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bw faq is here | Posted: 10/19/2004 2:39:21 PM | Message
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*Sigh* Okay, my friends, too many fake topics
here. Time for a real one.
It happened: 1807 - 1820
It happened at : Barbados, The West Indies, in the parish of Christ church at Oistin's Bay
The Mystery: On a coral shelf a 100' above sea level stands the beautiful cemetery of Christ church, where people of wealth in Barbados put up family vaults. The vault of the Barbados coffins mystery is built partly above and partly below ground. The top section is made of large coral blocks cemented together, the roof is arched, and the walls slope inward a bit. It was built in 1742 for the body of Col. Thomas Elliott, who was instead buried at sea.
In July, 1807, the first body, that of Mrs. Thomasina Goddard, in its plain wooden coffin was put on the highest shelf of the vault.
Then the Chase family, notorious for insanity, suicide, and murder, entered the picture. The head of the family, a man with a vicious temper, was so cruel to his slaves that they had threatened his life.
On February 26, 1808, the Chase baby, Mary, died, probably killed by her father in a fit of rage. Her body, in it’s heavy metal coffin, was put in the vault.
Only a few months later, eccentric Dorcas, the family teen-ager, starved herself to death in a locked cabin in the garden. Her body was taken to the vault. When they reached the outside door, two blacks opened it and, followed by pallbearers carrying the coffin, proceeded down the stone steps. Light came only from burning torches. The inner door to the vault was opened and all shouted in fear. Mary Chase’s coffin stood on it’s head in the opposite corner from where it had been put.
The mourners righted Mary Chase’s coffin and put Dorcas down next to her sister. A month later, Col. Chase killed himself. His body was placed in the vault also.
Eight years later, a child related to the Chases died and was carried to the vault. By this time, the hinges had rusted. It took two blacks to open the door. When they did, they stared in terror. Mrs. Goddard’s coffin, as usual, was in its place, but the Chase’s coffins littered the floor. Strange, because each weighed at least 500 lbs and needed four men to move it.
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It happened: 1807 - 1820
It happened at : Barbados, The West Indies, in the parish of Christ church at Oistin's Bay
The Mystery: On a coral shelf a 100' above sea level stands the beautiful cemetery of Christ church, where people of wealth in Barbados put up family vaults. The vault of the Barbados coffins mystery is built partly above and partly below ground. The top section is made of large coral blocks cemented together, the roof is arched, and the walls slope inward a bit. It was built in 1742 for the body of Col. Thomas Elliott, who was instead buried at sea.
In July, 1807, the first body, that of Mrs. Thomasina Goddard, in its plain wooden coffin was put on the highest shelf of the vault.
Then the Chase family, notorious for insanity, suicide, and murder, entered the picture. The head of the family, a man with a vicious temper, was so cruel to his slaves that they had threatened his life.
On February 26, 1808, the Chase baby, Mary, died, probably killed by her father in a fit of rage. Her body, in it’s heavy metal coffin, was put in the vault.
Only a few months later, eccentric Dorcas, the family teen-ager, starved herself to death in a locked cabin in the garden. Her body was taken to the vault. When they reached the outside door, two blacks opened it and, followed by pallbearers carrying the coffin, proceeded down the stone steps. Light came only from burning torches. The inner door to the vault was opened and all shouted in fear. Mary Chase’s coffin stood on it’s head in the opposite corner from where it had been put.
The mourners righted Mary Chase’s coffin and put Dorcas down next to her sister. A month later, Col. Chase killed himself. His body was placed in the vault also.
Eight years later, a child related to the Chases died and was carried to the vault. By this time, the hinges had rusted. It took two blacks to open the door. When they did, they stared in terror. Mrs. Goddard’s coffin, as usual, was in its place, but the Chase’s coffins littered the floor. Strange, because each weighed at least 500 lbs and needed four men to move it.
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From: the
bw faq is here | Posted: 10/19/2004 2:39:37 PM | Message
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A month later, a women who was putting flowers on a grave heard a loud cracking noise, and the sound of someone moaning in the vault. Her horse began foaming at the mouth in terror and later had to be treated by a veterinarian. The Sunday after, several horses tied outside the church broke away in fear and galloped down the hill to do die in the sea.
The vault was becoming infamous. The next funeral, this time for Samual Brewster, drew a large crowd of over 1,000 people, some from Cuba and Haiti. During a wild storm, the lead coffin was carried by four black slaves to the vault, where the same bone chilling scene laid before their eyes... Coffins, standing on ends were strewn about the interior.
