tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53476096905238185012024-03-14T06:06:12.063-07:00Are You ScaredParanormalMargaret Alicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14669535558382116366noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5347609690523818501.post-81579731159209985642019-10-28T18:57:00.000-07:002019-10-28T18:57:01.302-07:00This years Halloween post <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <b><i style="background-color: white;">Like many other mining towns of the Old West, Cripple Creek is said to be extremely haunted. Given its rich history, complete with mining accidents, floods, fires, lawlessness, and bloody battles between mine owners and labor unions, it comes as no surprise to learn of the many ghosts who continue to linger in this once thriving city. In fact, there are so many tales of spirits wandering this historic town, that at one time boasted one homicide per day, some say it is the one of the most haunted cities in the United States.</i></b></span><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">At the turn of the century the three-story brick commercial building housed a variety of businesses, including a drug store, a millinery, an engineer, a lawyer and more. It’s rock-faced corner stones, recessed center entryway, and decorative molding made it one of the finest places in town for retailers to display their merchandise and offer their services. Over the years, the building also housed medical offices, a Masonic Lodge ballroom, and a mortuary.</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In addition to the sounds of slot machines heard throughout the building today, many have also heard the “ghost” of Maggie, who has reportedly been lingering throughout the building for decades.</span></i></b></div>
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<i><b><span style="color: #e69138; font-size: large;">Described as about 25 years old and dressed in turn-of-the-century clothing, she wears a white shirtwaist, a long cotton skirt and high-heeled boots. The young beauty, with her hair piled atop her head, is known to leave behind the scent of her rose perfume even when she isn’t spotted.</span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="color: #e69138; font-size: large;">Some have reported that singing and dancing is sometimes heard emanating from the old ballroom, as well as the sounds of Maggie’s lilting soprano voice heard singing an Irish accented concertina.</span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In 1901, a second hospital was opened by Teller County, located in what is now another historic inn – the Hospitality House. To compete, the Sisters claimed their facility to be “thoroughly equipped with all modern improvements, beautifully located with the best physicians in the district in attendance.”</span></b></i></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Over the years, the hospital served the many prospectors and families of the area and expanded to include a ward for the mentally ill. However, when Cripple Creek’s mining played out, the hospital closed its doors for the last time in the mid 1970’s. </i></b></span><i style="color: #e69138;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The hotel’s Boiler Room Tavern, popular with both locals and guests, is so named because the barback is the front plate off the inn’s original coal boiler. Here, you cannot only enjoy a beverage, but also a variety Mexican food menu, and live music during some weekends.</span></b></i><i style="color: #e69138;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In addition to the opulence you will find at the Hotel St. Nicholas, you might also “find” a ghost or two. Said to be haunted by a number of spirits including nuns, children, and former patients of the mental ward, the most often “seen” ghostly resident is one referred to as “Stinky.” Lurking at the back staircase of the old hospital, “Stinky” makes his presence known with a sewage-like smell. The apparition of an old miner with no upper body is also sometimes seen.</span></b></i></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Following the disastrous fire that razed most of the city in 1896, the Imperial Hotel was built to accommodate the many miners and visitors to the area. Located at 3rd Street and Bennett Avenue, the building was opened as the Collins Hotel, luring guests with modern amenities such as electric lights and steam heat.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>The couple also began to have children – two daughters and a son. Perhaps because they were first cousins and too closely related, their oldest daughter, Alice, suffered from a severe mental disorder. As the girl grew older, she became more and more difficult to control, until her parents were finally forced to keep her locked in their apartment next to the lobby. Today, this is the site of the Red Rooster bar.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Some time later, when George was going down the narrow stairs to the basement, he fell to his death. Though it very well could have been an accident, rumors began to abound that Alice had killed her father when he approached the top of the stairs, striking him in the head with a cast iron skillet.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>In 1948, the hotel introduced the Gold Bar Theater and the Imperial Players, who entertained guests for nearly five decades. Hosting the longest running melodrama theater in the nation, the historic venue continues to entertain patrons today during its summer theatre season. In 1992 the hotel added limited stakes gaming to its list of attractions and began operating as the Imperial Casino Hotel.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Several night time security guards tell stories of how the ding-ding-ding of the slot machines and coins hitting the hopper are heard late at night after the casino has closed. However, when they check the casino floor, no one is there. Later, when the machines are checked for malfunctions, none are found.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Evidently, the “crazed” Alice also leaves her “imprint” on the historic hotel. If staff leaves the door to the Red Rooster Bar closed, they hear the sounds of scratching on the other side of the door.</b></i></span><br />
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<i><b><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">By the turn of the century, the hotel was owned by Dr. Chambers and his wife Kitty. Taking care of his patients, the hotel was run by his wife, affectionately known as Miss Kitty. Priding herself on service, she offered a number of amenities to her guests, including placing lighted candles throughout the hotel and turning down the beds at night.</span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When Miss Kitty died in 1908 in Room #3 of the hotel, she evidently wasn’t ready to leave, as stories have it that she continues to reside there. Over the years, guests have told stories of how she continued to provide great service by making sure that the candles were lit and sometimes turning down the beds. Others have reported seeing a vision of Miss Kitty dressed in an old-fashioned white night gown with her long hair down over her shoulders. Yet other people have reported seeing the same figure in the window of Room #3.</span></b></i></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Not to be deterred, the building was reconstructed to stand the test of time, with brick and stone. Larger than the prior building, the “Bank Block,” as it was called, housed not only the “new” Victor Hotel, but also the Woods Brothers Investment Company and the First National Bank. The four-story building also housed storefronts along the first floor and the upper floors held simple accommodations for businessmen and miners.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>One distinctive feature of the hotel was its elevator, which came in handy for yet another function that the building took on. During the winters, when the ground was frozen between October and June, it was impossible to dig graves for those that died in the quickly growing city. As an alternative, the bodies were taken up the elevator and stored on the fourth floor of the building until the ground thawed enough to bury them. It is apparently many of these long-dead Victor residents that haunt the historic hotel today. Though seemingly harmless, several people have witnessed the site of disembodied apparitions on the fourth floor. Reports include what look like both doctors and patients, sometimes without arms, legs, and even a heads, moving about this place that once acted as “holding cell” for the dead.</b></i></span></div>
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<br />Margaret Alicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14669535558382116366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5347609690523818501.post-9720429719783890262019-01-20T09:55:00.001-08:002019-01-20T09:55:48.827-08:00Sorry<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Hey all I was going to post a few things that I was working on, unfortunately my grandma is in the hospital right now because of a broken femur they put in a steel rod, she won't be able to do anything and it will take a lot of work to help her. I promise I'll try and post soon.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i> Thx for understanding</i></b></span>Margaret Alicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14669535558382116366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5347609690523818501.post-51761826049932103292018-10-31T16:52:00.002-07:002018-10-31T16:52:10.481-07:00Akershus Castle, Norway<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Akershus Castle </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #606770; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is a medieval castle in Oslo, Norway</span></span></i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Norway sports an abundance of supernatural legends and eerie ghost stories. For many years, parts of Akershus Festning served as a prison for some of Norway's most notorious criminals. The sentence often involved grueling physical labor, and the prison was notorious for using irons, chains, and prisoner isolation as disciplinary techniques. </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Over the years, there’s been several reports of whispers and scratching along the fortress hallways, and several guards have noticed weird anomalies – like the sensation of being pushed – while alone on duty. The prison at Akershus Festning was closed in 1950. For 700 years, the castle has guarded the capitals inner harbor and has never in its history been breached by a foreign hostile force. This, however, does not mean that blood hasn’t been shed in its dim corridors and beyond the high walls. Slavery at Akershus was established quite quickly after the order was put into operation in 1730, already in 1739, but only after the fortress was taken out of active military use in 1815 it was extended to a major penal institution. From the 1820s, slavery took over several buildings and became the most important activity on the fortress.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Those who ended up at the slaves were prisoners who had been convicted of serious crimes but who had escaped the death penalty. Among the prisoners who sat at Akershus, there are many names that are known in the past, such as the masterpiece Ole Høiland, Gjest Baardsen and Lars Danger from the Kautokeino Revolution.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> The prisoners were put to work hard on the fortress, or if they were sick or old to work in the workshop. Steinhoggeriet was an important workplace, and several of the prisoners became highly skilled rockers. Among other things, the lions on Løvebakken outside the parliament were made by a prisoner at Akershus. They could also be taken out of town to work, including roadworks. The prisoners were then hired by the city or private. Those who trusted could work with private individuals outside the fortress.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> The laboratory kitchen was built as a lonely prison in 1836.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Prisoners lived in large dorms. From the 1840s, new thoughts came into the penalty system. The aim was to isolate the prisoners from each other so that they could not adversely affect each other. Such solutions were not implemented at Akershus, and in the second half of the 19th century, it was protested that young offenders were placed with hard-barked criminals who could teach them. A "lonely prison" was built in 1836, but these were punishment for prisoners who broke rules and not a common place for prisoners.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> In 1854 the word slavery was abolished, and instead, the prison was called Akershus penal office. The large dorms were partly retained, but they began to take in primarily former convicts, while first-time sons ended up at the Botsfengsel or elsewhere. Work in the fortress continued as before, but it eventually stopped working outside the fortress area. Although still a military area, the Akershus Fortress is open to the public.</span></span></i></b></span></span><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Margaret Alicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14669535558382116366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5347609690523818501.post-84426059525233885932018-10-30T20:43:00.004-07:002018-10-30T20:43:51.622-07:00Update for Halloween <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>I wanted to let you all know I will be posting something this Halloween it might not be up until later on tomorrow, I'm saying this just in case. I've had a pretty bad case of the flu and It feels like I haven't slept for years. But I'll worry about that later, so hang in there and I promise to update soon. </i></b></span>Margaret Alicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14669535558382116366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5347609690523818501.post-5437607754338713532018-10-26T01:56:00.003-07:002018-10-26T01:56:39.672-07:00Update<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Ok I'm going to try post a Halloween post but I can't make any promises. I have a very bad case of the flu everything aches and I much rather be sleeping lol. But I will try to do a quick post later on.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i> thx to all of you who like my blog and for putting up with me being sick all of the time.</i></b></span>Margaret Alicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14669535558382116366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5347609690523818501.post-63588877332375095552018-08-07T23:50:00.002-07:002018-08-07T23:50:35.684-07:00New Update soon <div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>I had every intention of posting another blog update after my last one, however, my chihuahua & baby boy Willie passed away on July 3rd he would have been 13 on July 18th. To me he wasn't just my pet he was my whole world, my heart & soul, my son, and my best friend. I would talk to him all the time.