Where Have I Been?


This should be the new name for my blog!


I do have excuses....


As you all have read over and over again about my cataract problems and it's woes...


Add a CRASH OF MY COMPUTER!!!!! June 14th to my already mountain of woes!


My Hard Drive CRASHED!!!!!!


UNRECOVERABLE are words you never want to have to hear...


ESPECIALLY if your livelihood DEPENDS on it!


ESPECIALLY if you haven't backed-up your work since Feb.23!


Happily my Ex and I still talk to each other cause he came to my rescue and got me back up running again the very next day.


Only he couldn't restore ALL OF THAT LOST WORK!


Because this IDIOT kept putting off doing the back-up needed to ensure not losing it!


Remember me telling you all of the tire-kicking estimating that I had been doing and wasn't getting paid for it cause it was JUST estimates....

Well the majority of the "Just estimates" were lost, they were NEEDED not long after the crash...


Go Figure!


Which meant they all had to be redrawn all over again!


Not great news for someone with failing eyesight!


All of that wouldn't have been too bad if it wasn't for them all having a time limit!


Most was for the town's 100th birthday July 23. The town's Rec Director had made a push for getting advertising for the arena which would hold the ceremonies. Perfect for advertising which I was getting in on too.

Let me tell you....all of the signs did get done in time! Thanks to a hard working PoD and LONG hours!


Only they NEVER did get put up in time for the big event!


The lazy Rec Director never got around to it and from what reports I have heard he had PLENTY of time to do it?


Thankfully that wasn't my fault but my customer's are slow in paying for those signs BECAUSE of that fact of NOT getting their advertising that was promised! Guess it's Always MY fault!


During my work frenzy I missed updating my blog with useless info that's only important to me but have come to learn that it's an important memory tool for me too!


A lot of the lost info and important dates were recoverable because of my trivia drivel on my blog. I have used past stories to revive the info not filled in scrapbooks that haven't been updated either!


I'm very anal about recording stuff!


Only have to learn to get anal about UPDATING IT!


My Blog is kind of like a diary for me and really isn't meant to be there to entertain others in the world, which I really don't have to worry about seeing as only a few ever comment...;{


Things I did miss while the work frenzy was going on was attending Wilma's 40th birthday bash held in a hall not far from my house. It happened soon after my crash and I wasn't in any party mood...nor was PoD.

Happy Birthday Wilma....better late than never, I say!

Did have a gift for her that ended up in the dump! It has a weird story...

Seems I always find time for Garage Sales!

During the town-wide one I came across this gorgeous oldish looking mirror with neat ornate edgings...kind of gave me an idea about a mirror for her bar in their basement. The mirror was in excellent shape and even the backing looked kind of new like? The owner even said that she never hung it cause it never fit anywhere. My intent was to embellish it with a funny quote in vinyl somewhere on the surface area.
When I got the mirror home I stood it up facing my cutting machine and computer. It stood there for two days before a work day.
Right from the start we had problems with the machines. The computer didn't want to start? The cutter moved when it wasn't even turned on and both PoD and I witnessed it! From the moment I had brought the mirror into my place I had a dislike for it? It felt strange? Jokingly I said to PoD that it must be the mirror spooking the machinery and felt the urge to remove it from the place. So I put it outside in my storage vehicle with my Halloween decorations and forgot about it.
When I came back in, PoD said all was back to normal with the machines after I had left with the mirror...? Coincidence?
A few days later I went to retrieve the mirror to put the wording I had prepared for it, on it, when I found that the frame had broken away on the bottom. The frame was still stapled to the cardboard backing and that was still attached to the rest of it? The mirror had not been broken...just the frame and there was no way to pull it apart the way that it was without breaking the mirror. It had been a bit warm outside and was possible that the mirror could have expanded enough to force the frame to split...but why only one end?
I got a cold chill up my spine when I saw that and thought it through enough to cause me to question whether I wanted to give something with an odd aura about it to a friend not to mention ever wanting to have it around...so to the dump it went with a cleansing performed over it to make sure that the weirdness didn't hang around after it left!

The decal is still here for her if she wants it...:)

Anyways...

