The future of the building formerly known as Cardinal Brennan High School

Some local flare for a Friday night..

There have been a ton of opinions about what should happened to the shuttered and sad former high school Cardinal Brennan (my alma mater in the coal region of the Eastern mines) .. North Schuylkill school district purchased it, auctioned off the internals.. The building is vacant. Some believe it should be knocked down, others say keep it.

Some encouraging news took place recently from the camp keep it..

Substantial optimism was expressed at the latest North Schuylkill School Board meeting for the possibility of saving the main Cardinal Brennan High School building–built in 1926.. an all girl’s school then that eventually become an integrated Catholic high school that closed in the mid 2000s..

During a presentation to the board, a professional expert advised he believed the building is structurally sound and can be rehabilitated much more inexpensively than if it were razed and replaced by a new school building.

A decision is still to come. But this is giving many hope that the building which once houses voices and laughter of children will once again do the same..

A blast from the coal region past.. The “Ashland Daily News”...

A blast from the coal region past.. The “Ashland Daily News” doesn’t exist anymore.. but in 1949 it reported that homes were demolished – homes in the path of proposed stripping.. The road mentioned in the brief snippet is what is now called “Snake road” that ties together Ashland and Mt Carmel..

All the stripping left the landscape vanquished. What exists now? Dirt, rubbish, couches, and just about any piece of garbage people can dump along a highway.

The world begins to turn on Ryan...

The world begins to turn on Ryan Lochte

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Scientists find likely cause of 2011 Virginia earthquake, believe there may be more to come

Scientists find likely cause of 2011 Virginia earthquake, believe there may be more to come

The ADVOCATE in Louisiana hits: Vacation or not, a hurting Louisiana needs you now, President Obama | Our Views | theadvocate.com

The ADVOCATE in Louisiana hits: Vacation or not, a hurting Louisiana needs you now, President Obama | Our Views | theadvocate.com:

The ADVOCATE writes,

Now that the flood waters ravaging Louisiana are receding, it’s time for President Barack Obama to visit the most anguished state in the union.

Last week, as torrential rains brought death, destruction and misery to Louisiana, the president continued his vacation at Martha’s Vineyard, a playground for the posh and well-connected.

We’ve seen this story before in Louisiana, and we don’t deserve a sequel. In 2005, a fly-over by a vacationing President George W. Bush became a symbol of official neglect for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The current president was among those making political hay out of Bush’s aloofness.

If anyone is looking for any last minute birthday gifts for me,...

If anyone is looking for any last minute birthday gifts for me, this toilet paper would be great.

This scene is horror is suddenly becoming commonplace in...

This scene is horror is suddenly becoming commonplace in Louisiana .. Massive flooding–worse than even Katrina for some locations–is causing coffins to rise from their burial plots and float down waterlogged streets..

A true disaster of epic proportions .. Not seen for …well, 11 years or so since late August ‘05..

The last thing any of these locations would need now is another superstorm to even wreck more..

In mentally regrouping a bit

I feel like a certain new chapter in life has just started.. But I can’t yet close the old one.
I need the right line to finish this current states before moving on.. But time doesn’t wait for an author to create the perfect word. And if I don’t finish the book, someone else will..
The beat goes on.

Two Killed, Another Injured at Martin County Home Where Man Found Eating Victim's Face

Two Killed, Another Injured at Martin County Home Where Man Found Eating Victim's Face :

Florida: Martin County Sheriff William Snyder told reporters that Austin Harrouff may have been on hallucinogenic drugs when he attacked Michelle Mishcon, 53, and John Stevens III, 59, at their Tequesta, Florida, home.

John McLaughlin dead at 89…John McLaughlin, the...

John McLaughlin dead at 89…

John McLaughlin, the stalwart political commentator who created television’s “McLaughlin Group,” died Tuesday at his home in Virginia. He was 89.

His death came less than two days after he missed the first episode of his show in 34 years.

“As a former Jesuit priest, teacher, pundit and news host, John touched many lives,” the show’s producers wrote on Facebook.

This is South Center Street in Pottsville PA, sometime on a day...

This is South Center Street in Pottsville PA, sometime on a day in 1880…

App maker insists: Trump will win election: Zip founder has widely different results from opinion polls

App maker insists: Trump will win election: Zip founder has widely different results from opinion polls:

Militi insists his replies are a cross-section of voters in age, gender and geography. “These are the same results we saw when he (Trump) was in the primaries,” he says. He contends that most media polls are just flat-out wrong and that smartphone answers are the future.

A car burns after violence erupted during a standoff...

A car burns after violence erupted during a standoff between police and an angry crowd near N. 44th St. and W. Auer Ave.(Photo: Calvin Mattheis / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

USA TODAY:

A standoff between police and an angry crowd turned violent Saturday night in the hours after a Milwaukee police officer shot and killed an armed suspect during a foot chase.

After an hours-long confrontation with officers, police reported at 10:15 p.m. CT that a gas station was set on fire. Police said firefighters could not get close to the blaze because of gunshots.

CNN:

The incident started in the afternoon when two officers stopped two people in a car in the city’s north side, according to the Milwaukee Police Department.

