tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-268928172024-03-07T04:02:37.581-05:00Elf Killing And Other HobbiesThere's no Elf quite as poignant as a dead one.Celina Summershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08581883122727085849noreply@blogger.comBlogger531125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26892817.post-10995172174350683102020-05-28T22:12:00.001-04:002020-05-28T22:12:25.963-04:00Paranormal Parasites Episode One--Exorcists and Exorcisms, Part One<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="The centuries-old practice of exorcism is on the rise. 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<div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">“We had always been raised not to question authority figures. He’s a priest — what he said is holy writ,” Joaquin Oviedo, a retired high school teacher, said. “We never imagined he was a phony.” </span>Problem was...Mena wasn't a priest. In fact, he was an imposter. Not only did he abscond with tens of thousands of dollars (and that's only what they know about) but weddings had to be re-officiated by legitimate priests, as did baptisms, christenings, and other sacraments. But lost in all the legal</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> mumbo-jumbo, there's a </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">more intim</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">ate, painful, human cost. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Mena's not the only such imposter. More fake priests are defrocked every year. In 2018, for example, a man named <a href="https://www.straitstimes.com/world/americas/fake-colombian-priest-unmasked-after-18-years" target="_blank">Miguel Angel Ibarra was exposed right before Christmas after eighteen years of posing as a Catholic priest.</a> The Colombian native was caught at the parish he'd been preaching at in Medina Sidonia, Spain after investigation proved he'd falsified his ordination paperwork. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Religion is a huge part of the human experience. Roughly a decade ago, the Pew Research Survey counted well over two billion Christians on this planet, and is now nearing two and a half billion worshipers. In recent years, there's been a huge rise in reports of dark or demonic hauntings. The Catholic Church was overwhelmed with requests for exorcisms, becoming so inundated that they were caught off-guard. This led to the establishment of a Course on Exorcism and Prayersof Liberation at the Pontifical University of Regina Apostolorum within the Holy See.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">What's that, you ask? It's literally exorcist school. Right now, the Vatican is working to place an exorcist into every diocese in the world, including here in the US. In fact, the exorcism course is a non-denominational class, where prospective exorcists from any religion can study the most dangerous form of spiritual warfare possible. If that doesn't convince you of the urgency the Holy See is approaching the rising threat caused to humanity by the diabolical, nothing will. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">And this is where the paranormal and spiritual worlds collide in a very pragmatic and potentially lethal way. Although only about a third of America's nearly 200 dioceses have official exorcists who've been trained by a Catholic church, there are innumerable exorcists who claim to conduct spiritual warfare against demons outside of Catholicism. While some of these exorcists are sincerely going toe to toe with demonic entities, some are not. If the subject of a demonic attack gets hooked up with a fake exorcist, his situation can go from worse to worst. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Yes, I used worse/worst instead of bad/worse deliberately. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">So how do you tell the difference between a real exorcist and a fake one? Well, it requires someone that most victims of demonic attacks are running a little short on. Meticulous attention to detail. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Let's clear something up at the onset. Do you have to get a Catholic priest to help you if you're under demonic attack? Once upon a time--and a surprisingly recent time, too--the clergy of protestant denominations would tell people who'd come to them for help that only a Catholic priest could exorcise a demon. Even then, though, the Catholic church wasn't exactly <i>happy</i> to help someone out. Especially after the release of William Peter Blatty's 1971 novel <i>The Exorcist</i> and the subsequent film two years later, exorcism suddenly came 'into fashion'. The tag line 'based upon a true story' titillated audiences, and the idea that demonic possession was actually real permeated pop culture almost overnight--something that rarely happened in an age before the internet. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">In an interview I conducted with top US Exorcist Father Gary Thomas (San Jose, CA diocese) in 2017, the <i>Exorcist</i> craze caught the church off-guard because Catholicism itself was in a state of flux. There was a growing sense among the Catholic clergy that Satan and demons were allegorical--basically literary devices created to personify evil and give it a form of sentience. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">But that's not necessarily the case. While sure, there's a definite trend towards tulpas (a belief so powerful that it essentially creates what the person/people believe in) as a possible explanation for the growing number of demonic cases in the US, there's still a significant number of exorcisms conducted in the world--not only by the Catholic Church but by ministers and priests of a wide number of religions. So no, you don't necessarily have to have a Catholic priest exorcise you or your family or your home. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">But you need to do your due diligence. Make certain the clergyman you talk to is a practicing minister of a legitimate religion. Many scam artists operate under the umbrella of the "old Catholic Church" or the "Order of Exorcists" or "The Sacred Order of St, Michael the Archangel". Some purported exorcists claim to be able to train you to become one as well--for a nominal fee. The fact of the matter is that in my opinion, you need to go first to the minister of your own church and ask him or her for guidance. And before you let anyone drag you into a spiritual struggle with the demonic, you have to be--NEED to be--vetted medically and psychologically. That's a condition the Catholic Church has imposed in order for an exorcism to take place, and believe me: that's something you want to make absolutely certain happens. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">The easiest way to find out if an exorcist isn't what he or she purports to be is to run the street address provided on their webpage through Google maps. If the street level view is of a strip mall (with a UPS Store or Mailboxes storefront in particular) or an apartment block, I wouldn't trust my health, safety, and spirituality to that alleged exorcist. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">You could ignore me, naturally. I wouldn't recommend it. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Stay tuned, folks. There are about to be a lot of new entries in the coming weeks. I'm researching my new books on the paranormal, Demonic Synchronicity (about common occurrences in pre-internet demonic hauntings) and The Bell Entity (why "Bell Witch" is an inhuman entity perpetrating one of the longest and most violent hauntings in America). I'll be investigating several sites just as soon as the quarantines lift, and I'll post my findings here. If nothing else, it should be a rip-roarin' spooky time. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">But even that pales in comparison to what could happen to anyone who falls into the clutches of the paranormal parasites. Next up in this series? Textbook cases of exorcisms gone bad and why they did. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">The Annaliese Michel case, and why that's not the only horror story out there.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span></div>
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On the surface, nothing seems to have drastically changed. The spring is settling in. Leaves are fleshing out the trees. Crocuses, daffodils, and forsythia are blooming in my yard. When I stepped outside a few minutes ago in the earliest hours of a new day--March 30th, 2020--I could smell all the scents of an early Ohio spring, driven up the cliff this road winds along the edge of by the soft howl of winds still lingering from the storms that crashed overhead all last night and early today.<br />
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But now? Now we're dancing to a horrible new tune and we don't know the steps.<br />
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We all had ample time to prepare for this, frankly. Years. All the bug-out people we laughed at a few months ago aren't worried about finding toilet paper <i>somewhere</i> tomorrow. Most of the rest of us are. I'm not because I'm married to the kind of man who's just built for crisis management. Sent him out for milk and he came back with twenty rolls of toilet paper, sixteen rolls of paper towels, and six boxes of tissues. Sent him out the next day for bread and he shows up with ten pounds of ground beef, five pounds of chicken, and a huge pork roast. My husband is a handy guy to have around. I'm lucky in that respect. </div>
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But there's no guarantee matters will remain this way. Now that the quarantine--yes, I'm calling "social distancing" what it really is at its core--has been extended for a full month I find myself wondering how things will transpire after Pandemic Day Twenty...or Thirty...or Seventy-five. </div>
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I'm no different from anyone else these days. I read the increasingly grim news, watch the briefings, lose my temper with idiots disseminating misinformation online, and then go back over all the news I've just tried to absorb in the hopes that I've missed something...that somehow, things are getting better and they're back on track. </div>
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Then I have to force myself to realize that no, things aren't getting better at all. </div>
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Three days ago, America had 1000+ deaths from COVID-19. Yesterday, that total had doubled. Tragically, that exponential growth is only too easy to calculate, and if I told you "you do the math", you'd be able to do that math easily and in your head. Math, never my favorite subject of learning, is even more loathsome now than it's ever been.<br />
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Facts and figures combine, dancing in front of my eyes like a mural on a medieval ossuaries like a violently spinning <i>danse macabre</i> and no one gets to sit this dance out. We're all dancing to a tune hummed by a virus and composed by microorganisms so tiny but oh so easily capable of felling the strongest humans it pirouettes around...then into...then through until finally the melody fades and man meets his mortality.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">St. Nicholas Cathedral-Tallinn, Estonia <br />
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During the Middle Ages in Europe, the <i>Danse Macabre</i> was an allegorical reference to the inevitability of Death in times of plague or epidemic. In some of Europe's oldest extant cemeteries, the <i>Danse Macabre</i> was portrayed by artists as a bacchanalia shared by mortals and the Grim Reaper, where they danced wildly, drank freely, and had orgies--a last hurrah before everyone's dance ended.<br />
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Math, music, melody, macabre, mortality.<br />
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A pandemic with a soundtrack.<br />
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A way to tell Death to go fuck himself or to bring you a new bottle of wine. </div>
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You probably recognized the music, but not many people would recognize this as the <i>Danse Macabre, </i>composed by Camille Saint-Saens in 1874. The images are all depictions of the <i>Danse Macabre </i>from medieval Europe. In a harsh day to day life and faced with the horrors of smallpox or the bubonic plague, people looked to what they assumed would be their last few days as a time to sample all of life's pleasures if they could. That's what the <i>Danse Macabre</i> is all about really. I mean--if you're going to have black boils rise on your body with a high fever and terrible pain and you know those boils are going to literally explode, spraying contagious black pus all over everything then who cares if the old guy next door sees your boobs? In a world where "medicine" consisted of drinking nasty potions that were usually poisonous or getting your veins laid open with a rusty knife to allow the "evil humors" to leave your body, your survival rate wasn't all that great. So they celebrated the fun stuff in anticipation of the fatal stuff.<i> </i><br />
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But for us, things are different. Instead of partying like it's 1999 with all our friends while we wait to die, the world of medicine is totally different. Clean. Sterile, Fighting off the contagion while relieving the symptoms. We don't have a kegger and invite Death to come on in and do body shots of tequila. No, our <i>Danse Macabre</i> is much different.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Dance of Death,<br />
Polish painting circa 1670</td></tr>
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Politics.<br />
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Look--the plague isn't partisan. Coronavirus will kill liberals, conservatives, communists, socialists, monarchists, moderates, and dictators without bias or prejudice. This isn't a Red State/Blue State issue or problem. Look around you right now--is there any political base untouched by this pandemic? No. So if you're too evolved, too educated to get a blindfolded group sex party together to combat "social distancing" with an allegorical medieval character toting a scythe, then you don't need to get your information about the pandemic from a politician/elected official/minister/waste management/Geek Squad/Reddit/old dude down the street/Twitter/Facebook/partridge in a pear tree/Grim Reaper/blogger.<br />
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You need to listen to the DOCTORS. Because right now? Medical researchers and physicians are the only ones who are providing information regarding the virus dispassionately and accurately. If you don't, you might as well invite the Devil to pick you up at five because what the politicians are feeding us as "facts" is actually all spin-doctored propaganda, devised with an eye toward the upcoming election. The doctors don't give a damn about their TV ratings or how much interaction their Tweets are getting. What they care about is advising the public on how best to avoid infection and that's primarily the information we all need.<br />
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See, the end result of the <i>Danse Macabre</i> has always been the same. Once the music ends, the dance is over for all the dancers. They leave their mortal shells behind for the death details to pick up and they follow the Grim Reaper into Death. And if you get your "facts" from a politician, that's the outcome you're risking.<br />
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So yes, our world doesn't seem to have changed much on the surface of things. But we all know--whether we admit it or not--that everything is totally different now than it was a month ago. We're facing a legitimate crisis that supersedes any global threat of my lifetime. It doesn't matter when this pandemic is finally brought to a close because COVID-19 is going to leave behind a world that's lost its innocent belief that our society is too advanced and tech-savvy to fall prey to a microbe.<br />
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Hopefully, we'll all end up wiser when this is over. One of the best ways to ensure that happens is to decline the temptation to twirl in the arms of Death during our ultra-modern<i> Danse Macabre. </i>Politicians aren't going to solve this pandemic. They're as qualified to cure you as those medieval "physicians" with their rusty, bloodstained knives and their possets made of stones from a goat's stomach crushed with ivory and mixed with donkey bile.<br />
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Whatever you do, sit out the <i>Danse Macabre</i>. For all our sakes.</div>
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Celina Summershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08581883122727085849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26892817.post-85595645132216362352020-03-23T07:50:00.000-04:002020-03-23T07:50:00.501-04:00The Real Pandemic Hidden Behind The Coronavirus Is Not What You ThinkI think we've all wondered at times if the world could survive a crisis. <script src="https://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
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For those of us who were kids in the 1970s and 80s, the catalyst of disaster was nuclear weapons. I'll never forget the day that I finally figured out that "duck and cover" wouldn't do anything but give us something to do right before we died. I was ten. </div>
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Then, of course, terrorism became the boogeyman. Not so much in small town or small city USA, which is where I've lived most of my life but in big cities. Washington. Los Angeles. </div>
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The past decade or so the agent of dystopian fear has been more imaginary. The Walking Dead, aka the zombie apocalypse. Yeah, not too scary for me. I write horror for fun. </div>
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But now? Now we're looking at an antagonist that shouldn't have ever existed--a pandemic that so far cannot be halted with modern medicine. The fears of a pandemic have been an on-again, off-again nightmare for the past twenty years. Pretty much started for me when those f**king idiots were sending around anthrax in the wake of 9/11. Whether it was ebola or SARS, there was always something lurking around the corner that fizzled out before it impacted too many people in Europe and the US.<br />
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Until now.<br />
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I don't have words of wisdom for you that will explain all this. I don't have the medical training to discuss anything more than the most minor factoids that the CDC and common sense would dictate. That being said, however--<br />
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Politics is something I <i>can</i> write about.<br />
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Here's the situation in a nutshell. The past 12-15 years, the American government has been stagnated by party politics. No, I don't give a damn about either party. When you get right down to it, the Democrats are just as bad as the Republicans who are just as bad as the Democrats. I'd love to stack some more party names into that statement, but the fact of the matter is that we have no other viable parties. Corruption, back room deals, big industry and pharmaceuticals, special interest groups, PACs and SuperPACs, religious organizations, and lobbyists--that's who really controls the American government. Not the voters.<br />
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Not us.<br />
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Never has this been more apparent than now, during a global pandemic, when the US government couldn't get its shit together long enough to cross the aisle and come up with solutions to the crises now facing us. Yeah, I know. You've heard me snarling about the two-party system for years. But now it's no longer just a personal dislike. The COVID-19 virus has got me spooked and I'm not afraid to say it. And in the meantime, while you and me and billions of other people worldwide are staring down the barrel of the pandemic shotgun the United States government can't even agree on what's necessary to supply aid to its citizens who already are having to deal with supply shortages on food and other necessities, loss of pay for folks who live paycheck to paycheck or who are tipped employees, and a medical system that's already overwhelmed at the front end of this outbreak. With models of the outbreak leaning toward the peak infection rate in the US not coming until July, take a good look around you.<br />
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We're living in a REM song.<br />
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<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-many-americans-are-sick-lost-february/608521/" target="_blank">An article from The Atlantic over the weekend </a>by Alexis Madrigal and Robinson Meyer traced the nightmarish incompetence of the federal government to give the medical and research sectors the ability to assertively track, diagnose, and treat the coronavirus. Their article also gave viral expert and research scientist Trevor Bedford a platform to share some truly alarming facts.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />If there is one thing about the novel coronavirus that you must understand, it’s that it is a firecracker with a long fuse. Here is what the explosion looks like: Every six days, the number of people infected by the disease doubles, according to estimates from Bedford and other epidemiologists. At the start of February, Bedford now believes, the United States had something like 430 infections; if American interventions have done nothing to slow the disease’s spread, then his simple calculations show that more than 120,000 people could be infected by this weekend. Because of the great uncertainty, it’s probably most appropriate to give Bedford’s range: About 60,000 to 245,000 people are now infected with COVID-19 in the United States.</span></blockquote>
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So if the current models are correct and Americans won't see the virus peak until July, we're looking at four and a half months of dealing with the ramifications of the coronavirus. Think about it: life without schools, churches, and for most Americans their jobs and/or income. Sheltering at home turns into an elongated vigil, and when you do have to run out to the store or the bank then you face three weeks when every little cough or sneeze feels significant. And if you catch coronavirus, you face quarantine for weeks by a medical community that's woefully understaffed and undersupplied.<br />
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There is no one person to blame. The blame can be spread around evenly between Democrats and Republicans, the House of Representatives and the Senate, the CDC and state and local health monitoring facilities. The CDC didn't confirm community transmission of COVID-19 until February 26 even though there were already at least sixty known cases in the US.<br />
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And the White House. Oh yes, plenty of blame to be slathered onto the Oval Office where the President of the United States first mocked the virus and delayed federal response to the eruption of the medical and financial impacts of COVID-19 through January, February, and over half of March before Trump assembled his too-little too-late task force. And no, that's not partisan. That's a fact. Just a few examples:<br />
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<a href="https://factba.se/transcript/donald-trump-speech-kag-rally-manchester-new-hampshire-february-10-2020" target="_blank">At a February 10 campaign rally in Manchester, New Hampshire</a>: "And by the way, the virus, they're working hard. Looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away."<br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="seq53" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box !important; color: #303030; font-family: "Univers LT 45", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><br /></a>
<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-conference/" target="_blank">In a February 26 briefing at the White House: </a><span style="background-color: white; color: #293340; font-family: "source sans pro" , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , "segoe ui" , "roboto" , "oxygen" , "ubuntu" , "cantarell" , "fira sans" , "droid sans" , "helvetica neue" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">The infection seems to have gone down over the last two days. As opposed to getting larger, it’s actually gotten smaller. In one instance where we think we can be — it’s somewhat reliable, it seems to have gotten quite a bit smaller.</span><br />
<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-meeting-african-american-leaders/" target="_blank"><br /></a>
<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-meeting-african-american-leaders/" target="_blank">In a February 27 meeting with African-American leaders</a>: "<span style="background-color: white; color: #293340; font-family: "source sans pro" , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , "segoe ui" , "roboto" , "oxygen" , "ubuntu" , "cantarell" , "fira sans" , "droid sans" , "helvetica neue" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">It’s going to disappear. One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear. And from our shores, we — you know, it could get worse before it gets better. It could maybe go away. We’ll see what happens. Nobody really knows."</span><br />
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And all sorts of other examples, which <a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/11/fact-check-a-list-of-28-ways-trump-and-his-team-have-been-dishonest-about-the-coronavirus/" target="_blank">you can find for yourself in this cross-referenced article on the Mercury News.</a><br />
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But, it's not just the Trump administration who are guilty of screwing the biggest and most infectious pooch the US has faced since the 1917-18's Spanish flu epidemic.Both sides of the aisle have been tinkering with federal legislation to alleviate the disaster-in-the-making coronavirus, ticky-tacking so that pet projects can also benefit from emergency legislation. And just last night, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/22/us/politics/coronavirus-economic-rescue-plan.html" target="_blank">the Democrats killed an Emergency Economic Relief legislation in the Senate</a>--$1.8 trillion dollars of legislation desperately needed to help Americans financially and shore up the US stock market.<br />
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You know--maybe there were valid reasons for voting that aid package down. Maybe there were inherent flaws or oblique advantages for the big-pharmaceutical corporations that support Trump and other Republicans. But in the end, that doesn't matter to most Americans. What does matter right now is feeding their kids or finding things like meat, milk, fresh vegetables, and paper products in the grocery store. And as we stare into the face of what's looking dangerously more like another depression instead of a recession, Americans don't give a damn about someone getting a bridge package in Timbuktu approved. All they care about is getting the help they need, and it's glaringly obvious that nothing is more important to the politicians in Washington than scoring off their opponents no matter what they toss aside in the process.<br />
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So yes, Americans. Your government has failed you yet again, only this time we're not talking about some stupid impeachment trial. We're talking about decisions being made, legislation being killed, delusions being reported as fact. We're talking about a legislature that doesn't seem to care how many people are sick or dying because all they really care about is winning their reelection campaigns. We're talking about a President of the United States who's now glorifying himself as the hero of the pandemic by keeping COVID-19 when just in the past month he's mocked the virus, downplayed its importance, stalled a federal response that might have saved lives, and turned the pandemic into a polarizing morass of conflicting information so heinous that his own team has to step forward and correct or refute what Trump said just moments before.<br />
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We're talking about the real pandemic in this country: a two-party political system that should be held responsible for the spread of the virus in America and every single death that occurs because the patient was not diagnosed early enough or the hospitals and physicians don't have the equipment they need to help.<br />
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The real pandemic here? The escalating inadequacy of the federal government to effect positive change on behalf of its citizens. That's the real diagnosis of this disaster. The federal government is nothing more than a roiling, diseased collection of Typhoid Marys infecting the American way of life. And even when there is a vaccine for coronavirus (and we're realistically looking at 1-2 years before there's any sort of preventative or cure for COVID-19) the self-injected infection of the federal government will still remain and the citizens of this country are the physicians who are baffled about how to halt the spread of the disease.<br />
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Physician, heal thyself. Eliminate the real disease that's centralized in DC. Kick them ALL out and start over because this catastrophe could have been avoided with just one politician willing to take a stand on behalf of all the rest of us. We were failed by the people we elected to represent our basic existence in this nation.<br />
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So yes, physician, heal thyself and remember that there is a cure for the real pandemic here. It's called "Election Day".<br />
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Celina Summershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08581883122727085849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26892817.post-14247716424296191052019-12-28T20:00:00.000-05:002019-12-28T20:00:00.222-05:00Preview--House of Wills: It Feels Evil<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW242509716 BCX0" style="background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;">
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Wills the first day that the Travel Channel's show, It Feels Evil, was shot.
But there was literally no way to suspect that the investigation would take the
turn it did. Present initially as a writer, not an investigator, I was quickly
sucked in with the rest of the team as we tried to decipher just what in the
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When the team pulls into the parking lot of the
House of Wills in Cleveland, Ohio the wind howls around us while rain
slashes against the crumbling building. Perfect conditions for a landmark
paranormal investigation. The team heads into the building for its first
look at the location, and there’s a definite sense of unease pulsing around all
of them. Although it’s still daylight, the interior of the building is
dark. The central chapel would be pitch black and silent if it wasn’t
for the thunderstorm pounding outside and the chamber open to the
sky. But despite the wind that is shrieking through the narrow corridors
and winding staircases, the air is heavy…humid…and smells of decay, death, and
rot. I always thought something about the building was disconcerting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Sitting inside it, I now see why. </span><span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The House of Wills has a
definite sense of purpose. A will of its own, if you’ll pardon the pun. The
atmosphere is watchful and definitely sports a malevolent edge. There’s
no way to escape the isolation of this ravaged beauty on a June
afternoon that feels more like March, but it’s only <i>inside </i>the
building that one gets the sense that something’s not quite right. <span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The House of Wills is cold,
cold, cold and its atmosphere presses in upon you like the grave. <span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Through the gaping windows
on the second-floor gallery, the sky looks orange and the tree
branches are whipping from side to side. The chapel has gone from repressive to malevolent. The
House of Wills is nothing like it was in its heyday. Once it was a Turnverein,
a German social club that promoted the ideals of Eugenics—a theory
which would become the foundation of Hitler's genocide in WWII—in the twilight
of the nineteenth century. Then, in a staggering reversal of purpose, the
building served as a Jewish school in the dawn of the twentieth century.
Most famously it was a funeral home that was one of the largest
African-American-owned businesses in the US for over three decades. This
ruined building went, within the space of fifty years, from a building whose
owners espoused beliefs that led to the Holocaust but then became a power structure
at the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">How would such an volte-face
affect a building? Is that conflict at the heart of the alleged haunting here? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Current owner, artist Eric Freeman,
is high priest of a religion he co-founded with the grandson of Anton
LeVey. LeVey took Aleister Crowley’s Thelemic cult and his writings
on magick and turned them into a religion (and profitable business
venture) in the San Francisco of the 1960’s. Freeman uses the
former House of Wills not only as his curated art gallery, but also for
religious purposes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There’s never been a place
more perfectly suited to be haunted, but that’s not what brings the team to
Cleveland. The House of Wills was designed to channel, store, and conduct
energy. The building, which is on the National Register of Historic
Places, was built by renowned area architect Frederic Striebinger, a thirty-second degree
Mason, in 1900. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">That energy is what we're
chasing.<span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This chapel was once a consecrated
site, where thousands of families attended the Christian last rites
of loved ones. But since the death of J. Walter Wills in 1971, the
building’s been desecrated, first by the family who owned it, then by the
gangs and drug dealers who took it over when it was abandoned. Now, the
building would be almost unrecognizable to the people who once loved it. <span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Something inimical and
cautious lurks among these relics of Egyptian grandeur—fake relics,
of course. A reproduction sarcophagus shares the space with a
massive carved head of Baphomet, the horned god of Satanic worship, and
the crumbling plaster of art deco glory. This old building still possesses
dignity in her aged splendor, but has been cannibalized by her own
children and desecrated by her own community. You can tell that desecration has
been dark for it is never daytime in this place. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the House of Wills, it is
always night. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On the former chapel's
stage, an ornate casket sits upon a bier, flanked by two massive
red-upholstered chairs that look like thrones. In front of one throne,
ritual candles await their time to burn. The uses the building is put to
are painfully obvious. The House of Wills is decaying faster than its
owner can repair it. For all practical purposes, there’s nowhere in the
world better suited to the task the team has been set: researching what we're
beginning to believe may be a demonic attachment. <span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have to wonder if it's
wise to expect <i>this</i> team, several of whom have been battling
against their own demons for years, to attempt contact with any diabolical
agency. The House of Wills, therefore, is both a battleground and a
research facility, but hopefully will lead us all down a path that
hopefully will lead to greater knowledge. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Is it worth the risk? I'm
not sure.<span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have to be honest: this is
one of the few places that has ever creeped me out instantly. I'm as sensitive
as a brick so I'm used to everyone else around me being able to sense there's
something about a site that just isn't right. Other folks have the instincts
that lead them to paranormal activity. Tim Wood, our lead investigator, is one
of the best guys I've ever seen when it comes to that. I tend to get dragged
into paranormal synchronicities (like what happened when we were conducting the
Zozo experiment) or I piss something off and get slapped upside the back of my
head (like numerous trips to the haunted fields and cave involved in the Bell
Witch haunting). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But in this moment, right
after I first set foot into the House of Wills, I'm overwhelmed by the cold
certainty that this is not a place to be trifled with. <span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Aside from the general
decrepitude of the building, it's pouring rain outside. And inside. That's
rendered almost every square foot of floor into a slick, threatening expanse to
navigate. Despite the fact that it's summer, the interior of this building is
freezing. I'm usually the person who walks into an alleged haunted site without
concern, automatically looking for anything that could debunk evidence
previously caught by other teams or witness accounts. At the House of Wills,
that's not possible. <span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Not just because it's
spooky. This place plays to a lifetime of horror movie tropes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But <i>something</i> in
this building feels like it's aware, and it knew we were coming. The House of
Wills is anticipating...something. Or someone.<span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Naturally, that sends me
straight into "blame Tim" mode.<span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Always has to be Tim's
fault, right? I mean <i>my</i> research is rarely targeted by some
supernatural entity...unless Tim's involved. Then all kinds of crazy stuff
happens. But this trip is different. The crazy stuff started before I started
the car to drive up here. I'm starting to think whatever is gloating at me in
the House of Wills sent me a direct warning at home yesterday...the day before
I left for Cleveland: <span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Be careful. I'm watching
you. </i>No one involved in the shoot
knows what I'm about to relate<span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span>except the executive
producer and Tim.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Yesterday, I was packing for
the trip in my office, so my suitcase was open on the bed. I was talking on the
phone when all of a sudden, a section of the ceiling collapsed. Flooring,
drywall, insulation, and God knows what else fell all over me and my
nearly-completed packing. <span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ever have to dig insulation
out of a suitcase? I don't recommend it. Not fun. <span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Aside from a sizable lump on
my head, the way the whole incident went down was baffling. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Evidently something heavy in
the attic had fallen between the floor joists onto the drywall, bringing a full
three-foot section down in the middle of my office. Missed my bookcases,
thankfully. I would have been hugely pissed if my books had been screwed up. In
fact, the majority of the material that fell went smack dab into the middle of
my suitcase. <span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Except for one chunk of
drywall. That smashed me in the head.<span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here's the kicker:
everything was dry. Not wet. As for whatever had caused the collapse, there
wasn't a sign. It was almost like someone had stepped between the joists and
stepped directly on the drywall. The incident made no sense in the normal,
mundane everyday would we all inhabit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But shivering in the dark chapel
of the House of Wills, that "accident" makes perfect sense after the
fact. The irony of trading one collapsed ceiling for another is too pointed to
miss.<span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I was being warned by
something that maybe this little jaunt to Cleveland wasn't such a great idea.
