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<\/a>The Bullock Hotel lovingly restored to look just the way Seth built it.<\/p><\/div>\n
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<\/a>This is how the hotel looked in the 1800’s when new. Our room is just left of the balcony on the 3rd floor<\/p><\/div>\n
Linda and I have been thinking how funny it would be if we were to dress up in bed sheets and each stand in the tall windows waving our arms satisfying all those picture taking tourists outside who have heard and want to believe that the Bullock is haunted. \u00a0The stories have been going around for years that the spirit of Seth himself floats around the premises having some playful spooky fun with the guests and chastising hotel employees who are loafing on the job. The hotel staff\u00a0 goes right along with it and counts the incidents all part of the inn\u2019s charm. On our last visit here a couple years ago, our friend Joanie swears that a hand brushed across her leg in bed during the night and it wasn\u2019t her sleeping husband Denny next to her. Then while watching a football game on TV, we all heard a knock on the door but\u00a0when Joanie answered there was nobody there. We, of course, dismissed it as guests next door but she was not convinced.
\nWe all arrived back here at the Bullock on Saturday evening and made it through the night without a single supernatural incident. On Sunday, we decided to watch the Vikings game in our room. So, as we were mixing up a cocktail to either drown our anticipated sorrows or celebrate a royal victory, we heard a definite knock at the door. Joanie went to answer and, again, THERE WAS NO ONE OUTSIDE! She looked around at Linda and me and I swear you could see her face turn white as her jaw dropped. That\u2019s when we could hear Denny giggling from around the corner. He\u2019d sneaked out to get some snacks from their room and decided to have a little fun on his return. It was a beautiful thing to behold and I was so proud of my friend for pulling it off.<\/p>\n
Seth Bullock, himself, apparently enjoyed a good joke. That is if you consider ridin\u2019 around the streets of\u00a0 Washington D.C. with a bunch of his cowboy buddies ropin\u2019 negroes funny.\u00a0 South Dakota Magazine has the story in its latest issue about how Bullock became palzie walzie with Theodore Roosevelt way back when Teddy needed to find himself after going through a rough patch in his personal life . He came out to the Dakotas where he bumped into Bullock and the two soon learned to respect and admire each other. \u00a0Years later when Roosevelt became\u00a0president, he invited Seth and his buddies to come to Washington and ride their horses in the inaugural parade. Apparently the boys \u00a0arrived early enough to take full advantage of their old west persona with the local urbanites and found great sport ridin’ up and down the streets of D.C. even lassoing some of the black young people who ran alongside the mounted band of hooligans. Some prim and proper Washingtonians wanted the whole wild bunch locked up but when word reached Mr. Roosevelt he basically excused their behavior as boys letting off a little steam and that was that.<\/p>\n