Kansas Route 66

The Kansas part of Route 66 is only 13 miles long, but I did spend a couple hours there with all the stops.  I went through Baxter Springs, Riverton, and Galena.

Twelve miles of Kansas

I stopped by the Baxter Springs Visitor Center located in a old Phillips 66 Station and got some directions to the Rainbow Bridge.  This is the last of three  "Marsh Arch" bridges.  I also stopped at the "Field of Dreams" field, but apparently it's not the same as the one in the movie, that is located in Iowa.

Rainbow Bridge

The big place to stop in Kansas is in Galena at "CARS on the Route" the truck Mater from the CARS movie is located there and so is Melba the Mouth (she is interviewed for the second movie).  They call her "the mouth" for a reason, she talks extremely fast.  She showed  me pictures of how the station and the Bordello looked before she bought and fixed them up.

Right next door to the CARS on The Route is "Galena Murder Bordello" the reason they call it that is 1. it's located in Galena, 2. it used to be a bordello, and 3. it has a carving in front of the house of nine crows, nine crows make a flock, and a flock of crows is called a murder.  When the house was first built is was a brothel for the miners, then it became a nursing home, then private residence, and then stayed empty for many years before it was fixed up.  They started doing tours of the house a few months ago because they say it's haunted.  

Murder of Crows

When they were fixing up the house there were a lot of paranormal activity.  Someone whisperd "Get me out of here" in Melba the mouths ear and now she won't go in that room, lights will come on, furniture will move, the air vents flew off the wall, tugging on clothes, you can see shadows, smells like rosewater, and so on.  When I was on the tour they turned off the lights and had you take two pictures to see if your camera picked up anything.  Linda our tour guide said that my camera caught "mist" which is "spirit manifestation" (its easier to google it rather than I explain).  It was on one photo, but not the other.  The tour is worth the $10 even you don't get to see any ghosts.

Galena Murder Bordello