Location Description and History

The Double Eagle restaurant is set in an 1840's mansion, the plaza's oldest building. The enormous adobe resembles a series of treasure-filled caves. It actually houses two restaurants -- the Double Eagle, serving pricey Continental fare in posh salons and a ballroom, and the more casual, inexpensive Peppers, its delicious New Mexican food presented in a patio covered by a transparent ceiling. The dozen rooms that are open to the public energetically bring together such exotic features as Baccarat chandeliers the size of sumo wrestlers, a 30-foot oak and walnut bar from Chicago's Drake Hotel, museum-quality Pueblo folk art, a gilt-covered ceiling and a lounge decorated with turquoise snakeskin. Double Eagle guests feast on dinner in the regal Maximillian Room, which is adorned with Baccarat crystal chandeliers and a ceiling leafed with 24 karat gold.

In the 1850's the restaurant was the home of an affluent Mexican family named Maese. One day the family hired a maid named Ines. The family had a teenage son named Armando, who fell in love with the maid, much to the distress of his mother.
Love persisted however and Carlota, the mother, came home one afternoon to find the two lovers romantically entwined in her bedroom. Enraged at what she saw, the mother grabbed a pair of scissors and went towards Ines in order to stab her to death. In a attempt to protect his lover, Armando leaped in front of Ines, and Carlota stabbed her son in the scuffle. Armando soon died from his wound. Ines escaped the bloody scene and was not seen in town for over a year. Carlota became a bitter and antagonistic woman.

One evening, Ines returned to Mesilla in disguise but was recognized in the plaza by a drunken cowboy. A confrontation occurred between the two, and Ines was fatally shot. Local citizens, unaware of her identity, brought her wounded body into Carlota's home and placed it inside Carlota's very own bedroom. It was there on Carlota's bed that Ines died. Employees and guest alike say that the ghosts of the young lovers inhabit the Carlota Salon to this day. The ghosts apparently make their presence known in several different ways. Broken glasses and turned over chairs are found in the morning when opening up the building, inspite of high tech detection alarms which are installed throughout the building. The alarm system itself has a habit of going off by itself. When local law enforcement arrives and enters the building, they are unable to find anyone.

Other phenomena that has been reported is a apparition of a woman in the Maxillian room, just outside the kitchen door. Knives have been found stacked upon the floor in the mornings. Employees also hear their names called by a unseen presence.

Once a waitress was waiting on customers in the Maxillian room. When she placed two cups of coffee upon the table before the patrons, the cups started to slowly move by themselves. Then they rapidly moved around the place mats, flatware and dishes, as if a unseen hand was pushing them along. The cups eventually rested on the opposite side of the table.

Unexplainable noises, such as the sounds of pottery breaking and disembodiedvoices, are also heard in the area. At least a dozen guests and employees have observed supernatural phenomena. On October 24, 1989,amazed witnesses saw eighty glasses fly off the back shelf onto the floor, but only three of them broke.

We started our investigation in the Carlota Salon. we swept the room thoroughly with EMF detectors but did not find anything with abnormal electromagnetic fields. The whole room registered normal background readings.

We were just about to leave when we noticed the "fringes" on a antique crystal lamp was moving. We checked the area around the lamp but there were not any ac vents or any other means which could cause the fringes of the lamp to move. I discovered that the lamp once lighted the boudoir of a famed red-light madam named Silver City Millie. However our equipment registered nothing but normal background readings when we swept the area around the lamp. We decided to move on to the Lew Wallace room. as we started to exit, we noticed that the old floor was weak and if stepped on hard enough, would shake the table on which the lamp was located. So it is possible that the movement is associated with the vibrations that are produced when someone walks on the floor.

In the Lew Wallace room we detected a strong suspect reading near a small table in the corner of the room. We checked for the possibility of a man-made electromagnetic field but there wasn't anything close enough to generate this kind of field in that area. Upon further examination, we believe that the field is the result of a antenna type of effect from the adobe walls of the building. The remainder of this room registered nothing of significance. We then moved on to the Gadsden patio.

The Gadsden patio

We moved around the Gadsden patio, searching for any oddities in the room's electromagnetic field. the room registered a reading that has a typical normal background reading. There was one exception to this. when Odin was searching the south side of the room, he registered a reading of 8.7 milligauss at 32Hz for about 2 seconds. We photographed the area and when the pictures were developed we have a oddity on film. This does qualify as a Target as we have something that was caught on film while a suspect EMF reading was present. However we have not ruled out the possibility of lens flare due to the location of the mirror in the photo. We then move into the Maximillian room. The three Baccarat crystal chandeliers that dominated the room measure three feet across and are seven feet tall. they are in the classic french shape with 18 brass arms containing more than 1,000 hand cut lead crystals. they are beautiful and add luster to the 18 and 24 karat gold pressed metal ceiling. The balcony on the east wall was hand carved out of a California Sequoia giant redwood. It is hand carved with black bear heads and acanthus leaves which are gilded in gold. A very impressive room indeed. We caught our first suspect reading near a portrait of King George on the west wall. We had a steady reading of 9.5 mg. Odin went to get the manager so we could check the location of any electrical lines which could be causing this field. They returned shortly and confirmed that there were not any lines near the painting by at least 8 feet. We checked the area of the wall near the known electrical line and we received a reading of only 2.1 mg.

