Location Description and History

Location: Cimarron Historic District is 1 mi. S of intersection of U.S. Highway 64 and NM 21 (via NM 21).   Description: Two-story adobe structure which was the scene of several Wild West killings. During restoration completed in 1985, early guest registers were discovered, so it's known who stayed in which rooms. Today, the rooms, some with original furniture, are named after the famous/infamous people who once stayed in them.   Significance: Built in 1873 originally as a saloon by French immigrant Henri Lambert, a former White House chef for General Grant and President Lincoln. Operated for awhile as the Don Diego Tavern and once a hangout for outlaws like the notorious Clay Allison. Buffalo Bill planned his first Wild West Show here and celebrated several Christmases at the hotel.

Cimarron dates back to the early 1800s. The Mountain Route of the Santa Fe Trail entered on the northeast corner of the plaza. Cimarron was a stop on the Santa Fe Trail and a hangout for traders, mountain men and desperados. It was also the home of Lucien Maxwell, the largest single landowner in the western hemisphere, who once owned almost 2 million acres of land of the Maxwell Land Grant. Maxwell had inherited much of the grant from his father-in-law Charles Beaubien, who had applied for the large grant of land In February 1843 with his partner Guadalupe Miranda. In 1849 Maxwell convinced Kit Carson to join him at Rayado, at the junction between a trail to Taos and the main road to Santa Fe. Maxwell built a large house and several smaller outbuildings with Carson adding a much smaller adobe hut to the complex.

By July the inhabitants of Rayado numbered over 40. By 1857 Maxwell sold his interest in Rayado, bought some of the remaining shares of the Land Grant from his relatives and, by 1858 moved his family to Cimarron where he was appointed Postmaster and Indian Agent. Within two years of his father-in-law's death in 1864, Maxwell had managed to purchase additional deeds to that part of the Grant he had not inherited. On January 28, 1870, Maxwell sold almost 2,000,000 acres of land to a group of Colorado investors fronting for an English company for $1,350,000. Although Maxwell's house in Cimarron burned many years ago, the plaza and well still exist.

The St. James hotel started as a saloon in 1873 to accomodate mountain men, traders, and the many others who haunt it today! Come and take a look at the ceiling that still shows the bullet holes of early gunfights.

 

Reported Phenomena

The hotel’s pleasant atmosphere now gives no hint of the building’s violent history during which 26 people  were killed there.  There are three ghosts at the hotel.  Mary Lambert was the wife of the hotel’s original builder and owner, and she has never left her second floor room.  The second spirit is that of James Wright.  A psychic who came to the hotel and supposedly "identified" him.  He was a gambler who won a huge pot with his poker hand, the reports of what it was varies, but it was something like another player’s whole herd of cattle.  He was killed in his room, number 18, before he could make good on his win.  There was such activity in that room in 1985 when the hotel was being renovated that the room has since been off limits, except for SGHA.  When the owners checked old records, it was found that there was indeed a gambler named  James Wright who had checked into room 18 shortly before he was killed.  The third ghost is unnamed, and causes mischievous havoc in the kitchen. 

10:50    Bat Masterson room, no activity

Group decides to break until after midnight so the dining room area can clear out.

12:30- Investigation begins, Rick leading.
12:32   Dining room, various fields 2-4 on AC
12:33   Dining room, possible orbs on digital
12:35   Dining Room- Cody checking for electrical fields (negative) – so we are getting magnetic
12:42  Verification of moving field

12:46- Lobby
12:49  Nothing yet..
12:50  Small field between buffalo and antelope
12:53  Trying to track weak field

12:54- Hallway on first floor, nothing interesting

12:54- Headed upstairs
12:57 Headed towards poker room (no readings)
12:58 No readings in hall

1:05  Setting up video cameras and motion detectors in dining room area

1:25 Outside, possible orbs, no readings
1:30 Headed inside
3:00 Investigation ended

