tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41876789705278693602024-03-05T04:33:19.922-07:00Seeks GhostsWelcome,
if you are interested in ghosts you are in luck. This topic is fascinating, complex and fun.Virginia Lamkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17347762384278374495noreply@blogger.comBlogger1238125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187678970527869360.post-57514349455041277472021-01-04T12:31:00.001-07:002021-01-04T18:21:25.294-07:00Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s Brush with Death<p><span style="font-size: large;">Dale Earnhardt Jr. followed in his father's Dale Earnhardt Sr. footsteps to become a professional race car driver. Inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame, Earnhardt Jr.won two Daytona 500s and holds 26 NASCAR series wins.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Earnhardt Jr. semi-retired from racing in 2016. During his career he experienced several scary incidents, but it is one fiery crash that he still wonders about till this day.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">During a 60-Minutes interview he recounted how this incident has made him a believer in the paranormal.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">In 2004, early in his career Earnhardt crashed his corvette during a practice run at the Sonoma Raceway, while preparing for a La Mans Series race. He miscalculated a turn and clipped a nearby wall. Earnhardt Jr.'s car then spun out of control.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">On impact, the car's fuel line ruptured and spewed gasoline everywhere, catching fire. Earnhardt dazed managed to unbuckle his seatbelt.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">As he lay on a stretcher on the field, he grabbed the collar of a PR rep and screamed at him "to find the man who pulled me from the car." This man confused told him, "Nobody helped you get out."</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Earnhardt was then airlifted to California-Davis Memorial Medical Center, where he received treatment for second-degree burns.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Earnhardt still firmly feels someone helped him escape his burning corvette. He distinctly remembers someone grabbing him under his arms, and then pulling him out of the car.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Despite not seeing the man who helped him, he believes it was his father's ghost who assisted him that fateful morning.</span></p>Virginia Lamkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17347762384278374495noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187678970527869360.post-20489198204664255002020-08-17T14:22:00.000-06:002020-08-17T14:26:15.540-06:00A Helpful Spirit Child <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Virginia Lamkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17347762384278374495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187678970527869360.post-53237156711831146132020-03-05T20:43:00.000-07:002020-03-06T08:23:42.482-07:00A Menacing Presence at Bonito Lake<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“It was a robbery that went sour . . .”</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bonito Lake is located at 7300 feet in Lincoln National Forest in New Mexico. Beautiful scenery surrounds this man-made reservoir, near Ruidoso.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bonito City sprang up as a mining camp during the Gold Rush. In 1882, this city was just a cluster of tents, it residents a group of starry-eyed miners from states as far away as Virginia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The town grocer, Herman Beck, was waiting for him. Beck was killed by a single shot from Nelson’s rifle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The gold boom played out within a few short years, and eventually, Bonito City became a ghost town. The post office closed in 1911, and by 1920 all that remained was a store and eight houses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When Nelson’s body was exhumed, it was noted he was thrown face down in a rough pine box. His green felt hat was intact, and several bullet holes were found in it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">He was buried with his body pointing west. Some feel this is why he does not rest in peace. The belief of that era was to place the dead facing up and pointing to the east. This assured the deceased could rise up to meet Christ.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is the reason swimming, wading, and boats are not allowed on the lake. The area is open for fishing but only from the shoreline.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It appears Nelson’s ghost has frightened many a tourist and some locals. His scary presence is felt along the shoreline. Some even say he appears to be at the bottom of the lake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A strange circle of lights has been seen floating on the surface of the water. Eerie sounds are heard including gunshots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Local residents warn paranormal enthusiasts that it is not a good idea to </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">awaken</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> this murderer, especially since his presence is felt in such a remote area.</span></div>
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Virginia Lamkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17347762384278374495noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187678970527869360.post-90754065600711426142020-02-08T18:24:00.002-07:002020-02-09T08:32:23.843-07:00Haunted Hotel Monte Vista <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">There are many rumors about this old hotel located in downtown Flagstaff, Arizona. The Monte Vista has more than one ghost.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I heard many stories about this hotel during my four-year undergraduate work at NAU in the mid-1970s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Monte Vista became well known for its paranormal activity, especially after it was highlighted on one episode of <i>Unsolved Mysteries</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This show talked about the hotel’s most haunted room--#305.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">There are numerous witness accounts of seeing a woman sitting in a rocking chair near the window. Many others have seen this chair rocking all by itself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some witnesses have reported hearing unexplained knocking sounds inside this room’s closet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is known that an elderly lady was once a long-term renter—who would sit by the window for hours in this room. But why she did this is lost to history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Another active haunting is connected to the hotel’s cocktail lounge. In the 1970s, three men robbed a nearby bank. A bank guard shot one of the three during the robbery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After their escape, making a bad choice, the three men decided to stop in the Monte Vista lounge for a cold one. The wounded robber bled to death in this bar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The activity in this room began after this. Patrons and employees are often greeted by an enthusiastic, “Good Morning.” Also, barstools and filled glasses are seen moving about without assistance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In this same lounge, a couple dressed in formal attire is seen dancing, laughing, and smiling. They never seem to stop. There is another unusual item about them—they are transparent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Years ago, Flagstaff’s red light district was located a couple of blocks from the Monte Vista. Two prostitutes entered the hotel in the early 1940s with their Johns.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The men that stay in this room report feeling hands being placed over their mouths or throats. All state this restricted their ability to breathe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">John Wayne, while staying at the Monte Vista, in Room 210, saw one of the hotels more active ghosts. He encountered this entity more than once. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A young ghost—a boy, is seen in the hallways. He appears to be looking up and talking to someone much taller than him. Some speculate this must be his mother—although she is never seen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In Room 220, there is a ghost dubbed the “meat man.” This ghost is believed to be another former long-term resident at the hotel. He had an odd habit of hanging raw meat from the room’s chandelier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I write about a haunting and my personal encounter in one of NAU’s dorms <a href="https://seeksghosts.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-kathy-dorm-haunting.html" target="_blank">in another post here.</a></span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Several legends surround this building. The following two stories have taken on folklore (or ghostlore) status.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The one shared the most
