LET THE "GOOD TIMES ROLL"..........WELL.....IF YOU'RE BRAVE ENOUGH!!!!!

Kings Island Amusement Park

I ran across this picture on Google and it caught my attention!  Two of my favorite things.....amusement parks and cemeteries!  So here's the story behind this super cool photo!!!!

Tons and tons of visitors every year come to the best amusement park in Ohio, Kings Island.  The trills and excitement of the rides.....the dips, the lift from your seat as you ride The Beast, the smell of cotton candy, the tilt-a-whirls slinging you from side to side and all you can think is....."I want to do it again"!!!!  Well, guess what?????  You are NOT the only one that finds the amusement park.....amusing!!!  If you look closely, you may just catch a glimpse of a ghostly young girl skipping through the Kings Island parking lot.

Often described as having blond hair and wearing a blue dress, she is apparently quite playful.  Some witnesses report that the little girl likes to play hide-and-seek among the cars, and park tram drivers claim she frequently darts out in front of the tram in a bizarre game of "chicken".  The girl's identity and her reasons for haunting Kings Island have long been debated, but most agree that her ghost originates from a local attraction you won't find  listed on any park map!

Next to the parking lot exit gates sits a cemetery in full view of all the visitors to the park.  Although, the visitors may never even notice that "they" are being watched, the residents of the cemetery seem to be happy watching the excitement from afar.  Well, that is......except for one little girl!!!  

Over the years, the cemetery  has been known by many different names, including the United Methodist Cemetery and the Dog Street Cemetery.  For a long time, it was simply referred to as the Dill Cemetery or the Hoff Farm Cemetery to reflect the names of the various landowners.  In the late 1800's, the King Powder Company opened for business, and although it ceased operation in the 1940's, the King family continued to own the land until large portions of it were purchased to create Kings Island Amusement Park in 1972.  Almost all of the existing buildings on the property were demolished to make way for the park's rides.  The cemetery, however, was allowed to stay.  Well, that's a good thing right?

Today the cemetery sits quietly behind a wooden fence at the far end of the Kings Island parking lot.  Since it is only about twelve feet from the pavement, a popular urban legend state that the girl in the blue dress ghost arrived on the scene when her grave was inadvertently paved over.  Another theory arises from the baffling disappearance of numerous gravestones over the years.  In the 1980's an unofficial count of the cemetery stones revealed that there were approximately sixty-nice stones within it confines, but in 2005, only fifty-two remained.  In the paranormal field it is believed by many that disturbing a final resting place of individuals often results in a haunting as the spirit searches to make its grave "whole" again.  Maybe this is why the little girl is seen....or maybe...just maybe.....she likes roller coasters!!! to!! 

DOWN IN THE DEEP DARK WOODS TWO SPIRITS AT PLAY??? WHAT DO YOU SEE??

ANDERSON HOTEL SHUTS DOWN INVESTIGATIONS AFTER CRAZINESS

THE HAUNTED ROOMS OF THE ANCIENT RAM INN-OVER 900 YEARS OLD-THIS PLACE SOUNDS INSANE!!! TERRIFIED BY ALL THAT STAY HERE!

Thought this sounds super scary!!!!  Lets go!!!!!!!!!!

ST.VALENTINE'S DAY MASSACRE IN CHICAGO 1929-ARE THE BRICKS FROM THE GARAGE OF THE MASSACRE HAUNTED BY SOMETHING EVIL???

Keeping in the spirit of Valentine's Day, I thought I would write about the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago.  

LOCATION:

Street Address of the site of the 1929 Massacre:

2212 North Clark Street
Chicago, Illinois

On February 14th, 1929 the S-M-C Cartage Company, a red brick building and garage stood at this North Clark Street address, on the North side of Chicago. The garage was also used as a warehouse for illegal, black market liquor for the North side Bugs Moran gang, a mob of thugs who were in direct competition with Al Capone's gang in selling illicit bootleg booze to a very thirsty Chicago population during the Prohibition years.

HISTORY OF THIS LOCATION:

After the bloody killing of 7 of the Moran gang, the garage became an unofficial memorial, and the brick wall where the 7 were executed was riddled with machine gun bullets. It became a popular tourist attraction for a time.

Twenty years later, In 1949, the front half of the garage was converted into an antique furniture storage business by people new to Chicago and didn't know what had happened there. Unfortunately more tourists than customers came and they eventually gave up and moved on. In 1967, the old building was torn down, but the infamous wall of bricks was saved and used in another night club, built into a wall of the men's rest room. Other bricks were smuggled out by workmen tearing down the building.

