Conspiracy Museum is Gone but the Ghosts are Still in Residence

For years the Conspiracy Museum played host to steady stream of visitors to downtown Dallas, most looking for the alternative theories behind several major deaths in American history. The museum sat on the first floor of the K-T Building at 110 Market Street, a block from Dealy Plaza, site of the J.F. Kennedy assassination and was reportedly haunted for years. The building was originally the headquarters of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (commonly referred to as the "K-T Railroad.”

The ASUP was invited to visit this historic building and the Conspiracy Museum a few  years ago after Rick Moran wrote a short piece on the closing of the Museum for Fortean Times magazine.  Among the reported activity in the building were several different apparitions in different styles of dress and a woman often reported in the Museum pondering the JFK memorabilia.

American’s are fascinated by conspiracies and the museum, now closed due to the renovation of the building, was packed with artifacts that seemed to support many of the theories around cases from the assassination of Abraham Lincoln to the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King. Several ghost hunters had already suggested that the artifacts were drawing not just citizens interested in these cases, but in some ways might be drawing the spirits of those directly involved.

A walk through the building’s lobby evoked another era and in talking to the building’s manager we learned that the most often reported presence was that of a man dressed in period “cowboy” wear, from sloping Stetson to boots with jingling spurs, who seemed very much out of place in modern downtown Dallas.

In the Museum space, besides the woman reported at the Kennedy display, there are several other “transients” who come and go. In order to get to the exhibit area, you had to walk through a gift shop and the clerk often saw people in the exhibit that had not paid for admittance, but when he would turn the corner to confront them, they would disappear.  The area they were reportedly in was a blind corner of the exhibit that had once been part of an extended lobby when the building was first constructed, so there was some question if they were there because of the exhibit or in spite of it.

The ASUP was originally scheduled to return to the site but that visit was cancelled when the building management forced the closing of the Museum for renovation into a fast food restaurant.  Perhaps someday we will jump on the light rail system and go to have a sandwich in the new shop to see if there is any activity.  It might be a good location to try out a mini-box interview, but it is unlikely that building management will agree to a full investigation, although the lobby is open to the public.

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