You forgot the major city polling places on November 2. Plenty of dead will be showing up to vote, I'm sure....
Posted on 10/20/2004 8:17:15 AM PDT by DollyCali
(1) A cemetery
Chestnut Grove Cemetery - Ashtabula, Ohio
The mass grave in Chestnut Grove Cemetery that holds the unrecognizable victims of the train disaster is marked by a stark granite obelisk, and Collins' more ornate gothic crypt is nearby. Both, when photographed, manifest a burned appearance once the film is developed and printed. Reports of wraiths near here are many. Ghostly families in warm winter clothes wander together, often carrying carpetbags and baskets. Screams are heard late at night, many visitors say a charred odor pervades the grounds, and near Collins' crypt a man can be seen weeping bitterly, crying out over and over, "I'm sorry. I'm so very sorry."
The cause? On December 29, 1876, the Pacific Express was making its evening run, carrying an estimated 160 passengers and crew. The train started across the bridge, spanning its length, but as the first engine reached the other side the bridge collapsed. The rest of the train plummeted 75 feet into the freezing river. An estimated 92 men, women and children died that night. 25 of the victims were burned beyond recognition, and were quickly buried by rescue workers in a mass grave in nearby Chestnut Grove Cemetery. Bridge engineer Charles Collins testified before a grand jury that convened to investigate the disaster, then went home and shot himself in the head. Amasa Stone, the bridge designer and architect, would also take his own life just a few years later.
(2) a Castle
Tiedemann Castle - Cleveland, Ohio
For years this Gothic mansion has been famously haunted. You name it, the house has it. Gray mist floats through the upper floors, accompanied by heavy footsteps from an unseen source; a baby's cries echo through the halls, though no children reside there; doors fly off their hinges, lights turn off and on, mirrors mysteriously fog up and chandeliers twist and turn of their own accord. The spectre of a woman dressed in black has been seen peering out of a small window in the front tower -- even when the room is known to be empty. Two families have moved on account of the mansion's ghostly tenants, though the current brave owner has dwelled with them for 20 years.
(3 A Church
Mater Dolorosa Church in NE Ohio is widely known as "the Satanic Church." The small Gothic structure, an Irish-Catholic church, is distinguished by a number of upside-down crosses worked into the building's design, giving rise to the legend that the church is a center for satanic worship and that all manner of devilish doings go on here late at night. In truth, the inverted cross is symbolic of the Apostle Peter, who was martyred by crucifixion: when facing his death, Peter requested to be crucified upside-down, feeling that he was unworthy to die in the manner of Christ. It is a long-honored symbol of the Catholic Church, referential to both Peter's humility and his stature as the first Pope of the Church. The plain truth isn't half as interesting as devilish rumors, but here's a little something to keep the goosebumps coming...
Just a scant two miles from Mater Dolorosa is the church cemetery, which makes all visitors uneasy: falling-down headstones, rusty iron fences, graves dating back to 1799. Check out the marker of Michael Raleigh (d. 1874), and look just to the right of his name: a ghoulish face can be seen glaring out of the stone. Witnesses mention pale figures flitting through the graveyard, and chill winds blowing through on the warmest of summer days.
not orbs.. but "something"...:)
Good enough for your ping list?
You forgot the major city polling places on November 2. Plenty of dead will be showing up to vote, I'm sure....
later read
"With the election work ... might pass this year."
I don't blame you. The DNC has probably crowded the place up with their Get Out the Vote effort...
you are a hoot.. Never thought of this slant.. already Ohio is notorious this week for fraud... dead....superheroes being registered.
I grew up in Ashtabula Ohio. The only haunted place I recall was the local democratic headquarters!
There's a website dedicated to this sort of thing. There was one website where these guys would actually break in and explore abandoned buildings, and post their pics on their site. Very cool, but it's been taken down. I think it was called forgottenohio.com. Here's another, broken down by county.
http://www.ohioexploration.com/
those polled in said locations are 110% for Kerry
lol
The website http://www.forgottenoh.com was a great website with HUNDREDS of sotries about haunted houses or abandoned places.
Sadly, the website is no longer. :(
and will each vote 4 or more times to prove it!!!!
this is the story of my life smith.. too late, too poor, too slow, too ugly...
:)
All due to the Houdini-type seances conducted by the dirty tricksters...where they can conjur up all types of phantom spirits appearing in various voter disguises.
Actually 200% for the double voters; 300% for the triple voters; 400% for the quadruple voters...
As the ole Democratic mantra goes, "vote early, vote often!"
I do not understand why some efforts are not made to lay these poor souls to rest through prayer and the interventions of a sound priest or pastor.
Ghost Ping...
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