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Paranormal Polka: these boots were made for haunting.
Barek Halfhand:
Barek Halfhand:
Barek Halfhand:
--- Quote ---Greetings all :)..
I'm going to jump in without protracted preamble and issue the simple statement that I am a sensitive, I am well aware of the mechanics of pariodelia, matrixing apophenia and pixelation ...
my methodology is simple ... as a sensitive I attempt to match visually what sense at the sites that I cover in Chicago land ...several are well known such as Bachelor's Grove, Resurrection (Mary) Cemetery's, Queen of Heaven ( an apparition site formally investigated by the Chicago Archdiocese in the mid 90's) and several others...
I do like replies but urge you to be a little patient with me as I am somewhat eccentric, but please don't dismiss my photos at cursory glance as there always ends up being a few from each site that are of interest...
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Unseasonably mild weather and a seasonably light schedule promoted me to return to Mt Carmel to resume my search for Al Capone's grave and knowing that is is simply a nondescript in-ground marker and the lack of precise coordinates on the web hasn't helped much...
I again found myself distraught over the ordinate seeming amount of child graves from the early 1900's that research has revealed is attributed to the introduction of toxins and carcinogens as a result of the industrial age in Chicago...
--- Quote ---After his release, Capone retired from the public view to his mansion in Miami Beach. It was said that he spent the next eight years wavering between lucidity and psychosis. Some believe that it may have been the ghost who actually drove Capone to insanity. Those who scoff would say that Capone's early senility had produced the so-called phantom, but Capone actually spoke of it years before.
While Capone had once killed off most of his enemies, he could not get rid of one of the spirits. It was the ghost of James Clark, the brother-in-law of Bugs Moran and a St. Valentine's Day Massacre victim, who Capone claimed hounded him from 1929 to his grave. There were many times when Capone's employees would hear him begging for the ghost to leave him in peace... and this was in his lucid pre-Alcatraz days. On several occasions, his bodyguards broke into his rooms, fearing that someone had gotten to Capone, only to have their boss tell them of Clark's ghost.
Could Capone have created this ghost out of guilt for his many misdeeds? Possibly, but for a man who had been responsible for the deaths of more than 500 people... why create only one ghost?
And again, for those who believe the ghost was created out of Capone's madness.... why did he contact a psychic named Alice Britt to get rid of the ghost.... in 1931, years before the ravages of the disease would effect his mind?
Many believe the ghost of James Clark followed Capone to his grave. The ex-crime boss of Chicago died on January 25, 1947 of bronchial pneumonia and a brain hemorrhage in Florida. He was returned to Chicago and buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Later, he was moved in secret to Mt. Carmel Cemetery, where he remains today.
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source and full article
http://www.prairieghosts.com/capone.html
this video doesn't help but it's funny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRopK_1jUwM
funnier yet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR4ls_w2QhU&feature=related
Here are the unedited (compressed) photos from today's visit to Mount Carmel 2-10 09 (107 total)
http://s541.photobucket.com/albums/gg397/MrHalfhand/Mount%20Carmel%204/
Barek Halfhand:
Barek Halfhand:
http://i541.photobucket.com/albums/gg397/MrHalfhand/Mount%20Carmel%204/100_1496.jpg
halfhandshuffle:ramones-pinhead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BBfybCPkjA
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