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i> I have since rescued a new fur baby another Chihuahua I named Zeus, he is all white and 4 years old he is very skittish and scared of people moving around, throughout his 4 years of life he has never known what its like to be and feel loved, he came from a bad place and had about 20 other brothers and sisters, everyone who adopted his brothers and sisters have said it's taken them 8 to 9 months of hard work, just to get them use to being held and loved. I have also discovered that he is afraid of men whenever he hears a mans voice he starts to shake and gets a panic attack, although I don't know his backstory </i></b></span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>just his actions and what other people write about his brothers and sisters I have been able to piece together that he was abused most likely by a guy, as all his siblings are scared of men as well.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>And just so you all know I will be getting rid of my strange and unusual blog and write about something I find interesting its hard to write a blog if your heart isn't in it. </i></b></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">I<span style="background-color: transparent; display: inline; float: none; font-family: sans-serif; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.28px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">s a Victorian stone house, built in the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">American Queen </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anne style</span><span style="background-color: transparent; display: inline; float: none; font-family: sans-serif; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.28px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, located at 4308 Franklin Boulevard in </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cleveland<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.28px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">'s </span>Ohio City</span><span style="background-color: transparent; display: inline; float: none; font-family: sans-serif; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.28px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> neighborhood. <span style="background-color: transparent; display: inline; float: none; font-family: sans-serif; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.28px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The building has four stories and more than twenty rooms and 80 windows. In the late nineteenth century, when it was built, Franklin Boulevard was one of the most prestigious residential avenues in Cleveland. It is purported to be the most </span>haunted house<span style="background-color: transparent; display: inline; float: none; font-family: sans-serif; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.28px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> in </span>Ohio<span style="background-color: transparent; display: inline; float: none; font-family: sans-serif; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.28px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">.</span></span></span></b></i></span><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #e69138; font-size: large;">The house was built in 1881-1883 by the famed architectural firm of Cudell & Richardson for Hannes Tiedemann, a prosperous German immigrant.</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="color: #e69138; font-size: large;"> On January 15, 1891, Tiedemann's fifteen-year-old daughter Emma succumbed to diabetes. The house saw its second death not long afterward when Tiedemann's elderly mother, Wiebeka, died. During the next three years, the Tiedemanns would bury three more children, giving rise to speculation that there was more to the deaths than met the eye.</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="color: #e69138; font-size: large;"> To distract his wife, Louise, from these tragedies, Tiedemann began extensive construction on the home, adding a ballroom which runs the length of the house on the fourth floor of the manor. Also during this building, turrets and gargoyles were added to the edifice's facade, giving the house an even more pronounced "castle" appearance.</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="color: #e69138; font-size: large;"> It is rumored that hidden rooms and passageways were used for bootlegging during Prohibition. Though rumored, none of these rooms or passageways exist other than a small stairway used by servants from the kitchen to the front door.</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="color: #e69138; font-size: large;"> Louise Tiedemann died from a liver disease on March 24, 1895, at the age of fifty-seven. The next year, Hannes sold the house to the Mullhauser family, and by 1908 he and the entire Tiedemann family were dead, leaving no one to inherit his considerable personal wealth.</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="color: #e69138; font-size: large;"> Rumors of crimes committed in the house by Tiedemann (including sexual indiscretions and murder) have contributed to Franklin Castle's reputation as a haunted house.</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="background-color: transparent; display: inline; float: none; font-family: sans-serif; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.28px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Apparently the curse took some time off during the Mullhauser's stay at the Castle. But in 1913, it came back with a vengeance when Franklin Castle was sold to the German Socialist Party. Officially only used as a place for parties and meetings, rumors quickly started to spread that the Germans were actually using the Castle as a place to spy. It is even said that years later, a German shortwave radio would be found hidden up in the rafters. The infamous hidden passageways were said to have been used by an underground group of Nazis to machine-gun a large group of people. During Prohibition, a new tunnel was supposedly constructed that ran from either the basement of the castle or the carriage house all the way out to Lake Erie. </span></span><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span> </b></i></span></span></span><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Unable to make Franklin Castle the haunted success they were looking for, the Muscatello family finally decided to sell Franklin Castle. From there, the Castle quickly passed through a series of owners, including Richard Hongisto, the then Cleveland Chief of Police, who owned the Castle for less than a year. . Hongisto and his family lasted less than a year in the castle before selling it to George Mircata, who owned the Castle until 1984. </span></i></b><br />
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Margaret Alicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14669535558382116366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5347609690523818501.post-1035132463721606932018-06-15T23:57:00.002-07:002018-06-15T23:58:52.917-07:00Hey Guys<i><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: red;">Hey to all the fans of this page there is a little bit of bad news, I feel bad because it seems as though there is always an illness in the family that prevents me from doing updates, so just to keep you all up to date my Grandmother has been going through some pretty hard times at the moment. At this moment she is in the hospital every other week, and she has been on dialysis which has left her extremely tired, at this point she needs care around the clock my mother takes care of her during the day and I help her at night we were sharing the three days between my mom, aunt and I to take her to dialysis. However, at the moment we no longer have a car as my Mom was in an accident on Thursday she is sore and bruised but thankfully no serious damage has happened to her however the car is totaled. Which has added further stress.</span></span></span></b></i><br />
<i><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"> However, I do promise to post an update on here within the next three days so as always keep checking back.</span></b></i><br />
<i></i><b></b>Margaret Alicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14669535558382116366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5347609690523818501.post-27092155604213724292018-02-08T16:48:00.002-08:002018-02-08T16:48:47.617-08:00Sick<div>
<b><i><span style="color: red;">I'm sorry I haven't been on in a while to do updates, I have been fighting a terrible cold that I've had since January I've been to the hospital and it still hasn't gone away. I've also been caring for my Grandma since she was released from the hospital due to the flu and pneumonia she is doing much better now but is still a little weak, on top of all of this my poor chihuahua has been having tracea collapsing problems along with bad arthritis as he is getting up there in age he will be 13 in July, I've taken him to the vet who put him on two medications one to prevent the tracea collapsing and one to help the pain from the arthritis, he is also on a strict diet, I also found out his heart murmur has gotten bigger which has caused his heart to enlarge, the doctor told me he has heart diesase. But with him losing weight it will ease the pressure on the heart. And just in case anybody is going to say something rude, my dog is not suffering from any pain due to his heart and no it's not cause he takes painkillers, his doctor said he is only to have them when he is in pain with his arthritis. Other than that he is in no pain or discomfort and enjoys running around the house and playing with his toys.</span></i></b></div>
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Margaret Alicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14669535558382116366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5347609690523818501.post-78411296192706692022017-12-24T10:07:00.000-08:002017-12-24T10:07:00.656-08:00Happy Holidays To All My Fans <span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Hey guys I'm stopping by to say Happy Holidays, and please no rude comments for me saying that. I'm not trying to be rude at all, I just firmly believe in respecting all religious Holidays, or if you don't celebrate any that's fine as well. </b></i></span><br />
<i><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #005500;"> </span><span style="color: red;">I'm writing to tell you all I've been going through some medical issues and have been on bed rest since November and will remain on it until January 11th, but no worries its nothing serious as of right now, so the post will be a little slow.</span></span></span></b></i><br />
<i><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #005500;"> <span style="color: #274e13;">However I have been thinking about something that I thought would be</span> pretty cool to do, I'm asking you my fans to send me a story or stories about a haunted location or locations where you live. (</span><span style="color: red;">For your safety I ask that you do not write down your address, the name of the street you live on or your zip code. Just the city and state.</span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">)</span></span></b></i><br />
<b><i><span style="color: #009000; font-family: Times; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times; font-size: large;">Y</span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times; font-size: large;">ou can write from 1 to 10 haunted places in your city/state. Or if you like you can write about an experience you had with a spirit, keep in mind if you want to write about an experience you had with a spirit you will not be judged at all. </span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="color: #009000; font-family: Times; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times; font-size: large;">(</span></i></b><span style="color: red; font-family: Times; font-size: large;"><b><i>Since you can post your stories directly on my page I ask that all stories be sent to my E-Mail address <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">MargaretAlice28@aol.com</span>, Please give your first name or you can give a fake one make it as silly as you like if you want so that I can give you credit for it.<span style="color: #274e13;">) </span></i></b></span><br />
<b><i><span style="color: #009000; font-family: Times; font-size: large;"> <span style="color: #274e13;">Please send a please send a picture of the building, cemetery, road, lighthouse, or anything else. And if you have a picture with an orb, mist, or any other anomaly as well. I'm excited to see what you guys have come across, and hope that you will all share your stories to make this fun. </span></span></i></b><br />
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<strong><em><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">In European folklore, vampires were undead beings that often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighborhoods they inhabited when they were alive. They wore shrouds and were often described as bloated and of ruddy or dark countenance.</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"> Vampiric entities have been recorded in most cultures; the term vampire, previously an arcane subject, was popularized in the west in the early 19th century, after an influx of Vampire superstition into western Europe from areas where vampire legends were frequent. This increased the level of vampire superstition in Europe led to mass hysteria and in some cases resulted in corpses being staked and people being accused of vampirism. Early folk belief in vampires has sometimes been ascribed to the ignorance of the body's process of decomposition after death and how people in pre-industrial societies tried to rationalize this, creating the figure of the vampire to explain the mysteries of death. Porphyria was also linked with legends of vampirism in 1985 and received much media exposure, but has since been largely discredited. </span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"> The notion of vampirism has existed for millennia. Cultures such as the Mesopotamians, Hebrews, Ancient Greeks, and Romans had tales of demons and spirits which are considered precursors to modern vampires. Despite the occurrence of vampire-like creatures in these ancient civilizations, the folklore for the entity we know today as the vampire originates almost exclusively from early 18th-century southeastern Europe.</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"> In most cases, vampires are revenants of evil beings, suicide victims, or witches, but they can also be created by a malevolent spirit possessing a corpse or by being bitten by a vampire. Belief in such legends became so pervasive that in some areas it caused mass hysteria and even public executions of people believed to be vampires. </span></em></strong></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>It is difficult to make a single, definitive description of the folkloric vampire, though there are several elements common to many European legends. Vampires were usually reported as bloated in appearance, and ruddy, purplish, or dark in color; these characteristics were often attributed to the recent drinking of blood. Blood was often seen seeping from the mouth and nose when one was seen in its shroud or coffin and its left eye was often open. It would be clad in the linen shroud it was buried in, and its teeth, hair, and nails may have grown somewhat, though in general fangs were not a feature. Although vampires were generally described as undead, some folktales spoke of them as living beings. </em></strong></span></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">The causes of vampiric generation were many and varied in original folklore. In Slavic and Chinese traditions, any corpse that was jumped over by an animal, particularly a dog or cat, was feared to become one of the undead. A body with a wound that had not been treated with boiling water was also at risk. In Russian folklore, vampires were said to have once been witches or people who had rebelled against the Russian Orthodox Church while they were alive.