Me being me, I shrugged it off and came up anyway like I'd been double dog
dared by Flick on the playground. Nothing like a challenge, right? <span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But as I sit here, with the
storm lashing the building and the day waning into nighttime, I have to wonder
if accepting the challenge was the smart thing to do. I have a good idea what
might be lying in wait for us now that I've taken my first steps into this
site. A familiar miasma, hovering over everything. The difficulties the film
crew are having to combat. The mood of the investigators. The sense that
something is just not right. <span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I've felt this supernatural
aura before. This is the first haunted location I've ever walked into and immediately
had to evaluate my judgment as a result. I have no idea what's about to happen,
but I have the feeling that it's going to be bad. <span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Really bad.<span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Author's note: By the end
of that episode shoot, it was apparent that this time we had all miscalculated
what the effects of putting this investigative team into that location would
be. </i><span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Disastrous. </i><span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>You can check out what
happened at the House of Wills tonight at 11 pm EST, 8 pm PST in It Feels Evil
on the Travel Channel. Basically, it's a master class on 'why you shouldn't
ignore your guts when investigating'...for all of us. </i><span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Additional note: As I was
preparing to schedule this post for release, the same section of the same
room's ceiling just collapsed. Again. Apparently, I've pissed something
off. </i><span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Again.</i><span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i>Author's note: This document continues our investigation into paranormal research, and was submitted to the producers of It Feels Evil as a comparison piece for/against the website currently maintained by the owner and on her website prior to the investigation. Sorry it's a little late--holidays and all that.</i><br />
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A few things to remember when looking at this website—many paranormal groups (including Ghost Adventures) have taken that website as gospel and reproduced it word for word. Never accept a “history” on a website as fact. Also, if there are paranormal instances cited throughout a history article, up to and including the names of alleged spirits and even what they say/do, that usually means someone doesn’t want you looking at the real history for whatever reason and want to distract you with a “look at what our ghosts do!!!” moment. But if the history is wrong, chances are that one or more of the alleged spirits is either what a psychic claimed to have sensed or imagination, providing a false validation of what’s really going on. So let’s take a look at what the o want us to think and what we know:<br />
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Website--From before 5000 B.C. to around 1000 A.D the area was the site of Native American encampments. Artifacts from this time can still be found here. Archeologists (sic) have provided evidence showing that Native Americans once lived in the area where the house currently sits. There have also been signs of a sweat lodge where Native Americans performed rituals. An ancient Indian burial ground is thought to be under the house.<br />
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Fact—okay anything from 5000 BC to 1000 AD isn’t Native American. It’s prehistoric. We’re talking about predating the Incan and Mayan peoples, and the dates cited cover both the archaic and the late Prehistoric period. HOWEVER, the period after 1000 AD is and should be the points of reference here. There’s no record of archaeologists (correct spelling) ever documenting evidence that proves Native Americans lived on/near the land where the house sits. There’s certainly not any record I can find of a dig conducted there. There’s no record of a sweat lodge. There’s no record of an Indian burial ground either, and if there WAS one under the house we should be able to record that by getting into the crawl space. (If there’s no crawl space, then there’s no way whatsoever that anyone knows what’s under the house for the simple reason that no one can get there.) All that being said, the area around San Antonio was occupied relatively continuously by indigenous people until the 18th and 19th centuries, when the Native American tribes were continuously forced west by the encroachment of European settlers and it would be odd if they hadn’t camped near a water source, especially during the summer when these tribes migrating for hunting.<br />
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According to the <a href="https://www.sanantonio.gov/Mission-Trails/Prehistory-History/History-of-San-Antonio/Native-American-Occupation" target="_blank">San Antonio Office of Historical Preservation</a>, there were hundreds of Native American tribes in central Texas during the historic period from 1700 AD on, but these tribes are the worst documented in the historical and archaeological records.<br />
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Website: On September 18, 1842 General Adrian Woll, Sam Houston and his men massacred more than 60 Mexican soldiers during the bloody Battle of Salado. Their bodies were left to rot where they fell. Only one Texan lost his life, Steven Jett, during the battle.<br />
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Fact: That the battle took place there is apparently close to the truth, but General Adrien Woll was the French-Mexican general of the Mexican troops, while the Texans were led by Colonel Matthew Caldwell of the Texas Rangers. Woll commanded over 1600 Mexican and Cherokee troops against Caldwell’s militia of right around 200. There’s no mention of Sam Houston being anywhere close to this battle, since in 1842 he was serving his second non-consecutive term as President of Texas and was in, appropriately enough, Houston. Caldwell’s militia defeated Woll, who retreated back to Mexico, leaving his 60 dead behind. And yes—only one Texan lost his life and was interred properly while the Mexicans were left to rot.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx4TXoBoG4QhfA0Pq1bx8t6jmniiVKQNKHQvFOhmqeN5-CPoR0wJEtlT_vp4Z5rEgsW4o-Zq5rSfZ2mSM92j7VUzf54CSImyMJMPRfjZdzGd5uftrQM6nEB-t_vaD5jip7B1Nq/s1600/Salado_creek.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="927" data-original-width="686" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx4TXoBoG4QhfA0Pq1bx8t6jmniiVKQNKHQvFOhmqeN5-CPoR0wJEtlT_vp4Z5rEgsW4o-Zq5rSfZ2mSM92j7VUzf54CSImyMJMPRfjZdzGd5uftrQM6nEB-t_vaD5jip7B1Nq/s320/Salado_creek.gif" width="236" /></a>Website: The Prescott House was built on the property after the civil war.<br />
Sebastian L Rippstein (2/4/1824 - 7/14/1896), born in Switzerland, and his wife, Hemrieke "Betsy" Ackermann Rippstien (6/1/1834 - 9/15/1911), born in Germany, settled the land in 1867. The San Antonio Conservation Society shows that they built a stone house barn and milking barn on the property. Their children were Gustav Juilan (1851-1920), Henriettta Rippstein Seay (1854-1932), Bertha "Betty" Dorthea Rippstein Schaefer (1858-1920), Ida Rippstein Benfer (1870-1951), and Albert Rippstein (1874-1941).<br />
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Fact: You can see on this map the layout of the battle. About a third of the way down, you see the dark square that represents the Prescott house on top of a hill overlooking the river. What I find interesting about this is that there’s no mention of the Prescotts ever owning that property. (more on this confusion later) The first structures built on the property were built in 1867 by the Rippstein family, German immigrants who started a dairy business. The barn and dairy barn are purported to have been built by them. But the house that’s there now is NOT the house of the Rippsteins as best I can tell and definitely isn’t the Prescotts’ house either.<br />
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Now in this next shot, you can get a glimpse of the Black Swan Inn with the huge barns behind it, a cemetery in front of it, and across what appears to be a major road is Salado Creek. The historical marker for the Battle of Salado Creek is just outside and to the west of the gates to the BSI on Holbrook Road, which is the thoroughfare between the BSI and the Salado River…<br />
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Wait a second. I have to wonder where in the heck is the Salado River on BSI’s side of the river? Because of the claims of a natural spring on the property, you’d logically think they’d be on/near the river. Also, topographically, it’s obvious that the battle itself was fought with the Texan militia blocking the Mexican army’s advance from positions tight up against the river and behind the Prescott house which is right about where the road is today.<br />
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But that’s not all. As you can see, the big barns are behind the BSI, but on the map of the battle the barns the website claimed were part of the Prescott property are not there. There’s one outbuilding shown on the property, and it’s tight up against the big house. So the barns currently on the BSI property can’t have anything to do with the Prescotts, and were probably built in/after 1867 when the Rippsteins bought the property.<br />
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There’s a reason for that (and subsequently a reason that the big house wasn’t built until 1901-02). Many European farmers built two story barns with the animals on the ground floor and the people on an upper floor. They do that in Europe for the extra heat the animals give off. Obviously in Texas, this would suck profusely 7 months of the year. My guess is the “stone house barn” referenced on the website is what the owner’s talking about. That means the Rippsteins and the Mahlers, who bought the property twenty years later in 1887, lived in a residence inside/above the cows in the barn below until having the first house built on the property—but that house wasn’t the house that’s currently there.<br />
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Website: German immigrants, Heinrich "Henry" Mahler (9/2/1840 - 4/18/1925) and Marie Biermann Mahler (7/15/1850 - 7/25/1923), bought the property on January 10, 1887. They built the first house on the property in 1887 (Bexar County Appraisal District shows 1902 and San Antonio Conservation Society shows 1901 for the year built). Their children were Samuel George Mahler (1/21/1876 - 4/21/1937), Louisa Catherine Mahler Prange (11/1/1879 - 1/10/1918), Sara "Suzie" Mahler Schlegel (2/27/1882 - 3/23/1958), Daniel Henry Mahler (11/11/1884 - 5/27/1950). They also built a milking barn and named the farm Bluebonnet Dairy. Henry and Sam were known as the Cotton Kings. The Mahlers ran the dairy farm here until the mid-1930s.<br />
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Fact: What makes this odd is that the website claims the Mahlers built the house in 1887 BUT the San Antonio Conservation Society AND the Bexar County Appraisal District don’t show a house (that didn’t involve cow storage) built on the property until 1902/1901 respectively. Also, why were Henry and son, Sam, known as the “Cotton Kings” when they were running a 200-acre dairy farm? Shouldn’t they be known as the Cow Kings or the Cream Kings instead? So there are multiple red flags here that lead me to believe substantial parts of this section of the history have been manufactured instead of researched.<br />
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Website: After Mahler’s wife passed away, he followed suit two years later from lovesick grief. Heinrich also haunts the Milking Barn and roams the property, including inside the main house. His daughter, Sara "Suzie" pulls pranks in a building located behind the Black Swan.<br />
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Facts: Case in point. First off, there’s no way anyone dies of grief. That’s BS until and unless a proper medical association assigns “lovesick grief” as an actual diagnosis. I don’t expect that to happen anytime soon. Second off, again with stating anything paranormal-related as an actual fact. This continues to deteriorate as the "history" continues. Note that Suzie is Henry's daughter. This becomes important.<br />
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Website: Carl Mahler from Germany had a daughter named Sophia Louise Mahler Meyers, a spinster who lived in the house until she was 82, but haunts the house as an 8-year-old girl singing and laughing and known for playing tricks on people.<br />
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Fact: There’s no context for this. We don’t know who Carl is, or why he lived there. This is the first time he's mentioned. Same thing for his daughter, who is apparently stuck there as an 8-year-old girl. But here's the most telling clue that something about this "history" stinks to high heaven. Just one paragraph ABOVE this claim, it's stated that a sweet little Suzie was the daughter of Henry Mahler. There's no Carl mentioned, or a Sophia despite them purportedly both living in the house as part of the same family. Now there are TWO mischievous girl ghosts that are the SAME AGE. This is the result of either historical confusion--possible--or haunted house myth-making--probable. The website can't even keep its own story straight, but still presents this all as "fact" or "history" when it's patently a fiction. To me, this is a strong indication that someone hopped onto a free genealogical website, where date/name confusion is pretty much the order of the day on any family tree, without double-checking through vital records.<br />
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All this does is create a scenario where a paranormal investigator or—even worse and more dangerous—a paranormal tourist takes a cheap voice recorder into the location to talk to “Sara (Suzie)” or "Sophia" the sweet little girl prankster ghost and accidentally summons an entity to interact with her/him. The lie becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. So if you're part of an investigation team that <i style="font-weight: bold;">does not perform legitimate historical research on a property and instead relies upon an owner's website or a previous paranormal group's findings, your team can be sent blind into a dangerous paranormal event without the proper preparation or protection. </i>That's why research is legitimately the most important segment of an investigation and cannot be skimped.<br />
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See, anytime you use a voice recorder or call out a spirit, that’s conjuration and an amateur isn’t aware of that. There’s no telling what can and will respond…and follow you home. This is irresponsible on the owner’s part—first, by putting what psychics or an EVP or an odd feeling someone translates into “little girl ghost Suzie” down on the HISTORY page as FACT. Second, by attributing paranormal or supernatural events as being the actions of a specific named entity, the owner is creating a false narrative or mythology for the location. There isn’t really any way to prove the claim on any front.<br />
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An investigator can, perhaps, after a LOT of investigation, feel fairly confident in a hypothesis about a historical figure being part of a haunting. Usually, that’s in residual hauntings—like Lincoln’s ghost in the White House, for example. A person who witnesses a full-bodied apparition and later is shown a group of pictures of people who lived on the property and recognizes one of the photos as being the ghost he saw can create a reasonable assumption the entity is that historical resident. But either of these types of confirmation is extremely rare.<br />
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In this case, these definitive identification of entities as the historical residents on the property is just creating a reckless and ultimately reckless mythology for the site, making it more dangerous for investigators, paranormal tourists, and residents alike. (<b><i>Author's note post-investigation: this also generates an interesting factor when the subsequent investigation led the team to a doll as the apex of the haunting. You'll note that the owner of the BSI states in an interview that someone goes into that room every couple of weeks to "talk to the dolls". That's a conjuration, and may be the entire reason the inn has any intelligent haunting at all. Chances are correspondingly greater that this is a dark or demonic entity, lured in under the guise of sweet little Suzie, and may have taken up residence in the doll. Annabelle, anyone?)</i></b><br />
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Website: Henry and Sam Mahler were known as the Cotton Kings. They lived on the property with 200 acres after Marie died.<br />
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Henry and Marie's son, Dan, and his wife, Mary Mahler, lived on the property with 237 acres. They sold the house and surrounding land to two sisters and their husbands in 1941.<br />
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Katherine S. Joline Holbrook (9/17/1883 - 1/27/1950) and Joseph "John" Younger Holbrook (4/6/1879 - 9/3/1960), along with Mary Blanche Joline Woods (7/8/1887 - 1/17/1976) and Claude B. Woods (10/31/1882 - 1/17/1935) purchased the property. The sisters called the house White Gables. They conducted extensive remodeling, adding two wings to enlarge the mansion to accommodate the two families. The house was then called "White Gables". After purchasing more land a second house was built in 1901 but it later burnt down.<br />
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Fact: Here’s where the ‘history’ contradicts itself directly. Earlier on the page, the website states that: Henry and Marie Mahler bought the property on January 10, 1887. They built the first house on the property in 1887 (Bexar County Appraisal District shows 1902 and San Antonio Conservation Society shows 1901 for the year built).Then the Holbrooks/Woods family purchase the property and evidently adds the two wings to the house, and then a second house was built in 1901 but it ultimately burned down. But this narrative doesn’t match up precisely.<br />
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At first, the website claims the “Prescott House” was built AFTER the Civil War. But—in 1867, the property was purchased by the Rippsteins, who I’m assuming lived over the dairy barn as would be normal for them as German/Swiss immigrants. So what happened to the Prescott House, that the website claims was built after the Civil War?<br />
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In 1887, then, the Mahlers bought the location “and built the first house” on the property, a fact that’s disputed by two different agencies in the Appraisal Department and the Conservation Department, which have the dates for this house as 1901 or 1902. Now we have the Holbrook/Woods family adding two wings and building a second house that burns down. What we DON’T have anywhere on this website is an undisputed and definitive date when the house that exists on the property was built.<br />
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In the book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Uniforms-Republic-Texas-That-1836-1846/dp/0764306820/ref=asc_df_0764306820/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312176356508&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=17812581196475491079&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9014935&hvtargid=pla-569502313095&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=60258871657&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=312176356508&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=17812581196475491079&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9014935&hvtargid=pla-569502313095" target="_blank"> Battles and Men of the Republic of Texas by Arthur Wylie</a>, however, the author states that:<br />
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After forming 140 Texian volunteers Caldwell marched for Cibolo Creek, twenty miles from San Antonio. A little later Caldwell moved his camp thirteen miles closer to the city along Salado Creek near the Prescot (sic) House. Altogether, about 220 Texians had been assembled to fight the Mexicans…</blockquote>
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This version of events is backed up by the Texas State Historical Association. So there was a house close to the Black Swan Inn called the Prescott house that pre-dates the battle, and as was pointed out earlier the current building is not in the proper location on the map to have been the Prescott house.<br />
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So my best guess without actually going in person to the County Clerk’s office and digging out plat books is that the Prescott house was not on the property now associated with the Black Swan Inn, that the first two families lived over the barn in an old-country ‘house barn’, and that the first possible date for the current residence to have been built is the 1901/1902 date that the Appraiser’s Department and the San Antonio Conservation Department have listed on official San Antonio documents.<br />
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Therefore the house currently known as the Black Swan Inn wasn’t erected until 60 years after the battle, and has nothing to do with the battle save for the fact that the Mexicans rode over it on their way to be shot to pieces by the Texians holed up in the creek bottom.<br />
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That would also discount any possibility of a Rittspein/Mahler historical figure haunting the current house, because they would never have lived there. This would be an easy mistake to make for any amateur researcher, who wouldn’t be able to untangle the “house barn” mystery and subsequently ended up with multiple “first house” possibilities on the property.<br />
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Website: Attorney Hall Park Street, Jr. (11/10/1909 - 8/4/1965) and Joline Woods Street (12/15/1912 - 12/22/1959). They inherited the house in 1952 from Joline's mother, Claude Woods. After the deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Holbrook and Mr. Woods, Mrs. Woods lived in the house with her son-in-law, Park, and her daughter, Joline. During this time a second story was added to the main house. While Park and Joline owned the property Earle Stanley Gardner visited the house and wrote some of his famed Perry Mason television series scripts here. Joline died of breast cancer in 1959. Park, Jr. was later found dead in 1965 hung by a neck tie with his hands tied behind his back...the death was ruled a suicide. They were survived by their daughter, Joline "Jingles", who was only 19 at the time and their son, Hall Park Street III. (no vital records found). Park Street supposedly committed suicide by hanging himself in the house, though this has been a highly controversial subject. A psychic consultant with Syfy's television program Sightings communicated with former resident, Hall Park Street, whom he believed was murdered in a south wing closet, then moved to another location, where the murderer made the death look like a suicide. They believe Street was killed because of a treasure he still guards in the south wing. Others believe that Heinrich ghost drove Park to commit suicide. The most unnerving spectral presence at the property is that of a man who has been spotted stalking angrily all over the house. Rumor has it that he is the ghost of Hall Park Street. Is he perhaps looking for his beloved wife Joline, whose spirit is also said to haunt the Inn after tragedy struck her at the tender age of thirty-eight when she died of cancer. Dressed in a luxurious white gown with a beaded jeweled medallion in from of headband with a feather at the back over her dark hair, this is a very beautiful female spirit roams the property aimlessly, especially around the gazebo, but Park and Joline never seem to meet.<br />
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Fact: Okay here’s where things get egregiously wrong. Thanks to the August 7, 1965 edition of the San Antonio Express and News, the fact-checking for this section of the website was easy. <b><i>HALL PARK STREET JR DID NOT KILL HIMSELF AT WHAT IS NOW KNOWN AS THE BLACK SWAN INN OR ANYWHERE ON THE PROPERTY AT ALL.</i></b> Street committed suicide at his home in the affluent Oak Park neighborhood, 401 Northridge Drive, which is 2.9 miles away. He also didn’t bother to mourn his first wife, Joline, all that much because he was already remarried at the time of his death in 1965. So there is <b>no</b> treasure in the south wing that Street was killed over and the murdered/moved. There is <b>no</b> chance that the vengeful ghost of Heinrich Rittspein drove him to suicide when Street was a nine-minute drive away from the property in his new house when he killed himself, and absolutely <b>zero</b> possibility that’s he’s stalking the house because he’s heartbroken over Joline’s death.<br />
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So no, they aren’t trying to find each other in vain.<br />
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What this IS representative of, however, is the worst kind of mythology creation that is perpetrated by someone needing to exploit the paranormal for reasons other than research/investigation. As for Street’s son, Hall Park Street III—while the owner claimed to find no vital records for him, I did find him—still living, in Austin, TX after a 30 second Google search. He can be found at https://www.parkstreets.com/ where he has this to say:<br />
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A native Texan born in San Antonio, I am the son of a noted lawyer and my godfather was the world's bestselling author of his time, Erle Stanley Gardner, of Perry Mason fame. My father was a member of the Court of Last Resort, a group of lawyers and forensic experts who worked to get prisoners they felt unjustly convicted new trials. Some of my fondest memories of my father was us driving from one state prison to another where he interviewed prisoners. I always got a kick out of seeing my dad in the opening credits of the TV show they made about the Court of Last Resort which showed for two seasons. <b>I grew up in what is now one of the most haunted houses in Texas. It was spooky but not as spooky as it has been made out to be.</b></blockquote>
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Bolding mine, for emphasis. He’s now a renowned photographer based out of Austin after careers in the law and foreign importing, and can be reached via his website. Might be a worthwhile on camera interview depending on how the investigation goes. I assume that Hall Park Street III, therefore, has vital records for anyone who cares to look.<br />
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The remainder of the “history” section on the website is modern, taking us through the Mehrens’ ownership, who bought the house in 1973. I would assume that either Joline the younger lived in the house between 1965 and 1973—she was 19 and evidently a recent bride in Wisconsin when her father committed suicide--or that the house was rented out after Joline the elder passed away in 1959. The Mehrens sold the house to Werner Schmidt in 1980. The house went into what appears to be some form of seizure, ending up as the property of Sunbelt Self-Storage in 1987 before being ultimately sold to Jo Ann Marks Andrews Rivera in 1991. She named the property the Victoria's Black Swan Inn, and built up a paranormal tourism site/B&B/Events business while living with her family on the site.<br />
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Other information on the location: Recent reviews of the Black Swan Inn have included growing accounts that the property is not just run down, but falling apart and filthy. There are reports of insect and rodent infestation—highlighted by the Ghost Adventures episode where they left a static cam rolling on the owner’s children all night due to her claim that something was ‘pinching’ them as they slept. Turned out to be a fat, juicy rat instead.<br />
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There have also been negative reports left on the quality of the food at catered events, at the rudeness of the owner and the staff, and on a few occasions “absolutely ruining” weddings held there. Refusing to turn on the air conditioning for a summer wedding in Central Texas is a recurring theme, as is the owner taking drinks out of people’s hands and pouring them out. Take that FWIW.<br />
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The Rivera family appears to live on the second floor of the main house, and the house didn’t have a second story until the Street family added it between 1952 and 1965. So any paranormal phenomena up there should be surprising.<br />
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Conclusion: There’s a long provenance of modern paranormal teams gathering evidence at the Black Swan Inn, but there are no contemporary reports of paranormal events prior to Ms. Rivera’s ownership of the property. The ties to the Battle of Salado are tenuous, the stated history of the house is so unreliable that there’s not even a solid date of when the building was even built. And the suicide or murder/suicide the website wants prospective clients to believe happened in the house actually occurred in a different house almost 3 miles away.<br />
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The overall purpose of the website is to push the paranormal agenda to the exclusion of anything else in my opinion. The “history” in the history/about section of the website is peppered with references to spirits that are allegedly the former residents of the house despite the house not even being built yet. So this isn’t a history. It’s a mythology, comprised of historical half-truths and what psychics have said about the property despite the constant contradiction or even downright falsehoods (like the Street suicide) in order to make this house appear more haunted than it evidently was when Hall Park Street III grew up.<br />
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All this being said, though, considering the uses to which the house is put, the weekly ghost tours and ghost hunts, the scrying closet’s constant use and the seances in the room outside it, what you have here is a paranormal time bomb. IF there’s a haunting at this location, I’d find it almost impossible to attribute activity to the former residents on the property. I’m more inclined to think that whatever is contributing to the ‘escalating’ negative activity on the location is the result of the constant conjuration going on there, opening doors without knowing how to shut them again. That would strand human entities there, probably pissing them off. However, that open door leaves the house and ground vulnerable to demonic infestation, which much be strongly suspected headed in.<br />
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<i>Author's note, post-investigation: It's my opinion now that the investigation is completed that the paragraph above this one was the correct prognosis for the paranormal activity in Victoria's Black Swan Inn. The team, therefore, caught no evidence to support the owner/website claims save with a doll most likely empowered through regular and ritual conjuration. </i><br />
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Yes, please God--ease my father's confusion tonight. Let him be free of fear.</div>
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Dear God--if You really exist--let my father have moments when he remembers that he is loved...so loved by his wife; his children; his grandchildren; his great-grandchildren. Let the clouds of confusion melt away, so he once more is eased by the thought that his name, his history will not be forgotten. Let him remember--even for the briefest moment--who I am, what my name is, all the laughs and tears and anger and longing that any father feels for his daughter, his oldest child. Let him look on me with that lost clarity, and find it again even if it's only for ten seconds.<br />
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Yes, God--let my father feel loved tonight. Let him remember me.<br />
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Dear God--You know why I doubt that a deity exists--let my father prepare for his last great journey in the silent and now echoing in the vaults of memory that were once packed with the thousands of moments he collected in an amazing, full life. Husband and father, brother and grandfather, friend and ally, soldier and businessmen. My father's life reads like a bestselling novel of a man who learned how to live and sacrificed everything for his family's sake. Strengthen the child who grew to manhood in rural Tennessee, unable to attend more than half the school year because he was needed on the farm. Strengthen the young man who dreamed of being an architect, but joined the Army instead. Fortify him, like he swallowed his shyness long enough to approach a beautiful French ballet dancer while stationed in Paris post-Korean War and with her, founded a family.<br />
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Yes, God--let my father remember the courage he had tonight. Let him regain it, just once.<br />
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Dear God--why don't You answer me? We both know that I have good reason to doubt Your existence. What You've inflicted on my father is almost the nail in the coffin. Atheism is easier; agnosticism is faster. Either would have left me with no one to be angry with right now. I'd only be able to rage against the vagaries of fate. But my dad had faith. A lot of faith.<br />
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Did You take that from him too? Or did You leave him on his own, confused by Your silence?<br />
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Well, I <i>don't</i> have faith in You. Once I did. Once I believed in You and prayed to You and You never had anything to say to me. So now I'm talking to you again. It's hard not to feel like my father's condition is somehow my fault, that because of decisions I have made some omniscient power determined that the best punishment on me for MY behavior was to transfer its divine ire on my father. That's the kind of thinking that makes me look over my shoulder...makes me think that maybe I should place my faith in You again so I can find the answers to my questions.<br />
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But only for a moment. After that split-second of consideration, I flip right back to rage again. I'm angry at everyone. I'm angry at the doctors who didn't catch this sooner. I'm angry at the people who guessed his condition, and exploited it in business deals. I'm angry at the family, who left my stepmother to cope with him all by herself. I'm angry at my brother, who lives five minutes away but can't be bothered to help my father out.<br />
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I'm angry at my dad.<br />
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I'm furious with myself.<br />
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I'm enraged at You.<br />
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Yes, You. If You exist, then this is unforgivable. To take my father's mind, his memories, and replace them with confusion and fear is a torture method that make the Spanish Inquisition look commonplace. To reduce the brilliance of my father's intellect and to replace it with a vacuum that cannot be filled...is that how You reward people with faith? Is this disease the culmination of all those years when he tried to live by the precepts of Your church?<br />
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And You wonder why I turned my back on you for the last time. I turned away from You the first time when my best friend, who had the purest and most intense faith I've ever seen, died in that freak car wreck. That made me an agnostic at eighteen. Then I turned away again and instead watched helplessly as scores of young men were eradicated thanks to AIDS. That hardened my resolve against you. I walked precariously along the tightrope stretched between agnosticism and atheism. I prayed until I couldn't say another word, my throat ravaged with crying as my daughter was so consistently abused and I never got any sort of response from You. The abuse she endured continued, and I fell off that tightrope and rejected all belief that You or any other deity would intervene.<br />
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Now I'm mad at you again because what's happened to Dad is something I consider unforgivable.<br />
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For the first time, I'm sending a double-bird to heaven. I'll never forgive You for this. Never. To hell with platitudes or psalms or the power of prayer. Prayer is the spiritual equivalent to yelling in a cave for help. There's no response save for my own voice rebounding to me.<br />
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No. Wait. That's not right. I did hear one thing. I heard the fear in my father's voice when he asked, "Are you just throwing me away?" when he was admitted to the hospital and visiting time was over. I heard the despair, the longing, the confusion, the terror...<br />
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What am I supposed to tell him. You tell me: what am I supposed to tell my father, who honored You every day of his eighty-four years when he asks me, "Are you just throwing me away? What's wrong with me?"<br />
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My father deserved a better end than the one that's been given him.<br />
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Heh.I just read through this again. Funny in a way. I'm writing a blog post berating God, which is a concept that my analytical mind just could not accept. This is a child's reaction, a child's deferral of guilt from herself to someone or something wholly unrelated.<br />
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Yes, it sounds like the ranting of a child--which it is. This post is the ranting of an adult child. My father's child. Ostensibly Your child too, if the Bible is to be believed. So if You're out there, and I have no reason to think You are, answer me these questions.<br />
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Will You be throwing me away too? Like You've done my father?<br />
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Why?<br />
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I'll wait. I look forward to once again not hearing You.<br />
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Celina Summershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08581883122727085849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26892817.post-6758597952278285152019-12-17T22:30:00.000-05:002019-12-17T22:30:07.617-05:00Paranormal Research Part 2: The Haunted Monroe HouseThis article concludes the two-part paranormal research series of blog posts, continuing the history of the haunted Monroe House.<br />
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When researching a <a href="https://livescifi.tv/haunted-locations-database/">haunted location</a>, the purpose isn’t to prove the legends but to establish a connective thread between what the legends and claims say and events that can be substantiated by documents. And in this case, the evidence is building. Beginning with the violent and abusive situation in the Miars’ household, a pattern emerged that included paranormal activity, suspected infidelity, and bizarre accidents and misfortunes to the families that lived there. The Berger family was originally suspected as the source of the haunting, with some claims that John B. Berger was a violent and abusive barkeeper who punished his kids brutally. That doesn’t hold water, with the <a href="https://newspaperarchive.com/us/indiana/hartford-city/hartford-city-telegram/1905/09-20/page-6?tag=john+b+berger+death+funeral+burial+illness+injury&rtserp=tags/?pc=12432&psi=38&pci=7&ndt=bd&pd=1&pm=9&py=1905&pe=1&pem=10&pey=1905&plo=death-funeral-burial-illness-injury&pf=john-b&pl=berger">Hartford City News Telegram eulogizing him</a> as “a man of sterling qualities, honorable to the core. He was big-hearted and genial and it is doubtful if any man in the city had more friends.”<br />
And of course, John B. Berger was dead when the public fiasco of the Miars’ marriage became public knowledge.<br />
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In that period between 1907-1911, when the Miars’ behavior became fodder for the town gossips and their claims of desertion, cruelty, and the violent abuse of their children was hashed out in the courts and the newspaper, a series of strange disasters befell the Berger family <i>at the same time—</i>a shooting as the result of a hate crime; frostbite and a horse’s foot turned into gangrene and an amputation; death in childbirth; a carriage wheel falling off and resulting in a severe injury—these events seem to be interconnected with some strange energy or influence that both fueled and charged a sequence of tragic incidents that are unexplained.<br />
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The Miars children—Edna was eight, while Ernest was four—match up with the legends about the house, including a famous picture with two child-sized apparitions looking out from a window. The pattern of abuse also matches up with the claims of psychics and many of the EVPs and other communications received at the house, as well as the testimony of local residents who were brought up on stories about the residence. One medium said the energy of the haunting was fueled by an “angry jealous woman out for blood”. This, too, could refer to the Miars because the husband deserted his wife for another woman, and ran away to marry her illegally. That desertion of children was duplicated almost simultaneously by Frederick Nicaise, whose children lost their mother, Mary Berger Nicaise, in 1909 and by 1910 they’d lost their father as well. Perhaps he died, or left to find work and never returned. We don’t know, but the pattern of abandoned families seems to have continued.<br />
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And the pattern doesn’t stop there.<br />
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What makes Caroline Berger’s weird carriage accident in 1911 even more interesting is the gruesome death of Sydney Faulkner thirty years later. Faulkner lived in the upstairs apartment in 1940 with his wife, Myrl. He was killed August 18, 1940 when his car inexplicably struck the support beam of a bridge. <a href="https://www.newspapers.com/image/251921445/?terms=Sidney+Faulkner&xid=567&returnUrl=%2Fsearch%2Fnewspaper%2Fresults%3FCountry%3DUnited%2520States%26Region%3DIndiana%26Year%3D1940%26NameOrKeyword%3DSidney%2520Faulkner%26NameOrKeywordExact%3DTrue%26YearEnd%3D2017%26RangeDates%3DTrue">The Muncie Star</a> pulled no punches in its report of the accident: “The bridge beam was driven back through the car, piercing Faulkner's body, and both car and bridge were badly damaged. Use of acetylene torches was necessary before the body could be removed from the automobile."<br />
Faulkner also had a passenger in the car: a woman not his wife. Mrs. WH Wolfe was with him that morning, and incredibly she wasn't injured.<br />
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Here again, the pattern emerges: potential infidelity and a strange accident while away from the home under suspicious circumstances.<br />
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While the Faulkners were living in the upstairs apartment, labeled as 220 ½ Monroe Street in the <a href="http://1940census.archives.gov/search/#searchby=location&searchmode=browse&year=1940">1940 census,</a> the house was owned by Harry B. Meyers, who lived downstairs with his wife, Emma, and their adult son Clayton, who was twenty-three. Meyers was a finishing superintendent at the paper mill which was the major industrial employer mid-century, and Clayton worked with him as a packer. After Sydney Faulkner’s tragic death, Myrl moved out of the upstairs apartment. A family with young children moved in later, and that’s when we start to get our first modern claims of paranormal activity, as evidenced by this August 12, 2016 comment left by an anonymous gentleman on a story about the Monroe House on <a href="http://www.hauntedhovel.com/the-monroe-house-located-in-hartford-cityindiana.html">HauntedHovel.com:</a><br />
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But after 1940, we run into a brick wall researching the history of the Monroe House and the people who lived there. The last federal census made available to public research was 1940, since by law census details cannot be released until seventy years after the census date. Telephone directories become huge, and almost impossible to locate names by street address. The Monroe house became a rental property, although we have apocryphal online claims that previous landlords lived in the house until the late 1990s-early 2000s.<br />
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There are also claims that tenants in the house during the nineties were Satanists, and that their magic rituals and occult practices intensified the already-haunted property—claims that are lent credence by the objects that have since been purportedly discovered buried on the property: fetishes made of jewelry and human hair, wrapped in cloth; shorts that might have blood on them; and of course the discovery of the bones and skull fragments unearthed in the basement by investigators on a paranormal TV show.<br />
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It is important to note that there is absolutely no evidence to back up many of the legends’ claims. No one (that we can find) ever died in the house. There wasn’t a fire that killed a small child. In fact, there’s no evidence of the house catching on fire at any point after it was built in 1900. It’s also important, however, to mention that the original house on the property (the one built in the 1850s) may have burned down, and this house was constructed on top of what was left, incorporating wood that was physically sound but scorched.<br />
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What we did find was a series of bizarre and tragic events that could perhaps explain the origins of the haunting—and the stories that now have circulated in Hartford City for over seventy years.<br />
In 2019, the investigations of the house are where the real questions now lie. The Monroe House has been vacant for over ten years, deserted by the living and occupied only by the dead…or the <a href="https://livescifi.tv/2011/07/complete-list-of-demon-names/">demonic</a>, which has seemed to become the consensus around the property over the last five years. It remains to be seen as we continue to research the property what—if any—additional links can be added to the chain of documented events that still impact the house today.<br />
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Celina Summershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08581883122727085849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26892817.post-11442939586694676122019-12-16T22:36:00.000-05:002019-12-16T23:16:03.236-05:00It Feels Evil Paranormal Fact Checks--The Real History of Yorktown Memorial Hospital <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;">
