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to The Book Of THoTH
Newsletter for the week of August 31th to September 6th
Hello to everyone! To all of our new subscribers out there, welcome
to the book of THoTH Newsletter and to our Book of THoTH Google
group. Thanks for taking the time to subscribe and thanks for joining
our group. We're glad that you've joined our mailing list and hope
that you enjoy what we have to offer in its pages.
As of this newsletter, we've have had 20 new members to join us at BoT
since last week. To those who've joined, we say thanks for taking the
time to be a part of the greatest paranormal site on the web! Due to
this new addition of members, we now stand at 8,244 members strong. A
huge thanks to each and everyone of you for helping to make this site
what it has become! We couldn't do it without you.
This Week at BoT:
We have another BoT quiz on it's way. So far, it's scheduled for
September 19th at 11:00 pm GMT. For those who have participated, you
know what to expect. For those who haven't, these quizzes take place
in one of our chat rooms and are loads of fun! There will also be
some followup quizzes in October, November, and then around Christmas
time. Points will be accumulated for a grand prize to be awarded
after the last quiz. Prizes will also be given for the runners up and
there will even be a booby prize for the person who scores the
lowest.
For more information on this quiz, and for updates on it as quiz time
nears, don't miss THoTH's thread in the Announcements & Stickies
subforum in the Main News section.
http://www.book-of-thoth.com/ftopict-21568.html
Our last winner of the GoldStar award, WrinklyNinja, has carried on
tradition and passed the most prestigious award onto another most
deserving member. WrinklyNinja's choice for the golden award is none
other than Silversurfer. By Wrinkly's orders, Silversurfer has taken
this GoldStar for his posting of the Tech Tips and all of his other
efforts at helping the many members of BoT with their queries and
problems. In the words of THoTH himself, Silver is a "prime example
of intelligence, courtesy, respect and all the good things we're proud
of here at BoT". Way to go and congratulations, Silver! Many thanks
for all that you do! This place wouldn't be what it is without you.
In the BoT LabCoat Quiz, Juno54's question of "explain why some
peoples hair turns green-ish in summer (other than using hair products
that make it so)" is still standing. BubbaEarlIII is closest with the
answer, but hasn't answered it fully. So far, he's in the running for
winning the "trendy (but comfy)" LabCoat. If you think you can snatch
it away with the reasoning behind his answer, then head on over to the
"BoT LabCoat Quiz Part IX" thread in the Science section of our
forums.
http://www.book-of-thoth.com/ftopic-21115-90.html
This Week in the Forums:
We have had a new section added to our forums! In case you've missed
it, it's the Philosophy section. For a little more information on it
and on it's direction, please see THoTH's thread, "New Philosophy
Section".
http://www.book-of-thoth.com/ftopict-21583.html
The first thread in that section is also by THoTH and asks the big
question, "Intelligent Design?" To have a read over the various views
and to contribute your own, take a peek into our new Philosophy
section.
http://www.book-of-thoth.com/forum-64.html&sid=59c7e74af8bc85bb4d37af2cbf00cf12
An earlier thread of nigelelan53's has been bumped up with a new
report of body marks. What is the correlation between marks like
these and UFO sightings? To read more of nigelelan53's experiences,
along with those of others, be sure to catch "UFOs and Body Marks" in
the UFO section.
http://www.book-of-thoth.com/ftopict-20931.html
In the Science / Ask the Scientist section, crystalsage has a thread
that points out a possible correlation between quantity of carbon and
gravitational anomalies. Are are existing laws and theories on
Quantum Mechanics being tested? To read more and to contribute your
opinion, see "The Powerful New Law of Gravity".
http://www.book-of-thoth.com/ftopict-21444.html
Can depression be good for you? That's the subject of Lonecat's
thread in the General Board section, where he provides us with an
article that explains depression's possible roots in evolution. Is it
a mental adaptation rather than a malfunction? To find out more, see
"Can depression have good points?"
http://www.book-of-thoth.com/ftopict-21530.html
Lonecat also has a thread in the Announcements & Stickies forum in the
Main News section which informs us of a fantastic site that is devoted
to the scientific response of the various skeptics out there. Filled
with articles and videos by people who actually work in the field of
science, this is a site for every paranormal enthusiast to have
bookmarked. To read more and to comment, see "A website to counter
closed-mindedness".
http://www.book-of-thoth.com/ftopict-21585.html
Random Site Feature of the Week:
If you haven't visited The Leaves of Wisdom before, now's the time to
do so. The Leaves of Wisdom is a fantastic reference and information
resource that covers a wide range of paranormal and related topics.
