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Post by pat on Jun 18, 2015 14:13:28 GMT -5
Those strawberry cupcakes look delicious. I think I'll try your recipe, Kate. I don't like icing on cupcakes either. It makes them too sweet.
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Post by pat on Jun 16, 2015 23:29:53 GMT -5
Oh how I would love to visit Salem and see all those places that have a connection to the witch trials. The Joshua Ward House looks very spooky. I know the witch trials didn't take place in October, but everyone is thinking about ghosts and witches as it gets close to Halloween and I'm sure that's why Salem has most of its events at Halloween.
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Post by pat on Jun 15, 2015 18:23:04 GMT -5
I can understand how someone could go mad if they were alone in a place like that. In the United States, I think that they had assistant keepers, so that the keeper wasn't alone in isolated lighthouses, but it sounds like they didn't do that in France. But if children died at the lighthouse, some of the keepers must have had their families with them.
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Post by pat on Jun 13, 2015 14:31:23 GMT -5
I was living in Stamford, CT at the time of the Incident at Exeter and a friend and I drove up there. We took a wrong turn after we crossed into New Hampshire and we saw some strange lights in the sky. By the time we got to Exeter, we realized that more time than we thought had passed and we had only about a quarter of a tank of gas, though we had filled up in Massachusetts. I hadn't gone to sleep and the other person was driving. More than two hours had passed and we both thought it was no more than around 30 minutes. We had lost more than an hour of time.
I'd like to go to the Exeter festival, if I could find someone to go with me. I'm sure it's not built up and the places where the sightings occurred don't look anything like they did back then, but I'd still like to see how people remember it and maybe hear some of the speakers.
Jane, I sent you an e-mail, but I thought that the others might like to know. I would be interested in going to Exeter and so would Ken and Rick. (For those who don't know, Ken's my brother and Rick's my son - 29). We talked about it this morning. I've checked and there seems to be a decent hotel, The Exeter Inn. It has a restaurant and I didn't see anything that says they allow pets, so we could see if there are any vacancies for those dates.
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Post by pat on Jun 12, 2015 10:15:55 GMT -5
The German man must be a few bananas short of a bunch. If he hadn't videotaped the act and posted it on the Internet, he could probably have gotten away with it.
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Post by pat on Jun 7, 2015 14:42:11 GMT -5
I saw Frenzy on TV late one night and it was really scary. I remember one scene in Frenzy where the necktie killer strangles the woman and you see her lying there with her eyes staring and her tongue hanging out. We watched it one night when my son was around 13 or 14 and he slept with the light on for about a week.
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Post by pat on Jun 7, 2015 14:39:53 GMT -5
This sounds interesting. I like reading and watching documentaries about monster sightings, UFOs, and other paranormal events from the past. It seems that in the past, these kinds of things were investigated better than they are today.
Excellent point, Sam. Up until sometime in the 1990s, books and articles about the paranormal were researched and written well because the people who wrote and researched them were educated. Now, you have all these ghost hunters and bigfoot hunters, most of whom have nothing more than a high school education, writing on the Internet and its ruined the entire field of paranormal research.
I also enjoying reading articles about the paranormal from the past. I guess I hadn't thought about it before, but it's probably because they are written a lot better than those today. They also have more interesting information instead of what someone picked up on EVP or on their digital cameras. I don't think that schools today teach kids how to conduct research.
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Post by pat on Jun 5, 2015 17:50:18 GMT -5
Did you know this woman, or some member of her family? Like Sam, I don't believe that robbery was the motive and she could have been killed by an unhappy customer, even if it happened years ago. I bought a used car that turned out to be a lemon over 10 years ago and I still don't speak to the person who sold it to me. I don't believe robbery was the motive at all. Nancy was #8 of 9 children. The rest of her family, besides her son, live in Texas. She visited TX 2 weeks prior to her murder and had mentioned to family she felt like she was being followed back home. She always packed a gun. Always. I can't grasp why her vehicle was found several blocks or so away from the dealership. Was she lured there? I agree 100% she was a target. Zip-Ties, bleach, torture? It was personal. Who and why? There's a lot of family that needs closer. If someone was following her, that's more proof that the motive wasn't robbery, at least not in my opinion. Has anyone considered that it might be a member of her family in NC?
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Post by pat on Jun 5, 2015 17:42:50 GMT -5
Another example of a STUPID woman! When I happen to watch the court TV shows like Judge Judy, The People's Court, or whatever, there's almost always some stupid woman (usually white) who gives thousands of dollars to some loser man (usually black). I've asked this question before, but never gotten a satisfactory answer. What makes some women so ungodly stupid?! And women wonder why so many employers pay them less and won't promote them.
As much as I hate to admit it, I agree with you somewhat. A lot of employers don't take women seriously and don't like to promote them to a position of authority. But it's not because they're stupid, but because employers never know if they will get pregnant and won't be at work for 6 weeks or more, or if they will decide to stay at home with their kids. If they already have kids, they're always missing work because a kid is sick, or wanting to leave early to pick up their kids. My family has a graphic design and printing company and most female employees just aren't that dependable.
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Post by pat on Jun 3, 2015 4:20:27 GMT -5
There's something wrong with this woman's thought process. She's morbidly obese and I'll bet that in her profile, she said something about being well off, which she should have known was going to attract men who were looking for money, not love. I don't see how she could have thought that a handsome man with money would be attracted to her just from a picture on the internet. I'm not saying that attractive people are never interested in people who aren't attractive, but not from just seeing a picture. I also think that Dr. Phil should have revealed the name of the dating site because people need to know to stay away from it.
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Post by pat on Jun 2, 2015 2:13:01 GMT -5
So what are the symptoms? It says vomiting and diarrhea, which probably means that it came from food poisoning.
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Post by pat on Jun 2, 2015 2:07:53 GMT -5
I think that it's websites where teens tell stories that are what we call urban legends. But some of them sort of take on a life of their own like what happened with the girls who thought that Slenderman told them to kill another girl.
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Post by pat on May 27, 2015 12:00:55 GMT -5
Thanks for posting this, Natalie. I seldom watch the local NBC station, so I didn't know about this show. I liked David Duchovny in the "X-Files".
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Post by pat on May 27, 2015 2:29:03 GMT -5
Maybe they were trying to get her to admit what happened and killed her by mistake. Either way, if the dog did cause the child's accident and she was lying to protect it, she got what she deserved.
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Post by pat on May 18, 2015 21:07:36 GMT -5
I would have let my son watch that video when he was that age. If watching scary things was harmful to children, all everyone who grew up watching Dark Shadows should all be psychologically damaged. Barnabas was always biting women on the throat, men turned into werewolves and killed people, Angelique summoned the devil and put curses on people, there were ghosts all over the place and people were always hanging out in the mausoleum. The parents and the school board overreacted to something they should have ignored.
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