Ghost Stories: Wyoming Frontier Prison

Ever have the morbid urge to sit in a gas chamber? One of Wyoming Frontier Prison's tourist attractions allows you to sit in the same spot where five men were executed though you won't suffer the same fate as them. The building of this fortress began in 1888 but due to several setbacks it didn't begin operation until December 1901. Several additions were made throughout its eighty year history. It housed some women the first few years but remained mainly an all-male prison containing 13,500 prisoners during the years it was open.

Men were punished in several different manners if they misbehaved. They were strapped to a metal pole called the "Punishment Pole" and whipped with rubber hoses and leather straps. Prisoners were kept in solitary confinement cells naked for up to six weeks. The gas chamber wasn't the only form of execution. The prison also contained "humane gallows". A condemned prisoner would stand on a trap door and hang himself as his body weight forced water out of a counterbalanced bucket. If the guards didn't like you, they would make you fill your own bucket.

There is one particular inmate who was executed at the prison that is believed to now haunt it. Andrew Pixley was convicted and sent to Wyoming Frontier Prison for murdering and cannibalizing two young girls. During his stint there, he was considered extremely violent. He was put to death in the 1960s and supposedly took longer to die than most men. Some say after death he has continued his angry, violent ways and he may not be the only one. Employees, past and present, have seen many spirits wandering the building. The reports state some are aware of the people around them and others not so much. Voices and sounds are often heard in areas including showers, the Chapel, holding cells, and Death Row.

The Wyoming Frontier Prison closed down in 1981 but is now opened as a museum. Are you brave enough to take the tour?

[via Ghost Stories]

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'New Moon' premiere will take place during a new moon, 'Eclipse' during an eclipse?

After reading below, answer me this: is this the most clever marketing tactic of all time or blind (and spooky) luck coincidence?

On November 16th, the stars of The Twilight Saga: New Moon will line up in Los Angeles for the official premiere of the film.

The heavens, it seems, will also be lining up on that date as well. One Twitterer made an interesting connection between the date of New Moon's offiical premiere and the lunar calendar.
November 16th will also be the date of a legitimate new moon according to the lunar phase calendar.
Clever? Methinks so.

Moving right along, it seems that The Twilight Saga: Eclipse could be subject to a similar coincidence. The Twitterer's research proves correct in that on June 26th (four days before the release of Eclipse), a partial lunar eclipse will occur (with the next eclipse, a total eclipse, not due until December 21, 2010). If, like with New Moon's premiere, Eclipse's premiere takes place four days before the film's release, Eclipse will premiere during an eclipse, and New Moon will have premiered during a new moon.

Terribly fascinating isn't it?

[via Examiner.com]

Occult Profiles: Douglas Evans Coe, Founder of "The Family"

PARANORMAL SEARCHERS NOTE: Due to Mr Coe's connections and undisputed influence we would rate him as one of the most dangerous men in America.

Douglas Evans Coe (born October 20, 1928) is the reclusive leader and "first brother" of The Family, Coe also has been referred to as the "stealth Billy Graham." In 2005, Coe was named one of the 25 most influential Evangelicals in the United States by Time magazine Although Coe is not an ordained minister,^[4] D. Michael Lindsay, a sociologist at Rice University, surveyed more than 300 top evangelical politicians in Washington and one in three said The Family was one of the most influential Christian groups in the nation's capital. According to Lindsay, "there is no other organization like the Fellowship, especially among religious groups, in terms of its access or clout among the country's leadership."
Very little is known about Coe's life and he routinely denies requests for interviews.^[6] He was born and raised in the State of Oregon. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Willamette University. While enrolled as a college student, Coe met Dean of Men and future Fellowship associate and Senator Mark O. Hatfield. A former banker, Coe became involved with Young Life, a campus youth ministry, in Salem, Oregon, and went on to start a chapter of "Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship" with Roy Cook while enrolled at Willamette University.^[8] Coe and Cook became involved in laymen’s groups of various kinds and helped establish a “fellowship house” in Salem. They met Dr. Abraham Vereide when he visited Salem and his vision of a "leadership led by God."

What make David Coe interesting is that, under cover a "Christian Dogma" he is truning large swaths of the political leadership into followers of the Alexister Crowley tenants.

An Example: "Let's say I hear you raped three little girls. What would I think of you?" The man guessed that Coe would probably think that he was a monster. "No," answered Coe, "I wouldn't." Why? Because, as a member of the Family, he's among what Family leaders refer to as the "new chosen." If you're chosen, the normal rules don't apply. "

Counseling Rep. Tiahrt, Doug Coe offered Pol Pot and Osama bin Laden as men whose commitment to their causes is to be emulated. Preaching on the meaning of Christ's words, he says, "You know Jesus said 'You got to put Him before mother-father-brother sister? Hitler, Lenin, Mao, that's what they taught the kids. Mao even had the kids killing their own mother and father. But it wasn't murder. It was for building the new nation. The new kingdom."