There's everything in there from aliens to zombies. So for some great
reading (thanks to our wonderful Leaves of Wisdom Editors), head on
over to The Leaves of Wisdom and get lost in a world of wonder.
http://www.book-of-thoth.com/thebook/index.php/Main_Page
Strange Fact of the Week:
In Voodoo, Elegba (also known as Papa Legba) is the guardian of the
crossroads and entrances into the after world. After African slaves
arrived to the Americas, bringing their traditional religions with
them, many had to hide or disguise their religion for fear of being
punished by their Christian masters. In many cases, Elegba was
disguised as none other than his Christian equivalent, St. Peter.
Trivia Question of the Week:
Who coined the term Sasquatch, and when?
Answer to Last Weeks Trivia Question:
In 1967, two children were playing when they came across a spherical
shaped UFO sitting on the ground. They told investigators that they
saw "four devils" near it, then the figures levitated and entered the
craft, which took off with a soft, whistling sound. Where did this
happen at?
In Cussac, France.
This Week in History:
September 6, 1901: President William McKinley was shot by anarchist
Leon Czolgosz at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y. McKinley
died on September 14th.
September 6, 1941: Nazi Germany required all Jews over the age of
six to wear a yellow Star of David on their clothes.
September 7, 1822: Brazil declared its independence from Portugal.
September 7, 1986: Desmond Tutu became the first black to lead the
Anglican Church in southern Africa.
September 8, 1900: A hurricane struck Galveston, Texas, killing about
8,000 people.
September 8, 1966: Star Trek premiered on television.
September 9, 1776: The Second Continental Congress changed the name
of the nation to the United States of America, from the United
Colonies.
September 9, 1956: Elvis Presley appeared on television for the first
time on The Ed Sullivan Show.
September 10, 1813: Oliver H. Perry sent his famous message, "We have
met the enemy, and they are ours," after defeating the British in the
Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812.
September 10, 1963: Twenty black students entered public schools in
Birmingham, Mobile, and Tuskegee, Alabama, after President John F.
Kennedy sent National Guardsman to end the standoff with Alabama
Governor George Wallace.
September 11, 1962: The Beatles recorded their first single, Love Me
Do.
September 11, 1997: In Scotland, voters approved the establishment of
a parliament to run their domestic affairs, after 290 years of union
with England.
September 12, 1609: Henry Hudson began his exploration of the Hudson
River.
September 12, 1977: South African black civil rights leader Steven
Biko died while in police custody.
This Week's Birthdays:
John Dalton (September 6, 1766) - Dalton was an English chemist and
physicist who is best known for his advocacy of the atomic theory and
his research into color blindness (sometimes referred to as
Daltonism).
Grandma Moses (September 7, 1860) - Anna Mary Moses, better known as
Grandma Moses, was a well known and influential American folk artist.
Only beginning to paint in her seventies after abandoning embroidery
due to arthritis, she is often cited as an example of someone who
could have a successful art career starting at an advanced age.
Antonín Dvorák (September 8, 1841) - Dvorák was a Czech composer of
Romantic music. He used the idioms and melodies of his native
Bohemia's and Moravia folk music in symphonic, chamber, and operatic
works. The best known examples of this are the two sets of "Slavonic
Dances". His best known opera is "Rusalka".
Luigi Galvani (September 9, 1737) - Luigi Galvani was an Italian
physician and physicist who discovered that the muscles of dead frogs
twitched when struck by a spark. This was one of the first forays
into the study of bioelectricity, a field that stil today studies the
electrical patterns and signals of the nervous system.
Sir John Soane (September 10, 1753) - Sir John Soane was an English
architect who specialized in the Neo-Classical style. His works are
distinguished by their clean lines, simple form, decisive detailing,
exact proportions, and skillful use of light sources. His best known
work was the Bank of England, a building which had widespread effect
upon commercial architecture until its demolition in the 1920s.
O. Henry (September 11, 1862) - Born William Sydney Porter, O. Henry
is an American writer who's 400 short stories are known for their wit,
wordplay, characterization, and the clever use of surprise endings.
His best known writings are probably "The Gift of the Magi" and "The
Ransom of Red Chief".
Richard Jordan Gatling (September 12, 1818) - Dr. Richard Gatling was
an American inventor who is best known for his invention of the
Gatling gun, the first successful machine gun. His other inventions
included adaptations to improve on toilets, bicycles, steam-cleaners,
and pneumatic power.