At this point, the governor of the island, Lord Combermere, became involved. He personally attended the next funeral, that of Mrs. Thomasina Clarke, daughter of Thomasina Goddard, whose coffin had always remained on the shelf where it had been put. Combermere inspected the vault, sounded for a subterranean passage (There was none), and ordered the workmen to replace the upended coffins before bringing in the new one. Then he had the floor covered with fine sand and had a new lock put on the door. Finally, the door was sealed with a coding of cement. Combermere and others stuck their Signet rings in it while it was still wet, making permanent impressions.
On April 18th, 1820, a sunny day, Combermere opened the vault for the last time. The cement on the door had not been disturbed. After masons broke through it, they were prevented from opening the door more then half an inch, by something leaning against it. When they forced the door open, a heavy object fell down the interior steps with a crash... It was a coffin, of course. As they entered the vault, the masons saw a boney arm, that of Dorcas Chase, sticking out through a whole in the side of the coffin. All the other coffins, including that of Mrs. Goddard, were scattered around the vault in complete disorder. Combermere gave up. He had the dead removed elsewhere for burial.
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A month later, a women who was putting flowers on a grave heard a loud cracking noise, and the sound of someone moaning in the vault. Her horse began foaming at the mouth in terror and later had to be treated by a veterinarian. The Sunday after, several horses tied outside the church broke away in fear and galloped down the hill to do die in the sea.
The vault was becoming infamous. The next funeral, this time for Samual Brewster, drew a large crowd of over 1,000 people, some from Cuba and Haiti. During a wild storm, the lead coffin was carried by four black slaves to the vault, where the same bone chilling scene laid before their eyes... Coffins, standing on ends were strewn about the interior.
At this point, the governor of the island, Lord Combermere, became involved. He personally attended the next funeral, that of Mrs. Thomasina Clarke, daughter of Thomasina Goddard, whose coffin had always remained on the shelf where it had been put. Combermere inspected the vault, sounded for a subterranean passage (There was none), and ordered the workmen to replace the upended coffins before bringing in the new one. Then he had the floor covered with fine sand and had a new lock put on the door. Finally, the door was sealed with a coding of cement. Combermere and others stuck their Signet rings in it while it was still wet, making permanent impressions.
On April 18th, 1820, a sunny day, Combermere opened the vault for the last time. The cement on the door had not been disturbed. After masons broke through it, they were prevented from opening the door more then half an inch, by something leaning against it. When they forced the door open, a heavy object fell down the interior steps with a crash... It was a coffin, of course. As they entered the vault, the masons saw a boney arm, that of Dorcas Chase, sticking out through a whole in the side of the coffin. All the other coffins, including that of Mrs. Goddard, were scattered around the vault in complete disorder. Combermere gave up. He had the dead removed elsewhere for burial.
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From: the
bw faq is here | Posted: 10/19/2004 2:42:10 PM | Message
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Everybody to the limit! The cheat is to the
limit!
The Mystery Of The Oregon Vortex
Location: Near Sardine Creek, about 19 mi. from Medford, Ore.
The Oregon Vortex is a spot about 165 feet in diameter in which gravity appears to play strange tricks. Roughly in it’s center is an old wooden shed, once in assay office or a gold mining company... Now called House of Mystery. People who enter the building find themselves leaning at an angle of about 10 degrees toward the center of the 165 foot circle. A 28 pound ball hangs at an angle from a chain hung on a beam in the shack.
Other weird things happen in the vortex. Cigarette smoke makes spirals. If an empty class jar is placed on a board sloping uphill, toward the center of the circle, the jar will roll uphill. Compasses do not work in the vortex. A light meter will register different readings within and outside it. Birds won’t go within it’s limits. Trees growing inside it have limbs that droop and lean toward magnetic north, and visitors entering the area assume a posture that inclines towards magnetic north. If two men of equal height stand a short distance apart, and are viewed by a third observer, one will seem to be taller then the other. According to a guide: “As another person retreats from you towards the south, he becomes taller. This is contrary to the laws of perspective, and must be seen to be believed.”
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The Mystery Of The Oregon Vortex
Location: Near Sardine Creek, about 19 mi. from Medford, Ore.
The Oregon Vortex is a spot about 165 feet in diameter in which gravity appears to play strange tricks. Roughly in it’s center is an old wooden shed, once in assay office or a gold mining company... Now called House of Mystery. People who enter the building find themselves leaning at an angle of about 10 degrees toward the center of the 165 foot circle. A 28 pound ball hangs at an angle from a chain hung on a beam in the shack.