Other important info needed to be recorded was the fact that I have lived in this place now for 4 years...my the time has flown!


The grand kids left for their 3 week visit with their Alberta relatives on June 28 and that left exactly 3 days to work on getting Grad together. This meant rounding up lights and wrapping poles. I had shown in an earlier post the diamond theme this year and had big plans on making lots of cardboard ones....that never happened due to our rush.

The end result was because of a dream of someone else who had the courage to go it alone on the planning of majority of the decorating...

The entrance way table was her idea but the archway was mine. This was the last area to be decorated and was hastily put together. By the time we got to this spot all were tired [except for me] of decorating and it showed. But by then all didn't care either...except for me

The theme did not match the decoration theme? But how would one do that by that dumb saying anyways? I'm glad this was off to the side and not too noticeable.


This what the stage looked like. The bags on the floor in front of the head table all had the kids name on them and wasn't my idea either...:) This to hold all of their goodies?

The big diamond that sits in the center is a posing stool and is for their photo op after the ceremonies. The kids came out from the curtained area to the right and paraded around the stage then down the steps to their seat. The little shoes that you see in the foreground were done by me

The above photos shows the hall layout and their table centerpieces. The most awesome thing to me were the blue origami folded napkins that each held a peppermint patty in the center. This woman made over 200 of them...happily with no help from me!

Surprise of all surprises I have NO Orbs to point out to you all lurking on here...


This all my eyes can stand for now...I still have July to catch up on and that will include photos of the town's 100th, our HUGE parade, our float and even a Paranormal Investigation on the 29-30...this kills my eyes and gives me a headache so it may be slow

And maybe an update on the Darkside Zodiac for Cancer then one for Leo...


So stay tuned...:)

CAT HERDING AT IT'S WORST!

I have nothing but respect for those who teach teenagers or should I say young adults who are going to be let loose on this world in June...

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I am referring to our "Friday the 13th Ghost Tour" in our haunted court house.

I had figured on there being around 20 kids or so...well the or so turned up to be 29 total! Add some chaperons and we ended up having 38 in all!

Wanna see what I saw...

PoD is holding the door open while I am in my favorite spot...taking pictures. There were a few others [chaperons] not in the shot...[if you were counting those in the picture that is]...;}

Forget any other pictures after this...not possible, as it was absolute chaos after that shot!

Okay...now take all those kids and squeeze them into this building and expect to scare them. Wasn't possible, except for one poor girl that was too terrified at the end of the tour to retrieve an object she had left in the safe room by herself. PoD had to go with her so I guess we managed to scare one for sure.

But it really wasn't about scaring that we had intend to do when we gave this tour. Our intention was to open up some eyes of the really skeptical ones and judging by the question period at the end, we had some people going away with thoughts of maybe there is something to what we are finding about the paranormal in there.

As for the tour itself...never that many together all at once! At least for this age group! I would ask for the interested ones be in one group and the bored ones to be in another group. Although I do have to add that these kids were pretty wound up from their trip and that didn't help with some of their short attention spans!

One girl from Toronto kept us on our toes with questions against what we were doing and that was fine...she had some very intelligent questions that happily we were able to raise some doubt in her skepticism.

PoD did most of the talking, which was okay with me, as I found that this age group had a tendency to annoy me with their antics! I found that I had to do more watching for them handling the artifacts, which they were told not to touch or pick up! The rooms were too crowded for any control even with the presence of their chaperons.

To tell you the truth...if I had been one of the ghosts, I would have stayed out of sight with all those hormones in one tiny room...I tell you! There were times that I wanted disappear!

We started are tour by showing them the safe room or the "Control Center" where the research teams set up their equipment. Then up the main foyer stairs to the law offices and court room where we give another long story on what happened in those rooms. That ends with the tour through the Judges Chambers and down the back stairs to the basement.

By the time we have toured half of the basement, my throat hurts so much from trying to make myself heard over the over active kids! I was so thankful for remembering to bring my water bottle with me. But that didn't help completely with the hurt on my vocal cords. I wasn't doing as much talking as PoD but her voice sounded better than mine did. But then, she still has kids at home that makes her vocal chords in much better shape than mine...;}

It doesn't get dark here until 9:30 or so, so we weren't able to show them just how dark it is while we do our investigations. This might have added more chaos tho, as there were some boys that were trying to scare others and that can get out of control quickly in the dark! So I'm glad that it wasn't dark too?