Tech Tip of the Week:
Have you ever been surfing the net and clicked on a web page and that
web page opens up so large that it takes up your whole screen? If you
find this annoying, this week's tip will tell you how to fix it if you
are using Firefox as a browser.
First, open up your Firefox browser. Click on Tools and then click on
Options. Click on the Content tab. Across from where it says "Enable
Java Script", you'll see the "Advanced..." button. Click on this.
From the Advanced JavaScript Settings box, uncheck "Move or resize
existing windows". Click OK on all of the boxes and then you're good
to go.
Unsolved Question of the Week:
In San Antonio, Texas there is a spot near some railroad tracks that
has been reported for years to be haunted. Legend has it that a
school bus filled with children stalled on the tracks and was hit by
an oncoming train. It is the spirits of these children, according to
die-hard believers, that push cars uphill and over the tracks in order
to prevent another train-vehicle collision. But is the spot on the
road really uphill? And did a train really crash into a school bus
there? According to many who've researched the site, the answer to
both questions is "no". But why is this spot in the road still
wrapped in so much mystery? That's the subject of this week's
Unsolved Question.
To explain about the site more, it is a two lane paved road that
crosses over the railroad tracks on the outskirts of San Antonio. It
appears to be uphill, but when a car is parked a few yards in front of
the tracks and the transmission is put in neutral, the car will roll
over the tracks. This is explained away by some with the story of the
bus load of children who died after being hit by the train mentioned
earlier. This, according so some, is evident by the names of the
streets in the surrounding neighborhood, all named after children on
that doomed bus.
The children, some say, are also responsible for the fingerprints left
on people's trunks. A common trick to try when visiting the spot is
to put powder on the trunk of your car. When the car rolls over the
tracks, people will excitedly get out of their cars to see if any
fingerprints were left by the ghostly children.
Is any of this true? Not really. Many a researcher has looked for
information pertaining to a railroad accident at that crossing, but no
one has been able to find anything. However, there was a major fire
in San Antonio at one time that destroyed the newspaper office. It is
possible that records of this accident were destroyed, but the
newspaper offices wouldn't have been the only place to keep records.
Evidence has been looked for else where and nothing can be found
pertaining to a train hitting a bus at that spot.
Then what about the fingerprints of the children? When people
sprinkle their cars with powder, what they are doing is taking their
own fingerprint samples. Just like what happens when police
detectives dust for fingerprints, the powder sticks to the oils left
by hands and fingers. The excess powder then blows off while the car
is in motion, leaving perfectly visible fingerprints on the trunks of
cars.
If there's no train wreck and no ghosts, then what's making the cars
roll uphill? Nothing. Many studies have been done on the area and
the conclusion is that it's simply another of the many "gravity hills"
throughout the world, an optical illusion that makes it appear things
are rolling uphill when they are really on a downward slope.
But are we sure that there's no ghosts there? According to author and
ghost researcher, Docia Shultz Williams, a friend of hers told her of
a very strange experience while on a trail ride down the mysterious
road. On their way to town, they paused on the side of the road to
rest for a short while when one woman's horse, a normally calm and
laid-back animal, "nearly tore up the trailer trying to get out". She
said that some of the other riders also had trouble getting their
horses to go over the tracks. It turned out that none of the animals
passing through that day were calm in that area, and it was only after
they left the vicinity of the "haunted railroad tracks" that they
finally settled down. Horses, as many a horse owner will tell you,
are very sensitive and perceptive to locations of tragedy and death.
Was there ever any deaths or tragedies there? Actually there have
been. Sadly, several murder victims have been dumped in the general
area of the crossing. One of the latest ones was in 1995 where the
decomposed body of either a small woman or a young girl was found by a
man walking his dog. Several psychics also have told of getting "bad
vibes" when visiting the site.
We can pretty much conclude that there was no train wreck there and
that the fingerprints are not of ghostly children. We can also say
that the road is definitely not going uphill as it appears. The
street names? They're said to be named after the real estate
developer's children, not those who died in any bus accident. But are
the railroad tracks haunted? Quite possibly. Although who or what
by, for now, is left in the realm of the unknown.
Quote of the Week:
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of
the human mind to correlate all its contents."
- H. P. Lovecraft
That concludes this week's edition of the BoT newsletter. We hope
that you've enjoyed it, found it a nice change in your inbox, and are
looking forward to receiving the next one. As always, we should have
lots more waiting in store for you.
Until next time, keep your eyes to the skies and the door to your mind
unlocked. You never know who might drop by for a visit.