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<span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">Almost every online source </span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="ContextualSpellingAndGrammarError SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; background-image: url("data:image/gif; background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">claims</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> that over 2000 people died at Yorktown Memorial Hospital in Victoria, Texas. Unfortunately, as with so many other paranormal sites being run as tourist destinations, those claims </span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">have been</span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> wildly exaggerated. The facts tell an entirely different story. It appears that </span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">the majority of these claims stem from the Ghost Adventures investigation of the hospital </span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">or were initiated by</span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> an owner or interested party</span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">, and are being propagated by the guides on ‘historical’ or paranormal tours of the property</span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">. </span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":360}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">But there is VERY little about Yorktown Memorial Hospital in the newspaper accounts of DeWitt County, Texas. At first I couldn’t figure out why. And then I realized the answer was actually very simple: Yorktown Memorial Hospital wasn’t a hospital the way we think of them today. The hospital was more like an </span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">overnight </span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">urgent care. It was created to handle childbirth and labor, minor/routine </span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">mostly </span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">outpatient </span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">surgeries, and to stabilize patients with emergency care before transporting patients to bigger facilities. This wasn’t a hospital designed to handle critical care. That’s the reason why claims of 2000 or even 500 deaths at the location have been grossly exaggerated, and why almost every newspaper article archived about the hospital is a birth announcement. </span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":360}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">According to records </span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">cited by</span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">P</span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">am Culpepper of the Yorktown View-News, only 7 of the 33 years of the hospital’s </span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">existence</span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> ended with over 60% occupancy—of a 27-bed facility. These are the real statistics involving occupancy: </span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":360}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">1958 - 717 - 53.9</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":240}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;">
<div class="Paragraph SCXW219642490 BCX0" paraeid="{76db578d-2ac0-4a05-b309-251ed3065619}{13}" paraid="677854291" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">1959 - 741 - 52.9 </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":240}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
</div>
<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;">
<div class="Paragraph SCXW219642490 BCX0" paraeid="{76db578d-2ac0-4a05-b309-251ed3065619}{19}" paraid="1754620624" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">1960 - 713 - 55.0 </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":240}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
</div>
<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;">
<div class="Paragraph SCXW219642490 BCX0" paraeid="{76db578d-2ac0-4a05-b309-251ed3065619}{25}" paraid="368778256" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">1961 - 700 - 41.0 </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":240}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
</div>
<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;">
<div class="Paragraph SCXW219642490 BCX0" paraeid="{76db578d-2ac0-4a05-b309-251ed3065619}{31}" paraid="979937948" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">1962 - 630 - 74.7 </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":240}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
</div>
<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;">
<div class="Paragraph SCXW219642490 BCX0" paraeid="{76db578d-2ac0-4a05-b309-251ed3065619}{37}" paraid="1306910240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">1963 - 617 - 64.6 </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":240}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
</div>
<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;">
<div class="Paragraph SCXW219642490 BCX0" paraeid="{76db578d-2ac0-4a05-b309-251ed3065619}{43}" paraid="938595922" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">1964 - 546 - 65.1 </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":240}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
</div>
<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;">
<div class="Paragraph SCXW219642490 BCX0" paraeid="{76db578d-2ac0-4a05-b309-251ed3065619}{49}" paraid="14799389" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">1965 - 529 - 52.1 </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":240}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
</div>
<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;">
<div class="Paragraph SCXW219642490 BCX0" paraeid="{76db578d-2ac0-4a05-b309-251ed3065619}{55}" paraid="238448662" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">1966 - 577 - 58.5 </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":240}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
</div>
<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;">
<div class="Paragraph SCXW219642490 BCX0" paraeid="{76db578d-2ac0-4a05-b309-251ed3065619}{61}" paraid="994150587" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">1967 - 569 - 58.6 </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":240}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
</div>
<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;">
<div class="Paragraph SCXW219642490 BCX0" paraeid="{76db578d-2ac0-4a05-b309-251ed3065619}{67}" paraid="1723690456" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">1968 - 579 - 72.3 </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":240}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
</div>
<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;">
<div class="Paragraph SCXW219642490 BCX0" paraeid="{76db578d-2ac0-4a05-b309-251ed3065619}{73}" paraid="569870914" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">1969 - 578 - 66.6 </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":240}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
</div>
<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;">
<div class="Paragraph SCXW219642490 BCX0" paraeid="{76db578d-2ac0-4a05-b309-251ed3065619}{79}" paraid="799842508" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">1970 - 585 - 64.5 </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":240}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
</div>
<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;">
<div class="Paragraph SCXW219642490 BCX0" paraeid="{76db578d-2ac0-4a05-b309-251ed3065619}{85}" paraid="681961328" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">1971 - 592 - 62.1 </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":240}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
</div>
<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;">
<div class="Paragraph SCXW219642490 BCX0" paraeid="{76db578d-2ac0-4a05-b309-251ed3065619}{91}" paraid="426248601" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">1972 - 560 - 64.5 </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":240}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
</div>
<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;">
<div class="Paragraph SCXW219642490 BCX0" paraeid="{76db578d-2ac0-4a05-b309-251ed3065619}{97}" paraid="980488488" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">1973 - 476 - 57.4 </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":240}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;">
<div class="Paragraph SCXW219642490 BCX0" paraeid="{76db578d-2ac0-4a05-b309-251ed3065619}{103}" paraid="1154500555" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">1974 - 458 - 54.1 </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":240}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCXW219642490 BCX0" paraeid="{76db578d-2ac0-4a05-b309-251ed3065619}{109}" paraid="695086794" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">1975 - 495 - 46.1 </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":240}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCXW219642490 BCX0" paraeid="{76db578d-2ac0-4a05-b309-251ed3065619}{115}" paraid="246587734" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">1976 - 518 - 52.2 </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":240}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;">
<div class="Paragraph SCXW219642490 BCX0" paraeid="{76db578d-2ac0-4a05-b309-251ed3065619}{121}" paraid="1224404057" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">1977 - 448 - 39.3 </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":240}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCXW219642490 BCX0" paraeid="{76db578d-2ac0-4a05-b309-251ed3065619}{127}" paraid="2004708118" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">1978 - 484 - 41.4 </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":240}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCXW219642490 BCX0" paraeid="{76db578d-2ac0-4a05-b309-251ed3065619}{133}" paraid="383782917" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">1979 - 596 - 45.5 </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":240}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCXW219642490 BCX0" paraeid="{76db578d-2ac0-4a05-b309-251ed3065619}{139}" paraid="1134778767" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">1980 - 452 - 39.5 </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":240}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCXW219642490 BCX0" paraeid="{76db578d-2ac0-4a05-b309-251ed3065619}{145}" paraid="686856606" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">1981 - 494 - 46.4 </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":240}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCXW219642490 BCX0" paraeid="{76db578d-2ac0-4a05-b309-251ed3065619}{151}" paraid="1264376376" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">1982 - 654 - 52.7 </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":240}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCXW219642490 BCX0" paraeid="{76db578d-2ac0-4a05-b309-251ed3065619}{157}" paraid="1922686785" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">1983 </span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">–</span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> 655 </span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">–</span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> 44.4 </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":240}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;">
<div class="Paragraph SCXW219642490 BCX0" paraeid="{76db578d-2ac0-4a05-b309-251ed3065619}{175}" paraid="632869524" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">That’s 19,501 total admissions in 33 years, meaning that in order for over 2,000 people to have died in the hospital, </span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">roughly </span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">one </span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">out of every ten people </span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">admitted</span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> would have had to died. Obviously, that’s statistically impossible. Any hospital would have been shut down long before 1984 with statistics like that, and particularly such a small hospital. </span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">The other number quoted frequently is 500 deaths, which is one out of forty admissions, but that seems rather high as well. This wasn’t a hospital designed for the kind of health care that would result in a high number of deaths. </span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">A </span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="ContextualSpellingAndGrammarError SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; background-image: url("data:image/gif; background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">boots</span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> on the ground researcher would more than likely be able to find the exact number of deaths in the hospital, but the rough average of deaths per admissions </span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">nationally </span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">is about 2.4% according the CDC (775,000 deaths per 31.7 million hospital admissions in 2000; 776,000 deaths per 35.1 million admissions in 2010). (</span></span><a class="Hyperlink SCXW219642490 BCX0" href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db118.htm" rel="noreferrer" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; user-select: text;" target="_blank"><span class="TextRun Underlined SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db118.htm</span></span></a><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">) </span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":360}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">That being said, it’s important to understand that this hospital </span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">was not equipped</span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> to do major surgeries, provide long-term health care, or to provide critical care. </span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">According to a history of the hospital in the </span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">DeWitt County View of June 27, 1984: </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":360}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">“In the spring of 1946 when the Dr. Allen Community Hospital of Yorktown was converted into a rest home for the aged, the city was left without a place to meet emergency needs, much less to handle births or ordinary surgery. It was then that agitation began in earnest to build a community hospital.” </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":360}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> “The Sisters, who comprise one-third of the professional help are on a salary much lower than the going rate for their respective positions. Their salaries are sent to the Motherhouse for the upkeep of the Motherhouse, education of the young Sisters, and medical care for the sick and elderly Sisters. Only after all has been paid, employee salaries and suppliers bills, do the Sisters get paid. Their salary has been in arrears many, many times for as long as found months until such time that enough cash flow was available to pay them. Each year’s audit confirms the fact that without the lowered rate of pay to the Sisters, the hospital could not have survived. The auditors and those in the financial know-how are amazed that the hospital has existed in spite of all the financial obstacles, primarily because of low patient census. The relief, the substitutions, and the 24-hour back up and call by the Sisters are the basic reason for the Yorktown Memorial Hospital's survival to the 80's.” </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":360}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">This makes sense, particularly when the hospital finished in the black only 7 years out of its existence. </span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">So taking into consideration these factors,</span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the place of Yorktown Memorial Hospital in the community wasn’t that of a normal hospital, and the death statistics that were reported by a previous TV investigation were grossly exaggerated. </span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">After all, Yorktown’s population has hovered right at 2,000 for fifty years.</span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I went through forty years of newspaper articles in the DeWitt County newspapers. Ninety percent of the mentions in the paper were birth notices. The remaining ten percent were announcement of board meetings, events notices, and death notices which were almost all events that had happened elsewhere—like massive heart attacks at home—but were brought to the facility for a doctor’s care and confirmation of a DOA.</span></span></div>
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<span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">There was no </span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">suicide-</span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">murder-</span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">love triangle</span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> involving patients and staff</span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> ever reported at the facility. There was no death notice for a little girl (more on this later). There was no notice of the death of a man named Doug Richards in 1973. </span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">There is no article or report of </span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Dr. Leon </span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="SpellingError SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; background-image: url("data:image/gif; background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Norwierski</span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">having slit a patient’s throat during a thyroid surgery resulting in that patient’s death</span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">or any other allegations of incompetence</span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. (Note here that if a doctor made that kind of horrific mistake, he’d be sued for malpractice and his medical license revoked. While I can find articles Dr. </span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="SpellingError SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; background-image: url("data:image/gif; background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Norwierski</span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> wrote for the American Journal of Medicine, there is no indication anywhere that he was sued or his license revoked</span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> for incompetence. Current libel/slander laws state that once a person is dead, you cannot libel or slander them legally so everything’s fair game. That’s a dead shame because this facility and the groups that just copy/paste the history seem to be slandering a doctor who did nothing but good for that town</span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.)</span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> There were no articles or reports that anyone died at the back door of the hospital from a drug overdose when his friends just left him at the ER entrance and rang the night bell for a nun to come find him.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":360}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">All that being said, what we seem to find here at Yorktown is the gradual creation of folklore built around an abandoned building. When the hospital was finally closed, it just sat there and rotted. Kids broke into the building, turning it into a hangout. Also, keep in mind that the second floor of the central hallway was a convent with the chapel and altar still intact. Considering that paranormal activity has spread across the street to the </span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">feed store/</span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">lumber yard and the second floor there is particularly active, it’s a reasonable assumption that the </span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Felician</span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Sisters’ convent, chapel, and liv</span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">i</span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ng quarters have been defiled</span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> or desecrated. There’s no telling what happened in those area before steps were taken to stop/prevent trespassers</span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":360}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">However, here’s a tidbit that might interest you: </span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">“</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">After the hospital closed it was then converted into a drug rehabilitation facility, which was eventually halted by the state for their inability to contain their patients. One example of this claim is of a patient that exited the facility, who then walked across the street to the local feed store where they slapped an employee across the face.”</span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":360}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">So there does appear to be a</span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">t least an allegorical</span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> tie established between the feed store and the hospital, which could explain why the energy from the hospital is allegedly showing up across the street now.</span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> And it does make sense that the nuns were incapable of keeping rehab patients confined and on the property. So I started thinking about the “TJ” who allegedly died outside the emergency entrance when he was dumped there by his friends after a heroin overdose. I thought that just maybe the legend was being told backwards, and that he was a patient who got out of the hospital without the nuns’ notice and subsequently tried to get back in at night when the place was locked up and couldn’t. But…no. Still no TJ deaths listed in any of </span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">the DeWitt county newspapers. Since death records are sealed in Texas for 75 years, the newspapers are the only avenue I’ve got.</span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":360}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">According to the DeWitt County Appraisal District Tax Rolls, the hospital ownership</span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> since it closed</span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> is as follows. City to James D. Short (no date), James D. Short to Short Family Trust (5/26/1995), Short Family Trust to Herbert Schaefer (11/25/1998), and Short Family Trust to Phillip M. Ross (8/07/2008), Phillip M. Ross to Jo Ann Marks Andrews Rivera. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":360}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCXW219642490 BCX0" paraeid="{7546d862-54b2-48c8-97ef-2d6ec2705243}{179}" paraid="845997495" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">A couple of things to mention—caretaker Mike Henson has told stories about seeing strange black creatures/masses in the hospital corridors that are “about the size of an adult German Shepherd”—which ties into a theory I have regarding demonic/negative haunts like the Bell Witch or the Welles House where this type of thing has been documented. Same thing with the little girl ghost—something that pops up all the time in demonic hauntings like the Sallie House. That would really make me focus on the second story and the chapel/convent during the investigation. I think you’ll be more likely to find evidence of desecration and that would explain the hauntings on this property. </span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":360}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">While there were naturally </span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">some </span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">deaths in the hospital--most likely fewer than 100--I’ve found nothing to indicate that any of </span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">those deaths were connected to </span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">the reported ghosts</span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> that</span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> haunt this location. I’d be inclined to think that if Dr. </span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Leon </span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="SpellingError SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; background-image: url("data:image/gif; background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Norwierski</span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> haunts the ER/OR area, it would be as a residual entity. I’ve found no evidence of the other named ghosts to back up those claims. There were no reports of a double homicide in the basement and the “blood spatter” (if that’s what it is and I’d use luminol to test it) either post-dates the hospital when a trespasser injured themselves or a maintenance worker using a sharp tool injured himself—which makes sense seeing as the alleged blood is in a boiler room in the basement. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":360}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">By passing on these legends as fact, the management of the Yorktown Memorial Hospital facility is recklessly endangering visitors and investigators of the site by sending them out thinking the entities are innocuous only for them to find something completely different. Out of all the stories I’ve found/researched, I’d be most interested in the link between the feed store and the hospital, which at least seems to be corroborated. For a haunting to spread that distance, I’d consider this to be a demonic infestation caused by a combination of thirty years of trespassers’ </span></span><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">legends, misinformation, and the perpetuation of that misinformation by ownership, a previous televised investigation that seems to just have made stuff up, and tour guides/paranormal guides who reinforce those false legends on a daily basis. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":360}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">However, not everything’s been good between the ownership of the hospital and the town of Yorktown. Local residents who were born at the hospital or witnessed the death of someone they loved at the hospital are horrified at the use the hospital’s been put to. In 2010, the city forced previous owner Phillip Ross to close the hospital for code violations. After a complaint by someone who had visited the site, the county building inspector and codes officer were denied entry into the hospital. When a judge issued a court order to the owner, a group of county and town officials entered the building, eventually finding code violations in the electricity, the structure, and the plumbing. </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">The city administrator added that the two hours he spent in the building during the inspection didn't have him fearing ghosts.</span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":360}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">ETA: I am waiting for a couple of phone calls that might impact this dossier, but I doubt it. I’m currently trying to dig out whatever I can on the drug rehab center but the powers that be in that town don’t seem to want to discuss it. As best I can tell after an extensive search of the historical record as documented by newspapers and personal accounts, none of the </span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">published </span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">stories regarding the hospital are based upon actual historical fact. Any haunting there—and there’s an extensive provenance to support the fact that the building is haunted—has to have been engineered by what happened on and to the location after it was decommissioned as a hospital and </span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">abandoned for a number of years before being </span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">turned into a paranormal attraction.</span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> And considering the nature and spread of the haunting, there seems to be evidence that the haunting began with the desecration of the convent and chapel and is now fueled by a steady stream of investigators and tourists and the energy they bring to the site.</span><span class="TextRun SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> </span><span class="EOP SCXW219642490 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":360}" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times new roman_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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That led us to Mykelle McDaniel, who I interviewed a couple of weeks later along with his mother, Chante-Amoure Simmons. Mykelle was another highly touted recruit, a four-star strongside defensive end who had thirty-one offers coming out of high school—including offers from twelve of the fourteen schools in the SEC: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Auburn, South Carolina, Mississippi State, Texas A&M, Kentucky, LSU, Missouri, Ole Miss, and Tennessee. Mykelle and Marlin did not know each other, and Marlin’s full story is only being revealed now, in this book. So there was no way that these two young men somehow coordinated their stories. Marlin is in Knoxville; Mykelle is in Hutchinson, Kansas.<br />
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I spoke with Ms. Simmons before she and her son committed to an interview with me. The first thing she said struck me hard and made me feel slightly sick. “My son’s father hasn’t been a role model in his life. My second husband never had that bond with Mykelle either. The reason I felt comfortable sending my son to Tennessee was because Coach Jones presented himself as that father figure I always felt my son needed. I thought he was going to go to Tennessee and have that mentorship I’d always wanted for him. But I was a single mother going through his recruitment period with him, and I had no idea what to look for.”<br />
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I don’t think I’ll ever get over hearing the tragedy in her voice. Her voice was lovely anyway, soft and low-pitched, and she spoke with such sincerity and eloquence that as soon as she finished that comment, I started to get angry because I thought I knew what was coming. I just hated it for her and for her son, who I’d not yet spoken to. The bond between them was so touching. I mean—think about it. Before she would allow me to interview her son, she had wanted to talk with me first.<br />
I don’t blame her for that. I admire her for it. She’d learned her lesson about trusting strangers with Mykelle.<br />
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As I said, I thought I knew what was coming. In actuality, I had no clue how bad that story was going to be. The next day, I interviewed Mykelle with his mother sitting in on the call.<br />
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During the pre-training camp physicals, the UT team doctors detected popping in one of Mykelle’s knees. They soon diagnosed a torn meniscus—an injury I can empathize with because I’ve had the same injury myself—and recommended that he have surgery to correct the issue. Because he’d finished a math class late—and not because he failed it. He had a score of 26 on his ACT—Mykelle already had an academic redshirt for the 2016 season, his freshman year. So his path seemed clear. He would have the problem surgically corrected, which was a fairly minor procedure, and would redshirt that season.<br />
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But the coaches didn’t agree. They were appealing the academic redshirt and thought there was a chance he could play that season. So Jones and his staff were pushing Mykelle to go ahead and play the season—with his injured knee. Of course, Mykelle, at eighteen, was anxious to start playing too. But a torn meniscus isn’t an injury to be ignored. The torn meniscus in my knee had led to a total knee replacement. I couldn’t imagine any responsible coach or trainer trying to get a young man to play with a torn meniscus and particularly not in the SEC.<br />
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“We had like a team advisor. You know, you go to him and just talk to him, you know what I’m saying? Just talk to him. The guy’s not supposed to tell anybody what you talk about at all. I did find out later on, the more I talked to him, the more I told him, the more he was going back to coach and telling him everything,” Mykelle explained. “So I got to talking to him and I was just going back and forth, getting his opinion and expressing my opinion as far as how I feel about playing on my knee right now and thinking about whether I wanna fix it or whether I want to go ahead and have the surgery. And the first day I actually tell him about it, later on that day in a team meeting, Coach Jones was…he didn’t say my name, didn’t mention any name at all, but he started saying that: ‘If you’re thinking about having surgery instead of playing, don’t be a bitch. Man up and help your team out.’ Didn’t say any names but I’m not stupid. I clearly know who he was just talking about.”<br />
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“So, after you decided to go ahead and have the surgery and that was with Knoxville Orthopedic Clinic, correct?” I asked.<br />
<br />
“Correct.”<br />
<br />
“Okay, were the trainers, the assistant coaches, or Coach Jones pushing you to not have the surgery and to go ahead and play even though they knew the doctors had recommended it?”<br />
<br />
“Everyone except the doctor himself,” he replied. “When I approached everyone else about it, they said, ‘Don’t have it. There’s a chance you could burn your redshirt. We need you…’<br />
<br />
And so on and so on. When I went to the doctor about it there was one thing consistently on my mind. It’s my career. I need to be smart about it. So I go see the doctor and I explain to him that the coaches have not been allowing me to have my surgery for a couple of weeks now and he says, ‘They can’t do that. I had no idea they were doing that. It’s illegal for them to do that. No one can pick and choose when you have your surgery but you.’ When he told me that, and once they (the coaches) were aware that he told me that, that is when they permitted me to have my surgery.”<br />
<br />
Now there were all sorts of alarm bells going off in my head. Marlin Lane had also stated that the physicians at KOC were outstanding and provided great medical care, but that he had to go to them outside of the normal injury protocols with the trainers. Now, we have an eighteen-year-old freshman being told by a KOC physician that the coaching staff was making medical decisions on his behalf although that was illegal. That goes well beyond Jones and his staff micromanaging the program. If not outright abuse, that’s downright negligence.<br />
<br />
Butch Jones was trading the health and future prospects of his players for wins on Saturdays in the fall and no one at UT had stepped forward as an advocate for those young men.<br />
<br />
Mykelle’s mother put her foot down. Her son’s surgery was scheduled and successful, thanks to the Knoxville Orthopedic Clinic physicians. Three weeks later, Mykelle was back on the practice field, training with the team. Because he wasn’t active on the roster, he was working with the scout team. Six weeks into a fourteen week season, it would have been ridiculous to<br />
burn his redshirt. Clearly, the smart thing to do was to let him sit out the remainder of his redshirt year, and then join the active roster the following season.<br />
<br />
On his first day back at practice, Mykelle was wearing a green no-contact jersey that the trainers had told him to wear.<br />
<br />
“I was back on the field. I came back. In my mind, I’m one hundred percent. I still have a green jersey on but I’m still working. I’m still practicing on the scout team. I walk onto the practice field and I’m like, ‘How you doing, Coach?’<br />
<br />
“And Coach Jones says, ‘I’m doing good but I’d be better if you wasn’t in that green jersey.’<br />
<br />
“I said, ‘It’s not me, it’s the trainers that got me in it.’<br />
<br />
“And he said, ‘Yeah, you being a little bitch.’ His exact words.”<br />
<br />
I have to admit that at that moment, I kind of lost my temper. What made it tough was that I was on a three-way call with Mykelle and his mother. The last thing I wanted to do was to follow my initial instincts, which would have involved cussing. So I took a moment and then asked, “Okay, so he called you a little bitch because you were wearing the no contact jersey when you first got back out on the field after your surgery, correct?”<br />
<br />
“Yes ma’am.”<br />
<br />
“So what did you do?”<br />
<br />
“I chuckled and said, ‘Yes sir. I hope it gets better.’ and I continued on with my stretches. And he walked past.”<br />
<br />
Always just a little embarrassing to realize a teenager is more mature than I am at fifty-two. But that’s the kind of young man Mykelle is. Like his mother, he’s articulate and extremely courteous. In this day and age, it’s positively refreshing to hear an eighteen year-old just being<br />
polite. Those “yes ma’ams” told me more about his character than any amount of background research could have. These were good people, who could never have anticipated what was going to happen next.<br />
<br />
“It’s South Carolina week,” Mykelle went on. “The next incident was South Carolina weekend and we come out for practice Monday and I’m pass rushing this particular day, against this person…a new starter on the o-line. He tore his meniscus before I tore mine. He had surgery before me but his body didn’t heal as fast as mine. He took his good time coming back, so he was literally just now coming back off his meniscus injury and they put him in the starting lineup and line us up to go to work. And I’m going against him and he’s shooting his hand…he’s heading for my face mask. He’s shooting his hands and he’s aiming for my throat, slapping me in my face and whatnot. I turn and Butch Jones is literally just standing right there.<br />
<br />
“We had officials at every practice and they would throw flags and, you know, break up every fight before they happen. Literally. Every practice there would be twenty officials out every single practice. There’d be twenty officials. And he’s slapping my face mask and he’s doing it for so long and it gets to the point where I turn to Butch Jones and I say, ‘Are you just going to sit there and watch him do this?’<br />
<br />
“He doesn’t respond to me, he just head nods. I don’t know what that means but I said, ‘Are you just going to sit here and watch him keep playing me dirty like that?’ He just nods his head. So I go back, and I come off the ball, and at this point, I do a post move. That’s a move that you don’t do at practice. You’re not supposed to do it against a teammate. At that point he grabs me and he throws me on the ground. Once he throws me on the ground, everyone else hops on top of me. I mean the offensive line was on the bench. They wasn’t even in the game or in the play. The line’s just jumping and stomping and beating me and nothing is happening. Officials<br />
just standing there, not running onto the field. Coaches standing there, not doing anything. I was cool with all the running backs, the only people jumping me were the offensive line. Running backs just standing there watching. Wide receivers just standing there watching. Everybody just stood there watching.<br />
<br />
“I talked to a couple of people afterwards, one of the running backs that I was cool with, his name was Jeremy Lewis, he tried to hop in, but his coach cussed him out and said, ‘Don’t you hop in. That’s your o-line. You leave them alone.’ I talked to Jauan Jennings. He told me he was running a fly route. He was way down the field, he didn’t even know what happened until he got all the way back. Everyone was asking, ‘Where were you when it happened?’ Everybody had different reasons but they all were saying it was just the offensive line when they did what they did.<br />
<br />
“I went back and looked at it. I saw it on camera that same night, you can pull it (practice film) up on camera. I watched the offensive line just run in and jump in, I watched Jauan running the fly route, I watched the coaches just standing there, I watched the coach cuss the running back who tried to hop in to help me, I watched Butch Jones stand there, I watched the officials just stand there. The next day when I go back, everybody is in the locker room looking at it on their iPads. Everyone on the team gets it. Once Coach Jones comes in and sees everyone’s on their iPads in the locker room watching it, they take the film off of the site. They take that play off of the team thing (practice video site), they took that whole play off. It’s no longer there. I don’t know what they did to it but it was no longer there.”<br />
<br />
When writers are conducting an interview and things like this come out, it feels almost like a double gut punch. The first response is a human reaction, visceral and raw, to what you’ve just heard. The second is like getting slapped across the face or punched in the jaw with<br />
adrenaline. That feeling is like leveling up right before a boss fight in a video game. You don’t know exactly what’s coming, but you think to yourself that now might be a good time to head to the closest save point. You recognize the feeling that you’re getting close to something really big.<br />
<br />
“So how many…when you say jumped, are you saying they physically pummeled you? They hit you?”<br />
<br />
“Stomped, punch, beat. I was beat. By the entire offensive line. If you need me to go into names, as far as the offensive line, I could name the entire offensive line on the 2016 player roster.”<br />
<br />
“Now were they instructed to do so by the coaching staff?”<br />
<br />
“If you ask me? I know nothing as far as they did it. I do not know nothing for a fact. If you ask me, I’m no fool. I’ve seen other fights happen all through the season. I’ve seen other scuffles happen, the referees break it up, I mean within a second, like instantly. The officials are over there and then it’s over with. This particular fight, they all just sat there and watched.”<br />
<br />
Mykelle’s mother was still on the line so I asked, “Ms. Simmons? You saw that entire fight on film, right?”<br />
<br />
She’d told me that during our conversation earlier.<br />
<br />
“Yes. I saw the fight but when I tried to go back the next day after my mom was saying you need to find some way to download it, the next day when I tried to go back it was gone.”<br />
<br />
“How long would you estimate that scuffle went on before it ended?”<br />
<br />
“I would say about at least ten minutes?”<br />
<br />
Although nothing should have shocked me at that point, I found myself gobsmacked yet again. “That long? Ten minutes?”<br />
<br />
“Oh yeah.”<br />
<br />
Now, I cannot imagine she was running a stopwatch while she’s watching that film of her son being assaulted by a group of football players. I also am aware that during a traumatic situation, witness descriptions are usually inaccurate—over- or underestimated because of the stress those witnesses are coping with. That’s enough to make two minutes feel like five, or five like ten for most people.<br />
<br />
Regardless, her testimony makes it clear that the incident went on much longer than an unplanned scuffle between football players in the heat of the moment would have. Keeping in mind that coaches and officials were standing by and watching—allowing—this to happen indicates to me that this assault continued for some minutes before it finally ended, and that is disturbing.<br />
<br />
“All right. So what kind of physical shape were you in after that Mykelle?”<br />
<br />
“My adrenaline was running so I don’t feel anything at the time. I get up and I grab my helmet. Coach Jones tried to go to the next play and none of the scout team players ran in to replace me. So he’s like, ‘Who’s supposed to be here right now?’ And then I’m putting my helmet back on and running back onto the field, and he grabbed me and was like, ‘No, you go to the sidelines.’ That’s when he started cussing out the scout team players. ‘Why the f*** are are you out of the game? Get out there, you’re not doing nothing, or I’m gonna take your scholarship!’<br />
<br />
“So he went out there and that’s when I calmed down and realized that every time I moved my shoulder, my collarbone was popping out. Literally. I showed the doctors, they took me into the training room with the doctor to take a look at it and he said I needed to go to the emergency room immediately. And they put me in an ambulance and I went to the emergency room. He said the way my collarbone was moving, it was too close to my throat. They didn’t want my bone to cut anything, you understand what I’m saying? So, they took me to the emergency room immediately. They took me there, they X-ray’d it, put me inside the CAT scan, they said—they basically came up with the conclusion I got a contusion in my collarbone and they can’t fix it, because if they go in and fix it, nine times out of ten they would do nothing but make it worse. Just gotta pray it falls back into place.”<br />
<br />
“Okay, at this point Ms. Simmons, you have documentation from the hospital that he went to. Was that UT medical center or somewhere else?”<br />
<br />
“I’m not sure about what hospital it was because they never gave me documentation so everybody was telling me that Butch Jones had it, and I scheduled meetings with him. First of all, he wouldn’t take a phone call with me. I scheduled two meetings with him after that, both of which he cancelled. I was able to… Coach Strip (Steve Stripling) connected me to the doctor, and I don’t remember the doctor’s name. I have emails, I’m gonna go back through my emails and see what I can find.”<br />
“So after that event, and I saw the text message exchange you had with Butch Jones on your Twitter feed. Did you ever discuss the incident more with him?”<br />
<br />
Just as a note—that text exchange was just about what you’d expect from an angry eighteen-year old football player who just found out his coach was glad he got injured as the result of a fight. The language was probably cleaner than what I would have used if that had been my son on the field.<br />
<br />
But not by much.<br />
<br />
“Oh yeah, he called me after that and when he called me his exact words were, ‘I understand you’re frustrated, I understand you’re upset, but there’s a certain way you can’t talk to the University of Tennessee head coach.’”<br />
<br />
“Oh wow, that’s just arrogant. My God.”<br />
<br />
“Yeah, he said, ‘I apologize for what happened. I didn’t mean for that to happen. You won’t need to focus on getting any revenge from anybody, I’m gonna get the revenge for you. I’m gonna talk to them, I’m gonna get on to their coach. I’m gonna make sure they’re in trouble for this, they will pay for this.'<br />
<br />
“So, I got off the phone and thought, ‘I’ll sleep better tonight.’ And nothing happened to the offensive line. Nothing at all. Yeah.”<br />
<br />
