was never found, and thought to be at the bottom of the lake. But his ghost found its way to the island and is oftenly seen moving around the island on summer nights by campers.

Headless Fallen Leaf Lake Haunt

Local Residents of the area report a shadowly woman carrying her head underneath her arm can frequently be distinguished gazing at the water by Fallen Leaf Dam late at night.

Footage of this apparition has appeared famously on several TV shows, and been the subject of several magazine articles about repeating Paranormal activity.

Tahoe City Reported Sightings

A small female apperishion with a semi- transparent body has been seen pacing slowly at Lake Tahoe Dam in the early morning hours before sunrise.

The ghost of what appears to be a security guard with a bullet hole in his forehead has been made out on several occasions watching TV residence on Talbert Street. The houses living occupants have no idea as to who the spirit might be.