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Finding workers to do this
job was difficult. The state had to find people brave enough to risk a
17-story drop to string these lights.</span></div>
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prisoners were offered this job, enticed by shorter paroles and jail sentences.</span></div>
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1968, had a heart attack at the top. He fell to his death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Witnesses state his screams
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50-year-old man who fell down the spiral staircase in the building. He became
dizzy while looking down the stairs and fell 12 flights. His ghost is also
said to haunt the capitol.</span></div>
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legends, but others point to a real haunting that occurs in the capitol’s law library.</span></div>
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couldn’t find the light switch while entering this room, this ghost has grabbed
their hand. She then guides their fingers to the light switch.</span></div>
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Law library at the capitol.</td></tr>
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where a mysterious voice told her to wait, “They were coming back down.” When
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It sits high atop a large
volcanic rock on a remote location, just north of Big Sur, California.</span></div>
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is a California State Park and is on the National Register of Historic Places.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Despite its strong intense beam many ships wrecked, as they tried to navigate along this rugged section of the
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But this is not the reason
midnight haunted tours are offered in October at the lighthouse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This house has ocean-view
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Julie Nunes, states the
lighthouse has a peaceful, “Shangri-La” feel. She states the
ghosts she has encountered are not malevolent in nature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Before entering the light keeper's house Nunes, always knocks and greets one ghost, named Ruth, that resides in the house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Nunes has recorded another
female spirit’s voice stating-- “Now she wants you to go home.” And “Pokey, go
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is believed this is the
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She is telling her daughter,
Pokey, to go to bed. On this recording, the listener can hear the faint sound of
the little girl’s voice responding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Another volunteer, Sheila
Fraser was alone in the keeper’s house cleaning. As she put a vacuum away, she
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She looked down from the
stair landing and saw a woman who looked real.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“She wore her hair up, her
sleeves were puffy, and she wore a long skirt. As Fraser watched, she just
disappeared.</span></div>
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ghost watching her from the keeper house's living room window.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the following video, Nune
places an Ovilus down on the kitchen table next to a pair of skeleton
arms. She asks, “Pokey, are you here?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Watch closely, for the
skeleton hand on the left—near the coffee mug—moves. I didn’t see it the first
time I watched—but it makes a slight movement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Besides the October tours,
year-round tours are offered at Point Sur Lighthouse.</span><br />
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Virginia Lamkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17347762384278374495noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187678970527869360.post-80461201422331864052019-09-19T19:50:00.000-06:002019-09-20T08:45:22.252-06:00Haunted Kennebunk Inn<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This inn nestled between the
Kennebunk and Mousam Rivers, in the town of Kennebunk, Maine, was built as a
private home in 1799.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In 1928, this residence was
converted to a tavern. During this time a man by the name of Silas Perkins was
hired to be the night watchman and auditor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The son of a sea captain,
Silas was also a published poet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Silas died, of a heart
attack, in the 1940s, at the inn. He was eighty years old. Since his death, many
believe that his ghost lingers.</span></div>
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the LeBlanc’s encountered Silas’ ghost on more than one occasion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">At first, Angela LeBlanc was
skeptical the inn was haunted. She quickly changed her mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One afternoon as she sat the
inn’s bar, several mugs levitated off a shelf, where the bartender, named
Dudley stood. These mugs hit him in the back of the head.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On other occasions wine
glasses fell or flew across the bar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Room 17 at the inn is very
active. As well as the hallway outside this room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Recently, a housekeeper was
cleaning this room when she unplugged the television, to clean behind it. To
her horror, this TV moments later turned on by itself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Even though Silas is mischievous,
most of the owners of the inn agree that his spirit overall is a protective
presence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">He takes his role as night
watchman seriously—guest often state, that he watches over them as they sleep.
I am not sure if I would find this comforting or not. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One line from a poem he
wrote, entitled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Common Man</i>, sums
up his role as protector.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“I want to laugh with the common man.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Whenever there’s need of me.”</span></i></div>
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Virginia Lamkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17347762384278374495noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187678970527869360.post-29959616519015578532019-08-29T08:59:00.001-06:002019-08-29T09:11:04.613-06:00Oregon’s Spooky McMenamins Edgefield<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Located in Troutdale, Oregon
is an impressive hotel named McMenamins Edgefield.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This large hotel has a
brewery/winery, and offers fine dining, concerts, a movie theater, gardens, a spa, and
a golf course.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is also, without doubt,
one of the most haunted hotels in the U.S.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The reason for this is how
the site was used, for the seven decades before it became a hotel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In 1911, the Multnomah County
Poor Farm opened where the Sandy and Columbus Rivers come together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This 345-acre farm was a
progressive new idea, to help families, the disabled, and the
mentally ill to become self-sufficient. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Even with overcrowding during
the Great Depression, the Multnomah was still thriving. Residents in Portland
would often visit the farm to buy handicrafts made by the residents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After WWll, with Roosevelt’s
New Deal, most of the residents were able to move on—leaving only the more
disabled and sick residents on the farm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A county jail was established
on one section of the land in 1954. The inmates refused to work the farm, so it fell
into disrepair. The decision was made to sell the livestock and lease the
farmland.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The main building was used
for the Edgefield Nursing Home starting in 1964.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When the nursing home closed,
the property was abandoned for over 20 years, it was extensively vandalized. It
was about to be torn down when the Troutdale Historical Society stepped in and
saved it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then with financial support,
the McMenamins brothers were able to renovate it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After the hotel opened, it
became apparent to both staff and guests that the grounds and buildings are haunted.