A fenced off lawn, which belongs to a nearby nursing home, was put in where the garage once stood, with 5 trees planted on site. The tree in the middle of the lawn marks the place where the infamous brick wall once stood.

Chicago policemen re-enact the St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1929)	St. Valentine's Day Massacre

HISTORY OF AL CAPONE

Al Capone, Chicago's most powerful, ruthless gangster in the 1920s era, was really a Brooklyn transplant who migrated to Chicago with his best buddy and future cohort in Chicago crime, Johnny Torrio who was originally hired by his Chicago mobster uncle, Big Jim Collisimo. Johnny Torrio and Al Capone made ambitious plans to take over the black market booze market, but not by fair market competition. (They missed taking economics in school because they dropped out at the 6th grade).

After knocking off Uncle Big Jim Collisimo, Al and Johnny waged a bloody war against other mobs in Chicago, resulting in 500 deaths by the time Capone was through in 1930. When Johnny was nearly killed in 1925, he retired, leaving a 30 million dollar empire in the capable hands of Al Capone at the age of 26! Al Capone had 1000 gunmen, half the police department on his payroll, as well as local politicians, state attorneys, and law makers. So whenever he had to conduct business, many just looked the other way; that is until he crossed the line on February, 14th, 1929 with the St. Valentines Day Massacre.

While Capone was far away enjoying life in Florida, he put this job in the capable, murderous hands of "Machine Gun" McGurn, who was given complete control of the hit. He planned it but stayed away from the event himself, with an air-tight alibi. "Talented out of towners" were recruited for this hit; Fred "Killer" Burke, James Ray, John Scalise and Albert Anselmi, Joseph Lolordo and Harry and Phil Keywell from Detroit's Purple Gang.

DESCRIPTION OF INCIDENT

On the morning of February 14, 1929, a group of Bugs Moran's gangsters were waiting in this garage, for a truck full of stolen liquor from Detroit to arrive. Johnny May, Frank and Pete Gusenburg, Bugs Moran's brother-in-law, James Clark, Adam Heyer, Al Weinshank and a gangster wanna-be, optometrist Reinhardt Schwimmer, who learned too late that it was dangerous hanging with men on the wrong side of the law.

As they waited, a police car pulled up outside. (Uh oh, this wasn't good!) Five men, three dressed as policemen exited and walked into the garage with machine guns ready. All seven men were lined up against the brick wall and shot many times from the machine guns. While Capon's gunmen wiped out the Northern Chicago gang, they missed Bugs Moran, who was late to the party. Bugs Moran later accused Al Capone of this vicious hit. Though there wasn't any evidence to directly link Al Capone to this event, people believed Bugs.

MANIFESTATIONS:

The location of this brutal mass killing has been haunted for years, the bricks are said to bring bad luck, and Al Capone himself saw his reign come to an end and was haunted by an entity until he died in Florida.

1) The location of this brutal mass killing has been haunted for years

a) Unusual light and mists have been reported.

b) Male voices are heard when no one else is around.

c) Sounds of screaming men and machine-gun fire are still heard by the living passing by this place

d) Sensitive people who stand in front of the fenced lawn, or walk by it, develop a sense of real fear and so do animals.

2) The bricks are said to bring bad luck.

a) The theory is that the bricks soaked in all this powerful negative energy from the killings. Legend has it that after the nightclub outlived its purpose, the bricks were taken out and sold individually for 1000 dollars each. But many of the bricks that were sold were given back because the new owners suffered a rash of bad luck, so the story goes.

b) Others say that the bricks were never sold individually but were kept together in a packed box, numbered, with a diagram as to how to put the wall back together, with the hopes that a single buyer would buy the whole wall of bricks. It never sold; not yet anyway.

3) Capone himself got his just desserts. Unfortunately for Al Capone, consequences resulted as a result of this planned massacre, carried out by hired gunmen.

a) People were repulsed with this bloody mass killing, and a lot of political pressure resulted in nailing Capone for tax evasion, landing him in prison, sentenced to 11 years of hard time, winding up on the rock, Alcatraz. Though he only stayed in until 1939, he didn't always have both oars in the water, which forced him into retirement.

b) The entity of Moran's brother-in-law, James Clark immediately started to haunt Capone who was living in his Florida house at the time of the massacres. He tried to send the entity to the other side via a medium in 1931, but it didn't work. After Capone, broken in spirit and mind, returned to Florida after being released from prison, the entity reappeared and haunted Al until he died.

c) Al Capone was buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery. It is said that he sometimes appears to the disrespectful visitors who come to visit his family's plot.

