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Post by Joxcenia on Nov 8, 2004 2:25:46 GMT -6
Just testing to see what the eyes & ghosts look like in the dark.
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Post by dixielandyankee on Nov 8, 2004 12:27:35 GMT -6
Those are pretty cool Joxie...could come in useful over at the House of Whoosher too...
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Post by Joxcenia on Nov 8, 2004 18:07:52 GMT -6
Yeppers... that's what I thought too. Only on that thread they'll have the negative effect that Le added. But I don't want to do a test on that thread and ruin it.
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Post by Joxcenia on Nov 8, 2004 18:26:04 GMT -6
Okay... I did a preview test to see what these guys would look like with the negative effect, and these will not work because the black background becomes white:
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Post by Joxcenia on Nov 11, 2004 1:55:39 GMT -6
Ohhhh! A ghost that haunts a library... and it loves the children's library the most... wonder if her name is Phalon? [img src="http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0PQDZAqwRAhAy1LiEPKWiUXau6JDXV4PanPQlPbyxX3si2ShUosY1uzaN3fxqq6bKg9TvwLfc5F1B!tsETU37mxYhChF7zBLh/em20.gif"] Oh... and be sure to pass the cursor over the letters: G H O S T C A M
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Post by guru on Nov 11, 2004 2:10:47 GMT -6
Is anyone looking at the Children's Room cam right now? I could swear there's a big arm reaching out from the left wall.
Now it's retracting.
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Post by Joxcenia on Nov 11, 2004 2:23:52 GMT -6
Noppers I don't see a thing on any of the cams.
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Post by dixielandyankee on Nov 11, 2004 12:57:59 GMT -6
Hey Joxie, the Willard Library site is pretty cool...makes me what to spend hours going cross-eyed over it! There were only a few pictures in the 'Proof' section where I really thought I could see anything though...and she's not as cute as out ghost right here! ;D I might have a look at it later...
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Whooshite Candidate
Residing at Blackwood Farm w/ Quinn, Eve and Virgil
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Post by LiviasBoyToyTig on Nov 11, 2004 16:48:15 GMT -6
A bit late in coming to reply *waves at ghost floating on my screen* but i have had a few experiences, such as once I was taking a hike behind my house in the forest/woods (what yall call them in your neck of the woods) when I heard my name said plain as day right behind but it felt more like in my ear. I turned around pretty fast but there was no one there so needless to say I changed directions and headed back home. Other times, when I was younger, I use to hear a group of people speaking in the living room of this house and I would think my parents had friends over even though it was late at night but as I would near the living room, I heard this voice: "He's awake." and I would no longer hear the talking and the living room was empty each time. Only occured three times. And this house can't be haunted as it is fairly new on this land, this land however, it has something of a history.
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Post by Joxcenia on Dec 15, 2004 15:59:27 GMT -6
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Post by Joxcenia on Jul 15, 2005 1:00:54 GMT -6
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Post by marysgurl1 on Jul 15, 2005 5:49:22 GMT -6
wicked, jox!....i like the flamming skeleton guy....
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Post by Joxcenia on Jul 15, 2005 17:38:46 GMT -6
I'd only set one of these out for a halloween party... there's no way I'd leave it out all year round when I'm the only one who lives here.
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Post by Joxcenia on Jul 21, 2005 23:28:02 GMT -6
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Post by Joxcenia on Sept 29, 2005 23:00:08 GMT -6
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Post by guru on Oct 2, 2005 0:24:38 GMT -6
There's a book called The National Directory of Haunted Places. Listings are by state. A girlfriend and I used it like a tourist map to plan day trips around southern California. Ghosts turn up in the most unexpected places...
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Post by Siren on Oct 5, 2005 20:14:38 GMT -6
My sis always said that the restaurant she worked in during college was haunted. In fact, the staff even named the ghost "Grunhilda". Sis says that one evening, she was doing the books after the staff left, and heard footsteps in the hall, plain as day. Said she could sometimes hear something moving around in the unoccupied living area upstairs. The swinging doors to the kitchen would sometimes move a bit, of their own accord. Once, as she and a staffer stood talking outside the store room, a full box of chips slid off a shelf and fell to the floor. Another time, a five gallon container of salad dressing, securely set on a shelf, slid off and spilled in the floor. Sis, a very level-headed gal, has no doubt at all that an unknown "something" was responsible for these incidents.
