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Volume Two Issue 17 April 26, 2020

Warps vs Vortices & Paranormal Hotspots

Saga of the Haunted Woods Part Two

Awakening to Nature Signs

Path of the Skin Walker

Butte Des Morts Hill of the Dead

Elijah and the Chariot of Fire

Emperial Rome in Crawford County

My Transmedium Family

Eddie Waitkus - The Natural

Dunning - Chicago's Neighborhood of Terror

One Eyed Scythians with Balls of Brass In Memory of DaEl Walker 2020 Standing in Burial Tree with Crystal Skull Rainbow

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WARPS VS VORTICES AND PARANORMAL HOT SPOTS The most logical explanation for the Haunted Woods in Burlington, Wisconsin Mary Sutherland www.burlingtonnews.net Mary Sutherland is a renowned author and researcher into lost Attending one of my conferences civilizations, UFOs, ghosts, fairies, in Burlington, our friend Stanton cryptids and, of course, djinn. She Friedman, helped me somewhat identified and documented the - to understand the strange Burlington Vortex: an area of phenomenon we experience in mysterious paranormal energy the woods and activity in her native state. outside of Burlington, Wisconsin. Mary is the author of The Red Haired Giants, Revelations: It seems that our paranormal hot Truths Revealed, Giants Gods, and spot was not ‘just a vortex area’ Lost Races, Lost in Time: In but a ‘WARP’. As Physics friend, Search of Ancient Man, Mysteries Stanton Friedman explained to of Burlington and Southeastern me about our Haunted Woods, “It Wisconsin, Haunted Burlington, was an area that defied the Laws Wisconsin and Living in the Light: of Physics, as we know them today; Believe in the Magic. She is the it is a place where the executive editor and founder of conventIonial laws of physics Legends Magazine and, with her break down; where linear time husband, Brad, conducts tours of does not apply.” the Burlington Vortex and Burlington Forest. [email protected]

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Photo shows two time lines…present time and another time showing seconds into the future, caused from a distortion of space and time

within the portal.

While Stanton’s explanation Myself, I have determined that as sounds rather simple enough, far as the entities are concerned ‘warps’ are actually one of the we may only have acknowledged most complexed phenomenon and named less than a handful of frustrating scientists today. them. We have only scratched the Joshua Warren agrees with surface of the thousands if not Stanton but elaborates a little millions of life forms that exist more by agreeing with the linear within the warp. time theory, but goes on to claim that living within these warps are It is difficult to define warps, sometimes hundreds or more since the range of their entities .

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itself, plunges forward or has no sense of direction at all. They can distort all our ideas about how reality functions. Up can become down, and inside can become outside. You can hallucinate, or find that the environment around you has changed for an unmeasurable period. There can be an unbelievable amount of electromagnetic energy, or not surprising …no energy at all.

manifestations can be completely These locations are infested with foreign and unpredictable. They entities, imprints, and a barrage are sort of a paranormal catch-all of other paranormal activities. and difficult to study and define. They can twist There have been times when perceptions beyond the visitors have experienced looking understanding of logic, at themselves from another exemplifying the most dimension. complicated issues facing science In the following I will share with today. Most paranormal you the 1980’s story told by researchers also frown upon Joshua Warren about television the physics behind the crew technician, Rick Stratton’s phenomenon due to their experience in Time. Rick, in his unpredictability and complexity. twenties, and a friend

rented a cottage deep in the New As Stanton Friedman stated England countryside. The before and I repeat…”Warps defy secluded house was built by the Laws of 3D Physics.” They are Moravian settlers in the 1800’s. places where time stops, reverses

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Vistors watching themselves from a higher dimension

He enjoyed living there and for fashion’. If that wasn’t strange several weeks they experienced enough, a man was sitting at the nothing out of the usual. One table eating and a woman stood night, however, he walked into over the sink, washing dishes. the kitchen to get a drink. Upon walking through the kitchen They were both described as doorway, he was shocked to see being dressed in antiquated that it looked garbs. As Rick was looking completely different that before. surprisingly at the old man and woman, they did the same. Rick He described it as before looking explained that their eyes popped modern, but then looking ‘old