The Maximillian Room	Cody near the portrait of King George
Buck checking the painting for electromagnetic fields	Buck checking for more EMR
The balcony in the Maxillian Room	Buck checking the mirror under the balcony
The Lew Wallace Room	Cody searching the Carlota room for unusual EMF fields
The south wall of the Maxillian Room	Cody detecting suspect EMF readings

Geomagnetic data on Sept 1st 2000
this is in it's original message format
The following Alert was CONTINUED at 0100 UT on 1 Sep 2000
Electron Event >2MeV @ >=1000pfu BEG 31 Aug 2000 1120 UT
Comment: None

Magnetic K-Index of 4 Warning valid from 1 Sep 2000 0745 to 1800 UT
Comment: None

Magnetic K-Index of 4 Observed 1 Sep 2000 from 0600 to 0900 UT
Comment: None

Type II Radio Emission 1 Sep 2000 1827 UT
Comment: Estimated shock velocity = 500km/s

Type II Radio Emission 1 Sep 2000 1847 UT
Comment: Estimated shock velocity = 500km/s

JOINT USAF/NOAA REPORT OF SOLAR AND GEOPHYSICAL ACTIVITY
SDF NUMBER 245 ISSUED AT 2200Z ON 01 SEP 2000
IA. ANALYSIS OF SOLAR ACTIVE REGIONS AND ACTIVITY FROM 31/2100Z
TO 01/2100Z: SOLAR ACTIVITY WAS LOW. REGION 9140 (N11W67) PRODUCED
TODAY'S LARGEST EVENT, A C9/1N AT 1820Z WHICH WAS ACCOMPANIED BY A
TYPE II SWEEP. AN ASSOCIATED CME WAS OBSERVED OVER THE SOUTHWEST
LIMB IN THE LASCO C2 FIELD OF VIEW, BEGINNING AT 1854Z. REGION 9140
APPEARS TO BE DECLINING. REGION 9143 (S18W32) ALSO SEEMS TO BE ON
THE DECLINE, BUT DID MANAGE TO PRODUCE A C1/SF AT 0606Z. REGION 9149
(N14E18), THE LARGEST GROUP ON THE DISK, CONTINUES TO GROW SLOWLY,
BUT REMAINS VERY STABLE. TWO NEW, SMALL ACTIVE REGIONS WERE ASSIGNED
DURING THE PAST 24 HOURS: 9153 (S33E16) AND 9154 (S21E44).
IB. SOLAR ACTIVITY FORECAST: SOLAR ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO BE
MOSTLY LOW, BUT THERE CONTINUES TO BE A SLIGHT-TO-FAIR CHANCE FOR AN
ISOLATED M-CLASS EVENT DURING THE NEXT THREE DAYS.
IIA. GEOPHYSICAL ACTIVITY SUMMARY 31/2100Z TO 01/2100Z:
THE GEOMAGNETIC FIELD WAS UNSETTLED TO ACTIVE. THE ENHANCED ACTIVITY
LEVELS CONTINUE AS A CONSEQUENCE OF THE ONGOING, BUT WEAKENING
HIGH-SPEED CORONAL HOLE SOLAR WIND STREAM. THE GREATER THAN 2 MEV
ELECTRON FLUX LEVELS AT GEOSYNCHRONOUS ALTITUDE CONTINUE TO BE HIGH.
IIB. GEOPHYSICAL ACTIVITY FORECAST: THE GEOMAGNETIC FIELD IS
EXPECTED TO BE MOSTLY UNSETTLED DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS, ALTHOUGH
THERE IS A CHANCE FOR AN ISOLATED ACTIVE PERIOD. MOSTLY UNSETTLED
CONDITIONS SHOULD PREVAIL DURING THE SECOND AND THIRD DAYS OF THE
FORECAST PERIOD.
III. EVENT PROBABILITIES 02 SEP-04 SEP
CLASS M 30/30/30
CLASS X 05/05/05
PROTON 05/05/05
PCAF GREEN
IV. PENTICTON 10.7 CM FLUX
OBSERVED 01 SEP 158
PREDICTED 02 SEP-04 SEP 155/155/155
90 DAY MEAN 01 SEP 181
V. GEOMAGNETIC A INDICES
OBSERVED AFR/AP 31 AUG 012/015
ESTIMATED AFR/AP 01 SEP 015/018
PREDICTED AFR/AP 02 SEP-04 SEP 012/012-010/010-010/010
VI. GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY PROBABILITIES 02 SEP-04 SEP
A. MIDDLE LATITUDES
ACTIVE 35/30/25
MINOR STORM 15/15/10
MAJOR-SEVERE STORM 05/05/05
B. HIGH LATITUDES
ACTIVE 40/30/20
MINOR STORM 15/15/10
MAJOR-SEVERE STORM 05/05/05