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Andersonville filled with numerous ghostly encounters
From Staff Reports
AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER (AMERICUS, Ga.)
ANDERSONVILLE, Ga. — Haunted stories have an affect that send a tingling sensation up the spine. But sometimes these tales of ghosts, haunted houses and spooky cemeteries are recorded as actual accounts experienced by ordinary people and by those who investigate these tales of horror.
The City of Andersonville has been marked as one of the many cities that is filled with numerous encounters of the supernatural. One of the sites that has been recently investigated is the St. James Pennington Church.
On June 16, a team of paranormal investigators from the group Southern Paranormal Researchers (SPR) of Prattville, Ala., visited the church to experience any form of anomalous phenomena. St. James Pennington Church was founded by Brother Jimmy Lawrence in 1927. The church is a log cabin that has been relocated and restored by the Andersonville Guild. The SPR learned of the church from the website of the Shadowlands Haunted Places where numerous stories have been recorded of different encounters with the supernatural in Andersonville.
SPR uses a wide variety of investigative methods to help determine what type of haunting is present, if any, and how the particular haunting will be dealt with after it has been identified. The group does extensive research of the particular location that is being investigated before hand and compiles a complete report outlining the investigation and the results obtained. The group has experience in investigating historical sites, hotels, inns, private residences and demonic and dark energy.
The findings at the St. James Pennington Church were described by the SPR director, Shawn Sellers, as slim. Equipped with cameras and the basic equipment used in these types of investigations, Sellers said the group spent a total of eight hours at the church.
“This is a site that we will like to further investigate. During our time at the church, we picked up an EVP (electronic voice phenomenon) but we have not figured out quite what was being said,” said Sellers.
Sellers along with another member of the team took pictures within the church and did pick up an image of the late pastor of the church. According to Sellers, he took several shots from different angles but did not pick up anything. However, the other member took shots focusing on the same angle and the image of the pastor appeared in one of the photos. The photo showed the silhouette of what seemed like the pastor’s nose bleeding.
“When we do these investigations, we use a variety of equipment — from cameras to personal interviews. We did a thorough investigation for eight hours and seemed to be a little skeptic when nothing appeared on audio or video. But the photograph proved that there was a presence in the church. We also picked up orbs or ghosts that are seen in the form of balls of light. It gives hope and proof for what we do and we will be back in the future to further investigate the area.”
For more information, visit www.southernparanormalresearchers.com or theshadowlands.net.
Monday, June 25, 2007
Hometown Tales - The Horror of Andersonville
Saturday, June 16, 2007
White People For Peace
Thought I'd share this. Thanks to imagine for calling it to my attention. Henry_allen
Friday, June 8, 2007
GETTING A LIFT FROM AZERBAIJAN
Giving them anti-missile radar is a great idea - look at what they've done with Viagra. Henry_Allen
Azerbaijan amenable to anti-missile radar
MOSCOW (AP) — Officials in Azerbaijan, a nation with a huge oil reserves and a record that has been criticized by human rights advocates, on Friday welcomed Moscow's call to use a Russian-leased radar installation in their country as the cornerstone of a proposed U.S. anti-missile system.
Elmar Mammadyarov, Azerbaijan's foreign minister, said in the capital of Baku that the proposal "can only bring more stability into the region because it can lead to more predictable actions in the region."
Novruz Mamedov, head of the Azerbaijani presidential administration's international relations department, told Russia's Rossiya TV that "such cooperation can have a very strong and positive impact on the situation in the world as a whole.
"If such countries as Russia and the U.S. cooperate, they will have common interests and it will prevent tensions," he said.
For weeks, Russian President Vladimir Putin denounced the U.S. plan to build a missile interceptor base in Poland and a radar site in the Czech Republic, saying the system was aimed at Russia's strategic arsenal.
Then on Thursday, Putin caught President Bush off guard by urging that the Soviet-era radar installation at Gabala, in northeast Azerbaijan, be used instead as part of a joint U.S.-Russian missile shield. On Friday, he suggested the missile intercepter base could be in Turkey or at sea.
