Part 2 – Broadcast of 5-21-22
Part 1 – Broadcast of 5-14-22
Vicky Elsing
Vicky Elsing
Life with Ghosts in a haunted secondhand shop. Elsing’s Secondhand Shop was a haunted store that Vicky and her husband Phil ran for many years in Stoughton, Wisconsin. Join us as Vicky tells the story of the shop and her ghosts she and so many others experienced in daily life!
From Vicky’s book “The Grand Hotel Legacy”
“Our building was built in 1891 as the Hanson House and then became the Grand Hotel, two years after it was built. We have always been told by many people that a little girl cries in the basement. In the 1920’s , The Grand Hotel was known as a Brothel and the king-pin of bootlegging in Stoughton. The Chief of Police, they say, committed suicide, jumping out of one of the top windows in the building. We have had things float off our shelves in front of some of our customers and Phil. We have also heard a lot of unexplained sounds like breaking glass, loud crashes, yet nothing is out of place. In this book you will read about our journey through the paranormal world we never thought we would be a part of; a journey we have really enjoyed living.”
The history of the Grand Hotel, site of Vicky’s store. You can get the book on Amazon.
Links
http://www.iamhaunted.com/Vicky-E for Vicky’s IAmHaunted Page (archived on archive.org)
The old shop page is at http://www.freewebs.com/elsing and the blog page is at http://elsings2ndhandshop.blogspot.com
Visit Vicky’s YouTube Channel to see her videos of the paranormal activity and her life there
In her own words
Hi, My name is Vicky. My Husband Phil and I own and run Elsing’s 2nd Hand Shop in a haunted building in Stoughton, Wisconsin.
We had done flea markets about 17 years before opening our first business. We had our eye on the building we now own for a few years dreaming about opening up our shop someday in that building.
Well our dream came true. We were told by the people that worked in the building that it was haunted and we really didn’t want to buy it.
We really didn’t think much about it. We loved the building and wanted it really bad. We had gone in the building for pizza many times dreaming of what we would do if we could ever buy this building.
Well here we are now. We bought the building in 2004, the building we have dreamed of for many years and we have ghosts and or spirits. We had never given the ghosts a second thought until things started happening to us. We had no idea what a ghost hunter or paranormal was.
A few things started happening and then one night I went home to start looking things up on the Internet. I typed in the word ghost hunter in Google because I had no idea what I was looking for and came up with the word paranormal, I had no idea what a paranormal even was. This is how we all got started. I started sending emails out to some of them and now this is where we are at now.
We have been doing a lot of research on our building with a few of our friends. We are working very hard to find out what is going on in our building.
Our building was built in 1891 as the Hanson House/Grand Hotel. We were told it was haunted before we bought it. We have been told a little girl and a few others are in the building.
In the 20’s it was a known as a Brothel and the king pin of bootlegging in Stoughton. The Chief of Police they say committed suicide by jumping out of one of the windows in the building. I and some of my friends I have read the story and believe he might of been helped out the window.
I have been doing a lot of research and learning lots.
We have had things float off the shelves in front of customers and my husband. We have also had lots of unexplained sounds, like breaking glass yet nothing is broken, loud crashes as if a whole shelf has fallen yet nothing is out of place.
I am not a paranormal, just a person of a haunted building trying to find answers.
Our old store in Stoughton is now closed but our memories of this wonderful store are still alive in our hearts.