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out in surprise when they saw by an entity, certain earmarks are him… As if “They” were seeing a exhibited. The activity will be ghost! Rick stared at them for a spontaneous, erratic and few seconds, each person interactive. If it’s an imprint, it will speechless. Then the scene be nonconscious, predictable and vanished, and the kitchen went oblivious to the scene going on.” back to normal. However, it sometimes seems like This kind of experience isn’t a the location itself has something simple entity case. That’s because to do with the ghostly activity the entire room was different and Rick experienced…such as the it isn’t an imprint, being that the results of a ‘warp’. man and woman were conscious Warren explains that the earth is of the observer and reacted to his not a perfect sphere as many presence. people think; in fact it’s shaped more like that of a pear. Not being So, what phenomenon was this! perfectly balanced like that of a sphere, it wobbles on Well, from my own personal its path of orbit. The earth’s experience in the woods of magnetic field corresponds with Burlington and research I have the planet’s physical form. Since conducted from others the earth is not balanced, neither researching the phenomenon, it is its field. It therefore seems was a ….”Time Slip” Two logical that some places moments in Time, one in the on the planet are subjected to 1800’s and one in his present unusual geomagnetic activity, time came together, sharing the greater or lesser than the rest of same time. Joshua Warren the earth. explains that the event couldn’t have been a simple haunting This doesn’t even take into because “If a location is haunted consideration the magnetic fields

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Paranormal Investigator Walking through Portal into another Dimension

caused by physical stress on fault Some of our stronger sacred lines. I want to add that our locations could be the result of planet is a large capacitor, the warp phenomenon, especially storing, strengthening and those chosen by the ancient Celts manipulating electrical charges. and Egyptians. The ground is one electrode, the upper atmosphere another, and When you find a “Warp’ Be the space between is an insulator. Prepared for Anything!

Different parts of the surface are Most traditional ghost also affectedParanormal in unique Investigator way based walks throughinvestigators Portal sintotudy another only entities upon their position in relationDimension to and imprints, which are the basis the sun that hurls massive bursts of 90 percent of location of radiation at the earth, affecting hauntings. However, some places more than others.

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Warren and his team investigated possible, sometimes occurring by a property where an way of extreme and negative overwhelming number of synchronicity. paranormal occurrences had been reported. Thinking of the Bermuda Triangle usually conjures up images of There were conscious entities sinking ships and falling planes. who would physically assault the Indeed, since 1900 more than owners, leaving distinct bruises a 1000 people have disappeared and cuts. Parts of the house, and over those waters vehicles on the property, would between Bermuda, Florida and suddenly burst into flame Puerto Rico. Even more without explanation. Often, compelling than the number of visitors became sick or suffered disappearances is the way they from surprising attacks of aches manifest. For example, consider and pains. A barrage of imprints the five navy planes that pulsated around the grounds and vanished at the same time on the owners had captured December 5, 1945. A May Day thousands of anomalous images was sent from the leader: “We on video and in stills. There can’t see land…everything is was even a time when someone wrong….strange. We can’t be sure in house turned to find herself of our position. We seem staring into what appeared to be to be lost. Even the sea doesn’t another dimension: a horrific and look as it should.” Contact was surreal place, with swirling then lost and a rescue plane was clouds and disturbing sent out immediately. It, too, activity. Then it vanished. Small disappeared without a trace. objects, like silverware and ink Pilots frequently report pens, would transport themselves instrument interference in the to other locations. All in all, any area, like compasses spinning. In kind of ghostly manifestation was addition, mysterious streaks and

Legends Magazine – Another Sutherland Production balls of light are seen flitting past, present and future. When about certain areas. The first you find one, be prepared for person to record seeing these anything. illuminations was Christopher Columbus in 1492. He wrote In Conclusion Warps are: about them in his log. There is no shortage of ghostly tales in the 1. Areas where the area, including conventional laws of physics can apparitions, imprints and ‘time break down slips’. 2. Places were linear time does not always apply It is difficult to define warps, 3. Locations infested with since the range of their entities, imprints, and a barrage manifestations can be completely of other paranormal activity foreign and unpredictable. They 4. Unpredictable areas that are sort of a paranormal catchall. can twist perceptions beyond the For that reason, it’s easy for understanding of logic some to frown upon them. They are difficult to define. Warps are For more information on Warps, not active all the time, and the Portals and Vortices join our conditions necessary to trigger facebook group at their activity is a mystery. www.facebook.com/groups/haun It is possible that, sometimes, tedwoodstours ‘some kind of limited, singularity- Purchase my book Haunted type phenomenon ‘might exist at Burlington Wisconsin by Mary ‘some’ places on earth. Usually, Sutherland through ghostly activity concerns an www.amazon.com aspect f the past that still www.burlingtonnews.net/books- plays a paranormal role in the hauntedburlington future. A warp is a place that can essentially blur the distinctions of