A Russian military expert said the Gabala installation was built to track U.S. bombers and submarine-launched missiles from the Indian Ocean.
The Bush administration has said it seeks to counter future missile threats to Europe from Iran, which Washington fears is developing nuclear weapons.
Azerbaijan, a former Soviet nation of 8.5 million about the size of Maine, is on the western shore of the Caspian Sea, flanked by Russia to the north and Iran to the south. It is one of the countries in Central and South Asia that the U.S. has turned to since the Sept. 11 attacks, despite their mixed records on human rights and democracy.
The government in Baku has contributed 150 soldiers to the war in Iraq and 20 to coalition military forces in Afghanistan.
According to a Council of Europe report last year, Baku has served as a refueling stop for CIA aircraft shuttling terror suspects to secret prisons.
The country has rich oil and natural gas deposits — Baku was one of the first oil boomtowns in the 19th century. But according to government statistics, nearly one-fifth of the population lives in poverty.
Azerbaijani authorities have been criticized by rights groups and the U.S. government for their hostility to independent and opposition journalists.
Human Rights Watch says that over the past year or so, authorities have prosecuted and imprisoned seven journalists, mostly on charges of criminal libel and "insult." Journalists are also attacked and threatened with violence, the group said.
The State Department's human rights report for 2006 said the Azerbaijani government engages in the arbitrary arrest and detention of political opponents.
The country is also the site of one of the "frozen conflicts" left over from the post-Soviet era. Azerbaijan and Armenia are at odds over Nagorno-Karabakh, a region that is inside Azerbaijan but has been controlled by ethnic Armenian forces since a 1994 cease-fire ended a six-year war.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Maury Island UFOs, 1947
The book (Thomas, Kenn: "Maury Island UFO: The Crisman Conspiracy" GA: IllumiNet, 1999)was from my former publisher at IllumiNet Press, who died under mysterious circumstances. The first major editor to have a field investigator on hand was my late coworker Ray Palmer. While Roswell is the case of this period most discuss, Maury Island contains everything from crashed saucers, men in black, silencings, dead investigators -- all the UFO mythos of subsequent years san abduction. That it took place at the Summer Solstice, the "dog star" days is worth of comment as well. Henry_Allen
The Maury Island incident is said to be an early modern UFO encounter incident, which allegedly took place shortly after the sighting of the original flying saucers by Kenneth Arnold. It is also one of the earliest reported instances of an alleged encounter with so-called "Men in black". Opinions remain divided as to the case on whether it was genuine or a hoax.
The incident took place shortly after June 21, 1947. On that date, seaman Harold Dahl, out scavenging for drifting logs, claimed to have seen six UFOs near Maury Island (which is now a peninsula of Vashon Island, in Puget Sound, near Tacoma, Washington, United States). Dahl, his son, and their dog were on the boat. Dahl claimed to have taken a number of photographs of the UFOs, and reported that one UFO shed some type of hot slag on to his boat. The slag, he said, struck and killed his dog and injured his son.
The next morning, Dahl reported, a man arrived at his home and invited him to breakfast at a nearby diner. Dahl accepted the invitation. He described the man as imposing at over six feet tall and muscular, and wearing a black suit. The man drove a new 1947 Buick, and Dahl assumed he was a military or government representative.
While the two men ate, Dahl claimed the man told him details of the UFO sighting, though Dahl had not related his account publicly. The man also gave Dahl a nonspecific warning which Dahl took as a threat that his family might be harmed if he related details of the sighting.
Some confusion and debate over Dahl's statements have occurred. Dahl would later claim the UFO sighting was a hoax, but has also claimed the sighting was accurate, but he had claimed it was a hoax to avoid bringing harm to his family.
Investigation
In spite of the threat Dahl had reported the incident to his immediate superior, Fred Crisman, who had long claimed to have experience with unusual phenomena (and who was later linked to the John F. Kennedy assassination)[1]. Crisman gathered more of the slag, then called in the press, who in turn called in Kenneth Arnold to investigate the incident.
