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Post by jane on Mar 31, 2024 2:43:51 GMT -5
I saw an announcement on the local PBS station (northeast Florida) where Sister Boniface will be starting in April. I suppose it will replace Father Brown, which has gotten too PC for my taste.
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Post by jane on Mar 18, 2024 15:30:26 GMT -5
Is this a real day of celebration, or did someone invent Sheelah’s Day to be politically correct? There's a reference to Sheelah’s Day in a book about old Irish celebrations published in the early 19th century, so it was a genuine festival of some sort at one time.
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Post by jane on Mar 14, 2024 23:41:05 GMT -5
Why would anyone suggest the hollow in the top of the stone was a receptacle for sacrificial blood when it could just as easily have been for holding a candle or oil for light during evening rituals? No one knows when the first candles were created but it's possible people at the time these stones were created used candles, or the receptacle could have been used for oil into which a wick was placed for light.
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Post by jane on Mar 6, 2024 14:43:50 GMT -5
It may have been stupidity at first, but by now, they know that their EVP, etc. wasn't correct, but they keep on pretending and trying to convince others that they're communicating with the dead. In my opinion, they're just as unethical as the other con-artists. The world is, and always has been, full of delusional people, but modern-day ghost-hunters are some of the most delusional. I saw where someone asked a ghost-hunter why ghosts would communicate in random, unintelligible scrapes and squeaks, and he said it was because they didn't have vocal cords. Why would a supernatural entity that doesn't have a corporeal body need vocal cords to communicate? And if spirits require vocal cords to speak, they wouldn't be able to make the random sounds called EVP either.
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Post by jane on Feb 20, 2024 14:35:39 GMT -5
I've never been a beach person, so I don't really care for bright, sunshiny days. I prefer a cloud cover, and fog can make just about any place look mysterious.
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Post by jane on Feb 20, 2024 14:06:38 GMT -5
I believe the most haunted place in Pennsylvania is the Baleroy Mansion in Philadelphia.
Does anyone have any suggestions for Rhode Island?
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Post by jane on Feb 18, 2024 18:36:02 GMT -5
I believe the most haunted place in New Jersey may be either Ringwood Manor (Ringwood) or the Spy House (aka Seabrook-Wilson House) now the Bayshore Waterfront Park Activity Center (Port Monmouth).
Does anyone have any suggestions for New Mexico?
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Post by jane on Feb 16, 2024 22:15:11 GMT -5
Next is Delaware: A lot of people say Fort Delaware is haunted but because ghosts are more likely to haunt places where they were happy, I think the Rockwood Mansion in Wilmington is probably the most haunted.
Since we already have Florida, the King House in Mayport, and Georgia, Heritage Hall in Madison, I suppose we’ll move on to Hawaii, a state I know almost nothing about, so someone else will have to decide which location is the most haunted.
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Post by jane on Feb 4, 2024 13:45:25 GMT -5
I can't believe I missed this when it was posted 9 years ago. Does anyone know what the researchers found out? I saw a couple of articles when the study first started but I’ve never seen anything about what they found out. I think they were trying to say that older buildings were more likely to have mold and mildew but that’s not really true. Older buildings are more solid than a lot of the jerry-rigged things put up today, and most of the cases of mold I hear about are in newer houses.
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Post by jane on Feb 4, 2024 13:36:07 GMT -5
I was just reading some old posts and came across this one. There’s a lot in the news today about UFOs (or UAPs) but there are still many sightings and events, with multiple witnesses, that have never been explained. The witnesses in this incident included pilots and other members of the RAF, and it was a solid object visible on radar. Like so many other incidents, there is still no explanation, yet we’re expected to believe there’s nothing “out there,” and there’s an Earthly explanation for everything. “Nothing” doesn’t show up on radar.
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Post by jane on Jan 26, 2024 12:38:11 GMT -5
"Death in Holy Orders" is the only P.D. James book I really liked. I read, or tried to read some of the others, but they weren't all that good in my opinion. I found Death in Holy Orders at a used book store and I've been watching it. I've seen some of the other movies made from P.D. James novels, but this is the best, by far. The location on the eastern coast of England is very atmospheric and all the actors are very good in their roles. Julia McKenzie plays the part of a laundress who works at the seminary, and she's much better suited to that role than she was as Miss Marple.
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Post by jane on Jan 23, 2024 15:39:19 GMT -5
From what I've seen online, PowWow almost died out, but it's making a comeback in the 21st century, probably to attract tourists.
Isn't there a walking angel statue in some Pennsylvania cemetery? There's a story of a walking statue -- not an angel -- in a cemetery in Lancaster, Penn. It's the statue of a young woman in her early 20s.
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Post by jane on Jan 16, 2024 6:23:06 GMT -5
I understand this house has been turned into a B&B and that the man who wrote the book is operating it. Has anyone stayed there?
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Post by jane on Jan 13, 2024 14:16:57 GMT -5
The haunted locations in England, Scotland and Ireland are usually easier for me than the murder locations, but the clues in this one were extremely vague and even after the 5th clue, I was totally lost. Good work, Catherine!
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Post by jane on Jan 9, 2024 0:21:49 GMT -5
This is a really good article. I hope you're planning on doing the other counties in England.
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