Fort Garland
The Friends of Fort Garland are, once again, planning to have candlelight tours of Fort Garland
Museum and Stories of Manuel Lujan, the Ghost of Fort Garland!!!!!!
The date is set for Saturday, Sept. 9th, 2006.
Exact particulars are yet to be worked out.
I will be doing the tours and the stories and for more info folks can contact me at:
E-mail: jack9393@msn.com
Thanks,
Jack Rudder
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Ghost Tours of Fort Garland!
Hosted by Sergeant Jackaroo (Jack Rudder)
(From last year- 2005)
"The Friends of Fort Garland decided to give Manuel a rest this year and tried something else. We
did seem to have quite a few disappointed folks because we didn't do the Ghost Tour, so I'm sure it will
be on for next year. However, I'm available and willing to meet folks at the Fort at about any time and
talk about our Ghost.
I do a lot of tours for the Fort and special programs on an as needed basis. Let me know when you'll be
down and I'd be happy to meet you. Or, we can share a few stories via e-mail."
Fort Garland Museum
29477 Highway 159
PO Box 368
Fort Garland, CO 81133
(719) 379-3512
jack9393@msn.com
http://www.museumtrail.org/FortGarlandMuseum.asp
http://www.coloradohistory.org/hist_sites/ft_Garland/ft_garland.htm
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Does a ghostly sentinel guard Fort Garland?
Source of article: The Pueblo Chieftain
Sunday October 30, 1994
Erin Smith
http://www.chieftain.com
10-30-1994
About six years ago, a woman dropped by and told Mrs. Lobato she felt a presence and asked if she
could `hang around personally to speak to the ghost.' Mrs. Lobato agreed. The woman asked the ghost
to write his name: `Eduardo' was the response.
FORT GARLAND -- Historic Fort Garland, once commanded by famed frontier scout Kit Carson, is
guarded by a ghostly sentinel in Union garb.
From the time Josephine ``Josie" Lobato became curator of the museum, she was told about the
``ghost," but she didn't believe in it. Now she greets it every morning and places the fort in its care
every night when she leaves for the day.
Although Mrs. Lobato has never seen her permanent visitor, she is not about to discount the possibility
that her fort is haunted.
During her 10 years in charge of the museum, Mrs. Lobato has been confronted by a number of visitors
who have told her ``something" is there.
Seven years ago, one woman asked, ``Did you know there's a ghost in the building?"
Mrs. Lobato had already been told. Several times. At least one woman fled from the infantry barracks
white as a sheet.
About six years ago, a woman dropped by and told Mrs. Lobato she felt a presence and asked if she
could ``hang around personally to speak to the ghost." Mrs. Lobato agreed.
The woman asked the ghost to write his name: ``Eduardo" was the response.
" 'How come I can't see him?' " Mrs. Lobato remembers asking.
The woman explained that not everyone can see spirits.
A year ago, a Sioux medicine man on his way to Taos, N.M., stopped by the front desk on his way out,
``You know you have a spirit in that building (the infan try barracks on the western edge of the
perimeter)?"
By that time, Mrs. Lobato knew there was a basis for the sightings. Three years ago, she was provided
copies of records from the archives in Santa Fe, N.M.
The tale that unfolded was one ghost stories are made of: On a Friday night in 1863, two New Mexico
Volunteers in the infantry at Fort Garland received their pay, began to drink whiskey and got into an
argument.
"It got pretty loud. They got in a fight and were locked up in the guardhouse," Mrs. Lobato explained.
About 2 a.m. the next day, the guard sent one of the men, Manuel Lujan -- he had no middle name on
military records but it might have been Eduardo -- back to the barracks, where Lujan went to sleep.
The second man, Honobono (or Homobono) Carbajal, was released about 5 a.m., even though he
appeared agitated.
Carbajal returned to the barracks, pulled out a revolver and shot the sleeping Lujan in the back of the
head, killing him. A sergeant caught Carbajal at the door and took him to the guardhouse.
Carbajal was court martialed, found guilty of killing Lujan and ordered to hang. Although there is some
documentation that Carbajal died from hanging, there is other documentation that he was hospitalized
for mental illness and later died of natural causes, Mrs. Lobato said.
Now, Mrs. Lobato talks about Lujan, whom she calls her "ghostly sentinel, the only guard I have that is
actually in uniform."
"Now it's a game. Every morning I greet him: `Hello, Manuel, how are you doing?' At first I called him
Eduardo but since I learned his name was Manuel Lujan, I call him Manuel. And when I leave the
grounds in the evening, I ask him to guard the place."
"It makes sense to me, even though I have not seen him," she added.
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The old infantry barracks is used as display space and is reputed to be haunted by the ghost of Manuel
Luhan who was murdered in this building.
