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Post by madeline on Aug 3, 2014 17:53:08 GMT -5
I was visiting some friends who live near Little Rock 2 or 3 years ago and her teenage niece wanted to go to a witch store to get something for a spell she'd found in a book. We went to this weird place in a mobile home and this kooky man in some kind of dress-like gament, who I later found out was Bert Dahl, didn't have what we were looking for and tried to tell us something about 3-fold destiny, or some kind of BS like that. The spell she wanted to do was a hexing spell. He came up right behind me so close that I could feel his breath on my neck and I turned around and gave him a dirty look and the teenage girl and I went outside to the car. Later, one of my friends said that he came up behind her so close that she felt his private parts and started coming on to her. We heard a baby crying somewhere in the house and it sounded like an infant, so his wife must have just had a baby and he was making passes at other women. What a DIRT BAG!
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Post by madeline on Jul 8, 2014 16:25:24 GMT -5
Sadly, this is our last day at the inn. We're checking out tomorrow morning, taking a cruise of the lighthouses near Portland and then spend the night with Julia and fly home on Thursday. On Sunday, we drove to Ogunquit and took a cruise along the shore to the Cape Neddick Lighthouse, which was 28 miles roundtrip. It wasn't foggy or cloudy like we hoped, but it was a nice cruise. Then we came back to the hotel and changed for dinner. Yesterday was cloudy and we drove up to Southport and visited the Hendricks Head Lighthouse, which is privately owned. When we were making our plans, we found out that the people who bought the lighthouse in 1991 are from Alabama and I contacted them and when I told them that two of us were from Alabama, they invited us to visit. The area near the lighthouse is haunted by "The Ghost Lady of the Dusk." She is the spirit of a woman dressed in black, who was seen walking near the shore in December of 1931 and her body later washed up on shore. She had drowned and there was a weight on her body. After that, people started seeing her ghost walking the shore as the light shining from the lighthouse turned. No one ever found out who she was and she's buried in the local cemetery in a grave marked "unknown." We stopped at Le Garage in Wiscasset on the way back, where we had been before, and had Seafood Newburgh. Today, which was also cloudy, we walked to the end of the Cliff Walk and back again, watched some DS DVDs and we're having dinner at the hotel again tonight.
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Post by madeline on Jul 5, 2014 15:34:41 GMT -5
So far, the weather has been perfect - rain, clouds, fog and thunderstorms. We checked in at our hotel on the 3rd and because it's just a few minutes from Portland, Julia and Kate drove down in her car and the rest of us took our rental SUV, which we have to rent because of all our luggage. We made arrangements for the hotel to have at least one room ready for us at 2:30, so that we could check in, change and drive down the coast to tour the Wood Island Lighthouse at 5 o'clock. It was about to rain when we took the boat to Wood Island and then we had to walk about a half a mile on a narrow boardwalk that goes from one end of the island to the other. There was a murder/suicide on the island in the late 19th century and after that, one of the keepers, who said the island was haunted, rowed to shore, rented a room and jumped out the window and killed himself. Since then, his spirit has haunted the island. After the tour, we had excellent lobster pies at Buffleheads Restaurant in Biddeford. A bufflehead is a duck. We drove back to the hotel in the rain and during the night, there were thunderstorms and a power outage. The rooms are lovely. Lee's room is decorated in pink, blue and green with a huge balcony. Julia's room is green and yellow with a smaller balcony. Catherine and Kate have a room with two beds decorated in blue and white. Their rooms are all on the 2nd floor. My room is the only one on the 3rd floor and it's decorated in pink, green & blue with a window seat in a bow window looking out to the sea. The hotel has what they call a widow's walk, but it's really more of a cupola because it's enclosed. We haven't seen any of the hotel ghosts yet and I'm on the 3rd floor where most of them are.
Yesterday, the 4th, after breakfast, we went for a walk along the Cliff Walk, which is over two miles. It was foggy and rainy all day and when we got back from our long walk, we changed, played gin rummy at a table near the window where we could look out on the stormy landscape. We had twin lobsters in the hotel dining room around 7, then watched Dark Shadows DVDs before going to bed. This morning, Julia, Kate and I got up early for a half-day at a local day spa. Lee and Catherine's half-day at the spa didn't start until noon and as soon as they get back, we're driving up to Portland for dinner at the Timber Steakhouse. Tomorrow, we're driving down the coast to Ogunquit for a cruise along the coast to the Cape Neddick Lighthouse. We're all hoping it will be nice and foggy for the cruise.
