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Ancient peoples the realm of the living and dead at winter's approach, that spirits are free to roam the earth, particularly on Halloween. Truckee ghosts know no such boundaries: they frequent haunts such as the Truckee Hotel, the Krueger/C.B. White House, the cemetery, and linger on the streets of Historic Downtown, according to some.
“Truckee was a hard charging, gambling town, with drinking and prostitution — a tough place,” said Ron Gaunt, who has seen several apparitions in downtown Truckee.
On Saturday, Haunted and Paranormal Investigations of Sacramento were in town for a Truckee Ghost Hunt to see and document paranormal activities.
Led by President Shannon McCabe and Ghostwriter and Demonoligist Paul Dale Roberts, the investigative team and entourage of ghost hunters, hailing from Sacramento, San Jose and the Bay Area, met in the famously haunted Truckee Hotel.
Hotel Manager Tim Tonachella, who is not a “ghostie,” said the event was outrageous.
“It's interesting to see a different perspective,” he said.
Roberts detailed the foundations of paranormal happenings to the group, from the 1909 Truckee Hotel fire, crimes of passion and untimely deaths. Wickedly vampy McCabe, dressed to a “T” in a low cut, flowing black gown, led the curious assembly down the stairs onto the streets of Truckee.
First stop: the Old Jail on Jibboom Street, one of the few original buildings in Truckee, built in 1875, operating through May 1964.
Truckee Donner Historical Society President Judy Dunlap greeted the entourage, and docent Don ColClough offered Truckee historic tidbits, from the two mysterious China Town fires, to infamous inmates such as “baby Face” Nelson, “Ma” Spinelli and “Machine Gun” Kelly. Although no crime-related deaths occurred here, the jail was used as an infirmary at times, and people died of influenza within its thick, stone walls.
Colclough has never seen any ghosts, but noted “if they're in here in the winter, they're pretty frozen ghosts.”
Dunlop mentioned a recent interest in Rex, the Siberian husky-mix dog who rescued snow-bound travelers, and whose ghost is purported to linger at the old Hilltop lodge, now the Cottonwood restaurant, above the heart of Truckee.
Next stop: the C.B. White House, built in 1874, recently remodeled to mauve and Victorian glory: home to Trio Wine Bar and haven to notorious ghost stories. Or are they?
“The lights go on and off. I was here late with Chef one night and the hot water was coming out of the taps in the bathroom,” claims Trio Wine Bar's sommelier Lou Phillips, a regular speaker about mysterious happenings there. “I had not turned on the hot, or cold water.”
“Chef Mike” came to speak to the apparition aficionados, Phillips said: “We had a psychic from Squaw Valley here, and she said somebody used to sit in a favorite chair in one spot, and Mrs. White's presence could be felt as she bent tending her dying child, who had fallen out of a top story window.”
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