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Posted on 10/28/2005 3:26:33 AM PDT by DollyCali
Edited on 10/28/2005 3:45:56 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
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Every Thursday at the Finest |
Just got home from Church, right across the hall from us was the Army having a conference.
Was nice to see so many and I thanked the ones I saw.
Oh boy!!! (I'm really in trouble now.) I didn't mean to suggest that you are an "Old Timer". I'm not even admitting to being one myself..smile. As you know computer years are more like dog years. FR has changed so much through the years that it seems like a lifetime in only 9 years. You're just a spring chicken, I'm sure. (Whew!!! Hope I'm out of that one...smile)
Do you know if JimRob has any plans at all for a 10th anniversary online Bash of any kind? He'd have to be the one to orchestrate something like that. Certainly we can't let that milestone go by without a shindig of some sort. (I'm dating myself with that word for sure.) I'll help in any way I can, but my time will probably (hopefully) be limited. I'm starting my own Electrical Engineering Consulting Business and it's going to take up a lot of time....as I said...hopefully.
I'll check some of my old hard drive backups and see if I saved any of those old postings from those days. I remember JimRob's computers crashed at one time in those days and I believe he lost a lot of the original postings. I'm not sure of when that happened or if it was a catastrophic as I'm describing it.
Sorry about that bike spill. I had one once myself, in the city. Luckily when I went "head over heels" (as the old folks used to say) I landed on someone's lawn and didn't get hurt at all. I, too, did a dumb thing but I guess the Man Upstairs was looking out for this fool. Not a fun experience even though I laugh about it today. Makes you a little more careful in the future, that's for sure. Get well soon.
Freepmail me from now on with any updates on JimRob's plans.
That is Lovely, (((((((Dolly))))))), and so is the Picture.
Thank you kitty.. Just got back from church & a very "subdued" walk with my pooches. It is going to be slowing healing I am afraid !
Thank you for the pix comment. I took it a few weeks ago (did you see Toby in water? about the middle of picture). This is one of our "river walk" locations. The Chippewa Chreek actually in Brecksville area of Ohio,
I take lots of pix & many are sceens wtih the idea of doing a scriptural inclusion & some cropping to make it balanced. I often think of the scripture when I see a site. There are a lot of scriptures on water & I am at the water a lot, so they work.
Are you meeting in a school building (etc) for church Rus?
Need to get mom some dinner & take a nap outside in sunshine.. it is a glorious day here.. 62.. and will be nice again tomorrow.
No, we meet in the Holiday Inn untill we build our new church.
We moved out of the one we were in and are saving at least $2000 a month.
All of that goes toward the building fund and we are just about ready to build.
Hey everyone....Meet my chiropractors. Dr. Mike is the top bannana/owner of the clinic. The Saturday before Halloween each year is patient appreciation day. In addition to free adjustments are great refreshments & all the staff in costume. Always fun & upbeat (and crowded)
Dr. Mike has a great pix of the Governator & himself in his office. I have a series of shots BUT I cannot find the pix to post. (it is hiding) - some other day. He is a big fan of BJ Palmer the founder of chiropractic. My dad went to chiropractic college at Palmer(Iowa) & was in classes w/BJ & at his home socially. BJ was partial to former military & my dad a navy man in WW2 fit the profile! There are very few family pix of that time that I have seen.
By MATT FRAZIER
STAR-TELEGRAM STAFF WRITER
Beneath a modern Metroplex of superhighways, international airports and towers of glass and steel, some say a supernatural assembly of lost souls thrives. The histories of Tarrant County and Denton have long been haunted by stories of apparitions, unearthly voices and unexplained phenomena.
The locations and urban legends of 64 local ghosts are revealed below. Visit them at your own peril.
Shame on your Rus... scaring the children who might visit w/their parents!
:)
you have to sign up for this site.. Do you get bombarded with email or other unwanted things for doing so?? I am curious but want to keep my computer as clean as possible
Katie is with her Mom Tweety in top right Pix. The top right pix is from this Morning when preacher John took her confession of faith
Tweety hopes to stop by later..between sick kids & “life“ she has been overwhelmed of late
The festival of All Saints, also sometimes known as "All Hallows," or "Hallowmas," is a feast celebrated in their honour. All Saints is also a Christian formula invoking all the faithful saints and martyrs, known or unknown.
The Roman Catholic holiday (Festum omnium sanctorum) falls on November 1, followed by All Souls' Day on November 2, and is a festival of the first rank, with a vigil and an octave. The Eastern Orthodox Church's All Saints is the first Sunday after Pentecost and as such marks the close of the Easter season.