Other weird things happen in the vortex. Cigarette smoke makes spirals. If an empty class jar is placed on a board sloping uphill, toward the center of the circle, the jar will roll uphill. Compasses do not work in the vortex. A light meter will register different readings within and outside it. Birds won’t go within it’s limits. Trees growing inside it have limbs that droop and lean toward magnetic north, and visitors entering the area assume a posture that inclines towards magnetic north. If two men of equal height stand a short distance apart, and are viewed by a third observer, one will seem to be taller then the other. According to a guide: “As another person retreats from you towards the south, he becomes taller. This is contrary to the laws of perspective, and must be seen to be believed.”
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From: the
bw faq is here | Posted: 10/19/2004 2:43:41 PM | Message
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NO SOUP FOR YOU!
<! – The Miracle Healer : A Greek Shepherd –>
When: 1941
Where: Athens, Greece
The engima: Athanasios Contogeorge, shepherd, first healed a child’s crooked legs when he was 28 years old. (Before that, he had confined himself to animals.) Word spread, and he was soon seeing close to 60 patients a day. Known as “Vlahos” (Greek for “shepherd”), he acquired an international reputation and treated statesmen and millionaires, including King Paul of Greece, who broke his foot in a skiing accident, and Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, who suffered a sciatica attack when visiting Greece. At one time, he was treating both American and British Ambassadors.
But he was not an MD, and it wasn’t long before the medical establishment attacked him as a fraud and brought a case against him in an Athens court.
When the judge asked him why he had healing powers, he said he did not know. “But you do profess to heal, do you not?” a doctor asked.
“I do heal,” answered the shepherd.
He was then asked if he had a medical certificate from a university or had permission to practice medicine. Before he could answer, a doctor jumped up and said, “The man cannot even read or write. He is illiterate. How could he have any kind of legal certificate to practice medicine? The man is a charlatan and must be stopped from practicing his black magic and deluding the hill people.”
Then the shepherd, obviously hurt, said, “If the doctors in the courtroom can do what I am about to do, I will stop my healing.”
The doctors were not happy with that statement, saying the shepherd was probably going to perform some showy trick. However, the judge told the shepherd to proceed.
The shepherd went to the back of the courtroom, untied a lamb that had been tethered there, patted it, then broke its legs. The people in the room could hear its legs snap. The doctors, asked to examine the lamb, could not deny that the creature’s legs, sticking out at bizarre angles, were indeed broken.
Without any theatrics, the shepherd then put the lamb on the floor and set its bones in place, whereupon the lamb got up and began to run around the courtroom. The doctors, upon examining it, were astounded.
“Now, my friends,” said the shepherd, “which one among you will do the same?”
He won his case.
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<! – The Miracle Healer : A Greek Shepherd –>
When: 1941
Where: Athens, Greece
The engima: Athanasios Contogeorge, shepherd, first healed a child’s crooked legs when he was 28 years old. (Before that, he had confined himself to animals.) Word spread, and he was soon seeing close to 60 patients a day. Known as “Vlahos” (Greek for “shepherd”), he acquired an international reputation and treated statesmen and millionaires, including King Paul of Greece, who broke his foot in a skiing accident, and Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, who suffered a sciatica attack when visiting Greece. At one time, he was treating both American and British Ambassadors.
But he was not an MD, and it wasn’t long before the medical establishment attacked him as a fraud and brought a case against him in an Athens court.
When the judge asked him why he had healing powers, he said he did not know. “But you do profess to heal, do you not?” a doctor asked.
“I do heal,” answered the shepherd.
He was then asked if he had a medical certificate from a university or had permission to practice medicine. Before he could answer, a doctor jumped up and said, “The man cannot even read or write. He is illiterate. How could he have any kind of legal certificate to practice medicine? The man is a charlatan and must be stopped from practicing his black magic and deluding the hill people.”
Then the shepherd, obviously hurt, said, “If the doctors in the courtroom can do what I am about to do, I will stop my healing.”
The doctors were not happy with that statement, saying the shepherd was probably going to perform some showy trick. However, the judge told the shepherd to proceed.
The shepherd went to the back of the courtroom, untied a lamb that had been tethered there, patted it, then broke its legs. The people in the room could hear its legs snap. The doctors, asked to examine the lamb, could not deny that the creature’s legs, sticking out at bizarre angles, were indeed broken.