Shortly after, both occupants fled on foot and officers pursued them, police said. During the chase, one officer shot a 23-year-old man who was armed, according to authorities.“He (officer) ordered that individual to drop his gun, the individual did not drop his gun,” Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said. “He had the gun with him and the officer fired several times."The man died at the scene.

Saturday nights are made for fighting.. 
But this is no way to handle anything..

FRIDAY NIGHT HACKS: Guccifer 2.0 back ... Publishes List Of Cell Phone Numbers, Private E-Mails For Most House Democrats.. promises more to come..

FRIDAY NIGHT HACKS: Guccifer 2.0 back ...  Publishes List Of Cell Phone Numbers, Private E-Mails For Most House Democrats.. promises more to come..:

From the SMOKING GUN website:

In a post to his WordPress blog, the vandal–who previously provided nearly 20,000 Democratic National Committee e-mails to Wikileaks–uploaded an Excel file that includes the cell phone numbers and private e-mail addresses of nearly every Democratic member of the House of Representatives.

The Excel file also includes similar contact information for hundreds of congressional staff members (chiefs of staff, press secretaries, legislative directors, schedulers) and campaign personnel.

In announcing the leak of the document, “Guccifer 2.0” reported that the spreadsheet was stolen during a hack of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “As you see I wasn’t wasting my time! It was even easier than in the case of the DNC breach,” the hacker wrote.

x x x 

Trump Rally-Goer To CNN Reporter: "I Am A Patriot And You Are A Traitor!" | Video | RealClearPolitics

Trump Rally-Goer To CNN Reporter: "I Am A Patriot And You Are A Traitor!" | Video | RealClearPolitics:

Scenes from America during an election.. Anger during a political campaign.. And a sudden burst of anti CNN furor over their coverage of the election of 2016..

The brutal aftermath.. Hope Solo rips Sweden! ZIKA chants win! the United States women’s soccer team loses with penalty kicks deciding a game for the first time in Olympics history!

The United States’s women’s soccer team lost at the Rio games today.. penalty kicks.. it was intense.

After the match remained tied at 1-1 through 120 minutes, it went to penalty kicks for the first time in Olympic women’s soccer ..

Victory parties were already planned back stateside.. but the anti-US Olympics fans, most yelling “ZIKA” at Hope Solo for the duration of the games so far, seemingly had the last laugh..

The aftermath seems more brutal than other Olympics losses..

HOPE SOLO garnered the most attention post loss.. she called Sweden cowards.. explaining why:

“Sweden dropped off. They didn’t want to open play. They didn’t want to play great soccer. It was a combative game, a physical game. Exactly what they wanted and exactly what their game-plan was. They dropped into a 50. They didn’t try and press. They didn’t want to open the game. And they tried to counter with long balls. We had that style of play when Pia [Sundhage] was our coach. I don’t think they’re going make it far in the tournament. I think it was very cowardly. But they won. They’re moving on, and we’re going home.”

A USA today headline screeched afterwards: 

Calling Sweden ‘bunch of cowards’ should be last straw for Hope Solo

Pia Sundhage’s response to Hope Solo’s cowards comment: I don’t give a crap. I’m going to Rio, she’s going home ..

The United States players were advised to go back to the states and resume their NWSL playing in the wake of their dramatic and unexpected loss..

Z I K A    W I N S 

x x x 

More headlines:

Hope Solo calls Sweden 'bunch of cowards’ and trashes former ..

Hope Solo tried to 'ice the kicker’ in a penalty shootout. It didn’t work.

SLATE: 

How “Zika-Proof” Hope Solo Became the Biggest Villain of the Rio

The WRAP proclaims that the Daily Beast Shows Just How 'Sleazy, Dangerous, and Wildly Unethical' It Can Be... they are right... someone posing as gay on a dating app only to lure gay athletes out and then shame them is despicable..

The WRAP proclaims that the Daily Beast Shows Just How 'Sleazy, Dangerous, and Wildly Unethical' It Can Be... they are right... someone posing as gay on a dating app only to lure gay athletes out and then shame them is despicable..:

EXTRA!

EXTRA!

READ ALL ABOUT IT

A new low in journalism! 

The Daily Beast comes under fire from activists and news organizations after straight writer lures gay athletes at Olympic Village for sport

"Making a Murderer:" Brendan Dassey's conviction overturned

"Making a Murderer:" Brendan Dassey's conviction overturned :

The conviction of Brendan Dassey, a Wisconsin man who appeared in the documentary “Making a Murderer,” has been overturned by a federal judge in Milwaukee, according to court documents obtained by CNN…

Weak economy is responsible for rampant swoleness, according to a new study

Weak economy is responsible for rampant swoleness, according to a new study :

Austerity has eroded young men’s traditional means of value-creation so they have become increasingly reliant on their bodies as a means of feeling valuable in society,” said study author Jamie Hakim, a professor at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. “In theoretical terms, so-called ‘spornosexuality’ is an embodied response to material changes brought about by neoliberal austerity.”

The study found that the most significant increase for gym attendance from 2006 to 2013 was among 16- to 25-year-old men. Hakim denied the growing interest in bodybuilding simply reflects a new craze.

Erdogan issues ultimatum to US over exiled cleric

Erdogan issues ultimatum to US over exiled cleric :

As reported during the attempted coup in Turkey.. my home state is making international news .. This from CNN:

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave the United States “an ultimatum,” demanding the extradition of the cleric he believes is behind the failed July 15 coup attempt.