From the Adams State College website
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The Friends of Fort Garland are, once again, planning to have candlelight tours of Fort Garland
Museum and Stories of Manuel Lujan, the Ghost of Fort Garland!!!!!!
The date is set for Saturday, Sept. 9th, 2006.
Exact particulars are yet to be worked out.
I will be doing the tours and the stories and for more info folks can contact me at:
E-mail: jack9393@msn.com
Thanks,
Jack Rudder
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ghost Tours of Fort Garland!
Hosted by Sergeant Jackaroo (Jack Rudder)
(From last year- 2005)
"The Friends of Fort Garland decided to give Manuel a rest this year and tried something else. We
did seem to have quite a few disappointed folks because we didn't do the Ghost Tour, so I'm sure it will
be on for next year. However, I'm available and willing to meet folks at the Fort at about any time and
talk about our Ghost.
I do a lot of tours for the Fort and special programs on an as needed basis. Let me know when you'll be
down and I'd be happy to meet you. Or, we can share a few stories via e-mail."
Fort Garland Museum
29477 Highway 159
PO Box 368
Fort Garland, CO 81133
(719) 379-3512
jack9393@msn.com
http://www.museumtrail.org/FortGarlandMuseum.asp
http://www.coloradohistory.org/hist_sites/ft_Garland/ft_garland.htm
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Does a ghostly sentinel guard Fort Garland?
Source of article: The Pueblo Chieftain
Sunday October 30, 1994
Erin Smith
http://www.chieftain.com
10-30-1994
About six years ago, a woman dropped by and told Mrs. Lobato she felt a presence and asked if she
could `hang around personally to speak to the ghost.' Mrs. Lobato agreed. The woman asked the ghost
to write his name: `Eduardo' was the response.
FORT GARLAND -- Historic Fort Garland, once commanded by famed frontier scout Kit Carson, is
guarded by a ghostly sentinel in Union garb.
From the time Josephine ``Josie" Lobato became curator of the museum, she was told about the
``ghost," but she didn't believe in it. Now she greets it every morning and places the fort in its care
every night when she leaves for the day.
Although Mrs. Lobato has never seen her permanent visitor, she is not about to discount the possibility
that her fort is haunted.
During her 10 years in charge of the museum, Mrs. Lobato has been confronted by a number of visitors
who have told her ``something" is there.
Seven years ago, one woman asked, ``Did you know there's a ghost in the building?"
Mrs. Lobato had already been told. Several times. At least one woman fled from the infantry barracks
white as a sheet.
About six years ago, a woman dropped by and told Mrs. Lobato she felt a presence and asked if she
could ``hang around personally to speak to the ghost." Mrs. Lobato agreed.
The woman asked the ghost to write his name: ``Eduardo" was the response.
" 'How come I can't see him?' " Mrs. Lobato remembers asking.
The woman explained that not everyone can see spirits.
A year ago, a Sioux medicine man on his way to Taos, N.M., stopped by the front desk on his way out,
``You know you have a spirit in that building (the infan try barracks on the western edge of the
perimeter)?"
By that time, Mrs. Lobato knew there was a basis for the sightings. Three years ago, she was provided
copies of records from the archives in Santa Fe, N.M.
The tale that unfolded was one ghost stories are made of: On a Friday night in 1863, two New Mexico
Volunteers in the infantry at Fort Garland received their pay, began to drink whiskey and got into an
argument.
"It got pretty loud. They got in a fight and were locked up in the guardhouse," Mrs. Lobato explained.
About 2 a.m. the next day, the guard sent one of the men, Manuel Lujan -- he had no middle name on
military records but it might have been Eduardo -- back to the barracks, where Lujan went to sleep.
The second man, Honobono (or Homobono) Carbajal, was released about 5 a.m., even though he
appeared agitated.
Carbajal returned to the barracks, pulled out a revolver and shot the sleeping Lujan in the back of the
head, killing him. A sergeant caught Carbajal at the door and took him to the guardhouse.
Carbajal was court martialed, found guilty of killing Lujan and ordered to hang. Although there is some
documentation that Carbajal died from hanging, there is other documentation that he was hospitalized
for mental illness and later died of natural causes, Mrs. Lobato said.
Now, Mrs. Lobato talks about Lujan, whom she calls her "ghostly sentinel, the only guard I have that is
actually in uniform."
"Now it's a game. Every morning I greet him: `Hello, Manuel, how are you doing?' At first I called him
Eduardo but since I learned his name was Manuel Lujan, I call him Manuel. And when I leave the
grounds in the evening, I ask him to guard the place."
"It makes sense to me, even though I have not seen him," she added.
`````````````````````````````
The old infantry barracks is used as display space and is reputed to be haunted by the ghost of Manuel
Luhan who was murdered in this building.
From the Adams State College website
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