Common commemorations, by several churches, of the deaths of martyrs began to be celebrated in the 4th century. The first trace of a general celebration is attested in Antioch on the Sunday after Pentecost. This custom is also referred to in the 74th homily of John Chrysostom (407) and is maintained to the present day in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
The origin of the festival of All Saints as celebrated in the West is, however, now said by the Roman Catholic Church to be somewhat doubtful. On May 13 in 609 or 610 (the day being more important than the year), Pope Boniface IV consecrated the Pantheon at Rome to the Blessed Virgin and all the martyrs, and the feast of the dedicatio Sanctae Mariae ad Martyres has been celebrated at Rome ever since. The chosen day, May 13, was a pagan observation of great antiquity, the culmination of three days of the Feast of the Lemures, in which were propitiated the malevolent and restless spirits of all the dead. The medieval liturgiologists based the idea that this Lemuria festival was the origin of that of All Saints on identical dates and on the similar theme of all the dead. This connection has now been abandoned by Roman Catholics. Instead, the feast of All Saints is now traced to the foundation by Pope Gregory III (reigned 731–741) of an oratory in St. Peter's for the relics "of the holy apostles and of all saints, martyrs and confessors, of all the just made perfect who are at rest throughout the world," with the day moved to November 1.
So far as the Western Church generally is concerned, the November festival of all the saints was already widely celebrated in the days of Charlemagne; it was made a day of obligation throughout the Frankish empire in 835, by a decree of Louis the Pious, issued "at the instance of Pope Gregory IV and with the assent of all the bishops," which confirmed its celebration on the 1st of November.
There are celebrations in Portugal, Spain and Mexico, where are common the ofrendas (offerings). In Portugal and France, people would (and continue to) offer flowers to dead relatives. The traditional Portuguese Halloween, known as dia das bruxas (witches' day) is observed in the night of April 30 to May 1; it is not related with All Saints Day and is not widely celebrated. In Poland, the tradition on this day (known as Zaduszki) is to light candles (znicze) and visit the graves of deceased relatives. Catholics in the Philippines spend the day visiting the graves of deceased relatives, where they offer prayers, lay flowers, and light candles, often in a picnic-like atmosphere.
The festival was retained after the Reformation in the calendar of the Church of England and in that of many of the Lutheran churches. In the latter, in spite of attempts at revival, it has fallen into disuse. In the Lutheran churches, such as the Church of Sweden, it assumes a role of general commemoration of the dead (similar to the All Souls commemoration in the Eastern Orthodox Church that takes place two Saturdays before the beginning of Lent). In the Swedish calendar observance takes place on the first Saturday of November.
In the royal House of Borbón, it is common for family members to bear the appendage de Todos los Santos at the end of their given names; for instance, María del Pilar Alfonsa Juana Victoria Luísa Ignacia de Todos los Santos is Infanta Pilar's full list of given names.
The National Football League awarded the city of New Orleans an NFL franchise on November 1, 1966, and because of this the team was called the New Orleans Saints.
SOrry the hotlinks above aren't working (sigh)... needing to leave for church again in a bit.
2005 Ghost Directory
By MATT FRAZIER
STAR-TELEGRAM STAFF WRITER
Beneath a modern Metroplex of superhighways, international airports and towers of glass and steel, some say a supernatural assembly of lost souls thrives. The histories of Tarrant County and Denton have long been haunted by stories of apparitions, unearthly voices and unexplained phenomena.
The locations and urban legends of 64 local ghosts are revealed below. Visit them at your own peril.
1. River Legacy Parks: Hell's Gate
Gray-coated Confederates hanged Union spies in a swampy area near the Trinity River's West Fork. At night, sobs and whispered prayers are heard.
2. River Legacy Parks: The General
A red-haired Confederate general moans in a clearing at the end of a narrow path from Hell's Gate.
3. River Legacy Parks: Screaming Bridge
Three girls, all high school juniors from Arlington, died Feb. 4, 1961, when their vehicle ran off a bridge. On the anniversary of their deaths, some say they've seen a heavy fog roll in, shimmering headlights and tombstones glowing in the inky waters.
4. River Legacy Parks: Mossier Valley
A hobo awakened by sounds of a struggle tried to stop a man from beating a woman to death -- and got shot for his trouble. After dark he still roams the park, tapping on car windows to make sure everyone inside is safe.
5. Bird's Fort
John Denton was killed in 1841 by American Indians in the Battle of Village Creek and buried in the prairie, where his soul still wanders.