The state-run Anadolu news agency reported that Erdogan had said the US had to choose between its relationship with Turkey and Fethullah Gulen, a former Erdogan ally who has been in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania for decades.

The Fountain Springs Country Club and Golf Links in Ashland PA...

The Fountain Springs Country Club and Golf Links in Ashland PA as it once was.. Way way back.. before it closed.. before it turned into a public restaurant (and the place  I worked for some time and got married at in October 2007) .. 

The golf course is now gone as well.. so is the tennis course. In place of it, a new housing community …

Julian Assange Suggests Seth Rich - Who Was MURDERED in DC - Was Wikileaks DNC Source!

Julian Assange Suggests Seth Rich - Who Was MURDERED in DC - Was Wikileaks DNC Source!:

This is as big an election scandal if ever heard.. Wikileaks is not only saying that they’ll give $20,000 to anyone with I formation about the murder of Seth Rich but that Rich was also the source of the emails from inside the DNC.. Shattering rumors it was Russia .. And raising a whole whole whole bunch of new one..

Another interesting tidbit reported late evening yesterday: Roger Stone appears to be in touch with Wikileaks… We will watch where that goes..

As the campaign turns.
The wildest election in modern history continues..

The former ROXY theater in Ashland PA .I can just imagine the...

The former ROXY theater in Ashland PA .

I can just imagine the memories had there.. the movies shared there..

An image taken in 2006 of inside the Ashland PA hospital, at...

An image taken in 2006 of inside the Ashland PA hospital, at that time St. Catherine’s Medical Center.

If someone who worked there can remind as to the floor it was taken on, I would appreciate it.

Something about the hallways in this former hospital just scared me to death.

An old postcard of Immaculate Heart Academy. Which then turned...

An old postcard of Immaculate Heart Academy. Which then turned into Cardinal Brennan high school, my Alma mater.. which now sits dormant and vacant. Purchased by North Schuylkill school district, no plans have yet been announced for the building. But everything in it was sold at a public auction earlier in 2016..

The once famed Loeper Hotel in Ashland PA .. I have heard some...

The once famed Loeper Hotel in Ashland PA .. I have heard some rumors from old timers of how amazing the restaurant and bar were in the heyday of coal..

Now the building is the site of a senior citizen high rise …

This is a PBS documentary on the Centralia mine fire from 1982.....

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This is a PBS documentary on the Centralia mine fire from 1982.. and these images, the smoke and houses and end of times feel, is exactly what I remember from my very early youth.. 

Truly nostalgia 101 with this..

My hometown of Centralia, PA… What’s left of it.. as...

My hometown of Centralia, PA…  What’s left of it.. as seen by a drone around April of 2016..

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The Ashland State Hospital in Pennsylvania sometime in the mid...

The Ashland State Hospital in Pennsylvania sometime in the mid 1900s as shown with a postcard..

The hospital went through a lot through the years. Today it’s closed after mismanagement and bankruptcy from previous ownership..

Future plans include a potential drug treatment center.. But for now the building is shuddered..

The image you see actually isn’t what it looks like today.. there were new additions onto the hospital, that changed the architecture..

But what remains are ghosts … spirits.. and fifth floor intrigue.

If ghosts exist, I doubt that a closed hospital would have ever gotten rid of them at this location..

These are scenes from the 1980s SEARS Christmas catalog …...

These are scenes from the 1980s SEARS Christmas catalog …  The catalog was normally sent to houses around this time of year through September in the mail.

My wife and I were trying to tell my son today that this is how we used to do Christmas toys.. just get the book and circle what we wanted..

Ayden actually has already begun his summer list. Sure it’s early August, but why not..

And after looking through image searches for old nostalgic toy ads from paper books, I miss it…

The coal miner’s salute. Located in Minersville, PA..

The coal miner’s salute. Located in Minersville, PA..

This is the once future site of the Cressona Mall in Cressona...

This is the once future site of the Cressona Mall in Cressona Pennsylvania, taken long before stores and parking lots were ever contemplated.. 

The farm is still there.. but the big swamp you see is not, the river was rerouted and the rest was history..

Over 20 Treated for Overdoses at Ohio Music Festival: The Mansfield News Journal quoted a Richland County sheriff's major as saying the concertgoers were given packets of what appeared to be candy that had a "very, very high dose of THC." The packets were marked "Nerds," Major Joe Masi told the newspaper. THC is the chemical in marijuana that intoxicates users.

Over 20 Treated for Overdoses at Ohio Music Festival: The Mansfield News Journal quoted a Richland County sheriff's major as saying the concertgoers were given packets of what appeared to be candy that had a "very, very high dose of THC." The packets were marked "Nerds," Major Joe Masi told the newspaper. THC is the chemical in marijuana that intoxicates users.

popculturebrain: Box Office: ‘Suicide Squad’ Heads for Enormous...

popculturebrain:

Box Office: ‘Suicide Squad’ Heads for Enormous $140 Million Opening Weekend

Despite dismal reviews, Warner Bros. “Suicide Squad” is heading for an impressive $140 million opening weekend at the North American box office, early estimates showed Friday. The supervillain tentpole, playing at 4,255 locations, will wind up in the top 20 domestic launches of all time.