“Some of my teammates—Taeler Dowdy, and Jauan Jennings, and John Kelly—they told me at the end of practice that Coach told the whole team that he was glad that what happened, happened. You got to understand that at the time, the whole starting defense…I’m the only scout team player on scholarship so everybody who’s on the field knows that I’m honestly there because I want to be on the field with them. So they respect me, I’m chill with them; they understand that’s who I’m with. So the whole defense has no idea that this happened to me so when, Butch Jones said, ‘I’m happy that happened because when we play South Carolina this weekend it’s going to be a street fight and that’s just showed me that y’all are ready for a street fight.’<br />
<br />
“That’s why I texted him and I said, ‘Did you say you were happy it happened?’ That’s when the text messages started because right when I found out I texted him and I asked, ‘Did you say you were happy it happened?’<br />
<br />
“He was trying to say that I was twisting his words. ‘I was happy that you got out there.’<br />
<br />
“I don’t understand how you can even switch that. You were happy that I got out there? Or you happy that it happened? I don’t know how…I don’t really understand what he’s talking about on that.”<br />
<br />
“Yeah, that’s not something any normal person would say.”<br />
<br />
“Yeah, not at all. So, while I’m in the emergency room—I’m in the hospital when the defense found out. That’s when Derek Barnett, Corey Vereen, Kahlil McKenzie, Jonathon Kongbo—all of them, the whole defensive line—that’s when they went to the offensive line in the locker room and basically there was a fight in the locker room about what happened. A little scuffle, not really a fight because the offensive line wouldn’t fight back. They were like, ‘We don’t wanna fight, we don’t wanna fight, we didn’t mean for it to happen.’”<br />
<br />
As soon as I heard that, my mind instantly flashed back to the 2017 season when ShyTuttle had his orbital bone broken and Butch Jones had claimed in a press conference that he’d fallen on a helmet. Obviously, fights on and off the practice field were a pretty standard event though—something these players were accustomed to under this coaching staff. Here again—I’ve been around football for a long time. I know how frequently tempers flare up on the field, both during practice and during games. But something like this?<br />
<br />
How often was this type of thing going on? And how out of line was that with other teams?<br />
<br />
Preferred walk-on Taeler Dowdy was one of the players that Mykelle had mentioned in regard to the incident. I spoke with him a week later.<br />
<br />
“Okay, so you witnessed the fight that ended up breaking Mykelle’s collarbone, right?”<br />
<br />
“Yes, I was actually in the locker room with him after it.”<br />
<br />
“Okay, why don’t you tell me about what went down as far as you could tell with that whole thing?”<br />
<br />
“I won’t say I saw the whole thing but I definitely heard from everybody, because everybody was talking about it. I think it was a play, and it’s funny because the coaches, like, I was a practice player at the time and, Mykelle, he was a scout player too. And they (the coaches) would like for real yell at us if we would beat the first stringers, like if we, I guess, went too hard and we actually beat them they would get mad. And Mykelle, he would just always beat the o-linemen and I guess they just all get mad and they jumped him. When he came into the locker room, it was just him when he came into the locker room, and I had to help him take his shoulder pads off and stuff. And then like five minutes of him being in pain, the trainers finally came. I don’t know, I just felt like they definitely dealt with that wrong. And then after that practice, Coach Jones says, ‘Good job to the offensive linemen for like sticking together and having each other’s backs’ or something.”<br />
<br />
“What were other players saying in the locker room about what happened? After it happened?”<br />
<br />
“Well, a lot of the defensive players were mad and, I mean, the linemen, them and Mykelle kinda like—they just didn’t like Mykelle because he would do good. He would do good against them at practice so they were gloating about that. I don’t feel like they felt bad that they did what they did.”<br />
<br />
“Did anybody on the coaching staff, strength coach, GAs, other players, did anybody step forward and say what they did was wrong?”<br />
<br />
“Not that I heard of honestly because that wasn’t the only fight. I mean, there were fights after that and I believe that because of that situation went so wrong there was more after that…because of that. There wasn’t a punishment for that or something.”<br />
<br />
So, let’s take a minute to assimilate what’s been said. Another player has just corroborated Mykelle’s story. Keep in mind, too, that Mykelle’s account dovetails with what Marlin Lane had said earlier—not only about injuries and how the coaches demanded their players continue to play, but also about how Butch Jones used players against their teammates, setting some guys up as almost a gang in order to enforce his rules and expectations upon the others.<br />
<br />
“While you’re playing, if you don’t perform to the way he wants you to perform, or basically carry a jug of water or do this and do all that, he was basically saying, ‘You’re not performing up to your abilities so I’m going to give you a year probation on your scholarship. If you don’t perform or do what you came here to do that’s…you’re done.’” Marlin (Lane)had said two weeks earlier. “And what kind of had me up in the air with the last interview I did, which I did not with you guys, but with some… I can’t even remember, who… I think it was SB Nation, I’m not sure but they quoted something that I said in the wrong—”<br />
<br />
“Yeah, I remember that.”<br />
<br />
“It almost kind of messed my career up with jobs or…and everything else. But by me, you know, just knowing certain people that they gave me a chance at my job now. By them ( SB Nation article) saying he had me threaten kids’ lives, which I never did. I never said that. What I said was he would use me, because of my background, where I come from, my environment. On player staff meeting one day which is—we sit at a table like this of probably fourteen players that pretty much can have a voice to other players—and we were sitting in his office conference room and he literally told me, ‘I’m going to tell you why I got you on player staff because you got street in you and so you could go up to certain players and say this to certain players and they won’t react to you because of...’<br />
<br />
Basically he was saying where I was from, you know, and I kinda laughed it off but at the same time I’m like…where is that going? Even Justin Worley, like they all... ‘Why would he say that?’”<br />
<br />
“When I hear you talk or watch the way you are, I don’t instantly think street, am I wrong here? I mean you’re a very well-spoken young man, how could anybody get street off that?” I said.<br />
<br />
“That’s what…‘The reason why I’m in here is because you want me to go to certain players and tell them that if they don’t act right, you’re gonna kick them off the team.’”<br />
<br />
So now, all the pieces are starting to fall together. I’m getting a clear picture of what had happened to those earlier teams, those earlier players. I understand better what the environment must been like, and why those squads that looked so good on paper didn’t live up to their potential. I can see why so many injuries decimated the Volunteers, and why so many players transferred. I have three players on the record now: Marlin Lane, who was gone before Mykelle McDaniel and Taeler Dowdy arrived. I have a parent on the record.<br />
<br />
As I write this now, I have a strong hunch that these stories are just the tip of the iceberg. Too many other players have been named by these three. And I know that for me, this story is just beginning. There are months of research ahead of me as I track down other players, staff members and former coaches, trainers and physicians and university officials.<br />
<br />
And obviously, the person I want to talk to the most is Butch Jones. I would be shocked if he wasn’t restricted by a tight non-disclosure agreement after his termination from the University of Tennessee. I’d assume almost every high-profile coach in the country is. That being said, he should be given the opportunity to discuss these claims on the record and I’d be more than happy to provide him that platform.<br />
<br />
But I think it’s essential to understand the following as the foundation of what we’ve been discussing: a football coach is in a position of near-absolute authority over the players on his team. A coach must administer that authority in such a way as to not needlessly endanger a player’s safety, or to negatively impact their prospects. Jones was responsible for his players’ welfare on multiple levels, whether they were superstars or on the scout team. Regardless of how you look at these stories—and this is just a fraction of what I was told by these interview subjects—at the end of the day, any coach that jeopardizes the players on his team must be held accountable for his actions.<br />
<br />
That’s why the Maryland decision to retain head coach DJ Durkin after the investigation into the death of player Jordan McNair due to heat stroke caused such a backlash among students, media, and fans. The investigators had censured the coaching practices that led to these same kinds of repercussions on the Maryland football team, citing a culture where players were afraid to speak out, a athletic department that was deeply dysfunctional, a strength and conditioning program the university failed to supervise, and an overall lack of oversight warding the players’ health, safety, and well-being.<br />
<br />
Being suspended for a few games isn’t true accountability. That’s a slap on the wrist. The University of Maryland had no option but to terminate Durkin the day after they had reinstated him as head football coach.<br />
<br />
And let’s be honest—the similarities between Maryland under Durkin and Tennessee under Jones are striking. Considering the type of injury Mykelle McDaniel received, the two programs were closer than anyone, including me, would ever have guessed.<br />
<br />
After I wrote this chapter, I sat back and thought for a few minutes about what I’d learned. When I first heard Marlin and Mykelle and Taeler tell their stories, I was kicking myself for not knowing what was happening to them even though I live hundreds of miles away. Like I should have possessed some sort of insight superpower. Then, I felt disturbed that Vol Nation revolted against UT because we were mad that the university was ignoring what we, the fans, demanded and expected from them when it came to hiring a football coach.<br />
<br />
Coaches. The highest-paid, most-visible state employees with their multi-million dollar contracts subsidized by taxpayer dollars. And as I thought the above sentence, something clicked in my head.<br />
The fan ReVOLution wasn’t just about winning football games after all. Without the uprising, none of these stories—or the ones we’ll pursue after this book is finished—might ever have come to light.<br />
That’s how important it is for fans to hold their universities accountable for their decisions. Not just to win games, although that’s a big part of it. We must require them to discharge their responsibilities toward all students. If colleges don’t adequately safeguard their students, then it’s everyone’s absolute duty to hold them accountable for it, whether in Baltimore or Waco, East Lansing or Knoxville.<br />
<br />
We really are the caretakers now.<br />
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The fact of the matter is that there’s a long string of peculiar accidents, hate crimes, tragedies, infidelity and violent domestic abuse associated with the house as far back as the early 1900s. Those events set the stage for the haunting today. And while we don’t have all the facts of the Monroe House and there are sizable gaps in our knowledge of who owned and lived in the residence, a pattern starts to emerge early that is worth evaluating.</div>
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<a href="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/30-84QayBYY/maxresdefault.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/30-84QayBYY/maxresdefault.jpg" width="400" /></a>The legends around the large, white-sided Victorian house and its extreme haunting are well-known in Blackford County, Indiana. The Monroe House, as the residence at 218 North Monroe Street in Hartford City is called, has been a <a href="http://strangeandcreepy.com/demon-house-monroe-indiana/">mystery for decades</a>. Neighbors have reported everything from fires to black smoky figures in the windows to loud arguments and lights coming on in the vacant home for years, but when the police show up no one is there and nothing is wrong. The ghost stories go back at least to the 1930s. When you combine the stories and legends with the historical records, a fascinating—and terrifying—timeline emerges, one that might explain the continued hauntings and escalated activity in the residence.<br />
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Psychics have claimed for years that the house is haunted as the result of horrific child abuse—a father who abused his small son and daughter so severely the event has been imprinted on the property, a literal trauma to the very foundations of the house. Investigations have uncovered Class A EVPs of small children screaming, disembodied voices interacting with investigators even through baby monitors, shadow people, the apparitions of two small children, a small blackened apparition in the upstairs windows, unexplained fires, physical attacks, and sever poltergeist activity.<br />
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But all of these are claims—allegations. What we have to do is to try to tie the current paranormal claims to the actual history of the house. That way, we can corroborate the evidence with documented fact. That's why paranormal researchers, who may not be the obsessive compulsive provokers that you find on most YouTube channel, are probably the most important members of their paranormal investigation groups. With a well-known haunt like the Monroe House, a lot of teams are content to accept the legend...the cover story of a location as absolute fact. They investigate a location and immediately defer to the legend to validate any evidence they may find.<br />
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But that's not investigation. That's intellectual laziness, and if you're part of a group who just accepts what the owner of a site has up on his website, then you're invalidating every single bit of evidence you may capture. You have to research the location honestly, and find the real history for yourself. The Monroe House is a location I investigated extensively, and the story I uncovered has little to no bearing on what the claimed history of the site is.<br />
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The house is now a triplex, divided during the tenure of the Berger family, who lived in the home from around 1900 to 1930. The Bergers were Belgian immigrants who began their life in Indiana by working in the Hartford City Glass Company as glass workers. John B. and Mary Berger had five children together, who all worked in the glass company from childhood on. John became an agent for Indianapolis Brewing and a major steamship line. He bought a tavern, invested his money in real estate, joined organizations like the Elks, the Rotary, and the Oddfellows, and became a leading citizen of the town.<br />
<br />
In the late 1900s, two families lived in the Monroe Street house. The Bergers occupied the downstairs, but after the death of John in 1905 rented out the upstairs. Through searching newspaper archives, we discovered an article that may directly tie into the claims of the Monroe Street Haunting—and the family that lived upstairs.<br />
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On <a href="https://newspaperarchive.com/us/indiana/hartford-city/hartford-city-telegram/1907/03-20/page-2?tag=220+north+monroe+street&rtserp=tags/220-north-monroe-street?page=1&pc=12432&psi=38&pci=7&pt=21613">March 20, 1907, the Hartford City Telegram reported the following:</a><br />
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<em>"Ulysses G. Miars, the well known bookkeeper and former paymaster at the Johnston factory, was Friday made the defendant in a divorce suit filed in the circuit court by. Mary Miars, who besides a divorce asks the custody of their three children, $500 alimony and $25 monthly for the support of the children. Mr, and Mrs. Miars were married in September, 1886, and lived together until March 1, 1907, when the plaintiff avers that she was cast upon the street to depend on the charity of strangers. Her allegations in part are: <b>That the defendant has been guilty of cruel and inhuman treatment; that he possesses a violent and uncontrollable temper and at various times became enraged without cause, and on March 11 drove her from their home giving her no clothing other than, that she was wearing; that she was obliged to seek shelter at the home of a neighbor as it was late in the evening and she had no relatives that she could call upon for assistance;</b> that plaintiff is weak, frail and in poor health and unable to perform hard labor although she was compelled to do so and then was not provided with suitable clothing. The family is comprised of three children—Earl, age 20; Edna, age 8, and Ernest, age 4. It is further alleged that the defendant is capable of earning $125 monthly and fully able to maintain the children by paying $25 monthly for their support. The parties named in the complaint have resided on north Monroe street and their troubles of the present week have afforded a great opportunity for the town gossips.”</em></blockquote>
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To report not only a divorce proceeding but allegations of domestic violence and child abuse is extremely rare in newspapers at the time, especially in a small Midwestern town. Ulysses Miars was a well-known businessman whose life fell apart in a matter of weeks. First the public claim of abuse, then the loss of his position, then reconciliation with his wife—only to desert her a few months later for (allegedly) another woman. On December 4, 1907, the following article appeared:<br />
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“UG Miars has filed a suit for divorce from his wife, Mrs. Mary Miars, alleging that she had a <b>cruel disposition and frequently chastised their children with a buggy whip.”</b></blockquote>
By June of 1908, Ulysses Miars wasn’t paying support for his wife and children. He was newly married—already—to a woman who got a divorce at about the same time from her husband. The only reason he was able to pay the settlement of the divorce was because his mother sold her farm. But after that? He didn’t pay his former family a dime. Ulysses Miars and his new wife (they actually married illegally, as in<i> her </i>divorce she was forbidden from marrying for two years) ended up moving to Ohio, where in 1949, he died—in Toledo. The only child listed as a survivor from his first marriage was Edgar, the eldest son.<br />
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What’s extremely strange about this is that Mary Miars and all three children are in the 1910 census, now living on Jefferson Street. But none of them—not Mary, not Edna, not Ernest, not Edgar—can be found on any 1920 census.<br />
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So where did they go? The child abuse and domestic violence cited in the courts was extreme and severe. Did the Miars children die young? We know there were rumors about the family <i>before</i> the horrific divorce, because in 1903 there was gossip around their then four-year old daughter, Edna. No one had seen the child for a while, and word spread through the neighborhood that she had diphtheria. At the time, that would have required the entire household—this is before the Monroe Street house—to be quarantined. So the Miars inserted a strange notice in the paper that their daughter "has never been bedfast on account of sickness and is now able to be around the house most of the time."<br />
Which if you think about it, is weird. She’s not sick, but she’s able to be around the house “most of the time”?<br />
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The Berger family, on the other hand, was socially prominent and well-respected. Their children lived at home as young adults and didn’t cause any trouble. The Berger daughters had large weddings, reported in the Telegram, and the sons went into business and did very well. But in <a href="https://newspaperarchive.com/us/indiana/hartford-city/hartford-city-telegram/1905/09-20/page-6?tag=john+b+berger+death+funeral+burial+illness+injury&rtserp=tags/?pc=12432&psi=38&pci=7&ndt=bd&pd=1&pm=9&py=1905&pe=1&pem=10&pey=1905&plo=death-funeral-burial-illness-injury&pf=john-b&pl=berger">1905, John B. Berger was diagnosed with tuberculosis</a>. went to Silver City, New Mexico for treatment at the Sisters’ Hospital there. But upon arrival, his case was declared hopeless and he was dead eight days later. After his funeral, the Bergers rented the upstairs apartment—to the Miars. Although the two families shared the house for a very short period of time, the Bergers began to be plagued by a series of baffling and bizarre occurrences that traumatized the entire family.<br />
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To start off with, the Bergers’ barn caught on fire. Sparks from the blaze subsequently set the homes of two neighbors, Emil Loriaux and Joe Aucreman, on fire as well. Then, John Berger’s older brother, Marshall, was stranded outside and his feet were severely frostbitten in 1905. Then a horse stepped on his foot and gangrene set in. Marshall’s leg was amputated above the knee. He recovered, only to die of pneumonia two years after his brother, in 1907.<br />
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Later in 1905, John’s son <a href="https://newspaperarchive.com/us/indiana/hartford-city/hartford-city-telegram/1905/05-17?tag=george+berger&rtserp=tags/?pc=12432&psi=38&pci=7&ndt=bd&pd=1&pm=1&py=1905&pe=30&pem=12&pey=1910&pf=george&pl=berger">George was the victim of a hate crime, and was shot by anti-Belgian assailants</a> as he walked with friends after a dance. Witnesses reported that the two different groups of men hadn’t interacted at all as they passed each other on the street. George and his friends didn’t apparently know any of their attackers and according to witnesses didn’t say a word to the other group.<br />
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So when suddenly the group, led by three men from Kentucky, yelled, “You goddamned frogs won’t be running this town no more!” it was unexpected. The men unleashed a spray of bullets at George and his friends. George was shot in the chest, right above the heart, and was carried home to his mother’s house. Doctors expected him to die and the newspaper reported that he was for a time “pulseless”. But somehow, he rallied and survived the attack.<br />
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Interestingly, the three attackers went to a bar after shooting George Berger, where they told the bartender they had “fixed a group of frogs”, and then disappeared from the town entirely. The bar was owned by Frederick Nicaise—who had a tie to the Berger family as well.<br />
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The Bergers’ daughter, Mary, had married Belgian immigrant Frederick Nicaise, in 1894. After five children in fairly short order, she died after complications of diabetes and childbirth, along with her newborn son, in 1909. But by the 1910 census, the five children were living with their grandmother in the Monroe Street house. The children grew to adulthood in their grandmother’s home and there is no further mention of their father, alive or dead.<br />
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In 1911, the Bergers’ daughter-in-law Caroline, wife of their other son, Elmer, was in a <a href="https://newspaperarchive.com/us/indiana/hartford-city/hartford-city-telegram/1911/05-31?tag=elmer+j+berger+mishap+carriage+injured&rtserp=tags/?pc=12432&psi=38&pci=7&ndt=by&py=1900&pey=1930&plo=mishap-carriage-injured&pf=elmer-j&pl=berger">inexplicable carriage accident</a>. On a trip back from the Oddfellows Cemetery when John Berger is buried, she and a friend accepted a ride fro a gentleman passing by in a carriage. On the way home, the back wheel just fell off the carriage for no discernible reason, throwing her into the street where she was badly injured. This is the first bizarre incident involving transportation.<br />
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We’ll get to the other one, which happens thirty years later, in part 2 of this article.<br />
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In the 1920s, the most famous man in the world was arguably Harry Houdini, stage magician and escape artist. While normally this sort of entertainer would have concentrated on making his audiences believe that he possessed some supernatural power, Houdini was different. Not only did he claim the direct opposite, he went a step further. <a href="https://www.thegreatharryhoudini.com/occult.html" target="_blank">He claimed that no one had arcane abilities of magic or spirit communication, and he put his money where his mouth was. </a> After his mother died, Houdini tried to contact her through various psychic mediums, but none of them were legitimate. He began to give lectures on fake mediums. In 1924, he wrote and published a book: <i>A Magician Among The Spirits</i>. All year on his 1925 tour, he offered a $10,000 reward to anyone who proved to him that their purported abilities were real. <script src="https://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
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At the time, the spiritualist movement was huge internationally. Less than a decade after World War I, too many families in Europe, Asia, and the Americas were still dealing with the deaths of their fathers, husbands, and sons. Europe was still in the throes of severe political upheaval, just a few years after the deposition of Tsar Nicholas and his subsequent execution along with his wife and children and only a few years before fascism took hold of a turbulent post-war Germany. If there were people with the ability to contact the dead, their talents and skill had never been more needed. </div>
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And as with so many issues of faith, that terrible fact attracted the worst kinds of snake oil salesmen and exploitative opportunists. Houdini maintained a one-man war against them and was remarkably successful in his pursuit of frauds. After all, who was better situated to know all the tricks of the trade than a man who'd gotten rich from using those tricks to entertain sold-out theaters every night for months? </div>
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Houdini was a magician, yes. But he was also an honest man, who couldn't bear the dishonesty that was coming between people struggling to survive during the Great Depression and their money--money that should have been used to feed and clothe their children instead of rewarding the lies a fake medium concocted. And Harry is perhaps the forefather of the awareness that around any paranormal community, there's a fringe element. I call the inhabitants of that element paranormal parasites, and they're far more common than you think.<br />
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As a paranormal researcher, I've encountered these parasites in all sorts of locations and playing all sorts of roles. So for the purposes of this blog mini-series, I'm going to break these down into several groups of paranormal parasites: fakers or false victims; ghost hunters; paranormal clergy; psychics/mediums; demonology; paranormal tourism; haunted objects and paranormal equipment; and paranormal television.<br />
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Yeah. I know what you're thinking. "But...but Celina! Are you saying that ALL paranormal stuff is some kind of scam?"<br />
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No. What I'm saying is that paranormal parasites can be found at any level of involvement, and skepticism is necessary not only to understand what's happening around you but to protect yourself from something far more terrifying than cryptids and poltergeists.<br />
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Doesn't matter what you believe in, there's nothing scarier than man.<br />
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Each identified area will get its own blog post, along with signs of what to look for so that you won't end up becoming the victim of a parasite.<br />
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The only way to verify legitimate paranormal activity is to eliminate any other potential explanations. Any long-time investigator (or Sherlock Holmes fan, for that matter) will inherently understand and agree with this. It's a fact. The only way you can conclusively determine if something is paranormal or supernatural is to eliminate every other possibility. In the paranormal world right now there are too many people desperate to prove that what they believe is a universal fact when in actuality, that's the direct opposite approach to what investigators should be doing.<br />
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What we should be doing is trying to prove that what we witness, capture, or believe has a logical, non-paranormal provenance. Anything else is just a subjective experience--an allegation or a claim. And I'm not immune to that rule. All over the paranormal section of this blog are stories of events that I've experienced, documented, or researched. But those stories aren't evidence. You can't consider them proof of anything. BUT my subjective experiences. These observations do serve a purpose from an investigatory standpoint. They can be road maps, perhaps, to help investigators find evidence.<br />
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For example, I tell the story of my experiences with the Bell Witch Cave and my earliest paranormal research in the post <a href="http://kaantira.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-real-bell-witch-legend-what-real.html" target="_blank">What A Real Night Investigating in Adams Is Like</a>. A significant portion of that post deals with how the rocks in the Bell Witch Cave should *never* be taken home as souvenirs. Heck, I didn't even TAKE a rock; they just showed up in my car. When I took one I missed back to the cave the next day, this is what happened:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #22292f; font-size: 16px;">"The rocks were what freaked me out," I confessed. "That's why I thought I'd better make sure to bring this straight back."</span><span style="color: #22292f; font-size: 16px;">"Last night the dead men's lanterns were glowing in the woods," he said, looking in the direction of the Bells' old graveyard. "Things was restless last night. Probably one of those stupid kids on the hayride got things riled up. But she gave you a warning, Celina. Better be careful, girl--she let you know that she knows who you are."</span></span> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #22292f; font-size: 16px;">Mr. Bims took the rock, said goodbye, and headed toward the trail. I knew he was going to put the rock back in the cave--like he always put those rocks that came back in the mail from all over. I should have taken it myself and spared the old man the trip, but I knew he wouldn't let me. He believed Kate had given me a warning, and so he'd given me one too.</span></span></blockquote>
That's a pretty scary story but one that's ultimately just a subjective experience. There's no proof that the rocks from the Bell Witch Cave are cursed, right? The post was written in October, 2015 about events that happened in October, 1990. But two days ago, on October 6, 2019, the Fourman brothers released a new investigation on their paranormal channel called <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qkd-9z0O4Q" target="_blank">Paranormal Nightmares: The Haunting of Jackie Bell</a>. And a significant element of that story has to do with the severe haunting of a family after they visited the Bell Witch Cave and brought back rocks as souvenirs.<br />
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Here again--this isn't evidence the proves those rocks are cursed. There isn't any scientific method that will verify the existence of a curse. But these two stories corroborate each other. Two events that occurred decades apart to people with no known connection or association but that have similar results. And what makes all this even more interesting is that the Fourman brothers take an EVP meter to one of the rocks from the Bell Witch Cave <b><i>at the clients' house</i></b>, and document extremely high EVP readings.<br />
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And that<i> is</i> proof--not of the paranormal, necessarily, but of something unusual and different about that rock that marks it as unusual. Paired with both my story and Katharine Bell's story, the meter readings do seem to indicate that there's some kind of evidential trail that stretches from the Bell Witch Cave to subsequent paranormal activity. So there may be some way to learn more about the Bell Witch haunting as a result, and that's why I hope to investigate the cave again soon. Now that there's a concrete link, I can hopefully build off my subjective experience and look for additional evidence that can lead to proof of paranormal activity on the old Bell family land.<br />
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There's a trail to follow. Sure, it'd be really easy for me (if I was a paranormal parasite) to sit here and say, "See? That's PROOF." But it's not enough to establish the legitimacy of the paranormal on its own. What is DOES do is give me a direction as an investigator, and that I can pursue.<br />
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So I will.<br />
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Oh and by the way, if you've never watched any of the Fourman Brothers' investigations, you've been missing out on what is one of the best paranormal research groups out there. Go check out this video, and I'm almost positive you'll be hooked. Seem to be great guys, strong investigators, and outstanding storytellers. Check out their YouTube channel or the first season of their <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Somethings-Killing-Our-Family/dp/B07YLZXQF9/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=paranormal+nightmares&qid=1570543643&s=instant-video&sr=1-1" target="_blank">new Paranormal Nightmares show on Amazon Prime.</a><br />
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So settle down, buckle in, and get ready. We're about to take a cold, hard look at the world of paranormal parasites. Hopefully, this will help any of you who are dealing with any sort of paranormal issues to make your own determinations about things impacting you and your life.<br />
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First up, probably the most controversial of the paranormal parasite topics: the clergy. </div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">The court of Louis XV is accustomed to both social and political power being brokered in those endless corridors and stunning salons. The Marquis's longtime enemy, the Duc d'Orleans, is secretly wielding magical power in his quest for the French throne. When she is betrothed to the Marquis, Odette is drawn into their battle...but she's also drawn further into the Harlequin's sphere of influence.</span></span><br />
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<i>Montesquieu, near Meaux, France—October, 1756</i><br />
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The wind swirled down from the hilltop in the center of the cemetery, stirring the grasses that grew high on the forgotten graves of long-dead people. Farmers, servants, tradesmen, and soldiers all lay beneath those tangled weeds, sleeping in an endless night. While their tombstones crumbled, their bones moldered and lichen obscured the few pitiful dates that were the final proof those lost souls had ever existed. Only the more-recently dead had well-tended graves, with the grass trimmed closely and flowers heaped against pristine white stones.<br />
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I had a pair of scissors in the deep pocket of my cloak. I was here to attend to my father’s grave, alone in the middle of the night. I couldn’t bear to be accompanied or to be found sitting by his tomb during the still-warm autumnal sunlight, so I frequently came well after dark. I only felt close to him here, where he slept beneath the same sheltering angel as my mother. I could sit beside him, and confide my hopes and fears as I always had, without worrying that some passing traveler would think me mad.<br />
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I stood alone over his silent earthen bed until another whirr of wind raised gooseflesh on the back of my neck. I slipped into the shadow of the grieving angel, letting the darkness of her wings conceal me as I glanced uneasily at the ornate mausoleum atop the hill.<br />
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My face warmed as fear flashed through my veins, and my nerves began to sing uncomfortably against my skin.<br />
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Something was wrong here…threatening.<br />
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Usually, my father’s grave was a place of refuge, of safety against a world that too often seemed to crowd ugliness into my life. Usually when I entered the graveyard, my father’s love surrounded me like a cloak, protecting me from all the other emotions a cemetery contained. I had been coming now for over a year—at least once a week since my father’s death. I hadn’t met anyone in the graveyard at midnight, which was why I liked it—and I had never felt anything here other than peace.<br />
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Until now.<br />
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Aside from the brisk wind that carried the first scent of snow on its fingers, the graveyard was silent and still. The path that stretched in front of my parents’ graves continued up the sole hill in the cemetery, until it reached a veritable palace for the dead perched on its summit. A strained glow of light illuminated the pale columns and pediments of the huge mausoleum—the final resting place of the powerful Montesquieu family—as the moon peeked from behind the scudding clouds overhead. The polished marble gleamed silver as the moonlight strengthened, casting deep shadows beneath the tomb’s wall but illuminating the small plateau before the scrolled iron doors. That glow grew, subtly, and a figure slipped from the inky shadows to stand before the doors.<br />
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Surely I wasn’t seeing what I thought I was seeing. A mime stood in front of the mausoleum door, apparently regarding the engraved names there with his head cocked to one side.<br />
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No, not a mime. A harlequin.<br />
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The red, green, and blue triangular patches of his costume had reminded me of the character’s name. A harlequin was usually funny. I’d loved harlequins as a child in Paris, for their capers were as colorful as their costumes.<br />
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But this harlequin was different. As I stared up at him from where I was tucked into the protective curve of the angel’s wing, he turned as if he saw me watching. He wore a half-mask of black, revealing a strong jaw and a sensual mouth. Fear traced a white-hot prickle down the back of my neck.<br />
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No, this was not a harlequin. This was the Harlequin. For this fiend, the word Harlequin was a title, not a name. All at once I remembered that despite all his handsprings and jauntiness, the Harlequin was always the character that escorted wrongdoers to hell. His antics were just a disguise for his sinister nature.<br />
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“What a little beauty.”<br />
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The words were purred suggestively right behind me, the speaker’s breath stirring the tiny hairs on my nape. I spun around to find the Harlequin standing just a foot away. He pirouetted and when he faced me again, his lips were quirked into a triumphant half-smile.<br />
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“Welcome to the garden of death, sweet mortal. Welcome to the arena where the Harlequin reigns supreme and humanity stands trial. Welcome to the theater of power.” With a stylized flourish of his hands that I could recognize from any two-sou pantomime in Paris, he bowed, making the obeisance at once a mockery and a threat. When he straightened, his eyes narrowed behind his mask.<br />
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Involuntarily, I took a step back from his piercing glare, and the tips of the feathers on the angel’s carved wings dug cruelly into the base of my spine.<br />
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“Leave the girl alone.”<br />
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The low-growled words came from just behind me and I jumped. For a second time, I turned sharply to find a man in this…garden of death, as the Harlequin had called it. His face was obscured by the shadows cast by the hovering angel.<br />
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The newcomer’s voice was both tense and disgusted. “She is too young to play your vicious games. Satisfy your malice by contending with me, not her.”<br />
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“You are very concerned for this girl’s safety. What of your brother? Would you be willing to wager your care of him to keep this pretty young morsel protected from my…interest?” The Harlequin cocked his head to the side in an exaggerated gesture of inquiry. “Would you forfeit his soul in exchange for this girl’s safety?”<br />
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“Your enmity is for me. Are you too much of a coward to face a grown man and so must slake your thirst for cruelty upon a child?”<br />
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Before I could protest that I wasn’t a child, my unknown defender stepped between me and the Harlequin, so that I was pinned in place by the weeping angel on one side and protected by his broad, cloaked back on the other. I peeked around his arm to stare as the Harlequin abandoned his languid pose.<br />
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“Take care, mortal. Take great care in how you speak to me.”<br />
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“Advice you should probably follow yourself,” the man retorted pointedly, resting his hand upon the hilt of his sword. His other arm he extended, shielding me from the fiend confronting us, and said over his shoulder, “You can go now, mademoiselle. Do not stay in the cemetery. Do not tarry; just run as fast as you can and get away home.”<br />
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“Will you flee, Odette?” the Harlequin murmured, his eyes glinting through his mask. “Beautiful Odette, young Odette de Chevigny—will you run from this garden of death to your virginal bed in your grandfather’s chateau? Fly now, sweet Odette—”<br />
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“How did you—oh! I don’t care how you know my name!” I sputtered at last, freed from the convulsive fear that had kept me silent so far. “I am here to tend my father’s grave and you are keeping me from doing that, both of you. Now get out of my way and leave me alone.”<br />
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The Harlequin danced around my protector, his eyes gleaming as his lips stretched into a nasty smile.<br />
“Odette! What a lovely name. Will you not run as your guard bids you?”<br />
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“Run? Why should I run?”<br />
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The fiend watched me curiously from behind his mask and the man turned to regard me. As the moonlight struck the high-boned features of his face, I recognized him instantly. My defender was Charles, the young Marquis de Montesquieu, the hero of the Battle of Minorca, home after being wounded as he led our troops in the capture of Port Mahon from the British. Especially favored by our King, Louis XV, the Marquis was my grandfather’s nearest neighbor, a decorated officer, and a practiced courtier. He took my elbow in a strong hand and pulled me down the hillside path.<br />
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“You need to go home, child. Run! This thing is not what he seems.”<br />
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“I am not a child,” I protested even as his fingers tightened warningly on my arm. “Besides, I can’t leave you here alone—with that. Who is this man dressed up like a pantomime performer? And why—”<br />
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“Yes, why don’t you tell the child who I am?” the Harlequin asked mockingly. “Not such a child is she, Monsieur le Marquis—not when she’s nineteen and ripe for a man’s hand, this daughter of Reynard, Vicomte de Chevigny?” He ran a hand lovingly along the letters of my father’s name on the tombstone as he pronounced each word, and my blood chilled within my veins.<br />
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The Marquis looked down into my face for the first time, and his eyes were shadowed. “Go home, mademoiselle. I will call upon you tomorrow and explain what I can, but you must leave. I cannot protect us both.”<br />
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I regarded him thoughtfully. Charles de Montesquieu was supposed to be a stern, almost forbidding man. Almost everyone who lived in the county or associated with him was afraid of angering him. But his laborers loved him, for he was fair and protective of those who depended upon him, and my grandfather, who’d been a close friend and political ally of his father, respected him greatly—something I could say about few men. Even now, his expression was carefully neutral, but I could see the tiniest hints of strain pulling the muscles of his hard-planed face tight with repressed emotion.<br />
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“Very well, I shall expect you tomorrow,” I said at last.<br />
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“How easily you fall into the trap so blatantly set,” the Harlequin crooned. “Yes, Monsieur le Marquis, go along to see young Odette tomorrow, and explain to her what the Harlequin means. For now she, too, is playing my game, and it would be well for her to understand the stakes—”<br />
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“Go now,” the Marquis urged, ignoring the capering villain behind him as he lifted my hand formally to his lips. As soon as he released me, I went around the angel lamenting over my parents’ graves and returned to the path that would lead me to the home of my grandfather and safety. A burst of maniacal laughter rose behind me as I lifted my skirts and ran.<br />
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That was the beginning—of everything. At that moment, I had no idea how much that chance meeting in the graveyard would loom over my life.<br />
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You know, I've enjoyed a Butch Jones-free life. It's been pleasant. No stupid gimmicks. No lies. No BS. But now that we're looking at the meat of the football season and the football coaching carousel is about to start up again, some benighted folks--and journalists--are going to do exactly <a href="https://footballscoop.com/news/case-butch-jones-teams-next-head-coach/" target="_blank">what Scott Roussel did in his column today for FootballScoop.com</a>. They're going to look at Butch Jones as a viable option for a major football program, especially now that Nick Saban has applied a bit of shinola to disguise the you-know-what that's currently "interning" at Alabama so he can milk every drop of cash out of the University of Tennessee.<br />