</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"> Cultural practices often arose that were intended to prevent a recently deceased loved one from turning into an undead revenant. Burying a corpse upside-down was widespread, as was placing earthly objects, such as scythes or sickles, near the grave to satisfy any demons entering the body or to appease the dead so that it would not wish to arise from the coffin. This method resembles the Ancient Greek practice of placing an obolus in the corpse's mouth to pay the toll to cross the River Styx in the underworld. It has been argued that instead, the coin was intended to ward off any evil spirits from entering the body, and this may have influenced later vampire folklore. This tradition persisted in modern Greek folklore about the vrykolakas, in which a wax cross and a piece of pottery with the inscription "Jesus Christ conquers" were placed on the corpse to prevent the body from becoming a vampire.</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"> Other methods commonly practiced in Europe included severing the tendons at the knees or placing poppy seeds, millet, or sand on the ground at the grave site of a presumed vampire; this was intended to keep the vampire occupied all night by counting the fallen grains, indicating an association of vampires with arithmomania. Similar Chinese narratives state that if a vampire-like being came across a sack of rice, it would have to count every grain; this is a theme encountered in myths from the Indian subcontinent, as well as in South American tales of witches and other sorts of evil or mischievous spirits or beings. </span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="font-size: large;">Apotropaic items able to ward off revenants are common in vampire folklore. Garlic is a common example, a branch of wild rose and hawthorn plant are said to harm vampires, and in Europe, sprinkling mustard seeds on the roof of a house was said to keep them away. Other apotropaic include sacred items, for example a crucifix, rosary, or holy water. Vampires are said to be unable to walk on consecrated ground, such as that of churches or temples, or cross running water. Although not traditionally regarded as an apotropaic, mirrors have been used to ward off vampires when placed, facing outwards, on a door (in some cultures, vampires do not have a reflection and sometimes do not cast a shadow, perhaps as a manifestation of the vampires lack of a soul). This <span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">attribute is not universal (the Greek vrykolakas/tympanios was capable of both reflection and shadow), but was used by Bram Stoker in Dracula and has remained popular with subsequent authors and filmmakers.</span></span></em></strong></div>
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<em><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Methods of destroying suspected vampires varied, with staking the most commonly cited method, particularly in southern Slavic cultures. Ash was the preferred wood in Russia and the Baltic states, or hawthorn in Serbia, with a record of oak in Silesia. Aspen was also used for stakes, as it was believed that Christ's cross was made from aspen (aspen branches on the graves of purported vampires were also believed to prevent their risings at night). Potential vampires were most often staked through the heart, though the mouth was targeted in Russia and northern Germany and the stomach in north-eastern Serbia.</span></strong></em><br />
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<em><strong> Decapitation was the preferred method in German and western Slavic areas, with the head buried between the feet, behind the buttocks or away from the body. This act was seen as a way of hastening the departure of the soul, which in some cultures, was said to linger in the corpse. The vampire's head, body, or clothes could also be spiked and pinned to the earth to prevent rising.</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Romani people drove steel or iron needles into a corpse's heart and placed bits of steel in the mouth, over the eyes, ears and between the fingers at the time of burial. They also placed hawthorn in the corpse's sock or drove a hawthorn stake through the legs. In a 16th-century burial near Venice, a brick forced into the mouth of a female corpse has been interpreted as a vampire-slaying ritual by the archaeologists who discovered it in 2006. In Bulgaria, over 100 skeletons with metal objects, such as ploughd bits, embedded in the torso have been discovered.</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Further measures included pouring boiling water over the grave or complete incineration of the body. In the Balkans, a vampire could also be killed by being shot or drowned, by repeating the funeral service, by sprinkling holy water on the body, or by exorcism. In Romania, garlic could be placed in the mouth, and as recently as the 19th century, the precaution of shooting a bullet through the coffin was taken. For resistant cases, the body was dismembered and the pieces burned, mixed with water, and administered to family members as a cure. In Saxon regions of Germany, a lemon was placed in the mouth of suspected vampires.</strong></em></span><br />
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<br />Margaret Alicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14669535558382116366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5347609690523818501.post-3131761493877845682017-10-30T16:41:00.001-07:002017-10-30T16:41:19.296-07:00New Halloween Post<em><strong><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hey I feel I should apologize to you all for not getting my yearly Halloween post up sooner I havent been feeling well. And I wanted to do something different from posting a list of Halloween movies so Im doing something a little different by doing a post about Vampires, Werewolves, Zombies, & Witches.</span></strong></em><br />
<em><strong><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">However if you would like a recommendation of scary movies to watch I recommend you try:<br /> Ouije, Annabell 1 & 2, possion, the Gallows, dont breath, as above so below, My soul to take, And I believe the title of this new movie is called the snowman killer Im not quite sure. For children I recommend corpse bride, The nightmare before christmas, Hocus pocus, zombieland beetlejuice, The goblin king from scooby doo, as well as zombie island.</span></strong></em><br />
<em><strong><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I will be working on this neww post all night so I can hopefully have it posted tomorrow.</span></strong></em>Margaret Alicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14669535558382116366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5347609690523818501.post-44420947897902195332017-10-11T03:05:00.002-07:002017-10-11T03:05:52.746-07:00The Hotel Cecil<strong><em><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ok so a few days ago I came across this interesting Hotel I knew I had to post about it here. The Hotel Cecil has carried a darkness with it since the first day its doors opened for business. The Cecil has played home for serial killers and has had not only murders happen in it but has some ties with some famous unsolved murders as well.</span></em></strong><br />
<strong><em><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial";"> It has even been said that the only way to leave this hotel was with your death, it has also seen its share of suicides. </span></em></strong><br />
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<strong><em><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial";"> So without further delay welcome to the Hotel Cecil.</span></em></strong><br />
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<strong><em><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #e69138; font-size: large;"> Is a budget hotel in downtown Los Angeles located at 640 S. Main Street it opened in 1927 with 600 guest rooms. </span></span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #e69138; font-size: large;"> Construction on the Hotel started in 1924 by hotelier William Banks Hanner, as a destination for business travelers and tourists. The hotel cost $1 million dollars to complete and boasted an opulent marble lobby with stained glassed windows, potted palms, and alabaster statuary. However Hanner didn't know that the united states would sink into the great depression five years after the hotel opened, and Main Street, which the hotel stood on would become known as Skid Row. And by the 1950's the hotel gained a reputation as a residence for transients.</span></span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> <span style="color: #e69138;">In 2013, the Cecil Hotel became the main focus of a viral internet video, which showed surveillance footage of the bizarre behavior of a young Canadian student, Elisa Lam in one of the hotels elevators, prior to her disappearance and subsequent discovery of her body in a water supply cistern on the hotel roof.</span></span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">This in turn led to a deeper interest in the hotels past, which had long been rumored as a place of terrible happenings and recent research has revealed a prolific history of suicide, murder or unexplained deaths at the hotel since it was first opened. </span></span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> The Cecil however seems to be so disproportionately blighted by tragedy and violence even when compared to other hotels in deprived parts of the city one really wonders whether this building is cursed, or if there are negative forces inside.</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> Elizabeth Short, the victim of the Black Dahlia murder, the city's best known unsolved killing, supposedly made the Cecil her last stop before her death in 1947, though such information is disputed.</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> The Cecil is also notable for having been the reported residence for serial killers Richard Ramirez in 1985 and Jack Unterweger in 1991. </span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">On Nov 19, 1931. Los Angeles Times reported that the search for 46 year old W.K Norton from Manhattan Beach was over. He checked into Cecil as "James Willys of Chicago" a week earlier and, once in his room, had taken a number of poison capsules. This appears to be the earliest know suicide at the hotel.</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Less than a year later, the L.A. Times reported another suicide at the hotel. 25 year old Benjamin Dodich, had shot himself in the head in his room and his body was found the next morning by a maid.</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">In late July 1934, 53 year old former Army Medical Corps Sergeant Louis D. Borden slashed his throat with a razor in his room. Mr. Borden left a note mentioning his ill health.</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">In March 1937, it was reported that Grace E. Magro had fallen from the ninth story window. Police were unsure as to whether this had been an accident or suicide, and her fall had been broken by suspended telephone wiring which was entangled about her body. Ms. Magro died later in the hospital.</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">In January 1938, 35 year old Roy Thompson a marine fireman took a suicide leap from the hotel's top floor. He had been registered there for several weeks and his body was found on the skylight of a building next door.</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">In May 1939, another sailor, 39 year old Erwin C. Neblett of the USS Wright died in his room after taking poison.</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">In January of 1940, 45 year old Dorothy Sceiger a school teacher also took poison and was found near death.</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">In Sep 1944, 19 year old Dorothy Jean Purcell threw her newborn son from a window. Apparently unaware she was pregnant, Purcell hadn't wanted to wake her sleeping partner, 38 year old shoe salesmen, when she woke with stomach pains, so she went to the nearby restroom and delivered the baby herself. Believing the child to be dead, she threw it from a window and the tiny body was later found on the roof of an adjacent building. After hearing testimony, a juror declared her account to be almost beyond belief, and it was determined she be charged with homicide. However, matters were finally concluded in January of the following year, when Purcell was found not guilty by reason of insanity.</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">In November 1947, 35 year old Robert Smith of Long Beach had met his death after falling from the seventh floor.</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">On Oct 22, 1954, Helen Gumee, stepped from her window, also on the seventh floor, and landed on top of the hotels marquee. She had registered as Margaret Brown a week before. </span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">On Feb 11, 1962, 50 year old Julia Frances Moore, climbed out of her eighth floor room window and landed in a second story interior light well. She left no note, just a bus ticket from St. Louis, 59 cents in change, and an Illinois bank book showing a balance of $1,800 dollars.</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">On Oct 12, 1962, 27 year old Pauline Otton, had been arguing with her estranged husband Dewey in a room on the ninth floor when he decided he'd had enough and went out to get some dinner. In his absence, she decided she too had had enough and jumped from the window, landing on top of a pedestrian, 65 year old George Gianinni. Both were killed instantly. Since no one saw Pauline jump, police initially thought that there had been a double suicide, but on closer examination, it was found that George had his hands in his pockets and was still wearing shoes, which would have been unlikely if he'd fallen ninety feet.</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">On June 4, 1964, "Pigeon Goldie" Osgood, a retired telephone operator was found dead in her ransacked room by hotel worker distributing phone books. Ms. Osgood, who had earned her nickname due to the fact that she befriended and fed the birds in nearby Pershing square, had been stabbed, strangled and raped and near her body were found the Dodgers cap she always wore and a paper sack full of birdseed. Soon after, Jacques B. Ehlinger, 29, was seen walking through Pershing Square in bloodstained clothing. He was arrested, but cleared of the crime, for which no one was ever arrested.</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">On Dec 20, 1975, a still-unidentified woman, described as between 20 - 30 years old, white, 5'4"; 118 Ibs. Brown hair; brown/hazel eyes, with multiple scars to both wrists, jumped from her 12th floor window onto a second floor roof. She had registered in room 327 four days before, on Dec 16th, 1975. She was wearing two blue sweaters, purple and black, navy blue pants, navy blue coat, black shoes and a beige bra. She also had a black purse and a yellow - metal key.</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">On Feb 19, 2013, the naked body of 21 year old Elisa Lam A Canadian student, was found inside one of the water supply tanks on the hotel roof. Lam had gone missing almost three weeks earlier, on Jan 31, 2013, and her decomposed body was discovered by a maintenance worker in one of the rooftop water tanks, after guests had complained about low water pressure and water that "tasted funny". Authorities latein the elevator r ruled Lam's death as an accidental drowning. Video surveillance footage taken from inside an elevator shortly before her disappearance showed Lam acting strangely, pressing multiple elevator buttons, hiding in the corner of the elevator, and waving her arms wildly, causing wide speculation about the cause of her death. After the elevator video was made public, many started to believe in a more paranormal explanation, some even going to the extent to claim Lam was possessed. Lam was thought to have had bipolar disorder, which could have contributed to her death as well as her strange behavior in the elevator. </span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">On June 13, 2015, the L.A Times reported that the body of a 28 year old male had been found outside the hotel. Some conjectured that the male may have committed suicide by jumping from the hotel, though a spokesperson for the county coroner informed the newspaper that the cause of death had not been determined and that his name would not be released until his family could be notified. </span></em></strong></div>
