|
Post by jane on Mar 13, 2023 0:25:13 GMT -5
If there are any upcoming paranormal events in Alabama, Georgia or Mississippi, please let us know as soon as you find out. I went to a psychic fair years ago but I've never been to a ghost conference. I went to a ghost conference some years ago and it turned out to be a bunch of ghost-hunters (most of whom were overweight) in black T-shirts and baseball caps talking about what equipment they use to find ghosts and showing photos of the orbs -- which are nothing more than light refractions -- they had captured. There was nothing "ghostly" about it and I left long before it was over.
|
|
|
Post by jane on Mar 9, 2023 0:10:16 GMT -5
Does anyone who went on the Vampire Tour remember the restaurant where they had an appetizer called The Vampire Chaser? It was brie cheese and garlic on French bread, but I don't remember exactly where it was, or the name of the restaurant. It was the New England House Restaurant in Brattleboro, Vermont. I kept a journal of everywhere we went and what we did.
|
|
|
Post by jane on Mar 6, 2023 17:11:55 GMT -5
There are a lot of stories like that. I think all old military bases are probably haunted in one way or another. I'd like to see more ghost stories from World War I and II on this site. Military bases are like colleges and private schools: there are always stories about men, or women, committing suicide, or people seeing a soldier or airman only to learn later that the person had been killed. I'm sure some of the stories are invented to scare newcomers, but I've come across military members who experienced some of these incidents firsthand. I'd also like to see more stories about strange things that occurred during the world wars.
|
|
|
Post by jane on Feb 22, 2023 13:03:18 GMT -5
I think this is the Cowick Barton Pub, 121 Cowick Lane, Exeter, Devonshire, England. The building was constructed by Lord Russell around 1540, during the Tudor dynasty, as his family home. One of the stained glass windows depicted the arms of the Prince of Wales, who at that time, was the future Edward VI, the boy king, who became king in 1547 at the age of nine. The window is now on display in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
One of the ghosts is the spirit of a monk in a dark, cowled habit. There was once a Benedictine priory at the site and one day, a monk in the cheesery heard someone scream. When he saw his sister being assaulted, he became so enraged that he wrapped a length of cheese wire around her attacker’s neck and pulled it so tightly the man was decapitated. Although he killed someone in life, his spirit is kindly and in the pub, he’s known as “Fred.”
Devonshire is in the part of England known as the West Country.
|
|
|
Post by jane on Feb 8, 2023 21:44:55 GMT -5
The Cape Fear area is beautiful and there are a lot of historic and haunted places to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there because of all the hurricane hits. I used to have some friends who lived on the North Carolina coast, but after their home was badly damaged in a hurricane, they sold their property and moved to the mountains.
|
|
|
Post by jane on Feb 7, 2023 16:57:38 GMT -5
So, he stabs her 114 times, makes fun of her after she's dead, brags in jail about killing a bitch face-to-face, and then apologizes to the Bailey family? What a hypocrite! I hope he gets what's coming to him when he gets to the adult prison system. Considering the way he's acted in jail, it's obvious he isn't sorry about anything. Also, someone said today that because he didn't have a plea deal, he might not have to stand up in court and explain what he did.
He's 16 and already 6-foot-tall, so he'll probably be a lot bigger by the time he's transferred to an adult prison, so unless the other men gang up on him, he'll probably continuing bullying everyone around him.
|
|
|
Post by jane on Feb 5, 2023 15:08:48 GMT -5
It was years ago. My parents were huge Buddy Holly fans and when my first husband and I were driving from Naval Station Great Lakes in Chicago to our next duty station at Puget Sound, Washington, we decided to go through Iowa so that we could get some pictures of the Surf Ballroom and the site of the crash. It was in October, not long before Halloween, and the day we were there was dark and stormy, like it was going to rain any minute. The ballroom was like stepping back in time to 1959, and although the crash site was just a cornfield that had been harvested recently, it was deathly quiet and spooky. There were no memorials there at that time, just flowers and other things people had left. After we left the crash site, it started raining and we ended up spending the night at a motel in Clear Lake, which is on a huge lake. I've never been there but some friends of mine made a point of including it on their itinerary when they were driving from North Carolina to Montana. It was in the fall and they said the same thing about how quiet it was at the crash site.
