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Post by Kate on May 17, 2023 11:41:14 GMT -5
This is a great article but I don't think I've ever been on any of these roads. Tennessee (where I live) has the Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail in the Smoky Mountains that's haunted by a ghost called "Lucy," but it's not as interesting or as haunted as some of these.
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Post by Kate on May 8, 2023 23:22:27 GMT -5
We're going to Norfolk next weekend and plan to visit the USS Wisconsin, have dinner at the Freemason Abbey, and maybe see some of the other haunted places. We're making reservations at The Freemason Abbey for Friday when there are exotic game specials like kangaroo and elk on the menu. If anyone know of any other haunted places around Norfolk, please share. That sounds like fun. I've never been aboard a modern ship and I'd love to try kangaroo. I've had bear, buffalo, caribou and ostrich.
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Post by Kate on May 7, 2023 5:47:22 GMT -5
Another reason is that trees are turning colors and losing their leaves and everything just looks spookier in the fall before people start putting up Christmas decorations. It's also getting cold, or there's at least a nip in the air. Things are just more "ghostly" as the year changes from summer to fall.
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Post by Kate on May 4, 2023 4:30:08 GMT -5
In Tennessee, we have a Bell Witch marker at the site of the old John Bell farm. A lot of people visit haunted sites and other mysterious places, and it's good to see that they're finally being recognized.
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Post by Kate on Apr 23, 2023 17:00:20 GMT -5
I recently saw where someone linked this article from another site and remembered something I read awhile back about the strange disappearances in that same area. I tried to find the site about the disappearances, but it may be gone now. Anyways, someone commenting who lived there said that Glastenbury is supposed to be cursed and that when all those people disappeared, some thought the Glawackus might have killed them. I've read that Bigfoot has also been seen in that area. Bennington (Glastenbury) was one of the spookiest places we have visited on our DS trips. Everything is surrounded by mountains and forests, so it's easy to understand why people suspect there's something "out there" that's going to get them, like the Glawakus or Bigfoot. We walked part of the trail taken by Paula Welden and if anyone left the trail, it would be very easy to get lost and disoriented in the woods.
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Post by Kate on Mar 22, 2023 23:06:02 GMT -5
All the male funeral directors and medical examiners I've known seemed fairly normal, but a lot of loser incels go into embalming and work menial jobs in morgues, and they're the ones who are always getting caught sexually assaulting corpses. Of course, if a necrophiliac actually owned a funeral home, he'd probably be smart enough not to get caught. I have some cousins who own a funeral home and they won't even consider hiring a man unless he's married. Even though being married is no guarantee a man isn't a weirdo, all the men I've ever heard of charged with committing necrophilia are single. They now have a female embalmer on staff, but before that, they had a female attendant present when female corpses were being embalmed and prepared for burial.
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Post by Kate on Mar 19, 2023 4:25:59 GMT -5
I printed the recipe for Corned Beef and Cabbage a few days ago and started my St. Patrick's Day boiled dinner yesterday. Then I saw this article and found out corned beef isn't really Irish. If I'd thought about it, I would have realized it was unlikely that corned beef was invented in Ireland because there weren't a lot of cattle there and most authentic Irish recipes use either pork or mutton. Traditional Shepherd's Pie recipes from Ireland use ground lamb instead of ground beef. I also made Corned Beef & Cabbage for St. Patrick's Day. When we went on our Dark Shadows trip one year in the fall, we had an excellent New England Boiled Dinner (another name for Corned Beef & Cabbage) in Maine. You never see it on menus here in the South. Although I've been cooking and collecting cookbooks since I was a young teen, I didn't know corned beef wasn't Irish either until I read this article. In Ireland, they used a bacon joint, which is hard to find here unless you have it specially cut. I have a couple of authentic Irish cookbooks and the food is pretty awful in my opinion.
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Post by Kate on Feb 3, 2023 14:17:01 GMT -5
Every time I hear of something like this, I'm reminded of that loser in our first group, the one who called himself Tony Bones and claimed to be a mortician. He said things like waking up in the morgue doesn't happen anymore, which like just about everything else he ever said, was wrong. Of course, this woman's situation is nowhere near as terrifying as that of the woman in California who died trying to claw her way out of a drawer in the morgue. whatliesbeyond.boards.net/thread/8988/premature-burial-america
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Post by Kate on Jan 31, 2023 16:26:05 GMT -5
I think men get into things like Wicca and neo-pagan religions to hook up with women -- or men if they're queer. It was a man who first claimed that witches worshiped skyclad. It's ridiculous to think people danced around naked in cold weather or in the summer months fighting off mosquitoes and gnats. That's a problem if you bring men into any kind of activity. They're always on the prowl.
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Post by Kate on Jan 31, 2023 16:24:23 GMT -5
I would love to find a group of women who did things like that. I don't care for Wicca or most neo-paganism groups because they're too political and all the covens I know of include men. What I'd like to be part of is a group something on the order of the women of Cornwall Coomb in Harvest Home. You should ask around. We have women from their teens into their 80s. We do other things like trying new recipes, canning and pickling, sewing projects, gardening and discussing books we've read. It's not all about celebrating the sabbats, but we're all nature lovers and we all look forward to our celebrations.
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Post by Kate on Jan 29, 2023 23:36:33 GMT -5
I've seen in some of your other comments where you and some women friends get together and celebrate the sabbats. Do you still do that? It sounds like fun. We all get together at a camp house we have back in the woods on the Red River. We build a bonfire, weather permitting, and prepare a feast. For Imbolc, we place a brown cloth on the table and a sideboard we use as sort of an altar. We have white candles and small pots of jonquils, daffodils and other spring flowers on the altar, table, mantle shelf, etc. Of course, we also hang Brigit crosses around to remind us of the Celtic origins of the celebration. Here are some of our Imbolc recipes: whatliesbeyond.boards.net/thread/3224/recipes-imbolc and whatliesbeyond.boards.net/thread/9318/imbolc-recipe-poppy-seed-bundt
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Post by Kate on Jan 29, 2023 16:21:24 GMT -5
Imbolc begins at sundown Wednesday. Is anyone doing anything special?
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Post by Kate on Jan 27, 2023 10:25:43 GMT -5
I just saw that the building where two of the suicides occurred is this week's Mystery Location. It has been a few years since the lawsuit was filed and I know the China Virus held up things, but does anyone know the current status of the case?
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Post by Kate on Jan 21, 2023 5:39:23 GMT -5
Do you suppose there's anywhere in the world today that girls still try to find out who they're going to marry by having a Dumb Supper or even looking staring into the mirror in a dark room on Halloween night? While there are things on the internet, like this article, that remind people of practices of the past, young people just aren't interested in things like this anymore.
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Post by Kate on Jan 13, 2023 3:26:06 GMT -5
Lisa Marie Presley died yesterday at the age of 54. The news reports say she had a heart attack, but unless she had some kind of congenital heart defect, 54 is very young for a woman to die of a heart attack. I can't help wondering if drugs were involved. After all, she admitted to being addicted to cocaine at one time.
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