Speaker 1: Ghost Stories of the Rocky Mountains written by Barbara Smith,
published by Lone Pine Publishing. The Mistress of the Manor,
a seventeen room mansion Intago's north central New Mexico, comes
equipped with something of a supernatural security system. Ghosts, lots
of ghosts. The most recent ghostly guard is the spirit
of Mabel Dodge Legian, a long time owner of the
one hundred and thirty year old house. She died in
nineteen sixty three, and her presence has never left the place,
even after it was requested to do so by a
visiting psyekic. In life, Mabel demonstrated herself to be a
hospitable hostess by opening her home to artists and writers,
and death she occasionally shown less endearing qualities. Despite this difference,
there's no question that it is Miss Latrin's ghost who
has been responsible for at least some of the hijinks
around the old house, for her image has been seen
as a shimmering array of white light. She is credited
with pulling the sheets off some sleeping guests and making
enough noise to awaken others. Once Mabel frightened play right ROBERTA.
Myers by informing Myers at the play that she was
currently working on, which was about Mabel dodge Ley. June's
life did not belong to Roberta as the writer, but
to Mabel herself. Later, Roberta's husband had a dream in
which Mabel held tightly onto his wrist. Perhaps it was
intent by the phenomenon to emphasize her spectral point, because
the man awakened in the morning he was bruised in
that area. Mabel is not alone in her former home's
ghostly realm. Even when she resided there is a living being,
she was aware that the place was haunted. In the
mansion's rainbow room, people have often seen the image of
a youngster who died of natural causes within it. She's
never bothered anyone beyond giving them a start as they
realized that the misty presence that they are seeing in
the corner is a manifestation of someone long dead. In
another room, there is a considerably more disturbing apparition, a
disembodied head. This unnerving site has been repeatedly documented over
the years. Surely a glimpse of such an image would
cause a burglar to rethink his or her career choices.