Haunting in Luzerne County? (move, murders, dating)

[mr.magoo]

Originally Posted by auntieannie68

you are off topic but after your replies i rest my case

and off topic--bring in keith sweat instead--my era

Hi Annie!
Your post is so timely and apropos...
I was just listening to 'Happy' as I read your post...the last verse was playing in the background as if on cue;

Here it is;

'Here comes bad news talking this and that, yeah,
Well, give me me all you got, and don't hold back, yeah,
Well, I should probably warn you I'll be just fine,yeah,
No offense to you, don't waste your time
Here's why:
cuz, I'm happy,
clap along if you feel like a room without a roof
because I'm happy...'

Pharrell Williams

Have a Happy Day

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by theatergypsy

Annie you really should quote the post to which you're responding. I had to go back to find out the reason for your query.

Gerania wasn't being snarky. She was merely relating that the 2014 Gallup poll had dropped this area to #13 in the "unhappiest places" list in response to your (unsubstantiated) statement that it was in the top 5.

Having worked for two very well-known polling entities, I can tell you that polling is a very inexact science. (Gallup, and also Yankelovich, Skelly, and White)

I don't see this area as overly negative. I know there are people who have reason to be unhappy here but the area as a whole presents a good mix of attitudes.

As for the seeming preponderance of negative energy, I have thought often that much of it originates with the Native Americans who once held sway here, but were driven out or murdered by the encroaching settlers.

I also have thought that many of the tales were handed down by people who were uneducated and superstitious and believed much of what they were told and not what they had seen for themselves.

Now that's not to say that I don't believe that there are the lost among us, trying to find their way out. I strongly felt a presence in my house when I first moved in 41 years ago. There is an inside door that we couldn't manage to keep closed, despite it being firmly latched. The first night we were here, my #4 son and I repeatedly closed and secured the door leading to the basement. (Actually, it's a cellar - basement seems to pretentious a term for what it is) Each time, it would manage to open just as we returned to another room. This happened again for a few days and we laughed about it. By the end of two weeks, the door no longer opened on its own, and we sometimes had trouble opening it when we needed to - as if someone, something, was on the other side holding it shut. This has not happened again in all these years. I'm supposing it was some "friendly energy" making its presence known.

As for me, I have not ridiculed you nor have I been snarky. But you consistently make negative responses to almost all positive posts, i.e., unfriendly natives; lack of medical care; high rents; higher taxes; unsatisfactory neighbors; and so on and so on. I'm thinking that it may be your own negative perception reflecting back.

I looked at the methodology for that poll, and as I suspected, it's a bit wonky. It may as well have been a Forbes list. Nearly worthless.

There are unhappy people there, but they are everywhere. Here and there, I've worked as a waitress, in sales and customer service. People complain when they have to wait for more than a few minutes. People who live in what I'd call near paradise complain. It's a way of life and a nasty habit.

I think the lost are among us, as well as their residual energy like in my brother's experience.

As I've mentioned, my parent's house was haunted. My father refused to discuss it, and my mother never saw anything and heard very little. When my brother, sister and I spoke with her about it, she had a priest bless the house. That wasn't the end of it, but things were quieter for a while.

[mr.magoo]

Yeah, Gerania...the Priest coming, mumbling, sprinkling..made my Grandmother, a devout Catholic feel much better...
but I think it is like when you call an exterminator, and the bugs come back after a certain time?
Same deal with the Spooks..

I think my Babci sign up for the 5 year 'Ghostbuster Special' ...Father P threw in an extra 10 'Hail Marys' too.

[auntieannie68]

Originally Posted by Gerania

I looked at the methodology for that poll, and as I suspected, it's a bit wonky. It may as well have been a Forbes list. Nearly worthless.

There are unhappy people there, but they are everywhere. Here and there, I've worked as a waitress, in sales and customer service. People complain when they have to wait for more than a few minutes. People who live in what I'd call near paradise complain. It's a way of life and a nasty habit.

I think the lost are among us, as well as their residual energy like in my brother's experience.

As I've mentioned, my parent's house was haunted. My father refused to discuss it, and my mother never saw anything and heard very little. When my brother, sister and I spoke with her about it, she had a priest bless the house. That wasn't the end of it, but things were quieter for a while.

sometimes it helps,but sometimes it's like spitting on a fire

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by mr.magoo

Yeah, Gerania...the Priest coming, mumbling, sprinkling..made my Grandmother, a devout Catholic feel much better...
but I think it is like when you call an exterminator, and the bugs come back after a certain time?
Same deal with the Spooks..

I think my Babci sign up for the 5 year 'Ghostbuster Special' ...Father P threw in an extra 10 'Hail Marys' too.

We probably should have gotten the extended service warranty.

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by auntieannie68

sometimes it helps,but sometimes it's like spitting on a fire

The event downstairs never repeated, but the walkers in the attic were back in a few months. One just walked back and forth in the front half. The other one was disturbing. The noise started in the middle, moved toward the rear and down the steps--very, very slowly. Sometimes it stopped there, and sometimes it (whatever it was) moved along the hall. It was creepy.

[mr.magoo]

Originally Posted by Gerania

The event downstairs never repeated, but the walkers in the attic were back in a few months. One just walked back and forth in the front half. The other one was disturbing. The noise started in the middle, moved toward the rear and down the steps--very, very slowly. Sometimes it stopped there, and sometimes it (whatever it was) moved along the hall. It was creepy.

Dayum...WHY did I read this @10 pm????

Gotta take the Mag-lite up to bed with me now...

[mr.magoo]

Actually slept well last night...a ring of garlic around my neck...my military issue Beretta M9
outfitted with special Silver rounds by my side...Mom and Dad's Rosary beads draped around my left wrist...

Best of all, a soothing, simple, and Laconic message, sent from a dear forumite here, had me in the arms of Morpheus , in a thrice.

Thank you, Miss Gerania.

[theatergypsy]

Originally Posted by mr.magoo

Actually slept well last night...a ring of garlic around my neck...my military issue Beretta M9
outfitted with special Silver rounds by my side...Mom and Dad's Rosary beads draped around my left wrist...

Best of all, a soothing, simple, and Laconic message, sent from a dear forumite here, had me in the arms of Morpheus , in a thrice.

Thank you, Miss Gerania.

forumite... isn't that #87 on the Periodic Table? heh, heh.


I don't get skeeved by talk of "ghoulies and ghosties and things that go bump in the night." The six o'clock news, however...sleep comes slowly.

[mr.magoo]

Originally Posted by theatergypsy

forumite... isn't that #87 on the Periodic Table? heh, heh.


I don't get skeeved by talk of "ghoulies and ghosties and things that go bump in the night." The six o'clock news, however...sleep comes slowly.

Francium...don't remember that one.

'Don't know much about Science Books..
Don't know much about the Francium I took...'