Without any theatrics, the shepherd then put the lamb on the floor and set its bones in place, whereupon the lamb got up and began to run around the courtroom. The doctors, upon examining it, were astounded.
“Now, my friends,” said the shepherd, “which one among you will do the same?”
He won his case.
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From: the
bw faq is here | Posted: 10/19/2004 2:45:39 PM | Message
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Keep it bumped please. Going to post more
later.
Read.
TROGDOR!
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TROGDOR!
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From: HeWhoCorrupts
| Posted: 10/19/2004 2:47:05 PM | Message
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thats a really cool story. i would love to hear
some theories on what happened in there when no one could get into
the tomb to mess with the caskets. what happened with the sand they
put down. did it have marks in it such as footprints i am assuming
that was the purpose of the sand put in there
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From: the
bw faq is here | Posted: 10/19/2004 2:47:57 PM | Message
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I have theories. I'll post them later too. Read
out.
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From: HeWhoCorrupts
| Posted: 10/19/2004 4:57:16 PM | Message
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post more stories like this..
please
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From: Tanon
| Posted: 10/19/2004 5:42:33 PM | Message
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Some good stuff you posted
there.
From: perfectinsanity11
| Posted: 10/19/2004 5:47:15 PM | Message
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Hey you jerkface...I posted this story awhile
ago...And it was more informed than yours seems to be =P
Dont steal my topics mother******! :)
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"When we were good, you just closed your eyes,so when we are bad, we'll scar you mind!"
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Dont steal my topics mother******! :)
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"When we were good, you just closed your eyes,so when we are bad, we'll scar you mind!"
Go buy Shadows Fall - The War Within now!!
From: the
bw faq is here | Posted: 10/19/2004 6:31:20 PM | Message
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I promise you I posted this stuff long before you
were even here
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From: perfectinsanity11
| Posted: 10/19/2004 6:52:21 PM | Message
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Alrighty then...you go on thinking
that.
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"When we were good, you just closed your eyes,so when we are bad, we'll scar you mind!"
Go buy Shadows Fall - The War Within now!!
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"When we were good, you just closed your eyes,so when we are bad, we'll scar you mind!"
Go buy Shadows Fall - The War Within now!!
From: redviper1439
| Posted: 10/19/2004 7:16:38 PM | Message
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Very interesting. I only read the coffin story,
and already knew about the Vortex. I'd like to hear your
theories.
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November 9th 2004, Earth will never be the same.
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November 9th 2004, Earth will never be the same.
From: the
bw faq is here | Posted: 10/19/2004 7:31:55 PM | Message
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I will. When did you first come here? This isn't
exactly my first name, and I hand-typed all of these. So start
shedding some life,
wise-ass.
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From: the
bw faq is here | Posted: 10/19/2004 8:29:41 PM | Message
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This is bull, too many fake topics here. I need
to find a better forums, with less acne ridden
trolls.
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From: AFGiant
| Posted: 10/19/2004 9:41:13 PM | Message
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I've read a similar moving coffin story in a book
I have. the vortex and the healer ones are new to me though. Cool
stories. This kinda stuff is what I like.
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Great Courts 2 Dumples! Rock Rock On!
Rest in peace, Merlin my dog.
From: redviper1439
| Posted: 10/20/2004 12:01:25 AM | Message
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Just read the Sheperd one, but the the coffin one
was the best.
Anyways
bump
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November 9th 2004, Earth will never be the same.
Anyways
bump
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November 9th 2004, Earth will never be the same.
From: Ultimaga
| Posted: 10/20/2004 12:08:18 AM | Message
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I too have read the book about the moving
coffins. The book also contained a lot of other mysteries throughout
time.
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It's like a hootenanny in my mouth!
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It's like a hootenanny in my mouth!
From: the
bw faq is here | Posted: 10/20/2004 6:23:31 AM | Message
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Bump for the morning, will post theories around 3
or 4 today.
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From: mxmsky
| Posted: 10/20/2004 7:03:16 AM | Message
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You are our messiah.
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I used to pray day and night for a new bike. When I realised God didn't work that way, I stole one and asked him to forgive me.
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I used to pray day and night for a new bike. When I realised God didn't work that way, I stole one and asked him to forgive me.
From: MechaMetaKnight
| Posted: 10/20/2004 7:03:11 PM | Message
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Actually, I do remember perfectinsanity11 posting
the Barbados
story.