Albert K. Bender seized on Dahl's story, and printed it in his newsletter. In 1953, Bender claimed three men in black visited him, and warned him to stop his UFO research.
Arnold, realizing the story was beyond his capacity to investigate, called in the United States Army Air Corps, which dispatched two investigators. The investigators were largely unimpressed with Crisman and with his evidence, but agreed to take some of the slag with them for further inquiry.[1] The plane carrying the two investigators and the UFO evidence crashed shortly after leaving Tacoma, killing both men.[2] In April 2007 it was reported that the crash site had been found and some material recovered. [3] [4]
Capt. Edward Ruppelt, chief of Project Blue Book in the early 1950s, wrote that he was convinced that the entire sighting story was a hoax.
Hoax Claims
To some in the UFO community, the Maury Island Incident is still highly controversial, dismissed by many as a complete fabrication by the wildly imaginative and conspiracy-obsessed Crisman, while others think it may be among the most important encounters in modern times.[citation needed] Others speculate that the incident, although clearly a hoax, was employed by the US government to draw public attention away from claims hazardous waste from a breeder reactor located in Hanford was being secretly and unlawfully dumped on Maury Island.
References
1. ^ Randles, J: "MIB: Investigating the Truth Behind the Men In Black Phenomenon", page 33. Piatkus, 1997
2. ^ Randles, J: "MIB: Investigating the Truth Behind the Men In Black Phenomenon", page 33. Piatkus, 1997
3. ^ B-25 wreckage found after 60 years, listed as carrying a UFO
4. ^ Wreckage from secret 1947 mission found
* Ruppelt, Edward J: "The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" Doubleday, 1956.
* Thomas, Kenn: "Maury Island UFO: The Crisman Conspiracy" GA: IllumiNet, 1999
* Mcnerthney, Casey (April 23, 2007). Is strange rock from UFO or just a piece of poppycock?.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved on 2007-05-05.
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Saturday, June 2, 2007
LOYAL OPPOSITION?
nsurgents destroy major bridge in northern Iraq
KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Insurgents destroyed a major bridge that connects the Iraqi capital Baghdad with the northern cities of Kirkuk and Arbil early on Saturday, police said.
They said the insurgents used explosives to destroy the Sarha Bridge, near the town of Tuz Khurmato on the Chinchal river, some 150 km (100 miles) north of Baghdad. The blast severely damaged the bridge, forcing motorists into detours and traffic jams.
Several bridges have been targeted in Iraq, most notably the popular Sarafiya bridge which was destroyed in April in a truck bombing that sent large sections of the steel structure crashing into the Tigris in central Baghdad.
Many Iraqis believe insurgents target bridges to physically separate Shi'ite and Sunni Muslim areas in central Iraq, but some say the attacks are meant to frustrate people who have to endure time consuming detours into dangerous areas.
The Iraqi government recently imposed restrictions that ban trucks from traveling on all but two of the capital's 13 bridges in fear of another major attack.
consortiumnews.com
Dem Consultants: Calculations of War
By Brent Budowsky
May 30, 2007
Editor's Note: Since 2002, Democratic consultants have been whispering in the ears of party leaders to give George W. Bush what he wants on the Iraq War as a way to avoid accusations that they are "soft" or "unpatriotic" or "against the troops." The results of those calculations can now be measured in the growing lists of dead and wounded as well as in the Democrats' plummeting poll numbers.
In this guest essay, political analyst Brent Budowsky traces this thinking and its consequences:
Now we read in the Boston Globe how John Kerry, preparing to campaign to be Commander in Chief, voted in 2002 for the Iraq War after his political consultants informed the would-be leader of the free world that he would not be “politically viable” unless he voted yes.
This followed the disclosure that Bob Shrum advised John Edwards to send young men and women to die as a way of improving his weak national-security resume in 2002.
Why Democratic officials listen to this is beyond me.
Here are the presidential campaigns that Bob Shrum lost: 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004. Here are the presidential campaigns Mr. Shrum won: none.
Nice work, if you can get it.
