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Old Christ Church in Pensacola, FL: Said to have had a reburial of former priests with several of the onlookers insisting the priests attended the even int well kinda in person—-can ghosts be in person?

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And as to the really scary stuff—Corona:

Be sure to get enough sleep (7-9 hours a night) The better you sleep the better your immune system functions.

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this week I suggest you try:

Sanford Ghost Tours

instead.

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Kensington Palace

What would England be without her palaces and royals? And given all those ancient castles and later regal homes (or even not so ancient) you would expect a ghost or too.

Kensington Palace for instance has all manor of stories and legends about what walks here, and according to one source the nursery that was Prince George’s is the most haunted in the entire palace.

Lucy Worsley has said of some of the Royals who have resided here: the princesses (7 total) who have lived here have been: “sad, bad, or even mad.” While not ancient by UK standards—only 400 years so so—it still has had its share of interesting people including the Rebel (their words not mine) Princess Margaret .

Actually the first Queen to take up residence here–at the time this area was outside London in the country and Queen Ann and her husband George of Denmark moved from London to get away from bad air and contamination of London. Unfortunately that appears to have done the queen little good as she was dead of smallpox about a week after they took up residence.

Ann’s life had not been a great one—-she had had 17 pregnancies (most were still born, or she miscarried with a few living for a time–but none past their 2nd year). The 18th pregnancy she gave birth to a healthy child Prince William (and her last pregnancy), but legend says that he died after a bout of dancing at his 11th birthday. Some have gone so far as to suggest there is a Kensington Palace Curse

More recently there was even a women’s body found in a pond in what is now a public park and not too distant from William and Kate’s residence here (which is four storeys high and consists of 20 rooms).

Of course there are numerous ghosts including King George IIin the King’s Gallery who is said to wander about from time to time. Then there’s the “Wild Boy” whose portrait can still be found in the palace—He was a child with deformities who was found running about naked in a German forest and eventually ended up with King George I as a “human pet” at Kensington and apparently hasn’t left since then.

These are just of the few deaths and spirits that seem to belong to and reside in this still very active palace in London today

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Haunted History

Kissing Bugs

Also known as cone-nose bugs or chinches, these insects feed on blood at night and like to bite humans around mouths or eyes, hence their reputation for “kissing” their victims. About half of kissing bugs are infected with a parasite that can be passed to humans when the bug poops near the site of the bite, causing Chagas disease. Early symptoms—like fatigue, rash and loss of appetite—can last weeks but make the disease difficult to diagnose because they’re so similar to other illnesses. A little less than a third of bite victims go on to develop chronic Chagas disease, leading to an enlarged heart and other cardiac and intestinal problems, including an enlarged esophagus or colon, that make digestion difficult. The complications may not appear for decades. If left untreated, yes, it can kill ya.

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Just beware of the Naegleria fowleri, a nasty little single-celled organism lurking in warm water and nicknamed for its favorite pastime—literally eating human brains. Naegleria enters your body through the nose and shimmies into your skull, where it plays around in your brains, destroying the tissue. (This amoeba can also strike when you use contaminated tap water to flush your sinuses, FYI.)

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To me there is much more than Vampires that drink your blood and ghosts that inhabit our cemeteries and spooky old houses……to me the things that man make (and I’m not thinking of Frankenstein) are far scarier and far more life shattering that anything in that scary realm.

For instance the Everglades—also called the “River of Grass” Holds one of these places—The HM-69 Nike Missile Base (also called The Hole in the Donut by the staff) one of 240 US sites (4 of which were in South Florida) after the Cuban missile Crisis in 1962. This site houses Nike suface-to-air-missiles to shoot down bomber during an attack in the expected World War III.

The site still stands — in fact it was in use until 1979. You can actually visit and have been able since 2009–the 22 buildings including 3 missile barns.

the other sites in Florida are

B Battery in North Key Largo which is now Key Largo Hammock State Park

C Battery in Miramar and D Battery in Miami which now the US Department of Homeland Security’s Krome Detention Center

A CUBAN CRISIS LEFTOVER

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These vampires have a certain physiology that sets them apart; the most obvious is their body temperature, which stays well below normal and implies a tendency to lead an active life at night.

In addition to having an interest in dark and neo-Gothic vampires also have a fascination for horror. A lot of it can be seen on their official website called AlterVisa.

Italian vampires have their own capital city – the town of Meldola, in Romagna province. In early 2017, a film and TV series about vampires were screened by David Santandrea; the movie is called “The Vampire Diary.”

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Thoor Ballyee

Nr. Gort, County Galway

I declare this tower is my symbol, I declare

This winding, gyring spiriting treadmill of a stair is my Ancestral stair

From Blood and the Moon by W.B. Yeats

Once known as Islandmore Castle, this evocative and atmospheric stone tower, wit its narrow and time-worn stairs was a virtual ruin when the poet W.B. Yeats (1865-1938), purchased it in 1917 for the nominal sun of 35 pounds. Yeats renamed the building Thoor (Being the Irish for tower), Ballylee, commenting that “I think the harsh sound of Thoor amends the softness of the rest.” Following considerable restoration the property was finally habitable in 1919, when it became Yeat’s summer residence and, thereafter, a central symbol of his poetry. Yeats was a devotee of the occult, once observing that, “The mystical life is the center of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.” He believed implicitly in the existence of ghosts and was convinced that the tower was haunted by an Anglo-Norman soldier. A later curator was also convinced that a spectral form wandered the worn stairway of the tower and was reluctant to ascend it as the day turned into night. Her suspicions were evidently hared by her pet dog, who would frequently appeared terrified of something it could apparently see in the downstairs rooms.

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Th Priory Farm has a campsite now.

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On the Yorkshire Moors—not too great a distance from Whitby (the town that gave us Dracula) is Grosmont a village that you probably never heard of . Though there are not signs of it now the Roman Road forded the river in this area.

Once the site of a Priory (Grosmont) which pre-dated the village as it was found in the early 12th century and survived till the 16th c when Henry VIII end all the monasteries in his self serving reform and break with the Catholic Church.

The village, which I presume got its name from the lost monastery is close by to some pre-history sites: east of Grosmont is a collection of stones named The High Bride Stones and a second group the Low Bride Stones .

If all this history and bleakness and the strange stones aren’t enough for a spooky few days off the beaten path it might be noted that the North Yorkshire Moors are regularly proclaimed one of the top places in the country to see ghosts,

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Medusa – whose name probably comes from the Ancient Greek word for “guardian” – was one of the three Gorgons, daughters of the sea gods Phorcys and Ceto, and sisters of the Graeae, Echidna, and Ladon. All of Medusa’s siblings were monsters by birth and, even though she was not, she had the misfortune of being turned into the most hideous of them all.

From then on, similarly to Euryale and Stheno, her older Gorgon sisters, Medusa was depicted with bronze hands and wings of gold. Poets claimed that she had a great boar-like tusk and tongue lolling between her fanged teeth. Writhing snakes were entwining her head in place of hair. Her face was so hideous and her gaze so piercing that the mere sight of her was sufficient to turn a man to stone.

Medusa :: The Real Story of the Snake-Haired Gorgon

Greek Mythology

https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Creatures/Medusa/medusa.html

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GREETINGS FROM THE DRAGON LAIR DIVA

Walls have ears. Doors have eyes. Trees have voices. Beasts tell lies. Beware the rain. Beware the snow. Beware the man You think you know.