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Post by jane on Aug 22, 2023 13:12:03 GMT -5
I don't suppose there have been any updates in this case. I think it's worse when everyone knows who did it, but it just can't be proven.
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Post by jane on Aug 18, 2023 15:53:17 GMT -5
Some paranormal investigators believe that the reason ghosts communicate using strange sounds that have to be recorded and interpreted is because they don't have vocal cords. That's ridiculous. Ghosts are supernatural and the rules of nature do not apply to the supernatural. Ghosts appear without bodies, so if they wanted to speak, they could do so without vocal cords.
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Post by jane on Aug 17, 2023 16:47:07 GMT -5
His writings are so vague that you can take them to mean almost anything you choose.
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Post by jane on Aug 13, 2023 8:51:04 GMT -5
I suppose now that people are becoming a little more savvy, the romance and IRS scams aren't working as well as they did a few years ago, so the scammers had to come up with something else. I can see how a grieving family member would believe something like that it he or she thought the call was from the funeral home.
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Post by jane on Aug 6, 2023 19:17:43 GMT -5
I was reading something online, that I can't find now, that someone pushing a cart, or something that sounds like a cart, haunts the Carnac stones in France. Does anyone know if the skeleton ghost called "the Ankou" haunts Carnac? I think I read something similar, but I can't recall where, and Carnac is located in Brittany. The stones at Carnac are also said to be inhabited by goblin-like creatures called Korrigans.
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Post by jane on Aug 4, 2023 0:09:25 GMT -5
I haven't been to Williamsburg in years. I'd like to go in the fall when the trees are turning: the top photo of the Peyton Randolph House with that magnificent orange tree is beautiful. Also, I think people are more likely to see ghosts in the fall. I went on one of the ghost tours back in the 1990s during mid-October, but I don't recall any of the trees looking like the one in the photo. But trees don't turn at the same time every year. Both the history and ghosts of Williamsburg are interesting.
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Post by jane on Jul 31, 2023 19:05:29 GMT -5
I suppose the closest to me would be “Dining with the Spirits at Lillian Place” in Daytona Beach. However, I checked and instead of a nice dinner with ghost stories and interesting conversation, it’s going to be a bunch of ghost-hunters, probably in T-shirts and baseball caps, and like snowfairy, I’m not naïve enough to believe ghosts – which are supernatural – can be detected with silly gadgets.
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Post by jane on Jul 31, 2023 10:50:30 GMT -5
Because of extensive thunderstorms and power outages, I was unable to create a Mystery Location this week. Sorry. I think those storms were all over northeast Florida. It was odd because the thunder, lighting and rain started in the afternoon and continued way into the night. Usually, the thunder and lighting stops after it starts raining hard. My lights went off twice but they came back on after a few minutes. I unplugged my computer because I was afraid of power surges.
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Post by jane on Jul 20, 2023 20:26:25 GMT -5
I have a friend whose granddaughter worked at this hotel during the summer when she was in college. She said that guests staying on the 7th floor sometimes asked if the place was haunted and a man who left his room late one night to get something he left in his car swore that he saw a woman in the hall who vanished before his eyes. Because he had been drinking, no one really believed him, but she said the 7th floor was very spooky, especially at night.
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Post by jane on Jul 8, 2023 16:35:16 GMT -5
I would love to visit some of these ancient stone circles. The moon definitely has an effect people, but it also has an effect on the imagination. However, I'd like to believe there's some kind of psychic energy at sites like this.
I've read a lot about witchcraft and demonic possession in England, but didn't know about the case of John Darrell and William Somers, so it must not be a well-known case, which is strange, since the head-turning was used in The Exorcist. The Exorcist was based on the book by Peter Blatty and writers in the past did a great deal of research before writing a book, or anything else, because they wanted their work to be as authentic as possible. I’m sure he read numerous accounts of exorcisms, and anyone researching exorcism in England would have come across this case.
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Post by jane on Jul 4, 2023 10:02:15 GMT -5
I’m thinking of ordering a canvas print of this painting called “Procession in the Fog” by the German artist Ernst Ferdinand Oehme, whom I had never heard of. He painted it in 1828. I’m not sure what it’s supposed to be. In some ways it looks like a funeral procession, but if it is, why does everyone appear to be wearing long, hooded black robes? Any ideas? I’m asking because it costs more than $300 plus I’ll have to pay another couple of hundred (at least) to have it framed. I want to be sure it’s something I will enjoy looking at for years to come. I’ve ordered other paintings, sight unseen, except online, and they looked different after I got them and I ended up hanging them in an extra bedroom or some other place where they are seldom seen. Oehme did a lot of paintings of monasteries and gothic architecture, so it’s probably a procession of monks or nuns.
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Post by jane on Jul 3, 2023 8:46:08 GMT -5
This is fascinating. When I was younger, up until I was around age 30, I read a lot of New Age books about Celtic magic and there was nothing at all about the Druids using livers to tell the future, and I've never seen anything on any other website about it. You can’t trust what you read in New Age books or on most websites for the simple reason that the people who write these books and create these websites are usually poorly educated and probably have never read a scholarly book on any subject. People who call themselves Wiccans and neopagans don’t really know anything about what the Celts and other pagans were really like. The Celts weren’t peace-loving, they were warlike tribes who gathered the heads of their enemies as trophies. There’s an article posted on this site called “The Dark and Bloody Druids,” and although it doesn’t mention livers, it says recent archaeological digs, etc. prove the Roman writers – Julius Caesar, the Elder and Younger Plinys, etc., – were accurate in their descriptions of Celtic practices. Modern-day witches and pagans have little in common with the actual witches and pagans of the distant past. (I don’t know how to create a link in the text, so here’s the link to the article about the Bloody Druids. whatliesbeyond.boards.net/thread/3816/dark-bloody-druids)
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Post by jane on Jul 2, 2023 2:20:20 GMT -5
Usually when something like this happens, people think it's teenagers, but I just don't see teenagers getting five animal hearts -- from the photo they look like sheep hearts -- and performing some ritual on the top of a remote hill after midnight. I think this was the work of a group of people who really consider themselves Satanists, or maybe Druids, or someone who just wants to stir up something in the community. I say they might be Druids because the Druids used the entrails of animals, and sometimes men, as a form of divination. The Druids usually observed the intestines or liver of a newly killed animal or human, but modern-day “Druids” might not know this. Also, if the culprits are Druids, why would they desecrate a church with graffiti and dead animals? In my opinion, those who did this either consider themselves Satanists, or they’re bored and trying to shock people in the area.
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Post by jane on Jul 1, 2023 21:44:47 GMT -5
People like this are just pseudo-Satanists. They like to shock others by calling themselves Satanists, join organizations like the Global Order of Satan, the Satanic Temple, the Church of Satan, or whatever, but in reality, they’re clueless. Satan is the personification of evil, to worship Satan is to practice and promote wickedness. The people sacrificing animals and desecrating churches are the real Satanists.
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Post by jane on Jun 30, 2023 3:39:04 GMT -5
I'm glad he was acquitted because he was a scapegoat. Scott Israel is the one who should have been on trial. I've heard that Israel was doing the same thing in Opa-locka that he did in Broward County -- promoting diversity instead of protecting the community.
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