STILL IN THE DARK AGES!
You'd think with all of the advancement we have with technology that we would be open to other avenues...such as the Paranormal
But we still have the "Doubting Tomas" to deal with here?
A favorite saying [I'll probably screw it up]...;}
For those who BELIEVE...no proof is necessary
For the SKEPTIC...no proof is possible!
This hold so true with the old ways of thinking in this town!
I have mentioned many times that this town is celebrating it's 100th birthday next year and has been on a drive to make it look pretty and hopefully generate interest in others to want to live here. Contest for changing the town logo [big needless expense] was held...not sure how that went? Letters went out, urging us to come up with new ideas...anything to draw interest. Not only for housing possibilities but for tourist attractions too!
My big idea was to use the fact that Dodge has this big, beautiful Court House and have advertised that it is "Haunted" [on web site] to do it some good, maybe not for living there, but for the tourist part?
What better gimmick than the haunted one!
How many other places in Saskatchewan is known to be haunted?
We even got PROOF by way of technology...not hearsay
We got PROOF because we allowed the paranormal groups come in to document the place! Different ones so there would be no bias opinions!
BUT NO MORE!
Powers to be in the town systems has decided that they can no longer allow access to them, due to what reason I am still unsure of?
This is how it went...
A paranormal group wishing to book filming time [research] has been refused access to the building...seems forever? It's not just them...all of them!
Maybe I read it wrong....?
Good Afternoon QoH,
In 2009 the Town of Dodge established the following policy regarding use and rental of the Court House for meetings:
1. That the upstairs gallery and Council Chambers is not available regarding rental for meeting, effective immediately.
2. That the Council Chambers shall ONLY be utilized by Town appointed Committees and Chamber of Commerce.
3. All committees meetings shall be booked in advance, according to availability on a first come first serve bases, with the Town Administration Staff.
Unfortunately, since then the Museum has been added to the facility and we are continuing to complete the necessary renovations of the Court House. With the number of artifacts that are on display and the art display that are out - concerns have been made regarding the safety of the displays. With the number of concerns it was it makes it very difficult for us to continue to grant access to all paranormal groups. It is unfortunate; however; we must insure that we maintain the safety of the display's on site and can complete the necessary renovations to the Court House.
We hope that you will understand.
Town Administrator
Do you think I understood?
NOPE
This is my reply....
Dear Town Council:
This is in reply to your email to me Oct. 12.
I am quite amazed at your decision to NOT let the paranormal groups do more research on your "Haunted Court House"?
Why are you advertising on your web site that it is a haunted building then?
What proof do you have, to prove that fact, to be able to make that statement?
Hearsay and town gossip is not proof!
The proof you needed was obtained by two different paranormal groups! This proof was captured on video and by sound! Hours and hours and hours or recording/editing by people who are willing to VOLUNTEER their LEISURE time to do this! Yes, it's for their benefit too, but how can you complain when your proof was obtained for FREE! When I say benefit, I mean this is important research on a touchy subject for them and just because one doesn't believe doesn't mean it doesn't exist!
You doubt their honesty by not allowing access?
First of all, my daughter and I had offered up our LEISURE time for FREE, and did so, just to monitor such a thing and to keep it from happening! Not to mention our reputations in being associated with this medium! So in doing so, we have built up a relationship with both of these groups and can now vouch for both of them
For another fact, they are bonded! One even works for the RCMP!
We had offered up our services to keep track of this then and still do, for FREE! This will mean us staying with them while they are in the building over night, if need be and believe me that is NO easy feat for EITHER OF US!
The problem you ran into was what we had warned about all along...letting just any group in and be UNSUPERVISED! No one ever contacted us [we left cards] when these other groups did their thing? From reports, some weren't good! We monitor just exactly what's going on in there, while it is happening and by what the group does/stand for. There will be NO satanic rituals or evil doings and such, as mentioned by the religious factor of the nay Sayers in this town while we are there!
Unless you doubt our honesty? After all we are NOT bonded!
Do you monitor free roaming groups/people while they tour the gallery and museum? If you have camera, do they cover all angles? Are they guided tours?
If not guided, what assurance do you have that things don't go missing then...just because they sign a book? Do they provide credentials when they do? Seems to me you have more proof of stuff missing after a REGISTERED group leaves then strangers off the street!
Some deem that a Gallery and Museum will be big attractions to a town? How many are going to travel to Dodge for just that thing?
How many MORE might, if they were PROVEN to be REALLY, REALLY HAUNTED!
You might say you have enough proof right now...but really, how much is enough? Wouldn't LOTS more, draw more attention? Can you imagine the media attention! One group is now affiliated with T.A.P.S from the USA, which documents just such a thing. Even "Creepy Canada" has shown some future interest when I contacted them six years ago...all I had to do was get back to them!
The "Calling Lakes Paranormal Group" from Ft.Qu'Apple has submitted what they have captured so far on the DVD call "Haunted - The Dodge Court House". This shows video proof of a "Ghostly Child" like figure stepping into view, in the doorway of the men jail cell room! This group also has their own web site in which the town gets FREE advertising of your "haunted" court house.
Also the Ghost Hunters from Saskatoon has proof on their website too! More FREE advertising!
Why do more research now?
It is a documented fact that construction in these old buildings raises not only the dust, but much more! They need to be re-documented. Also one is not guaranteed to capture something every time! It takes HOURS of recording plus HOURS of editing with sometimes NO results! That's a lost weekend to them!
Plus we have our celebration coming up next year and why not add "Paranormal Tours" to the agenda? I have spoken with one of the groups and they would be willing to come here to do something for FREE or for maybe travel/lodgings in the court house/some food? My daughter and I would be willing to organize this and be with them if need be?
Why aren't there year round haunted tours? We did the M/N reunion one year...you could charge for this sort of entertainment, making money off of them? People would rather be entertained by the spooky than the normal boring museum/gallery stuff! Proven fact..look at the attendance book!
Unless you are an artsy person you will not go somewhere to visit a SMALL town exhibit just to see who or what, but they will if the place hosting it is PROVEN to be haunted!
Some may not want their stuff associated with being "haunted" but fail to realize that it's not their stuff that is haunted...just the place! And if you are able to draw any kind of crowd with this kind of means, why wouldn't you want ALL to see it there, whether it be haunted or not?
"Paranormal Fanatics" can be antique/art collectors too! They might recognize some ancient relic on a ghostly shot and just have to find their way here?
You say you want a gimmick or selling factor to have this town recognized by, yet you pass up the biggest one of them all...the "Haunted Court House"?
Who else has such a beautiful building like this, that is still standing in Saskatchewan, let alone one that is PROVEN [recorded] to be haunted?
Are we not entering a new age and are supposed to be forging into a new future?
Let's change the narrow thinking that goes along with the unknown!
Let us be FREE THINKERS and take a fresh look at what they MIGHT prove to us all! It might be a risky venture, but one you have already started for yourselves by advertising on the web!
So, that is why I am amazed that you would turn down such a great attention getter for Dodge.
QoH
I sent that out on the 13th
Not sure if anything will come of it....
Seems to me I made mention of this such a thing happening....
The religious factor was not mentioned in the letter. That was from personal conversation with the driving force behind this rejection.
Also renovation work isn't happening every weekend either!
All who enters takes the risk of any damages and they know that and everything has been replaced exactly as it had been found...so that's not it either...
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