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Post by Phalon on Oct 11, 2005 23:33:31 GMT -6
Just a little story I found in "the Little Big Book of Chills and Thrills". The Curse of Lady Tichborne 'In the year 1150, the saintly Lady Mabella Tichborne lay dying in her room at Tichborne Manor. For months she lacked the strength even to sit by her window and look out over her vast estate, an eden of rich farmland in Hampshire County, England. She summoned her husband, Sir Roger de Tichborne, and shared her dying wish: that a loaf of bread be given to all of the poor once a year on Lady Day, a feast day of the Virgin Mary. Unlike his wife, greedy Sir Roger felt no compassion for the hungry and quickly schemed to put an end to her request. He told Lady Mabella that he would distribute an annual gift in her name equal to the amount of land she could walk upon holding a lighted torch. Assured that she couldn't get out of bed, the sly Sir Roger felt he'd heard the last of the matter. But Lady Mabella shocked them all. She crawled out of bed, took the torch, and dragged her skin-and-bones body around 23 acres of the estate. To this day, this parcel of land is known as the Crawls. Back in her bed, Lady Mabella gathered the household around her and uttered the Tichborne Curse. If the yearly dole of bread was ever stopped, the Tichborne family would die out. So began the Tichborne Dole, an event that drew vagrants, gypsies, and other poor British inhabitants to Hampshire County every year on March 25th. The custom went on for 600 years, until the local government got fed up with the influx of riff-raff and shut it down in 1794. As a result, male Tichborne heirs began to die. Edward Doughty, a Tichborne who had changed his name, realised the curse was in action when four of his brothers died without children. With the sudden death of his six-year-old son - the only remaining Tichborne heir - he reinstated the dole, which has been handed out ever since. Today, families from the neighborhood gather at Tichborne Manor on Lady Day with buckets, bags, and pillowcases to collect a few pounds of flour sprinkled with holy water."
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Post by Mini Mia on Oct 12, 2006 18:28:50 GMT -6
I got these from ilb at her forum:
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Post by Phalon on Oct 12, 2006 22:07:30 GMT -6
And it's just after midnight here....the start of Friday the Thirteenth. Oooo, scary.
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Post by Mini Mia on Oct 12, 2006 22:10:47 GMT -6
I have 50 more minutes to go.
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Post by Phalon on Oct 12, 2006 22:17:46 GMT -6
tick, tick, tick....
Goodnight, Joxie. Sweet dreams....
....if you can.
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Post by Mini Mia on Oct 12, 2006 22:21:55 GMT -6
Oh, I can. I ain't super-stitch-ous.
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Post by mabd on Oct 13, 2006 13:12:55 GMT -6
The Poe Toaster
"There are some secrets that do not permit themselves to be revealed." Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe died in 1949 while visiting Baltimore, Maryland -- he had lived there years earlier. Poe’s death is a mystery of its own: he was found outside of a bar, babbling, and wearing someone else’s clothes and carrying a cane that was not his. Taken to the hospital, Poe went in and out of a coma for three days. Just before he went into what would be his death coma, he became violent and repeatedly screamed the name Reynolds. The only Reynolds Poe knew was a mere acquaintance who was hundreds of miles away from Poe and had not seen nor spoken to him in months. Poe finally became still and then died. No-one knows why he died: alcohol was not a factor.
Since 1949, on the anniversary of Poe’s death, an unknown person called the Poe Toaster has left a partial bottle of fine French cognac (not a drink associated with Poe, but why the person is called the toaster) and three roses, assumed to be in remembrance of Poe’s aunt/mother-in-law, his wife/cousin Virginia, and Poe himself -- all three are buried under the monument. The Poe Toaster has been observed to kiss the monument. Rarely, notes have been left: one said only this, “Edgar, I haven't forgotten you.” The last note that I have heard about was left in 1993 and said, “The torch will be passed.”
