Our Mimbres pottery collection at the Western New Mexico University
Museum definitely had a ghost.  I would hear her/him many times when
working alone in the museum, day or night.  Rather than frightening, I
found its presence comforting.  The Mimbres tribe mysteriously disappeared
hundreds of years ago, and I always hoped this spirit would leave some
sort of clue as to what happened.

This topic was covered in a session at the annual meeting of the New
Mexico Association of Museums annual conference in Los Alamos, New Mexico
in 1993.  I imagine one could contact them for a transcript.

Candy


> JEN writes:
> >How about souls?
> >Does someone else have this feeling about things?
>
> Yes, at the risk of scandalizing my fundamentalist southern friends
> I will say that many museum objects have souls, and they whisper
> or cry out to you or try to frighten you; just looking at some objects
> can be a life-changing experience.  Isn't this, too, part of the reason
> we are in this? And why we are so desperately trying to find ways
> of attuning our audiences to the souls of these things and therefore
> to the souls and stories of those who made them,