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Post by madeline on Jun 4, 2014 20:57:43 GMT -5
Here are some more photos of the inn where we're staying in Maine, of the lobby, another photo of the outside from the beach and the cliff path.
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Post by madeline on Jun 2, 2014 0:08:54 GMT -5
Not knowing who did it is a let down.
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Post by madeline on Jun 2, 2014 0:06:08 GMT -5
Here's a photo of the inn where we're staying in Maine. It's right on the ocean and there's a cliff path that runs along the cliffs and beach. I think that two nights are enough in Salem because we've been there twice before. Maine is always my favorite part of our trips.
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Post by madeline on May 14, 2014 2:25:02 GMT -5
There are a lot of trees around the house, so I doubt if any of their neighbors saw anything. Whoever did it knew what they were doing. It's not that easy to cut someone's head off because you have to cut through the spine and there would be a LOT of blood, even if he had been dead for a while, so whoever did it would have had to put down plastic drop cloths or cleaned up a lot of blood. This wasn't something done on a whim, it was planned.
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Post by madeline on May 3, 2014 16:48:05 GMT -5
I thought the Maypole was a phallic symbol that represented rebirth and fertility and this happens in the spring, when crops are planted and people celebrate regeneration after the long, dark winter when food was scarce. If you've ever seen the original 1973 version of The Wicker Man, it explains a lot about the May Day celebration. The photo at the top of this article is from The Wicker Man.
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Post by madeline on May 3, 2014 16:40:33 GMT -5
Has anyone read this? I don't usually read books about demonic possession because they're usually completely made up, like the cases investigated by the Warrens, but since this book was written by a man who was once a county commissioner, I thought that it might be different.
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Post by madeline on May 3, 2014 16:36:38 GMT -5
Here are some photos of the Stephen Daniels House. They aren't all that good, but they will give you an idea of what it's like.
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Post by madeline on Apr 24, 2014 3:26:37 GMT -5
We've made alternate plans for our trip. We're going to spend three days and nights in Salem after we leave the Dark Shadows Convention in Tarrytown. Catherine, Kate and I have will be staying at the Stephen Daniels House, which was built in the mid 1600s, so it was standing during the Salem Witch Trials. It's also haunted and on Tripadvisor, people talk about seeing and feeling ghosts in the house. Lee and Julia will be staying nearby at the Salem Waterfront Inn. They think we're making a mistake staying at the Daniels House.
After Salem, we'll drive to Portland and then just south of Portland to the Black Point Inn, which is right on the shore where there's a Cliff Path. The opening of Dark Shadows, which shows the waves crashing against the rocks, was filmed from the Cliff Path.
I'll post photos of both the Daniels House and the Black Point Inn later.
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Post by madeline on Apr 24, 2014 3:17:52 GMT -5
Sam, I remember when we discussed the flu and one of the strangest things about it was that instead of killing the very old and the very young, like most flu, it killed people in the prime of their life. Someone else said that it killed people who had tuberculosis and that after the flu, tuberculosis wasn't a problem because everyone who had it before the Spanish influenza epidemic was dead.
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Post by madeline on Apr 6, 2014 18:42:51 GMT -5
I haven't seen the movie because I don't like animated movies, but I agree with Jason, that verse from the song suggests an unnatural relationship with the reindeer.
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Post by madeline on Apr 6, 2014 18:39:38 GMT -5
There aren't any Starbucks where I live and even if there were, I wouldn't go to them because I'm not much of a coffee drinker.
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Post by madeline on Apr 6, 2014 18:35:31 GMT -5
We scratched the plans to take our Maine trip before the Dark Shadows Festival because some of us thought that it wouldn't feel right. The Festival always gets into a "Dark Shadows" mood. Anyway, we're flying to Tarrytown on the 26th of June, a Thursday. Lee, Catherine, Kate and I will fly to White Plains, which is near Tarrytown and rent our SUV and Julia will fly to LaGuardia and get a taxi to Tarrytown. On Monday, the 30th, we will drive to Portland, where Julia lives, and rest the next day, and then on the 2nd of July, we will drive to the Algonquin Inn in Saint Andrews, New Brunswick in Canada. It's an old resort hotel that opened in 1889. It's been renovated, but the exterior is like it was over a hundred years ago. Saint Andrews is on the coast overlooking Passamaquoddy Bay. Because it's in Canada, we won't have to deal with all of the 4th of July tourists. July 1st is a holiday in Canada, but we will be in Portland that day and won't check in to the hotel until the 2nd. It's also haunted! Here's a photo of the exterior of the Algonquin: The Elizabethan exterior reminds me of Collinwood! I hope it's nice and foggy while we're there.
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