It is having an enormous box office weekend.. And doing very well in Mexico and the UK along with the United States..

Critics be damned.. this movie is huge.
Perhaps a strike back against movie reviewers in a big way: With dollars.

A Saturday night shock poll released: Clinton's lead over Trump narrows to less than three points

A Saturday night shock poll released: Clinton's lead over Trump narrows to less than three points:

About 42 percent of likely voters favored Clinton, to Trump’s 39 percent, according to the July 31-Aug. 4 online poll of 1,154 likely voters. The poll had a credibility interval of plus or minus 3 percentage points, meaning that the results suggest the race is roughly even.

Among registered voters over the same period, Clinton held a lead of five percentage points, down from eight percentage points on Monday, according to the poll.

The reasons behind the shift were unclear.

And that is after THIS WEEK of stories..

WHEN PANORAMIC CELL PHONE CAMERA SHOTS GO HORRIBLE WRONG..

WHEN PANORAMIC CELL PHONE CAMERA SHOTS GO HORRIBLE WRONG..

Strange things above… panic below.A few days ago there...

Strange things above… panic below.

A few days ago there were weird lights over St. Louis that last for at least an hour .. those weird lights made big news in that city.

Now the weird lights reports are expanding..

Pittsburgh Pennsylvania is the latest area where strange orb-like visions have been spotted.. From CBS news: 

KDKA received some calls into our newsroom about it, starting around 8 p.m.

People reported seeing a shiny, silver object in the sky. The reports were coming from areas west of downtown.

“Around 8 p.m., we were looking up into the northern sky and saw what looked like just to be a bright, silver object in the sky, and then after we got a telescope on it, it looked like it was a clear balloon that was catching the light as it moved from west to east,” said Russ Moll, of McKees Rocks.

Moll says it was it a very odd sight in the evening sky.

“It stood out because it was before dusk and so the stars weren’t out yet, so it just really caught our eye,” Moll said. “You noticed it as being something out of the ordinary.”

And this..

The National Weather Service sends balloons up to measure atmospheric conditions; however, they said they had no issues Thursday night.

In a statement, they say: “We’ve had no issues with the launch this evening or any calls about objects floating/glowing in the sky.”

Look to the sky! 
You’ll never know what you will see..

JOURNALISTS: READ IT AND WEEP! The Washington Post will use robots to write stories about the Rio Olympics

JOURNALISTS: READ IT AND WEEP! The Washington Post will use robots to write stories about the Rio Olympics:

The Post is using homegrown software to automatically produce hundreds of real-time news reports about the Olympics. Starting tomorrow morning, those items will appear, without human intervention, on the Post’s website, as well as in outside channels like its Twitter account.

The idea is to use artificial intelligence to quickly create simple but useful reports on scores, medal counts and other data-centric news bits — so that the Post’s human journalists can work on more interesting and complex work, says Jeremy Gilbert, who heads up new digital projects for the paper.

“We’re not trying to replace reporters,” he said. “We’re trying to free them up.”

Gilbert and Sam Han, the paper’s head of data science, have a team of three engineers working full-time on Heliograf, the Post’s AI software. A few more product analysts are spending about half of their time on the project, and four or five newsroom staffers are also spending time shaping the software.

Goodbye yellow brick road.

Goodbye reporting…

‘STEELBERG’ is the person who deserves credit for the picture...

‘STEELBERG’ is the person who deserves credit for the picture you are seeing.. 

This is what a STRANGER THINGS VHS cover art box would have looked like if it would have been released in the 1980s.. And since the show is based with the 80s as the setting, the cover art and photo just feel right. Like it WAS made in the Reagan era.. 

There are also many more images of what VHS cover art would have looked like for modern shows..

Very impressive work.

It makes me nostalgic for things that ACTUALLY EXIST NOW.

Well done.

politico: .@HillaryClinton: I ‘short-circuited’ on...

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politico:

.@HillaryClinton: I ‘short-circuited’ on ‘truthful’ email answer

Ooops.

Fans feud with critics ahead of ‘Suicide Squad’ release

Fans feud with critics ahead of ‘Suicide Squad’ release:

This has turned into a mean ordeal..

Critics have lambasted the film.. some have called for the website ROTTEN TOMATOES to actually be shut down because of the negative press that has been linked on the SUICIDE SQUAD page.. 

What is noteworthy about the aforementioned article linked here: My friend Anghus Houvouras from Flickering Myth got quoted by CNBC about the movie and controversy:

“I think they believe the potential is there. Take (2016’s) ‘Ghostbusters’ which pushed a very strong misogynist narrative. It became less about the quality of the film and more about the 'importance’ of a blockbuster with an all-female leading cast,” Anghus Houvouras, movie maker and writer for the pop culture website Flickering Myth, told CNBC via email.

“Sony and Paul Feig got on board and beat that horse to death. But it didn’t end up resulting in the kind of cultural zeitgeist they were hoping for. Those who benefit from feuds are the media and websites that proliferate a binary narrative. Conflict breeds clicks,” he said.

The FDA Just Greenlit Releasing Mutant Zika-killing Mosquitoes in Florida!

