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For several months now I have not been able to spend much time online.... I came to Indiana in August of last year to take care of my parents. It was more then a small effort and the ending to this segment of my life is very sad. On April 9th my Dad passed away... Then last week on the 6th of May my mother also passed. Her grief for my Dad and her illness was too much for her... Needless to say this has been a very hard time for me. No matter what you do to prepare yourself for this you really can't! With my Dad he passed in the hospital. With my Mom she became ill and went to sleep and never woke. My niece and myself found her. As I said this has been hard for me. I am going to take a bit of time to recover but I will be back... PLease send out good thoughts and prayers for me!
Just writing this little blog to explain my absence once again. My Dad got really sick and he passed away on the 9th of April. My Mom did not do well with this and things have not been normal. Sadly when a death occurs it seems to loom and control everything.
I am praying and hoping for some normality soon.
A Paranormal Investigator is someone who takes their time and their effort to delve into the very controversial topic to debunk or prove the existence of supernatural activity. They are not getting rich because they never charge for their services, fame is slow to come because of the topic itself. They use their resources, their time and try their best to present good evidence of what they believe. They are dedicated and professional in action. They should be applauded for what they do.
It seems though that sometimes it is forgotten that they are people with families, jobs, responsibilities and everyday problems. These things have to come first most often then not. This doesn't mean that they give less at what they are driven to prove, it means they are real people with real lives.
This little Blog is just to say Thank You to all those involved in the Paranormal Research, the Ghost Hunters, the Web Builders who dedicate so much of their valuable time to the field! You have helped me to grow in my understanding of this topic!
Back in the summer we did an investigation in Illinois. We had received a desperate email from a family who had several claims of activity in their home. When we went to the pre-investigation we really did not find anything that would lead us to do an extensive investigation. However the family was so adamant about the paranormal activity and they were so distraught that we did schedule to return with our group. Which is what we did. Because of the sensitivity that appeared to be present, a skeptical husband and children in the house, we only took a very small group and basic equipment. We spent somewhere in the neighborhood of 3 to 4 hours in the house and their were no paranormal occurrences while we were there. WE took several photos, video footage and audio recordings. We documented in great length there dialogue about the happenings within the house. We told them when we were finished that we would contact them as soon as we went over the evidence. We did not find anything within photos or video. However we did get an EVP from the master bedroom in the house. We returned to their house with the EVP for them to hear, we informed them at that time that to date we had not found anything else in the house. During that visit we set up the recorder and Al took a few more photos. We parted "In good Graces"
I had told them we would get a summary of what we had found out to them and then all hell broke loose in our personal lives. Al sustained an injury which laid him up for a while and he was on some pretty strong pain meds, my elderly parents were going through some abuse at a nursing home they were at in Indiana. We finally had to move from Illinois to Indiana to deal with that situation. So with so much going on we did have a delay in the summary getting out to them. However there were emails sent back and forth and we even urged them that if they were unhappy with what we had found or our lack of ability to get further into this to find another paranormal group and even offered to help find them one.
We moved to Indiana in August and in the frame of time we have been here my Mom has been hospitalized 8 times. My Dad is a Parkinson's patient and we have them both at home so my time has been limited. As soon as we obtained some help within the home situation my first order of business was to get this summary out. Which is what I did. I also wrote an article for the web site pertaining to the info they gave us and what we found. Now please keep in mind that the article was written based on the emails, a written letter and recorded info at the investigation from the family and written documents we collected during the investigation. I get this very ugly email from them about how they didn't say this and they didn't say that and how they did get another group and how they had several people give them negative info about us... From where I don't know??? All of the info within the web article was from their dialogue... not our!!!
What started this was that they contacted us wanting some info back that we had asked them to obtain for us... a simple recording of night time activity. I told her we would transfer the recording and then send her the tapes. Yes I did remind them that the information we obtained belonged to MGHAPI and that they had signed a release agreeing to that and that this did include any evidence on the tapes we asked them to record for us. We also informed them that any evidence we collected that was clean of any paranormal activity would be destroyed.
When I did the post on the web page I also made sure that the photos were not enlargeable so that nothing personal could be viewed with clarity, such as personal photos. We did not use there names and protected their street address. I feel we did every thing that we could do in this. They were notified about what we had found and the only delay was with the written summary! I feel now like we did not give them the answer they wanted and they are unhappy about that.
I didn't mean to get so long winded with this but it confuses me. We made three trips to the location, we never charge for our services, we kept them informed and we protected their privacy and only used their dialogue to do an article. Is there something more we could have done? Has anyone else on here ever been confronted with a problem such as this? This is the first and only time this has ever happened to us and we are more them a little baffled. Any input would be appreciated! Negative or positive.
Well here I am again. I know it has been a while but I have been very busy. I wish I could say it was from all the Holiday rushing, but no it wasn't and isn't. I returned to Indiana from Illinois because both my parents fell ill and we were having a situation with the nursing home. So I am full time almost 24/7 caring for the both of them and they are both bed ridden. So I am tired.