A nurse wearing white, a former janitor, and a ghost dog have all been observed
by many.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The phantom dog, besides being
seen, wakes guests up late at night, by sticking its’ wet nose into people’s
faces. Others state they heard the unmistakable clicking of a dog’s nails as
this canine moved through their rooms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One guest hearing this sound,
spoke to the dog, telling it, “You are good fella,” at which point it jumped on
her. She never saw it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A phantom janitor, wearing a
uniform of a different era, is seen, smiles, and even talks to guests. He is
spotted in the same spot each time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One time he gave a guest the
direction to the ladies room as she left the ballroom, but it was where a
restroom used to be. He often just disappears after people spot him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Allison Berliner, a wine
server, has seen the ghostly nurse. She saw this entity walking with keys in
her hands in the winery, at 11:00 in the morning. This ghost stopped as if to
unlock a door and then just vanished. (The winery was previously the poorhouse
infirmary.)</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mural near where entity walked<br />
through Berliner.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One night, as she walked
between the second and third floor, she felt an energy go right through her
chest. It took her breath away, and she hyperventilated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">At one point Berliner was
transferred to work at the hotel’s Black Rabbit Bar. She encountered a shadowy
figure that had “very dark energy,” so, to her relief, she was transferred
back to the winery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Maids at the hotel report a
variety of experiences. One housekeeper as she stood at the foot of a bed had
her ankle grabbed firmly. This unseen hand wouldn’t let go until she jumped
away. (Several guests have had this same experience.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Another maid had just cleaned
a room when she returned to retrieve an item that she had forgotten—she
entered the room to find everything in disarray. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The night before this
happened, a guest staying in this room told the front desk that she awoke to
find a dark figure standing over her bed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Several rooms on the second
floor are very active. Guests report awaking to
someone tapping on their chest or being poked in the side, or their feet being
grabbed while they are in bed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One guest had her backside
grabbed by an unseen hand as she showered. She screamed and retrieved a towel,
as she watched one of her shirts in the next room, lift up and fly across the
room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Another guest, who has
visited the hotel several times, tells the story of kissing her boyfriend in
one elevator when her hair was yanked violently. No one else was in the
elevator with them, and her friend’s hands were both on her waist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One guest awoke to find an
old man standing over her—he had his hand extended as if he wanted her to shake
it. He only disappeared after she obliged him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Guests often take pictures,
knowing the hotel’s reputation. Many have captured mists outside. One guest who
snapped many photos during his visit found that all the ones he had taken
inside had just disappeared. This had never happened with his camera.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A female guest lost her
brush. She poured her purse out on the bed in an attempt to find it—only to see
it lying on top of the contents she had spilled out, moments before.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A couple that stayed in a
corner room on the third floor—another room with a lot of activity—had a
disturbing night. The wife was shoved off the bed, only to see her husband was
asleep and turned away from her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In this same room, another </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">couple both awoke to the sound of something substantial, hitting a hardwood floor. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">They turned on the lights and discovered the floor was carpeted, and nothing was
on the floor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A third couple heard creepy
footsteps circling the bed. The husband saw what appeared to be a grandmother
sitting in the corner, watching them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">These couples state they can
hardly wait to revisit the hotel. Others say they are too scared to
return.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Other activity includes: Cold
breezes inside where they shouldn’t be, the feeling that something is watching,
a child’s loud cries in what was the infirmary and lamps turn on by
themselves.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Concert on the lawn at Edgefield.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The hotel doesn’t deny these
hauntings. In fact, they have had the structures cleansed in the past.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Edgefield's' wines and beers.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But they also do not
publicize them. The owners don’t have to. The McMenamins Edgefield is a popular
destination for a myriad of reasons. Hot mineral springs—anyone?</span></div>
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Virginia Lamkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17347762384278374495noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187678970527869360.post-24941626347544424592019-08-24T11:41:00.000-06:002019-08-24T11:48:17.771-06:00Lake Bomoseen’s Phantom Rowboat<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Even the simplest unexplained
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the mid-1800s Castleton,
Vermont was a booming mining town with several mills and a quarry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">By the early 1900s, the
town had slid into a financial decline. Castleton by the early 1920s was abandoned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In 1929, the area became Lake
Bomoseen State Park. Years before this, the lake already had a firm reputation for
being haunted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The cause for this was connected
to three Irish quarry workers that lived in the area during its boom years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One night, these three men
rowed across the lake to visit a local tavern to celebrate and drink.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After they left this bar
drunk, they were never seen again. It was believed they must have drowned in
the lake, on their way home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Their bodies were never
found. But their rowboat was discovered several days later when it drifted
ashore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This incident would not be
remembered today—except for the strange sight it caused.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One artist's depiction of the phantom rowboat.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ever since the loss of these
three men, witnesses have claimed to see a strange rowboat gliding across the
lake—especially if there is a full moon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">People report seeing the oars
rowing, but what is creepy, is they don’t see anyone in the boat. Even scarier
is none of these witnesses heard a splash as the oars hit the water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So are these three men doomed
to row this boat for eternity?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People don’t need to experience a lot of
activity for it to be frightening. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When I was in high school, every time I was
alone at home, a lamp in our den would turn on by itself. It
never happened when others were there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">My family had it checked. There
was not an electrical short etc. But this pattern of it happening when I was
alone in the house—freaked me out.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“There are things that have happened that can not be
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The original Wichita, Kansas,
Municipal Airport operated for nineteen years from 1935-1954. Its terminal reflects
the much admired, art deco style.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Wichita, for years, was known
as the “Air Capital of the World.” And at one time its airport was one of the
busiest in the U.S. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Today the old airport
terminal is surrounded by McConnell Air Force Base and is an aviation museum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This museum displays forty of
the oldest and most rare airplanes plus some of the earliest engines. The visitor
can also get up close to a B-52, and a variety of other hands-on exhibits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But be forewarned, the staff
claims that there are as many “dead as the living” at this old terminal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Barb Kramer had only worked a
few months at the museum when she began to experience unexplained activity. She
was often assigned to close the museum at night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In a room, just after she had
shut off the lights, she felt an extreme cold spot. It was summer, and the room
had no air-conditioning. (For many years this terminal had no air-conditioning
or heat.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One night as she shut down
the museum after a special event, she heard what she thought were children’s
footsteps and laughter on the stairs. She then heard one of them say, “shhh.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thinking some visitors were
still in the terminal she went to investigate. She found no one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Saff have also reported,
slamming doors, happy, excited voices, and a disappearing man wearing a 1940s
hat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Several employees have heard
both public announcements and music from another era. Lights on dimmers are
known to turn to bright and then turn completely off on their own.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Several apparitions have been
spotted, and the sounds of children playing are often heard during the day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Others report the feeling
someone is following them or watching them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Most of these hauntings have
been connected to events that happened at the old airport in the past—some
tragic—but one haunting was brought to the museum via an airplane.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Duke Jernigin, was a pilot of
a crop duster when he crashed and died in his plane. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">His bright, yellow plane is
displayed in the museum, and paranormal groups that have investigated, state
his spirit remains with his aircraft.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The land where Washington
Square Park is located in New York’s Greenwich Village was used for over a
hundred years as a burial site.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was initially used as an
Indian burial ground. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then after the Revolutionary
War it was a potter’s field for criminals that were hanged in New York in the 1700s.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Vault full of bones found<br />
beneath the park.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">There are an additional
20,000 souls buried in a mass grave, lost to a yellow fever epidemic that
lasted from 1791 to 1821.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As New York’s wealthier
citizens moved into the area, this extensive graveyard was covered over for a military parade ground. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was at this point that the
shallow graves of the potter’s field began to surface. As a result, several
bones of the deceased poor were crushed underfoot. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The military parade ground at what was to become the park.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This stark history, plus the
disturbance of these graves—point to this ground being haunted. After this
location became a park in 1828, people began to note unexplained activity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Today, the buildings that
surround Washington Square, house the various NYU departments. The young people
that flock to this park often do not know, about the morbid history of their
favorite hangout.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Many bodies lie beneath the
famous fountain and arch at this park.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hangman's Elm</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Most of NYUs students have
never heard of Rose Butler, even though some have encountered her ghost. On windy
nights, she is seen swinging from a large tree in the park’s northwest corner
known as the “Hangman’s Elm.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She is described as a shadow
dangling in the tree that appears to disappear when witnesses move closer, to
get a better view. Others have noticed this dangling figure from the various
windows that overlook the park.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some have seen her apparition
walking through the park. Cold spots accompany her, even on hot summer days.