The FDA Just Greenlit Releasing Mutant Zika-killing Mosquitoes in Florida!:

On Friday, the FDA released a final environmental assessment of the trial, finding that it “will not have significant impacts on the environment.” The project, led by Oxitec, a biotech company that focuses on insect control, calls for the release of thousands of genetically engineered male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. The lab insects are bred so that over time they could kill off much of the local mosquito population by passing on a gene fatal to any offspring they have with wild females.

"NEWS ACCESS RULES APPLICABLE FOR THE BROADCAST OF THE GAMES OF THE XXXI OLYMPIAD, RIO DE JANEIRO,..."

“NEWS ACCESS RULES APPLICABLE FOR THE BROADCAST OF THE GAMES OF THE XXXI OLYMPIAD, RIO DE JANEIRO, 5-21 AUGUST 2016”

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The title of the document from the 

International Olympic Committee that is prohibiting without exception the use of GIFs of memorable Olympics moments..

The full text reads: 

“Internet and Mobile Platforms Notwithstanding any other applicable limitation included in these NARs, Olympic Material must not be broadcast on interactive services such as “news active” or “sports active” or any other related Video on Demand services, which would allow the viewer to make a viewing choice within a channel and to thereby view Olympic Material at times and programs other than when broadcast as part of a News Program as set out in Clause 1 above. Additionally, the use of Olympic Material transformed into graphic animated formats such as animated GIFs (i.e. GIFV), GFY, WebM, or short video formats such as Vines and others, is expressly prohibited.”

and with that.. the GIFs are banned.. Done. Edited out. Down the memory hole. Nonexistent. 

WELCOME TO RIO…The summer Olympics are set.. Brazil is...

WELCOME TO RIO…

The summer Olympics are set.. Brazil is ready? Maybe..
The opening ceremonies begin tonight even if there are still pollutants in water and mosquitoes on the loose.

Zika was the big fear.. other fears have come since.

A sampling for some headlines potentially paints a not so rosy scenario concerning the Rio Games …

CNN reports that Rio’s hospitals may not be ready to handle issues that arise..

The New York TIMES talks about the opening games beginning amid corruption in Brazil..

There are widespread political ramifications from protests in Rio..

NBC is tape delaying the opening ceremonies..

The Olympics are not just about sports.. but about international relations. Big politics.. big criminals. And on that note, 1000 US spies are set to protect the games..

The International Olympics Committee is BANNING GIFs!

The average Americans' weight gain since the 1980s is startling

The average Americans' weight gain since the 1980s is startling :

Americans are getting heavier and heavier. But new U.S. estimates may still come as a shock – since the late 1980s and early 1990s, the average American has put on 15 or more additional pounds without getting any taller.

David Paulides was back on Coast to Coast AM to talk about missing people, missing hunters, and strange tree people.

As expected, David Paulides dropped new stories during his appearance last night on Coast to Coast AM.. Stories of hunters. Weird tales of people who know the forest, people who utilize various forms of instrumentation to find directions, people who carry weapons, all vanishing without a trace. In some instances, traces are found. In one specific story, one man was found after being dead for two weeks. But he wasn’t dead the whole time.. the coroner’s report in that instance said he was dead for only four days. The weird anomaly: His feet were literally worn down to the bone—literally the bottoms of his feet were worn away.


These are the types of stories that David Paulides tells George Knapp, the occasional host of the macabre airwaves under the cover of moonlight..


There was a new bombshell dropped last night during the program. Paulides described a bow hunter in the forest with her Blackberry—before the bankruptcy of the company, obviously. She noticed how the forest seemed to stop dead—no noise, no sound. Just silence. It felt strange. She went on to describe what really makes little sense: Just like in the movie PREDATOR, fuzzy saran-wrap-like figures jumping from one tree to the next.. She even snapped a photo of what appeared to be a mostly fuzzy landscape with a hairlike structure near the edge of the picture. The amazing story aside, the bow hunter’s husband is Dr. Bruce Maccabee—a very well known UFO expert..


It’s all so weird, so bizarre.


Paulides went on last night to also remind listeners of some prior cases where people came back from being missing. Those people describe having fuzzy memories, people looking at them from behind shrubs in the woods, or not even recall being last. Almost like walking into another reality, as George Knapp pointed out during the show.
I have been an avid reader of Paulides books. I also spoke to George Knapp about this very topic a bit ago…


It fascinates me and scares me alike. I live near the woods in Pennsylvania. And I also had me own experience that I wrote about in May 2014.


During that time, I had a similar experience where the ‘forest went silent.’ Though my moment of silence was even weirder because, at midnight when it occurred, one lone songbird actually began to sing in the middle of the night. I saw a meteor or something streak across the sky, and then immediately began hearing what sounded, for lack of any better explanation, a chain-like noise. Almost like something being drug across the forest floor. But I did not hear footsteps. My dog Mutley heard it too and got into an attack formation, coupled with the hair on his spine rising as high as I ever saw it.. The noise continued to get louder and louder until it seemed like it was literally on top of me. I grew very cold and afraid. Despite turning on a spotlight on the side of the house, I saw nothing at all.. The noise dissipated after a few minutes. It felt like I was in the middle of a recording, or endless loop of some other reality..


