Chillaxin with Ghosts

On the way down to Southern Nevada for our Family Reunion we spent the night in Reno. We decided to go to Virginia City which is a little outside Reno and apparently very haunted.

I had never heard of Virginia City before and didn't know any of the stories of huantings until AFTER we went. With that said I was a lot more brave and mocking of the whole "ghost" thing. The town is a little gold mining settlement that back in it's day was full of saloons, brothels, and very rough frontiers men.

The most famous resident of Virginia City was Mark Twain. It was neat to be in the place that he wrote his famous stories. There are also some very famous ghosts. One of them is the "lady in blue" who (if I remember the story right) was a prostitute who got pregnant. The man who got her pregnant was so angry that he tied her up in a room until she starved to death. It is said that she still haunts the building. Apparently the women's bathroom door will lock on its own and not let you out. Creepy!

But we pretty much walked along the boarded sidewalks and went into a few saloons that were supposedly haunted. Once it got dark we decided to go to the cemetary. Usually I love cemetaries. They are so peaceful and it's neat to see when people lived. However going to the most haunted town in the west and then to its cemetary at night in my mind is dumb! My dad and Daniel were the only ones to actually enter the cemetary while the rest of us stayed in the car at the gate. I did find an orb right by the gate which was kinda creepy.

So here is my question: Can this town really be haunted? We took tons of pictures on this trip and many of them at night. Only the ones in Virginia City show orbs, which are apparently how spirits show up on film. Maybe the city is just really dusty and that's all we saw. I don't know! All I do know is that it was a little creepy, but I was WAY more afraid of the rats that I'm sure roam this run down old town!