Most disturbing is the witnesses who claim they felt her walk right through
them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rose Butler was a house slave
owned by the Morris family. At age sixteen, the family accused her of stealing.
Previous owners had also caught her stealing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rose resentful, was also angered at the fact many blacks that were “free” lived near
the Morris household.*</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She hatched a plan to kill
the family. She tried to burn down their house. She set it ablaze and tied
their only exit shut.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But she only managed to burn
part of the staircase, the family escaped unharmed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rose was arrested and tried
for arson. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Arson was a heinous crime at
the time—for there were not firefighters, and many perished in house fires.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Butler was condemned to death
by hanging. This was a harsh penalty—for a woman. The case went all the way to
the New York Supreme Court, but they upheld the ruling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some state this was because
New York was in transition at the time. Slavery was on the decline, and there
was a lot of tension between slaveholders and non-slaveholders.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">At the age of nineteen, in
1799, Rose Butler was the last criminal hanged in what would become Washington
Square Park. She was buried in the nearby potter’s field.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some feel her grave was one
of the many desecrated—hence the haunting.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">* She should have been free, slavery was an abomination, but some because of this sentiment, claim she was innocent--the fire was just an accident. But my research reflected otherwise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But another question remains--</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Since Rose didn't succeed, should she have been hanged? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This video has been floating
around the net for several years. It has been the subject of a hot debate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Is it real? Or just a
fledgling film director’s attempt to sensationalize the interest in ghosts?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Regardless, this video captured
something that is both scary and captivating.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was filmed in 2003, at a Wingate Hotel, in Illinois.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Guests staying at this hotel,
reported they heard screams on the second floor, near, or in Room 209.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This confused the hotel staff,
since no guests had checked into this room—it was supposed to be empty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A hotel security manager, and a desk clerk, Amy, sent a workman, John to check out what is going on. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The hotel security cameras with John at door to Room 209.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This video records the sound
of screams, while John hears them at the same time, near Room 209.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This man is encouraged by the manager, who also hears the screams, via security camera and radio, to wait
for the police to be called in. Instead, John enters the room. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Observe, at 1:31 on the
video, a bilious cloud figure exits the room just seconds after John enters the room and at 1:32 walks down the hall—to right of the door. (The video at the end
shows this figure again.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Flashing lights are recorded, not just his flashlight beam, coming from the room and John exits, noticeably scared a minute or so later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">John immediately demands the other staff, call the police. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">He describes, to the two
other two employees, what he found.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">All the furniture in the room
is upside down and the shower water is running, but no one is in the restroom.</span></div>
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been ripped up. But again, no one is in the room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The security manager, whose
voice is only heard on the radio, admits he is now officially freaked out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here is the video.</span><br />
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<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BobA5ujHkvU" width="420"></iframe>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Many have tried to debunk
this video, stating it was just staged. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But a variety of hotel guests
heard these screams, as well as these three hotel employees claiming what they saw and heard was real. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">And one cannot ignore the fact a repairman was contracted by the hotel chain to restore the room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So this incident remains a
mystery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hotel employees, to this day,
state they avoid or are uncomfortable offering this room to guests when they
check-in.</span></div>
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Virginia Lamkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17347762384278374495noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187678970527869360.post-42355900939133154002019-08-07T21:39:00.000-06:002019-12-14T07:15:14.808-07:00A Ghost Followed Me Home<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When I do ghost
investigations, I am acutely aware I do not want the activity I encounter to
follow me home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is why I find the
following account from Britain so scary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bored one evening, Abby, at
age seventeen accompanied several of her friends into a nearby village
cemetery. The group proceeded to trample across several graves, disrespectfully.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">They spent an hour making
jokes about the dead, and laughing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Abby was about to pay, for
this prank.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Three days after this escapade,
she awoke to see a transparent apparition sitting on a chair next to her bed.