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<br />Margaret Alicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14669535558382116366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5347609690523818501.post-87678270050912961722016-03-08T05:49:00.001-08:002016-03-08T05:49:33.894-08:00Haunted Wisconsion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em><strong>The mansion was built in 1916 by Robert P. Lamont as a summer home for he and his family. Nestled on the shores of the lake, the house caught the cool breezes of northern Wisconsin and provided a comfortable place for Lamont to escape the pressures of everyday life in Washington D.C., as he would later go on to serve as the Secretary of Commerce under President Herbert Hoover.<br /> But life was not always sublime at Summerwind during the years of the Lamont family. For those who claim that the ghost stories of the house were "created" in later years, they forget the original tale of Robert Lamont’s encounter with a spirit. Legends of the house say that Lamont actually fired a pistol at a ghost that he believed was an intruder. The bullet holes in the basement door from the kitchen remained for many years.</strong></em></span></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Upon the death of Robert Lamont, the house was sold ... and sold again. It seemed that nothing out of the ordinary really happened there, save for Lamont’s encounter with the phantom intruder, until the early 1970's. It was in this period that the family living in the house was nearly destroyed ... supposedly by ghosts.</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Arnold Hinshaw, his wife Ginger, and their six children, moved into Summerwind in the early part of the 1970's. They would only reside in the house for six months, but it would be an eventful period of time.<br /><br /> From the day that they moved in, they knew strange things were going on in the house. It had been vacant for some time ... but it had apparently been occupied by otherworldly visitors. The Hinshaws, and their children, immediately started to report vague shapes and shadows flickering down the hallways. They also claimed to hear mumbled voices in darkened, empty rooms. When they would walk inside, the sounds would quickly stop. Most alarming was the ghost of the woman who was often seen floating back and forth just past some French doors that led off from the dining room.<br /><br /> The family wondered if they were simply imagining things but continued events convinced them otherwise. Appliances, a hot water heater and a water pump would mysteriously break down and then repair themselves before a serviceman could be called.<br /><br /> Windows and doors that were closed would reopen on their own. One particular window, which proved especially stubborn, would raise and lower itself at all hours. Out of desperation, Arnold drove a heavy nail through the window casing and it finally stayed closed.<br /><br /> On one occasion, Arnold walked out to his car to go to work and the vehicle suddenly burst into flames. No one was near it and it is unknown whether the source of the fire was supernatural in origin or not, but regardless, no cause was ever found for it.</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Despite the strange activity, the Hinshaws wanted to make the best of the historic house so they decided to hire some men to make a few renovations. It was most common for the workers to not show up for work, usually claiming illness, although a few of them simply told her that they refused to work on Summerwind ... which was reputed to be haunted. That was when the Hinshaws gave up and decided to try and do all of the work themselves.</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One day they began painting a closet in one of the bedrooms. A large shoe drawer was installed in the closet’s back wall and Arnold pulled it out so that he could paint around the edges of the frame. When he did, he noticed that there seemed to be a large, dark space behind the drawer.<br /><br /> Ginger brought him a flashlight and he wedged himself into the narrow opening as far as his shoulders. He looked around with the flashlight and then suddenly jumped back, scrambling away from the opening. He was both frightened and disgusted ... there was some sort of corpse jammed into the secret compartment!<br /><br /> Believing that an animal had crawled in there and died many years ago, Arnold tried to squeeze back in for a closer look. He couldn’t make out much of anything, so when the children came home from school, he recruited his daughter Mary to get a better look. Mary took the flashlight and crawled inside. Moments later, she let out a scream ... it was a human corpse! She uncovered a skull, still bearing dirty black hair, a brown arm and a portion of a leg.</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Why the Hinshaws never contacted the authorities about this body is unknown. Was the story concocted later to fit into the tales of "haunted" Summerwind? Or was their reasoning the truth ... that the body had been the result of a crime that took place many years ago, far too long for the police to do anything about it now.<br /><br /> Had they been thinking things through, they might have realized that this body might have been the cause of much of the supernatural activity in the house ... removing it might have laid the ghost to rest, so to speak.<br /><br /> Regardless, they left the corpse where they found it ... but it will figure into our story once again.</span></em></strong></div>
<strong><em><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Shortly after the discovery of the body in the hidden compartment, things started to take a turn for the worse at Summerwind.</span></em></strong><br />
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<strong><em><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Arnold began staying up very late at night and playing a Hammond organ that the couple had purchased before moving into the house. He had always enjoyed playing the organ, using it as a form of relaxation, but his playing now was different. His playing became a frenzied mixture of melodies that seemed to make no sense, and grew louder as the night wore on. Ginger pleaded with him to stop but Arnold claimed the demons in his head demanded that he play. He often crashed the keys on the organ until dawn, frightening his wife and children so badly that they often huddled together in one bedroom, crying and cowering in fear.<br /> Arnold had a complete mental breakdown and at the same time, Ginger attempted suicide.</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Were the stories of strange events at Summerwind merely the result of two disturbed minds? It might seem so ... but what about the children? They also reported the ghostly encounters. Were they simply influenced by their parents questionable sanity ... or were the stories real?<br /> The family’s connection with the house would continue for years to come.</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">While Arnold was sent away for treatment, Ginger and the children moved to Granton, Wisconsin to live with Ginger’s parents. Ginger and Arnold would eventually be divorced when it looked as though Arnold’s hopes for recovery were failing. Ginger later recovered her health, away from Summerwind at last, and she married a man named George Olsen.<br /> Things seemed to be going quite well for her in her new peaceful life, until a few years later, when her father announced that he was going to buy Summerwind.<br /><br /> Raymond Bober was a popcorn vendor and businessman who with his wife Marie, planned to turn the old mansion into a restaurant and an inn. He believed that the house would attract many guests to the scenic location on the lake.<br /><br /> They had no idea what had happened to their daughter in the house.</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ginger was horrified at her parent’s decision. She had never given them all of the details about what had happened during the six months that she had lived in the house and she refused to do so now. What she did do was to beg them not to buy Summerwind.<br /> Bober’s mind was made up however. He announced that he realized the house was haunted, but this would not deter him. He claimed that he had spent time at the house and knew the identity of the ghost that was haunting the place.<br /><br /> According to Bober, the ghost was a man named Jonathan Carver, an eighteenth century British explorer who was haunting the house and searching for an old deed that had been given to him by the Sioux Indians. In the document, he supposedly had the rights to the northern third of Wisconsin. The deed had supposedly been placed in a box and sealed into the foundation of Summerwind. Bober claimed that Carver had asked his help in finding it.<br /><br /> Bober wrote a book about his experiences at Summerwind and his communications with Carver through dreams, trances and a Ouija board. The book was published in 1979 under the name of Wolffgang von Bober and was called THE CARVER EFFECT. It is currently out-of-print and very hard to find.<br /><br /> Shortly after Bober bought the house, he, his son Karl, Ginger and her new husband, George, spent a day exploring and looking over the house. The group had wandered through the place and as they were leaving the second floor, George spotted the closet where the secret compartment was hidden. He began pulling out the drawers and looking behind them, although Ginger begged for him to stop.<br /><br /> George was confused. He had simply been curious as to what might be in the drawers. Up until then, Ginger had never told anyone about finding the body behind the closet. Sitting in the kitchen later, she would tell them everything.<br /><br /> After hearing the story, the men rushed back upstairs and returned to the closet. Ginger’s brother, Karl, climbed into the space with a light and looked around. In a few moments, he climbed back out ... it was empty!<br /><br /> Bober and George also inspected the small space and found nothing. Where had the corpse gone? Had it been removed, either by natural or supernatural forces?</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Toward the end of that Summer, Karl traveled alone to the old house. He had gone to get a repair estimate on some work to be done on the house and to check with someone about getting rid of the bats which were inhabiting the place. He also planned to do some yard work and to get the place cleaned up a little.<br /><br /> It started to rain the first day that he was there and he began closing some of the windows. He was upstairs, in the dark hallway, and heard a voice call his name. He looked around but there was no one there. Karl closed the window and went downstairs. He walked into the front room and heard what sounded like two pistol shots! He ran into the kitchen and found the room filled with smoke and the acrid smell of gunpowder ... apparently someone had fired a gun inside of the house!<br /><br /> Karl searched the place, finding the doors locked and undisturbed. There appeared to be no one inside and he returned to the kitchen. He began looking around the room and discovered two bullet holes in the door leading down to the basement. He examined them closely and realized that they were not new holes at all ... but old bullet holes that had worn smooth around the edges.<br /><br /> They were apparently holes left behind from Robert Lamont’s encounter with a ghost in the kitchen. Perhaps events from the past were replaying themselves at Summerwind!<br /> No matter what the explanation, it was enough for Karl and he left the house that afternoon.</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The plans to turn the house into a restaurant did not go smoothly. Workmen refused to stay on the job, complaining of tools disappearing and feelings as if they were being watched. Marie Bober agreed with their complaints. She was always uneasy in the house and frequently told people that she felt as if she was followed from place to place whenever she was inside.<br /> Most disturbing to Bober however was the apparent shrinkage and expansion of the house. Bober would measure rooms one day and then find that they were a different size the next day. Usually, his measurements were larger than those given in the blueprints of the house ... sometime greatly larger. At one point, Bober estimated that he could seat 150 people in his restaurant but after laying out his plans on the blueprints of Summerwind, he realized that the place could seat half that many.<br /><br /> Photographs that were taken of the house, using the same camera and taken only seconds apart, also displayed the variations of space. The living room was said to show the greatest enlargement.<br /><br /> Bober compared his photos of the living room with those that Ginger had taken when she and Arnold moved in. Ginger’s photos showed curtains on the windows that she took with her when she moved out. The curtains were physically absent in the room that Bober photographed ... but somehow they appeared in his photos!<br /><br /> Like the incident involving Karl and the pistol shots, could Summerwind be a place where time inexplicably repeats itself? Perhaps the place wasn’t haunted at all, but instead, was a mysterious site where time was distorted in ways that we cannot understand. Perhaps the shadows and figures that were seen could have been people or images from the past (or the future) and perhaps the sound of someone calling Karl’s name would happen in reality ... several months later.