By the way, Republican consultants are no better. They loved the Iraq War when they could use it to run television ads, accusing Democrats of being unpatriotic. Now they are reduced to gibberish about “surrender dates” while their members run to the White House and whine to the President, waving their polls, then vote for it again.
From the moment of the Democratic victory in the congressional elections of 2006, many of these Democratic consultants told party leaders that it would be wrong to make a powerful and principled stand against the Iraq War policy.
The majority consultant view was summed up early in the Democratic Congress by Celinda Lake, quoted in the Washington Post as believing that Democrats were not elected to solve the Iraq War, and that waging a politically heroic fight for change would be a distraction.
Think about it, folks: The Democratic 2000 nominee for vice president (Joe Lieberman) is one of America’s leading neoconservative theoreticians in favor of the war. The Democratic leaders in 2002 joined Messrs. Cheney and Perle in advocacy of the war.
The Democratic nominees for president and vice president in 2004 (John Kerry and John Edwards) both supported the Iraq War in 2002 after hearing the voice of the consultant class. They then lost an election they should have won through vacillation on the war, made famous by the quote about what one voted for before one voted against.
From the beginning, at every stage, Democrats did better in elections, to the exact degree that they spoke out strongly. In 2002, they voted for the war and lost. In 2004, they moved daintily in opposition and did better, but lost again. In 2006, they took their strongest position yet, and won, and Democrats in Congress surged ahead of the Republican Congress and Republican President in early 2007 opinion polls.
Enter the Democratic consultants.
Here, again, is their handiwork. We entered 2007 with one of the most unpopular presidents in history and one of the most unpopular Republican Congresses in history. Now, after a few short months of not fighting courageously for change, the Democratic Congress shows up in polls as equally unpopular as George W. Bush.
Great work.
Here are some truths that you haven’t read yet in the Washington Post or The Hill or seen on the cable talkies, though you will.
The Democratic consultant class likes the Iraq War because it gives Democrats the chance to play pretend with non-binding actions, issue talking points about how they fought to change the policy, then lose everything in the end, at which point they can blame the Republicans for the war.
The majority view of Democratic consultants is they don’t want to win a change in policy, because then they have ownership. They want to look like they tried, then lose, and then blame Republicans for the war.
Morally speaking, this is dead wrong; in politics, this is half-right. Here is something else you have not seen from the pundit class, but it’s true, and you will. There is a gigantic difference in the objective political interest between Senate Democrats and House Democrats.
With 21 Senate Republicans running for reelection, the Democrats will pick up seats. There is a chance the Democrats pick up many seats, based purely on the math.
The Bob Shrum award for lack of courage and principle on war votes, coupled with an uncanny ability to lose elections, goes to the Senate Republicans. They support a war that few privately believe in, and commit political hari-kari by doing so. Anyone who believes “we can work this out in September” is dreaming.
On the House side, with an overwhelming majority of Americans loathing this war, the vulnerability is in the freshman class of new Democrats and those Democrats who won narrow victories. Their objective interest politically is doing far more than the current Congress for troops and vets and offering principled opposition to the hated status quo.
Projecting current trends, it is very possible that Democrats increase their margin in the Senate while losing control of the House. Remember where you heard it first.
Here’s my view, as an unyielding opponent of the war policy and unyielding supporter of troops and vets: Who cares about the politics? War is a moral and patriotic matter that should be decided on the grounds of high principle and high honor.
We have just ended one election, which neither party now honors with regard to Iraq, and the next election is about a year and a half away.
Here is the state of play, rounding off the numbers. Seventy percent of the American people disapprove of the current policy; disapprove of President Bush; disapprove of Republicans in Congress; and now disapprove of the Democratic Congress.
It is America versus Washington.
On matters of patriotism, honor, war and peace, reasonable people can disagree about the policy. What is extraordinary and unique in my experience is that on this matter the truth is that 98 percent of Democrats in Congress, 70 percent of Republicans in Congress, perhaps 100 percent of the Joint Chiefs of Staff strongly oppose the current policy in private but then act to continue it in public.
On the most authoritative poll, in Military Times, the president’s popularity among active-duty troops in the military is under 40 percent. Think about it.