The figure appeared to be an old woman.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The next morning Abby brushed
off what she had seen, as just a bad dream. But she discovered it wasn’t.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">For weeks after this first
appearance, Abby saw the spirit of this old woman repeatedly. This ghost would
follow her throughout the house. She saw it both day and night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">At first, this did not disturb
her, for she felt this presence was harmless.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But it did start to annoy
her. She decided to confront this old woman, but every time she approached it, the spirit would freeze and then disappear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Soon after this, the encounters
became more threatening.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One day boiling water for
tea, Abby felt an unseen force grab her hands. It was if the old woman was
trying to scald her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then the spirit began to trip
her, especially on the wet bathroom floor, or when she stood at the top of the
stairs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now frightened, Abby decided
to admit to her parents what she was experiencing. They were skeptical at
first, but they quickly changed their minds, when both saw the old woman drift down
the hall on the second floor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This entity ripped the vacuum
out of Abby’s Mom’s hands, and it held various doors open so firmly, no one in
the family could shut them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Loud rapping noises and bangs
resulted in the family having several sleepless nights.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Water began to spill from the
kitchen ceiling. A plumber was called, but this man found no leaks. The family
had to put up with weeks of incessant dripping sounds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Objects and furniture began
to be moved, from their usual places.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One afternoon as Abby watched
television with her father, she fell into a trance. The entity spoke through
her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Her father listened, as a
strange voice described being the daughter of a French physician, in the 1800s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The family made the tough
decision to move from the home they had lived in for eleven years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Abby had one last encounter
with this ghost. Weeks after the family moved out, she returned to retrieve
some posters she had forgotten, that were tacked on her bedroom wall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She picked up the phone,
curious to see if it was still connected.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Suddenly, two icy-cold hands encircled
her throat. She was being choked. Terrified, she managed to break free.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She ran from the house, and
didn’t return for her posters.</span></div>
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Virginia Lamkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17347762384278374495noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187678970527869360.post-77358538425746931152019-08-07T11:33:00.002-06:002019-08-07T12:31:17.009-06:00Scandinavia’s Kraken<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kraken attacking merchant ship, 1830<br />
Pierre Denys de Montfort</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Original illustration from<br />
Jules Verne's book, 1870.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In Nordic folklore, the
kraken * (hafgufa) was a giant, sea monster that devoured ships and their entire
crews.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The belief in this creature
terrorized several generations of sailors and fishermen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This monster dwelled at the
bottom of the Greenland Sea off the coasts of Norway, Iceland, and Greenland.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Scary stories of the kraken
were told throughout the 1700s and 1800s. The kraken was associated with many
superstitions that sailors held. Especially since they loved a good “tall
tale.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was stated that this enormous
monster could swallow men and the largest ships, and even the most immense whales
whole. It was believed its many arms could reach up from the depths of the sea
and pull down its prey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Its movements at the bottom
of the Greenland Sea was said to resemble underwater volcanic activity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was so large—that when it
gradually surfaced, bubbling, it was sometimes mistaken for an island.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It would burst up to the
surface. Spurting water from its large nostrils, causing circular waves
that would go on for miles, which resulted in dangerous currents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is believed there were
only two krakens for it took massive amounts of fish to sustain them. They
would just open their jaws and let the fish swim in, then when their stomachs
were full, they would clamp their jaws together.</span></div>
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the risk of fishing around the kraken for the catch was exceptional. It is said
the kraken would stretch its neck out, and belch out thousands of fish.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pen and wash drawing<br />
Pierre Denys de Monfort, 1801.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the 18<sup>th</sup>
Century it was described as “octopus-like” (cephalopod) with spikes protruding
from its suckers.</span></div>
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languages, kraken or krake means an unhealthy animal or something that is
twisted. In its plural form--kraken, it means octopus.</span></div>
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even felt it was taboo to say the word “kraken” out loud, for it was believed
this would summon this horrible monster.</span></div>
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creature inspired the origins of this tale—a giant squid that could reach up
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>"Below the thunders of the upper deep;</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>About his shadowy sides; above him swell</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Today this old school in the small town of Valentine, Nebraska, is a museum called Centennial Hall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Its’ twelve rooms house a
variety of antiques, including the 1,700 Hallock Bell collection that takes up
an entire room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Charles F. Bendoff designed
this two-story school in 1897. It was built in 1898. It was used both as a
primary and secondary school for the Cherry County School District.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This building is the oldest
high school still standing in Nebraska. It is on the National Registry of
Historic Places.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was Valentine High School
teachers, that first noted a ghostly girl, often seen roaming the halls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is believed she was a
student at the school in 1944. As a joke, another student poisoned her Clarinet
reed. She then tragically suffered a heart attack and died.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Her apparition is still seen
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Other activity includes--</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Cold spots are felt, and strange noises
are also heard. Band music is often heard coming from the school’s old music
room. Instruments are no longer stored in the building.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Items are also seen moving on
their own. Most notably a rocking chair that is seen rocking without cause.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Local residents claim the
building itself is spooky. As they drive by they state, “it is as if the
building is watching them.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">There are many reasons why
this famous western battlefield is an excellent place to visit, especially if one wants to
encounter a ghost.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was here where “Custer’s
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On this grassy hill in
south-central Montana, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer led the U.S. 7<sup>th</sup>
Cavalry into battle against thousands of Lakota (Sioux) and Cheyenne
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">All 263 of Custer’s men
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scalping’s, and mutilations that took place on this hill.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Today, the location is a
National Monument. The areas with the most activity are the battlefield, Stone
House, and the National Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Visitors and employees at the
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One of the chiefs that<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">He heard a steady murmur of
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Two visitors at separate
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and the other from Minneapolis claimed to be transported back in time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Both of these visitors were so unsettled
by what they saw—they had to be “calmed down.”</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Battlefield at Little Bighorn.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A former Native American Park
Ranger, Mardell Plainfeather, saw the ghosts of Indian warriors in 1980.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Late one evening, driving
home she spotted two warriors sitting on horses, silhouetted upon a bluff. One
of these men lifted himself off his saddle and looked directly at Mardell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">He was dressed for war,
painted, with feathers in his long hair. Both men held shields and had bows.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mardell stated she was not
frightened by their presence, but she was curious.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A very active site at Little
Bighorn is Stone House. This home was first the superintendent’s residence. It
then was used in the summer months as apartments for the staff.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the winter, this home was
closed and locked. This is why the following two sightings are so unusual.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Neil Mangum while walking
home through the cemetery, during winter nights often saw the second-floor
lights on in the Stone House. He then would turn them off.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">He did this despite the fact
he knew---the ghosts in the house were turning them on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mardell also saw these lights
on, in the 1980s during the winter months. But she would never enter the home
alone. On night she requested Mike, a Park Ranger, accompany her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">At the same time, Mike’s wife
Pam was watching TV in their nearby apartment when the screen went blank, and
a strange voice stated, “Second Floor” three times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This freaked her out until
Mike returned unharmed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Several staff members
observed and heard activity when they stayed at the Stone House for one or two
nights when they first arrived at the park to work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This activity included knocks
and loud bangs, doorknobs moving on their own, unexplained footsteps coming
from empty rooms, and personal items being moved about by unseen hands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Stone House at Little Bighorn.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A female ghost was observed
walking down the stairs. Most believe this activity occurs because the home’s
lower level was once used to store bodies until they could be buried in the years after the battle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When Mike and Pam first came,
they stayed in the upstairs apartment for several nights, they didn’t encounter
anything during this time, but their dog was always nervous—pacing back and
forth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the summer of 1986, a new
Park Ranger stayed at Stone House his first two nights. He was in a
second-floor apartment sleeping, when he awoke to find a presence sitting on
the edge of his bed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">He reached for his Colt .54
as he saw this shadowy figure move from the foot of his bed. He saw the torso
of a soldier, but the head and legs were missing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">He watched as this strange
figure quickly moved into the next room and then disappeared.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">People have also seen a
variety of other apparitions in Stone House, including George Custer. Today the
home is used as a library and conference center.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Virginia Lamkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17347762384278374495noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187678970527869360.post-68008430385440340062019-08-01T17:19:00.000-06:002019-08-02T18:26:51.189-06:00Stone Lion Inn<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Guests have trouble sleeping
at this bed and breakfast located in Guthrie, Oklahoma. A small child often
bothers them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In 1907, F.E. Houghton had
this 3-story, 8,000 square foot home built for his wife and six children. Once
they moved in, the Houghton’s had six more children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tragedy struck his family when their 8-year-old daughter contracted whooping cough. This young girl,
Augusta was bedridden and despondent. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She was given the only
medicine used at the time. It was cough syrup laced with codeine and opium. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The nurse accidentally gave her
too much, and she died. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Houghton family leased
the house in the 1920s, to an undertaker, who used it as a funeral home for
eight years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Houghton’s moved back
into the house in the 1930s. Mr. Houghton died of a stroke in 1943. Mrs.