The video below is one we took in the creepest stairway of the Congress Hotel in Chicago where Al Capone is said to have lived part time and stayed.  You really have to look hard to this stairway we were in below!   The bricks inside were burned and it was obviously a place where not many people go!  Very old and very dark!  

YOU DON'T NEED FANTASY LIGHTS AND EXPENSIVE GADGETS TO FIND GHOSTS!!! TRY THESE FIRST

I don't know about you....but for me......sometimes all the FANCY LIGHTS  and all the ON AND OFF SWITCHES make ghost hunting a nightmare!!!(How did you like that play on words.HAHA)  If you can figure out all the buttons they are awesome to have but sometimes you just want something simple. Turn it on and leave it...Right?  Well, guess what??? I am going to tell you about two tools you can use that DO NOT have switches on them and the BEST PART.....NO BATTERIES!!!   YEP!!! You read that right!!!! And are they reliable?  They have been used for centuries and today are still considered to be very accurate and a MUST in most ghost hunters equipment bags.

What are they you ask??? Welllllll.................. A pair of Dowsing Rods and a Pendulum.  I work as a HR Manager in my day job for a utility company and our guys use a set of Dowsing Rods to locate water.  No.....silly they are not looking for ghosts!  Dowsing Rods have been used for YEARS to locate water sources.  Even with all the modern day equipment the BEST way to find water for us is to use dowsing rods.  They are natural and accurate in locating water.  No one really knows HOW they work....just that they do!!!!  The same may be true for ghost, although they are primarily used for communication.  Instead of pointing to where a ghost may be, dowsing rods are used to get simple "yes" or "no" answers from a spirit.  Dowsing rods are "L" shaped and usually made of copper.  The idea is to hold the rods loosely in your hand allowing them to move freely.  Holding the shorter end with your fingers wrapped around start asking your questions and using directives like cross for "yes" or uncross for "no".  Now, dowsing rods have even been used in police investigations to locate bodies or even a weapon of some sort.  You can ask them to "point in the direction" to find a location or even a BODY!!!!!!!!!

The same is true for pendulums.  I know people that never go ANYWHERE without their pendulum.  I being one of those people  SSSHHHH don't tell anyone.......but I carry one in my purse.  Spirits can use anything to talk with us and there just might be something scientific about the movement they cause in the pendulum.  Most are made from some rock or crystal that may have a special conductivity, which spirits can manipulate.  The pendulums or stones are placed on the end of a small chain.  Try concentrating on a need to talk or clearing of the mind.  Begin by asking questions and telling the spirit to show you what the "yes" and "no" responses will look like.  Maybe for "yes" it will go in a circle and for "no" it will glide back and forth more in a straight line. 

I myself LOVE BOTH OF THESE TOOLS and have had GREAT success with them.  It may take you a little while to get the feel of it....but just concentrate and relax and your answers will come. 

Now, here's the best part!  You can get a small set of dowsing rods for around $10 and more decorative ones up to $50.  And pendulums, you can get this little jewel starting at under $5!!!!  You can pick these up just about anywhere but Amazon and Ebay along with your ghost hunter stores make owning these simple but VERY USEFUL tools a breeze!  

Now, I'm not trying to get a plug here.....but here if it helps so be it......I make custom dowsing rods and sell them on Amazon only.  They sell for $19.99 and come with communication letters.  Here is a link if you would like to check them out.  There are several styles and colors to chose from.

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=custom+dowsing+rods

Also, here is an old video of my daughter for the first time using dowsing rods.  What makes this video so impressive(besides you had to be there) was the wind was blowing sooooo HARD.....and the rods were turning INTO  the direction of the wind to answer questions for us!!!  I just don't know how they did it!!!!  You will also notice my daughter's face of disbelief as they begin to move.  This was her FIRST TIME and she didn't believe me that we could use them to communicate with spirits.  GUESS I SHOWED HER!!!!!!!!  haha

DOES LOVE MEAN LOVE ON THE "OTHER SIDE"????

Well, as I sat down to write this weeks post I wanted to write about Love.  You know....that's because it's February and just about everything this month is about LOVE.  So I wanted to pick a story about two people madly in love and were they still in love on the "other side"....... hhhuuummm Well, in the process......I realized....Wait.......There is so much more to LOVE....not just two people but many things.

Love can be:

• Two people in love
• Love between a pet and his owner
• Love for a location...your favorite fishing spot, hotel, theater, restaurant
• Love for an object....a child's favorite doll, your favorite pair of shoes
• Love for a best friend

And the list goes on and on.  Does love go with us when we die?  I think it does.  More on that in a minute.  So, I want to tell you about an experience I had today with strangers where I saw nothing but LOVE!!!