Meanwhile, the Marine Corps makes an urgent appeal for life-saving equipment in 2005, which is 90 percent held in contempt, i.e. ignored, by the very politicians who vote for a war they don’t believe in, then give Memorial Day speeches proclaiming their love for the troops.
Who do they think they’re kidding?
It is America versus Washington, and what Washington insiders don’t get is this: When 70 percent disapprove of them all, and they issue talking points proclaiming their own greatness, all this does is make Americans disapprove of them even more strongly.
On all issues involving the war and the troops, we have the most educated Americans in history. They cannot be fooled; politicians who insult them, with obviously untrue talking points, do so at their peril.
Here’s my advice: First, tell the truth. Second, support the troops and vets in ways that are far more comprehensive and honorable than what either party is doing today. Third, fight like hell to change the policy.
When Washington begins to respect America, Americans will no longer feel 70 percent disrespect for both parties in Washington.
The way to win the election in 2008 is to respect the election of 2006.
Brent Budowsky was an aide to U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen on intelligence issues, and served as Legislative Director to Rep. Bill Alexander when he was Chief Deputy Whip of the House Democratic Leadership. Budowsky can be reached at brentbbi@webtv.net. (A version of this story originally appeared at The Hill.)
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
UPDATE ON DISCARNATES
Modern ghost stories vary. This one is of more than
passing interest. Henry_Allen
Dave Juliano's Story from
http://theshadowlands.net/ghost/story.html
It started when I was three years old. One night I
awoke to find a small child-like figure in my bed
with me. He was about 2 feet tall and had the
features of a small child, but its head was swollen
well beyond a normal size. It was wearing a blue gown
with the hands not visible at the end of the sleeves.
It was moving its mouth and talking in gibberish. The
figure was as real as I was, and it was surrounded by
a kind of glowing haze. I ran to my parents' bedroom
and woke up my dad, but, of course, he told me to go
back to sleep. So I returned to my room and now the
figure was standing on my bed. I grabbed a pillow and
covered my face and jumped on the bed. It was gone.
That started something that would last the next 26
years.
I'll condense the years up until 1990. Those
appearances, while still frightening, never really
made me feel threatened. During this period, which
included teenage years, I saw the figure with the
same frequency. My bedroom is located at the end of a
hallway with 2 other bedrooms before mine. At the
other end of the hallway is a landing that blocks the
view to the steps. From my bed I could look out my
door and down the hall to the landing and the top of
the steps. I always knew right before the figure
would appear, because the hair on the back of my neck
would stand up and I would get uncontrollable chills.
The figure would then appear either on top of the
landing or come around the base of the landing and
start down the hall toward my room. It never seemed
to pay any attention to the other rooms at all. I
would normally panic and either shut my door or run
into my parents' room and sleep on the floor. Imagine
finding your 18 year old son curled up on your
bedroom floor when you wake up in the morning. My
parents and sister didn't really fully believe that I
was seeing this apparition. I also would stay up
late, being the night person that I am, and watch TV.
In my living room, we have the stairs that lead up to
the 2nd floor. It has a wooden railing on it that
goes the length of the last 4 steps. I would often
see the figure on the steps watching me from the 3rd
or 4th step and then disappear. The only real changes
during this time period were that the figure was
losing its color and becoming more transparent.
Now things will change drastically. A neighbor, with
some knowledge of this sort of activity, told me to
confront the figure and tell it to leave and never
come back. I was to tell it that I was its power
source and I was shutting off the power. I did this
and enjoyed about a year of no sightings. Around this
time, I told the story to my girlfriend of the time.
She thought that its description sounded like a baby
with water on the brain and still wearing its gown
from the hospital. She thought that it was a lost
soul trying to contact me to help it with some task,
so that it could finally rest in peace. I started to
look into the house's history and my family's. The
house sits on land that was farmland and a dirt road
only 150 years ago. The land was owned by one man and
he had his farm and homestead around the area of my
house (the main house of his estate is one block from
my house and is still standing) My house is 40 years
old and we are the 2nd family to live in it. The
couple before us had no children that we know about.