Houghton, her children grown, then ran the home as a “boarding house” until her
death in 1958.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">By 1986, Becky Luker turned the
building into a B&B. The renovations made on the old home, during this time,
stirred the paranormal activity up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But ghosts were present
before this. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">F.E. Houghton is believed to
haunt the home as well as a dark, intimidating male presence in the basement. This
mysterious entity is connected to this room because it was once used as the morgue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The embalming table used,
still remains in the home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But the ghost at Stone Lion
that is seen the most is Augusta. She is a mischievous presence. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">At first, Luker and her sons,
hearing footsteps on a nightly basis, called the police—afraid of intruders.
But these officers never found anyone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On the third floor is a toy
chest that once belonged to the Houghton children. The new owners often found
the toys strewn about in the morning. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The remaining Houghton family
members reassured them not to be concerned. It was just Augusta playing—as she
had done for years, after her death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Augusta is also heard running
up and down the back staircase as well as running around the third floor. She
is often heard giggling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Many guests at this inn have
reported encounters with this little girl. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">They have seen her small
figure tucking them into bed at night, and she often strokes people’s faces
to wake them up in the morning.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She likes to squeeze guests toes as they sleep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Other guests have complained
that they couldn’t rest because Augusta played on their bed all night. Or that
she bounced a wooden ball throughout the night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Paranormal teams that have
investigated this B&B have picked up cold spots throughout the inn, as well
as EVPs of both a child’s voice and a male voice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The legend states—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you say, "weepy
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Olif and Julia Cronquist
lived in Logan, Utah at the turn of the 19th century.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mr. Cronquist was a respected county
commissioner and dairy farmer. His wife, Julia, was a devoted mother. </span></div>
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this couples' eight children survived until adulthood.</span></div>
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boys and the second girls all died at a young age in separate scarlet fever
outbreaks, and the fifth child was stillborn.</span></div>
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support, Julia was inconsolable. Friends and neighbors often saw her in the
city cemetery near her children's graves sobbing.</span></div>
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with scarlet fever, Julia grew weaker and weaker. She also tragically died in
1914, of valvular heart disease.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>"a splendid woman,
tender, loving, patient, and true. Bearing a great burden without complaint and
always seeking the happiness and comfort of others."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In tribute, Olif had an
impressive monument placed upon his wife's grave, in 1917.</span></div>
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sad woman, located at the Logan City Cemetery, is said to be haunted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Witnesses, over the years
since state that this statue is seen weeping—during full moons and on the
anniversaries of Julia's children deaths—four of them in March.</span></div>
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seen moving—looking in the direction of the various children's graves.</span></div>
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that a mother/daughter witnessed Julia's ghost sitting near this monument
crying. She then just disappeared.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Visitors go to Ohio’s Kings Island amusement park to eat funnel cake and enjoy the exciting rides. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Kings Island is located in
Mason just outside Cincinnati. It opened in 1972 and has been this state’s
favorite amusement park since.</span></div>
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called “The Beast.” When this wooden rollercoaster first opened in 1979, it was
the tallest, fastest and longest coaster in the world.</span></div>
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later, The Beast is still Kings Island's most popular ride.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Kings Island was built on
land that was used for an ammunition factory (King’s Powder) from the late
1880s until the 1940s. During this time, there was a massive explosion that
killed over one hundred people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">All that remains of this
company is a small cemetery (Dog Street Cemetery)—that sits near the park’s
exit, next to the parking lot.</span></div>
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some feel the park is haunted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One active spirit at Kings
Island is a little girl. She is seen wearing a blue dress. Her ghost is spotted
mostly in the park’s parking lot, skipping or playing “hide-and-seek” among the
cars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Park employees call her “Tram
Girl” because of a game she likes to play with them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As these drivers deliver
their passengers at various points throughout the parking lot, this ghost likes
to jump out in front of their vehicles—daring them to run over her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One driver, in 2017, had just
finished dropping off the last few passengers for the night and was headed for
the main parking lot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">He was tired after a long
day. So when his tram headlights illuminated a young girl, wearing a blue
dress, run right in front of his vehicle, he was slow to react.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This driver did slam on his
brakes, but he was sure he had hit her. But oddly he didn’t feel an impact or
hear any screams. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">He climbed out, but the
parking lot was empty, and nothing was under the tram. After inspecting the
front for damage, he was surprised there was none.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The little girl had disappeared
as quickly, as she had appeared.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This mischievous spirit is
also seen at White Water Canyon in the park.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She is believed to be Jane
Galeener, who lived with her mother, father, and younger brother on a section
of the property that is now Kings Island.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jane Galeener's gravestone in<br />
Dog Street Cemetery.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She drowned in 1846, at the
age of 5 in a lake, where White Water Canyon is located in the park today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here is a video that shows how much fun The Beast is to ride.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">For over 200 years, people
have seen and heard ghosts at the historic Woodburn mansion in Dover, Delaware.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This beautiful, 1790s
Georgian house has seven bedrooms and beautiful gardens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Several of Delaware’s leading
citizens have lived in this house. In 1965, the state of Delaware bought the
property, renovated it, and made it the governor’s mansion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The first Woodburn ghost
sighting happened in 1820. Dr. M.W. Bates the owner, at this time, invited a
Methodist preacher, Lorenzo Dow to stay the night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After socializing, Dow
retired for the evening to an upstairs bedroom. The next morning, he passed
another man on the stairs. The preacher noted this man was dressed in “colonial
garb”—and was shuffling up the steps oddly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When he reached the breakfast
table, he asked the Bates’ who the other guest was. Baffled, they told him no
other guests were in the home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After he described this man,
the couple felt certain it was Dr. Bates’ father, who had been dead for years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Another ghost seen and heard at Woodburn is a “slave raider.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dan Cowgill, a Quaker, owned
the mansion before the Civil War. The house was a stop along the Underground
Railroad. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One night a group of angry
raiders came to the mansion looking for escaped slaves. Cowgill was able to
chase them off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One raider attempted to
escape by climbing a poplar tree in the front yard. He slipped and got caught
in a knot of the tree. He hung there, trapped and unnoticed until he died. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This tree still stands. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">To this day, witnesses report
hearing his screams as he tries to escape.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Woodburn dining room.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Several governors’ wives have
