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Post by madeline on Sept 18, 2023 17:49:42 GMT -5
If he had just killed the father, or even the father and the mother, he probably wouldn't have gotten life without parole. What people couldn't accept was that he shot and killed 3 innocent young children, including a 6 month old baby.
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Post by madeline on Sept 13, 2023 19:32:55 GMT -5
This is somewhat off topic, but did anyone else notice the Kennedy kid on horseback in his tennis shoes? You never, ever ride in shoes that don't have heels because if the horse bolts and you fall, you can get your foot caught in the stirrup and the horse will drag you to death. The Kennedys have always been known for doing idiotic things, like playing football on skis, which got one of them killed. Then there was JFK, Jr., who decided to fly at night when he wasn't instrument certified. I'm surprised even more of them haven't died accidental deaths. I see that, and both Bobby and Ethel are just standing there watching. From what I've read, Ethel grew up riding horses, so she would have known the danger of riding in flat-heeled shoes. I don't think she was what you'd call a concerned mother, but you'd think the kids' nanny, or whomever looked after them, would have seen that they had the proper shoes for a ranch visit.
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Post by madeline on Sept 11, 2023 21:33:15 GMT -5
Wow! I had always assumed the story about Bobby Kennedy being there the day she died was true because I read it so many times. Now, I have to wonder if it was all made up and people just added to what others said because they wanted their 15 minutes of fame.
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Post by madeline on Sept 7, 2023 10:10:13 GMT -5
I think this is Assumption Hall, Gwynedd Mercy University, Sumneytown Place, Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania. Formerly a private residence, the building is commonly known as the “James Bond House” because it was built in 1906-7 by Francis and Margaret Bond, the parents of James Bond, the ornithologist, who wrote Birds of the West Indies. Margaret Bond was found dead in bed of an apparent epileptic seizure in 1912 and the cause of death was listed as strangulation. Three years later, Francis Bond had taken the family to Europe and found a new wife. The ghost is supposed to be Serita Reed, the fiancée of James Bond, who wanted to get married in Assumption Hall but fell down the stairs and died the day before the wedding. There is no evidence of this and it’s probably just a story made up by students to explain the Woman in White seen on the stairway and looking out from upstairs windows.
Ian Fleming, who wrote the James Bond spy novels, had an interest in birds and named his 007 spy for James Bond, the ornithologist. In the 2013 TV movie, A Caribbean Mystery, the two authors meet during a talk on birds at the hotel where Miss Marple is staying.
The mascot for Gwynedd Mercy University is the griffin, a mythological creature.
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Post by madeline on Sept 3, 2023 23:10:05 GMT -5
The waiver is to hold the owners harmless if someone should get hurt while in the cave. The ground is wet and slick with moss, and there's nothing to hold onto but the stone walls, on which there are big, ugly cave spiders. In some places the overhead is so low that people have to bend down to pass through. People with claustrophobia or arachinophobia should avoid the Bell Witch Cave and caves in general. Do the people who live in the area think the cave is haunted, or that it has anything to do with the Bell Witch?
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Post by madeline on Aug 23, 2023 15:52:02 GMT -5
We saw these items when we spent a couple of days in Salem on one of our Dark Shadows trips.
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Post by madeline on Aug 19, 2023 15:28:24 GMT -5
This has a lot of interesting information about burial customs from ancient to modern and I can't remember reading it before.
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Post by madeline on Aug 16, 2023 17:09:10 GMT -5
Both those shows were shown on the PBS station where I live and they were so boring I couldn't watch either of them all the way to the end. Thanks.
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Post by madeline on Aug 15, 2023 17:10:58 GMT -5
Has anyone seen either Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar or Agatha and the Midnight Murders? They're described as British alternative history dramas about Agatha Christie.
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Post by madeline on Aug 13, 2023 15:06:17 GMT -5
The ghosts of the past were a lot more interesting than what passes today for ghosts. On sites like Facebook and Reddit, they're still posting pictures and videos of orbs and claiming they're ghosts. If these people are so great at technology, why can't they understand that "orbs" are nothing more than light refractions? I still haven't decided which is the most ridiculous, orbs or EVP.