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And Scott Roussel, the president and owner of FootballScoop.com, thinks that Butch Jones should be a head coach again.<br />
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For someone who states emphatically "Butch Jones will be a head football coach again", I have a lot of questions. First off, has no one at FootballScoop been paying attention the past few years? Did you just miss everything that happened since 2015? Since that seems to be the case here, let me help you guys understand why Rousel's column was so ill-advised. Let's take a look at why the last man in America who should be permitted to be the head coach of any football program is Butch Jones. </div>
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But first off...</div>
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You know, Scott...Butch doesn't seem to be all that impatient to get back into coaching. He's content with bringing Saban his coffee and polishing Bama helmets for $35k a year...and so would I be if I had a $6.82 million dollar buyout. </div>
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Stop and think for a moment. Does it seem like he's chomping at the bit to get back on the field? </div>
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No, and there's a reason for that. </div>
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In order to start the new con game, you have to make sure the previous one is forgotten. You know, the one where every year of Jones's tenure at UT there were 25-35 players on the injury list by mid-October, leading directly to those end of season collapses of extremely talented teams. </div>
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Many of those most promising players, the 4- and 5-star recruits Scott was drooling over now no longer play football at all. On any level. Why? Because the Volunteers football program was abusive under Butch Jones. He overruled team physicians and forced injured players to go ahead and play anyway. One of the best examples of this occurred during the 2016 Tennessee-Texas A&M game. Eight players went down in the game. </div>
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Some never came back. Many of those departed players cited the verbal, mental, emotional, and physical abuse they endured under Butch Jones as the reason for their departure.</div>
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You think parents want to entrust their 5-star players to a coach whose primary concern isn't their son's health and safety? It doesn't matter if the recruiting classes were great if those players leave mid-career and go somewhere else. </div>
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Or lose their future in football entirely.</div>
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Players have reported that they were used like gang members to keep other players in line. Some players who demonstrated too independent a thought process when it came to the health and safety of their own bodies were jumped on the practice field by his teammates while the head coach stood there and watched it happen. In fact, the head coach had <i>ordered</i> it to happen, like a Code Red from the play/movie <i>A Few Good Men.</i> </div>
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Think that's a great look for your program?</div>
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Think...really<i><b> think</b></i> about that 2016 season, when Tennessee started off ranked in the top five in the preseason. Over the span of thirteen months--from the kickoff of 2016 to Butch Jones's firing in October, 2017--the Vols went from top-five, to a 9-4 season record, and then, incredibly, to the basement of everything with a 4-8 record in 2017. The first time in UT's history that the school was winless in the SEC, and a full one-third of the team had either left the program or were out with injury by mid-season for the third season in a row.<br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=26892817" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>As for never losing to a bowl-eligible team, what a crock! Tennessee lost to bowl-eligible teams every single season under Butch Jones. Alabama. Florida, Georgia. South Carolina. Oklahoma. West Virginia. Did you miss those 4-7 losses UT racked up every year under Butch Jones?<br />
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Not a great job of research there, buddy.</div>
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Why is it that the University of Tennessee led the nation in transfer requests for several years? Think that speaks highly of Butch Jones's treatment of players? </div>
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Think it speaks highly of his active obstruction in those requests, costing players not only time on the gridiron but time getting their educations? Many former players reported having their transcripts blocked and their eligibility as well for several years after leaving UT.</div>
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What good were all those top ten recruiting classes then? Matriculation doesn't result in a collapse like that. A coach's primary job is to make certain that the team has the right elements in place so the turnover between upperclassmen to underclassmen is seamless. But that didn't happen at UT. </div>
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Why is that? It doesn't matter how great a Vols recruiting class is if the majority don't play for the entirety of their collegiate career at UT. Florida had a top ten recruiting class this year and lost many of those players before the season started. Did FootballScoop cover that? </div>
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Everyone else did, and seemed to agree there was something wrong with the program in order for that to happen. Why wasn't the exodus of players from UT given the same scrutiny? Did you cover that? </div>
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Did you even know?</div>
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Why is it that through Butch Jones' five-year tenure at UT, the Vols consistently collapsed after three quarters only to lose the game in the final minutes? Abysmal coaching decisions. </div>
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Why is it that the most loyal, steadfast fan base in America rose up in rebellion against their own school, forcing the firing of Butch Jones and a few weeks later that of then-athletic director John Currie? Does anyone with a functioning brain really think that was just an uneducated mob of fans raising hell for the fun of it? </div>
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I hope not. It's never a good thing to insult your target market. Just saying. The uprising was spontaneous but it was also focused and well-directed, resulting in an event unprecedented in college athletics. <b>That entire fiasco in the fall of 2017 originated with Butch Jones.</b></div>
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So answer me honestly: why is it that anyone, athletic director, fan, or sports journalist, would want to bring such a toxic element into their own football program? Oh and by the way, we're not just talking about Tennessee here. Maybe you should dig into what happened at the University of Cincinnati during Butch Jones's time there while you're at it, Scott.</div>
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Butch Jones left the University of Tennessee an absolute disaster between craptastic athletic training, the abuse and torment of his players, the exodus of talent from Rocky Top, and ruining the lives and futures of multiple great players. and one of the most humiliating episodes in sports history If Butch Jones legitimately had something to offer another program, he'd already be riding the coaching carousel (like Urban Meyer already is) and selling himself (again) as the once and future king of great football. </div>
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But he's not. He's grinning like an idiot down in Tuscaloosa, acquiring that Alabama mystique while he milks the university whose football program he ruined of half a million dollars a month. He's not pimping himself because he intends to get every penny of that $6.82 million dollar buyout, thumbing his nose like a child from his bolt hole in Tuscaloosa. </div>
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Nick Saban's Head Coach Rehabilitation program's court jester, who gives zero damns about coaching again until his internship and his buyout end.</div>
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After what Butch Jones did to the University of Tennessee, its fan base, and its athletes (which is the most important of the three) he should never be allowed to set foot on any football field in a position of authority ever again. If some poor wretched school does bring Butch Jones in to "turn around" their program, they are placing the eighty-five young men on their roster in the path of physical, educational, and financial ruin. Period. </div>
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And those are the facts. </div>
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I'd recommend you read two books that detail what was happening at the University of Tennessee football program, Scott. Maybe pass it along to your colleagues there at Football Scoop too. Pick up Mark Nagi's <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Decade-Dysfunction-Updated-2019-version/dp/1075446031/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=mark+nagi&qid=1568759383&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Decade of Dysfunction,</a> and you'll get the background of the last ten years of horror on Rocky Top. Then grab a copy (I'd be glad to send you one) of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Empowered-ReVOLution-Changed-College-Football/dp/1726712818/ref=pd_sbs_14_2/131-5655489-0841812?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1726712818&pd_rd_r=d54a5e76-b4ad-4c5d-b37a-2320991f1038&pd_rd_w=tP9D8&pd_rd_wg=xLOkX&pf_rd_p=d66372fe-68a6-48a3-90ec-41d7f64212be&pf_rd_r=72SFH64VE52XNHZ7FQ2N&psc=1&refRID=72SFH64VE52XNHZ7FQ2N" target="_blank">Empowered: The Fan ReVOLution That Changed College Football </a>by UT Vol historian Tom Mattingly and Celina Summers. </div>
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Read the interviews with players, alumni, boosters, UT officials, and fans. Actually learn what happened under Butch Jones before you start lauding him as a potential head football coach at some other school. </div>
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Suggesting Butch Jones be hired to coach any level of football is the equivalent of handing a suicidal person a loaded gun and dropping them off somewhere in the middle of nowhere. A responsible person would never consider doing such a thing. </div>
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Be responsible, and learn exactly what you're suggesting before you put it in print. At the end of the day, you're recommending that some other school lose its legacy and self-respect. But you're also recommending that a serial abuser be given exclusive access to the lives and futures of more young football players. </div>
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Is that really what you want to be known for? Are you sure? Because if he is hired somewhere and more of the same happens, you'll bear a measure of responsibility for it. You may be one of those journalists who sat on his self-proclaimed throne when UT fans revolted and condemned us as ignorant, uneducated, ill-informed and so forth. I don't really know; I don't really care. But what I <i><b>do</b></i> know as a long-time writer, editor, and publisher is that you need to know what you're talking about before you put it down in print. And in this case, you patently had no clue what the reality Butch Jones created really was.</div>
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You should have known better than to be this irresponsible. You should have known to check out the facts. After all, you own FootballScoop, right? And you were a VP at the Shaw Group, a Fortune 500 company dealing with road construction, for eight years, right? You understand at least the concept of journalistic and corporate responsibility. Or, at least, you should.</div>
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But you didn't. That's the real football scoop here. Just...think about it. </div>
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In the same December, 2018 article from The Atlantic, the Catholic priests (who all have over ten years' experience as exorcists) that were interviewed all said they'd worked on "only a handful" of true possessions in their careers.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;">This is for a couple of reasons. First off, the Catholic church has a seriously thorough discernment process before they commit to an exorcism. Father Thomas laid this out in our LiveSciFi interview as well. Before the church risks the spiritual and physical health both of the victim and the exorcism team, the person is subjected to physical examination and then a psychiatric evaluation. Only if the victim gets through both of those will an exorcist consider whether or not the individual is possessed.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;">If someone claims you need an exorcism and does NOT require medical and psychological competency testing, run away.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Fast.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;">You think I'm kidding, but I recently witnessed an "archbishop" who frequently shows up on paranormal television shows tell two people in ten minutes that they were possessed and required an exorcism. He didn't know the history of the two people, their medical history, their psychological state, or their motivations. And neither of these people were walking up walls or spitting up pea soup either. But somehow, this "archbishop" was able to diagnose the need for spiritual warfare within minutes of being in the same place at the same time as the people he alleged to be possessed.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Putting it frankly, that's bullshit.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;">A true possession occurs when the victim finally succumbs to the diabolical influence in their life that's been gradually breaking them down through the infestation and oppression stages we've looked at already. After suffering through infestation and oppression, the victim is extremely depressed by this point and is on the brink of giving up the only thing the demon wants--their soul.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;">At the end of the day, the struggles against diabolical agents all come down to the same thing. The longer the victim fights against becoming fully possessed, the worse the paranormal activity surrounding him becomes. Bringing in investigators at this point just endangers them. Only </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>legitimate exorcists</b></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;"> can help the victims of true possession--and </span><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;"><i>legitimate</i></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;"> is the key phrase here. In my opinion, the majority of legitimate exorcists are within the Catholic church--and you can find those exorcists by contacting the diocesan offices your local priest answers to--along with a </span><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;">very</b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;"> few ordained clergy and demonologists outside the Catholic faith. Sure, the clergy from your family's church are a great option when it comes to blessing a person or location. But to do spiritual battle with the demon(s) behind a possession requires special training, like what's offered at the Vatican's </span><a href="https://www.singularfortean.com/news/2019/5/11/multi-denominational-representatives-invited-to-roman-catholic-churchs-exorcism-school-in-response-to-increasing-cases-of-demonic-possess" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Pontifical University of Regina Apostolorum in Rome</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;"> or its sister school in Chicago. Students do not have to be Catholic priests; the church has opened the doors to exorcist training to practitioners of all faiths. However, there's one place you absolutely do not want to go.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;">The internet. Why?</span></span><span style="clear: left; color: black; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-12855 alignright" height="184" src="https://livescifi.tv/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/deplancy02-300x138.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="background-color: white;"><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;">Fake Exorcists</b><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><strong style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Anyone who advertises themselves online as a demonologist or exorcist is neither. Can't be stated any more strongly than that. If an exorcist or a demonologist has to advertise for clients that's a huge red flag. Another huge red flag? They offer "courses" where for $99, you get reading material AND a certificate meant to validate you as a paranormal investigator or a demonologist or an exorcist.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Total BS, folks.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Considering the surge of purported oppression and possession cases in the world, why would an exorcist need to advertise? Exorcist is pretty much at the top of the list of "jobs no sane person wants". There is NOTHING fun or exciting about confronting a demonic entity. So why would an exorcist need to drum up new clientele?</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;">There are two answers to that question. First, the exorcists who are looking for new clients and more notoriety are the ones who are skulking around on the rotating "guest appearance on paranormal reality shows" list. But second--and pay attention, because this one's the most important--</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Remember way up at the top of this article when I quoted the statistics for legitimate hauntings, demonic hauntings, and demonic possession cases? Possessions are extremely rare. So the odds that he'll confront a for-real demon are basically nil. Those odds are always in a fake exorcist's favor. Fake exorcists are snake oil salesmen who exploit their clientele, performing deliverance ceremonies on people who aren't even close to being possessed. They're the equivalent of faith healers who hide chicken livers in their hands and pretend to pull "tumors" from patients' bodies. A fake exorcist demands no medical or psychological exams; they have no real discernment protocols. They are running a huge scam for fame and excitement, which is basically the spiritual equivalent of giving someone chemotherapy for a splinter in their big toe.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Anyone can read from the Roman Ritual--you can download .pdf files online. But the Ritual doesn't have the power to confront a real demon unless the person reading the Roman Ritual has the spiritual backing that ordination in the Church or training and education by the Church or valid religious backgrounds confer.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif;">Beware, too, of variations on the Catholic Church. Learn to differentiate between the REAL Catholic faith, not a fake one claiming to exist because of a schismatic bishop of Utrecht (this digs deeply into dogma, so we'll refrain from getting into this until the paranormal parasites article coming up.) BUT doesn't have a single church he or she preaches at. Seriously. If the "archbishop" who's advertising as an exorcist has no congregation, no link with a legitimate denomination, and if their mailing address is obviously their apartment? That's not a valid member of the clergy. There are purported archbishops out there where the entirety of their religion appears to be an archbishop, three or four bishops, a couple of deacons, and that's about it. They have more clergy than parishioners because there are no parishes. Many fake exorcists claim to be of the OLD Catholic Church. Word to the wise--there is no Catholic Church older than the Roman Catholic Church. There is a schismatic branch called the Old Catholic Church that the Vatican recognizes as a legitimate arm of the Church, but the real Old Catholic Church has things like churches, denominations, Mass, et cetera and doesn't require a mailing address at a strip mall.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;">So if for some reason you don't want a Roman Catholic exorcist, your best bet is to contact credible paranormal researchers who can set you on the right path.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Like here, for example. Always glad to help. My article on paranormal parasites is coming next, so hopefully I'll be able to help you protect yourself from the diabolical--both human and supernatural. In the meantime, if you have questions or are afraid that you're dealing with a demonic haunting then contact me through this blog or email me through my website: celina(at)celinasummers(dot)com. I'm more than happy to help you find a legitimate paranormal research team and to hook you up with the avenues you need to take to seek help from the clergy.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;">The REAL clergy.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><em style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;"></span><em style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px;">(By the way, all those cool illustrations? Those are woodcut engravings from 1818's Dictionnaire Infernal by Collin de Plancy--and pretty much the only thing of value to be found in this decidedly fictional demonological lexicon.)</em></span>Celina Summershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08581883122727085849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26892817.post-79350570435898319492019-08-27T15:27:00.000-04:002019-08-28T22:53:14.464-04:00Demonic Hauntings And Why You Don't Want An Exorcist Who Advertises, Part One<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For some reason, demonic hauntings have been on the rise globally. The Catholic Church is playing catch-up and installing an exorcist in every diocese in the US but still can't meet the demand...<br />
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This scenario was unfathomable in 1973, when the film version of Peter Blatty's horror masterpiece <em>The Exorcist</em> was released. In fact, most people were unaware that such things as demonic possession or exorcists actually existed. The Catholic Church had spent a century backing away from any public association with such things, and especially from the rite of exorcism, which had been first been given official guidelines in 1614. Those guidelines weren't updated until 1999, and now twenty years later the explosion of desperate requests for spiritual rescue from the diabolical has rendered the entirety of the process cumbersome and difficult to navigate.<br />
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But recently, the Church has been changing its tune. The Catholic Church is in the process of assigning an exorcist in every diocese in the US--all one hundred and ninety-seven of them--which is a turnabout of dogma no one could have foreseen. That's a huge investment of money and time, but even then, it's not enough. The exorcist for the Diocese of Indianapolis told <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/12/catholic-exorcisms-on-the-rise/573943/">The Atlantic in its December issue from last year</a> that his office had fielded over 1700 requests (and counting) for exorcisms for 2018.<br />
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While there are now denominations on the Protestant side of the aisle that perform legitimate rites of deliverance, there's also a swelling preponderance of paranormal parasites that use people's fear of the diabolical to create fame for themselves. If someone suspects the demonic is attacking a friend, member of the family, or even himself, knowledge is necessary to protect oneself not only from the demons tormenting them but from the paranormal parasites that would torment them. Exorcisms are not a game and cannot be taken lightly, because this ritual <a href="https://www.livescience.com/18792-exorcism-kills.html">sometimes leads to the death of the very person who sought help in the first place. </a><br />
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This article is an extremely broad beginner's guide to demonology, one that will hopefully enable readers to arm themselves against diabolical agents--both the demonic and the paranormal parasites. We will discuss the stages of demonic attacks and their symptoms, lay out the safest options to find help, and the best way to keep yourself from dancing with the devil in the first place.<br />
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There are three universally recognized stages of demonic intrusion into a person's life. The first stage is manifestation or infestation. In this stage, the diabolical agent begins to insinuate itself into its victim's environment. Why does it need to do such a thing?<br />
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Because a demon must first be invited into a person's life and then be given permission to remain there.<br />
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That doesn't mean sending an embossed greeting card that says, "I invite you to screw my whole world up." A demon can be invited into a person's life in many innocuous-seeming ways. The Ouija board fad that swept through your middle school. Or that faze you went through in high school, when you and your three BFFs started your secret "coven" like they did in the movie <em>The Craft</em>. Or when you decided you'd become a paranormal investigator and without knowledge or training bought equipment and headed to as many haunted places as you could to provoke a few spirits like they do on TV.<br />
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I've seen the results of all three of this stories because they are real stories I've been told when investigating an apparent demonic infestation. The consequences of all those innocent excursions into the diabolical realm are severe, life-wrecking, and traumatic.<br />
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Satanic worship is, of course, the quick and easy way to catch the notice of the infernal. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDIdWV4vQUg">Father Gary Thomas, exorcist for the diocese of San Jose, CA informed me in a 2017 video interview </a> I did for LiveSciFi that generational curses (when a whole family is cursed by an outsider or when a mother consecrates her unborn child to the demonic) are more prevalent than anyone realizes. But tragically, a history of sexual abuse also can lead to demonic notice.<br />
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Demons stalk their prey the same way the big cats in Africa do. They usually target the weak...the vulnerable. After zeroing in on the easiest kill, they undertake a strategy to weaken their victim more. The more terrified and hopeless that victim is, the easier it is for the demon to push them into total submission.<br />
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A demonic infestation can revolve around a location, like the purported Gary, Indiana "demon house" of the Ammons family. Because the alleged haunting was focused on the home, the Ammons family was able to flee the residence into safety. (Of course, the subsequent owner, Zak Bagans, bulldozed the house after he finished his documentary on the alleged activity, so no one else can validate his alleged experiences there. Quite convenient.) But usually, an infestation is centered around a person, and if that person moves they take the haunting with them to their new residence. During the earliest stages of the infestation, the demon begins to wind itself into the fabric of its victim's world. But even after a demon starts to impact its victim's life, it needs permission to stay. That doesn't mean that you have to physically tell the thing it can stay. It means that you accept its influence within your environment, and more importantly, upon your person.<br />
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If a demonic entity succeeds in creating a link with its victim, it can then move forward into the next stage.<br />
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Now that the demon has the necessary introduction into the victim's life, it can begin to impact its victim more strongly. In this stage, usually, the innocent-seeming haunting escalates in intensity. The demon begins to attack its victim. Scratches, bite marks, and unexplained bruising batters the person's body. Sexual attacks may also occur. These attacks are designed to a wear a person down, to take away their willpower and make them easier to subdue.<br />
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Usually at this stage, the haunting expands as well. The victim's family and home may be terrorized with paranormal activity. That's why this is typically the time when a family brings a paranormal investigation team or a psychic into their home, desperate for some validation of what's happening to them and hopefully some kind of rescue plan. Unfortunately, that's not going to work, for one big reason:<br />
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<strong><em>PARANORMAL INVESTIGATORS CANNOT FREE A LOCATION OR PERSON FROM A DEMONIC OPPRESSION.</em></strong><br />
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By the time a paranormal group is called, the demon is already solidly lodged in its victim's life. The demon has been invited in by accident--remember that tarot reading game you "played" in high school?--and then inadvertently given permission to remain. The only remedy at this point is spiritual, and that means the clergy.<br />
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But paranormal investigations do provide a very necessary function to the victims of a demonic haunting, and that's documentation. Evidence that's been captured on video or audio equipment can validate the victim's story. You can't just call your diocese, tell them your house is haunted, and an exorcist pulls up in the Ghostbusters ambulance ten minutes later. That's not the way it works. You have to have that documentation just so the Church doesn't dismiss you as being a passenger on the cray-cray train. So yes--call someone in to investigate and hopefully get that validation for you. (Don't do it yourself, though. You're too invested in proving there's a haunting. A legitimate paranormal team isn't.) I'll be delving deeply into how to find a trustworthy paranormal investigation team in an upcoming article.<br />
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Let me reiterate: for a true demonic oppression, your only recourse is through a spiritual intervention. The Roman Ritual (aka the Rite of Exorcism) is the clergy's weapon against the diabolical. However, the clergy isn't normally brought into a case until the victim reaches the third and final stage of demonic hauntings.<br />
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We'll get into possessions and why you don't want an exorcist who advertises in part two of this article tomorrow. Once it's up,<a href="https://kaantira.blogspot.com/2019/08/demonic-hauntings-and-why-you-dont-want_28.html" target="_blank"> I'll activate the link to the rest of the story here.</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the meantime, if you have questions or are afraid that you're dealing with a demonic haunting then contact me through this blog or email me through my website: celina(at)celinasummers(dot)com. I'm more than happy to help you find a legitimate paranormal research team and to hook you up with the avenues you need to take to seek help from the clergy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />The REAL clergy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A</span>uthor's note: This is the second part of our look at Zozo, the so-called Ouija Board demon. For part one, <a href="https://kaantira.blogspot.com/2019/08/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about.html" target="_blank">head to this page.</a> And as always during paranormal season, DO NOT TRY ANYTHING WE DISCUSS ON THIS BLOG. DEALING WITH DEMONS IS DANGEROUS. LEAVE IT TO THE PROS. Just because you watch people trying to Ouija up Zozo on YouTube doesn't mean you can. Folks like Tim Wood at LiveSciFi know what they're doing. You don't. Okay? And yes, I know--some of you are already ignoring me. Read on for the consequences of that decision.)</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Yesterday, we really dug into Zozo's origins on multiple levels, and believe me when I tell you that post could have been one hundred times as long and still wouldn't have scratched the surface. What we discussed yesterday was rudimentary demonology. Today, we're going to sort through Zozo in the modern day, and we'll be getting into some dark and dangerous stuff. Read at your own risk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Ouija, Spirit, and Talking Boards and Zozo</b><b><o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The first patent issued
for a device used for contacting the dead was in the mid-nineteenth century,
not for a talking board but a gadget that could be used in automatic writing.
The first mention of spirit boards was in 1886 by the Associated Press, when
they were touted as the newest and most accurate communication device used in
Ohio spiritualist camps. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Ouija board as we know it today was invented in 1890 and
patented (the planchette was the reason the board could be patented considering
that handmade spirit boards were already in common use at the time) by Charles
Kennard in 1891. So many people were desperate to communicate with their loved
ones following the Civil War and then three decades later for World War I that
the Ouija board became an essential part of the grieving process as well as a drawing
room's entertainment option. That is...until disturbing coincidences began to
pop up in Ouija board communication. Zozo is perhaps the best-known of these
today, having earned the nickname of “the Ouija board demon” in the past
twenty-five years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Encounters with the
entity that called itself Zozo reportedly began to occur on the Ouija board in
the second half of the twentieth century. In the 1960s and 70s, the Ouija board
was marketed as a toy, thereby ensuring that most users of the board were under
twenty-five. Ouija use had an upsurge in the eighties. As the internet was
developed in subsequent decades and became more accessible, <a href="https://livescifi.tv/2019/03/zozo-demon-ouija-board-stories/"><span style="color: blue;">Zozo encounters</span></a> gradually rose and victims began to
compare notes. Darren Evans’s website publication in 2008 gave those victims a
forum. Once video streaming equipment improved, <a href="https://livescifi.tv/2017/07/top-5-ouija-board-gone-wrong-caught-tape-videos-2017/"><span style="color: blue;">Zozo videos increased</span></a> at an exponential rate—particularly in the
last four years. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Of course, the reason
for that is easily explained.More people are <i>looking </i>for Zozo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEQHKSqywvzy0jQAzQlNMIEWkBYb13gWAcO52tmP4RbpiC39izTU1mfQjPTHnGHwLLu9GI8n7da6yCgYDDSlnDt_9OeYCk87HnLflWWJjgGp-Imn-VrzNOAU4Iv-L5oB8wPMsq/s1600/L%25C3%25A9chies_%2528Dictionnaire_infernal%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1248" data-original-width="1077" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEQHKSqywvzy0jQAzQlNMIEWkBYb13gWAcO52tmP4RbpiC39izTU1mfQjPTHnGHwLLu9GI8n7da6yCgYDDSlnDt_9OeYCk87HnLflWWJjgGp-Imn-VrzNOAU4Iv-L5oB8wPMsq/s320/L%25C3%25A9chies_%2528Dictionnaire_infernal%2529.jpg" width="276" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">There are non-paranormal
explanations for Zozo as well. Zozo could be the result of a <a href="https://www.tulpa.info/what-is-a-tulpa/"><span style="color: blue;">tulpa</span></a>—an
entity or phenomenon created through mental discipline, like the <a href="https://www.thoughtco.com/how-to-create-a-ghost-2594058"><span style="color: blue;">Philip experiment</span></a> in Toronto, Ontario
allegedly managed to do in the early 1970s. For that matter, what people take
as communication on a Ouija board could actually be the result of ideomotor
movements--involuntary twitches of the hands that propel the planchette across
the spirit board in a predictable and repeated manner. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">With escalating
visibility on platforms like YouTube, the unsuspecting, or the thrill seekers
who "play" Ouija are a rich pool of potential prey for the demonic
realm to feed upon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">That doesn't mean Zozo
is fake. Tulpas are alleged to exist and take on personalities and agendas of
their own. At the present moment, Zozo is a dangerous reality, whether it's
hung around for centuries or was created by the subconscious minds of people
popping LSD-laced sugar cubes in 1975. The Zozo entity is not only real, but
it's growing stronger and being fed by the resulting craze around it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background: white;">And oh,
how it's grown. Zozo has exploded on a global level, as has the number of
people claiming to have had experiences with the entity. The 2012 movie <i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">I Am Zozo </span></i>undoubtedly had a great deal to do with
that, as did the 2014 major motion picture <i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Ouija</span></i> and
investigations conducted by the Travel Channel’s <i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Ghost Adventures</span></i> show at about the same time. In
fact, during the 2014 Christmas season, Ouija board sales were </span><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2855439/Sales-Ouija-boards-300-threatening-Christmas-buy-despite-Church-England-warning.html"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none; color: black; padding: 0in;">up 300% from the year before</span></a><span style="background: white;">. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Currently (August, 2019), there are 36.5 million
hits on Google when searching for Zozo. That's a lot of people focusing their
energy on the same entity or tulpa...a lot of fuel. If Zozo didn't exist before
the <i>Dictionnaire Infernal</i> in 1818, it certainly does
now. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Zozo
Characteristics/Behavior</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Items associated with
Zozo: Blackbirds, Louisiana, slavery, Voodoo and other French/African religious
blends, the number 28, French/Basque and African etymology, sex or sexual
assault, possession of humans, possession of animals, Ouija or spirit boards,
death and/or suicide, and haunted locations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Behavioral habits: When
the entity first presents itself, it’s usually pretending to be a dead friend
or family member so it can make a connection with the person it’s targeting on
the board. Once the relationship between the Ouija user and the entity is
established, Zozo announces its presence on the Ouija board when it appears.
The planchette either begins to move rapidly from side to side in an arc
between the letters Z and O, or it starts an escalating series of figure 8
movements in the center of the board.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But once the bond is
established between Zozo and a board user, the entity departs from “normal”
demonic behavior. The Zozo entity names itself at the beginning of each
interaction. Zozo, Zaza, Zizi, Oz, Ozoz, Mama, and Abacus are all known aliases
of the Zozo entity. The entity frequently refers to “paradise” and uses
the word “abracadabra” as well, which has a disputed etymological history
dating back to ancient times. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">The first known mention of the word was in the
second century AD in a book called <i>Liber Medicinalis</i> by </span><span style="background: white;">Serenus Sammonicus</span><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">, </span><span style="background: white;">physician</span><span style="background: white; color: #222222;"> to the </span><span style="background: white;">Roman emperor</span><span style="background: white; color: #222222;"> </span><span style="background: white;">Caracalla</span><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">, who in chapter 51
prescribed that </span><span style="background: white;">malaria</span><span style="background: white; color: #222222;"> sufferers wear an
amulet containing the word written in the form of a triangle.</span> "Abracadabra" has also been
attributed to Gnostics, Greeks, and Sumerians, but is almost certainly
Hebrew/Aramaic in origin. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Perhaps the most ominous behavior of the entity
is the countdown. The board counts down from ten to one, and that usually
prefaces extremely negative paranormal activity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The most terrifying
behavior is its knowledge of things it shouldn't know, like something that
happened in a board user's childhood and none of their current friends knows
about *or* something as totally invasive as knowing what color a person's
underwear is. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And through it all, Zozo
is acknowledged as a demonic entity. I absolutely think Zozo is demonic in
nature. So do many paranormal researchers, investigators, and scholars...not to
mention clergy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So why, then, haven’t
attempted exorcisms of the Zozo entity worked? In 2017, LiveSciFi founder Tim
Wood and I conducted a month-long experiment, trying to learn as much about
this puzzling entity as we cold without endangering ourselves, each other, or
any of the half a million subscribers on YouTube who showed up nightly to
witness our live-streamed investigation. I believe our conclusions from the Zozo
experiment explain why this isn't just a demon, but an evolution of something
entirely different.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Zozo Experiment and
Subsequent Conclusions</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The
Zozo demon can’t be exorcised for one very simple reason—Zozo isn’t a demon.We
believe Zozo is something entirely different—an alias used by multiple demonic
entities in order to gain access to potential victims. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You can’t
exorcise Zozo because it’s not a demon. It’s a gateway. Some kid can ‘play’
with the Ouija board one time and he’s opened the gate and invited whatever’s
close by and looking for a victim to come on in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You’ve heard of demons or
psychics or demonologists talking about Legion, right? Zozo is the revolving door of
Legion, and you never know if you just invited the ghost of a pissed-off
librarian to haunt your house *or* if you invited Beelzebub to possess your
body and feast on your soul.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">That’s why exorcisms of
the Zozo entity don’t work. Victims of Zozo are actually being tormented by
multiple demons who are using the name as an alias. Legitimate exorcisms that
are conducted by the clergy of the Catholic church take weeks, months, or even
years before the name of the demon is forced from the unwilling adversary. Many
oppressions/possessions pit the exorcist against a number of demonic foes. With
a Zozo attachment, this proves even worse than usual.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If the person has only
the beginnings of an attachment to Zozo, then you just sever the person’s use
of the name. Don’t say Zozo anymore or acknowledge it. But if a person has an
actual attachment (a demonic infestation, oppression, or possession) then they
have to discover the name of the actual demon attacking them and sever their
attachment to the name of Zozo and the board. Only then can they have a
clearing or deliverance done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And that exorcism needs to be performed by<b><i> a legitimate member of the clergy </i></b>and not someone who started his own "church", maybe claiming it was an Old Catholic church that broke away from the Vatican because they disagreed with the canon of Papal infallibility in something called the Utrecht schism. Yes, there are legitimate Old Catholic churches out there that did follow the bishop of Utrecht, but those churches have actual congregations. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Most of the paranormal clergy advertising their services online aren't legitimately Old Catholic. Their entire church consists of several bishops under the dominion of a self-proclaimed archbishop and a deacon or two. No congregations. No physical churches. No <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">parishioners despite naming these bishops as the head of parishes. Best way to tell is easy: Google maps. Put in their physical address and look up the location on street view. If it comes up as an apartment building, a house, a strip mall, or a church that's a completely different denomination? It's not a real church and therefore the archbishops and bishops and deacons aren't legitimate clergy. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Did I mention the next article I do is about paranormal parasites like these? Okay, good. We'll break down the Utrecht schism and how that works in legit Old Catholic churches in that article. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But in the meantime--and pay attention, folks. The best and easiest way to not have to deal with Zozo is not to go looking. Regardless of how it's marketed, the Ouija board is not a game. It's a form of conjuration, and opens the door to any kind of interaction with the spiritual world imaginable. But you can't trust what any entity says on the talking board. Not a word, and especially if that entity self-identifies as Zozo. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">By communicating with Zozo, you have invited the diabolical into your life. Once that door is open, it's almost impossible to close--and then I'll get an email or a phone call from a paranormal group trying to help you but that can't. That's the end result of most Zozo-created infestations, and unless there's a legitimate exorcist involved there's no way to know what demonic entities have come through that board. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So yeah. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME.</span><br />
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DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME.<br />
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AND DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But what's really terrifying is how impossible the entity is to combat. If
Zozo is taken at face value, it's a demonic entity that can't be fought using
the tools and methods that have expunged the demonic since Christ exorcised
demons and sent them into the bodies of pigs. Two millennia of demonic warfare
doesn't get rid of Zozo, and we want to know why.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In this two-part
article, we'll break down the roots and history of the so-called "Ouija
Board Demon", its growing visibility in modern society, what the
diabolical agent seems to really be, and why exorcisms do not and cannot work.