Hello to everyone! To all of our new subscribers out there, welcome
to the book of THoTH Newsletter and to our Book of THoTH Google
group. Thanks for taking the time to subscribe and thanks for joining
our group. We're glad that you've joined our mailing list and hope
that you enjoy what we have to offer in its pages.
As of this newsletter, we've have had 20 new members to join us at BoT
since last week. To those who've joined, we say thanks for taking the
time to be a part of the greatest paranormal site on the web! Due to
this new addition of members, we now stand at 8,244 members strong. A
huge thanks to each and everyone of you for helping to make this site
what it has become! We couldn't do it without you.
This Week at BoT:
We have another BoT quiz on it's way. So far, it's scheduled for
September 19th at 11:00 pm GMT. For those who have participated, you
know what to expect. For those who haven't, these quizzes take place
in one of our chat rooms and are loads of fun! There will also be
some followup quizzes in October, November, and then around Christmas
time. Points will be accumulated for a grand prize to be awarded
after the last quiz. Prizes will also be given for the runners up and
there will even be a booby prize for the person who scores the
lowest.
For more information on this quiz, and for updates on it as quiz time
nears, don't miss THoTH's thread in the Announcements & Stickies
subforum in the Main News section.
http://www.book-of-thoth.com/ftopict-21568.html
Our last winner of the GoldStar award, WrinklyNinja, has carried on
tradition and passed the most prestigious award onto another most
deserving member. WrinklyNinja's choice for the golden award is none
other than Silversurfer. By Wrinkly's orders, Silversurfer has taken
this GoldStar for his posting of the Tech Tips and all of his other
efforts at helping the many members of BoT with their queries and
problems. In the words of THoTH himself, Silver is a "prime example
of intelligence, courtesy, respect and all the good things we're proud
of here at BoT". Way to go and congratulations, Silver! Many thanks
for all that you do! This place wouldn't be what it is without you.
In the BoT LabCoat Quiz, Juno54's question of "explain why some
peoples hair turns green-ish in summer (other than using hair products
that make it so)" is still standing. BubbaEarlIII is closest with the
answer, but hasn't answered it fully. So far, he's in the running for
winning the "trendy (but comfy)" LabCoat. If you think you can snatch
it away with the reasoning behind his answer, then head on over to the
"BoT LabCoat Quiz Part IX" thread in the Science section of our
forums.
http://www.book-of-thoth.com/ftopic-21115-90.html
This Week in the Forums:
We have had a new section added to our forums! In case you've missed
it, it's the Philosophy section. For a little more information on it
and on it's direction, please see THoTH's thread, "New Philosophy
Section".
http://www.book-of-thoth.com/ftopict-21583.html
The first thread in that section is also by THoTH and asks the big
question, "Intelligent Design?" To have a read over the various views
and to contribute your own, take a peek into our new Philosophy
section.
http://www.book-of-thoth.com/forum-64.html&sid=59c7e74af8bc85bb4d37af2cbf00cf12
An earlier thread of nigelelan53's has been bumped up with a new
report of body marks. What is the correlation between marks like
these and UFO sightings? To read more of nigelelan53's experiences,
along with those of others, be sure to catch "UFOs and Body Marks" in
the UFO section.
http://www.book-of-thoth.com/ftopict-20931.html
In the Science / Ask the Scientist section, crystalsage has a thread
that points out a possible correlation between quantity of carbon and
gravitational anomalies. Are are existing laws and theories on
Quantum Mechanics being tested? To read more and to contribute your
opinion, see "The Powerful New Law of Gravity".
http://www.book-of-thoth.com/ftopict-21444.html
Can depression be good for you? That's the subject of Lonecat's
thread in the General Board section, where he provides us with an
article that explains depression's possible roots in evolution. Is it
a mental adaptation rather than a malfunction? To find out more, see
"Can depression have good points?"
http://www.book-of-thoth.com/ftopict-21530.html
Lonecat also has a thread in the Announcements & Stickies forum in the
Main News section which informs us of a fantastic site that is devoted
to the scientific response of the various skeptics out there. Filled
with articles and videos by people who actually work in the field of
science, this is a site for every paranormal enthusiast to have
bookmarked. To read more and to comment, see "A website to counter
closed-mindedness".
http://www.book-of-thoth.com/ftopict-21585.html
Random Site Feature of the Week:
If you haven't visited The Leaves of Wisdom before, now's the time to
do so. The Leaves of Wisdom is a fantastic reference and information
resource that covers a wide range of paranormal and related topics.
