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Post by pat on Sept 12, 2023 10:02:57 GMT -5
Now I don't know what to believe. I had always thought Marilyn and RFK were having an affair and that he was there the day she died. But people do claim things that aren't true just to feel important, and maybe that's what Mrs. Murray and her nephew did. Either that, or they were paid to change their stories. I'll bet they were both paid a lot of money for that BBC special, Say Goodbye to the President, which I haven't seen but would love to see.
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Post by pat on Aug 22, 2023 22:17:22 GMT -5
Tomorrow will be the 97th anniversary of Valentino's death and I just Googled his name and the most recent write-up about him is from May, nothing at all about the anniversary. Do you suppose the same will be true of Elvis when he's been dead for 97 years?
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Post by pat on Aug 21, 2023 15:35:14 GMT -5
I can understand why lawyers started leaving that firm and it went out of business. I wouldn't hire a law firm that allowed its lawyers to pull stunts like that. I'll bet they were the laughing stock of Toronto.
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Post by pat on Aug 12, 2023 16:54:07 GMT -5
Does Bagans have a special "serial killer" room in his museum?
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Post by pat on Aug 12, 2023 16:51:17 GMT -5
I had never heard of what's called The Caputo Effect, but it probably explains a lot of what people, especially teenagers, see when they're hunting ghosts, playing with the Ouija board, or whatever. I read somewhere once about a group of people who made up stories about a place being haunted and then it actually became haunted, but how much of the haunting was in their minds, I don't know.
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Post by pat on Aug 10, 2023 13:47:54 GMT -5
Does anyone know if there are going to be any tours of the King House during the month of October? It's supposed to be the most haunted house in Florida, so if the owners opened it for Halloween tours, it would bring in a lot of money.
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Post by pat on Aug 4, 2023 15:52:42 GMT -5
I just read an article about a book that came out today in which the author claims that Marilyn called the private bedroom phone at the Kennedy compound in March of 1962. He also claims that Jackie Kennedy, who answered the call, was "haunted" by it for the rest of her life, although she was never sure the caller was Marilyn or someone playing a joke on her. As usual in books like this, everyone the author names as a source is dead, so there's no way to check if he's telling the truth. He also says that Marilyn and JFK spent just one weekend together, and he denies that Bobby Kennedy had an affair with her. The book is Jackie: Public, Private, Secret by J. Randy Taraborrelli.
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Post by pat on Aug 3, 2023 20:35:28 GMT -5
I agree with some of what Kennedy says, like the school shooter psyho-drug connection, but I'd rather see him as Trump's running mate. And before any of you ask, no, the president and vice president do not have to belong to the same party. He could remain a Democrat and still run on the Republican ticket. But if he doesn't join the Trump ticket, he should choose Billy Joel's "You May Be Right" as his campaign theme song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo9t5XK0FhA LOL! If he does join Trump, I think he would switch parties. The Democrats consider him an embarrassment and obviously don't want him, and there are Republicans who like some of what he's saying, so I think he'd have a much better chance as a Republican.
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Post by pat on Aug 3, 2023 14:57:27 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.
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Post by pat on Jul 27, 2023 9:00:35 GMT -5
I seriously doubt she had a lobotomy, but if one was performed, it would have been for the pain, not because Peron -- even though he was a selfish bastard -- wanted to control her speech. She was more popular than he was, he was still benefiting from her popularity, and I don't think he would have risked killing her when he could have had the doctors achieve the same thing with drugs. Also, she had a mother, a brother and several sisters who were always around, so if Peron was doing something like having a secret lobotomy performed, they would have known and either told Evita or broadcast what he was doing to the public. Didn't her brother commit suicide a few months after she died?
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Post by pat on Jul 26, 2023 12:29:18 GMT -5
I saw something online a few years ago about her having a lobotomy but I didn't pay any attention to it because I thought it was just some far out theory. But if Peron was the one who made the decision, I'm sure he did it to help with her pain rather than for any other reason. There was morphine and all sorts of drugs available in the 50s that could have kept her doped up if she was saying things he didn't want her to say.
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Post by pat on Jul 26, 2023 12:24:58 GMT -5
Even though Cruz was guilty and everyone knew it, the judge did show a lot of favoritism toward the prosecution. If she didn't have the ability to be objective, she should never have run for the position of circuit judge. She resigned after the defense lawyer objected to her serving as judge because she knew that's what every defense attorney would do.
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Post by pat on Jul 25, 2023 6:44:10 GMT -5
I'm going to make a guess and say this is 2112 Sultan Circle, Chuluota, Florida. On the afternoon of January 24, 2019, Grant Amato, age 30, shot and killed his mother and father, then he waited in the house with their bodies for several hours until his brother got home and shot and killed him. He killed everyone because he lived in an online fantasy world and had fallen in love with a Bulgarian Webcam model who called herself "Silvie." He had spent around $200,000 he stole from his parents paying to watch her site. They had sent him to rehab for sex and internet addiction and told him he had to get a job, but as soon he got home, he returned to his old habits. When his parents found out he was again watching Silvie online, they told him he had to leave the home. He was tried and convicted of first-degree murder and is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. The sovereign of an Islamic country is called a "sultan."
Chuluota is in Seminole County, which is named for the Seminole Indians, who were renegades.
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Post by pat on Jul 23, 2023 17:30:40 GMT -5
There was some program on TV recently about Pluckley and how haunted it is. In my opinion, though, it's more hype than haunt. We were there in October, when you would expect everything to be spookier than usual, but it was just an ordinary place with a few ghost stories, no different from countless other towns and villages in England.
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Post by pat on Jul 21, 2023 7:06:00 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. We stayed there a couple of nights right after the hotel was renovated. I recall the rooms and halls were very dark, but we didn't see any ghosts.
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