One neat part is that PoD got to show her half-sister and half niece what it is that she does in her spare time. You see, PoD's half sister didn't want anything to do with her biological father's family as she felt that he abandoned and her kids, for his new family? It's a very messy story that hurts all and hopefully one day maturity might happen and things will be better. It's none of my kids or my fault as we have tried to mend fences without any results. My grand daughter is in the same class as her son and she didn't want her son acknowledging having a half-cousin...etc. So they haven't conversed.

Until now...

She asked PoD a few questions...

I know that sounds small but it's a step forward...

So in all, I say Friday the 13th tour offered up something different for us...or not, we'll see?

Anyways...

The tour only took an hour...felt like 3!

We were told that all had enjoyed it and they thanked us...

So hopefully it was true and we haven't hit their record books as being crazy?

One question that stuck out mostly in my mind was...

"If this place is so haunted why isn't it famous or on TV?"

Our response was...

"We're working on it"!



Other than that, the day was uneventful and things weren't unlucky in my mind...

Except for the next morning at 4:00 am when I was awaken by loud people noises and got to watch the drunk antics on the porch roof next door at the party house! There is no balcony or porch...this is the ROOF of their porch. There were 3 of them [2guys/1girl] sitting all wrapped up in blankets [it was pretty cold out] drinking and passing a joint, being really loud, while watching the sunrise! I stayed up to watch them...to see whether any of the idiots would fall off but I was disappointed. Although, it would have been pretty gruesome if they had fallen on my side, as there's a pointy fence and sidewalk within their fall zone that might have caused some pretty serious damage if they had!


The other eventful thing was three garage sales in which I got PoD to attend with me [I'm too crazy a driver for her] and she picked up an elliptical trainer really cheap...she was looking for a treadmill so she was happy. I came away with some crafty stuff and office files for pennies!

Did I ever tell you that I LOVE garage sales!

;)

Then later that day my nap was interrupted by my son-in-law-landlord and my grand children ripping the back deck off the house!

This has been in the works for awhile as it was badly in need of replacement!

My job is to draw up building deck plans that will pass inspection...

This will be my second experience in deck building. The other one was in Kelowna 1980! That one was much larger so this one shouldn't be too hard...

We'll see...

It's been many a moon...

Photos to come...

IT'S A HAUNTED TOUR...

ON FRIDAY THE 13TH...

Does that sound ominous or what?

Tonight [7:00] PoD and I are off to try to scare some grade 12 students and maybe some adults...

A hard task!

Teenagers can be very skeptical at that age about a lot of things...sometimes just to be contrary or to be more macho in front of their peers...?

Our grade 12 students have an exchange program with the students from Toronto [Ont] and the students will arrive in town later this afternoon. We've been asked by the hosting parents to give a spooky guided tour through our town's wonderfully haunted court house and to scare the crap out of them...their words not mine!

Of course, we accepted!

Although, it was a toss up between a paranormal investigation being done in Regina [that we were kindly invited to attend] this weekend with the group [Sask Paranormal Shadow Hunters] that we had hosted here in Feb. There was a few places they were investigating that sounded interesting but seeing as we had already promised this weekend to the students, we had to decline. But very thankful that they had considered us enough to offer us an invite. Hopefully in the near future we can attend another one?

Anyways... tonight will be a challenge?

Hopefully there will be some maturity involved with this age...but past experiences with the Halloween tours, leaves me apprehensive about so many [approx 20] all at once, in a group.

The Toronto students arrive in town sometime this evening straight off the plane in Saskabush, a rough 2 hr drive on scary highways to here, then board wagons to tour the town and cemetery [you know us country hicks...;}] ending up with a barbecue on the court house grounds.

The spooky tour in the court house is planned for 8:00.

I can see them either all totally hyped up with all that has happened with them so far or hopefully so tired from the flight/drive/wagons/food that they let themselves get scared...;)

And maybe we will get lucky and they will all be believers and come away with a great experience of the paranormal....