I needed break at lunch today....one of those days that you don't want fast food for lunch, you've had enough Wendy's, McDonald and Chick-fil-a.  Ok.....let's be REAL.....you can NEVER have to much Chick-fil-a!!!!!!   Ok......back to my story.  Anyway, I just wanted to go somewhere and sit down, relax, have a big glass of sweet tea and just have a little down time alone.  Have you had that kind of a day????  Well I decided on Cracker Barrel (they have GREAT SWEET TEA).  As I walked in the hostess sat me down facing two ladies.  Well, you know how awkward that is....your trying not to look at them and they are trying not to look at you. :)  I ordered and my food and it can out literally in 5 minutes!!!!  I didn't even have time to check FB or anything!!!!!!!!!  As I began to eat I couldn't help but keep glancing up at the two ladies that sat in the table in front me.  One lady was in a wheel chair and guessing in her late 70's maybe early 80's and the other which I am guessing was her daughter in her mid 40's or 50's.

Well, this wasn't the BEST week for me, I dropped my IPhone and lost all my contacts and passwords that I kept in My Notes on my phone.  Called Apple and they basically "so sad...to bad".  LOL  There's nothing you can do!  It's just gone....:(   So, if your reading this and you are one of the people texting me about strange things happening or just in general PLEASE TEXT ME AGAIN and give me your name so I can resave your number. Or anyone else for that matter.  People are always texting me and now I can't get back in touch with them.  Sorry off subject again.....

As I sat there, these ladies were having so much fun, laughing and giggling.  Both had smiles on their faces the size of TEXAS!!!!!!!😀 They were taking "selfies" and I wanted to get up and ask them if I could take a picture for them, but before I could the waitress came over and said "would you like me to take your picture together"?  And the daughter said "WE WOULD LOVE YOU FOR TO TAKE A PICTURE OF US"!!!  So the waitress gave them back the phone with the picture on it and for the next five minutes they laughed and talked about the picture of themselves.  Now, I just COULDN'T HELP IT....... I just smiled and kept my head down but all I could think about was how much fun these two ladies were having!!!!  They weren't thinking about all the BAD things going on in the world today.  It really did make me feel WARM inside and I could NOT have enjoyed my lunch any more than sitting across from these two ladies!!!!

The older lady in the wheel chair asked for a to-go box and the other lady(I assume the daughter) got up to go pay leaving the older lady alone packing up the left overs.  I called the waitress over and whispered "could you please pack up two pieces of delicious chocolate cake for those two ladies and make sure it gets in their to-go bag and put it on my bill.  Don't tell them who it's from...just tell them....."FUN is always FUNNER(I know that's not really a word but it worked) with Chocolate."  I was just thinking when they get home and later are eating their left-overs how nice it will be for them to have a GREAT BIG SLICE of chocolate cake for dessert as they laugh and cut-up.

The waitress did just what I asked her and the ladies where very surprised and thankful.  I just kept my head down.....grinning, :)  You know I thought what I was watching was two ladies having a really fun and nice lunch together BUT NOW I KNOW what I saw was.......LOVE!!!!!!!  Love between a mother and daughter.  And I was suppose to write about it today.  Thank you ladies, for making my day.

Now, what does that have to do with tonight's topic.....well, I absolutely DO believe that what human love you feel here on earth goes with us to the "other side".  Ok.....I know you want a "little" paranormal stuff added in all this LOVE BUSINESS......So, here ya go.....a tragic LOVE story between two people and have been seen many times TOGETHER in a home in Jamaica.  June and Johnny Cash where married in 1986 after meeting 12 years earlier. June and Johnny had a tremendous love for one another but that didn't mean their life together was going to be a bed of roses.....it was anything BUT!!!!!   Despite Johnny's spiraling, drug fueled, sometimes out of control behavior, they remained married until June's death-due to complications from a heart procedure in May 2003.  The Man in Black followed his beloved June less than four moths later, with many saying he died of a broken heart. They are now seen holding hands in a home that they owned together in Jamaica. Do I think when June died she lost the love she had for Johnny?  Of course not!!!  Even though there are no human emotions in Heaven only pure love, I believe that our loved ones that was once here on earth STILL love us in Heaven.  What do you think???  This is a subject I could talk about all night but I won't... :)

Ok...very quick...if you listened to Bridging the Paranormal last night on KCORRADIO.com with the world renowned author and speaker on ghosts, and all things haunted....I said I would post pictures from an experience I had at one of his conferences.  Just scroll down about three topics and you will see a RE-POST on McPike Mansion.  Let me know what you think about the pictures. :)