The most troubling aspect of my personal tale is this: I had this foreboding sense about the whole thing. While I wanted to go about 15 more feet and step into the forest, I had some weird notion that whatever it was making this noise WANTED me to walk into the woods.. almost like it was tempting me to enter its territory and terrain, as though there was some weird boundary that it could not cross…
Equally strange was a conversation I had with a deer hunter a few months ago. Given my interest I the unusual, I asked him if he ever had a ‘dead forest’ moment when he hunted. He said he did.. but it did not last long. He was deer hunting at a camp with several other hunters. While outside for a cigarette, he said the woods literally went dead and lifeless for about ten or so seconds. And then the noises of the forest came back again.


All so weird.. so strange. So peculiar.


The complex mystery continues. There seems to be no sound answer to the lost and unfound.
David Paulides offered no reasonable explanation, as he purposely does not. George Knapp described it all as best he could: Like a harvest.


The harvest idea may be the most frightening of all to contemplate.

Tonight George Knapp goes see into the woods...

…literally.
The murky surroundings of our strange planet..

Guesting on Coast to Coast Am with Knapp will be David Paulides, the author of Missing 411..

Paulides will talk about strange disappearances as usual. Tonight with some new information..
Give it a listen.
With the lights out..

Is Justin Bieber really planning his own funeral? Star allegedly making 'elaborate plans'

Is Justin Bieber really planning his own funeral? Star allegedly making 'elaborate plans' :

Apparently he is planning to have 3d holograms and a solar paneled tombstone that will constantly play his music.. He is also reportedly very serious about the funeral plans despite some early laughs from those close to him.

It is a little bizarre perhaps.. But Biebs is 22.. he saw some pretty amazing people die young this year, like Prince.. And maybe he is also aware of the dreaded ‘27 club’ that so many stars have found themselves become the victim of..

After all… we all have something dark and menacing tagging behind us until the end..

Dem Aide Seth Rich's Death Still Inspiring Conspiracy Theories

Dem Aide Seth Rich's Death Still Inspiring Conspiracy Theories:

You can read the story on your own from Heatst.com …

You may think it sounds ludicrous.. ridiculous. But conspiracies happen. And yes, in politics, even murders do too..

It’s the time to shed the skin. Snake season 2016 begins....

It’s the time to shed the skin. Snake season 2016 begins.
Just pray that, unlike ‘15, they stay OUT of the house..

Some in Australia are using the Graffiti Prevention Act of 2007...

Some in Australia are using the Graffiti Prevention Act of 2007 to take down this mural of Hillary Clinton..
Just thought you should know..

A simple household decoration that be great in color.. But...

A simple household decoration that be great in color.. But deeply foreboding in black and white.
Art is everywhere .. Life is art. Go draw.

EXPERTS from the United Nations have sent state-of-the art detection equipment to Brazil over fears suicidal terror nuts will target the Olympics with a devastating ‘dirty bomb’.

EXPERTS from the United Nations have sent state-of-the art detection equipment to Brazil over fears suicidal terror nuts will target the Olympics with a devastating ‘dirty bomb’.:

It’s curious to ponder.. What should athletes fear the most? Zika? Dirty bombs? Or those warnings not to ingest water during certain games because of pollution and dead bodies.
Anyone wondering like me if Rio is even ready?

Nasa to launch probe to investigate 'Armageddon' asteroid!

Nasa to launch probe to investigate 'Armageddon' asteroid!:

The 2100s are going to be troublesome… A giant asteroid is set then to pass between the earth and the moon.
Chances are the media will only start reporting about it a few days prior. Nothing changes.

Soccer fanatic

My son’s first soccer game is quickly approaching.. my wife and I as coaches has been pretty cool to be honest. The kids are amazing, funny, and filled with life and energy. A lot of energy.. so much so that we are winded after practices a lot more than the four and five year olds we are attempting to form into a cohesive set of players ..

But what is strange, and perhaps somehow due to my son’s seemingly honest love of the game of soccer, is how many times in the past few days he watched the movie UNDERDOGS. MY wife wathced it alone with him twice.. I did twice too.. and we as a family watched it a number of times.

As a matter of fact, as I type this post, he is watching it again. I lost count.
It is great, though.. the movie i wonderful and has an excellent lesson about how victory is not everything..

Truly an amazing movie.
UNDERDOGS is a good movie.. even if your child is not a soccer fan.

I love Infinite Waters and have really come to love an respect...

I love Infinite Waters and have really come to love an respect Ralph Smart. I have followed for years, but lately his message and the overall goal of Ralph seems to be really resonating with a lot of amazing people .. Kudos to him.

And kudos on this infographic..

For anyone who has either cut back on meat or cut it out completely, you know what stark and dire warnings you have been given by meat eaters.. you have been told you will be unhealthy and die early.. you have also been asked the dreaded question: Where do YOU get your protein from!

I often ask back, where do YOU get your fiber from? Since meat does not contain any bit of it…
But it surely has cholesterol..

That being said, there also are some vegans who have come to truly get under my skin and make me boil with anger.. if they want to convince someone to go veg, being vindictive on YouTube is not the approach.. they just fall into the normal talking point people say about them. Perception is reality. Reality is also perception…

But if you have it in your heart, your private heart, to ponder a reduction in meat.. and you fear protein loss? Just look at that infographic here.. just realize you have plenty of sources.