If sexual license was all the Family offered the C Street men, however, that would merely be seedy and self-serving. But Family men are more than hypocritical. They're followers of a political religion that embraces elitism, disdains democracy, and pursues power for its members the better to "advance the Kingdom." They say they're working for Jesus, but their Christ is a power-hungry, inside-the-Beltway savior not many churchgoers would recognize. Sexual peccadilloes aside, the Family acts today like the most powerful lobby in America that isn't registered as a lobby -- and is thus immune from the scrutiny attending the other powerful organizations like Big Pharma and Big Insurance that exert pressure on public policy.
The Family likes to call itself a "Christian Mafia," but it began 74 years ago as an anti-New Deal coalition of businessmen convinced that organized labor was under the sway of Satan. The Great Depression, they believed, was a punishment from God for what they viewed as FDR's socialism. The Family's goal was the "consecration" of America to God, first through the repeal of New Deal reforms, then through the aggressive expansion of American power during the Cold War. They called this a "Worldwide Spiritual Offensive," but in Washington, it amounted to the nation's first fundamentalist lobby. Early participants included Southern Sens. Strom Thurmond, Herman Talmadge and Absalom Willis Robertson -- Pat Robertson's father. Membership lists stored in the Family's archive at the Billy Graham Center at evangelical Wheaton College in Illinois show active participation at any given time over the years by dozens of congressmen.

Today's roll call is just as impressive: Men under the Family's religio-political counsel include, in addition to Ensign, Coburn and Pickering, Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Jim DeMint and Lindsey Graham, both R-S.C.; James Inhofe, R-Okla., John Thune, R-S.D., and recent senators and high officials such as John Ashcroft, Ed Meese, Pete Domenici and Don Nickles. Over in the House there's Joe Pitts, R-Penn., Frank Wolf, R-Va., Zach Wamp, R-Tenn., Robert Aderholt, R-Ala., Ander Crenshaw, R-Fla., Todd Tiahrt, R-Kan., Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., Jo Ann Emerson, R-Mo., and John R. Carter, R-Texas. Historically, the Family has been strongly Republican, but it includes Democrats, too. There's Mike McIntyre of North Carolina, for instance, a vocal defender of putting the Ten Commandments in public places, and Sen. Mark Pryor, the pro-war Arkansas Democrat responsible for scuttling Obama's labor agenda. Sen. Pryor explained to me the meaning of bipartisanship he'd learned through the Family: "Jesus didn't come to take sides. He came to take over." And by Jesus, the Family means the Family.  The Family has also been connected with "The Process" a Satanic Church founded in 1966.
The Aleister Crowley connection: Coe's teaching fall remarkably in line with Crowley:
Whose basic tenants can be encapsulated:

• "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law" (AL I:40) and
• "Love is the law, love under will" (AL I:57)

Thelema is a philosophical, mystical, and cultural system that is based upon a seemingly simple premise: do what thou wilt. This phrase, called the Law of Thelema, is not to be interpreted as a license to indulge in whim, but rather as a mandate to discover and fulfill one's essential nature or path in life, which is called True Will (those who are dedicated to this path are called Thelemites). This Will is the expression of one's deepest, most genuine self which acts in perfect accord with the Universe.

The difference here is that "The Family" has suborned "self" with serving the"The Family's" interests. Making Coe even more dangerous than Crowley.

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MysteryQuest Evidence Raises Doubt Hitler Died In Bunker

MysteryQuest, the History Channel's replacement for UFO Hunters, took the challenge of finding clues of Adolf Hitler’s death. There has been speculation that he escaped to South America, notably Argentina. Witnesses have said they had seen him around other parts of Germany. Regardless of the stories, there is no tangible evidence of a corpse belonging to Adolph Hitler.

Hitler was known to have used a body double, especially after the attempt on his life in the Valkyrie conspiracy. What the Soviets found when they arrived in Berlin was a corpse of a man looking like Hitler, but in all accounts it was his body double. As well, the man was apparently two inches shorter than Adolph Hitler.

In the Russian archive, there is a divan with blood stains and a piece of human skull with a bullet hole in it. MysteryQuest sent an American archeologist to Russia to obtain evidence from these items and bring it back to the United States for DNA testing.

Back in Germany, a team of experts was reconstructing the bunker using computers technology, attempting to figure out if eyewitness accounts were plausible. The underground bunkers had large generators that might have been loud enough to drown out a gun shot. What they discovered was an original working generator, allowing them to hear the noise intensity during the time Hitler apparently committed suicide.