<br /><br /> We will never know for sure now, but the idea is something worth considering.</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Eventually, the project was abandoned and Bober would never see the dream of his restaurant and inn. Strangely though, despite his claims that he was an earthly companion of the ghostly Jonathan Carver, the Bobers never spent the night inside of the house. They chose instead to sleep in an RV that they parked on the grounds. Also strange was the fact that Carver (if the ghost existed) chose to manifest himself in such malevolent ways ... especially if he was looking for help in finding his deed.<br /><br /> Bober’s explanation for this was that Carver resented anyone living in the house or trying to renovate the place, at least until the deed was found. Bober spent many days searching the basement for where the deed might be hidden, chipping the foundation and peering into dark holes and crevices.<br /><br /> To this day, the mysterious deed has never been found.</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the years that followed Bober’s abandonment of Summerwind, a number of skeptics came forward to poke holes in some of Bober’s claims. Many of their counter-claims, however, have been nearly as easy to discredit as some of Bober’s original ones.<br /><br /> Obviously, we are never going to know for sure if Summerwind was really haunted. The house is gone now and we are left with only the claims, reports and witness accounts of Bober and his family.<br /><br /> We can examine the claims of the family, and the skeptics, and try to make sense of it all.</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In 1983, a freelance writer named Will Pooley set out to gather the facts behind the story and discredit it. His research claimed that even if Bober had found Carver’s deed, it would have been worthless. He based these findings on the fact that the British government ruled against an individual’s purchase of Indian land and also that the Sioux had never claimed land west of the Mississippi River.<br /><br /> First of all, the land was not sold to Carver, it was given to him in return for assistance that he had given to the Indians, so British law would not have ruled against this. On the other subject, the Sioux Indians were not a single tribe, they were an entire nation, made up of many different tribes. It is possible, and very likely, that one tribe that belonged to the Sioux nation could have lived in Wisconsin. The white settlers pushed the Indians further and further west and as this particular tribe abandoned their lands, they could have deeded them to Carver.<br /><br /> Pooley also argued that the deed to the property had been located in the old land office in Wausau, Wisconsin in the 1930's and that it is unlikely that Carver even journeyed as far north as West Bay Lake.<br /><br /> But would he have had to have traveled to northern Wisconsin to hold a deed to the land? And why would there not have been another deed filed for that piece of land? Someone could have claimed it many years later, not even realizing that Carver already held the title to it.<br /><br /> He also argued that the deed could have never been placed in the foundation of the house anyway ... Summerwind had been built more than 130 years after Carver died. To this, it can only be argued that many events of the supernatural world go unexplained.<br /><br /> One man that Pooley did talk to however, was Herb Dickman of Land 'O Lakes, Wisconsin. He had helped pour the foundation for the house in 1916 and recalled that nothing had been placed in the foundation ... a box containing a deed or anything else. So, who really knows?</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Apparently, Bober was not always the most credible person either. Residents who lived close to Summerwind said that Bober spent less than two summers at the estate. After abandoning plans for the restaurant, he tried to get a permit to operate a concession stand near the house but local ordinances prohibited this. Perhaps he was planning the idea of tours of the "haunted" house ... and idea that would come along a little later.<br /><br /> There was even some uncertainty as to whether or not Bober even owned Summerwind. One area resident told Pooley that Bober had tried to buy the house on a contract-for-deed but the deal had fallen through. The house had been abandoned and no one laid claim to it, save for the bank, and they never realized what Bober was up to out there. This story has never been verified however and it cannot be proven that Bober did not own the place.<br /><br /> So how much of the story that Bober wrote about in his book is true? Was the house really haunted, or was the story of the haunting merely a part of a scheme by Raymond Bober to draw crowds to a haunted restaurant?</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #b45f06;">Ghostly tales began to be told at Johnston Hall in the 1960's. According to the legends, two Jesuits committed suicide from the fifth floor balcony of the building and have been haunting the place ever since. Students have reported seeing pale faces of two figures in fifth floor windows, have experienced plunging temperatures, unexplained footsteps and voices, and say that cameras or other recording equipment frequently fail to work. Two years ago newspaper staff spent the night on the fifth floor and according to their stories, captured a "strange human figure" on film and heard voices that they could not explain. </span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #b45f06;">Or could the building have been haunted long before the two Jesuit's deaths? The stories also say that the spirit of a Native American man also haunts the basement and lower levels of the building. He is said to be angry about the fact that Johnston Hall sits atop land that was once used as a burial ground for the Mascountens tribe. This ghost's appearances are always accompanied by extreme cold and a pale blue light. </span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #b45f06;">Cobeen Hall is another reportedly haunted spot on campus. According to the Marquette Tribune, "The ghost is an art critic. If he likes the room's occupants, he leaves them alone; if he dislikes the residents, he tears down any posters they try to hang." </span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #b45f06;">Across the street is Tower Hall, a former hotel in the 1950s. One day when the hotel was still in operation, a fire swept through the building and killed a young boy of about seven or eight. The stories say that this boy is seen every few years, peering out the windows or calling for help from people on the street below. </span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #b45f06;">The Varsity Theatre down the street features a lurid tale, wrote Michael McGraw in his article in the Marquette Tribune. A projector operator once took a smoking break near a large ventilation fan in a hallway off the balcony. Somehow his clothing was caught up in the rapidly rotating fan and the young man was sliced to pieces. He's never seen (thankfully), but often renders help, turning on lights and locking doors workers forget to latch.</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #b45f06;">Marquette's Humphrey Hall served as the Milwaukee Children's Hospital until 1988, when it was converted into campus housing. The upper floors of the building were renovated but the lobby downstairs remains virtually the same as it was back when it was a hospital. In fact, the bakery in the lobby fronts the former emergency room doors, which remain closed to students and staff alike. And while the living do not walk past them, perhaps the dead do?</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #b45f06;">The most famous ghost of the building is that of a little girl in a white hospital gown who wanders about on the fifth floor. She walks about, lost in her own world, but if she suspects that she is seen by one of the students who lives here, she runs away. She then vanishes around a corner or into a room, even passing through a solid door. In addition to this little ghost, loud screams and the crying of children can often be heard in the night and sometimes disturb the sleep of the building's current residents. Public Safety officers never find anything out of the ordinary in response to calls , nor can they ever find a trace of another young girl who sometimes appears on video security cameras monitoring the building's rear entrance.</span></em></strong></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>And while this may also be nothing more than a school, a very real suicide took place at Kemper Hall in 1900. In the early days of that year, a Sister Augusta came from Chicago to attend an annual retreat at the seminary. While she was in Kenosha, she vanished without a trace, leaving nothing behind save for her handbag, crucifix and her insignia of holy Sisterhood. When it was learned that she was gone, the authorities were alerted and telegrams were sent to Chicago and to St. Louis, where he family lived. On January 5, a message came from Kemper Hall that the mystery of Sister Augusta had been solved. They told newspaper reporters and the police that she was safely in Springfield, Missouri. This would later turn out to be blatantly false.</em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>A little before noon on January 8, a little girl named Bertha Smith and her younger brother were playing on the beach at the east end of Seminary Street (65th Place) when they spotted the black robes of Sister Augusta floating in the water. They ran home and told the mother and she called the police. The drenched robes were clinging to the lifeless body of the missing nun. She had been battered by the waves but her friends were able to identify her. During the inquest that followed, many of them spoke of her strange behavior on the night she vanished... behavior that had been covered up by the administration at Kemper Hall. According to testimony, Sister Augusta had become "mentally deranged from her work, which had been exceedingly hard during the last few months". She had requested time off and it had been granted so why she chose to take her own life is unknown. Two young girls testified that they had seen her walking on the beach on the night of January 2 and this was the last time that she was seen alive.</em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>The coroner's jury ruled her death a suicide and she was laid to rest in her habit. The body was then taken to St. Louis, where her sister and her family buried her in Bellefontaine Cemetery. Is it possible that Sister Augusta might be the ghostly nun who has been seen wandering about Kemper Hall in recent years? </em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>There have been other sightings of ghostly apparitions and weird incidents as well. One afternoon in the 1930's, a bakery worker at the school spotted a phantom dressed in a brown skirt clutching the railing of a stairwell. When she ran to tell the other kitchen employees of her encounter and then returned to the staircase, the figure was gone. </em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>In 1985, a member of the Lakeside Players theater group had a strange encounter in Kemper Hall. She was standing inside of the old gymnasium when she stated that she sensed a presence in the back of the room... as if someone were watching her. When she turned, she caught a flicker of movement out of the corner of her eye and then the sound of scraping and footsteps climbing up the balcony staircase. The stairs were empty at the time and a search of the building revealed that no one else was present!</em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>In October 1997, a crew from the local television news station (Channel Four) filmed a Halloween-related story inside of Kemper Hall. According to a source, the photographer who edited the tape began to experience bizarre problems with the tape that was shot. He was inside of the editing bay and each time that the tape would reach a portrait of founder Charles Durkee, the tape would go berserk. It would roll, and begin flashing with static, and then return to normal when the shot changed. Several co-workers came in to observe the problem and it happened every time. No one could explain why it happened.</em></strong></span></div>
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<strong><em>The Grand Opera House first opened its doors on August 9, 1883 and the first production here was called "The Bohemian Girl", a popular opera of the period. There were four different periods of entertainment during the heyday of the Grand. The first was grand opera, followed by traveling road shows, vaudeville (which ended in 1930) and then motion pictures. </em></strong></div>
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<strong><em>During the early days, the theater played host to performers like Houdini (who grew up in nearby Appleton), Enrico Caruso, the Marx Brothers, Mark Twain, Charlie Chaplin and even Susan B. Anthony appeared here during her touring days in favor of women's rights. But as time passed, the theater fell into decline and by the late 1970's had become an X-rated movie house. Luckily, in 1979, fund raising and restoration efforts began to save the old place. The theater finally re-opened in 1986.<br /><br /> When the theater did re-open however, there were new stories to tell about it's past. These stories were more on the mysterious side and involved the numerous ghost sightings and bizarre happenings that had taken place during the restoration work. Not surprisingly, the tales of ghosts and spirits still continue to be told today. </em></strong></div>
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<strong><em> Members of a local theater group called the Drama Lab had many strange encounters here in the 1980's with slamming doors, mysterious footsteps and other happenings. One actor rushed into a dressing room one night and came face to face with a man in old fashioned clothing who was holding a playbill from a show done in 1895.</em></strong></div>
<strong><em>Another man was working in the balcony one night when he heard footsteps coming up the stairs. When no one appeared, he looked around the corner and saw that the staircase was empty.<span style="font-family: "lucida sans";">Recent reports claim that the ghost here is the spirit of a man named Percy Keene, a stage manager of the theater. In 1977, a film crew reported that they saw a man standing in the balcony looking down at them with a friendly smile. The apparition matched the appearance of Percy Keene from his haircut to his small, round glasses. He had been the stage manager at the theater from 1895 until his death in 1967. He is said to still be watching over his beloved theater.</span></em></strong><br />