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Purchase my book ‘Portals, Gateways Tracks were laid across the cut and to the Multi-Dimensional Worlds’ on the combined bones and rock Amazon or became the track bed." – www.burlingtonnews.net/books- portals.html Excerpt from a diary description of the 19th century decapitation of a section of "The Hill of the Dead” (Butte Des Morts) on the shore of Little Lake Butte Des Morts in Neenah. Wisconsin

The hill is reputed to hold the piled up corpses of Fox Indians killed during a battle against the French and their Indian Allies in the Fox/French Wars.

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may be beneath your feet right as Butte Des Morts you read this. In the mid to late The Hill of the Dead 19th century countless mounds were plowed over by farmers. Mary Sutherland Road crews crushed bones into aggregate for road and railroad "Oh, Wisconsin, beneath your feet is an ocean of bones...." beds. It's safe to say that all of Wisconsin's primary roads "They (railroad crews) knocked the contain shattered bits of the top off of the small hill called Butte bones of the ancient dead. Des Morts. It was full of skeletons.

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king of Jerusalem, and their Elijah and the Chariot of generals.

Fire The corresponding texts of the Scriptures prove a very high Mary Sutherland grade of trustworthiness, even in transmission of orations and dialogues, ascribed to historical personages.

This fact encourages to approach with credence the stories of Elijah and Elisha, interwoven in the same parts of the Book of Kings. The Book of Kings ascribes this

change to a rather natural cure of In the ninth century, as a result of the captain by Elisha, who cosmic events, the electrical prescribed to the diseased seven charge of this planet was highly baths in the Jordan River. (The affected. The ionosphere above Jordan is rich with sulfur, the earth was charged to such an magnesium, and brom salts, extent that leaps of discharge which enter the river at the Sea of occurred from a cloudless sky. Tiberias, and constitute, after evaporation of water in the Dead In Velkovsky's book Ages in Sea, its deposits.) Chaos, he speaks of letters found in the Egyptian State Archive of Another instance which throws a El-Amarna that originated in the side-light on the activity of Elisha ninth century. A considerable is the, two letters of the collection portion of them was written by which were written to the Ahab King of Israel, Jehoshaphat Pharaoh by the Great Lady of Shunem (Kings ). She wrote from

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that city, and signed Baalat-Ness, When a detachment from King the Lady to whom a wonder had Ahaziah was sent to interrogate occurred. There she wrote, ' him, Elijah, again on top of the Elisha revived her child hill, invoked a lightning bolt out employing artificial breathing and of an apparently cloudless sky to a contact of his own body with strike this group of men. the body of the infant.’ According to the story he repeated this with a second 'The most of the wonders of detachment. Elijah had to do with atmospheric electricity. He was an 'electrical' Attention should be paid to the man, occasionally a living fact that summits of certain barometer, looking for electrical mountains have an electrical halo, and magnetic 'wonders' to and that there is a permanent employ in his miracles. flow of electricity as can be demonstrated by a wire that Most of his wonders had to do connects two points at different with atmospheric electricity and altitudes on the slope of a hill, was performed on top of a hill or and that a charged electroscope is mountain. quickly discharged by ions, For example, when a prolonged supposedly drifting from above. drought endured for a number of The enigmatic coolness of years, Elijah went to the top of mountain tops is caused by an Mount Carmel and sat with his electrical process. head between his knees. From The death of Elijah also takes time to time, he asked his servant place under circumstances that whether there was a cloud suggest an electrical already seen over the sea. After a phenomenon, such as ball while a cloud appeared, lightening'. (Ball lightening could approached, and burst into be explained like that of a ball of abundant rain. fire in the sky, sometimes seen