The MysteryQuest investigators uncovered new evidence that puts in question if Hitler died in the bunker. Most notable, the DNA recovered from the skull with a bullet hole archived by the Russians was that of a female between the age of 20-40.

The questions left are: Did Hitler survive the war? If he did survive, how did he escape and where did he go?

[via Phantoms & Monsters]

Note: This episode of MysteryQuest can be watched here.

Bram Stoker's Descendant Pens Dracula Sequel

Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt's "Dracula the Undead," a sequel to Bram Stoker's classic tale first announced nearly a year ago, is ready to hit bookshelves on October 13. A full description of the 336-page novel is below along with a "trailer" that was conjured up to promote it.

While there's been a lot of speculation regarding who had the movie rights to the property, Holt explains in this blog that there is nothing official to report. Two major studios are currently in negotiations and big news is coming within the month.

Synopsis: Dracula The Un-Dead is a bone-chilling sequel based on Bram Stoker's own handwritten notes for characters and plot threads excised from the original edition. Written with the blessing and cooperation of Stoker family members, Dracula The Un-Dead begins in 1912, twenty-five years after Dracula "crumbled into dust." Van Helsing's protégé, Dr. Jack Seward, is now a disgraced morphine addict obsessed with stamping out evil across Europe. Meanwhile, an unknowing Quincey Harker, the grown son of Jonathan and Mina, leaves law school for the London stage, only to stumble upon the troubled production of "Dracula," directed and produced by Bram Stoker himself.

The play plunges Quincey into the world of his parents' terrible secrets, but before he can confront them he experiences evil in a way he had never imagined. One by one, the band of heroes that defeated Dracula a quarter-century ago is being hunted down. Could it be that Dracula somehow survived their attack and is seeking revenge? Or is their another force at work whose relentless purpose is to destroy anything and anyone associated with Dracula?

[via ShockTillYouDrop.com]

My husband and I share a bond - is it psychic?

Question: My husband and I share a bond - is it psychic?
"My husband and I have shared a special bond since we met (5 years now)," says Mishy. "One of us thinks of something and the other, however far away, inevitably calls or e-mails the other with the exact suggestion. So over the past few months, we've decided to investigate how this can be explained. We've done tests where one of us looks (one at a time) at the cards of a standard deck and the other determines whether it's red or black. Consistently, I get about 75% correct. Does this mean I may have ESP?"

Answer: Mishy, since 75% is way above chance, your tests certainly indicate that you might have extrasensory perception (ESP). I suggest continuing to test and see if this rate of success continues.
To the broader question of whether this has something to do with your bond with your husband, I suspect the answer to that might also be yes. (I wonder if you'd have the same rate of success conducting the test with someone other than your husband.) This leads us to the question: How does ESP work? Since no one really knows the answer to that, I'll give you my theory.

Each of us has our own unique psychic vibration frequency, which arises deep out of our consciousness (or spirit or soul or whatever you want to call it -- whatever makes us unique). Everything has such a frequency and they are all a part of the great universe of frequencies, or universal "mind." ESP, clairvoyance, telepathy, remote viewing and other modes of psychic phenomena are instances in which an individual's particular frequency is able to "tune in" to other frequencies and thereby perceive another's thoughts, feelings or actions.

Where one or more individuals' frequencies are somewhat in sync, this can result in the kind of bond that you describe with your husband. This closeness or similariities in frequencies is what might have attracted you to each other. Or, with some couples, this frequency synchronization can occur over time. I suspect that it's such synchronization of frequencies that accounts for the remarkable telepathy often exhibited by twins and by many parents and their children.

Again, this is just a theory and I don't think we have the scientific instrumentation yet with which to prove it. You can read more in my article, "The Psychic Symphony."

[Via Paranormal.About.com]

Lifeline from Beyond the Grave

by Lura Ketchledge

Is there a place between the living and the dead: a sort of vantage point where your loved ones watch over you after they have died? Before 1994 that kind of question never crossed my mind.

Back then I knew there was life after death. I knew ghosts were real and the physical world was a school with mandatory attendance. How I knew these truths is a long story, a story best told in another article.

I was sick really sick and tired of paying medical bills with money I didn't have. My sense of humor was just as shot as my nerves and part of me wished the process of kicking the bucket would hurry up.

Like a bad novel I was allergic to the only drug prescribed for the auto immune disease that had taken my youth. I quit my immune suppressing medication and opted out of chemo drugs all together. The details of my decline aren't important. I will tell you I did all the right things, went to the hospital when I should and kept my doctors up dated on the dreary, miserable symptoms of my illness. So far I was miserable but not dying.