That's why my usual warning regarding the diabolical is appearing twice. TRYING
TO CONTACT ZOZO IF YOU AREN'T A PROFESSIONAL RESEARCHER/INVESTIGATOR IS THE
SPIRITUAL EQUIVALENT OF PLAYING RUSSIAN ROULETTE. Do NOT try any of this at
home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The first mention of any
entity named Zozo occurred in an 1818 reference guide written by Jacques Collin
de Plancy, a self-proclaimed occultist and author, in his <a href="http://occultcenter.com/2010/12/1863-dictionnaire-infernal-pdf-full-illustrations/"><i><span style="color: blue;">Dictionnaire Infernal</span></i></a>. The story as related
in the<i> Dictionnaire’s</i> entry under the word <i>POSSÉDÉS</i> (Possession,
in English) goes as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1816, an unmarried girl from a town called
Teilly in the Picardy region of France found out she was pregnant. She promptly
announced that she was possessed by three “imps”—one named Mimi, one named
Crapoulet, and the third Zozo. The girl would walk around the town on all fours
or on her hands, and acted as if she was possessed. A Jesuit priest from Spain
performed an exorcism on the girl, which was described in the text: Mimi
went quietly; Zozo was more tenacious and broke a window of the church when he
tried to escape through the roof. As for Crapoulet, he was pursued in vain,
even with the blessed tool (I think this tool is a holy item such as an
aspergillum) he could not be removed, and eventually took a position in the
genitals of the girl, only leaving at the Jesuit’s insistence. Eventually, the
town leaders put the pregnant girl in the hospital and the Jesuit was told that
if he did any more exorcisms, he’d be arrested as a fraud.</span></blockquote>
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France in the wake of the revolution and the ascendance of Napoleon, prided
itself on its science and logic and fought against old “superstitions” like
exorcism or demonic possession.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">That being said, this
incident is related in a book written by an author with no particular expertise
in research and there’s no way to verify anything he wrote in that book either.
In fact, Collin du Plancy was nothing more than a pulp fiction writer, capitalizing
on the rise of the spiritual movement to sell more books. And it worked! The
only positive thing the <i>Dictionnaire Infernal</i> actually did was
to publish probably the greatest collection of early nineteenth century
engravings and illustrations of the occult and demonic. That’s about it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have found<i style="font-weight: bold;"> absolutely
no references</i><b> </b>to a demon named Zozo prior to the <i>Dictionnaire
Infernal</i>. And despite multiple claims to the contrary, there are no
references to a demonic entity named Zozo at any point of history before the
publication of that one particular book. Specifically, there are no documented
"medieval manuscripts" that list Zozo in the lexicon of known demons, in arcane </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">knowledge or grimoires, and not even in Church documents which is absolutely where you'd find such a reference. </span><span style="background: rgb(254 , 254 , 254); font-family: inherit;">Regardless, one s</span><span style="background: rgb(254 , 254 , 254); font-family: inherit;">elf-proclaimed Zozo-ologist told me personally </span><span style="background: rgb(254 , 254 , 254); font-family: inherit;">that not only was there a history of Zozo <b><i>the demon </i></b>stretching back to medieval manuscripts in the twelfth </span><span style="background: rgb(254 , 254 , 254); font-family: inherit;">century (1300) but that he personally has a
copy/has seen a copy of that manuscript.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background: rgb(254, 254, 254);">That, of course, became a challenge from the time we discussed it (in an August, 2017 Live Sci Fi investigation of Goatman's Bridge in Denton County, Texas). I was in the process of writing <i>Stalked by the Zozo Demon</i> with LSF founder Tim Wood and hadn't found even a whisper of a demon named Zozo despite having conducted (and still conducting) years of research regarding medieval demonology and the history of the Inquisition and the witchcraft trials. Fortunately, my background in Latin and Greek, not to mention being brought up in my French mother's bilingual home and therefore able to read/translate French put me in a great position to see what such a manuscript said. That's why I asked to see it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background: rgb(254, 254, 254);">Unfortunately, I'm still waiting.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background: rgb(254, 254, 254);">Here's the thing: if Zozo was even a minor demon on the fringes of some obscure diabolical lexicon, I am pretty sure I would have found it by now. That's why I'm a researcher--I know how to research things. Right? Instead of being provided a medieval manuscript or a link to a scan of it (because obviously, a 700-year old manuscript would require expensive protective storage and restoration), however, I found a story which I find fascinating. That story begins with this: </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://zososymboldotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/zoso.png?w=103&h=73" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Zoso" border="0" src="https://zososymboldotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/zoso.png?w=103&h=73" /></a><span style="background-color: #fefefe;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There<i> is</i> a history of “zoso” stretching back (at least) to the sixteenth century in this form, but it’s not
used in a book or document as a name for a demon</span></span><span style="background-color: #fefefe; font-family: inherit;"> and has nothing to do with what we call Zozo today. Zoso
is a sigil, an illustration used to represent the Greco-Roman god Saturn who
governs the house of Capricorn in the zodiac--essentially a drawing that can be used as a magical implement. It allegedly possesses arcane power. That's why self-confessed
Thelemist Jimmy Page used the sigil on Led Zeppelin’s unnamed fourth
album—because he’s a Capricorn, not because there is a demon named Zozo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The earliest verified use I've found of the Zoso sigil is the 1521 (some references list the publication date as 1511, making the 1521 book a second edition) grimoire entitled <i>Le Veritable Dragon Rouge--</i>a book about necromancy that you can download if you really want to. <span style="font-family: inherit;">The f</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #fefefe; text-indent: 0.5in;">irst well-documented use of the sigil appears in Gerolamo Cardano’s 1557 book
</span><i style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Ars Magica Arteficii, </i><span style="background-color: #fefefe; text-indent: 0.5in;">which translates roughly to “The Art of Magic” or
“The Magical Arts”. Cardano was a mathematician and physician, and in the
sixteenth century astrology was an important part of both sciences. So the sigil, at least, appears some five hundred years ago.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fefefe; font-family: inherit; text-indent: 0.5in;">But this history, while fascinating, has nothing
to do with Zozo, demonology, or spirit boards. The sigil was used in astrology because most people couldn’t read. Most likely, this gentleman researched the sigil after seeing it on the Led Zeppelin album sleeve, found a link online for the sigil, and
without comprehending what that actually meant assumed this was a direct reference to the entity. I don't think it was an intentional thing. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fefefe; font-family: inherit; text-indent: 0.5in;">I do think that misinformation, especially regarding the demonic, can be dangerous. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So, the only real
history for the name is linguistic as opposed to historic or religious.You can read more about the Zoso sigil, its meaning, and how it got tangled up with Led Zeppelin and demonology in modern culture on <a href="http://www.zososymbol.com/">www.zososymbol.com</a>, which is an outstanding resource and links to all the pertinent books, articles, and websites.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: "karla" , sans-serif;">This 1850 version of Le Dragon Rouge is a reprint of an earlier 1521 text “</span><em style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; outline: 0px; text-align: start;">The Red Dragon and The Black Hen, including the secrets of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artephius" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #57ad68; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Artephius</a>, the secrets of Cleopatra and how to make yourself invisible</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: "karla" , sans-serif;">“. Courtesy of www.zozosymbol.com</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Zozo Etymology and the Power of A Diabolical Name </b><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The linguistic roots for
Zozo are combined in both French-based and African tongues. In Haitian Creole,
the word ‘zozo’ means bone (also slang for penis). In Louisiana French Creole,
‘zozo’ means blackbird or raven—a word which survived from the medieval Basque
language of southern France/northern Spain. During the early twentieth
century, French travel guides in Greece referred to</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Zozo as an alternate name for the
demon Pazuzu, but there is nothing else to support that claim. In
Zulu, the word ‘uzozo’ means a wound that never heals, and the word moved into
modern slang when the small huts crafted of tin in the poor areas of African
cities were known as ‘izozo’ or today’s ‘zozo huts’. In current French slang,
‘zozo’ means nitwit or dude.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Every demonologist and
exorcist will tell you that demons do not willingly give up their names to
anyone, which is why the Catholic Rite of Exorcism is specifically designed to
force the demon to name itself. Knowledge of an entity’s name gives the exorcist
power over it. That's why any search for a legitimate historical trail
involving the entity is pretty much a waste of time, regardless of how many
people try to create a history for Zozo. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Zozo identifies itself
by name and claims to be a demonic entity, but demons just don't blurt out
their real names to a teenager with a Ouija board.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Demons reveal their
names only after long spiritual battles, like exorcisms. So right from the
outset, there’s something suspicious about this entity. Zozo is either not a
demon at all, or Zozo is just a bluff—an alias behind which one or multiple
demons can approach the users in a spirit board session without endangering
itself. And no matter what imaginary medieval manuscripts say, there's
only one surefire link to Zozo. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><a href="https://kaantira.blogspot.com/2019/08/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know.html" target="_blank">(Part 2 of this article is here</a> and it deals with the Ouija board and the modern evolution of the Zozo entity, including observations and conclusions from the 2017 Zozo experiment with LSF founder Time Wood. As with any of my demonic articles, DO NOT TRY ANYTHING YOU READ ABOUT IN THIS ARTICLE AT HOME. If you do it's a really, really, REALLY bad idea. I'll link part two once it goes live, but until then you can check out my other paranormal articles including the Bell Witch series <a href="http://kaantira.blogspot.com/p/the-real-legend-of-bell-witch.html" target="_blank">here. </a>)</i></span></div>
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So you guys know I'm normally keeping myself pretty busy, and especially at this time of year. 2019 was originally supposed to be a leisurely writing year with a light publication schedule, but that has changed thanks to some stuff I can't announce yet. (Darn NDAs) So because I just cannot be too busy, this story is one I need to update, including new information we've learned that makes everything clearer.<br />
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I spent October of 2015<a href="http://kaantira.blogspot.com/2015/11/lets-talk-about-paranormal-shows-and-tv.html" target="_blank"> shredding the abysmal A&E television show <i>Cursed: The Bell Witch</i> and the absolutely execrable Destination America <i>Exorcist Live!</i></a> and putting together my blog series <i>The Real Bell Witch, </i>all of which you can see by going to the Paranormal, Bell Witch, and Zozo page tab at the top of the blog. I should probably mention here that because of me trashing <i>Exorcist Live!</i> I was blocked on Twitter by Chip Coffey, who must have psychically found my blog and gotten offended at the way I felt about his contributions to this said show. It's actually pretty damn funny when you think about it--I didn't follow him. Heck, I didn't really care enough to even check. Then a couple of years later someone directed me to a Tweet of his but I couldn't see it because I'd been blocked!<br />
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Now in 2019, those stats have all increased: 37 million results for Zozo on Google, 367,000 YouTube videos. Tim Wood's LSF channel now has over half a million subscribers and 90 million views. The weekend of the 2016 post, LSF was working with a guest investigator, Darren Evans, for a huge live stream collaboration. </div>
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Let's link everything up real quick so that <a href="http://livescifi.tv/2016/10/zozo-demon-who-what-ouija-demon/" target="_blank">you can go see my 2015 articles</a>, the <a href="http://blogcritics.org/exclusive-interview-tim-wood-darren-evans-on-upcoming-live-stream-of-zozo-paranormal-investigation/" target="_blank">Blogcritics interview</a>, and the <a href="http://livescifi.tv/" target="_blank">LiveSciFi site</a>.<br />
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Tim and I subsequently conducted an experiment in 2017 where we tried to learn more about the entity. Tim contacted Zozo on the Ouija board every night for a month, while I stood as the control of the experiment. We live-streamed every video, documenting all the activity in front of the LiveSciFi audience. We collaborated on different things to try so we could arrive at a conclusion of what Zozo really was, and the evidence we got was actually pretty staggering. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=stalked+by+the+zozo+demon&crid=2YVVVK20IL414&sprefix=stalked+by+the+z%2Cundefined%2C164&ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_16" target="_blank">We subsequently co-wrote a book about our findings</a>. <i>Stalked by the Zozo Demon</i> came out two months later, was a bestseller in paranormal non-fiction, and is available now on Amazon and other online e-tailers. (#ObligatoryBookPlug)<br />
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I've since expanded my studies within the paranormal field and have delved deeply into the history and lore regarding the demonic. Won't be too much longer before I announce a couple of things that will encompass all that information. For that, you'll have to stay tuned. But this is my blog, so here I get to tell you about some of the crap that's gone on since Tim and I started researching the diabolical four years ago. We're still conducting that research--hell, the night we dissected a voodoo doll (video to the immediate right--> ) was the direct result of that research, and one of the creepiest paranormal objects I've ever seen by the way. (The woman who made that voodoo doll was consumed by hatred and rage that was seething through every stitch and ripple of fabric in the damn thing. That artifact is without a doubt the worst cursed/haunted object I've ever investigated.) But all this research also leads me to a story I've hinted about, but never told before the book came out.<br />
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In 2015, when I was interviewing Tim Wood and Darren Evans prior to the Zozo investigation, I noticed several odd similarities in Tim and Darren's stories. Not the 'they talked ahead of time' similarities, but elements that popped up in their individual experiences with the demonic that had also popped up, frighteningly, in my own. One of the articles I did, <a href="http://livescifi.tv/2016/10/ouija-board-demon-zozo-connecting-dots/" target="_blank">Ouija Board Demon Zozo--Connecting The Dots </a>outlined those similarities. What I neglected to include in the story was how I shared many of those characteristics with the two investigators, and those events stemmed from my adolescence and two hauntings. One of those hauntings, of course, was the Bell Witch case in Adams, TN. You guys have heard all about my opinions and experiences with that right here on this blog (or you <i>could</i> hear about them if you click on the Bell Witch, Paranormal and Zozo tab). The other was the demonic oppression of a friend of mine in college--an oppression that manifested in activity right before my eyes that I absolutely could not explain. Seems appropriate to tell that story now. All the names, naturally, have been changed, and bear with me: by the end of this post, it'll all make sense.</div>
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My friend's oppression began after the death of his younger brother in a mysterious car wreck. The brother had been involved in a high school "coven" with nine friends. Of those ten kids, eight died: four in the same car accident, two by suicide, one murdered, and the last of some totally bizarre infection. I have no idea what happened to the other two. After his brother's funeral, the entity hopped to my friend, Jeno. </div>
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Jeno was a smart, good-looking guy--football player, math whiz, popular kid with an infectious grin and a sweet personality. We attended the same college but I'd known him since high school, when he'd been in the same class I was. His family was Mormon and in every aspect he was just a normal, happy guy. But after his younger brother's death, everything suddenly went wrong. He literally started to almost wither into nothingness. Within a month, he looked gaunt and uptight. We shared a mutual friend--a guy named Rob and we would hang out some nights. We usually would go to this bizarre park in the middle of town, down this crazy steep hill and tucked away under the big railroad trestle that loomed hundreds of feet over our heads. That park was basically some fifty year old swings and a parking lot, but behind that were a few trails and a creek. We liked it there. People rarely went there during the day, much less the night, so we could hang out there and act like idiots or talk about our lives and no one ever disturbed us. </div>
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On one of those nights during the fall of my sophomore year in college, we went to that park. It was September, and still warm but despite that, Jeno was wearing a turtleneck sweater. And as we sat in our usual spot in a clearing tucked out of sight of the road, Jeno told us what was happening to make him look so gaunt and stressed out. </div>
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His house was haunted, he said, since his brother's death a few months earlier. He would wake up in the middle of the night, fighting with an unseen force pummeling him in the bed. Things would fly off his wall. Drawers would open and crash against the wall on the opposite side of the room. Strange shouts, bangs, and terrible smells would emanate from his younger brother's closed and unused bedroom.</div>
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I was fresh off my first investigation of the Bell Witch Cave and the Edens farm, where I'd experienced things much like what Jeno was talking about. In fact, I'd stood outside on the front porch of Bimms Eden's empty house and listened as the living room furniture was rearranged--things that neither Rob nor Jeno knew about. So I was able to take Jeno's story at face value.</div>
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The first time he lifted his shirt and showed the massive bruising on his torso, I was startled--and I couldn't help but be slightly skeptical as well. What I couldn't figure out was a trio of scratches that started on the right side of his neck and continued in an unbroken, continuous diagonal across his chest and finally terminated on his left hip. It was like someone had taken one of those little three-pronged gardening forks down his body, but the cuts were too deep and sharp-edged for that. They had scabbed over, and even the scabs were precise and identical.</div>
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For a few days after, I tried to figure out if there was some way to do that to oneself. It was so weird because the scratches were the same depth, the same width, and completely seamless. On top of that, Jeno was right-handed. There was no way he could have done that to himself with such perfect symmetry. But I didn't say anything to him about it at the time. When you're eighteen and a good-looking guy is telling you he's being attacked by a ghost his dead brother's coven conjured up, you figure it's probably not a good idea to interrogate him but just to act as if you totally buy into his story and be supportive of him that way. After all, he had just lost his brother. It only made sense to me that he would be have trouble dealing with his death. </div>
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A few weeks later, we were hanging out in the same park. It was October--my birthday weekend, in fact--and it was one of those perfect, crisp autumn evenings you get in Tennessee when the season is changing. We weren't even talking about the haunting at the time; we were planning a road trip as I recollect. Jeno didn't drink, I couldn't drink, and Rob...was Rob. He was drinking, mean thing that he was. At any rate, we were laughing when all of a sudden Jeno screamed and fell backwards, landing basically on my lap. Instinctively, I grabbed his shoulders and his body was so hot (temperature) that I could feel the heat baking through his jacket and sweater.</div>
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The next thing I knew, three burns came up on the side of his throat. Each burn was as wide as my thumb and almost instantly blistered. Rob pulled off Jeno's shirt and those burns followed the exact same path as the scratches had. </div>
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I <i>saw</i> those burns pop up. If you're a woman and have ever burned the side of your neck with a curling iron, that's exactly what it looked like. Except Jeno was six feet tall and those burns crossed his body like a sash and disappeared into the waistband of his jeans while he was wearing a thick cable-knit sweater and a Member's Only jacket. (dated myself there) And these weren't surface burns either; they were second degree burns. We took him to the ER--I don't even remember the BS story we told to try to spin the whole mess. That night after he was released, we took him back to Rob's place, figuring he might be able to rest there. Jeno pretty much passed out as soon as we tucked him up on the couch, exhausted as he was and full of pain meds, while Rob and I sat across the room trying to figure out what in the hell we'd just seen. </div>
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I had been at the <a href="http://kaantira.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-real-bell-witch-legend-what-real.html" target="_blank">Bell Witch cave just a few days before</a>, and had gotten several EVPs (my first ones, actually) before the cave suddenly went spook-monster on me and drove me out. So I was already a tad...jumpy and Rob knew this. But as we sat there trying to rationalize what had happened, the light bulb in the hanging lamp over his kitchen table exploded...like--legitimately exploded, glass shattering, sparks in the wiring, sounding like a pop gun kind of exploded. </div>
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My first thought at the moment was uncharitable to say the least. <i>Thank you so fucking much for bringing your pet ghost, Jeno </i>isn't the best retort in such a moment. But Jeno's voice was terrified and quiet all at the same time, and it made such an impact on me that I couldn't say a word. Rob, bless him, instantly popped up with, "Man, we need to take you to a church." </div>
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That's when Jeno told us that the Mormon church in town had excommunicated him. He'd gone to them for help when all the manifestations began <i>before</i> his brother's death, and they had kicked him out of the church! </div>
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Rob and I were both raised Catholic--Rob's mother was Spanish; mine was French--and we figured that if anyone would help Jeno, it would be the parish priest. So we loaded Jeno into the back seat of my Bug (yes, I was a vintage VW kind of punk girl back in the day--a 1972 Superbeetle, Tennessee orange of course) and took him to the rectory next to the church both our families attended. Our parish priest was an awesome guy--a chain-smoking, Scotch-drinking, honest-to-God Irish lean whip of a man who had baptized, christened, and First Communion-ed me. The drive lasted maybe five minutes, and it was the longest five minutes of my life. After what we'd already seen that night, and the knowledge of how Jeno's brother had died, a VW Bug didn't seem like the safest place in the world to be. On top of that, it was three o'clock in the morning, and we were going to wake up a priest. </div>
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It's a testament to who our priest was both as a man and a religious that we didn't even hesitate about going to him. This was the same priest I argued reproductive rights with, the same one who always told his congregation that if they were in spiritual trouble to come to him. Rob and I figured this would qualify, and all we wanted to do was to get Jeno to someone who knew what to do. </div>
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The rectory was a sold-looking Victorian building. Rob, who was quite a bit smaller than Jeno, was literally hauling him up the front porch steps while I banged on the door and rang the doorbell. The porch light snapped on and our priest peered out then he opened the door. He took one look at the three of us (we probably looked like we were crazy) and immediately let us all into the house.</div>
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But there was nothing else I could do. I couldn't help him and organized religion wouldn't (at the time). The response of both the Mormon and Catholic Churches to Jeno's situation made me angry--angry enough to forego religion for a long, long time. Exorcisms were not something the Catholic church approved or even talked about openly at the time. Although our priest prayed with Jeno, blessed him, and conducted minor rites in the hope that something would alleviate his suffering he was told by his superiors to stop.<br />
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Father protested on Jeno's behalf (and also for Rob and me, since we were now getting peripheral notice from the entity), but the diocese was emphatic. The Catholic church rarely approved exorcisms, there was no exorcist in the diocese, and the bishop flat refused to sanction anything remotely resembling an exorcism for a non-Catholic. Probably as a result of his protests, our priest was moved to another parish within six months. But before he left, he told me that it was dangerous to spend so much time with Jeno trying to help him and told Rob the same thing. Being know-it-all twenty-somethings, we ignored him.<br />
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Unfortunately, Rob told Jeno what the priest had said. Six weeks after that, Jeno left town and I have never heard from him again.</div>
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All that is history. Let's talk about the present, as in what has happened from 2015 to 2019 and specifically for Tim and me.<br />
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The Zozo experiment exacerbated everything exponentially. As the month went on, Tim and I both began having parallel paranormal experiences including nightmares, poltergeist activity, shadow figures in our non-haunted homes, and extreme emotional swings. Lightning struck my house when I was interviewing I ended up quadruple-saving the rough draft of the book and my notes because they kept disappearing from my computer. We did several investigations together after the experiment, and no matter where we went, the demonic pursued us. I ended up taking a break from investigations for a while, and gradually the activity on my end slowed and stopped.<br />
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This year, Tim and I started investigating and working together again. The last trip we took we were deliberately looking to contact the Zozo entity, and once again Tim and I began to experience parallel activity. That started up in the two weeks prior to the investigation and has not only continued but increased and intensified. Eventually, once I can announce the super secret big projects we're working on, all of you will be able to hear the rest of that story. Shouldn't be too long.<br />
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Here's the thing. I know there are no coincidences when it comes to paranormal activity. For two hundred years, authors working on the Bell Witch story have reported losing their entire manuscripts. I know a writer who lost his entire book--back when writing a book required a typewriter and lots of Liquid Paper. The physical manuscript just disappeared from inside his locked desk drawer. Film crews would find their equipment malfunctioning inside the Bell Witch cave or the landing outside it--but it all worked perfectly on top of the cliff. This happened famously during the late 1980s when the show Unsolved Mysteries tried to film there. Also, when you're writing about the Bell Witch your source materials and research--particularly the Ingram book--disappear. So I know the history involved with writing about paranormal entities and resultant paranormal activity that interferes with that.<br />
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In an era when demonic attacks are perceived to be on the rise, when the Catholic church is suddenly embracing the rite of exorcism in order to meet the rising need to help victims of demonic oppression and possession, when non-Catholic "exorcists" are working openly with paranormal investigators who are looking into demonic hauntings you have to stop and think: is there some reason the diabolical forces are increasing? It's kind of a chicken or the egg sort of dilemma. Is the increased interest in the paranormal the reason we are hearing more about demons or demonic hauntings? Or are demons becoming more openly prevalent and that's why there are more paranormal investigations?<br />
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Make no mistake, any time an investigator like Tim or a researcher like me starts to poke at demonic entities, it's playing with fire. People who understand the dangers of this type of paranormal research also understand the need for protecting themselves as they proceed. But sometimes, depending on the entity, that protection isn't enough...or fails. Even the most experienced paranormal investigator can sometimes end up with an attachment or worse. And if multiple people on the same team end up with parallel activity--and especially if they don't live in the same place like Tim and me--that's a huge red flag. At that point, whatever methods of self-protection they employ have been compromised, leaving the investigators open to worse and increasing activity.<br />
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I knew when I first wrote this blog post that because we were investigating Zozo, an entity that has Ouija-bombed and stalked Tim for years, there would be paranormal consequences. That didn't surprise me. What <i>did</i> surprise me was how quick and how severe those consequences were. They had far-reaching effects on everyone involved.<br />
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Make no mistake: paranormal investigation is NOT a game. It's dangerous to everyone involved. So getting a cheap voice recorder and running around a deserted haunted house at night or "playing" with a Ouija board isn't some kind of cheap thrill. It's potentially deadly, and these cautionary tales shouldn't be ignored or dismissed. Leave it to the experts, because even the experts in the paranormal field know that this type of investigation weighs heavily in favor of the demonic, not the investigators.<br />
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Hopefully after this, you'll know that too. Stay tuned, folks. This ride is getting to be VERY bumpy. Oh, and if you want to learn more about Tim and his experiences with the Zozo entity, watch that last video I posted. You'll learn a lot.<br />
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Particularly why you don't want to get any closer to that entity than reading about it in a blog.<br />
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<i>Author's note: I had just finished typing the line directly above this one when the ceiling in my office/spare bedroom suddenly collapsed. I was hit with plaster and insulation, and the guest bedroom which I had just finished renovating was pretty much destroyed. The collapse barely missed taking out all the electronics--tv, desktop, laptop, Nintendo Switch--but managed to destroy the overhead light. So allow me to reiterate one more time: dealing with the diabolical is not a game, is not "fun", is not an adrenaline rush. It's dangerous on multiple levels.</i><br />
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Celina Summershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08581883122727085849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26892817.post-44947632841641870622019-01-07T08:01:00.000-05:002019-01-07T08:01:58.707-05:002018 Sports--Year of the Asshats<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sorry for the long layoff on this blog. 2018 was an extraordinarily busy year for me, with the release of 11 new fiction titles (oh my Harlequin--how hard it's going to be to say goodbye to you next month when your series is done! Until then, you can take a look at Dominic on his first book cover just for fun), two non-fiction titles, multiple ghost writing projects, and editing. I couldn't do a lot of sports blogging like I usually do on this blog, or write many columns for the Orange & White Report. Both of those circumstances will be changing in 2019, which is currently a "light" year for me with five fiction titles and two more non-fiction projects in the works. </span><script src="https://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But that doesn't keep me from paying attention to what's going on. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2018 was a tough year in sports. Aside from the continuing inactivity in sexual assault and abuses in programs like Baylor and Michigan State (the conviction and indictment of Larry Nasser, the physician/rapist in East Lansing was a brief high point for the judicial system and an ongoing disaster for the NCAA), other egregious nightmares were exposed. The death of 19-year old University of Maryland football player, Jordan McNair, was <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2018/10/25/report-maryland-football-culture-cites-problems-stops-short-toxic-label/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.1ae1da538aa3">directly attributed to abusive coaching practices under former HFC DJ Durkin.</a> What was great to see was that Maryland actually investigated the program; what was absolutely unbelievable was that they reinstated Durkin as head coach. The fan and backlash was so virulent that they fired him the day after they put him back in charge of the team.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Another tone-deaf administration undone by the anger of an educated fan base. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then, just twenty minutes up the road from where I'm writing this in the middle of the night, Urban Meyer's long-predicted and oft-expected end-of-the-road scandal reared its ugly head like a 17-year cicada. The former wife of OSU assistant Zach Smith revealed that not only did her husband abuse her physically and mentally, but that Meyer knew about the abuse for a decade and had still retained Smith on his staff, giving him annual raises and promotions. That coaching relationship between Meyer and Smith had its roots in the dog-dirty Florida football program that generated the likes of murderer Aaron Hernandez. During his occupation of the Swamp, Meyer saw thirty-one of his players get arrested between 2005 and 2010. You'd think he would have taken away something constructive from the fiasco that accompanied his exit from Florida.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You'd think he would have learned that the quickest way to destroy a coach's legacy is to look the other way at criminal activity. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But no. Zach Smith proved to be the rocks on which Urban Meyer's ship foundered, and while the embattled coach backslid into the same "health issues" smokescreen he'd used to exit Gainesville, stepping down at the end of the 2018-19 season with his reputation once more in tatters. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And then, of course, new information was brought to light regarding the former head football coach at Tennessee, Butch Jones, in a book that has my name on the front cover. During the course of the months co-author Tom Mattingly and I devoted to research and dozens of interviews, we unearthed a slew of nasty stories about the abusive atmosphere Jones created--the abuse of players, the withholding of transcripts so players couldn't transfer, the reason for the staggering number of injuries the Vols suffered every year, the micromanagement that turned into a totalitarian regime, and the interference in medical protocols that resulted in players having untreated injuries once their playing days on Rocky Top were done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In all these cases, a common denominator existed that tie the universities together. 2018 was the year of the fan, and make no mistake--that's not always a compliment. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Anytime you've got someone in the media that breaks a big story, there's going to be a lot of backlash. As a writer, you try to prepare for that. I certainly tried to steel myself before <i>Empowered</i> was released, and I know that an experienced journalist like Brett McMurphy (who broke the Zach Smith case) almost certainly did as well. But in the sports world, there's really no way to prepare yourself for the ignorant fan or the belligerent fan or the stupid enough to call Paul Finebaum's nationally syndicated show and brag about poisoning the famous oaks at Toomer's Corner because Auburn beat Alabama that year Harvey Updike sort of fan. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Surrender cobras...usually the first reaction of an asshat <br />
