05/12/2023
Pawlees Doggie Bakery Paranormal investigation 👻🖤👻
THE HAUNTING AT PAWLEES DOGGIE BAKERY & NATURAL PET MARKET
First, I must say this had to be one of the most intriguing cases I’ve ever had the pleasure of working on. Being able to connect the scientific with the metaphysics and then those results to the history was amazing and definitely brought about the results we were hoping for. This is from the rough draft for the Carolina Vortex article and my 4th attempt at posting it on Facebook today. Hope it makes sense and that Louise will be happy! Fingers crossed..........
Special thank you to the Pawlees Doggie Bakery Owner, Management and Staff, to John Crutchfield Owner of Musten & Crutchfields, to all of my custumers at the Plaza, I mean my research contacts, to my paranormal sidekick, Bonnie Jones, and to our amazing team, the Kernersville Paranormal Research-Scientific Investigation Team, Spirit Rescue Team, and Historical Research Team, ~ Tonya D
Now let me tell you about two very prominent families from the beautiful town of Kernersville, NC. The Musten & Crutchfield Families.............
Kernersville NC Hauntings: The Ghost at Pawlees Doggie Bakery:
Augusta Willard Musten
Unfortunately, there wasn’t a whole lot of information about Augusta online. So, most of what I’m telling you came by word of mouth, which I understand is one of the best resources you can use when conducting historical research. Well, turns out I have some really awesome contacts and I was able to find out what really happened to Augusta.
Evidently the Whicker family was very intertwined with the Musten family and Leo Whicker’s wife turned out to have been Augusta’s best friend. This friendship developed in high school and continued through the years. Leo's wife was also one of two people who found Augusta after she committed su***de by hanging herself in the garage at her home.
When I asked Leo about Augusta, his face lit up and he smiled really big as he told me how beautiful, smart, and kind she was. Everyone in town loved Augusta. He goes on to tell me that she had a disease that caused hormonal changes in her body, she became very depressed, gained weight, and was possibly in a lot of pain.
According to her death Certificate, at the age of 40, Augusta decided to take her own life by hanging herself in a barn at her home. Even though we’re not really sure she’s aware of what transpired at the end of her life, or if she even knows she died, we do believe her spirit is hanging out at Pawlees looking for answers hoping someone will dig deep.
So, if you’re ever at Pawlee’s Doggie Bakery in Kernersville, make sure you say hello to a really wonderful lady……Augusta Willard Musten.
Louise Musten Crutchfield
Louise Musten, Hmm………Let me just begin with, tapping into the energy of Louise Musten Crutchfield has proven to be very interesting, to say the least. She was the most head strong, in control woman I’ve run across in a long time. After conducting the research, talking to the Kernersville community, and helping to conduct the actual scientific investigations, I am very convinced that you will definitely run into the spirit of Louise when visiting the Pawlees Doggie Bakery. I’m still puzzled as to why she would return to the Pawlees location, but I’m very sure she has her reasons.
One of my favorite contacts, who wishes to remain anonymous started out with, now you know Tonya, Louise was my Sunday School Teacher……..
The Musten & Crutchfield families were very active in the Southern Baptist community in Kernersville over the years and Louise may be hanging around because of religious beliefs, or maybe she’s still trying to control things from the otherside because of an attachment she has to a place and a family name we can 100% say she loved more than anything in life.
She’s probably not going anywhere anytime soon, so make sure you look for her a Pawlees where she’s currently trying to understand how the current business owners conduct business, why they make certain decisions, which of course she considers to be the wrong decisions, and worrying about the ingredients being used in the baked goods not being up to her standards. She’s just as busy in death as she was in life.
Maybe she really does consider herself to be the first, after all she was what I believe to be the only one connected to both the Musten and the Crutchfield Legacies. What she believes to be her Legacies!
Robert (Bob) Crutchfield
I’m sure that the Kernersville community has very fond memories of Robert Crutchfield, also known as Bob, one of many Musten & Crutchfield partners, as well as the son of Dace and Louise Crutchfield. Throughout the historical research I conducted verbally, Bob was often referred to as a laid-back type of man who loved baseball, baseball cards, ci**rs, and a special convertible he was seen riding all over town in. Over the years Bob spent most of his spare time coaching children's baseball and if I’m not mistaking, wore a baseball cap most of the time.
Unfortunately, I didn’t get the opportunity to meet Bob in life, but I’m pretty convinced he’s just waiting to put his mom in that convertible and take her for a ride to the otherside. Good luck with that Bob!
Currently, Bob is still driving that convertible back and forth between Pawlees Doggie Bakery and the current location of Musten & Crutchfields.......... where his presence has also been detected many times since his passing by the staff, who refer to him lovingly as a benevolent spirit just making his presence known.
If you get a chance, stop by when you’re in town and checkout these haunted locations and say hello to Augusta Musten, Louise Musten Crutchfield, and Bob Crutchfield. ~Happy Hauntings.