Vitamin B12 and Iron may be a necessary concern for supplementation, but not protein if you have an overall whole foods planet based source of protein..

I bought my son his first MAD magazine yesterday...

He halfway apperciated it.

I think as he gets older he will fully accept the terms and conditions of life with the reading of this mag monthly..

Alfred E. Neuman is back in my life.. instead of hiding MAD behind other rags, I can now leave it proudly on top of the stack and simply say it’s my son’s magazine. Wink wink.

From the desk of Art Bell

Though he is not on the air right now hosting MIDNIGHT IN THE DESERT, the talk show legend is active on Facebook.. A few posts recently have shown his allegiance to Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton in the campaign for president in 2016..

A few days ago, Bell used the Facebook platform to write two separate posts: One simply said “Clinton” and the other “Trump.”  The outrage to BOTH was almost immediate. 

The reaction caused Bell to write this on July 24, 2016: 

Experiment concluded: as you can clearly see below I simply made two posts without comment, one called Trump and one called Clinton. The results confirmed what I expected. Mostly they were filled with hate directed at me with people thinking it meant I was in support of one or the other, further hate was directed at the Candidates and of course other people who posted. What do you think this means about us?

Art

As the DNC convention continues and Donald Trump’s fiery rhetoric does as well, Art Bell went further in some commentary tonight on the social network:

Does the Democrat party think Trump can turn back time like Direct TV? They keep saying he is calling for the Russians to hack the 30,000+ Emails that Hillary deleted, that Felony already left the station. Come on Media, get it right.

Art

Longtime listeners dating back to the Coast days will recall Art as a renegade libertarian, chain smoking antidisestablishmentarian.. hellbent on questioning the system and authority.  He also was not a Clinton fan during the 90s.. the contempt seemingly has continued through this year’s election, with Bell taking a positive position on the Trump candidacy since early in 2015 when the billionaire announced he was running for the White House.

The interesting part of the post today came in the comments. Those following the Art Bell saga know he was sick as of late, with two hospital stays in Nevada. Bell said this in a comment to his own post tonight:

Well I had a very close call, very nearly had answers to the biggest questions I always asked on air. I am trying to get stronger but I had very serious pneumonia, could not get air, now trying to get stronger, it will not be fast

He was close to death… Those ‘big questions’ he always talked about on air? Death and what happens after. 

The hope and prayer of fans is that he returns at least in part to the Heather Wade hosted Midnight in the Desert. 

Especially during an election.
Especially THIS election.. at this time.

ABC NEWS reporting on what is in the Wikileaks audio files...

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ABC NEWS reporting on what is in the Wikileaks audio files dumped the same night Obama speaks to the DNC..

WikiLeaks Releases Hacked Audio of US Democratic Party Voicemails

WikiLeaks Releases Hacked Audio of US Democratic Party Voicemails:

The leak took place around the time Joe Biden was talking to the Democratic convention.. Also the same night that President Obama was set to speak to the DNC.. Also the same night that we Philadelphia is prepping to welcome the new nominee of the party on Thursday..

Assange promised more. He delivered.. but something tells me there is still more to come..

Sender man case news… The attempted murderers will be...

Sender man case news… The attempted murderers will be tried as adults..

Dave Schrader had a great Darkness Radio show last night for his...

Dave Schrader had a great Darkness Radio show last night for his weekly true crime Tuesday series .. The subject: Who took Johnny Gosch with the guest being the documentarian who created ‘Who Took Johnny.’

This is an immensely important 'cold case’ .. It’s only cold in the eyes of some who lost interest as the years went on since Gosch’s abduction in the early 80s..

I was amazed and happy to hear Schrader taking about the Franklin Credit Union cover up, the links to global high powered pedophile groups, and the fight that Noreen Gosch never gave up.

I have been an avid follower of this story for years.
If you’re just beginning, start by listening to the Podcast on iTunes of this Darkess Radio from last night, (7/26/16) and go from there.. Still existent on YouTube: Watch the Franklin Credit Union cover up documentary–something that was going to air in the 90s but at the last minute not permitted on American television.
And while you’re at it check out Noreen Gosch’s website .. Then decide for yourself and take any and all precautions to secure your family appropriately.

New hazard in Fukushima: Crippled nuclear plant crawling with Pokémon

New hazard in Fukushima: Crippled nuclear plant crawling with Pokémon:

Catch em all.

Artificial intelligence writes ‘perfect’ horror script, seeks crowdfunding

Artificial intelligence writes ‘perfect’ horror script, seeks crowdfunding:

If you thought the future of AI was still to come, brace yourself for this..

EW reports,

Impossible Things, an independent horror film project from Greenlight Essentials’ Jack Zhang, was reportedly produced (in part) by an augmented intelligence software tool which analyzes audience response data to help writers craft plot points that connect with viewer demand. The result is Impossible Things, a project billed by its creators as “the scariest and creepiest horror film out there.” The software co-wrote the film’s script.

AI also helped the filmmakers target a calculated demographic by packing a “specific” trailer with key scenes and developing “perfect” plot twists for Impossible Things’ plot, which tells the story of a grieving mother who, after the death of her young daughter, succumbs to a sever case of supernaturally-induced insanity.

