Mesilla

That is at 700 North Main Street, Las Cruces, New Mexico.

And then we have the Mesilla Town Hall located at 2231 Avenida de Mesilla.

And that's in Mesilla.

Yeah.

And so also want

24-hour monitored secure containers, also known as drop boxes.

We unfortunately have one of these drop boxes is not in service right now, and that's the one at Sunland Park City.

library which is at 1000 mcnutt road it was hit by a semi truck yeah and um and so we're working with the secretary of state to get it replaced we don't have a definitive date of when that's going to happen but there are some other nearby options again any of the early voting locations the nearest other drop box is chaparral at the dolores wright education center in chaparral Another nearby location that you can use one of the drop boxes is at Anthony City Hall Municipal Complex or at the Mesilla Town Hall.

I'm your librarian host serving up all the historic tea, Joshua Spellman.

Not only is it officially Halloween season, but it's the close of Hispanic Heritage Month, and what a better way to celebrate part of my heritage, as well as the macabre, than a melodramatic tale from Mesilla, Mexico.

Well, New Mexico now.

Before I get started, I know I've been feeding you all a dense platter of historic haunts, but perhaps you're in the mood for something a little bit lighter.

The Three Spooked Girls.

If you like what you heard, please go ahead and give them a listen, and tell them that Sightgeist sent you.

For today's episode, we'll be heading to La Mesilla, or Old Mesilla, a village in current-day Doña Ana, and taking a peek into the haunting at the Double Eagle Restaurant.

The story is straight out of a telenovela, and the ghosts to this day still appear to be just as dramatic.

Yep, he created virtual re- yeah, the father of virtual reality, yeah.

I feel like you could live in Mesilla and pretend that you lived in the 1800s much less than the, in the 20th century-

Right [laughs]

... or the 21st century.

coming from Texas on their way out to California.

And the first leg, it is usually a three-day journey, the first night they usually try to get to Mesilla.

There's a wonderful place they like to stay there and a wonderful restaurant.

And so even though it's a long drive, they get up early so that they can be there.

And that was our Ellis for Lavender episode, if you want to hear that one.

And we made our way then to White Sands and then into Mesilla, New Mexico, where we enjoyed the super cute town square and enjoyed checking out the Old Barrel Tea Company.

And we checked out their tea offerings and then headed over to the Vintage, where we enjoyed a giant tea tasting and a delicious dinner.

So as we hope to encourage you to visit New Mexico through this episode and to get your roam on, this is a really fun gathering place with fun locals, live music, great food, and tea.

I just do all the things I like.

Okay, I think that's a great kickoff, Morgan.

So I'm with Morgan Schweitzer at the Vintage Wines La Mesilla, New Mexico.

So Morgan just said she likes to do all the things she likes as an adult.

It's good to see some water in that stretch of the Rio Grande.

When I was in southern New Mexico a couple of years ago, I got out of the car in the community of Mesilla, right up next door to Las Cruces, and I went for a walk trying to find the Rio Grande.

I wanted to get some audio of the water flowing, and I couldn't find any water.

So this sounds pretty good.

Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain, he had defended Billy the Kid back in the day.

He was riding home to Mesilla, Mesilla? Mesilla.

With his eight-year-old son, Henry.

And they just never arrived home and they, they found their empty buckboard on the edge of the dunes in white sands, but they never found any, they found remnants of things, but they never found bodies.