There's everything in there from aliens to zombies. So for some great
reading (thanks to our wonderful Leaves of Wisdom Editors), head on
over to The Leaves of Wisdom and get lost in a world of wonder.
http://www.book-of-thoth.com/thebook/index.php/Main_Page
Strange Fact of the Week:
In Voodoo, Elegba (also known as Papa Legba) is the guardian of the
crossroads and entrances into the after world. After African slaves
arrived to the Americas, bringing their traditional religions with
them, many had to hide or disguise their religion for fear of being
punished by their Christian masters. In many cases, Elegba was
disguised as none other than his Christian equivalent, St. Peter.
Trivia Question of the Week:
Who coined the term Sasquatch, and when?
Answer to Last Weeks Trivia Question:
In 1967, two children were playing when they came across a spherical
shaped UFO sitting on the ground. They told investigators that they
saw "four devils" near it, then the figures levitated and entered the
craft, which took off with a soft, whistling sound. Where did this
happen at?
In Cussac, France.
This Week in History:
September 6, 1901: President William McKinley was shot by anarchist
Leon Czolgosz at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y. McKinley
died on September 14th.
September 6, 1941: Nazi Germany required all Jews over the age of
six to wear a yellow Star of David on their clothes.
September 7, 1822: Brazil declared its independence from Portugal.
September 7, 1986: Desmond Tutu became the first black to lead the
Anglican Church in southern Africa.
September 8, 1900: A hurricane struck Galveston, Texas, killing about
8,000 people.
September 8, 1966: Star Trek premiered on television.
September 9, 1776: The Second Continental Congress changed the name
of the nation to the United States of America, from the United
Colonies.
September 9, 1956: Elvis Presley appeared on television for the first
time on The Ed Sullivan Show.
September 10, 1813: Oliver H. Perry sent his famous message, "We have
met the enemy, and they are ours," after defeating the British in the
Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812.
September 10, 1963: Twenty black students entered public schools in
Birmingham, Mobile, and Tuskegee, Alabama, after President John F.
Kennedy sent National Guardsman to end the standoff with Alabama
Governor George Wallace.
September 11, 1962: The Beatles recorded their first single, Love Me
Do.
September 11, 1997: In Scotland, voters approved the establishment of
a parliament to run their domestic affairs, after 290 years of union
with England.
September 12, 1609: Henry Hudson began his exploration of the Hudson
River.
September 12, 1977: South African black civil rights leader Steven
Biko died while in police custody.
This Week's Birthdays:
John Dalton (September 6, 1766) - Dalton was an English chemist and
physicist who is best known for his advocacy of the atomic theory and
his research into color blindness (sometimes referred to as
Daltonism).
Grandma Moses (September 7, 1860) - Anna Mary Moses, better known as
Grandma Moses, was a well known and influential American folk artist.
Only beginning to paint in her seventies after abandoning embroidery
due to arthritis, she is often cited as an example of someone who
could have a successful art career starting at an advanced age.
Antonín Dvorák (September 8, 1841) - Dvorák was a Czech composer of
Romantic music. He used the idioms and melodies of his native
Bohemia's and Moravia folk music in symphonic, chamber, and operatic
works. The best known examples of this are the two sets of "Slavonic
Dances". His best known opera is "Rusalka".
Luigi Galvani (September 9, 1737) - Luigi Galvani was an Italian
physician and physicist who discovered that the muscles of dead frogs
twitched when struck by a spark. This was one of the first forays
into the study of bioelectricity, a field that stil today studies the
electrical patterns and signals of the nervous system.
Sir John Soane (September 10, 1753) - Sir John Soane was an English
architect who specialized in the Neo-Classical style. His works are
distinguished by their clean lines, simple form, decisive detailing,
exact proportions, and skillful use of light sources. His best known
work was the Bank of England, a building which had widespread effect
upon commercial architecture until its demolition in the 1920s.
O. Henry (September 11, 1862) - Born William Sydney Porter, O. Henry
is an American writer who's 400 short stories are known for their wit,
wordplay, characterization, and the clever use of surprise endings.
His best known writings are probably "The Gift of the Magi" and "The
Ransom of Red Chief".
Richard Jordan Gatling (September 12, 1818) - Dr. Richard Gatling was
an American inventor who is best known for his invention of the
Gatling gun, the first successful machine gun. His other inventions
included adaptations to improve on toilets, bicycles, steam-cleaners,
and pneumatic power.
