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The Haunted Wedding Dress

Although most people associate hauntings with buildings spirits can also attach to objects. In past posts I wrote about: Haunted Mirrors, a Haunted Doll called Annabelle, a haunted portrait at Shirley Plantation and recently, The Scorched Bed.

In 1849, Anna Baker was the third child of a wealthy family who lived in Altoona, Pennsylvania. She had the misfortune to fall in love with a worker without means. Her father Elias Baker, who made his fortune as an ironmaster refused to give his consent for the two to marry. He then used his power and influence to have this man kicked out of Altoona.

Anna angry refused to marry anyone else. As the years passed she became a bitter old maid. When she died in 1914 she was still living in the family home.

Before her father’s refusal, in happier times Anna had picked out a beautiful wedding gown that she intended to wear at her wedding. Within the year another Altoona debutante, Elizabeth Dysart then bought this gown. She gloated for she knew Anna had hoped to wear it.

Years later this wedding dress was given to the Blair County Historical Society who eventually donated it to a local museum. This museum is housed in what was once the Baker home.

This wedding gown is displayed in a large glass case in a second floor room that once was the dressing room off Anna Baker’s bedroom.

Witnesses have seen this dress move of its own accord--especially during full moons.

This gown has been seen swaying from side to side. One witness stated it is as if a bride is holding this gown out in front of them as they admire it in a mirror.

The dress also has been seen shaking violently to the point where staff feared the glass case would shatter harming the dress.

Investigators have searched for a draft in this room or any other possible cause but nothing has been found to explain why this dress moves.

Some feel this dress moves because Anna Baker has just reclaimed what was supposed to be hers.

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The owner of this photo explained that a friend of theirs who works as a bartender told them that a group of women were taking selfie's while they were setting up for a wedding around 8pm on the evening before the wedding day.

They explained to the women that the place is claimed to be haunted by a woman who committed suicide many years ago. This only came about as one of the women was extremely interested in the paranormal and so asked questions due to the age of the building.

The bartender then showed them this photo as you can imagine they were slightly freaked out by it.

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Dingess Tunnel

Hidden deep within the coal filled Appalachian Mountains of Southern West Virginia rests a forgotten land that is older than time itself. Its valleys are deep, its waters polluted and its terrain is as rough as the rugged men and women who have occupied these centuries old plats for thousands of years.

The region is known as “Bloody Mingo” and for decades the area has been regarded as one of the most murderous areas in all of American history.

The haunted mountains of this territory have been the stage of blood baths too numerous to number, including those of the famed Hatfield’s and McCoy’s, Matewan Massacre and the Battle of Blair Mountain. Even the county’s sheriff was murdered this past spring, while eating lunch in his vehicle.

Tucked away in a dark corner of this remote area is an even greater anomaly – a town, whose primary entrance is a deserted one lane train tunnel nearly 4/5 of a mile long.

The story of this town’s unique entrance dates back nearly a century and a half ago, back to an era when coal mining in West Virginia was first becoming profitable.

For generations, the people of what is now Mingo County, West Virginia, had lived quiet and peaceable lives, enjoying the fruits of the land, living secluded within the tall and unforgiving mountains surrounding them.

All of this changed, however, with the industrial revolution, as the demand for coal soared to record highs.

Soon outside capital began flowing into “Bloody Mingo” and within a decade railroads had linked the previously isolated communities of southern West Virginia to the outside world.

The most notorious of these new railways was Norfolk & Western’s line between Lenore and Wayne County – a railroad that split through the hazardous and lawless region known as “Twelve Pole Creek.”

At the heart of Twelve Pole Creek, railroad workers forged a 3,300 foot long railroad tunnel just south of the community of Dingess.

As new mines began to open, destitute families poured into Mingo County in search of labor in the coal mines. Among the population of workers were large numbers of both African-Americans and Chinese emigrants.

Despising outsiders, and particularly the thought of dark skinned people moving into what had long been viewed as a region exclusively all their own, residents of Dingess, West Virginia, are said to have hid along the hillsides just outside of the tunnel’s entrance, shooting any dark skinned travelers riding aboard the train.

Though no official numbers were ever kept, it has been estimated that hundreds of black and Chinese workers were killed at the entrance and exits of this tunnel.

Norfolk & Western soon afterward abandonment the Twelve Pole line. Within months two forces of workmen began removing the tracks, ties, and accessory facilities.

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The Hand in the Cell

Although the Carbon County Jail, in Jim Thorpe ,PA ,may seem like an ordinary jail upon first glance, it is the site of a most intriguing and bizarre mystery: The Hand in the Cell.