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Post by madeline on Aug 10, 2023 21:57:23 GMT -5
I saw something recently by a man who claimed he was communicating with Denise Naslund's spirit, and we had someone like that who posted on this site once. I never hear of anyone claiming to communicate with the spirits of the other women he killed, what is it about Denise Naslund that attracts the crazies?
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Post by madeline on Aug 10, 2023 21:53:18 GMT -5
We've made our reservations. We're all flying to New York on October 20th. Catherine and I are driving to Birmingham because we got a better flight from there, and we meet Kate, who's flying from Nashville, in Charlotte, NC, and from there, we'll be on the same flight to Westchester Airport in White Plains, NY. Lee is flying from Jacksonville, FL to Westchester, and Julia, who lives in Maine, is having to fly from Portland to LaGuardia because there are no flights from Maine to Westchester. We're going to attend the DS event on Saturday, then on Sunday, we plan to leave early and drive straight to the Black Point Inn, which is in Scarborough, Maine. It's a long drive, more than 6 hours, and we're taking a sort of out of the way route: NY 22 north to see the fall foliage, through Bennington and Brattleboro, VT, then thru Keene & Rochester, NH, into Maine thru Samford, Biddeford, etc. We plan on having lunch in Bennington, VT, where we stayed in 2017.
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Post by madeline on Aug 9, 2023 18:06:40 GMT -5
There's going to be some sort of event called a "Meet & Greet" at Lyndhurst in Tarrytown on the weekend of October 21-22. We haven't been on a Dark Shadows trip since 2019 -- 4 years! -- and I'd really like to spend a few days in Maine. Catherine, Serena and I are planning to attend the Arkansas Paranormal Expo in Little Rock the weekend of October 28-29, but if we came back on the 27th, we could do both. Or, we could scratch the Arkansas trip -- I'd much rather spend time in Maine than Little Rock! lyndhurst.org/events/meet-greet-dark-shadows/?fbclid=IwAR1Wh-TRV05S_TnJGxVOk_1NafIqyauODtEAzsesikufTqp14Oj4SnduknM
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Post by madeline on Aug 7, 2023 19:58:29 GMT -5
Ann Rule was self-aggrandizing and I had my doubts about a lot of her claims. Those of you who know the Diane Downs story know she gave birth to a baby while in prison and a few years ago, Ann Rule claimed Downs told her the name of the man who fathered the child, who was adopted and is now known as Becky Babcock. When Babcock found out she was the daughter of Diane Downs, she wanted to know the identity of her father, but Rule refused to tell her. Later on, a woman who once worked at the California prison where Downs is held said Diane Downs told others Rule was lying and she never told her who the father was. I never understood why Rule claimed to know the father’s identity if she wasn’t going to reveal it. Why say anything at all? I thought she was lying and claimed she knew solely for the publicity. Some of those who attended her events say she saw serial killers behind every bush and greatly exaggerated the number of serial killers operating at any one time. I believe someone questioned her about this and she said something to the effect that it was better to be safe than sorry. I've also heard that she exaggerated her knowledge about certain cases and pretended to have inside information that she did not have, which is probably what she was doing in the Diane Downs case. I've read most of her books, but like someone else said, she rambles on with a lot of irrelevant information to fill space.
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Post by madeline on Aug 7, 2023 11:45:36 GMT -5
I see that in this poll, a lot more people say they're unsure how she died. In the other poll, almost everyone blamed the Kennedys. No one knows for sure what happened, but I believe the Kennedys were involved because Joe DiMaggio, who was privy to information the average person didn't have, blamed the Kennedys and he snubbed Bobby Kennedy and refused to shake hands with him at Yankee Stadium. I believe the Kennedys had something to do with her death for the same reason. It's just too much of a coincidence that Bobby Kennedy was in San Francisco at the time she died in Los Angeles, and by helicopter, it isn't that far. Although I think JFK was fairly easy-going, from all accounts, Bobby was a tough, vindictive SOB. Because he was assassinated, some people have tried to turn him into a saint, but he probably had something of an inferiority complex because he was smaller than the other Kennedy men and I don't think there was very much saintly about him.
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