Photographs
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Room 18	Room 18	Dining Room	Dining Room
First floor	Second floor	Second floor	Second floor
Door of Room 18	Room 18	Dining Room	Second floor	Second floor
Second Floor	Room 18	Second floor	Room 18	Room 18
	The "Haunted Painting"	Second floor hallway	Room 18	Room 18
Second floor	Second floor	Second floor	Second floor
Poker Room	First Floor	Main stairs	Dining Room	Dining Room
Dining Room	Dining Room	Lobby	Main Stairs	Hallway, Second Floor
Second Floor	Outside view
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Question	Possible Response	EVP
What are you doing here?	"I want out"
What do you think of the new owners of the building?	Sounds like "Victoria, are you there?"
The first question "Who are you?" was asked.	Hard to make out. Sounds like "Who do you happen to know here"
The first question "Who are you?" was asked. The  reply begains just as Dana asks her second question which is  obscurred due to the loudness of the response. The first Voice repeats the same reply three times, although we have  not included this in the wav.	Two voices, the first seems to say "Show us who you are" The second is more femine and seems to say  "What?"

Room 18 data Spectral Analysis of the unusual EM field found in Room 18. Intermittent spikes of 40 Hz and 70 Hz were recorded near the west wall near what used to be a closet. The power of the fields wildly fluctuated in the ranges between 4 mg and 8 mg with full scale spikes (higher than 10 mg).  It should also be noted that the ceilings of the hotel are made of pressed tin, which may be able to amplify weaker EM fields like an antenna. This could possibly explain some of the associated phenomena of the room if the EM fields recorded here were stronger in the past or magnified by various geomagnetic occurances. Fields of 40 Hz have been known to induce microseizures of the temporal lobes in individuals with temporial lobe sensitivity.

:Issued: 2002 Apr 19 2200 UTC
# Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA,
#Space Environment Center and the U.S. Air Force.
#
Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity
SDF Number 109 Issued at 2200Z on 19 Apr 2002

IA.  Analysis of Solar Active Regions and Activity from  18/2100Z to 19/2100Z:
Solar activity was low. Region 9906 (S14W66) produced several C-class subflares during the past day. The largest was a C3/Sf at 19/1822 UTC. This region continues to decay slowly but retains appreciable size and magnetic complexity. New Regions 9913 (S15E23) and 9914 (N04E72) were numbered.

IB.  Solar Activity Forecast:  Solar activity is expected to be moderate. Region 9906 appears to be capable of M-class activity,
including an isolated major flare.

IIA.  Geophysical Activity Summary 18/2100Z to 19/2100Z:
The geomagnetic field ranged from unsettled to major storm. A shock was observed at ACE at 19/0804 UTC and was followed by an SI at ground magnetometers (36 nT at Boulder) at 19/0836 UTC. This shock is believed to be associated with the LDE M2/CME that occurred on 17 April.

IIB.  Geophysical Activity Forecast:  The geomagnetic field is expected to be at active to major storm levels for about the next 12 hours as the current CME passes. The field is expected to return to quiet to unsettled conditions by the end of the 3-day forecast period. A greater than 10 MeV proton event is possible if Region 9906 produces a major flare.

III.  Event Probabilities 20 Apr-22 Apr
Class M    50/30/30
Class X    05/01/01
Proton     05/01/01
PCAF       yellow

IV.  Penticton 10.7 cm Flux
Observed           19 Apr 180
Predicted   20 Apr-22 Apr  175/170/170
90 Day Mean        19 Apr 201

V.  Geomagnetic A Indices
Observed Afr/Ap 18 Apr  035/054
Estimated Afr/Ap 19 Apr  030/040
Predicted Afr/Ap 20 Apr-22 Apr  030/040-012/015-008/015

VI.  Geomagnetic Activity Probabilities 20 Apr-22 Apr
A.  Middle Latitudes
Active                60/30/10
Minor storm           30/10/05
Major-severe storm    10/05/01
B.  High Latitudes
Active                45/40/15
Minor storm           40/15/05
Major-severe storm    15/10/01