When I didn't think it could get any worse it did. One day like a light switch being turned on my stomach was hot to the touch and all I wanted to do was lay on a cold floor on my stomach. After an expensive round of tests I was told I wasn't in any danger and other than an enlarged liver and a bad attitude. So medically speaking I was treading water just fine.

Like most consumers I believed my doctor. Why not he is making the big bucks for a reason isn't he? I went home and stayed in bed most of the time watching soap-operas and infomercials.

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Human smuggler used voodoo

A woman accused of smuggling West African girls to New Jersey and forcing them to work at hair-braiding salons made her victims undergo a voodoo ritual to frighten them into believing they would go insane if they escaped, a witness testified yesterday during a federal trial in Newark.

Before leaving for America, the girls were given kola nuts to eat by a man in Togo who told them they were taking a vow of loyalty to the woman, Akouavi Kpade Afolabi, said the witness, Vida Anagblah.

"If we didn't stay with her "¦ they said we would go crazy," Anagblah said.

The 24-year-old Ghanaian immigrant's testimony came on the second day of Afolabi's trial. She is accused of running a human trafficking operation that used physical violence and psychological intimidation to enslave about 20 girls who allegedly worked without 14 hours a day without pay at hair-braiding salons in Newark and East Orange.

Afolabi's lawyer, Olubukola O. Adetula, denies the girls were not paid. He has argued that investigators have misinterpreted multiple aspects of West African culture, including the tradition of sending children abroad to learn a trade.

Adetula asked the witness if it is common to eat kola nuts in West Africa as part of a prayer on the eve of a journey.

"Yes," Anagblah said.

The witness, who still lives in New Jersey and receives assistance from a humanitarian organization, said her parents sent her away from her village in Ghana in 2000 to Lome, Togo's capital, to live and work with Afolabi, a prominent merchant.

It was in that house, authorities say, that Afolabi began to assert control over the girls. Sometimes with violence; sometimes with voodoo, prosecutors said.

Each day, Afolabi prayed in the house before a stone altar, topped with a clay statue of a man's head, Anagblah said. Sometimes she sacrificed chickens, the witness said.

[via NJ.com]

Edison and the Ghost Machine

"I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us."

THOSE ARE THE words of the great inventor Thomas Edison in an interview in the October, 1920 issue of The American Magazine. And in those days, when Edison spoke, people listened. By any measurement, Thomas Edison was a superstar in his time, a brilliant inventor during the height of the Industrial Revolution when man was mastering machine. Called "The Wizard of Menlo Park" (which has since been renamed Edison, New Jersey), he was one of history's most prolific inventors, holding 1,093 U.S. patents. He and his workshop were responsible for the creation or development of many devices that changed the way people lived, including the electric light bulb, the motion picture camera and projector, and the phonograph.

GHOST OF A MACHINE

But did Edison invent a ghost box – a machine to talk to the dead?

It has long been speculated in paranormal circles that Edison did indeed create such a device, though it must have been somehow lost. No prototypes or schematics have ever been found. So did he build it or not?

Another interview with Edison, published in the same month and year, this time by Scientific American, quotes him as saying, "I have been thinking for some time of a machine or apparatus which could be operated by personalities which have passed on to another existence or sphere." (Emphasis mine.) So in two interviews conducted around the same time we have two very similar quotes, one in which he says that he has been at work "building" the device, and in the other that he has merely been "thinking" about it. Somewhat contradictorily, the Scientific American article says, despite Edison's quote, that "the apparatus which he is reported to be building is still in the experimental stage…" as if there is a prototype.

However, since we have no evidence of such a device having been constructed or even designed by Edison, we have to conclude that it was an idea that never materialized.

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Document Shredding by the FAA Destroys Valuable UFO History

ENCINO, CALIFORNIA (BlackVault) - September 16, 2009 - On November 17, 1986, Japanese Air Lines Flight 1628 (JAL-1628) witnessed three UFOs while flyingover Alaska. At 35,000 feet elevation, and traveling about 600 miles per hour, Captain Kenju Terauchi first noticed two unidentified lights roughly 2,000 feet below his position.

Assuming it was possibly a fighter jet from the United States, he did not think much of the sighting. But in his own words, about 8 minutes later, two "space ships"suddenly appeared in front of his aircraft spewing light into the cockpit. He believes these two craft were the original lights he saw -- instantly appearing in front of him.

The pilot, co-pilot and flight engineer watched the UFO for more than thirty minutes. Attempts to take photographs failed.

But as interesting is this case is, what is further intriguing is the documentation regarding it.

In 2001, I filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the FAAfor information regarding this event. Throughout the processing, they determined that I was what is called a "commercial" requester, and was going to charge me excessive fees for the search and duplication of responsive records, which totaled more than 100 pages.

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