Tech Tip of the Week:
Have you ever been surfing the net and clicked on a web page and that
web page opens up so large that it takes up your whole screen? If you
find this annoying, this week's tip will tell you how to fix it if you
are using Firefox as a browser.
First, open up your Firefox browser. Click on Tools and then click on
Options. Click on the Content tab. Across from where it says "Enable
Java Script", you'll see the "Advanced..." button. Click on this.
From the Advanced JavaScript Settings box, uncheck "Move or resize
existing windows". Click OK on all of the boxes and then you're good
to go.
Unsolved Question of the Week:
In San Antonio, Texas there is a spot near some railroad tracks that
has been reported for years to be haunted. Legend has it that a
school bus filled with children stalled on the tracks and was hit by
an oncoming train. It is the spirits of these children, according to
die-hard believers, that push cars uphill and over the tracks in order
to prevent another train-vehicle collision. But is the spot on the
road really uphill? And did a train really crash into a school bus
there? According to many who've researched the site, the answer to
both questions is "no". But why is this spot in the road still
wrapped in so much mystery? That's the subject of this week's
Unsolved Question.
To explain about the site more, it is a two lane paved road that
crosses over the railroad tracks on the outskirts of San Antonio. It
appears to be uphill, but when a car is parked a few yards in front of
the tracks and the transmission is put in neutral, the car will roll
over the tracks. This is explained away by some with the story of the
bus load of children who died after being hit by the train mentioned
earlier. This, according so some, is evident by the names of the
streets in the surrounding neighborhood, all named after children on
that doomed bus.
The children, some say, are also responsible for the fingerprints left
on people's trunks. A common trick to try when visiting the spot is
to put powder on the trunk of your car. When the car rolls over the
tracks, people will excitedly get out of their cars to see if any
fingerprints were left by the ghostly children.
Is any of this true? Not really. Many a researcher has looked for
information pertaining to a railroad accident at that crossing, but no
one has been able to find anything. However, there was a major fire
in San Antonio at one time that destroyed the newspaper office. It is
possible that records of this accident were destroyed, but the
newspaper offices wouldn't have been the only place to keep records.
Evidence has been looked for else where and nothing can be found
pertaining to a train hitting a bus at that spot.
Then what about the fingerprints of the children? When people
sprinkle their cars with powder, what they are doing is taking their
own fingerprint samples. Just like what happens when police
detectives dust for fingerprints, the powder sticks to the oils left
by hands and fingers. The excess powder then blows off while the car
is in motion, leaving perfectly visible fingerprints on the trunks of
cars.
If there's no train wreck and no ghosts, then what's making the cars
roll uphill? Nothing. Many studies have been done on the area and
the conclusion is that it's simply another of the many "gravity hills"
throughout the world, an optical illusion that makes it appear things
are rolling uphill when they are really on a downward slope.
But are we sure that there's no ghosts there? According to author and
ghost researcher, Docia Shultz Williams, a friend of hers told her of
a very strange experience while on a trail ride down the mysterious
road. On their way to town, they paused on the side of the road to
rest for a short while when one woman's horse, a normally calm and
laid-back animal, "nearly tore up the trailer trying to get out". She
said that some of the other riders also had trouble getting their
horses to go over the tracks. It turned out that none of the animals
passing through that day were calm in that area, and it was only after
they left the vicinity of the "haunted railroad tracks" that they
finally settled down. Horses, as many a horse owner will tell you,
are very sensitive and perceptive to locations of tragedy and death.
Was there ever any deaths or tragedies there? Actually there have
been. Sadly, several murder victims have been dumped in the general
area of the crossing. One of the latest ones was in 1995 where the
decomposed body of either a small woman or a young girl was found by a
man walking his dog. Several psychics also have told of getting "bad
vibes" when visiting the site.
We can pretty much conclude that there was no train wreck there and
that the fingerprints are not of ghostly children. We can also say
that the road is definitely not going uphill as it appears. The
street names? They're said to be named after the real estate
developer's children, not those who died in any bus accident. But are
the railroad tracks haunted? Quite possibly. Although who or what
by, for now, is left in the realm of the unknown.
Quote of the Week:
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of
the human mind to correlate all its contents."
- H. P. Lovecraft
That concludes this week's edition of the BoT newsletter. We hope
that you've enjoyed it, found it a nice change in your inbox, and are
looking forward to receiving the next one. As always, we should have
lots more waiting in store for you.
Until next time, keep your eyes to the skies and the door to your mind
unlocked. You never know who might drop by for a visit.
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