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Re: Paranormal State is Unique
Jun 18, 2009 8:42 PM
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I can't believe they choose such busy places. Maybe they can go see if Disneyworld is haunted due to the occasional deaths by misadventure that have taken place there.
don't they already have a "haunted mansion" ?
c'mon paranormal people!! disney has had a haunted mansion for how many years now?
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Re: Paranormal State is Unique
Jun 18, 2009 8:20 PM
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I can't believe they choose such busy places. Maybe they can go see if Disneyworld is haunted due to the occasional deaths by misadventure that have taken place there.
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Re: Paranormal State is Unique
Jun 17, 2009 2:50 PM
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those spanish catholic conquistadors were a murderous, thieving, disease-ridden lot.
you're right aUjt -- the castillo de san marcos is not isolated at all.
you can see this if you look up st. augustine on a google map, zoom in and switch to satellite view.
not only could there be teens wandering around, there would likely be some par-tay traffic (foot and car) in the wee hours from all of the pubs and bars that are located right across the road from the fort. not to mention the boats in the bay.
same thing with that city's lighthouse. (it's not isolated)
(the ghosthunters tried to make it seem like there were all kinds of paranormal happenings in their st. augustine light house episode. the lighthouse is smack dab in the middle of a neighborhood and near a fairly busy road.)
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Re: Paranormal State is Unique
Jun 16, 2009 12:16 PM
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The Huguenots were followers of the Protestant wacko John Calvin in France. At times they were tolerated by the French government, & at other times they were not. As part of the grand tradition of Christian brotherhood and the noted ability of religion to bring peace and succor to it's believers, the Huguenots were engaged in several misunderstandings with their Catholic neighbors.
From Wikipedia :
<<St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
An Eyewitness Account of the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre by François Dubois (1790 - 1871).
Main article: St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
In what became known as the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 24 August – 3 October 1572, Catholics killed thousands of Huguenots in Paris. Similar massacres took place in other towns in the weeks following. The main provincial towns and cities experiencing the Massacre were Aix, Bordeaux, Bourges, Lyon, Meaux, Orleans, Rouen, Toulouse, and Troyes.[18] Nearly 3,000 Protestants were slaughtered in Toulouse alone.[19] The exact number of fatalities throughout the country is not known. On the 23 - 24 August, between about 2,000[20] and 3,000[21] [22] Protestants were killed in Paris and between 3,000 [23] and 7,000 more[24] in the French provinces. By the 17 September, almost 25,000 Protestants had been massacred in Paris alone.[25] [26] Outside of Paris, the killings continued until the 3 October.[27] An amnesty granted in 1573 pardoned the perpetrators.>>
So, you would think if anybody would be up for some vengeful haunting, the Huguenots would be. Of course, the French history might tempt one to make a comment about Frogs smoking cigarettes, but not me.
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for my ... special touch.
(Voltaire)
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Re: Paranormal State is Unique
Jun 16, 2009 9:28 AM
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>>sure looked like someone lighting a cigarette. (the immediate area around that fort is far from deserted.)<<
I've been at the fort in the middle of the night and there's always kids hanging out doing kid stuff (to be clear, the interior of the "castle" is closed at night) . As you know, the fort is on the river in the middle of town. The river is most usually full with anchored sailboats and the like and the river is not wide at that point, *maybe* 1/4 mile between the fort and Davis Shores to the east. The fort is not isolated, not terribly big (subjective of course) and, like I say, is in the middle of the city of St. Augustine.
I love St. Augustine and have spent many a night there. Never any paranormal weirdness. You'd think that with the history of the Matanzas River (river of slaughters) there'd be overwhelming hauntings but not even on the ghost tours I told.
"The Matanzas River was named by Spanish forces for a massacre, led by Pedro Menéndez de Avilés of Spain, of a group of several hundred shipwrecked French Huguenots from Fort Caroline, lead by Jean Ribault. The Huguenots were executed somewhere near the present site of Matanzas Inlet in 1565. Menéndez had been ordered to kill all Protestants he found in the New World. "Matanzas" means "killings" or "slaughters" in Spanish. Matanzas is thus the tenth oldest surviving European place-name in the U.S."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matanzas_River
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When he was chided by a friend for abandoning the traditional solace of religion he replied: "Had I lived a couple of centuries earlier I could have fancied a devil scoffing at me ... and asking me what profit it was to have stripped myself of the hopes and consolations of the mass of mankind? To which my only reply was and is -- Oh devil! truth is better than much profit."
