Now that the election is over all I can say for the governor results is there was no best man to win….I voted for the one I thought was the least worst.

OK now the best man….Outlander rules

of course he’s no where near Florida we only just have the weird ones here and not in a good way.

Since weird Floridians (did you see where they arrested a 90 year old man–along with a couple of pastors—for feeding the homeless in public—OMG I live in a bad, embarrassing, dream) have been in the news and the ballots I decided if I could find some others that might be interesting (and less dangerous to my over-all-well-being.)

MAGGIE BELL:

Described as a “genuine Florida Cracker Queen and psychic extraordinaire”  Ms. Bell and her husband, John, came to the town of Lake Monroe in the late 1800s.  Lake Monroe which was along the Lake of the same name and not too far west of Sanford  was a “thriving faming community” then (now it is a post office and a zip code).  Maggie conducted seances on her porch, sessions that drew many witnesses who never found any trickery that would account for what they saw. “Chairs simply floated about the parlor while voices would emanate from the walls.”    She conducted automatic writings and would gather buckets of white sand from the cemetery and sprinkled it over farmer’s fields which apparently grew much better after the treatment. http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2000-10-29/news/0010280549_1_maggie-bell-carlson-florida-cracker

After loosing her husband to another she took up drink and her abilities diminished and with the diminishment of her powers her popularity began to drift away.  She passed away in the 1920s.   But several of her friends reported her returning for visits after this departure and at least one claimed her daughter of seven was healed from a serious illness by Maggie years after her death. (STRANGE FLORIDA/Carlson)

So Maggie though strange seems to have been beneficial to the community.  Naw she’d never make it in politics.

EDWARD LEEDSKALNIN

Ledskalnin built this amazing (and open to the public) “castle” of coral in memory of a girl who jilted him just prior to his wedding day in Latvia.  He left his home and wandered through Europe and Canada before settling in Washington state for awhile where he developed TB and moved to Florida at 31 years-old.  Here he purchased land and began his carvings in memory of his lost love.

Ed was as secretive…(and) He never told anyone how he carved and set into place the walls, gates, monoliths, and moon crescents that make up much of his Castle. Some of these blocks weigh as much as 30 tons. Ed often worked at night, by lantern light, so that no one could see him. He used only tools that he fashioned himself from wrecks in an auto junkyard.  He died in 1951 (the Castle became a tourist attraction in 1953).   http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2056

To this day the theories on how Ed managed to build this ranges from the supernatural to dumb luck.  Whatever and however he remains a name in the odd and unusual to this day, now days he could have ran for political office.  No wait he actually accomplished what he set out to do and did it without broadcasting the fact–nah never work out as a Florida office holder.

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