Location:
This officer residence home is
found on Fort Huacchuca Army Base, which was home to The Army Intelligence
Center and School, and the Army's Information Systems Command, as of
1994. All C130 training for NATO forces took place there.
Description:
The Carleton House is the oldest building
on the base, as it has been there since 1880. It was named in honor
of Brig,. General James H. Carleton , who led "The ARIZONA Column" during
The Civil War. It's a large house and has a huge, "cavernous knotty
pine" paneled living room. Its front door is actually located in the
side of the house. The walls are made of adobe, and it has a nice porch.
The house's water heater was kept in a small room under the house, a
sort of cellar, and was reached by going through a door near the front
steps.
History:
For a few years, after it was built,
Carleton House was the Army post hospital. It then served as housing
for officers, an officers' mess. Post headquarters, a café, and a school
house. For a brief time period, between 1947 - 1951, it was used by
Arizona Governors, Osborn and Garvey, as a vacation retreat spot. It
then once again became a resident house to various individual officers
and their families.
As of 2004, Fort Huacchuca Army
Base is an active and viable military facility, making it one of the
oldest bases in the United States. Carleton House is still there, and
used as housing.
Manifestations:
The house is haunted by a young woman
who is in the 18 - 22 age range, and has been named Charlotte by one
of the families who lived there. It is thought that she died giving
birth to a child there, when the building was a post hospital. She is
thought to be upset because her child's remains weren't properly buried
in a marked grave, so she searches the house for her child.
1) Mischievous incidents were often
attributed to Charlotte
* While moving in the S family put
some boxes in a bed room a few steps below the level of the rest of
the house. (This room had been the location of the morgue, during
the hospital era of the house.) Later that evening, the contents of
those boxes had been thrown all over the room.
* The doorbell would ring, and
no one would be there. There was no time for a living person to run
away before the door was answered, as the annoyed living human inside
was determined to catch the rascal responsible. The door bells were
finally disconnected.
* A daughter's jewelry box mysteriously
flew off the fireplace in her room, and landed in the middle of the
room's rug.
* After a struggle, one family
was able to securely hang pictures in the knotty pine paneled living
room, which was the hospital's ward for patients. The next morning,
they found all their pictures on the floor. A solid brass, Asian trivet
that was also hung on the wall, was bent nearly in half, and was impossible
to bend back into position by hand. It seems someone didn't approve
of their taste in decorations, and perhaps resented the invasion of
her space.
* In the living room, the four
chandeliers experienced unexplainable electrical problems.
* The one chandelier that is located
over a part of the living room that is always colder than the rest
of the house, never would work in the evening hours. Mrs. S made this
colder part of the living room, Charlotte's corner. Another resident
family, later put a rocking chair and a doll in it to perhaps comfort
the ghost, and let her know she has her own space there to rest, if
searching for her child gets to be too frustrating. Perhaps this is
the area in the then hospital ward that she died giving birth.
2) Charlotte has made appearances
to various members of several families, and the neighbors as well.
* One boy, who had fallen asleep in
the TV room, awoke and had to go through the paneled living room,
past Charlotte's corner in order to get to his bedroom, the one mentioned
above as being the old hospital morgue. As he past Charlotte's corner,
he saw a long dress standing by itself, with no one seen inside it.
It was an 1880's dress, often worn by young women in Arizona at this
time. The light colored dress was a gown with ruffled edges around
the sleeves and hem line.
* A young woman, mistaken for
Mrs. S's daughter, was seen walking down the hallway near the kitchen.
It wasn't the daughter, as thought by her mother, as the daughter
was sleeping in bed at the time of this sighting.
* While Mrs. S was carrying her
clean towels to the linen closet, a white mist swirled all around
her, engulfing her. It wasn't cold, damp, threatening or frightening,
just eerie.
* A neighbor boy had run to the
house to deliver a message when no one was home. He saw a blond -haired
young woman in a dressing gown walking down the hallway, who ignored
his door knocks.
* Mrs. K's daughter had agreed
to check in with her mother after she came in from a date that night.
When the daughter got home that evening, she went into the paneled
living room and saw a woman standing at the end of the hall. She said
goodnight to who she thought was her mom. The next morning, her mom
asked her why she didn't check in with her as agreed to, and then
learned that her daughter had said goodnight to the apparition instead.
3) Mr. and Mrs. T have heard voices.
* In the wee hours of the morning,
Mr. T was in the kitchen, studying for an exam, and the door was shut
to the dining room. He heard a young voice call to him from just the
other side of this door, saying "Daddy, Daddy!" No one was there,
and his son was fast asleep.
* Mrs. T was standing out on the
porch in the early morning, around 5 AM. She heard a mechanical sounding
voice coming from the house saying, "Sleep, sleep!"
4) The Little Cellar Room - For
sensitive people, this room gives the living a sense of dread and uneasiness
upon entering it. Mr. T came in to investigate the non-working water
heater, but had to leave quickly as he was suddenly awashed with dread.
Psychics believe that somewhere in this room, Charlotte's baby was buried
in an unmarked spot.
Still Haunted?
A PARANORMAL INVESTIGATION REPORT;
Case No. 334-56, was made by Brian Roesch on April 19, 2000. Armed with
a 35mm camera loaded with 800 speed film, Brian captured a spirit orb
on film.
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