In 1877 a man named Alexander Campbell was incarcerated for the murder of John P. Jones. Despite proof that Campbell was part of the Molly Maguires, a gang against mine owners, and an admission that he was at the scene of the crime, Alexander still proclaimed that he was innocent. He said that he did not shoot and kill John P. Jones.

Despite his claims, Alexander Campbell was sentence to death by hanging . On the date of his execution ( which was June 22nd, 1877), the sheriff who came to get Campbell was greeted with the prisoners continued protestations that he was innocent. In one sweeping gesture Alexander bent down to the ground and covered his hand in the black soot of his cell block. Then, placing his hand on the wall, he proclaimed “I am innocent and let this be my testimony!” After leaving the handprint he was taken out to the scaffolds and hanged. No other prisoners were ever kept again in that same cell.

Although Campbell was gone his hand-print remained, and nothing anyone did could get rid of it. In the 30′s the cell wall was knocked down and replaced with a new one. Yet in the morning, guards were surprised to find that the print had returned. Another sheriff had painted over the wall with green latex paint, only to find that it once again reappeared before their eyes!

Is this proof of Campbells innocence? Or is there a more natural cause behind the mysterious print? Although no one can say for sure, those who step into the cell often report that a chill runs through their bodies. While the prison was still in operation, prisoners would see a mysterious figure passing through the cells locked door.

Visitors can still visit cell 17 and see the ghostly hand print for themselves!

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Motivation and Success Spell Jar

Cleanse area and jar

Add Sea Salt to charge

Rosemary for motivation

Sage for Protection

Cinnamon for Good Luck

Ginger for success and motivation

Red pepper flakes to get the job done

Green Adventurine for success

Light yellow candle with intent.

Hold over jar – wax to seal – As you seal jar

Chant:

“Motivation come to me, Inspire me.

Let success blossom within me”

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Haunted Boyington Oak Tree

Mobile, Alabama

In the early 1800s in Mobile, Alabama, a man by the name of Charles Boyington and his good friend Nathaniel Frost for some reason, liked to spend some of their afternoons in the Church Street Graveyard on Bayou Street. Whether they liked the serenity of the graveyard setting or liked to pass time reading the tombstones, it is unknown. However, the two would forever be remembered by this location and would become permanent residents sooner than expected.

One day Nathaniel Frost was found stabbed to death in the very cemetery that he and Charles Boyington like to spend so much time in. Authorities having no other leads, assumed that Frost’s killer was Boyington since they spent so much time together in that location. Boyington of course pleaded his innocence, declaring that it was not he who committed the crime. The authorities were not convinced and Boyington was slated to be put to death for the crime.

On his day of execution in February 1835, Boyington proclaimed that a mighty oak tree would rise from his grave as proof that he was an innocent man. Charles Boyington was hung to death and his body placed in a grave in Potter’s field which was a portion of the Church Street Graveyard. A few months after he was lain to rest, an oak tree began to sprout from Boyington’s grave.

Potter’s Field is now a playground located near the public library, but the oak tree stands to this day surrounded by wooden posts, enduring extreme hazards that wrecked many other mighty trees in the neighborhood. The tree is known as Boyington Oak and many claim that when the wind blows through the tree’s branches you can hear the voice of Charles Boyington on the wind crying his innocence.

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Hospital Ghost Photo

Fort Douglas Hospital – Salt Lake City Utah

Supposedly an apparition of a person wearing a straitjacket. He wasn’t there when the photo was taken.

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North Wales Ghost Photo

This was a photograph my Aunt took after she moved to her new house in North Wales, 1995. She isn’t a believer in the paranormal, so was nonchalant toward neighbors telling her that it was haunted by the ghosts of children who were apparently murdered by their jealous step-father.

On this day, she was about to get in the car to drive to the zoo with her kids when her youngest asked “why do the scared children always want us to be quiet?” and pointed to the nursery window. She saw nothing, took her camera out her bag that was all ready for the zoo trip, and took the photograph to reassure her son that the camera never lies and there would be nothing there.

When she went to pick up the developed photos from the zoo the next day, she had forgotten all about the incident about “the pale children”.- After gazing upon the terrifying photograph, she put the house up for sale as soon as she could.

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The unsolved mystery of the Van Meter Visitor – a winged creature!

A bizarre legend and unsolved mystery which has haunted a small Iowa town for more than 100 years is the subject of a new book called The Van Meter Visitor.