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Margaret Alicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14669535558382116366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5347609690523818501.post-18563336100320852012015-05-11T19:13:00.001-07:002015-05-11T19:45:26.234-07:00I dont usually do this <span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><b><i>Hey guys im trying to get better but so far i am in the hospital again staying the night im on oxygen cause i cant go without it, the blood clots while they have left my right lung are still in the left lung and have caused damage to the lower part which will cause scar tissue to develop, as well as fluid the left lung. Tomorrow i will be in surgery, </i></b></span><i style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"><b>and have a tube placed in my lung to get rid of the blood clots and fluid, I'm on blood thinners too so that could be a dangerous surgery. They have asked me twice now if i have a last will and testament.</b></i><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><i><b> so im asking of this (which i dont normally do) please send me your prayers and well wishes, and resend this post only to all your friends and family please.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><i><b>Thanks in advanced with all my love Alexandrea New (Margaret Alice).</b></i></span>Margaret Alicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14669535558382116366noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5347609690523818501.post-8592748001950536112015-04-22T17:27:00.005-07:002015-04-25T12:07:01.760-07:00The truth behind Room 1408<div>
<i style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;">While being a writer I'm taught that there is always some truth in fictional stories. Last night and today I have watched Room 1408 based off the book by Stephen King, and decided to see what I could come up with. so here it is, I hope you all enjoy. </span></span></b></i></div>
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<b><i><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;"> P</span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">arapsychologist, ‘Christopher Chacon’, and his team. Who using a wide mix of ghost hunting gadgetry, from infrared cameras, through to devices that monitor changes in temperature,</span> <span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">magnetic fields, and that can detect electronic emissions. Recorded no less than 37 abnormalities, within room 3502. And it was from the reports of these unusual occurrences within room 3502, of the Hotel Del Coronado, that Stephen King found his inspiration.</span></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As with the Dolphin Hotel, feelings of unease are said to be experienced long before reaching room 3502 of the Hotel Del Coronado. Where ‘phantoms’ have reportedly been seen lurking the hallways, and specters have been witnessed climbing, and descending the stairs. Cleaning staff are said to often work in pairs out of fear of what they’ve seen previous, and as within the movie 1408, the Hotel Del Coronado, has been the setting of a number of suicides. The most notorious of which is the suicide of ‘Kate Morgan’, who in 1892 is said to have been found on the steps of the hotel leading to the ocean. With a gun in her hand, and a bullet in her head. She had been staying in room 3312, another room that is said to experience 'unusual' phenomenon.</span></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Room 3502, the room where Christopher Chacon and his team recorded numerous anomalies, is said to have been the private love nest of the Hotel Del Coronado’s builder himself, ‘E. S. Babcock’, and his mistress. But while the ‘haunting’ of room 3312 is attributed to the spirit of Kate Morgan’, nobody really knows why room 3502 is seemingly at the centre of events within the Hotel Del Coronado. And with stories from those who have dared to stay there ranging from flickering lights, and toilets flushing by themselves, through to the electrical equipment of a radio crew that tried to broadcast from within the room failing, the account of a secret service agent who was unable to make it through the night inside 3502, the disappearance of a maid who was never seen again, and the suicide of the hotel builders mistress. Room 3502 certainly lives up to its reputation, as the dark heart of the Hotel Del Coronado. A place where only the brave, and the foolish alike, dare to lay their heads for the night.</span></span></i></b></div>
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<i><b><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">kalaupapa, Hawaii is a small unincorporated community on the island of <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Moloka<span class="unicode" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ʻ</span>i in the u.s. state of Hawaii. </span></span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The village is the site of a former settlement for leprosy patients. The original leper<a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leper_colony" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Leper colony"> </a>colony was first established in kalawao in the east, opposite to the village corner of the peninsula. It was there where Father<a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Damien" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Father Damien"> </a>Damien settled in 1873. Later it was moved to the location of the current village, which was originally a Hawaiian fishing village. The settlement was also attended by Mother<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Marianne_Cope" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Mother Marianne Cope"> Marianne </a>Cope, among others. At its peak, about 1,200 men, women, and children were in exile in this island prison. The isolation law was enacted by king kamehamea<a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamehameha_V" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Kamehameha V"> </a>V and remained in effect until 1969, when it was finally repealed. Today, about fourteen former sufferers of leprosy (which is also known as Hansen's Disease) continue to live there. The colony is now part of kalaupapa<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalaupapa_National_Historical_Park" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Kalaupapa National Historical Park"> National Historical </a>Park.</span></span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">Hart island is a small island in New York City, the island has been used as a union civil war prison camp, Lunatic Asylum, Tuberculosis sanatorium, Potters field, a boys reformatory, and a Nike Missile base.</span></b></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: #b45f06; font-size: large;"><i><b>Hart Island was a prisoner of war camp for four months in 1865. 3,413 captured Confederate soldiers were housed on the island. 235 died in the camp, and their remains, along with those of Union soldiers buried there, were moved to Cypress<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypress_Hills_Cemetery,_Brooklyn" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn"> Hills cemetery, </a>Brooklyn in 1941.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: #b45f06; font-size: large;"><i><b>At various times, the <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Department_of_Correction" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="New York City Department of Correction">Department of </a>Correction has used the island for a prison, but it is currently uninhabited. Access is controlled by the Department of Correction. However a bill (0848) transferring jurisdiction to the <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Department_of_Parks_and_Recreation" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="New York City Department of Parks and Recreation">New York City Department of Parks and Recreation</a> was introduced on April 30, 2012. The Hart Island Project testified in favor of this bill on September 27, 2012. Bill 803 requires the Department of Correction to post its database of burials on-line. Bill 804 requires the Department of Correction to post its visitation policy on-line.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A trench at the potter's field on Hart Island, circa 1890 by <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Riis" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Jacob Riis">Jacob Riis</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><b><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">Hart Island is the location of a 101-acre (0.41 km<sup style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2</sup>) potters field for New York City, the largest tax-funded cemetery in the world. Burials on Hart Island began during the American Civil War. Hart Island was sold to New York City in 1869. The city then began using it as a cemetery when a 24-year-old woman named Louisa Van Slyke was the first person to be buried in the island's 45-acre (180,000 m<sup style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2</sup>) public graveyard. Burials of unknowns were in single plots, and identified adults and children were buried in mass graves. In 1913, adults and children under five were buried in separate mass graves. Unknowns are mostly adults. They are frequently disinterred when families are able to locate their relatives through photographs and fingerprints kept on file at the Office of the Medical Examiner. Adults are buried in trenches with three sections of 48 individuals to make disinterment easier. Children, mostly infants, are rarely disinterred and are buried in trenches of 1,000.</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><b><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">Hart Island's southern end continued to accommodate the living up until Phoenix House moved in 1976. In 1977, the island was vandalized and many burial records were destroyed by a fire. Remaining records were transferred to the Municipal Archives in Manhattan. People were quarantined there during the 1870 yellow fever epidemic and at various times Hart Island has been home to a women's lunatic asylum (The Pavilion, 1885), a tubercularium, delinquent boys, and during the Cold War, Nike missiles.</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><b><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">More than one million dead are buried there—now approximately 1,500 a year. One third of them are infants and stillborn babies - which has been reduced from one half since children's health insurance began to cover all pregnant women in New York State. In 2005 there were 1,419 burials in the potter's field on Hart Island, including 826 adults, 546 infants and stillborn babies, and 47 burials of dismembered body parts. The dead are buried in trenches. Babies are placed in coffins of various sizes, and are stacked five coffins high and usually twenty coffins across. Adults are placed in larger pine boxes placed according to size and are stacked three coffins high and two coffins across. Burial records on microfilm at the Municipal Archives in Manhattan indicate that babies and adults were buried together in mass graves up until 1913 when the trenches became separate in order to facilitate the more common disinterment of adults. The potter's field is also used to dispose of amputated body parts, which are placed in boxes labeled "limbs". Ceremonies have not been conducted at the burial site since the 1950s, and no individual markers are set except for the first child to die of AIDS in New York City who was buried in isolation. In the past, burial trenches were re-used after 25–50 years, allowing for sufficient decomposition of the remains. Currently, historic buildings are being torn down to make room for new burials.</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><b><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">Because of the number of weekly interments made at the potter's field and the expense to the taxpayers, these mass burials are straightforward and conducted by Rikers island inmates. Those interred on Hart Island are not necessarily homeless or indigent, as hearsay has it, but people who could either not afford the expenses of private funerals or who were unclaimed by relatives who are frequently not notified within a two-week period. Approximately fifty percent of the burials are children under five who are identified and died in New York City's hospitals. The mothers of these children are generally unaware of what it means to sign papers authorizing a "City Burial." These women as well as siblings often go looking many years later. Many others have families who live abroad or out of state and whose relatives search for years. Their search is made more difficult because burial records are currently kept within the prison system. An investigation into the handling of the infant burials was opened in response to a criminal complaint made to the New York State Attorney General's Office on April 1, 2009.</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><b><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">In 2009 the digital mapping of grave trenches using the Global<a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Global Positioning System"> </a>Positioning System was started. In 2013 the New York City of the Department of Correction created a searchable database on its website of the people buried on the island starting in 1977 and it contains 66,000 entries.</span></b></i></span></div>
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<i><b><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A Freedom of information Act request for 50,000 burial records was granted the <span class="new" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hart Island Project</span> in 2008. The 1403 pages provided by the Department of Correction contain lists of all burials from 1985-2007. A second FOI request for records from September 1, 1977 to December 31, 1984 was submitted to the Department of Correction on June 2, 2008. New York City has located 502 pages from that period and they will soon be available to the public.</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> A lawsuit concerning "place of death" information redacted from the Hart Island burial records was filed against New York City on July 11, 2008 by the Law Office of David B. Rankin. It was settled out of court in January 2009. Only private addresses are now redacted from publicly available records, according to the NYC tax code. On May 10, 2010, New York Poets read the names of people buried and located through the Hart Island Project.</span></span></b></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><b><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">The New York department of transportation runs a single ferry to the island from the Fordham Street pier on City Island. Prison labor from Rikers Island is used for burial details, paid at 50 cents an hour. Inmates stack the pine coffins in two rows, three high and 25 across, and each plot is marked with a single concrete marker. The first pediatric AIDS victim to die in New York City is buried in the only single grave on Hart Island with a concrete marker that reads SC (special child) B1 (Baby 1) 1985. A tall white peace monument erected by New York City prison inmates following World War II is at the top of what was known as "Cemetery Hill" prior to the installation of the now abandoned Nike Missile Base at the northern end of Hart Island.</span></b></i></span></div>