….and really… could it be much worse than some of the rubbish written and produced by Hollywood today in the horror market?

ISIS 'to attack London NEXT' jihadi messaging service claims

ISIS 'to attack London NEXT' jihadi messaging service claims:

London is next on the list of target cities for twisted jihadis along with the US capitol Washington DC, it has been claimed.

Images threatening attacks in London and other major world capitals have been posted on jihadi messaging app Telegram, according to SITE Intelligence Group.

One picture chillingly shows New York’s Statue of Liberty engulfed in flames but with the caption “Washington soon” - referring to the US capital 225 miles away.

The threat comes as security at British churches is being ramped up amid a newterror alert after ISIS knifemen forced a French priest to kneel before slitting his throat on camera.

Julian Assange Says Hillary Clinton "Should Be Worried" About Next Wikileaks Release

Julian Assange Says Hillary Clinton "Should Be Worried" About Next Wikileaks Release:

HEATSTREET WRITES,

Julian Assange, Wikileaks’s founder, insists that they — and their candidate Hillary Clinton — have something very serious to worry about. In an exclusive interview with ITV, Assange insisted that he had more to drop on the Democratic nominee, including, possibly, information related to her private email server. The dump, Assange claims, will contain “enough evidence” to indict the former Secretary of State.

Assange: 'A lot more material' coming on US elections

Assange: 'A lot more material' coming on US elections:

Hillary may be making history tonight as the first female candidate to be nominated by a major party.. but THE ROCKING IS NOT OVER.. THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE IS NOT DONE BEING WARPED.. THE LATEST:

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said Tuesday his whistleblowing website might release “a lot more material” relevant to the US electoral campaign.

Assange was speaking in a CNN interview following the release of nearly 20,000 emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee by suspected Russian hackers.

However, Assange refused to confirm or deny a Russian origin for the mass email leak, saying Wikileaks tries to create ambiguity to protect all its sources.

You don’t know her as Youree Dell Harris, but you know her as...

You don’t know her as Youree Dell Harris, but you know her as Miss Cleo.. Today the world found out that the famed would be could be isn’t psychic from TV commercials died at the young age of 53..

She was famous in the 1990s with her “call me now” tagline.. I recall her as I grew up on late night TV… the wee hours of the night for me were filled with many things. And at many points, the background noise of my youth was this woman’s voice..

As the New York TIMES reports.

But her fame also led to questions about her past. In 2002, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer published an investigation that revealed she had a list of aliases and a longer list of former colleagues on the local theater scene who said they had been cheated out of money and questioned her Jamaican background.

“She had no Jamaican accent — she was born and raised in L.A.,” a former cast mate told the paper. (A copy of a birth certificate posted by BuzzFeed in 2013 showed that Ms. Harris was indeed born in Los Angeles on Aug. 12, 1962.) Information on her survivors was not immediately available.

In 2002, the Psychic Readers Network and Access Resource Services were the subject of a federal lawsuit that ordered the companies to forgive $500 million in customer fees. The networks agreed to stop selling their services over the phone, and, according to the Federal Trade Commission, the companies agreed to pay a $5 million fine.

And with that, the star that was Miss Cleo failed to shine bright at night.

What makes me sad is that she was not Miss Cleo. She was a human being. 

And today Harris died of cancer.

France hostage situation in Normandy sees priest, 86, killed by knifeman

France hostage situation in Normandy sees priest, 86, killed by knifeman :

Internet freaked over CCTV showing ‘ghost’ getting into taxi

Internet freaked over CCTV showing ‘ghost’ getting into taxi :

It is creepy..

At least 15 people were killed and dozens hurt in a knife attack at a facility for disabled people in Sagamihara, Japan, NHK reports, citing police.

This is disgusting

SUMMER HEAT..

SUMMER HEAT..

Protests break out on convention floor after anti-Trump effort fails

Protests break out on convention floor after anti-Trump effort fails

"To me, this is not so much about gun control as it is about what’s in men’s hearts...."

““To me, this is not so much about gun control as it is about what’s in men’s hearts. Until we come together as a nation, as a people, to heal as a people we will surely perish as a people””

-

East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff Sid Gautreaux

Dead Baton Rouge shooter attacked police on his birthday

Dead Baton Rouge shooter attacked police on his birthday :

MORE..

The suspect has been identified as a black male named Gavin Eugene Long of Kansas City, Missouri, sources tell CBS News. He was born on July 17, 1987.

One suspect was killed and two others might still be at large, Casey Rayborn Hicks, a spokeswoman for the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office, previously said. However, Louisiana state police said Sunday afternoon there is “no active shooter” in Baton Rouge.

Cops shot in Baton Rouge

CNN reporting:

man with a gun opened fire on police officers in Baton Rouge on Sunday, injuring at least seven – including three who are feared dead, an official said.
Police received a call of “suspicious person walking down Airline Highway with an assault rifle,” a source with knowledge of the investigation told CNN. When police arrived, the man opened fire.
The remaining officers are hospitalized in critical condition, the source said.
The victims were from Baton Rouge Police Department as well as East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office, another official said.

Fears today that events of this nature will continue..
Fears on the eve of the Republican convention in Cleveland..

Developing..