I still though have managed to be involved with some investigations and I stay on top of the web updates for our site. So yes I am still very paranormal driven... Had some really awsome happenings on a current investigation even though it is one that is far from the norm. We have the details about it in our web pages if anyone cares to read it. www.ruhaunted.com and we have connected with a few people lately from some other groups around the new town we live in.
But yes I am still here and I try to get by in between all the things I have to get done daily. I won't get to stop by pages tonight because my Mom is coming home from the Hospital tomorrow but I will be back again soon!
Well I have been away for a while now. Things in Illinois went totally crazy and this Paranormal Group there became stalkers and vandals. They slammed us online every chance they got and created stories about us that were completely outrageous. As with other circumstances I tried the ignore it and it will go away but it just didn't work. Al's DJ Business suffered greatly as did our Paranormal Group. So... I was needed back in Indiana so this is where we headed and are now living. Still Ghost Hunting and I have been working very hard on my web sites. Getting great response from them. I have added a sub domain with other regular and Holiday Graphics so we can keep the main domain supported until next Halloween. I had over 5000 hits on my web pages for Halloween Horror Stop and had almost as many at our paranormal pages. Al's DJ work is moving slow here but with it being city verses small town there are some changes to be made. So anyhow I am back hoping to contribute and catch up! Glad to see you all are still here.
I have for a very long time had an open journal on Yahoo 360. Though I have many friends there I opt to come here because everyone is so openly accepted and unjudged. However I visit there and I go back and read my blogs and it helps sometimes to put things in a better prospective for me. Oddly I ran across this blog that I want to share with you all. I wrote this blogs about a month or two before my son died. Funny how we have insight that we don't realize that we have until it hits us in the face.
Fates Manipulation
I have come to use this Blog Page as My Open Journal. So I am hoping that those that may read this will not feel that I am being too impulsive or irratic with my writing. That is what I do, I write. I have heard that in everyone of us there is a one good book pertaining to our lives, mine however I feel could become a collection of many books.
It is funny how life can turn on a moments notice and everything that you thought was, is not. People you thought you knew are not what they say they are and don't feel what they say they feel. Dreams die, hopes are lost and the euphoria that you feel suddenly crashes becoming nothing more then a painful memory. How simple the explanation is then that fate has been the culprit and this was your life destiny for that space of time. Makes me want to laugh and cry at the same time. I think then why do we work so hard at coming into these phases of our life if at a moments notice, FATE then makes our choice as to weather it continues or stops. My life is then just an insignificant spot on a map that chooses its own direction.
Believe me when I say that I am trying so hard to find optimism in my life but right now there is none for me personally. I seem to always love and always lose. My FATE, I suppose. I am reminded of the words of Job, "The thing I have feared the most has come upon me." However I don't hold malice, ill contempt or anger towards any person. You see this is their FATE as well. I am laughig right now at myself for holding on and believing that I could have anything but what I already have. Short lived and pleasant situations to add to the biography of my life. Maybe one day I will compile all these and write that book that is within me... it would definitely make for some interesting reading.
I have few goals in life, none of which contain the desire for material possesions. Our lives are but temporary here in this world and my desire is to love and be loved while I am here. Fate has not chosen for me to have that in this life as of yet. My hope is not dead, I will continue to strive forward, to better my education, to write as I feel, to paint in expression and allow whatever love comes into my life for however long it may be allowed to stay. Don't think I write for pity I detest the thought of that. My thoughts are only mine and I share them as I will. Be happy for me because there are still the mysterys of life ahead and though FATE picks and chooses I will experiance them in their fullness til I am no longer. I am sad at the moment but as always happiness will come when I least expect it.
This is the Haunted Mansion. Above is the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland. It is located in New Orleans Square, and is built to look like a Southern plantation house. Below is the Haunted Mansion at Walt Disney World in Orlando. The Haunted Mansion in Orlando is in Liberty Square and looks much like a a Brick mansion from the Northeast USA, much like the old New England homes which had a strong English or European influence. The attraction inside is much the same in both places (Anaheim and Orlando) with some elements being in slightly different locations. The easy way to tell the difference is the styling of the mansions.
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Dream
Posted On 05/16/2007 08:17:43
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Well this little Blog is just to kind of relieve my mind. I had this really messed up dream last night. I woke up very startled and had a very hard time going back to sleep.
In my dream Al and I were on a "Ghost Hunt" at a place that looked and felt so familiar to me. He and I were sitting on the floor in this house. There was no funrniture and it was dimly lit. I can't exactly remember what we were doing at the time but there was a force that kept pulling me back from Al. I could feel it as though it were hands grabbing at my waist and pulling me. Each time it pulled me further away from Al. Finally Al got angry and he demanded that whatever or whoever this was would leave me alone and he took my hand. All of a sudden there was a noise like a swooshing and Al was pulled away from me only this time it was with such a force that it lifted him and threw him against a wall in the other room. Then I woke up.
Now I know it was only a dream but I had a terrible time going back to sleep and this morning when I got up I can still envision the dream vividly which makes me very uneasy.
Anyhow I am just sharing... The thing is that there was nothing out of the ordinary going on and we hadn't been talking about anything that was even close to the dream. Probably just my pent up frustration... LOL
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