For several nights in 1903, the small town of Van Meter, Iowa was terrorized by a giant bat-like creature that emerged from an old abandoned mine.

The identity of this mysterious monster has never been discovered, but over 100 years later a new book is retelling the amazing tale and hoping to shed some light on what happened all those years ago.

The legend dates back to the fall of 1903, when several of Van Meter’s most well respected citizens reported a half human, half animal with enormous, smooth bat wings flying about.

The creature is described as moving at speeds the townsfolk had never witnessed before, plus it let off a powerful stench and shot a blinding light from its horned head.

Each time the townsfolk encountered the creature they fired their guns at it, but this appeared to have no impact on the creature.

On the first night it was first spotted flying across the building tops. The next evening it was spotted by both the town doctor and bank cashier Peter Dunn who took a plaster cast of its ‘great three-toed tracks.’

On the third night, a man spotted it perched atop a telephone pole. Another resident who saw it, described the monster as hopping like a kangaroo, while the local high school teacher likened it to a devil.

Scared and angered by what they had witnessed, the townsfolk followed the creature to an abandoned coal mine near an old brickyard where they heard a noise from the mine.

‘Presently the noise opened up again, as though Satan and a regiment of imps were coming forth for battle,’ reads an article in the Des Moines Daily News from Oct. 3, 1903.

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The Cecil Hotel Ghost Photo

The Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles is notorious for its dark and haunted history: serial killer Richard Ramirez (The Night Stalker) and “Black Dahlia” murder victim Elizabeth Short had both stayed there, and the building has played host to numerous gruesome deaths – the most recent of which involved the body of a missing student discovered in a rooftop water tank after hotel guests reported foul-smelling black water coming from their taps.Now it seems a new ghostly guest has signed in at the Cecil, as reported by L.A. affiliate KABC: this week their website revealed the photo, taken by Riverside resident Koston Alderete, which seems to depict a spectral figure outside a window on the building’s fourth floor.

"When I looked at that window, it just looked kind of creepy to me,” Alderete told KABC, “and then I showed my friend, and he kind of freaked out.” He also claims to have suffered nightmares after taking the photo.

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Stages Of Death

Moment of Death:

1. The heart stops 2. The skin gets tight and grey in color 3. All the muscles relax 4. The bladder and bowels empty 5. Men will get an erection 6. The body’s temperature will typically drop 1.5 degrees F. per hour unless outside environment is a factor. The liver is the organ that stays warmest the longest, and this temperature is used to establish time of death if the body is found within that time frame.

After 30 minutes:

6. The skin gets purple and waxy 7. The lips, finger- and toe nails fade to a pale color or turn white as the blood leaves. 8. Blood pools at the lowest parts of the body leaving a dark purple-black stain called livitity. 9. The hands and feet turn blue 10. The eyes start to sink into the skull

After 4 hours:

11. Rigor mortis starts to set in 12. The purpling of the skin and pooling of blood continue 13. Rigor Mortis begins to tighten the muscles for about another 24 hours, then will reverse and the body will return to a limp state.

After 12 hours:

14. The body is in full rigor mortis.

After 24 hours:

15. The body is now the temperature of the surrounding environment 16. In males, the semen dies 17. The head and neck are now a greenish-blue color 18. The greenish-blue color continues to spread to the rest of the body 19. There is the strong smell of rotting meat 20. The face of the person is essentially no longer recognizable

After 3 days:

21. The gases in the body tissues form large blisters on the skin 22. The whole body begins to bloat and swell grotesquely. This process is speeded up if victim is in a hot environment, or in water 23. Fluids leak from the mouth, nose, eyes, ears and rectum and urinary opening

After 3 weeks:

24. The skin, hair, and nails are so loose they can be easily pulled off the corpse 25. The skin cracks and bursts open in many places because of the pressure of Internal gases and the breakdown of the skin itself 26. Decomposition will continue until body is nothing but skeletal remains, which can take as little as a month in hot climates and two months in cold climates. The teeth are often the only thing left, years and centuries later, because tooth enamel is the strongest substance in the body. The jawbone is the densest, so that usually will also remain.

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How to Make Black Salt

*Sea Salt

*Black Pepper

*Ash (Fireplace, Sage, Incense, Grill)

*Charcoal

If you want the salt to be for cursing and black magick, add crushed chili seeds or sulfur while stirring ingredients in a counterclockwise motion

If you want salt to be for protection and white magick, add some iron scrapings or ground cinnamon while stirring ingredients in a clockwise motion

Powerful protective charm that absorbs negative energy and curses into itself and will rid you of their harmful influences, sprinkle it around the doors and windows.