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<i><b><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Jewish playwright, film screenwriter, and director Leo<a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Birinski" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Leo Birinski"> </a>birinski</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> was buried here in 1951, when he died alone and in poverty.</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> The American novelist Dawn</span><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Powell" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Dawn Powell"> </a>Powell<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> was buried on Hart Island in 1970, five years after her death, when the executor of her estate refused to reclaim her remains. Academy Award winner bobby</span><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Driscoll" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Bobby Driscoll"> </a>Driscoll<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> was also buried here when he died in 1968 because no one was able to identify his remains when he was found dead in an East village tenement.</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> His daughter, Aaren Keely, submitted a poem in his memory to the Hart Island Project.</span></span></b></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><b><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">In the late 19th century Hart Island became the location of a boys' workhouse which was an extension of the prison and almshouse on Blackwell's Island, now Roosevelt<a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Island" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Roosevelt Island"> </a>island. There is a section of old wooden houses and masonry institutional structures dating back to the late 19th and early 20th ce</span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">nturies that have fallen into disrepair. These are now being torn down to provide new ground for burials. Military barracks from the Civil War period were used prior to the construction of workhouse and hospital facilities. None of the original Civil War Period buildings are still standing. In the early 20th century, Hart Island housed about two thousand delinquent boys as well as old male prisoners from Blackwell's penitentiary. This prison population moved to Rikers Island when the prison on Welfare<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_Island" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Welfare Island"> </a>island (formerly Blackwell's Island) was torn down in 1936. Remaining on Hart Island is a building constructed in 1885 as a women's insane asylum, the Pavilion, as well as Phoenix House, a drug rehabilitation facility that closed in 1976.</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;"><i><b>Deadmans island is south of Stanley's park in coal harbor Vancouver, British Colombia. it has been a battle site, a native tree burial cemetery, its been used for squatters and the smallpox epidemic, today it is used as a Naval Reserve.</b></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;"><i><b> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">One of Vancouver's first white settlers, John Morton, visited the island in 1862. Morton discovered hundreds of red<a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuja_plicata" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Thuja plicata"> </a>cedarboxes lashed to the upper boughs of trees and one had evidently fallen and broken to reveal a jumble of bones and a tassel of black hair. The island was the tree-burail grounds. Undeterred, Morton took a fancy to the island and attempted to acquire it. He changed his mind when Chief<a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Capilano" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Joe Capilano"> </a>Capilano</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">pointed out that the island was "dead ground" and was a scene of a bloody battle between rival tribes in which some two hundred warriors were killed. It's said that "fire-flower" grew up at once where they fell, frightening the foe into retreat.</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The macabre name of the island is thought to reflect this history.</span></b></i></span><br />
<i><b><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Settlers continued to use the island as a cemetery prior to the 1887 opening of</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Mountain</span><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_View_Cemetery_(Vancouver)" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Mountain View Cemetery (Vancouver)"> </a>View cemetery<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">. Between 1888 and 1892, Deadman Island became a quarantine site for victims of a</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> smallpox</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-size: large;">epidemic and burial ground for those who did not survive</span>.</span></span></b></i><br />
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<i><b><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">Okinawa island, Japan. <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The time when human beings first appeared in Okinawa remains unknown. Since that time, there have probably been immigrants from China, Japan, Australia, and elsewhere.</span></span></b></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><b><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">Okinawa midden culture or shell<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_heap" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Shell heap"> </a>heap culture is divided into the early shell heap period. In the former, it was a hunter<a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter-gatherer" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Hunter-gatherer">-</a>gatherer society, with wave-like opening Jomon<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jomon_pottery" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Jomon pottery"> </a>pottery. In the latter part of Jomon period, archaeological<a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeological_site" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Archaeological site"> </a>sites moved near the seashore, suggesting the engagement of people in fishery. In Okinawa, rice was not cultivated during the Yayoi period but began during the latter period of shell-heap age. Shell rings for arms made of shells obtained in the sakishima<a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakishima_Islands" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Sakishima Islands"> </a>islands, namely Miyakojima and yaeyama islands, were imported by Japan. In these islands, the presence of shell axes, 2500 years ago, suggests the influence of a southeastern-Pacific culture.</span></b></i></span></div>
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<i><b><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">After the midden</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">culture, agriculture started about the 12th century, with the center moving from the seashore to higher places. This period is called the gusuku period. Gu</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">su</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ku</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">is the term used for the distinctive Okinawan form of castles or fortresses. Many gusukus and related cultural remains in the Ryukyu Islands have been listed by UNESCO as</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> World</span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Heritage_Sites" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="World Heritage Sites"> </a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Heritage sites</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">under the title Gusuku</span> <span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu. There are three perspectives regarding the nature of gusukus: 1) a holy place, 2) dwellings encircled by stones, 3) a castle of a leader of people. In this period, porce</span></span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">lain</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">trade between Okinawa and other countries became busy, and Okinawa became an important relay point in eastern-Asian trade. Ryukyuan kings, such as</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> shun</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ten</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">and</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Eiso</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">, were considered to be important governors. An attempted Mongolian invasion in 1291 during the Eiso Dynasty ended in failure.</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Hir</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">a</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">gana</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">was imported from Japan by</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Ganjin</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">in 1265.</span><span style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Noro</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">, female shaman or priests (as in shintoism), appeared.</span></span></b></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><b><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">In 1429, King <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8D_Hashi" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Shō Hashi">Shō Hashi</a> completed the unification of the three kingdoms and founded one Ryūkyū</span> <span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">Kingdom with its capital at Shuri Castle. The Chinese Ming<a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_dynasty" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Ming dynasty"> </a>dynasty</span></b></i></span><i><b><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">sent 36 families from</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Fu</span>jian<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">at the request of the Ryukyuan King. Their job was to manage maritime dealings in the kingdom in 1392 during the</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Hongwu</span><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hongwu_Emperor" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Hongwu Emperor"> </a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Em</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">pe</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ror</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'s reign. Many Ryukyuan officials were descended from these Chinese immigrants, being born in China or having Chinese ancestors. They assisted in the Ryukyuans in developing their technology and diplomatic relations.</span></span></b></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><b><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">In the 17th century, the kingdom was both a tributary of China and a tributary of Japan. Because China would not make a formal trade agreement unless a country was a tributary state, the kingdom was a convenient loophole for Japanese trade with China. When Japan officially closed off trade with European nations except the Dutch, Nagasaki and Ryūkyū became the only Japanese trading ports offering connections with the outside world.</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><b><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">In 1879, Japan annexed the entire Ryukyu archipelago. Thus, the Ryūkyū <span style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">han</span> was abolished and replaced by Okinawa<a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa_Prefecture" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Okinawa Prefecture"> </a>Prefecture by the Meiji government. The monarchy in shuri was abolished and the deposed king <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8D_Tai" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Shō Tai">Shō Tai</a> (1843–1901) was forced to relocate to Tokyo.</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><b><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">The island of Okinawa was the site of most of the ground warfare in the battle of Okinawa during World War II, when American Army and Marine Corps troops fought a long and bloody battle to capture Okinawa, so it could next be used as the major air force and troop base for the planned invasion of Japan. During this 82-day-long battle, about 95,000 imperial<a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Army" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Imperial Japanese Army"> </a>Japanese Army troops and 12,510 Americans were killed. The Cornerstone of peace at the Okinawa Prefecture Memorial Peace Park lists 149,193 persons of Okinawan origin - approximately one quarter of the civilian population - who either died or committed suicide during the Battle of Okinawa and the Pacific<a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_War" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Pacific War"> </a>War.</span></b></i></span></div>
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<i><b><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">Ellis island, New Jersey. <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">was the gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States as the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 until 1954. The island was greatly expanded with land<a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_reclamation" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Land reclamation"> </a>reclamation between 1892 and 1934. Before that, the much smaller original island was the site of Fort Gibson and later a naval magazine. The island was made part of the statue of Liberty <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty_National_Monument" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Statue of Liberty National Monument"> </a>National Monument in 1965, and has hosted a museum of immigration since 1990. Long considered part of New York, a 1998 United States Supreme Court decision found that most of the island is in New Jersey. The south side of the island, home to the Ellis island immigrant hospital, is closed to the general public and the object of restoration efforts spearheaded by save Ellis island.</span></span></b></i></div>
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<br />Margaret Alicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14669535558382116366noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5347609690523818501.post-86161957461277488382014-10-20T16:02:00.008-07:002014-10-23T17:24:06.448-07:00Top Best Haunted Attractions Around the U.S <span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i>All websites will be posted underneath the name of the Haunted attraction, so you can see what days they are opened and their times, always you can buy tickets. </i></b></span><br />