I have a sister 3 years younger than me and no other
siblings. I have asked my parents if they had a child
that died that I was unaware of, but they didn't. So
after all my checking, I found nothing that could
explain the apparition.
After a week of thinking about the interpretation my
girlfriend had given, guilt of banishing the figure
overcame me. I asked it to come back one night and
told it I would help it. The very next night the
sightings started again , but with much greater
intensity. I can say now, NEVER do what I did, once
it's gone, let it stay gone. The sightings would
happen more frequently and sometimes they would
terrify me. The figure looked the same but something
was very different. I was sure what it was, but now
there was another force in addition to the familiar
figure. I began to see small black colored creatures
which I can only describe as imps. They were solid
black, 1-2 feet tall and ran around on all fours.
They appeared mostly in the living room and coming
from the hall closet.
Now to explain the rest of the house set up that
pertains to the story. The man that lived here before
us started to dig out a basement, but he never
completed it. All that remains is a 3-4 foot crawl
space accessible from outside the house. The hall
closet was to be the stairs down to the basement. He
had started making the stairs going down but he
boarded it all up when he stopped digging the
basement. The stairs going up to the 2nd floor are
directly over the would-be basement step and the hall
closet. So there are 2 ways from inside the house to
access the crawl space, if you really wanted to, rip
up the 3rd or 4th step of the stairs or knock out the
back of the closet. I began to make the connection
between where the figures appeared and where the
access ways were.
The sightings got more intense and sometimes they
even drove me from my house. Normally, my dog would
sense the small figure and act funny when it was
around, but now when the imps appeared my dog would
be in a very deep sleep and I could never wake him
up. I would either leave the house and stay over at a
friends. Sometimes I would be knocking on her door at
2 a.m. terrified. Other times, if I was able to get
between them and the steps, I would make a run for it
to my room or my parents' room, because, even these
creatures would not venture in the bedrooms. My
mother was noticing my moods and I had told her about
the new happenings so she told me to get her the next
time I saw the figure or imps. The next time I saw
the figure upstairs coming down the hall, I ran into
her room and woke her up. I led her out into the hall
where the figure still was. I pointed to it and it
began to back away and go down the steps. I chased it
down to the 3rd step where it vanished. While she
could not see it, she could tell by my eye movements
that I was watching something moving across the hall
and steps. I think that's when my family started to
believe a little.
I became used to these new additions because they
never did any harm but they did make me feel very
uneasy. The figure was becoming even more
transparent. Certain lamps in the house would go on
and off by themselves often with other witnesses
around. I would hear the TV go on in the middle of
the night when I knew no one was downstairs. I had
theorized that the figure needed help to appear
because it was slowly fading away. I assumed the imps
were helping him, but the figure was still fading. I
was waiting for a new addition to the cast, so the
figure could still appear, since I still hadn't
figured out what it wanted me to do.
The sightings stopped again for a few months. I spoke
with a parapsychologist , but then decided to leave
well enough alone. I didn't want things getting
worse. I decided to go into the crawl space and check
out the area under the stairs. I took my dog down
there with me and I crawled to the area. There had
not been anyone under there for years before this. I
found an Old Maid playing card with not a bit of dust
on it right under the 3rd step. We have wall to wall
carpeting so this did not fall through the joints. I
hadn't seen that deck of cards for over 20 years, but
here was one. It had one corner that looked like it
had been dipped in acid, but the rest was in good
shape. I took it and put in a pocket bible and put it
in my car.
The sightings started again, only very small. I would
call my girlfriend on the cordless phone and tell her
it's happening again and then walk upstairs while
still on the phone with her. The next time was the
worst of all. The figure appeared very bright, like
it did years ago, but it didn't look very happy. The
imps appeared again but they were more bold this
time. Then a 7 foot tall man- shaped black figure
appeared. It looked like it was either made of smoke
or some liquid. It looked semi-solid and you couldn't
see through it. At the same time, the room was filled
with imps and a bearded old mans face took shape on
the wall and started mumbling. The face was about 6
foot high and 4 foot wide. The familiar figure looked
like it was sorry for doing this to me. I left the
house and sat in my car until dawn.