|
|
|
Post by jane on Feb 1, 2023 15:31:21 GMT -5
Has anyone ever been to any of the talks by Jeff Belanger? I remember from several years ago that he wrote a book that included Franklin Castle in Cleveland and claimed it was built in the 1860s, when it was actually built in the 1880s. I wonder if his research skills have improved over the years.
|
|
|
Post by jane on Jan 28, 2023 10:52:30 GMT -5
I tried to watch it on PBS, but I had a hard time following what was going on. I'm trying to watch whatever season is on PBS now about the woman who was raped, but there's also something about missing or murdered girls and I don't understand the connection between the two. When I watched the original series, I didn’t think it was ever going to end. Also, when the woman detective’s husband turned out to be the killer, it didn’t make any sense. I’ve been watching what I suppose are Seasons 2 and 3 on PBS and the two girls didn’t live at Broadchurch, they were killed wherever the male detective was assigned before he got to Broadchurch. It turned out the girls were killed by two different men, and there’s no connection between the murders and the rape of the woman at Broadchurch.
|
|
|
Post by jane on Jan 20, 2023 11:16:31 GMT -5
The Dumb Supper used to be very popular with teenage girls and young women in the South. Now though, they probably wouldn't be able to put down their iPads long enough to do something like that.
You're right, social media has caused young people today to miss out on so much, and while things like the Dumb Supper are silly, the old superstitious practices were once a very intriguing part of life. Young people's total existence today is comprised of what they see online and they don't know anything about the world around them. I saw on Reddit a while back where some teenager said he had been outside every night for the past week and never saw the moon. He didn't realize the moon isn't always visible, he thought it rose when the sun went down every evening and set when the sun came out the next morning. It's hard to believe anyone could be that stupid, but he was serious.
|
|
|
Post by jane on Jan 17, 2023 0:36:36 GMT -5
To Graveyardbride: Since it's already the 16th, I guess we're not going to have an article about January ghosts, but we haven't had one for February, March or April either. I know you have to do a lot of research to write these articles, but I'd love to see an article for at least one of these months and I'm sure others would too. I don’t believe there are a lot of anniversary ghosts in February, so you could probably do a February article in a few days. If there’s anything you think I can do to help, please let me know.
|
|
|
Post by jane on Jan 14, 2023 3:53:04 GMT -5
This sounds interesting and the website mentions three different UFO crash sites in the area, which I'd like to know more about. Does anyone know anything about UFO activity in this part of North Carolina or when the UFO crashes were supposed to have occurred?
|
|
|
Post by jane on Jan 13, 2023 14:17:12 GMT -5
The closest event to me is the Savannah Horror Fest, which I first thought was going to be something on the order of a psychic fair, but it appears it's going to be all about those goofy characters in black T-shirts, so I doubt it would be worth the drive.
|
|
|
Post by jane on Dec 30, 2022 17:12:25 GMT -5
The main reason people today don't see things like the Palatine Light, or the world around them, is because they never look up from their cell phones and iPads. I've heard that kids today can't even describe what they pass on the way to school every morning because they're all looking at their devices. Of course the same is true of adults. I hate having to wait in an office for something and listening to all the horrible ring tones on cell phones and beeping devices.
|
|
|
Post by jane on Dec 27, 2022 18:48:47 GMT -5
Thanks, that makes sense. Burning a log to welcome the return of the sun could have been a practice going back hundreds, or maybe even thousands of years before the Celts or Vikings and they just continued the practice. The problem with most New Age authors, like the one who wrote the original article, is that they sort of make it up as they go along and don't bother to fact-check their work. Of course, I doubt many of them are all that adept at researching a topic.
|
|