To Rid Evil or Negativity from your home, Sprinkle on the floor then sweep it up and out the front door, then off the porch and towards the street.

To Prevent a troublesome person from returning to your home as soon as they leave throw black salt on the porch or sidewalk so they walk across it. Then quickly and vigorously sweep it out to the street while cussing and cursing them. If you are bold throw it at their backs as they are leaving.

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Summerwind

Wisconsin

Summerwind is a haunted house in Wisconsin that has a terrifying history. It is often called the most haunted mansion in the world.

Back in the 1900s, Summerwind was called Lamont Mansion and a man called Robert Lamont lived there with his wife. When Mr. Lamont moved into the house, the maids he employed told him that it was haunted. But he was a stubborn man and refused to believe in ghosts and the supernatural. However, something was about to convince him.

One evening, as he and his wife were eating dessert in the kitchen, the door to the basement began to rattle and nearly shook off its hinges. Suddenly, the door burst open and the ghostly form of a man was standing there.

Mr. Lamont took one look at the ghost, and pulled out a pistol. The ghost swung the door shut and Lamont fired two shots in its direction, before fleeing the residence with his wife. The Lamonts abandoned the property that night and never returned.

After remaining vacant for some time, the haunted house became the residence of Arnold and Ginger Hinshaw and their six children, who moved into Summerwind during the early 1970s.

When Henry Bober attempted to renovate the house, he suffered countless problems. Every time they tried to measure the rooms, the dimensions changed drastically. It seemed as if Summerwind was gradually changing shape. After hearing strange voices and seeing ghostly apparitions, builders refused to work on the property.

One day Mr. Bober was in the house on his own when he heard gunshots coming from the kitchen. He rushed downstairs and threw open the kitchen door but it was empty. He smelled gunpowder in the air but the only bullet holes he could find were the ones in the basement door, lodged there years before.

Mr. Bober was forced to abandon his plans to convert Summerwind into a restaurant and instead sold the building. In 1988 Summerwind was struck by lightning several times, resulting in a fire that destroyed much of the old mansion. Today, only the house’s chimney stacks, foundations, and stone steps remain. The evil lurking in Summerwind Mansion had finally succeeded in destroying itself.

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Mirrors

● Mirrors reflect magick

○ They send it back, block it, or amplify it

● To enhance a spell work

○ Placed on top of a mirror to increase its power

● To block someone in life and magick

○ Put their name between two inward-facing mirrors

● To protect someone

○ Put their name between two outward-facing mirrors

● To stop bad behavior

○ Put your enemy in a box with mirrors inside and out. This will make them powerless in magick and life

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Crossroads

To dispose of work, throw it in the intersection of the crossroads and walk home without looking back to fix the work

3 kinds of crossroads

T - Male

X - Female

Y Divine/Damned

● Crossroad dirt is used to both draw and send away. It changes based on how you pray

● Female crossroads are used for all crossroads work. They are best for attracting female lovers

● The damned crossroads is the best place to meet spirits.

● The male crossroads are best work to draw male lovers

➢ To have an extraordinary talent or skill, tradition says you must go to the crossroads at midnight for 9 nights and practice your desired talent. On the 9th night a large black man may come to you. If he does, let him show you how to do your skill properly. Then you will have the greatest talent you seek

● A Y-shaped crossroads is the best place to meet spirits, leave offerings and do some types of conjure work

● Dirt from a Y-shaped crossroad can be used to call road-opening spirits, especially Papa Legba

● To send an urgent letter to someone you cant locate, write a message to them and burn at a Y-shaped crossroad

● To obtain favor from a specific spirit, leave an offering of the kind of things that spirit prefers along with the photograph at a Y-shaped crossroad

● If your lover beats you, write their name 9x on a piece of paper and nail it to a Y-shaped crossroad. A vengeance spirit will beat them in return until they leave you alone

● Mix dirt from a Y-shaped crossroad into road opener powder to make it more powerful

● Never bury a baptized doll at this Y-shaped crossroad. It will cause the spirit of the target to wander after they die

➢ To protect yourself from love spells, make an offering of coins or rum to the spirits of a T-Shaped crossroad

➢ Dirt form a T-shaped crossroad can be used for all love work on all men

➢ To have your enemy suffer harm, put their name on paper coated in honey on an ant hill at a T-shaped crossroad. They will be injured within 9 days

➢ If a man's nature has been tied, he must urinate on the center of T-shaped crossroad to make one who tied him sick until they untie him

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