EVP from Victoria's Black Swan Inn

Background: From before 5000 B.C. to around 1000 A.D. this area was the site of Native American encampments. Artifacts from this time can still be found here. When The Mexican Army invaded Texas a second time in 1842, reinforcements from Gonzales drew General Adrian Woll and his men to a place on Salado Creek where a short battle took place. This occurred in and around the area where the house presently stands.

Henry Mahler and his wife, Marie built the first house on the property in 1887. After purchasing more land a second house was built in 1901.

The Holbrook and Woods Families purchased the house and did extensive remodeling, adding two wings and calling the house "White Gables".

After the deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Holbrook and Mr. Woods, Mrs. Woods lived in the house with Park and Joline Street along with their children. During this time a second story was added to the main house. This was a time when Earle Stanley Gardner visited the house and wrote some of his Perry Mason series scripts here. Park Street supposedly committed suicide by hanging himself in the house, though this has been a highly controversial subject. Some feel he was murdered and then staged to look like a suicide.

Mrs. Ingeborg Mehren bought the house and added on the large kitchen area.

It has been in the possession of the current owner since the early 1990s. Since Jo Ann Rivera has owned the house, there has continued to be a lot of paranormal activity on the grounds and in the house. It has been the subject matter of books and television shows dealing with hauntings.

PLEASE NOTE: All EVP files are housed on my business domain due to restrictions of bandwidth for this domain. I wanted to point this out so there was no issue of bandwidth stealing.
#1 - Ballroom	03/24/05 - We had our recorder running just after everyone had retired in the ballroom for the evening on air mattresses. We caught this desperate plea from a male spirit. Pardon the snoring!
#2 - Ballroom	03/24/05 - This EVP was caught about 20 minutes into the recording. You hear a female say "I didn't know".
#3 - Ballroom	03/24/05 - This is about an hour into our recording, by this time almost everyone is snoring and it's quite noisy in the room. This fellow sounds like he's saying "Oh, shut up!"

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