One can wish?

Will take lots of photos but promise no shots of faces if possible. Will try to get a group photo and will post with permission of course.

Stay tuned for the results.

I just hope that Friday the 13th doesn't get us....

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DODGE GHOST HUNTERS GEAR UP FOR CENTENNIAL...

That's what the title of the town's newspaper story [Wed. Mar. 9/11] was...?

The biggest thing that I had stressed the ABSOLUTE MOST was that we weren't SURE whether we wanted to DO something for the centennial or NOT!

We are are only a group of "two" people!

We do have the capabilities to run such an event [we've done tours before] but the thing is...will we be able to get to experience any of the centennial too? The article states day and night!

I HAVE to have a float for the parade, for my business, as they want to have at least 100 entries. With the addition of the ghost tours I should have a float for that too? That means we don't get to watch it! As a business, I HAVE to DONATE prizes to whatever is planned to help fund them. Whine, whine, whine....;(

Our two other part-time investigators [4 hrs out of town] are planning on attending our festivities, but NOT to have to VOLUNTEER THEIR TIME helping us run these tours! They would do it, if we were pressed for help, but I don't think that would be fair to them either!

Thing is.... I KIND OF WANT to do it anyways...?

Most will say the EGO wants to show its ugly face and that part is wrong! I HATE public speaking and being in the lime light...most who know me, know that this is a FACT!

The thing I want the MOST is to see this court house achieve it's "Moment of Fame"! My hope was [with this article], was to open the eyes to the possibility of doing this permanently as a tourist attraction! Something to generate funds to help run the museum and gallery...which are deep in debt!

And maybe along with it...will be the opening of some very narrow eyes...:)

To be able to bring this medium out into the open with all the proof we have amassed is fantastic! Granted, the only ones who will attend will be the ones who already believe or are close to it. Still, they will pass the word no matter what...:)!

And if we are recognized along the way...then my family has something to brag about...;)


Guess that IS the EGO talking....;}!


Anyways....


The reporter, Fram Dinshaw [ The Citizen], starts his report...

"Two Dodge ghost hunters conducting a scientific investigations of apparitions in the courthouse are looking to lay on tours for locals and visitors at the Centennial party and make the town famous with paranormal seekers from the USA and Britain."...

With other excerpts...

"While touring the courthouse, this reporter saw an unexplained flash of light above a door off the hallway on the courthouse's upper level."

"The Citizen's camera went from a full battery to just one quarter after an hour in the courthouse"

I wasn't too crazy about his explanation of what "Orbs" are after what we told him [his note taking wasn't too great]..."which are bright, fast-moving collections of dust, formed by the energy left behind after a person dies."

Collections of DUST formed by energy?

We said..."when people die, [don't move on] they are this ball of energy, generally in the shape of a sphere. In order to move or change, they need energy. They will draw energy from anything around them, whether it's a living human or batteries! These show up on pictures as bright balls but are NOT to be confused with dust motes!"

"a masonic-style mirror has mysterious lines across the glass that bothe mother and daughter say are the work of orbs."

It's NOT a masonic-style mirror....it's a mirror in a masonic bench!

Plus we said..."the mirror gives off strange lines and shapes depending on direction of light being shone on it? It's not etched on as the back is sealed!"

Not once did we say that orbs did it! But then maybe they did and we didn't know it...

And lastly....

I was so happy that there was no picture of us...even though we did get all gussied up...;}

What they did show was creepy enough...that part I'll give them credit for.

They showed a darken shot of the creepy mannequin that scares PoD every time and the vault where the skull was kept!

Other than that we did get a half a page of free advertising...


That just might land us up in more grief...


AND...

We got to scare a complete stranger plus make him a believer in the fact that our court house IS CREEPY...if not haunted!

A HAUNTING WE WILL GO....part two

PoD and I arrived Saturday evening [5:30ish] to see a very sleepy group trying very hard to wake up...must of been the heat

Or maybe the spirits trying to suck their energy......oooooo;}

I could just imagine how I would have felt if I had stayed there with them all of the time, like the town wants us to do...

I would sure like these groups to try to do these investigations in the summer time, when the heat is off, then maybe I would be able to spend the full time in there.


