GRAPEVINE, Texas — Imagine, sitting at the salon, getting your do done when suddenly, those hairs on the back of your neck stand up.
What are the odds it’s a ghost?
“One hundred percent,” said Lauren Jackson, owner of Renata Salons in Grapevine.
In the past, if someone else made that claim, Jackson wouldn’t have believed them.
But then, she and her mom bought the Dorris House, the second oldest home in Grapevine and when they opened Renata Salons it opened her eyes.
“What’s changed my mind is experiencing things for myself,” Jackson said.
Multiple times, she was either alone or with her mom and she’d hear a loud crash and when she went to the room the sound came from, “there was red nail polish everywhere,” she said.
The nail polish was in the center of the floor as if it had flown off the shelf and shattered. It happened multiple times and the nail polish was almost always red.
However, it was pitch black when one night, alone on the third floor, Jackson was fumbling around in the dark.
Frustrated, she shouted, “'Ugh, I can’t see,’” Jackson recalled.
“When I said that, this light switched flipped on. Those two things were pretty impactful in making me believe.”
Her husband, Chris, tries to find reasonable explanations but sometimes even he can’t.
One time, while alone in the building, he heard a disturbingly loud noise upstairs. He rushed up to find the barbershop door completely shut, even though, since buying the house, they’ve never been able to shut it all the way.
Another time, late one night, the cleaning lady had just finished scrubbing the bathroom and walked out when the latch inside locked by itself.
Chris had to climb through the top window to unlock it.
Was it the doctor who built the house? One of the patients he treated in the home? Or the souls that passed through when it later became a funeral home?
Jackson says she has no idea.
But one thing she’s pretty sure of is that whatever it is, it’s a lot more friendly than frightening.
“I know this sounds weird, but it’s like celebratory,” she said. “It’s not a bad thing, it’s not a negative thing, it’s kind of a special thing.”
Where else besides a haunted salon can you get an experience so hair-raising?