I knew I had to confront this new entity and try to
drive it away. I also figured that if it wanted me,
it was going to get me either way, so I had nothing
to lose. My sanity, life and maybe my soul were on
the line and I honestly believed this was the only
way to stop it before it branched out. I was the
original power source, so I was going to shut off the
power. The next night I prayed for protection and the
strength to drive this evil away. I had a bible handy
as I sat up as usual listening to my CD's. About 2
a.m., I noticed my dog was in one of those deep, deep
sleeps and I began to look around. The figure and the
Tall black figure appeared along with the rest of the
apparitions. I informed them in the calmest voice I
could get at this time, that I was taking away their
power and they had no hold on me or power over me. I
told them I, my family and house was protected by God
and they could not harm us. I walked right past the
tall figure and the imps moved out of my way. I
walked right up the steps and never looked back.
That was about 2 years ago and I have not seen them
since. We placed a bible on the stairs and a cross in
the closet to block off their entrances. I still feel
there is a presence there that tries to get me to let
in it. I still hear bumping and walking around, but
the apparitions are gone, banished to the crawl space
I assume. They will not get another portal in here so
they will remain there. We did have the house blessed
years ago, every where except the crawl space. I
think that might be the answer to end it all for
good.
Footnotes 1998:
I have learned alot since I first put my story to
paper. I now realize that many of my reactions to
the majority of the encounters were, while natural,
not necessary. The house was haunted by an
earthbound spirit and when I had asked it to leave,
it stopped contacting me, but was still there. It
never harmed me and was only trying to get my
attention. Because I didn't understand what was
happening, I reacted the way everyone else would,
with fear. I did tell it it could come back and the
way I did it caught the attention of other earthbound
spirits in the area and one non human one. The
majority of the experiences after I opened the door
back up were with human spirits, some not as friendly
as the original one who also came back. While there
was one encounter with something I believe was a non
human entity, the majority of the other spirits were
earthbound human spirits. In regards to the black
imps, let me just say that these may have been either
type of spirit, I'm still not sure at this point. I
have researched them further but I am unable to say
with out a doubt that they were evil. I believe
the tall black figure was evil though.
Updated Happenings in the Dave Juliano's House: Jan.
1997
Alot of people ask me what's been happening recently
so here is a brief account.
I moved out of my parents house last January, not
because of the hauntings, but I moved in with my
fiancé. This is the last "event" that occurred about
2 weeks before I left.
I had been doing my normal work on the web pages and
decided to go to bed about 2 am. I walked up the
stairs and down the hall. As I passed my parents
bedroom door I dropped a paper that I was carrying
and I bent over to pick it up. As I was getting back
up, the door knob of my parents room starting turning
and the door opened up about 4 inches. A female
called my name and I said "what?". I was startled at
first because it had surprised me, then I said
"what?" again and opened the door myself. Both my
parents were sounds asleep and my mother who was
laying closes to the door, was facing away from the
door. This was not the first time I had heard a
woman's voice talking to me, but this time it was
very close, like she was talking right next to me. I
got a little spooked by this simply because the
hauntings had been relatively quiet for almost a
year, with the exception of the "knocking" I had
heard in the attic on and off. I went back downstairs
to get my dog and bring him upstairs with me. He
noticed nothing and we went to bed. As I lay there I
started to notice some collectibles I had hanging
from the ceiling on fishing line began to move. The
windows were closed and no air movement in the room
enough to move these items at all. As I watched, and
my dog noticed this too, the items began to swing
wildly around the room. I was still shaken up a bit
by what happened earlier with the voice. I began to
go through my ritual of banning the spirits from
being there and sending them away. After about 10
minutes of this, it all stopped. I got the
impression that the spirits knew I was leaving
shortly and wanted to give me one last parting shot.
I hadn't been through an episode this active and
confrontational in a while , so me and the dog paid a
late night visit to my fiance and spent the rest of
the night there to insure uninterrupted sleep.