Anyways...

Get going they finally did...but not me!

I opted to stay and monitor the video feeds at the command post while the others did their thing.

This is where PoD had to input this next part...

"Us girls, Terri, Treena and Jan, headed off into the darkness with some of their electronic gear that would hopefully record any EVP's [electronic voice phenomenon] and an EMF [electro magnetic field] Detector, to pick up any activity in the areas we were working in. We call this "Ghost Radar".

We also experimented with the Ovilus, I nicknamed "Olli".

"Olli" works by measuring changes in the environmental energy fields around it. It modulates the energy changes into audible speech using a synthesizer chip, an extensive English word dictionary, and a function that phonetically sounds out words.

The device has seven modes of operation. It includes a dictionary mode containing 512 stored words, phonetic mode (sounds out words by syllable), a combination mode (both dictionary words and phonetics) and a “yes” or “no” mode. It also features an electromagnetic field (EMF) mode that verbally outputs EMF levels in milligauss, a level mode that only graphically displays EMF levels, and a dowsing mode that simulates virtual dowsing rods. In the courtroom the "Ghost Radar" caught a lot of "dots" [energy] along with words.

The only thing that scared me was the mannequin in the Judge's living room! Every time I saw that thing, it made me jump!

While we were in the Judge's bedroom, the bed moved with me sitting on it! Meanwhile the others felt the movement of it on the floor! I was surrounded by the others and asked if anyone felt that or nudged the bed and NO was the reply! That was spooky!

In the Custodial Quarters, Olli, cussed at us! Which it has never done before... like saying "F -U" a lot! When I asked it if it knew who I was, it called me "a dirty girl"...:?

In the basement hallway we were all sitting around quietly waiting for Matty, Terri's husband [who was back home sick] to "astroproject" to her [something they have been experimenting with]. They had set a time and we were all supposed to focus on his attempt.

It didn't happen.

Olli entertained by saying "Red Orb" once. When asked "Matty, can you say Jan"? Olli immediately said "Jan"! When they asked to repeat it again it didn't! It has never done that before! It even said my name! It also said "John" a lot [they have a member called that].

The "Ghost Radar" never worked in the basement"!

End of my report...back to mom"


While they did their thing, I monitored it and the others.

I did do another investigation as the basement was calling me...

JUST KIDDING...;}

We dragged stack-able chairs downstairs to the Custodial Quarters kitchen ,as we didn't want to sit on any of the museum chairs [not allowed], in case any broke. Terri's dream was about this area, so we all sat around with an empty chair directly across from her. In her dream this chair scoots across the room towards her and she asked it "Who is here and what do you want us to know from you?"

It didn't happen...;(

Sure was spine tingling waiting for it tho...;}

We had set up Olli in the same spot that the previous team did [CQ hallway in front of bathroom and in sight of main basement hallway] and it was trying hard to spit out words/sounds upon plugging in! More active than usual! At one point, through my own mental frustration with it, I said "use your vowels" and right away it started rattling off these vowel sounds! Lots of them...like a child trying to get it all out without taking a breath! I swore at one point during this vast amount of spewing of vowels, it sounded like it said "thair for I am"[robot sounding]...that's what it sounded like not spelled like! I found that creepy!
A couple of times it used vowels when I asked it to use vowels? Other times it didn't? The word "vowels" does not activate anything in its programming.

At no time during this investigation did I have any ill effects from any of the searches! I did nibble quite a bit to keep the sugar levels high and spent more time in the cold air.

Again, I didn't get many "Orbs" or dust motes in my shots. In this below shot of PoD in the court room, I caught a single Orb and didn't notice the two orange orb-like objects. Checking later revealed street lights in the distance...we were just starting to close the curtains...

What turned out to be a smart idea was my Game Cam! I was able to capture more stuff and not have to be there or maybe be in some of the shots...;{

More Orbs...

The Masonic Mirror continues to give off it's mysterious lines...

Once again the "shadow people"/orbs did their "energy sucking" thing and we were all too exhausted to do any more! PoD and I decided NOT to sleep another night in this place! Her kids needed her [hubby works away] and my house needed me. We packed up as much as possible as they would be leaving as soon as possible when they awoke. I was taking the car and was going to see them off but she was not getting up to do so.

