Location Description and History

Billy the Kid had many friends in Puerto de Luna and patronized Alexander Grzelachowski's general store. He ate his last Christmas dinner at Grzelachowski's house as Pat Garrett's prisoner in 1880. On July 14, 1881, Sheriff Pat Garrett killed him in Fort Sumner. A street in Puerto de Luna, Kid Lane, commemorates his connection with the village. An ancient adobe village in a hauntingly beautiful landscape, Puerto de Luna (10 miles south of Santa Rosa) was once the most thriving village in the area. According to one legend, Coronado's conquistadors built a bridge across the Pecos here and watched the moon come up behind rock outcroppings. The area was not permanently settled until Civil War times, relatively late by Southwestern standards.

Early settlers found a beautiful, fertile valley with soft sweet drinking water from nearby springs and sufficient acequia water to irrigate their fields.
The coming of the railroad signaled the beginning of the end for Puerto de Luna when it was bypassed. Instead, the citizens of Santa Rosa were the ones to cheer the first train steaming into their town on Christmas Day of 1901.

The building that Alexander Grzelachowski was erected roughly about the same time Lawrence G Murphy put up his store in Lincoln. Constructed from stone, the walls of the building are a good three to four feet thick. There is a porch with pillars like that of the Tunstall store.

One of the pillars has a hole in it that is claimed to be a bullet hole put there by Billy the Kid. Three doorways lead inside from the porch, and over each there is an ornamental gable.

Inside, there are the old high ceilings and heavily worn floorboards. Originally, each room had a fireplace; the mantel pieces were long ago sold. The southern doorway leads into what is known to have been the saloon. Whereas the rest of the rooms are square in shape, the saloon is a long oblong.

The building is complete except for Grzelachowski's warehouse. Beneath the warehouse, there was a basement. It has since been filled in with earth to keep the Flores' cattle from falling into it. Mrs Flores' says the basement walls were filled with carved initials. Apparently, a small jail was once located behind the building. It, too is no longer standing.

History From: http://btkog07.angelfire.com/

Time Event 8:30pm Team arrives on location and sets up base. Investigators divided into 3 teams. 9:00pm Team 1 enters building 9:15pm Team 1 conducts experiment with Natural Trifield meter and EVP session in the Parlor and Dining Room. 9:17pm Natural trifield appears to be answering Yes and No questions with the alarm. 9:47pm EVP/Trifield Experiment concluded. 9:50pm Team 1 exits building. 10:00pm Team 2 enters building. Repeats previous experiment in a different room, Old Saloon. 10:40pm Team 2 is unable to replicate the phenomena observed by Team 1. 10:55pm Team 2 exits building. 11:00pm Team 3 enters building. 11:30pm Tin picture appears to be moving by itself on the mantle in the bedroom. 11:35pm Picture movement is debunked. Picture is used to cover a hole in the fireplace wall. Air moving through the fireplace causes the picture to move. 11:45pm Team 3 exits building. 12:00am Investigation concluded. Natural trifield meter / EVP experiment The natural trifield meter was set to sum and the alarm is adjusted to zero. The "ghosts" were asked to make the alarm sound once for "yes", twice for "no". The session was recorded and also searched for possible EVP.

Photographs

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Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP)  (Recorded sessions at the investigation site)

Question	Reply	EVP
Vente Anos (21?) Question is in Spanish. Asking how old the "ghost" is.	Sounds like "27" in Spanish
"Tu aqui sola?" (Are you alone?)	Je suis piégé ici (I am trapped here)
"Tu aqui sola?" (Are you alone?) With Noise reduction	Je suis piégé ici
Were you here when it was a funeral home?	Two voices, male and female saying "Yes"