The Poe Toaster has been watched but never disturbed. The descriptions of the Poe Toaster are basically all the same: a person of unknown gender, dressed in black, wearing a hat and wrapping his/her face in a scarf. The Poe watchers, over time, have produced different assessments of the Poe Toaster’s age.
To assure that the Poe Toaster’s identity is not revealed, Baltimore City, the college which owns the gravesite, and the keepers of the Poe house work together to allow the Poe Toaster privacy for his/her homage/libation.
Maeve
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Post by Phalon on Oct 14, 2006 23:47:05 GMT -6
The Poe Toaster "There are some secrets that do not permit themselves to be revealed." Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe died in 1949 while visiting Baltimore, Maryland -- he had lived there years earlier. Poe’s death is a mystery of its own: he was found outside of a bar, babbling, and wearing someone else’s clothes and carrying a cane that was not his. Taken to the hospital, Poe went in and out of a coma for three days. Just before he went into what would be his death coma, he became violent and repeatedly screamed the name Reynolds. The only Reynolds Poe knew was a mere acquaintance who was hundreds of miles away from Poe and had not seen nor spoken to him in months. Poe finally became still and then died. No-one knows why he died: alcohol was not a factor. Since 1949, on the anniversary of Poe’s death, an unknown person called the Poe Toaster has left a partial bottle of fine French cognac (not a drink associated with Poe, but why the person is called the toaster) and three roses, assumed to be in remembrance of Poe’s aunt/mother-in-law, his wife/cousin Virginia, and Poe himself -- all three are buried under the monument. The Poe Toaster has been observed to kiss the monument. Rarely, notes have been left: one said only this, “Edgar, I haven't forgotten you.” The last note that I have heard about was left in 1993 and said, “The torch will be passed.” The Poe Toaster has been watched but never disturbed. The descriptions of the Poe Toaster are basically all the same: a person of unknown gender, dressed in black, wearing a hat and wrapping his/her face in a scarf. The Poe watchers, over time, have produced different assessments of the Poe Toaster’s age. To assure that the Poe Toaster’s identity is not revealed, Baltimore City, the college which owns the gravesite, and the keepers of the Poe house work together to allow the Poe Toaster privacy for his/her homage/libation. Maeve Thanks for posting that, Maeve. I've heard of the Poe Toaster, cognac, and roses, but never knew the entire story. You know, don't you, that Mr. Poe is my dead soulmate; I took a test that told me so. (eye-roll)
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Post by mabd on Oct 15, 2006 12:39:51 GMT -6
Thanks for posting that, Maeve. I've heard of the Poe Toaster, cognac, and roses, but never knew the entire story. You're welcome. For a very short time I was the live-in docent of his house.. Oooooooh! Hm, gotta go ad something to the incoming... Maeve
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Post by Phalon on Oct 16, 2006 6:17:36 GMT -6
You're gonna leave us hanging with this, Maeve? Your use of an ellipsis hints at more, no? The doscent of a woman in Mr. Poe's house; I smell some good stories in there.
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Post by Mini Mia on Oct 16, 2006 22:55:27 GMT -6
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Post by mabd on Oct 18, 2006 4:20:56 GMT -6
You're gonna leave us hanging with this, Maeve? Your use of an ellipsis hints at more, no? The docent of a woman in Mr. Poe's house; I smell some good stories in there. Ok. It was a strange place. Really unsafe neighborhood so that added tension. Old dimensional lumber plank floors that creaked at will, although all had been carpeted and padded with footfall damping foam. Too many rooms to check -- many rooms were simply roped off. All doors and windows had bars. Now I have lived in older houses. But none were this noisy. After the week-end and the two evening tours, when everyone was gone, the damn place sounded like the Horde was marching in formation. I suppose that could have been the result of various tourists bringing cognac -- only the Poe Toaster's bottles are preserved or maybe it was my overheated mind...or maybe who knows? Term ended and I quit. I was very, very tired. Maeve
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Post by Mini Mia on Oct 18, 2006 16:58:49 GMT -6
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