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Post by jane on Jun 28, 2014 8:06:09 GMT -5
Some people in Florida did the same thing earlier this week. Here's the story that was on the news.
'Angel Trumpet' sends four to local hospitals
ORANGE PARK, Fla. -- Four people were hospitalized Thursday morning in Orange Park for overdosing on a homemade hallucinogenic concoction involving a flower.
It happened while two children were inside the home.
Neighbors say police have been called to the trailer before off Collins Road in Orange Park. Thursday morning paramedics transported four people. The four adults were described by police as being seriously impaired. Neighbor Odella Coons says they were messed up. "They could still move around they did not know what was going on. They were yuck," Coons said
Officers on the scene learned a flower called Angel Trumpet was used to make a drink that will make you hallucinate. In the neighborhood, attention turned to children whom police say were calm and in good condition. "The young girl inside the house knows that whenever anything happens, she automatically calls 911," Gene Dixon said. Dixon lives next door. He says a month ago he called the Department of Children and Family Services. He was concerned about the children. "It seems like you can almost set your watch and calendar because every two weeks something happens at this place," he said.
DCF says it has an ongoing investigation. Now with four adults overdosing, a DCF spokesman says this incident increases the agency's concern to find out what is going on.
Neighbors say they are waiting to see what happens next as their primary concern is the children who were inside the home.
First Coast News, June 27, 2014.
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Post by jane on Jun 28, 2014 7:43:19 GMT -5
I find it interesting that most of these are old ghost stories, the most recent from 1982. The older stories left more to the imagination. Today's writers think that they have to explain everything and I think that may be because young people today have less of an imagination.
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Post by jane on Jun 4, 2014 12:41:47 GMT -5
I also agree with you, Kate. Witchcraft has historically been something that practitioners did in secret. People like Gerald Gardner and modern day Wiccans aren't real witches.
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Post by jane on Jun 4, 2014 12:37:40 GMT -5
It's a lovely old hotel, but I sometimes wonder if because ghosts have become so popular if some hotels and restaurants in historical buildings don't make up ghost stories to attract business.
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Post by jane on May 29, 2014 14:38:39 GMT -5
This is a good article for anyone who has an interest in Britain's other stone circles. Thanks for finding and posting this one, Joanna.
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Post by jane on May 16, 2014 9:10:28 GMT -5
I agree that there is something strange about these people not having help with house cleaning. They were ages 87 and 88 and the house was described as spotless. There's no way that they could have kept a house of that size spotless. I wonder if they had someone do the yard work or if we're supposed to believe that they cut the lawn and trimmed the bushes?
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Post by jane on Apr 7, 2014 11:13:29 GMT -5
I was referring to this week's Today in History post about the "Black Widow." It indicates that Jason likes it at the top.
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Post by jane on Apr 7, 2014 11:09:16 GMT -5
I've been to Starbucks, but there are other places that have better coffee. I'm not Christian, but the person who put those symbols on the coffee should have been fired on the spot. If you're going to serve the public, you shouldn't be biased against anyone no matter if you agree with their religion or lifestyle or not.
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Post by jane on Apr 7, 2014 10:57:12 GMT -5
I've noticed that some topics will have "... likes this" at the top of them. How do you indicate that you "like" an article?
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Post by jane on Feb 20, 2014 15:13:14 GMT -5
April: Have you ever seen the same man walk around with his arm stiff by his side like that in any of the other shows? I don't watch the show because it's silly and I know that the chance of a ghost manifesting in front of a bunch of cameras with a bunch of people milling about would be less than 1 in a billion, but you probably watch all of them, so you would know if this is normal or not for him.
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Post by jane on Feb 20, 2014 15:04:22 GMT -5
I've read about clocks that stopped running when someone in the house died, but not any recent cases.
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Post by jane on Feb 16, 2014 22:09:56 GMT -5
I have a question. When I was watching some of those ghost hunting debunkings, I saw that one of the ghost hunters is called Meatloaf. Is he the one who replaced the original ghost hunter who left?
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Post by jane on Feb 16, 2014 21:59:05 GMT -5
Thanks for posting the link to that video, Jason.
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Post by jane on Feb 8, 2014 19:09:47 GMT -5
I've been interested in ghosts, hauntings and the occult since I was a child and I've lived in places that were haunted. People who live in haunted houses may not see a resident ghost but once or twice in years of living there, if at all. Yet, the people on these ghost hunting TV shows expect us to believe that they constantly witness paranormal activity and that just doesn't happen. I haven't seen the video of the lamp moving across the table at The Myrtles, but if someone can tell me where to find it, I'd like to see it. I agree with Jason that people don't accidentally pull lamps across tables because they would turn over. There's no doubt in my mind that the paranormal activity on these shows is staged.
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Post by jane on Feb 5, 2014 4:38:13 GMT -5
Pat: I don't know all the particulars of the Bundy murders either and I've learned more about them since I've been in this group, and the two or three groups we had before this one, than I ever knew before because I never read any of the books about him. Young people are always careless about making sure doors and windows are locked because they never think that anything will happen to them. It's only when you get older and wiser that you realize all the things that can happen.
Steve: there was something seriously wrong with the man. I've heard people who knew him talk about how nice he was, but he was obviously a Jekyll and Hyde type. Something was said in one of the discussions about him in one of our old groups that instead of being able to mask his insanity, he was able to mask his sanity, because he was always smoking marijuana and drinking when he went out killing women. I guess if he was basically normal, he had to somehow deaden his senses to do the things he did.
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