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<b style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><i> Insanitarium, Pison, Alabama: <u><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_pinson_Alabama_insanitarium">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_pinson_Alabama_insanitarium</a></u> </i></b><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i>Fairbanks Asylum, Fairbanks, Alaska: <a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_fairbanks_Alaska_fairbanks_asylum">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_fairbanks_Alaska_fairbanks_asylum</a></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>AZ field of screams, Glendale Arizona: <a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_glendale_Arizona_az_field_of_screams_">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_glendale_Arizona_az_field_of_screams_</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i><b>The Torture chamber, Benton, Arkansas:</b></i></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i><b><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_benton_Arkansas_the_torture_chamber">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_benton_Arkansas_the_torture_chamber</a> </b></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i><b>Fear overload scream Park, San Leandro, California:</b></i></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><i><b><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_san_leandro_California_fear_overload_haunted">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_san_leandro_California_fear_overload_haunted</a></b></i></span><br />
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<i style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>City of the Dead Haunted House, Henderson, Colorado:</b></i><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i>Dark Manor Haunted House, Norwich, Connecticut:</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_norwich_Connecticut_dark_manor_haunted">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_norwich_Connecticut_dark_manor_haunted</a></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>The Haunted <i>Barn N Trail, Camden Wyoming, Delaware:</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_camden_wyoming_Delaware_the_haunted_barn">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_camden_wyoming_Delaware_the_haunted_barn</a></b></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Legends A Haunting at Old Town, Kissimmee, Florida: </b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_kissimmee_Florida_legends_a_haunting_6606">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_kissimmee_Florida_legends_a_haunting_6606</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i>Netherworld Haunted House, Norcross, Georgia:</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_norcross_Georgia_netherworld_haunted_house">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_norcross_Georgia_netherworld_haunted_house</a></b></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Haunted Stadium, Aiea, Hawaii:</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i>Dr. Slaughters House of Terror, Idaho Falls, Idaho:</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_idaho_falls_idaho_dr__slaughter_s_house_of_terror">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_idaho_falls_idaho_dr__slaughter_s_house_of_terror</a></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Statesville Haunted Prison, Crest Hill, Illinois:</b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_crest_hill_Illinois_statesville_haunted_prison">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_crest_hill_Illinois_statesville_haunted_prison</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i>Haunted Hotel 13th Floor, Huntington, Indiana:</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i><b><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_huntington_Indiana_haunted_hotel_13th">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_huntington_Indiana_haunted_hotel_13th</a></b></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i>Tormented Souls Haunt, Madrid, Iowa:</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_madrid_iowa_tormented_souls_haunt">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_madrid_iowa_tormented_souls_haunt</a></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i><b>Zombie Toxin, Junction City, Kansas: </b></i></span>
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_junction_city_Kansas_zombie_toxin">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_junction_city_Kansas_zombie_toxin</a></i></b></span>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i><b>Sinister Tombs Haunted House, Eastview, Kentucky: </b></i></span>
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i><b><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_eastview_Kentucky_sinister_tombs_haunted">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_eastview_Kentucky_sinister_tombs_haunted</a></b></i></span>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i><b>The 13th Gate, Baton Rouge, Louisiana: </b></i></span>
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i><b><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_baton_rouge_Louisiana_the_13th_gate">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_baton_rouge_Louisiana_the_13th_gate</a></b></i></span>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i>Destination Haunt, Lebanon, Maine:</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i><b><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_lebanon_Maine_destination_haunt">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_lebanon_Maine_destination_haunt</a></b></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i>Bennett's Curse, Jessup, Maryland: </i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_jessup_Maryland_bennett_curse_hauntedwww_bennettscurse_com">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_jessup_Maryland_bennett_curse_hauntedwww_bennettscurse_com</a></i></b></span><br />
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<b style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><i>The Darkness, Saint Louis, Missouri:</i></b><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_saint_louis_Missouri_the_darkness">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_saint_louis_Missouri_the_darkness</a></i></b></span><br />
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<b style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><i>The Haunting of Barrett Park, Leominster, Massachusetts: </i></b><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_leominster_Massachusetts_the_haunting_of">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_leominster_Massachusetts_the_haunting_of</a></i></b></span>
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<b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Phobia House, Plainwell, Michigan:</span>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_plainwell_Michigan_phobia_house">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_plainwell_Michigan_phobia_house</a><br /><br /></span></i></b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i>Erebus, pontiac, Michigan: </i></b></span>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_pontiac_Michigan_erebus_haunted_attraction">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_pontiac_Michigan_erebus_haunted_attraction</a></i></b></span>
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /><br /><b><i>Fright Farm Haunted House, Maplewood, Minnesota:</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_maplewood_Minnesota_fright_farm_haunted"><b><i>http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_maplewood_Minnesota_fright_farm_haunted</i></b></a></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i>Bailey Haunted Firehouse, Meridian, Mississippi:</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_meridian_Mississippi_bailey_haunted_firehouse"><b><i>http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_meridian_Mississippi_bailey_haunted_firehouse</i></b></a></span><br />
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<b style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><i>Dr. Slaughters Horror Hospital, Havre, Montana:</i></b><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_havre_montana_dr__slaughter_s_horror_hospital">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_havre_montana_dr__slaughter_s_horror_hospital</a></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i>Haunted Hollow, La Vista, Nebraska: </i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_la_vista_Nebraska_haunted_hollow"><b><i>http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_la_vista_Nebraska_haunted_hollow</i></b></a></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i>Hotel Fear, Las Vegas, Nevada: </i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_n_las_vegas_Nevada_hotel_fear">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_n_las_vegas_Nevada_hotel_fear</a></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Fright Kingdom, Nashua, New Hampshire:</b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_nashua_New_Hampshire_fright_kingdom_50">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_nashua_New_Hampshire_fright_kingdom_50</a></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Haunted Overload, Leo, New Hampshire:</b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_lee_New_Hampshire_haunted_overload">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_lee_New_Hampshire_haunted_overload</a></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Destination Haunt, Lebanon, New Hampshire:</b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i><b><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_lebanon_Maine_destination_haunt">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_lebanon_Maine_destination_haunt</a></b></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Haunted scare House, Wharton, New Jersey: </b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_wharton_New_Jersey_haunted_scarehouse">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_wharton_New_Jersey_haunted_scarehouse</a></i></b></span><br />
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<b style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><i>Bamboo Gardens, southampton, New Jersey:</i></b><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_southampton_New_Jersey_bamboo_gardens_walk">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_southampton_New_Jersey_bamboo_gardens_walk</a></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i>The Haunted scarecrow, Albuquerque, New Mexico: </i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_albuquerque_New_Mexico_the_haunted_scarecrow">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_albuquerque_New_Mexico_the_haunted_scarecrow</a></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b style="font-style: italic;">Headless Horsemen Hayrides & Haunted House, Ulster Park, New :</b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_ulster_park_New_York_headless_horseman_hayrides"><b><i>http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_ulster_park_New_York_headless_horseman_hayrides</i></b></a></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i>Camp Fear, Hiddenite, North Carolina: </i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_hiddenite_North_Carolina_camp_fear">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_hiddenite_North_Carolina_camp_fear</a></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i>Nightmare on Elm street, kindred, North Dakota:</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_kindred_North_Dakota_nightmares_on_elm">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_kindred_North_Dakota_nightmares_on_elm</a></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i>The Dent schoolhouse, Cincinnati, Ohio:</i></b> </span>
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_cincinnati_Ohio_the_dent_schoolhouse">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_cincinnati_Ohio_the_dent_schoolhouse</a></i></b><br /><br /><br /><br /><b><i>Wells Township Haunted House, brilliant, Ohio:</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i>The Fear Experience Haunted House, Cleveland, Ohio: </i></b><br /><b><i><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/cleveland_haunted_houses">http://www.hauntworld.com/cleveland_haunted_houses</a></i></b></span>
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /><br /><br /><b><i>The Trail of Fear, Lawton, Oklahoma:</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_lawton_Oklahoma_the_trail_of">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_lawton_Oklahoma_the_trail_of</a></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i>FrightTown, Portland, Oregon:</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_portland_Oregon_frighttown">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_portland_Oregon_frighttown</a></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i>The bates Motel & Haunted Hayride, Glen Mill, Pennsylvania:</i></b></span><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Factory of Terror, Fall Rivers </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Massachusetts:</span></span></i></b><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i>scream Acres Haunted House, bishopville, South Carolina: </i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_bishopville_South_Carolina_scream_acres_haunted">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_bishopville_South_Carolina_scream_acres_haunted</a></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i>Terror in The Dark, Rapid City, South Dakota: </i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_rapid_city_South_Dakota_fairgrounds_terror_in">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_rapid_city_South_Dakota_fairgrounds_terror_in</a></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i>Dead Land, Lebanon, Tennessee:</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_lebanon_Tennessee_dead_land">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_lebanon_Tennessee_dead_land</a></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i>Cutting Edge Haunted House, Fort Worth, Texas:</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_fort_worth_Texas_cutting_edge_haunted">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_fort_worth_Texas_cutting_edge_haunted</a></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i>Castle of Chaos, Taylorsville, Utah: </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i>Haunted Hunt Club Farm, Virginia beach, Virginia:</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Confront your Fears, Vancouver, Washington:</b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_vancouver_Washington_confront_your_fears">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_vancouver_Washington_confront_your_fears</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>The Asylum, Weston, West Virginia:</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Mars Haunted House, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: </b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_milwaukee_Wisconsin_mars_haunted_house">http://www.hauntworld.com/haunted_house_in_milwaukee_Wisconsin_mars_haunted_house</a></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>burial Chamber Haunted Complex, Neenah, Wisconsin:</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></span>Margaret Alicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14669535558382116366noreply@blogger.com0