fan when the game doesn't go their way.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2018 was a year in which the asshat fan thrived. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now sure--the asshat fan is just the leading edge of a fringe element in all sporting fandoms. Usually, we all believe the asshat fan is at that OTHER school or rooting for that OTHER divisional team. It's much more difficult to accept that your university is just as guilty of asshat fans as every other university is. And nowhere does the asshat fan thrive more than in big-money NCAA sports. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When McMurphy broke the Zach Smith case, the response of Ohio State fans was immediate and extremely defensive. Fans howled at the media, especially McMurphy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They also howled at Smith's victim for a decade, his ex-wife Courtney Smith. As their anger increased so did the asshattedness, until much of what you saw on social media consisted of fairly serious threats against her--a woman who'd endured a decade of abuse from her spouse and with small children to raise. But many Ohio State fans were more concerned about the threat of losing their national championship winning coach. As <a href="https://deadspin.com/brain-worms-drive-hundreds-of-unfortunate-buckeyes-fans-1828147363">Chris Thompson put it in his article for Deadspin: </a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">Probably no one in this story especially </span><em style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; line-height: inherit;">needs </em><span style="color: #222222;">a rally of support on the OSU campus, and certainly not the guy collecting payments on a $6.4 million annual salary to sit at home and not do a job, while his employer tries to figure out whether he was apathetic about one of his assistants abusing and terrorizing someone. <b>But sports fandom—all fandom, for that matter—is a fucking disease, and so here we are: some 250 deeply wacko Buckeyes fans gathered angrily outside Ohio Stadium Monday afternoon to chant and sing and wave signs in support of Meyer.</b></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bolding mine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sports fandom is a fucking disease. Sounds kind of harsh, doesn't it? But isn't it also an accurate diagnosis of the cray-cray that infests every fan base, from Little League to the NFL? I mean--take a look at the definition: </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a person who has a strong interest in or admiration for a particular person or thing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Abbreviation of fanatic. Might be something to keep in mind moving forward. All I know as the mother of a young woman who, like Courtney Smith, is enmeshed in the horror of an abusive marriage to a man more than twice her size and weight compels me to state unequivocally that there are no circumstances or situations where it's justifiable for one marriage partner to beat, choke, slam, slap, claw, or strangle their spouse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Zero. None.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These men represent the worst of the bad. They not only supported an enabler of domestic abuse, but they hijacked a hashtag for victims of sexual abuse and tried to blame two entities for the scandal that had nothing to do with it: Paul Finebaum and ESPN. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'm sure that among the two hundred and fifty Urban Meyer fans who protested outside Ohio Stadium, a few probably agreed with the statement I just made. But those same fans were saying something completely different when they started their protest (a very amateurish copy of what happens when Vol Nation decides to take a stand on something, by the way). They were declaring to the world that domestic violence was less important to them than winning football games. They knew that Urban Meyer was the key to getting back into the College Football Payoffs--oops. Sorry. I meant PLAYOFFS of course--and they were unwilling to sacrifice him . So they sacrificed Courtney Smith, her children, and her safety instead.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This has nothing to do with our ex-wide receiver coach, or the accusations against him, with his ex-wife. I don’t want to talk about that! I don’t condone what he’s accused of, I don’t condone any of that stuff! This is not why I’m here. That’s not why I drove twelve hours and you guys are standing out in 95-degree heat—to talk about what he did or didn’t do.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That's what the organizer of the rally--tragically self-identifying as "Tennessee Jeff"--had to say in his opening statement. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sigh. Tennessee can't thank you enough, "Jeff".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Of course that's not what he wanted to talk about because he knew, way down deep in his two sizes-too-small heart that he was basically opening up an abuse victim to the worst kinds of online attention. He and the rest of the "protesters" stood around and talked and sang </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(Yes, I saw them. I was waiting for them to bust out "We Will Overcome" just to make their make-believe persecution delusions complete.)</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and talked some more, holding signs that were so gobsmackingly inane and devoid of awareness that even a certifiable cynic like me was stunned.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yes, Virginia. There is a species of sub-human that is so ridiculously oblivious to how they make themselves and their university look. What? You want more of the surrender cobras? Okay. Here's one of my favorites. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />Naturally, Ohio State fans were terrified that without Urban Meyer, Ohio State would implode and the 2018-19 season--when they had legitimate playoff hopes--would end up as a disaster. I wasn't terrified about that. In fact, I was kind of hoping<i> they</i> were right. (I'm married to one of <i>them</i>, by the way, and it's hard to gloat too much about Urban screwing up yet again when one of <i>them</i> is snoring on the other side of the bed.) And while the season didn't implode per se, the disaster that struck the Buckeyes when they were blown out by Pursue enabled me to gloat just a little. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I can't wait for Urban's health issues to miraculously resolve in time for him to head to another coaching destination so he can screw up their school in five years or so because that would get his scurvy carcass out of the state where I live. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">See? See how easy it is to devolve into asshattery? While fans from any other university wouldn't consider what I just wrote as asshat enough to be worthy of the asshat fan designation, folks who love Ohio State certainly would. We all are just as protective of our school's reputation as we are proud of their prowess on the field. To any other school, Tennessee's five and seven season in 2018-19 shouldn't create any kind of positive outlook for the program's future. But Vols fans <i>do</i> have something to be proud of: two of those five wins were against ranked SEC opponents, both of whom went to bowl games and both of whom won their bowls--Auburn, dominating the hapless Purdue (who beat OSU by twenty and ruined their playoff dreams) and Kentucky, beating heavily favored Penn State in the Citrus Bowl. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So, yes. Every fan base has its asshats. But then you have the schools who habitually sit atop the football or men's basketball pyramid, and their asshattery assumes a virulent, shrill nastiness of manner that makes them universally loathed. You know who I'm talking about. Is there a school more arrogant about its men's basketball team than Kentucky? Duke, maybe. North Carolina, perhaps. UCLA has made a serious run at total asshattery, using methods that John Wooden would have never permitted. But in football, just take a moment to consider these asshattery candidates: Alabama. Oklahoma. Clemson. Notre Dame. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Four teams that made it into the CFB Playoffs this year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have a wide-ranging circle of friends within the comforting circle of football fandom. All of my Bama friends go out of their way to avoid being asshats, which is rather difficult considering the unquestioned mastery Nick Saban maintains over his program. When Alabama has a team that sports pundits are defining as the "best college football team ever" it's impossible for Tide fans not to talk themselves up. Here in a couple of hours, 98% of the Crimson Tide lovers online will be getting up and getting ready for work, maybe dropping an excited Tweet or two about the game tonight. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But here we are</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">...four in the morning on the day of the College Football Playoffs National Championship Game, and there's a faction online right this moment basically Tweeting nonsense just so they can type the following: #RollTide. They're also hunting for cyber-prey: basically people who hate Alabama that they can gang up on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yesterday, a lot of people were discussing my book with me, particularly the reported abuses Butch Jones had employed upon his team, staff, and assistants. The chapter where I go into that topic is the longest in the book. <i>Tennessee's Hidden Nightmare: Player Injuries and Mistreatment. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That chapter includes this young man's story. Watch Mykelle McDaniel tell what happened to him in his own words and then let me know how that story makes you feel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Butch Jones turned a football program into a totalitarian regime. I interviewed multiple players and staff members, three of whom went on the record. Between those three players, the entire spread of Jones' tenure in Knoxville was covered, and the escalating severity of his abuses was never addressed by the university because there wasn't consistent leadership or oversight. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There's not much difference between Jones and Maryland's DJ Durkin. Butch Jones spent the 2018-19 season as an "intern" at Alabama--an incredibly bizarre job title for a guy who'd been a head coach in the SEC just a year earlier. Saban recently brought the disgraced Maryland head coach, DJ Durkin, to Tuscaloosa as well. So I made the comment that all Saban needed was one more predatory coach and he'd have the classless trifecta. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In pops a Bama fan, so rabid to defend Saint Saban that he accused me of making up these stories in order to exploit the Tennessee fan base and promote my book. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This guy was supposed to be my <i>friend.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Needless to say, I took exception to what he said so I verbally eviscerated him and kicked him to the curb, muting him when I was done. I'm not too proud to confess that I used language I almost never employ when talking online. But yeah...I cussed that you-know-what up one side and down the other. But , you ask? Because he cast aspersions on my work, publicly accusing me of making up sh*t so I could exploit the still-nervous Tennessee fan base and make money off them. Not exactly the approach a friend should take. Never mind the interviews online that corroborated the stories I'd published. Never mind the fact that we interviewed former players and staff, parents, journalists, physicians, donors and fans. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nope. I "invented" those stories as exploitative promotion tactics so I can make a fortune In and of itself, the idea that any author makes money off a book like this one is kind of ludicrous. Yes, we had an Amazon #1 Bestseller in both Football and the History of Sports genres. But we didn't start cashing six-figure checks. Believe me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Fast forward twenty-four hours. Dude is still at it, cyber-stalking me to YouTube, where a video about my book and the exposure of Butch Jones's treatment of his teams had been <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udRKt-WUACw">posted by the world's favorite LSU fan, TJ LSU Dad.</a> Bama fan proceeded to leave a comment on the video, saying that I was a "hag" and a Finebaum "wannabe" blah blah blah. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">LSU Dad doesn't go in for fake moral outrage, and as a LSU fan he doesn't have a dog in the fight. His reaction to my book and Mykelle McDaniel's filmed interview with me was exactly what I hoped a neutral party's reaction would be.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yeah, this bushy-tailed squirrelly lover of the Crimson Tide is a bona fide pin-headed nincompoop for thinking that calling me a "hag" was going to hurt my feelings. You see...to me any CFB fan should be proud of their programs and their coaches--not just for the wins each season on the field, but also the wins off the field. When the Vols run through the T each home game every season, I feel so much pride for our team and school that sometimes I tear up, especially if I'm on a rare trip back to Neyland.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tonight, the University of Alabama will take the field for the national championship against Clemson, and right in their midst will be Butch Jones, the Bama "intern" who single-handedly destroyed the careers and futures of dozens of Tennessee players. That's nothing to be proud of. That's nothing to brag about. As a matter of fact, Butch Jones representing the University of Alabama in any capacity is just as egregious as Urban Meyer knowingly enabling a wife-beater throughout his career. Think about it--what does it say about Nick Saban when he's the guy who brought Jones on as a $35,000 per year staff member--carefully keeping Jones's salary well below the figure where he'd lose the $9 million of his buyout from Tennessee?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And what does it say that he's also poised to bring Durkin onto his staff as well?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">No one was louder about Urban Meyer and the Zach Smith scandal than the asshats among Alabama fans. Their moral outrage when Meyer was only benched for three games was vociferous as they clutched their pearls in sheer horror. How hypocritical my latest cyber-stalker's behavior is now! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>You can't scream about Zach Smith and ignore Butch Jones on your own sideline.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I know what you're thinking, cyber-stalker. You're thinking that if roles were reversed, I would have accused you of making up bullshit for the money too. You're thinking that I would have responded worse than you did, cyber-stalking you as well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Well...no, I wouldn't have. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Right now, UT is conducting a search for its new Offensive Coordinator. Several of the names that were brought up were names I found unacceptable for one reason or another. But one name in particular--Kendal Briles--had me writing this a couple of weeks ago in a column:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I was horrified, however, at how many of my fellow Tennessee fans were 100% behind the Briles hire at OC. Remember when I said that every fan base has its asshats? The University of Tennessee is no exception. We have idiots who suck up to recruits--basically "writing love letters" to them, as one of my friends sarcastically said about the worst such offender--and then, when the kid and his parents choose to sign with a different school, these grown-ass men (for the most part) suddenly nuke the recruit's social media feeds, screeching like crazy old ladies who shoot kids with BB guns if they set one toe too close to their pansies in the flower bed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Every member of Vol Twitter knows exactly which asshat I'm talking about. *waves to Sab*</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We also, apparently, have fans for whom winning is more important than reputation or history or brand, and in places like Baylor winning is MUCH more important than the psychological, emotional, and physical health of those fifty-one rape victims or the thirty players that allegedly committed those rapes. Just like I said a minute ago: you can't revolt against the hiring of Greg Schiano on morality grounds and then welcome the architect of the "show 'em a good time" recruiting policy at Baylor, where recruits were taken to strip clubs, given alcohol, and allegedly provided with girls for sex. And just like when my cyber-stalker accused me of manufacturing the charges against Butch Jones--I discovered what had happened to dozens of Tennessee players by interviewing the victims just like the attorneys and Title IX enforcers and law enforcement discovered what was going on at Baylor by interviewing the victims. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Of course, seeing as my cyber-stalker hasn't actually READ the book and the stories in question, anything he has to say is automatically null and void. Bashing a book's veracity just because you <i>want</i> the stories to be untrue is one step away from burning books, or banning them, or censoring them. </span><br />
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<span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">2018. The year of the asshat fan has extended, sadly, into 2019. Here in about thirteen hours, the pageantry and hype of the last football game of the season will kick off and every football fan will be set up for four hours of the greatest sport ever existed (save for jai alai) and the subsequent drought once it's over. By this time tomorrow, every football fanatic in every fan base except for one (tonight's winner) will have their thoughts turned to next season. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tomorrow night, either the Clemson fans or the Alabama fans--whichever is victorious--will turn their attention to torturing every other school with gloats, boasts, brags, and for most of them a very real sense of joy at what their team has accomplished. Hidden in the depths of the winning fan base, however, are going to be the asshats whose online behavior cranks up in activity but plummets in class. They don't care that they're ruining the sport for everyone but themselves. They don't care that one day, their beloved coach is going to retire or go to the NFL or otherwise move on, and then their program will take a nosedive. That's the way that athletic success works. Winning programs move through history like a pendulum, and the bigger the swing into championship seasons, the greater the corresponding downfall of the program will be. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As for my beady-eyed, bushy-tailed, acorn-hoarding cyber-stalker...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You may think I'm a hag. I don't look my best at times, but by God, I'm still walking despite being advised by my surgeon that I'll end up in a wheelchair within the next few years. I refuse to let my physical deterioration interfere with my professional goals, which are ambitious. So I defy anyone to come out of the last two decades I have--the automobile accident, the chronic pain, the agonizing repercussions of multiple major spinal surgeries--and have them looking like they could still win beauty pageants. At the end of the day, I don't give a damn if you and your Loser in 'Loosa buddy think I look like a hag. I'm a fifty-two year old grandmother of seven, and as long as my damn good-looking husband, who's worked his ass off since I was disabled just to keep our heads above water, is content then I could give two craps about what a man who's too much of a coward to use his real name or his photo in his profile. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At least I don't brag if my name is mentioned on one page of Finebaum's last book. I sure as hell can brag that my name is on the spine of over forty books instead. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At least I have the courage to squirrel out a story, even if that story damns my own school, and get the information out there because it's the right thing to do. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At least I have the courage to use my own name on social media, and blog instead of hiding behind a ridiculous pseudonym like squirrel or chipmunk or raccoon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At least I have the courage to expose a squirrel's cache of wrongdoing, although more than one person warned me that if I got too close to the truth about one particular family I could be endangering myself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You can always tell if a person's really a rodent underneath their smiling facade, because anyone who cyber-stalks you as a result of your opinion--whether it's about football or politics or who gets to sit by the window on the plane--is nothing but a big fat rat. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One of my other friends, Archie, had enough of the squirrelly way my cyber-stalker was acting yesterday afternoon. Keep in mind, this was twenty-four hours after the stream of abusive commentary began when I expressed my disappointment in Alabama for continuing its quest for a trifecta of low-class former coaches enrolled in Nick Saban's Reformatory. When he was done with the panorama of Bama non-gramma, Archie said this: </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #14171a; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">You've made an ass of yourself trolling </span><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link js-nav" data-mentioned-user-id="23697406" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/CelinaSummers" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1da1f2; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">@CelinaSummers</a><span style="color: #14171a; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the past 24 hours chipmunk. I'll give you a few minutes to read this, then handle you accordingly. </span><a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DumbassOldGuy?src=hash" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1da1f2; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">#DumbassOldGuy</a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I thought his remark was remarkably pithy. That's the downfall of every asshat fan. Eventually, you get called out by a total stranger for being an asshole. Not assHAT. AssHOLE. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sports are a huge part of our societal culture. Sports have been a form of entertainment since well before the first time two guys were thrown into an amphitheater with a couple of swords and told to fight for the amusement of ancient Rome. So maybe think of it this way as we move out of football season and into the heart of basketball season--</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Don't ruin sports for everyone around you. Don't be the asshat who stands at the end of the bar, drunk as a lord, screaming curses at the big screen TV like the coaches or referees or players can hear you and ultimately launching your beer bottle at the TV if things don't go your way. Don't cyber-stalk someone who doesn't share your fandom for your school. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Don't be that asshat fan. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Because all too soon, football season's done and your basketball team is mediocre at best. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Instead of being an asshat, try to do the right thing--and try to force the university you support to do the right thing also. Because this much I can guarantee you: having Butch Jones on your sideline tonight? That'll make people believe Nick Saban doesn't have one damn iota of common sense, as if the University of Alabama is condoning the abusive and predatory nature of Butch Jones. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And karma, my erstwhile friend, is a total bitch. </span>Celina Summershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08581883122727085849noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26892817.post-36077817686391907782018-08-01T01:42:00.000-04:002018-08-01T01:42:00.351-04:00Talking Frankly About Sexual Violence and College Athletes--Extended Cut<h3 class="graf graf--h3" name="5224">
Let’s Talk Frankly About Sexual Assault and College Athletics</h3>
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Anyone who follows my personal blog knows that I’ve done a series of articles over the past few years regarding college athletics and the absolute indifference big money sports programs have toward allegations of rape or sexual assault. Yes, this is a difficult topic to discuss. And yes, there are a lot of misconceptions when it comes to sexual assault, athletes, and the justice system. I’d imagine that quite a few people will get pretty darn mad after reading this column — either at me or the way the world works. But that’s okay by me. I’m not afraid of Twitter taunts if it brings us nearer to our ultimate goal and that’s to significantly address the sexual assault problem in this country. </div>
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I knew there was one person whose insight I badly wanted to begin a conversation about rape and athletes. Brenda Tracy is an activist and sexual assault victim advocate who now travels the country meeting with college and high school programs to discuss this very issue with the players. <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="https://www.brendatracy.com/home" href="https://www.brendatracy.com/home" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Her story of being gang raped by members of the Oregon State football team in 1998 is hard to read, but I’d advise you to check it out.</a> You may note some similarities between Brenda’s story and the stories of so many other people. Her input on this topic will be invaluable for everyone.</div>
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In recent years, it seems like every rape case you hear about any more deals with athletes as either the victims (Michigan State, USA gymnastics, Ohio State) or the perpetrators (Baylor, Minnesota, Florida State, Michigan State)and especially on the collegiate level. With big moneyed and storied programs like these having major conflagrations regarding sexual assault in the past few years, the time is long past when we, as a society, should have addressed this issue.</div>
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But in addition to these cases which have come to light, there was also the University of Tennessee case. These are the bare bones relevant facts of how the case unfurled:</div>
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In February of 2015, former UT football players AJ Johnson and Michael Williams were indicted for rape following a party the previous November during which some kind of sexual activity evidently occurred. Two days after the rape claim was filed with the Knoxville Police Department, Johnson and Williams were suspended from the team and never played another down of football for Tennessee. Almost four years passed before Johnson and Williams were brought to trial, where they were found not guilty of all charges by a jury comprised of seven women and four men. </div>
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Now, three and a half years later in the “speedy” trial guaranteed to the defendants by the Constitution, Johnson and Williams have been acquitted. The jury deliberated for ninety minutes — <em class="markup--em markup--p-em">minutes!</em> — and came back with verdicts of not guilty on all counts when the <strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong"><em class="markup--em markup--p-em">defense didn’t call one single solitary witness to the stand. </em></strong>They didn’t need to. The defense told the court in closing arguments that the prosecution under Assistant District Attorney General Leslie Nassios had failed to prove the case against the former Tennessee football players. </div>
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And they were right. The DA’s case was disastrous for everyone involved — alleged victims, alleged perpetrators, the District Attorney, and Nassios.</div>
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So stop and ask yourselves this: how is that possible? How in the name of Hades could the prosecution have proceeded with a fatally flawed case? And why would they go forward at all? </div>
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The first knee-jerk answers I saw to this question over social media this weekend were pretty universal from within Vol Nation: the accusers lied. But that’s not necessarily so according to Brenda Tracy.</div>
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False reports make up 2–10% of reports. This also includes unfounded which just means it can’t be proven either way. making over 90% and probably 98% of all reports true. A common misconception that comes up when a not guilty verdict is handed down and/or the victims statements are inconsistent — people think this means the victim lied — which is <strong class="markup--strong markup--blockquote-strong">absolutely untrue.</strong></blockquote>
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Research I’ve done independently corroborates Brenda’s assertion. In fact, the percentage of false sexual assault claims has landed very consistently between 2% and 10% since these records started to be kept in 1929 by the <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="https://ucr.fbi.gov/new-rape-fact-sheet" href="https://ucr.fbi.gov/new-rape-fact-sheet" rel="noopener" target="_blank">FBI’s annual Uniform Crime Report</a>. Studies by major universities like <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="https://web.stanford.edu/group/maan/cgi-bin/?page_id=297" href="https://web.stanford.edu/group/maan/cgi-bin/?page_id=297" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Stanford</a>, by advocacy groups like the <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="https://www.nsvrc.org/sites/default/files/Publications_NSVRC_Overview_False-Reporting.pdf" href="https://www.nsvrc.org/sites/default/files/Publications_NSVRC_Overview_False-Reporting.pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank">National Sexual Violence Resource Center</a>, and independent psychological and clinical research like the study conducted by<a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1077801210387747" href="http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1077801210387747" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> Lisak, Gardinier, Nicksa, & Cote for Sage Journals: Violence Against Women in 2010</a>, Recent studies have the number averaging right about 6%. And there’s much more to the story — and the numbers — than just that. </div>
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<a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="http://www.nsvrc.org/sites/default/files/publications_nsvrc_factsheet_media-packet_statistics-about-sexual-violence_0.pdf" href="http://www.nsvrc.org/sites/default/files/publications_nsvrc_factsheet_media-packet_statistics-about-sexual-violence_0.pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The National Sexual Violence Resource Center tells us</a> that one in five women and one in 16 men are sexually assaulted while in college. More than 90% of sexual assault victims on college campuses do not report being assaulted, while 63.3% of men at one university who self-reported acts qualifying as rape or attempted rape admitted to committing repeat rapes.</div>
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Since someone on Twitter decided to challenge me on source materials, let me roll out a quick list of stats <strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong"><em class="markup--em markup--p-em">and</em></strong> links to my sources for you. <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/182369.pdf" href="https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/182369.pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank">90%</a> of campus sexual assaults are committed by perpetrators that the survivor knows.</div>
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<a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/221153.pdf" href="https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/221153.pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank">84%</a> of female survivors report being sexually assaulted during their first four semesters on campus. The <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="http://www.davidlisak.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/RepeatRapeinUndetectedRapists.pdf" href="http://www.davidlisak.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/RepeatRapeinUndetectedRapists.pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank">majority</a> of undetected college rapists are likely serial perpetrators, committing an average of 6 rapes each. <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/182369.pdf" href="https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/182369.pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank">13%</a> of women report being stalked during their time in college. <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/182369.pdf" href="https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/182369.pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank">80%</a> of survivors of stalking know the person who victimized them. <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="http://www.loveisrespect.org/pdf/College_Dating_And_Abuse_Final_Study.pdf" href="http://www.loveisrespect.org/pdf/College_Dating_And_Abuse_Final_Study.pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank">43%</a> of dating college women report experiencing violent and abusive dating behaviors including physical, sexual, technology-facilitated, verbal or other forms of controlling abuse. More than <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="http://www.loveisrespect.org/pdf/College_Dating_And_Abuse_Final_Study.pdf" href="http://www.loveisrespect.org/pdf/College_Dating_And_Abuse_Final_Study.pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank">57%</a> of college students who report experiencing dating violence report experiencing it while in college. </div>
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And let’s be real here — these are older numbers. More recent numbers are even more disturbing as they highlight a progressively worsening trend. The National Sexual Violence Resource Center <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="http://www.nsvrc.org/sites/default/files/publications_nsvrc_factsheet_media-packet_statistics-about-sexual-violence_0.pdf" href="http://www.nsvrc.org/sites/default/files/publications_nsvrc_factsheet_media-packet_statistics-about-sexual-violence_0.pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank">reported in 2015</a> that more than 90% of sexual assault victims on college campuses do not report the assault.</div>
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NINETY PERCENT of victims DO NOT REPORT THEIR ASSAULT. The National Domestic Violence Hotline Law Enforcement Agency Report reported <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="http://www.thehotline.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/NDVH-2015-Law-Enforcement-Survey-Report.pdf" href="http://www.thehotline.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/NDVH-2015-Law-Enforcement-Survey-Report.pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank">some reasons for this </a>in 2015: Of those victims who have called the cops, 2 in 3 were afraid to call the police in the future. Only 1 in 5 victims actually felt safer after calling the police, and 1 in 3 victims felt less safe. Of victims who have called the cops, nearly half felt police discriminated against them. Of victims who have called the cops, 1 in 4 report being arrested or threatened with arrest.</div>
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And for the idiots who spent the weekend talking about “how many times alleged victims make false reports of sexual violence” ponder this False Allegations of Rape Study that provides <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="https://atixa.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Lisak-False-Allegations-16-VAW-1318-2010.pdf" href="https://atixa.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Lisak-False-Allegations-16-VAW-1318-2010.pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank">analysis of ten years’ worth of reported rape cases at an American university for a moment:</a></div>
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<em class="markup--em markup--blockquote-em">Of the 136 cases of sexual assault 8 (5.9%) were coded as false reports, 61 (44.9%) did not proceed to any prosecution or disciplinary action, 48 (35.3%) were referred for prosecution or disciplinary action, and 19 (13.9%) contained insufficient information to be coded. It should be noted that in no case did the research team “override” the classification of a false report made by the police department. The eight cases that were described as false reports by the police investigators were also categorized that way by the coders.</em></blockquote>
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So let’s dispel with a lot of these myths, shall we? As much as 90% of campus rapes are unreported by the victims. That number improves to around 60% in society at large. This isn’t an issue where only women are assaulted sexually, because men are being raped as well and the numbers of those assaults are growing fast. And even if you take the <strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong"><em class="markup--em markup--p-em">highest</em> </strong>percentage of false allegations, at most you’re looking at 6%. Brenda Tracy is well aware of the spectrum of assaults beyond men raping women too:</div>
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Please note I’ve been speaking in terms of men and women, but let me be clear, Sexual violence does not discriminate. Anyone can be a victim. This is a human issue. These are crimes committed against humanity and the saddest part is its all preventable. Marginalized and vulnerable communities of people experience higher rates of assault.</blockquote>
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After all this, I think we can all agree that the numbers not only don’t lie but are remarkably consistent. So now we need to decide logically if 94 legitimate rape victims should be ignored because of the 6 who lied about being assaulted?</div>
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Brenda Tracy nails this argument to the wall swiftly.</div>
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The take away from the research is to believe survivors. And let me add that false reports for rape are no higher than false reports for other crimes. People lie. We all know this, but we only care when it comes to sexual assault. If one person lied about getting robbed society would never say ‘now we can’t believe the other 99% of people who report being robbed because of that one report. </blockquote>
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That means that we, as part of the Tennessee community, need to determine why the DA’s office miscalculated a criminal case so badly that they dragged the proceedings on for almost four years? How could they have proceeded with these indictments for that long when they knew the alleged victims’ and witness testimony wasn’t going to match up with the allegations? </div>
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Defense attorneys David Eldridge and Stephen Ross Johnson — in the face of the prosecution’s lack of forensic evidence, conflicting or changed testimony from the accuser and witnesses on the stand, and the fact that both accusers deleted their social media and texts and then ditched their cell phones within a day of each other a few weeks before Johnson and Williams were indicted — put forth the opinion that the prosecution of such a flawed case was the result of a conspiracy because the accused were Tennessee football players.</div>
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Last week, that seemed like hyperbole but today that’s kind of difficult to argue against, isn’t it?</div>
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But, perhaps we <strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong"><em class="markup--em markup--p-em">should</em></strong> argue with that conspiracy theory. I’m not a fan of conspiracy theories or flat earthers or tin foil hats anyway, so let’s do a little more shredding of this case. </div>
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It was just a little over two years ago that the University of Tennessee settled the Title IX case alleging a “rape culture” for such things as the kinds of sound bytes used during game and the music played by the DJ. Because…you know…Lil Jon. That case included the two accusers in Johnson and Williams’s criminal case as plaintiffs. You can read the accusers’ <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2708071-Lawsuit.html" href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2708071-Lawsuit.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">allegations specifically in the Title IX lawsuit here</a>, beginning on page 27.</div>
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What really struck me about Jane Doe IV’s statements included within the lawsuit at the time was a comment about “whose side they were on”, meaning the university. </div>
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Side? Nothing could demonstrate the he said/she said nature of this case any more clearly than that statement. Now that comment seems really odd in the face of what Johnson and Williams endured and will always endure as the result of this case. </div>
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The fact of the matter is that we will never know the full extent of what happened at the party, but we can be absolutely certain that what the women alleged in the Title IX lawsuit — for which they received significant financial remuneration from the university in 2016 — is not what they stated on the witness stand during the rape trial this week. And while the jury may not be aware of that fact, it evidently didn’t matter. The accusers destroyed the prosecution’s case all by themselves because what they’d originally alleged and what they admitted to under oath in court last week were two different things. Brenda Tracy offered this thought on the verdict:</div>
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If the Tennessee case is a legitimate case of a false report then the system worked and those men were exonerated. What more as a society can we ask for than for the system to work? Does that mean any one deserves to go through that? No. Of course not, but there is nothing perfect in this world. People lie and people hurt other people. That’s why we have systems in place to prevent innocent people from going to jail. The response to this case, if it is a true false report, should be ‘good, the system worked’ not ‘all victims lie and we should disbelieve all survivors’. If the system is failing then you fix it, you don’t punish all victims of rape because a small percentage of people lie. <strong class="markup--strong markup--blockquote-strong">If innocent people are being jailed and prosecuted then you fix the system — you don’t ignore, shame, invalidate, and dismiss survivors of rape.</strong></blockquote>
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In a society where allegations of sexual assault committed by athletes have become almost commonplace, what happened last week in Knoxville could be a massive blow to legitimate victims of rape and sexual assault. Now, whenever an athlete is accused of sexual misconduct, there’s a huge section of the athletic world that’s going to say, “She’s a liar, just like those women at Tennessee were” just like they used to say “she’s a liar, just like that woman with the Duke lacrosse team”.</div>
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And that’s not the case. </div>
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See, you can’t have it both ways. You can’t accept that sexual assaults occurred at Baylor or Michigan State or Ohio State but fall back on the “she’s a liar” defense for players with teams you root for. The fact of the matter is that our society has an obligation to believe people who report being the victims of rape. For hundreds of years, the justice systems in this country and other nations have routinely used a ‘blame the victim’ defense strategy.</div>
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That legal strategy has only one real purpose: to keep real rapists out of jail. Instead of saying ‘I never touched her/him’ the perpetrator is saying ‘I never would have touched her if she hadn’t enticed me with her behavior. Yeah, I had sex with her but it was consensual because she is a slut.’</div>
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And it’s not like that ‘blame the victim’ mentality doesn’t go on anymore. It absolutely does, and Stanford swimmer Brock Turner’s case is a prime example. Turner found a girl passed out in a parking lot and — instead of calling 911 like a responsible citizen — decided a quickie was the right way to go. Regardless of whether you think he was guilty or not, he and his family (who coincidentally live where else but not-so-smart Ohio)launched a ‘blame the victim’ publicity and social media campaign in which they bemoaned the fact that Brock wouldn’t be able to eat steak on Fridays because of some stupid slut’s addiction to alcohol. </div>
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Believe it or not, last week, <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/07/26/brock-turners-sexual-assault-appeal-he-intended-outercourse-not-intercourse/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5d1277e130b3" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/07/26/brock-turners-sexual-assault-appeal-he-intended-outercourse-not-intercourse/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5d1277e130b3" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Turner’s attorneys filed an appeal to overturn the guilty verdict and the three whole months of his six-month sentence that Turner served in jail, stating that he just wanted to have “sexual outercourse” with the victim.</a></div>
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Sexual <strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong"><em class="markup--em markup--p-em">outercourse</em></strong>? What in the heck is that? Apparently, it’s a form of sexual encounter that is comprised of “non-vaginal sex” or penetration of the vagina with anything but the penis. I guess in Turner’s world, non-consensual non-vaginal sex is somehow okay to do to a non-conscious person. Turner was presented as an all-American boy…an athlete whose father publicly reinforced the elitist entitlement Turner displayed with a letter on Facebook:</div>
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Although sexual assaults happen on a daily basis at every college and university in the country, the only cases we hear about are the ones that are centered around college athletes. I asked Brenda Tracy why that is.</div>
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There is nothing bigger than sports in this country. When sexual assault happens, we don’t hear about the chess club President. We hear about the football player and the point guard. The athletes and those stories make the news. The stories we see in sports shape the attitudes and beliefs we have about victims and perpetrators — and its an ugly one mainly because society has decided that all athletes are heroes and we can’t believe our heroes would disappoint us in this way. It’s also a huge inconvenience for the sports fan. They don’t want a rape victim ruining their game. And if we believe that the athlete committed this crime then we would be obligated to do something. We would need to demand change and accountability, but it’s easier to blame the victim and place the onus on them so that we don’t have to do anything — and this way we can get back to cheering for our team and our sports hero.</blockquote>
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Brenda’s remark is harsh, yes, but it’s also accurate. When I first heard about the allegations against AJ Johnson and Michael Williams, I got that sick feeling in my stomach…that <em class="markup--em markup--p-em">oh no, not UT! Dangnabbit,there’s got to be something wrong with this story because this is the last thing Tennessee needs…</em></div>
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I wasn’t thinking about the victims or the athletes. I wasn’t thinking about the lives that had just been irrevocably changed, for good or ill. I was thinking about how that accusation was going to impact the football season, and how other fan bases would be dogging us online, and that just when I thought UT had reversed an ideology that made me ashamed of the athletic department in general a couple of guys got their drink on and ruined everything…</div>
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Yes, I went there. And so did you. Most of us in this current conversation moved on from that gut check fairly quickly. For me, the gut check came within the first hour. I was 100% okay with the university’s response to the indictments. Once the allegations went into the criminal system, UT absolutely made the right decision to suspend both players immediately — a lesson Dan Mullen and the Florida Gators need to learn, by the way. </div>
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But there’s a sizable proportion of the fan base that did not move past that first reaction. A ‘blame the victim’ ideology is the fastest and cruelest knee-jerk response to any allegation made against the young men who wear Tennessee uniforms and represent every single person with a love for UT.</div>
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How different the Turner case ended up from the Johnson and Williamson case. There were eyewitnesses, other men who intervened and prevented Turner from doing even worse then kept him on the scene until the cops got there; the victim’s testimony never wavered; the physical trauma of Turner’s attempts at ‘sexual outercourse’ was documented properly. Turner was convicted and served 90 steakless days in jail. Johnson and Williamson were acquitted, and lost four years of their lives. If the accusers in the UT rape case did misrepresent what happened initially, we’ll never know for certain if that was intentional. We <strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong"><em class="markup--em markup--p-em">do</em></strong> know that Turner’s victim did not lie. So, it is fair for Turner’s victim to be disbelieved just because the women that accused Johnson and Williams were not believed by a jury? </div>
