FreeRepublic Halloween Fest

Chance33_98 and LadyShallott ^

[Chancellor Palpatine]

I have to dig it out of the picture drawer, which sounds a lot easier than it is. There is a bit of ...... disarray.

[LadyShallott]

We have one of those drawers in disarray as well! LOL. I completely understand.

LadyShallott

[Chancellor Palpatine]

In fact, it is so bad that there are baby pics mingled with vacation pics mingled with my high school pics.....

The kids get in it, and really jumble them. On the good side, we have all these albums which we've had for 10 years, and really intend to get those shots organized.

[LadyShallott]

We have hundreds of photos, mingled with everything. We sorted them once, but then our toddler discovered that she could reach them....the rest is history.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

I had to wrestle a priceless vacation shot from the hand of an 8 year old who wanted to cut it up for a school project....

[lorrainer]

Annie Palmer Lives!

[Conservababe]

My husband is not, in any sense, a mystical person.

But, almost casually, says that he lived in a haunted house.

He was a bachelor and wanted to rent a small house instead of living in an apartment. So, he looked at a small furnished two bedroom house in our small town. He liked it, signed the lease, and moved in.

The house had a tub in the bathroom upstairs and a shower in the basement, so he chose to use the shower. From day one, everytime he got in the shower, he would hear noises upstairs. He would turn off the water and the noises would stop. Again and again this would happen.

About a month after his moving into this house, he came home about midnight and got out some records to play while relaxing in the living room. For the first time, he moved one of the chairs so that he could put his feet on the coffee table. He went to bed and left the albums out in disarray.

The next morning, he found all the albums put away neatly and the chair moved back into its original position. This would occur regularly.

After about six months, he met a neighbor across the street. Through casual conversation, he learned that the owner of the house, a widow, had died in the house. She was not found for many days after her death.

My husband lived out the lease quite happily. He says "she didn't bother me and I didn't bother her, much"

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Free housekeeping - who can beat that? Wonder if a ghost grumbles as they put away your stuff?

[oyez]

[Conservababe]

Oh, I'm sure she grumbled as she straighted up. But, it is strange that she did not straighten or organize in any other room but the living room.

[Moonmad27]

That is one scary building. What IS that?!

[uglybiker]

There have been reports of a ghostly figure seen in the vicinity of the World Trade Center site.

Live webcam

[LadyShallott]

I would like to know where and what that building is as well. Very cool!

LadyShallott

[Cultural Jihad]

The Winchester Mystery House Story

In 1884, a wealthy widow named Sarah L. Winchester began a construction project of such magnitude that it was to occupy the lives of carpenters and craftsmen until her death thirty-eight years later. The Victorian mansion, designed and built by the Winchester Rifle heiress, is filled with so

many unexplained oddities, that it has come to be known as the Winchester Mystery House. Sarah Winchester built a home that is an architectural marvel. Unlike most homes of its era, this 160-room Victorian mansion had modern heating and sewer systems, gas lights that operated by pressing a button, three working elevators, and 47 fireplaces. From rambling roofs and exquisite hand inlaid parquet floors to the gold and silver chandeliers and Tiffany art glass windows, you will be impressed by the staggering amount of creativity, energy, and expense poured into each and every detail.

These stairs that lead to the ceiling are just one of the many
bizarre features that Mrs. Winchester designed and had built.

For Halloween, special entertainment and Trick-or-Treating in the gardens provide "spirited" fun for the whole family.

MANSION TOUR

Tour through 110 of the 160 rooms and look for the bizarre phenomena that gave the mansion its name; a window built into the floor, staircases leading to nowhere, a chimney that rises four floors, doors that open onto blank walls, and upside down posts! No one has been able to explain the mysteries that exist within the Winchester Mansion, or why Sarah Winchester kept the carpenters' hammers pounding 24 hours a day for 38 years. It is believed that after the untimely deaths of her baby daughter and husband, son of the Winchester Rifle manufacturer, Mrs. Winchester was convinced by a medium that continuous building would appease the evil spirits of those killed by the famous "Gun that Won the West" and help her attain eternal life. Certainly her $20,000,000 inheritance was sufficient to support her obsession until her death at 82!

Photo (above): The largest cabinet in the mansion goes straight through to the back thirty rooms of the mansion.

 

 

 

 

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http://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com

[Cultural Jihad]

Doh! You beat me to it!

[LadyShallott]

Annie Palmer

The fourth child of William and Annie Palmer, John, died. Mrs. Matilda Bradshaw, their cleaning lady, ran in to the Bell public house next door swearing that she would never go into Palmer's house again and that he'd 'done away' with another child. When she was asked how he'd done it she said that she had been upstairs with baby John when Palmer had come in and said that he would look after his son. She said she had gone down stairs when she suddenly heard Baby John screaming. After rushing upstairs she found the baby dead. She maintained that Palmer poisoned his children because he was heard to say that a growing family was too expensive for his slender purse and that he couldn't altogether blame providence for his children's deaths. Mrs. Bradshaw said he murdered them by dipping his finger in poison and then in honey and would make them suck his finger. She was asked if she had ever seen him do it and replied, "No, but I know it in my heart to be true". The death of Annie palmer is still a mystery as well. Suicide due to her husbands debt? Or cholera? She died at the age of 27 after giving birth to five children, four of which died.

[Pro-Bush]

[Pro-Bush]

But you have better pictures...

[Cultural Jihad]

In interesting article on the subject of perception:
Santa Cruz "Mystery Spot" Explained

[#3Fan]

I would like to know where and what that building is as well. Very cool!

I checked the properties, did a search and got this.