6. Six Flags over Texas: Candy Girl
Annie, an 8-year-old girl who drowned in Johnson Creek in the early 1900s, can be seen walking the railroad tracks or turning the light on and off in her room: a little yellow candy store at the entrance of the Texas section next to the Texas Giant.
7. Bowie High School: Leonard
Leonard was either killed during the building of the school or was a custodian there. He resides in the auditorium. He throws small rocks onto the stage. Machine noises have been heard in the shop room and bells chiming in the catwalk. He has been known to spit.
8. House on Arkansas Lane
Either a boy who murdered his family or a man who would molest and kill children keeps the property unusable.
9. Arlington High School: Ghost Theater
The ghost of a boy who committed suicide sometimes recites monologues here. He also disrupts plays if a seat is not left empty for him on the front row.
10. Arlington High School: Ghost Theater
Before she died, an elderly lady volunteered by sewing costumes for school productions. Some still hear her sing as her sewing machine hums.
11. Cinemark Tinseltown 9: Ghost Theater
A construction worker who died while building theater six occasionally sits in an empty chair next to someone, then disappears.
12. Martin High School: Ghost Theater
Students walking alone in the theater sometimes hear a drama student who either hanged himself or was hanged from the catwalk. He may have been hanged after being refused a part in a play or after coming to his prom naked.
13. Crystal Canyon Park
A ghost dog howls into the night and wanders around the grave site of his master, who was scalped by American Indians.
14. Delta Upsilon Thornton Mansion
According to a psychic the Star-Telegram hired in 1997, there are three ghosts here. One is angry. Stereos turn on and off and a cat meows from empty closets.
15. Phi Delta Fraternity House
A member who died a long time ago will haunt the area until his degree is conferred, something that may prove difficult because the site now houses a Salvation Army shelter.
16. Suicide Hill
Kids who used to drag race around Arlington's lake would sometimes die trying to make the curve around Suicide Hill. Now their ghosts scream in horror. Sometimes the crashes are re-enacted.
17. Footsteps in the house
A woman who committed suicide in an upstairs closet still clomps upstairs at night and moves boxes around.
18. Flagship Inn Resort
A man fired from his security guard job set the ballroom on fire, then died in the flames.
19. Benbrook home
Ghostly couple Maggie and Jiggs. Jiggs likes to get drunk and sing He's Got the Whole World in His Hands. Maggie likes to yell at him until he stops. Sometimes fog moves through the north bedroom.
20. Families
The first family is Hispanic, one of the few non-Anglo ghosts reported. They dance, they sing, they yell at each other and get into fights. The second family is quiet and peaceful, except they hate motorcycles. When one of the living inhabitants brings home a motorcycle, it sometimes starts up and heads into a nearby pond.
21. University of North Texas: Bruce Hall
A young pregnant woman who starved herself in an attempt to have an abortion roams the halls when the building is closed.
22. University of North Texas: University Union Suite 324
Those staying late hear the fax machine turn on and off. Sometimes they are locked into copy rooms and offices.
23. University of North Texas: Maple Street Hall
A pregnant woman died in the building. She now causes lights to turn on and apparently takes showers.
24. Midway Recreation Center
A janitor who died a few years ago occasionally works out to rap music.
25. The Mound
An American Indian burial mound is now a playground for ghosts.
26. The former Barber's Bookstore
A young prostitute who worked the Adam Hotel on the building's upper floor fell in love with a cowboy. Her father found out and gunned down the cowboy in Room 11. The distraught daughter grabbed the gun and killed herself. Patrons and owners have said they've heard the sounds of pages being turned, seen shadows on the stairway, smelled the soft scent of flowers and sometimes felt a light touch.
27. Del Frisco's Steakhouse
The spirit of a man who frequented a bathhouse that used to occupy the upper floor in the 1800s still wanders around, looking for a tub.
28. The Jet Building
Ghostly footsteps have been heard upstairs.
29. Fast Freddy's Pool Hall
Deceased patron Utley Puckett causes strange noises after-hours at the now-closed establishment.
30. Log Cabin Village
Jane Holt nursed one of the Foster boys who was injured in the Civil War. Now she brings the smell of lilacs when she visits the second floor of the Foster Cabin. Sometimes she enjoys the rocking chair. Sometimes she poses for photographs and is seen as a blue dot, which, when magnified, reveals a woman's smiling face.
31. Log Cabin Village
Apparitions in Howard Cabin have touched visitors.
32. Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge, Greer Island
Apparitions, ghostly sounds and other mysterious happenings.
33. Stockyards: The Maverick
A woman leaves roses upstairs.
34. Stockyards: General Store
Little information is available, but apparitions have been reported by several sources.