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There are currently <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="https://projects.chronicle.com/titleix/#essential_reading" href="https://projects.chronicle.com/titleix/#essential_reading" rel="noopener" target="_blank">310 open Title IX investigations </a>ongoing at US universities. That’s indicative of an epidemic, which is a problem we absolutely must address. Part of the price we pay for the enforcement of Title IX and the protection of victims of sexual assault has to be belief. We have to agree to believe without question any rape or assault allegation that arises. We owe that to the victims of sexual assault. We know the majority of rape cases are never reported. Why? </div>
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Because of what Brock Turner’s accuser has had to face, including a relentless assault by the accuser and his family on her character and reputation.</div>
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If you’re looking at someone to be mad at regarding what happened to AJ Johnson and Michael Williams, the culprits are easy to find. </div>
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Look at the court system, that dragged this case out for four years without resolution. </div>
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Look at the attorneys who handled the Title IX lawsuit, for making sure their clients got paid despite the damage those false allegations wreaked upon AJ Johnson, Michael Williams, their futures, their prospects, and their families. </div>
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For those of us who’ve watched this case from afar for four years, we need to come to a realistic understanding of the issues surrounding big time athletics. We can neither afford to disbelieve assault accusers nor rush to judgment and condemn the accused without due process. We have to understand that the university’s actions in this case are absolutely what needed to happen as well. UT’s immediate suspension of the players is precisely what the university had to do under the circumstances. Once the DA indicated that the players were being indicted for a crime, Tennessee had no other choice. </div>
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But we also much hold the people who really profited from this fiasco responsible for their actions. I think there’s definitely reason to look at repercussions for multiple parties and especially those in the DA’s office. </div>
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I would have to wonder as well what legal ramifications there might be for the accusers, who said one thing under oath during legal depositions in the Title IX suit and an entirely different thing under oath on the witness stand during the trial. If the difference is that extreme — which upon first glance it appears to be to a layman like myself — I would think there are avenues through the civil courts for Johnson and Williams to seek some kind of remuneration. </div>
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So should there be legal and criminal ramifications for people who bring false charges of rape, domestic violence, and assault be? Well, lying under oath is perjury, which in the state of Tennessee is a Class A misdemeanor. That carries a jail sentence of 11 months and 29 days maximum and a fine up to $2500.</div>
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That doesn’t seem right, does it? Not when set against four years of two young men’s lives, months of backlash against UT for the Title IX suit, tens of thousands of dollars used to prosecute the case, and two shares of the $2.48 millions UT shelled out to the Jane Does of the lawsuit. Sure, Johnson and Williams can file a civil suit against their accusers, but that’s probably not going to accomplish a lot. Not really. Perjury during a trial is rarely prosecuted, so there isn’t much of a chance that the legal system would step in. At the end of the day, four young adults walked away from the courtroom on Friday and were freed from the trauma of a four-year court case. </div>
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But they’ll never be free of the lingering aftereffects. Because of the DA’s’ ineptitude, the accusers will be forever thought of as liars and the accused as having ‘gotten off’ on all charges brought against them but…</div>
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This story is tragic on multiple levels, but it’s also a cautionary tale. Young athletes need to demonstrate strong decision-making skills before they initiate a sexual encounter with anyone. Here’s a big hint — a party with lots of alcohol is probably not the right place for that kind of fun. For poor judgment, at least, AJ and Michael have to own up to their own responsibility. That one night of “fun” ruined almost everything for them. Young women need to make good decisions as well. The same advice I just gave the athletes works for them too — don’t have sex with a guy you don’t know at a party because you’ve been drinking. Just don’t. Save everyone involved the grief that follows.</div>
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Brenda Tracy is a person who understands, probably better than anyone in my acquaintance, of how to deal with the conversation that all of us need to be involved in. She travels the country, speaking to athletes in high school and college about sexual assault and its ramifications. Her #SetTheExpectation campaign educates young men and women all over the country, including downloadable pledges for athletes to commit to upholding — <strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong"><em class="markup--em markup--p-em">setting the expectations</em></strong> for the teams in simple terms. Athletes sign the pledge, acknowledging that if they break any of the commitments against sexual violence, they will be dismissed from the team. And their coaches sign the pledge as well, committing themselves to dismissing any athlete, no matter who, from the team if they violate that pledge. #SetTheExpectation does exactly that, and binds athletes and coaches alike to a code of behavior. </div>
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As for the rest of us, we need to continue this conversation. We need to expand it, to develop it, to wowrk together assertively to change the trend toward sexual violence in our society. We need to teach our kids to make better decisions, athletes and non-athletes alike. And we need to make sure that no one is afraid to report sexual violence against them to authorities. </div>
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That's our responsibility to the generations that follow us. Best get started, folks, because this is a Herculean task.</div>
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Normal people don't do that to themselves, but I think we've already established that I am anything but normal. Nearly 1.5 million words and 4800 pages. When you get right down to it, that's a hell of a commitment--not only for a writer, but for the reader as well. When <i>Theater of Vengeance</i> is released on Friday, July 20, I will hit the exact middle of the <i>Harlequinade's</i> story. </div>
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Obviously, <i>Theater of Vengeance</i> is the book where everything changes. </div>
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I grew up on the classics, as in the real classics. While most of my teenaged peers were out getting into trouble or trying to stay out of it, I was at home reading and studying the classics. Homer's two ancient epics about the Trojan War, <i>Iliad</i> and <i>Odyssey</i>. Virgil's fan-fiction, <i>The Aeneid</i>. Ovid's <i>Metamorphoses</i>. Greek and Latin authors writing the mythology of their cultures that have survived for over two millennia.</div>
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When I approach a story like <i>Asphodel</i> or <i>Harlequinade</i>, I'm creating new mythologies. Just like Virgil and Homer, I write those mythologies over the space of multiple books. Homer's epics had twenty-four books. Virgil's magnum opus had twelve. </div>
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I didn't consciously set out to write twelve long novels about my Harlequin character, though. I wish I had in a way, so I could cross my legs and say complacently over a single malt, neat, that "I wanted to pay homage to Virgil by creating twelve separate books in my epic." But nope--that's not how it went down. </div>
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The Harlequin is just one of those characters that won't shut the hell up. Despite the incontrovertible fact that the Harlequin is a medieval pantomime character who never once in the course of legit <i>commedia dell'arte</i> spoke a single word, still he won't quit talking. He won't shut up until the last word of book twelve, and even then there's a good chance he'll find more to say if (and that's a big if) he survives.</div>
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Someone asked me the other day how I would best describe myself as a writer. Oddly enough, I was originally stumped. As usual, the first thought that came to mind was something smartass. Can't escape the dominant parts of my personality so easily after all. And sure, there are lots of standard remarks I could make. A spec fic writer...a sci fi/fantasy/horror writer. The writer of books featuring strong female protagonists. An obsessed idiot who spends all her waking hours staring at a laptop screen while she tries to find ways to get just one more bloody death squeezed into a plot. But then, it occurred to me that in the end a writer cannot be defined. There's not one single description that any writer could arrive at for themselves. In the end, I'm no different. But I guess if I had to narrow it down to one summation, it'd be the following: </div>
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With Cat's story in the <i>Harlequinade</i>, it would have been only too easy to keep her progressing down the same road. By the time she reached the end of her journey, though, she would have devolved into a trope...a predictable badass urban fantasy character. For a lot of folks, both writers and readers, that's perfectly all right. Reading is a form of entertainment, after all. We read fantasies so we can escape from the mendacity of the real world into worlds that exist solely to give our imaginations scope to breathe. </div>
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You see, even though the world Cat lives in is a fantasy, it's still life. We aren't challenged by what we expect. Challenges come from the unexpected, when in a single moment we confront the destruction of everything we hold dear or a choice where there isn't a good or right decision to make and you're only choosing between two bad options. That's how life works, whether it's on the battlefield at Troy or the underworld of <i>Asphodel </i>or in the dark world of magic and immortals in the <i>Harlequinade</i> or sitting here in my study, wondering why in the hell I'm up and blogging at seven in the morning after pulling an all-nighter. If you're reading any of my books, then I owe it to you to make sure that I don't spoon-feed you exactly what you expect to happen next. I can't take the easy way out because I know that to make a fantasy credible it has to feel like real life.</div>
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You guys enjoy <i>Theater of Vengeance</i>. If you want to check out an excerpt, <a href="https://celinasummers.com/excerpt.php" target="_blank">one's up on my website</a>. Otherwise, see you on Friday~!</div>
Celina Summershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08581883122727085849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26892817.post-64001156685333439252018-06-15T18:10:00.002-04:002018-06-15T18:17:59.980-04:00Theater of Desire Release Day, Beta Readers, and Series SecretsBook Release Day! <i>Harlequinade 5: Theater of Desire</i> is now available on Amazon. You can grab the ebook at <a data-ft="{"tn":"-U"}" data-lynx-mode="asynclazy" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB07DRF7X1C%2Fref%3Dcm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_ZzbjBbQKJYBPF&h=AT2xKenirSsh8b_pFQwF32BiVj5-j48vyNsXHERiozTNHLf_e7WPsFynUprzqJV567RE7Gg6jSYdh3g3Y2Spr10G4BHe8WrefSGuVEi4dYRQygR_Arnu4GQInX61nxUsne9udjNR0ADo9PyRnA" href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DRF7X1C/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_ZzbjBbQKJYBPF" rel="noopener nofollow" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/…/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_ZzbjBbQKJYBPF</a><br />
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<i>Theater of Desire</i> is the book where everything starts to change. You know as well as I do that any twelve-book series can't have everything go on without new conflicts and challenges and alliances. One person in the world has an idea of what happens in later books--my beta reader, Marguerite Butler. I've edited her since the late 2000s, first at Aurora Regency and then at Musa. She's beta read almost all my books, and she's the only person I discuss future plot points and character arcs with. She sent me some memorable hate mail when I killed one of her favorite characters off in Asphodel, and I still torture her about that.<br />
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AND she has a fantastic blog that I'm addicted to at <a href="https://cowtowncrime.com/">https://cowtowncrime.com/</a>. Cowtown Crime is a true crime blog and I'm addicted to it because in the other series I'm working on, I deal with a lot of criminal stuff and the way she writes about legitimate true crimes really helps me to see how to present my fictional ones. The blog doesn't read like a boring recitation of stats and facts. The blog reads like fiction. You should check it out. It's addictive.<br />
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She's the only person on the planet who knows what my ultimate goals were for this series. I'm experimenting with a character arc that's extremely difficult to make work--you know...just to see if I can pull it off--and whenever Marguerite gets riled up about something I'm planning to do to a character/characters, I know I'm on the right track.<br />
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She's been riled up a lot about <i>Harlequinade</i>.<br />
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But this time, I've done something different with poor Marguerite. She read the first phase of <i>Harlequinade</i>, but not the second or the third. She has sort of an idea what happens, but nowhere even close to knowing how things end up. I didn't give her the later books to read. She has to wait, just like everyone else, so she's stayed riled up.<br />
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Here's the thing. A relationship with a good beta reader provides an author with the feedback they need to push the boundaries. If a writer spews out formulaic stories where everything that happens in book B happened in book and will happen in Book C, a beta reader isn't challenged. They're happy because they're reading what has already worked for them before. But if you don't write formula books...if you experiment with storylines that are dangerous (ie--read: DIFFERENT) then your beta readers are challenged. They have to shift their points of view about you as an author and they never know what to expect. A good beta reader wants to be challenged. They want to be riled up. When a beta says something like, "Oh, but this was so different from *insert name of last book*. It's not what I was expecting." then you probably need a new beta reader. If your beta reader's feedback is always some variant of, "Oh, this was so good! I love it just as much as *insert name of last book*. I knew she'd pick option A over option B." then you probably need to re-evaluate what you're writing.<br />
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Challenge your readers. Don't hand them a book where they know how it's going to end when they open the book for the first time. Because if you challenge your readers, you're challenging yourself as a writer and that's exactly what you need to be doing. And remember, always, that a beta who says nothing but "This was so good. I loved it!" to every book you write isn't helping you. Betas are supposed to give you an honest critique of your work, both good and bad, and if they don't give you valid criticism then they're not fulfilling their purpose. Marguerite can love everything about the story or the characters or whatever, but she's not going to let one of my manuscripts slide without pointing out my writing tics (pet phrases or words) or plot issues. She knows that what I really need is the criticism. Her eyes are the first ones on the manuscript, and I rely upon her to give me an honest, valid critique. Because when she gives me an honest critique and then gets riled up about a plot point but still loves the story, I know I've done my job.<br />
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At any rate, phase two of the <i>Harlequinade</i> begins today with <i>Theater of Desire</i>, so it's a good time to warn everybody that this is the book where everything begins to change. It's also a good time to give you some new insights about the series and how it came to be.<br />
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First off, yes--it's a legitimate twelve books in twelve months series (although there's a prequel that will come out in 2019 at some point). All twelve books clock in around 100,000 words. All twelve books were professionally edited (not by me) and designed (also not by me). All twelve books involve real magic:the world of the theater, and real fantasy magic: time travel, empathy, and a set of immortals who would do anything for ultimate power but are restricted from open warfare by the very strict rules of their game. If an immortal violates those rules, he is instantly obliterated by the ruthless magic of some unknown agency. The deeper into the series you go, the more magic there is.</div>
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Second, the <i>Harlequinade </i>was written in stages, which is only to be expected with a million and a half words. The first phase of the series is comprised of the first four books: <i>Theater of Seduction, Theater of Deception, Theater of Cruelty,</i> and <i>Theater of War.</i> The second phase begins with <i>Theater of Desire, </i>followed by <i>Theater of Vengeance </i>and <i>Theater of Time</i>. Phase three consists of the last four books: <i>Theater of Spontaneity, Theater of Birth, Theater of Redemption, </i>and <i>Theater of Oblivion.</i> And then the prequel, <i>Theater of Power, </i>stands on its own. </div>
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Third, this series was shopped by my former agent for several years to traditional publishing houses. Every rejection started to sound the same after a while. I'll just give you the Cliff's Notes version: "I love this, love the writing, love the characters, love how different this is--BUT we don't know where to shelve it, so we're going to have to regretfully pass." I'm used to those kinds of rejections at this point. And I don't foresee writing anything that's going to meekly fall into the categories everyone expects. I like to write things that are different and that challenge the reader. So I doubt that ever changes.<br />
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<b><i>When I was trapped in the ruins of Desire, Time extended his hand and set me free.</i></b><br />
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Y'all have a great weekend. GO GET MY BOOKS!</div>
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<i>Nota bene: If you haven't read and completed Harlequinade 4: Theater of War you REALLY DO NOT WANT to read this excerpt. This excerpt will spoil the crap out of the previous book. If you either HAVE finished book 4 or just don't give a darn about learning spoilers, then proceed and enjoy! </i></div>
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<i>Harlequinade 5: Theater of Desire</i> to be released June 15, 2018~! You can learn more about the <i>Harlequinade</i> at my brand-spanking new website, <a href="http://www.celinasummers.com/">www.celinasummers.com</a>!</div>
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Nothing could be more exciting for Catherine Brighton than having the company’s shows booked on London’s West End. Bringing the <i>Carnival</i> trilogy to England allows her to fulfill an ambition beyond any other. After defeating the Harlequin and destroying most of the window of Time, the strange world of magic has receded from her world.</div>
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I resisted the urge to squeal like a teenage girl. The Royale Theater Troupe was going to play the West End. The day after we arrived in London, I stood across the street from the Dumas-Oxford Theatre and watched as our sets, costumes, and props were loaded in. Chris, our designer, had flown to the UK several months ago and supervised the construction of our new sets. I hadn’t even seen them yet. </div>
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It’s funny, really. No one looking at the huge crates and packing boxes would ever guess the magic contained inside them. Right now, they looked like huge plywood boxes. In a few days, however, they would comprise the immense, fanciful sets for the <i>Carnival</i> trilogy, the story of when two young girls met and fell in love with two extraordinary young men. </div>
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After we’d signed a contract with James Harrison, the undisputed magnate of the West End, we’d invested much of our liquid capital into the four shows we were performing in London. First, we’d do the trilogy in true repertory. The audience would buy three tickets for three consecutive nights to see the story in its entirety. Then, we’d bring Harlequin to the London stage. </div>
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I was nervous about performing the trilogy again, and I’d made no bones about it. The trilogy was really a retribution our erstwhile enemy Phillip Lewis had created to punish Dominic and Alistair. After all, what could be crueler than forcing your captives to relive their heartbreak every night for two hundred and forty-one years? For two hundred and thirty-nine years, they’d only done the first show, <i>Carnival</i>. Three years ago, the trilogy had been born and performed in full for the first time. Once Phillip found me, he added the two sequel plays. </div>
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Everything that happened in <i>Asylum</i> and <i>Sacrifice</i> had set the stage for my entrance into the tragedy. I, Catherine Brighton, who my husband thought was the reincarnation of the original Odette de Chevigny in the court of Louis XV….Odette, his first wife. I didn’t like to remember Odette, and I didn’t want to channel her onstage anymore either. </div>
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Unfortunately, it was starting to look as if I couldn’t channel her anyway. Although everyone else had been right back in the swing of things within a few days once we started reworking the trilogy, I’d hovered on the cusp of the power and never just dived right into it like I always had before. Those insidious shows changed us. They made Dominic more autocratic and Alistair more alluring. They made me anxious, even though now they shouldn’t. Phillip was gone; I’d obliterated his mind myself. Mary Houghton had been destroyed also. </div>
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The dark council of mages in Medmenham had been obliterated by the Harlequin, my erstwhile enemy who had tormented me in some bizarre game and lost. He was probably sitting in his tacky throne-like chair, trying to figure out a way to repair the damage I’d done to his ceiling where every pane of glass was a moment of decision in time. </div>
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I had a rather large shard of that glass, actually— the shard where Dominic’s soul had hovered on the brink of life and death. The shard I’d broken just a split-second before he was lost to me forever. But with that shard had come uncertainty, too. The panic attacks I’d thought were a thing of the past had returned with a vengeance and were far more potent than they’d once been. </div>
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I hadn’t mentioned that to Dominic yet. I watched as the stagehands wrestled a huge crate of flats out of the truck, sliding it carefully onto the loading dock. They had no idea that what they were handling was actual history. No one did, save the cast, and it wasn’t something we talked about. Not even among ourselves. </div>
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“I keep seeing zeroes and dollar signs on the wrong side of the decimal point,” I said lightly. “That and all the articles scoffing about an upstart amateur American troupe being stupid enough to try a true repertory series on the West End. Between the two, I’m petrified.” </div>
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“The show will sell out for the entire run. Zeroes should be a positive thing.” </div>
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“I know.” I looked up at him from under my lashes. “Just…concerned. I’ll be all right.” </div>
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“Well, there’s nothing for you to do here, really,” he pointed out. “Shall we go? I have a call to make.” </div>
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“I do. I’m meeting an antiquarian who has a set of Goethe I’m interested in.” </div>
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“You want to go to a bookstore? On our first day in London? For Goethe?” </div>
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“Of course not.” Dominic raised his hand and hailed a cab. “We’re going to his house. It won’t take long.” </div>
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“Look at this article,” he’d said, coming into my office with a magazine. “Apparently the entire theater district is infested with rats. How do you expect anyone in the company to move into a place sight unseen? It could be dripping with rats and then we’d be stuck in some rat trap for a year.” </div>
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Once we'd gotten pet passports, plus all their shots and microchips, we’d sedated Spawn and Demon and they’d flown with us to England. Even now, they were in their comfy crate, totally pissed off at me, at the hotel. And Dominic had won the living arrangements argument, insisting that when we got to London I would take charge of the business of the theater as usual while leaving the housing situation to him. </div>
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“As I told you already, I’ll take care of everything. You have enough to worry about.” Dominic didn’t seem that concerned. But I handled the accounting for the company myself. If he knew how our capital had been deprived by this move to the UK, he might not have been so flippant. </div>
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“Wherever we end up, it’s going to cost us a fortune.” I caught myself gnawing on my thumbnail, so I dropped my hand into my lap. “London is horrifically expensive. We should have stayed on Broadway a couple more years and built up the bank account first.” </div>
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The taxi pulled up in front of a block of houses. We were in Mayfair, which seemed only appropriate considering why we were here. Only a wealthy person, like an antiquarian, was able to afford a house like these. The entire block was made up of a series of tall Georgian townhouses, their facades broken only by a few flower boxes and front doors with small stoops and Palladian columns. Dominic paid the driver then took my elbow as we went up the four steps of the stoop. </div>
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“We own all the houses except one on this side of the block,” he explained patiently. “They’ve all been renovated into apartments and furnished. In fact there actually are four apartments more than our American crew needs, so we have an option for additional income should it become necessary. That’s even with me setting aside an apartment for David and Christopher when they come, or family like Eleanor’s parents or Janet’s children or your father. This is my gift not just to you, but to them. If they ever decide to retire or to leave the company they each own their own flat in Mayfair. It’s a nest egg for all of them. As for you, I—” </div>
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He sounded so horrified that I laughed again. But his eyes were sparkling and his body relaxed. This was something I had yet to become accustomed to. Since I’d shattered the Harlequin’s glass ceiling that allowed him to travel through time, Dominic had slowly…gradually learned how to relax. If I woke up in the middle of the night, he was sleeping next to me and not sitting in a chair mounting a psychic guard so I could rest. The cares and burdens of over two centuries had fallen from his psyche, and he was healing as a result. </div>
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Lately, I've been catching myself paying more attention to my BREAKS from work (i.e. Twitter) than my actual work. You folks know I have a ridiculous, stupid, self-inflicted publication schedule this year and that's just under my own name. Not counting the pen names. Sixteen books just under my real name. </div>
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That's Dumbass, Volume 0. </div>
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Obviously, in order to get that many books out you've got to have discipline. Usually discipline's not an issue for me. I don't watch a lot of TV, I have no social life, and I'm far more entertained finishing off stories on my head/on paper than I am anything else. But now that I'm four books into my publication year, I'm starting to drag. Last night, I finished Book Eleven of <i>Harlequinade</i> and started Book Twelve which means I finally worked through the transition snag that was stalling me before the grand denouement. </div>
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Discipline means not sitting around and waiting for a Muse to float into the room in a chariot pulled by rainbow glitter-barfing winged unicorns and bringing a writer inspiration. (Sorry, granddaughter #2--I just can't bring myself to like your favorite decorating staple.) To be a professional writer who turns out a lot of volume, you must have discipline. That's why I don't write while the TV is on, why I don't have my desk facing my butthead neighbors' yard, why I don't listen to modern music and use playlists of classical, preferably without lyrics to set the moods I need to write certain scenes. </div>
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Now if you had just one perfect book in you--like Margaret Mitchell--and don't have to deal with being found on Amazon, then sure. Wait for the Muse. I'd rather see one outstanding work of fiction than yet another porn-disguised-as-romance series from Dougie Ze Tool. But if you're building a platform, like I am under my real name, you need volume. And if you're fundamentally incapable of writing a first draft under 120,000 words, like I am, in order to get that volume you have to have discipline. </div>
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And discipline doesn't mix with Twitter. So a week off from social media will get me back on track. Some of you are thinking, "A week? You won't get much done in a week."<br />
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And quite a few of you are thinking, "Oh, she's going to whip out that first draft in seven days again just to piss me off."<br />
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We'll check in throughout the week to see who's right.<br />
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Second off, I'm allergic to stupid.<br />
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You think I'm kidding, but I'm not. I hear some voices on the other end of the phone when I answer it and literally break out in hives. Used to be that only happened if it was my mom, but over the past couple of years my stupid allergy has cruised way past anything an antihistamine can solve.<br />
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And there's so much stupidity online right now.<br />
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I avoid politics online for that reason. I've worked as a speechwriter, platform writer, and editor in politics for way too long to tolerate idiocy lightly. Probably ought to mention here that a background in collegiate debate means that I can come up with pros and cons for just about any candidate, any social issue, any platform. I *never* restricted myself to one party's candidates or one ideology. The same old, same old involved in party politics has never interested me at all. I'm only interested in what's different or unusual about each candidate, and I've managed to find that difference in every client whose work I've taken on--something to focus the voters on other than pachyderms and equine half-breeds.<br />
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But, the past few years politics has taken on a vitriolic sameness that nauseates me. There are no longer political ideologues who can absorb the best of both parties. Instead, there are only extremists, and their social media seems to be all about supporting "their" candidate or office-holder and running down the other guy.<br />
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Let's be honest: over the past decade, we haven't been blessed with outstanding elected government. More often than not, political discourse has devolved into opposing biases without any efforts made to understand the other point-of-view. That, in turn, has led to rampant racism, homophobia, misogyny, sizeism, ageism disguised as politics--and all that serves is a negative purpose. Far-right and far-left are about are far apart on the political spectrum as socialism and fascism--although one's considered left and the other right when you take a look at them they're basically the same damn thing.<br />
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I'm been called a snowflake for not supporting Donald Trump, a racist for not supporting Barack Obama, a sexist for not supporting Hillary Clinton. I had the last election blamed on me (and people like me who think for themselves) because in the United States anyone who doesn't vote for your candidate that loses the election "gave" the election to the enemy.<br />
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No, I didn't. Clinton and Trump both sucked. And as a result of that one campaign, look where we are now. Not all conservatives are racists...but racists are almost always conservative. The media has a liberal bias--because obviously any criticism of the president has to do with all the libtards who work for CNN. Freedom of speech means you can say anything you want without any consequences whatsoever, even though your racist tweets on Twitter are not a protected form of speech, Roseanne.<br />
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People don't understand the Constitution they quote chapter and verse, like the Bible.<br />
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Oh, and my personal favorite--new gun control laws mean I'm trying to take your second amendment right to own guns away.<br />
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Uh...nope. The second amendment was in specific response to British measures designed to suppress the colonists' rights. "Well-armed militia" refers to exactly that--militia. And seeing as those rights were guaranteed for Brown Besses and single-shot rifles, people can own as many of those as they want. That's fine. But if you're not capable of separating gun safety from gun ownership, then all you're doing is regurgitating the platform points designed by a special interest group. Don't come crying to me when your kid is the one who's shot in school...or does the shooting with your own legally obtained firearms that you weren't smart enough to store safely.<br />
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Let's be for real--the Third Amendment of the Constitution means that the government can't force you to house soldiers in your house and pay their expenses while they're there.<br />
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Doesn't mean I'm trying to take your guests away.<br />
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As with any almost three-century old law of the land, some of the measures are dated and no longer have any real impact upon our day to day lives. Applying laws designed for the technology of the eighteenth century to the technology of the twenty-first is ridiculous. But if it's not, I'll let the government know. How many soldiers can you afford to house/cook/clean for again? We can close all the military bases and balance the budget in a matter of weeks. Good job.<br />
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Merica.<br />
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Third, and finally, social media is mental torture for someone who's in the midst of editing. Every typo makes my eyes bleed, every homonym error makes my ears bleed. I'm nowhere close to being OCD--as the state of my living room currently attests--but damn, people. do your friendly neighborhood editor a favor and learn to spell single-syllable words correctly at least. The first time I see you mess up they're/their/there, I assume it's a typo and overlook it.<br />
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The fifteenth time, I start to question the legitimacy of your education.<br />
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And no--I'm not talking about people who finished high school and went into careers that didn't involve higher education. I know truck drivers who spell perfectly in every Tweet, and high-priced executives, public servants, and educators who look like a passel of ridge-runnin' morons. The FOIA document dump at the University of Tennessee is a great example of that. There were members of the Board of Trustees--people who were making all the policy decisions for a major university--who wouldn't pass a second-grade spelling test despite their multiple degrees.<br />
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Are. You. Kidding. Me...<br />
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And lest anyone bring this up thinking I'm going to gloss over it, that goes doubly for writers and triply for editors. Everyone makes typos. I do every...um...five thousand words or so. Might be a higher number if I didn't automatically proof everything I say online. I'll delete a typo off Twitter so fast I get nosebleeds.<br />
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But I see authors with book advertisements on Twitters with spelling errors. A couple of months ago, I ran into a book with a spelling error in the <i style="font-weight: bold;">title.</i> Sure, everyone makes mistakes but good God almighty, people, you're trying to convince people to read YOUR words but you're so careless or arrogant that you don't check your advertising for mistakes?<br />
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I had a typographical error in a quote for one of my book covers a few months ago. Teensy print, but what the heck--was my fault for not catching it. Unfortunately, my cover artist was out of town. Took MUCH longer than it should have to get an apostrophe moved to the right place. Not her fault.<br />
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Mine. For not double checking it.<br />
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So what do you think I did? Damn skippy--I set all my promotions back by two weeks, took down every post with that book cover on it, stopped mentioning the book altogether until she came home to fix one itty bitty piece of punctuation. I had nightmares over that apostrophe. Even now, I find a typo or glitch in one of my books and I cringe until I'm about to throw up.<br />
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My fault. I didn't pay attention to the proof, and I paid for it. Cost me significant money in the end, but I'd rather live with the expense than a typo on my book cover.<br />
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So just imagine the horror I feel on Twitter and Facebook every day. It's torture.<br />
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At any rate, Dumbass, Volume 1 is underway and we'll see how my social media-free week works. If nothing else, it'll get me back to blogging. But blog-time for the day is over.<br />
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Time to get back to work.<br />
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Celina Summershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08581883122727085849noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26892817.post-7211662747648876522018-05-21T04:41:00.003-04:002018-05-21T04:42:25.411-04:00PBS Should Be Ashamed For Trying To "Improve" Classic LiteratureI never thought I'd be in the position of criticizing PBS. <script src="https://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
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I love PBS. I love Masterpiece Theater, and the way PBS keeps modern interest in the classics alive. The production values of PBS shows is amazing, and everything is done to the best of the production teams' abilities. To be honest, I don't think I've ever criticized any PBS show. </div>
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<i>Little Women </i>by Louisa May Alcott is one of my lifelong favorite books. As a matter of fact, I own early first editions of both <i>Little Women </i>and <i>Good Wives,</i> back when the story was divided into two separate books. So when I learned the PBS was going to do a production of the book, I was thrilled. I knew that what would result would be a glorious, beautiful film version of a story I know so well I can recite large sections of it. </div>
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And then I watched it tonight.</div>
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For some ungodly reason, PBS decided to "improve" <i>Little Women</i>! </div>
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Are you kidding me? You can't improve <i>Little Women</i>. There's nothing <i>to</i> improve. This is one of the great American classics, a story that has endured in public affection and interest for almost a century and a half. what in the hell is there to improve in the first place? </div>
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What? Is the story of four sisters growing into adulthood during the tumultuous years of the Civil War and its immediate aftermath somehow not enough? Does the story suck somehow? If it does, then that suckitude was so subtle that neither me nor millions of readers who love this book and its characters never noticed? No one needs to make everything different when Mr. March falls ill in Washington and the girls are left on their own. </div>
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There's no way that Meg would have left her sisters alone and gone to the Moffats and get drunk on champagne at a ball while her father is lying dangerously ill in a hospital in DC. </div>
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There's no way that Amy would have been able to get the money for pickled limes while her mother's away nursing her father. </div>
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There's no way that Jo would make the unilateral decision to remove Amy from her school while both her parents are occupied with Mr. March's illness. </div>
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There's no way that Jo and Laurie would be kissing in the attic while Beth lies at death's door on the floor underneath. </div>
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What in the hell are you people thinking? </div>
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Let's be honest--we've all seen this. We've all wondered why Hollywood feels the need to "improve" the storylines of classic literature but the fact of the matter is simple for anyone outside a film production company to see. </div>
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There's a reason why classic literature is regarded as classic and that's because there's nothing TO improve in those beloved stories. Nothing. They're classic because they're beloved just as they are. They don't need new creative over a century after they were written! What possible value does a modern screenwriter bring to a story that's part of the Americana that makes up the literature and mythology nurtured in a fledgling country desperately seeking to find its own identity in the words and stories of the people who lived during that era? </div>
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So--shame on you, PBS. Shame! You've managed to ruin one of the best American classics ever written and for what? Pissing off people like me, who find a way to squeeze money out of their tight monthly budgets to keep you afloat. I've never been as disappointed in any PBS production as I am right now. Absolutely revolted. </div>
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This PBS version of Little Women? Don't bother, folks. If you see this adored story butchered the way it's been in this production, you will also find yourself wanting to throw things at the TV. </div>
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