What a great evening! Thanks to all who came out. Thanks to the "regulars." Thanks to the many "first-timers," who joined the fun. And a special "thank you" to the management, who gave our group an all access tour of the upstairs offices, where the ghosts supposedly reside. Despite all the decades that have past since it was a humble farm house, so little seems to have changed in that area of the "house."
We heard some new stories, including one about two workman hired by the city to do restoration on the historic building. One left, leaving the other to saw wood alone in one room. After awhile, the electric saw stopped. When he went to investigate, he discovered that the extension cords that ran through another room had gotten unplugged. He plugged them together, and went back to his sawing. After a while, the saw stopped again, and again the extentetion cords were unplugged from each other. Thinking that his co-worker was playing a trick on him, he tied the two cords to such a tangle of knots that nothing could separate them. Sure enough, when he went back to saw, the power stopped, and when he investigated the cords were untagled and separated. It was at this monent that he looked out the window, and into a window of a neighboring building, to discover the other workman busy at restoration work in that building several yards away. The man was alone in the building,... or was he?
Employees also claimed that they have seen the elderly ghost of Senora Consuelo de Bonza (pictured in the portrait above) wandering through the restaurant.
The manager also revealed that in the adjoing building to the south, several bodies were found buried in the basement during another restoration project. Apparently, there is no foul play suspected, they just believe , at one time, people buried their dead there.
According to all the stories we heard that night, this restaurant is just the tip of the iceburg, in terms of paranormal activity on Olvera Street.
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