35. Stockyards: Miss Molly's
Apparitions appear from within the walls of this former bordello.
36. Stockyards: The former Spaghetti Warehouse
A woman killed in a fire haunts the attic.
37. Stockyards Hotel: Jesse
A gunfighter called Jesse was gunned down around 1910 in the street in front of the hotel. When the night is still, his spurred cowboy boots can be heard thumping and jingling down the hallway.
38. Texas Wesleyan University Fine Arts Building
Sarah Dobkins brings a feeling of calm and peace as she paces along the hallway or sits in her favorite chair in the university theater. The 65- to 75-year old lady wears a floor-length turn-of-the-century dress.
39. Fort Worth Zoo: Elephant area
An elephant keeper crushed to death in the 1980s is still seen in the elephant and zebra areas.
40. Fort Worth Zoo: Parasols
A woman dressed in a white 19th-century-style dress and carrying a parasol has apparently been in the area for a century, but her history remains unknown.
41. Peters Bros. Hats
The ghost of Tom Peters moves hats.
42. Scott Theater
A deceased janitor laughs from the stage.
43. Schoonover House
Reports of footsteps, cold spots, voices, apparitions, lights turning on and off in the basement.
44. Texas White House Bed & Breakfast
Guests report a spirit sleeping behind them on the bed or moving the fan. Most who encounter the sleepy, cuddly spirit report no feelings of fear or anxiety.
45. Thistle Hill
A woman dressed in a flowing lace-trim ivory dress shimmers on the grand staircase while a male ghost in tennis clothes stands at the top of the stairs. Music and ghostly voices come from the ballroom.
46. Crazy Man's Tower
The tower is gone at this failed housing development, but a corpulent, bearded ghost occasionally reclines in a lawn chair, soaking up moonshine.
47. Momma's House
A controlling mother haunted her daughter here for years.
48. The smoking brother
A ghost impersonated an older, still-living brother to bum a cigarette.
49. Mistletoe home
Sometimes cabinet doors fly open, keys and tools disappear, and a ghost hums a melody while floating around in a white dress.
50. Ruth and David Stone
Seen: a dwarflike figure in ceremonial dress. Heard: voices of two women speaking an unrecognizable language.
51. Boulevard of Ghosts
Spirits supposedly haunt several houses in this neighborhood.
52. Glen D. Reeves Fine Arts Center at Boswell High School
Glen supposedly haunts one of the rails in this performance hall and has been known to play with the lights.
53. Cross Timbers Winery
A former deceased resident touched her living daughter on the cheek.
54. Broadway Street Bridge
A high-school boy was killed and his body was thrown into a creek behind Shannon Learning Center. He now breathes out cold chills when the moon is dark.
55. Blue Mound Hill
American Indians dance, chant and scream for revenge atop a former lookout post.
56. The Devil's Backbone
Ghosts in a stretch of land between Euless and Hurst scare kids with weird noises.
57. Whataburger: Boogie
A ghost called Boogie turns faucets on and off and may start fires. It may have had something to do with the death of a former employee.
58. Old stone recreation building
Sometimes footsteps are heard.
59. Lake Worth
A woman leans out of a boat holding high a lantern in search of her lost children. Some say they've seen a 7-foot monster in the lake.
60. Farr Best Theater
A good-natured ghost named McDougal turns lights on and off and makes objects vanish and then reappear, much to the amusement of the staff.
61. Jubilation
Three ghosts haunted the location until a medium asked them to leave. There is Gary, a longtime customer with a taste for Weller and water with a shot of tequila on the side. A man accused of stealing a woman's wallet fled pursuers by running onto Northeast Loop 820 during rush hour traffic. He missed a grip on a passing truck and was crushed beneath its wheels. Little is known about a female ghost reported there.
62. Tarrant County College Northeast Campus
A ghost rearranges objects in a locked storage room and turns lights on and off.
63. Castleberry High School
The school is built on ancient burial grounds of American Indians, who can be heard speaking on the stairwell to the roof.
64. Timarron Country Club
Reports of ghosts seen on walking trails and cold spots around the pool area.
Sources: Ghosts of North Texas by Mitchel Whitington, www.texasghosthunters.com, www.theshadowlands.net, www.lonestarspirits.org, Star-Telegram
wow.. sounds interesting (thanks for posting this)..Going to archive much of this material... Pinging Curly Bill(FRee Republic's ghost man!) to your list,
We have a yearly Haunted Cleveland bike ride.. I go now & then & it is always fun.
nice idea to save that money for the building. Our church just paid off the mortgage on the family life center addition. Happy Days.
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