seen ghosts in the mansion’s dining room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">These women state they heard
footsteps at all hours of the night in this room, as well as seeing men,
dressed in revolutionary-era clothes floating across the room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">These ghosts seem to be more
fun-loving than scary. The spirits in the house are called “wine ghosts.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The reason for this is they
imbibe whatever wine is left out. If glasses are left half-full, etc.,
witnesses return to find them empty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When Governor Charles Terry
Jr. lived in the mansion, one ghost, in particular, was observed helping
himself to the mansion’s vintage wines in the dining room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A previous owner, before it
was the governor’s residence, stated every night he would fill a decanter with
wine, he then would find it empty the next morning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It seems these ghosts like to
party.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The mansion also has a young
female ghost. This girl is seen in the garden wearing a red-checkered gingham
dress. She likes to splash water in the homes’ fountains and pools.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fountain at Woodburn.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This young spirit</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“crashed” Governor Michael Castle’s
inauguration in 1985.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Several guests felt something
tugging at them throughout the ceremony. And many witnesses saw her floating
shyly in the corner of the reception hall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The public can visit this
mansion—but by appointment only.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The murders of Andrew and
Abby Borden in 1892 are two of the most gruesome in American history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Borden’s lived in Fall
River, Massachusetts with Andrew’s two daughters, Emma, and Lizzie from a
previous marriage.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lizzie Borden</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The two were discovered
“hacked to death” with an ax. Lizzie became the authorities primary murder
suspect and was tried and acquitted in a two-week sensationalized trial.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">No one else was ever accused,
and these murders remain unsolved. But to this day many believe that Lizzie
actually did murder her father and stepmother.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Much of the evidence that
pointed to Lizzie being the murderess, for some reason, was ignored or even found
to be inadmissible during her trial.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Lizzie did not appreciate her
frugal father, and she and her sister had an open disdain for Abby—calling her
“Mrs. Borden.”</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lizzie Borden House today.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The sisters just before the
murders had fought with their father over money matters—they were due to
inherit over seven and a half million dollars—in today’s value-- at their
father’s death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Lizzie was seen burning one
of her dresses, by a friend, that she claimed to be paint-stained, just days
after the murders. The suspected murder weapon, a broken hatchet, was found
hidden in the home’s basement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The police, when they
questioned Lizzie after the murders, found her statements to be “inconsistent,”
and she provided several changing alibis.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Andrew and Abby Borden</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The day of the murders, Emma
was away from the Borden house, and the family maid, Maggie was outside
cleaning windows. Lizzie was home—she claimed to be in a barn in back of the
house looking for fishing tackle and eating pears.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The police found this barn so
hot—they felt no one could have stayed in it for twenty minutes, let alone for
an hour and a half.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Borden house is not that
large, but Lizzie claimed not to hear or see anything.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">There were ninety minutes
between the two murders, and the police found that it was odd that a murderer
would stay around for this long-- and then not to have been seen by Lizzie or
the maid?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But most of this was not
taken into account at the trial. When the Borden’s crushed skulls were
exhibited, Lizzie fainted. The all-male jury was sympathetic—after all, how
could a petite, Sunday school teacher do this?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Today the Lizzie Borden house
is a museum, and a bed & breakfast. Visitors can take day tours or stay
overnight. Tour guides, visitors, and paranormal teams all feel it is haunted.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bodies of Andrew and Abby Borden found murdered.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Andrew Borden was murdered as
he napped on the settee in the family parlor. Abby was killed in the family
guest room upstairs—she had nineteen blows to the head.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Strange mist captured on camera<br />
in Borden guest room.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">These two rooms have a lot of
activity. Most who enter this house, that has been restored to its 19th-century
appearance, report feelings of overwhelming sadness.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tour guides mention being
touched by unseen hands. Many report something tugged at their clothes.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">There have been reports of
people seeing the apparitions of Andrew, Abby, and Lizzie in the home. Strange
mists have also been observed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">There are also reports of something unseen whispering in people's ears.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One of the strangest
phenomena to happen occurs by the bed in the guest room where Abby Borden was
killed. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A strange image caught in a mirror<br />
at Lizzie Borden house.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Countless people have closed
their eyes and stood on the spot where she died. They all report feeling as if
someone shoved or pushed them on the back. Others feel a force coming through
the floor that tries to tip them.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Witnesses also mention hearing
children’s laughter in the homes attic rooms.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One folktale belief is that
the spirits in the house can be “bribed” to leave the living alone. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Visitors often place a few
coins on Mr. Borden’s bureau. While the young spirits respond best to small toy
offerings.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The following video is a good
summary of the tensions in the Borden family, as well as an explanation for why
there are young spirits in the house.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
</div>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wm1gpGgm92k" width="420"></iframe>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When my brother passed away, he was an organ donor. A
woman in Greece wrote to thank the family for his corneas. I wonder does she
see the beautiful colors he mixed for his paintings?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sonny Graham was on the verge
of death in 1955 due to “congestive heart failure,” he had been given just six
months to live.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was a happy day when he
received word that a heart had become available.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It belonged to a 33-year-old
man, Terry Cottle who had committed suicide by one shot to the brain, leaving
his young bride behind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After Graham was informed who
his donor was, he began to write Cottle’s widow in appreciation. The two met,
fell in love and married.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But love for this young woman
wasn’t the only thing these two men shared. Graham discovered that he now
craved beer and hot dogs—which were Cottle’s favorites.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Twelve years after his
successful transplant, Graham took his own life by shooting himself in the
head. Leaving this wife to mourn twice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The cravings and personality
changes that occurred in Sonny Graham’s life are actually often everyday experiences
among transplant recipients—but I should note most do not commit suicide.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Organ transplants, including
heart, liver, kidney, and lung, etc. have saved many lives. There were more
than half a million performed in the U.S. alone, between 1988 and 2016.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">There are countless stories
about the unusual side effects that occur after these transplants.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Claire Sylvia had a heart
transplant at the age of 44. She believes that along with this vital organ that
saved her life, she also received her donors’ tastes and memories.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After her operation, she was
asked what she would like to do first. Without hesitation, she answered, “I am
dying for a beer right now.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This was strange for Sylvia