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Re: Paranormal State is Unique
Jun 15, 2009 6:08 PM
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I think I've heard things like that before
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Re: Paranormal State is Unique
Jun 15, 2009 4:58 PM
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i just saw an episode of "ghost adventures" where they locked themselves into the castillo de san marcos in st. augustine, FL.
the "OMG" moments were few and far between, but well acted.
i do have to say that the scary "growl" they heard/captured sounded like a frog to me - and the strange "ghost lighting a lantern" sure looked like someone lighting a cigarette. (the immediate area around that fort is far from deserted.)
as for PRS "acknowledging" that there are ghosts -- kind of hard to acknowledge something that has NEVER been proven. it's more like wishful thinking.
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Re: Paranormal State is Unique
Jun 14, 2009 2:56 PM
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Given the proclivity for humans to "hear' language, EVP is very weak tea indeed. Ever notice it's a language you speak 99.8% of the time-on some other ghost hunter shows they expect 500 year old Croatian ghosts to speak or respond to English. There have been dozens of scientifically controlled studies that show people will "recognize" fragments of words or sentences when played a meaningless jumble of noise. And there is a very humorous experiment using edited bits of backwards Led Zeppelin-it sounds like argyblargy at first, but once you are instructed what to hear, it pops right out.
And there is a very humorous experiment using edited bits of backwards Led Zeppelin-it sounds like argyblargy at first, but once you are instructed what to hear, it pops right out. It's awfully silly-"A little tool shed where Satan made us suffer, sad Satan."
Listen to it first without the "lyrics" and it's just a garble. Once you have the lyrics it's a snap. I was in a band and tried like hell to come up with some "backward masking lyrics" and it's enough to send you round the bend. I'm sure digital technology makes it easier now, but we couldn't get it right to save our (non existent) souls. I wish I knew where this tool shed was.
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/stairway
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When the Devil is too busy
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they call on me, by name you see,
for my ... special touch.
(Voltaire)
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Re: Paranormal State is Unique
Jun 13, 2009 3:27 PM
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They are unique...
Mostly because they dont care about finding a ghost or being touched by one; the team acknowledges before going in that ghosts exists.
The team seems to be more interested with people having problems with something supernatural and helping them out. That is very unique. Most of these shows are just about catching some EVP.
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Re: Paranormal State is Unique
Jun 6, 2009 3:35 PM
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I feel that your shows, as with Ghost Hunters, are getting
better and better, with more results.
what results?
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Re: Paranormal State is Unique
Jun 6, 2009 1:12 PM
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Sorry to say...but I think he is just a wanna be.
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Re: Paranormal State is Unique
Jun 6, 2009 1:24 AM
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still claims to be on the intro, of what I don't know, Connie.![]:)](http://boards.aetv.com/images/emoticons/devil.gif)
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Re: Paranormal State is Unique
Jun 5, 2009 5:46 PM
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Is he still a stundent???
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Re: Paranormal State is Unique
Jun 5, 2009 12:24 PM
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hallelujah and amen!
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Re: Paranormal State is Unique
May 24, 2009 10:19 PM
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Hi, I have recently started watching Paranormal State and I have to say "Keep them coming and keep up the good work".
I myself am a Pagan and very spiritual and sometimes can sense or feel that I'm not alone. I have noticed on the show that there is always some kind of animal present and that they react to the different changes of the Paranormal. I have a black cat that has at times, been really freaked-out for no apparent reason and would go under my bed and stare at the wall, she wouldn't respond to me when I called to her (which is unusual because she is always very happy and likes a lot of attention). When I touch her she would cry/whine and would snap out of it and then would lay at my side. I don't fear that of what I cannot see.
Also, I have a friend who went to get his palm read and was told that a Hex was placed on him and that he would be surrounded by negative energy. Before he was told that, I had felt something negative myself but didn't want to mention it to anyone, thinking that they may think I'm weird or something.
If anyone has any other unique stories about their animals/pets I'd like to read them.
"If you worry about Heaven or Hell, forget about it. If you have a good soul then you have nothing to worry about at all" - spiritualmidnight
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