This is what greeted me the next morning....


Happily No One tried to sleep in the Judge's chamber...

And once again I didn't set up my camcorder in there either? If not movement at least sound...



Maybe next time...


That ends another investigation!


That Monday, I received a call from the local newspaper, wanting to do an interview about PoD and I. Arrangements we made to meet Friday, 6:30 pm at court house. I get a call on thursday night [before the interview] on "where are we"? He had been told that PoD had a meeting and we COULDN"T do it then...on the phone before said appointment...? Not boding well, I prepared a two paged description of us etc. to give to him. Which I did. At interview, which was to involve picture taking, his flash on the camera issued to him was faulty? Why bring an Iffy camera to an interview when pic might be important. Then two days after the interview he has a "roll-over" accident and loses info and maybe dead camera? He calls to let us know the details and warns that the issue might not have the said info with the statement that "they will print a retraction if we don't like what they printed. Kind of like to late if you ask me!

This should be interesting...

The reporter though it was a good job...

I only hope he remembered what it was that we didn't want him to be saying...


We see....it shows up today!

A HAUNTING WE WILL GO....

Of course I just had to go whip up another logo design....I like this one the best

Us Night Owls and the Shadow People

Friday, Feb. 25, 2011 [8:45ish] found PoD and I zooming up the front driveway to the Dodge Court House, where she dropped me off to go open the place. That meant I had to be alone in there for at least one minute...or how ever long it takes this old biddy...;{

I quickly sped [ran] my way through the creepy foyer to the safe room and down the stairs to the back door...where I had to WAIT another half a minute for PoD to pull up...;{

Couldn't wait outside because it was even colder than it was at last weekend's investigation!

Next time I'll remember to get the BACKDOOR key!

The whole time [1 1/2 mins] that I had spent in there, was already creeping me out but I wanted PoD to experience what she felt without my influence, so I didn't say anything to her. The one thing that I did tell her was that it was hotter in there than last week!

We sat in the car for awhile to get nice and cold before we entered the building. PoD shared a dream that she had about a man holding up a crystal skull in one hand while quoting something garbled from Shakespeare.

I didn't have any prophetic dream but did say that I was guessing on who was coming. I had been informed that the usual crew of four [2 women/2men] with some surprise guests...unsure on how many or who yet. I stated that I felt it was going to be all women with a possibility of "Matt the blind psychic" might come, as he had expressed an interest in the place. But then I said I didn't think so!


Finally too cold to sit outside any longer we ventured in...

It only took PoD a few minutes to feel the same creepiness that I did...I hadn't said anything other that not liking that part of the job...

Setting up our command post took all out a few minutes with the exception of blowing up the air mattresses! All of this was put into the adjoining room that the town had opened up by making the part-time law firm's office smaller. This was great for all of the other mattresses storage too as they were huge!

We set the ball up again on the foyer stairs before they came and the other trigger objects were later placed during their introductory tour....

I'll save you the wait....none moved!

We might have had some movement with the little red/white ball but it had gotten kicked, so the replacement can't be guaranteed to have been put back within the circle drawn on the floor. We made sure these were all really light weight but heavy enough not to be able to be blown by passing breeze from any foot traffic.

That was as far as we got for setting up our Camcorder or Game Cam. The Camcorder ended up recording the ball on the stairs. We did try to put it upstairs in the hallway to the court room but we needed an extension cord...which was all the way downstairs.

The heat and creepiness up there made us change our minds about going back up to try again! The Game Cam was decided to go somewhere else later when the other arrived!

At 9:35ish we both heard what sounded like someone/thing stepped on the loose bottom stair at the back door...no one was there!

10:03ish the lights dimmed for a second then we heard the elevator start to move. This elevator does NOT move on it's own...someone has to hold the button to keep it running!

No one else was in the building but us!

Finally at 10:30 pm they arrived! Two vehicles loaded with people...2 men and 4 women. The youngest CLPI member, Amy, couldn't make it...;( The other guest were 3 women PoD and I had met at their Symposium last Sept. I was right on the women and the odd thing was...Matt and his wife had planned on being here together but be became ill and couldn't...his wife came anyways! My premonition sort of came true. The guess wasn't from what they had said to me at the symposium either because MANY expressed a wish to do so on their next hunt...it was only a matter of who could get the time to do so!