had always hated the taste of beer.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Over the next few months, she
began to have a variety of strange food cravings. Most notably McDonald’s
Chicken McNuggets, something she had never desired.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sylvia now had allergies that
she did not have in the past as well as a heightened empathic
ability. She also became extremely moody, which was not like her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She had a series of odd
dreams where a thin, tall young man talked to her. He told her his name was
“Tim.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Her curiosity peaked, Sylvia
did some research and discovered that a young man named Timothy Lamirande was
involved in a motorcycle accident on the same day she received her heart
transplant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">He was her donor. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Oddly, they told her he had
just gone to McDonald’s the day of the accident, and a sack of
Chicken McNuggets had been found next to his body.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Scientists put forth the idea
of “cell memory.” Where cells within organs retain the original owner’s
memories and pass them along. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here is a paper <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/23241376_Transplants_Cellular_Memory_and_Reincarnation" target="_blank">about changes in heart transplant recipients </a>that parallel the personalities of their donors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A loving husband had this
unique Southern plantation home designed and built for his wife in the
mid-1800s. But she tragically died, before Waverly Mansion, located in Clay County
Mississippi was finished.</span></div>
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along the Tombigbee River.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Young and his ten children
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large quantities of cotton had a tannery, lumber mill, gristmill, brick kiln,
icehouse, gardens, orchards, and livestock. The plantation also manufactured
its own gas, which was piped into the house to illuminate it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Waverly has a unique
architectural feature, not often seen in the South, a massive copula sits atop
this home that affords the visitor a 360-degree view of the surrounding
countryside.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This mansion also is known as
one of the most haunted homes in the South.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Young family maintained
Waverly until the last of the ten children died in 1913. It then was left to
slowly deteriorate. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Robert and Donna Snow fell in
love with the old house and spent several years in the 1960s, restoring it to
its original splendor. It was made a National Historic Landmark in 1973.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">During this time, the Snow’s
became acquainted with an assortment of ghosts that haunt Waverly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The home today is run as a
house museum. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">During the Civil War several
Confederate officers, friends of the Young family, recuperated from battle
wounds at Waverly. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In one mirror from this
period, a strange sight is seen. Visitors report a Confederate soldier
standing behind them, only to turn around and find no one is there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Colonel Young’s wife, who
never lived in the house, is observed wandering through the second-floor rooms. She
turns and stares at visitors and then slowly disappears.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Waverly family cemetery.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Colonel himself is seen riding a phantom horse near the family cemetery. He is also seen walking
through this graveyard and in the yard near the mansion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The most active ghost at the
plantation has been seen and heard by many tour guides and visitors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This four-year-old girl is
believed to be the daughter of a Young family friend. Her apparition appears so
real that visitor’s on tours have tried to find what adults she belongs to.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Staircase landing.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She is usually spotted on the
landing of the spiral staircase between the second and third floors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is believed that she died
of diphtheria in the home during the Civil War. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This young ghost is also
heard crying for her mother.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Another sound often noted
involves many voices attending a dinner party—they are heard laughing and
enjoying music in the mansion’s ballroom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here is a brief video about the
young ghost, known as “Little Girl Lost.” The Snow’s daughter and another
witness are interviewed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is a story that was
highlighted on the television series, <i>Unsolved Mysteries</i>.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The Tallman House Ghost is one of the best-known stories this
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is about a family that lived
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Tallman’s, Debbie and
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But strange things began to
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Painting the basement one
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had been turned upside down. The bristles were now sticking up out of the paint gallon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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skeptic, did not believe what the Tallman’s had told him about the haunting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here is the Unsolved Mysteries episode that originally aired in October of 1988, it is the second case highlighted--beginning at the 16:33 minute mark and ending at 28:30. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I write about another favorite Unsolved Mystery episode entitled, <a href="https://seeksghosts.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-tatum-haunting.html" target="_blank">The Tatum Haunting</a>, here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">For well over a century
Portland, Oregon’s Old North End had a shady reputation at best.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Since the 1970s a restaurant,
Old Town Pizza has been located in once was, the lobby of the Merchant Hotel.
This popular restaurant inherited the hotel’s resident ghost.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Merchant was built in
1880 by two successful lumber barons. It was built atop part of Portland’s
infamous Shanghai Tunnels. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">These tunnels were used to
imprison unsuspecting men, from the 1870s until well into the 1900s. These men
were either drunk or drugged and then forced to work on ships without pay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I share the history and
hauntings of these tunnels in my post entitled <a href="https://seeksghosts.blogspot.com/2014/04/portlands-shanghai-tunnels.html" target="_blank">Portland’s Shanghai Tunnels</a>.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shanghai Tunnel under Old Town Pizza</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Despite this nefarious
beginning, the Merchant Hotel had a good reputation. But this hotel was also
known to provide its elite clientele with “ladies of the night.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One young lady, Nina
(pronounced “Nigh-na”) was sold into prostitution by Portland’s thriving white
slavery trade. She became a “working woman” at the Merchant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Missionaries convinced Nina
to share or “rat out” several of Portland’s powerful crime bosses in an attempt
to clean up the neighborhood. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Nina agrees to give this
information, in exchange for a chance to escape a life she had not chosen. But
soon after she cooperated, she was found dead in the hotel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She had been pushed down an
elevator shaft to her death. Since her ghost has not left what was once the
hotel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One room in Old Town Pizza</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Guests at Old Town Pizza
report feeling someone is watching them, others mention smelling a floral scent
without source, they are told, “Oh, that is just Nina.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One secluded booth at the
back of the restaurant sits next to a brick wall that once was the elevator
shaft. Nina’s name often appears mysteriously, written on this wall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Secluded booth at Old Town Pizza</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She has been seen for over
one hundred and fifty years at this location.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She is described as tall,
wearing a long black dress, with a lovely smile. She is often seen walking down
the stairs. She is also seen standing in the restaurant overlooking the diners as
they eat. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Her apparition is sometimes
spotted beneath this restaurant, in the basement, where one of the many
Shanghai Tunnels is still located.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The following is a short
video about this haunting. It includes a personal experience one Old Town Pizza
employee had with Nina.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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