Jan, CLPI leader, likes to vary their investigations with different ways to research the mental aspect of being alone in a scary place plus have some fun while we do it. We don't joke around at all when out on a serious session as it is important to record things clearly without external noises.

So when she came up with this great idea to try out the "hands free, self filming investigator" apparatus that they use on these ghost hunting shows. Lots of laughs getting their version of it on the two willing victims, Marie & Treena. Terri opted to not try it and laughed her self silly watching as PoD and I did!

Marie was taken by Jan and I, blind folded, to the basement, where we left her alone in the Men's old jail room. She was then given a paper to read out loud after we had been gone a couple of minutes....

"You are in a very haunted location, say the words below and then find your way back to the safe room."
Guardians of the Spirit realm, hear and guide my plea.
When the witching hour rings true, bring the dead to me.
Bring all souls who hear my call and let their form be true
Once they've shown, go back again for then my wish is through!"

I was a little leary about leaving her completely alone in that room full of hazardous uncatalogued museum farm equipment with little walk room, so I waited at the stairway entrance to upstairs.


I was able to scare her by taking her photo as she turned the corner...;)

As for Treena, Brett and PoD, deposited her in the Judge's bedroom. She had to make her way back down through the living room, down the haunted hallway and back stairs after reading the same note.

This was a little scary for Treena as hers was the longest walk, whereas we should have taken Marie to the back bedroom in the Custodial Quarters instead...that would have been much more creepier!

It broke up the tenseness of the court house for me.

Jan then interviewed everyone on their take of the place and if we had any predictions etc.

Treena felt sadness entering Dodge then again upon entering the court house.
Marie felt anxious as this was her first ever investigation and not known what to expect.
Terri felt foreboding feeling about the place and also had a dream about us circle sitting in a kitchen with an empty chair that scoots across the floor toward her and she spoke to it.
Brett had a dream about a man named Al that lives in the old generator room and he can her a song playing, "Yesterday" by the Beatles.
John felt uneasy about the place.
I told you PoD's and mine.


As Brett and Jan went about deciding/setting up their command post and camera placements we toured around a bit in the dark areas. As we sat watching the monitor once it was set up, Terri saw a dark shadow standing next to Brett in the basement...then it was gone! This was caught on video hope it wasn't something explainable!

Once everything was set up and running, the whole group except for me [someone has to stay behind to monitor the video feeds and check for orbs and such] set off to explore the upstairs first.



That also was a good time to get the group photo before everyone got too tired and grumpy...;}


Before we set up the foyer stairs John had come out of the washroom closest to the stairs and said that it was unusually cold in there!

I wasn't able to get many Orbs and the dust motes were at a minimum so I will show what I did get...


As for being able to stay up too long we all had to crash at 4:15 am!

With the heat and their long drive [6hrs] and my usual crash of sugars...sleeping came easy!

For at least 3 hrs for me!

Kidneys and hot room made me have to get up ALL ALONE...seeing as there was no way I was sitting there all alone,, I had planned a breakfast meal to wake everyone up with. So I took PoD's car, went home for some cool air and made breakfast.

This is not something we normal do for sleep overs but as these guys have become close friends and let us bunk at their place for the symposium, I wanted to do this for them and my grand kids. It was only a baked "Wife Savers Casserole" but was enough to feed them and the kids.

My grand kids are old enough to be alone for hours as they are teenagers [or close to it, JD] and leaving them overnight without adult supervision was hard for PoD. Her father lives right across the street and we were only a block away but still difficult!

After breakfast we toured the building in the daylight giving the newbies a history lesson on the place. This brought us to lunchtime and we parted ways.

Yes...I gave them the key and lets them stay alone in the court house while we all had our naps! PoD stayed with her kids and I stayed at my place!

Until she called and we were away again...


To be continued...as I have to get the rest of the story from PoD as I didn't do too many investigations after that...I watched the monitors and kept note...


Stay tuned...