Legends Magazine – Another Sutherland Production moving rather slowly and then Evidence of Imperial exploding.) Rome in Crawford The Second Book of Kings, tells County - Frank Joseph how Elijah and his apprentice , Alisha , had crossed the River Imperial Rome in Crawford County, Wisconsin – Frank Joseph Jordan and ' behold, a chariot of , The Lost Colonies of Ancient fire and horses of fire . . . parted America, a Ceramic lamp was them both asunder; and Elijah unearthed in 1969, in Crawford went up by a whirlwind into County, Freeman Township, on a heaven . . . And Elisha saw him no hillside field overlooking the more . . . he took up also the Mississippi River. A farmers plow got hung up on a root and when mantle of Elijah that fell from the plow was cleared, the lamp him, and went back . .The was found face down in the disciples of Elijah looked for furrow. several days lest the spirit of the Lord hath taken him and cast him Lamp is 5 inches long, 3.5 inches upon some mountain, or into across, and 1.25 inches thick some valley but they found him Its front , judging by its central hole for the flame, depicts what not. appears to be the body of a woman between two pairs of It is a well-known phenomenon other human figures, sitting and that a wire may evaporate when engaged in conversation. an electrical discharge strikes it, yet its envelope of fabric (an Removing it entirely from any insulator) remains intact. And this native American Indian context, may have been the case with Elijah the female figure is shown with - the mantel was an insulator of long, wavy hair , falling down her sorts! back; wearing a diadem with cloth attachment, the most common feminine headdress of the Greco-Roman World.

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Ursula Bielski Resurrection Mary: Queen of Chicago’s Haunted archer Avenue

Author Ursula Bielski is the founder Resurrection Mary of Chicago Hauntings, Inc. the leader of our Chicago Ghost Tour Team, “There was a girl in the road . . . “ and the host of PBS’ “The Hauntings Just southwest of Chicago, Chet’s of Chicago” (WYCC). Melody Lounge sits bravely An historian, author, and across the road from parapsychologist, she has been Resurrection Cemetery, drawing writing and lecturing about Chicago’s in a steady stream of locals to supernatural folklore and the shoot the breeze and have a few. paranormal for almost three decades and is recognized as the leading For years, regulars pretty much authority on the Chicago region’s disregarded the Bloody Mary eternally perched at the end of ghostlore and cemetery history. the bar and “The Ballad of She received her Bachelors degree in Resurrection Mary” once listed history from Benedictine University among the selections on the and a Masters in American cultural jukebox (now replaced by a and intellectual history from digital jukebox) just as they Northeastern Illinois University. have adopted Chicago’s most famous phantom as an accepted www.chicagohauntings.com fact of life. Certainly, the impact of phantom-related folklore on Southwest-side

Legends Magazine – Another Sutherland Production culture, well captured in Kenan gorgeous young woman, with Heise’s novel, Resurrection Mary: whom they danced and tried A Ghost Story, is indeed most to socialize. At the end of the obvious in the cultural evening, she asked for a ride prominence of this persistent home and squeezed into the front legend. seat of the car with the driver and one of his friends. Sure enough, But while Mary’s legendary after directing the driver to head spirit has contented itself with north along Archer Avenue, she the haunting of a tiny stretch of vanished from the car at the Archer Avenue in the village of cemetery gates. After some south suburban Justice, the deliberation, the young men, image of this elusive personality having earlier coaxed the girl’s has thumbed itself into the address out of her, decided to hearts and history of all Chicago. drive to her home in Chicago’s Back-of-the-Yards neighborhood From the old-timers’ still-vibrant and see if she had turned up all accounts of her to the young right. True to the classic tale, Chicago rap artists singing about they were promptly informed “Rez Mary,” this specter’s appeal that the girl was dead, having reaches every generation. With been killed in an automobile good reason: For more than 80 accident some time before. years, travelers along Archer Weary but wiser, they resolved Avenue have reported bizarre to forget the whole incident and encounters with a single-minded go on their way. young woman in a white dress and dancing shoes who seems as Time and again, young men real as can be until she proves would meet the moody young herself decidedly otherwise. woman at the ballroom, share dances with her, and later Typical is the following describe her as “cold,” both incident: physically and emotionally. After Many years ago, several young these dances, the girl would men, out for a night of dancing accept rides home, giving vague and drinking, met an aloof but directions to her escorts to

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drive north along Archer Avenue. morning, where she has made her As their cars passed the gates of biggest impact. Resurrection Cemetery, the girl would most often simply Mary first appeared to disappear from the car. unsuspecting Southwest-side drivers on Archer in the 1930s as Famously, in 1936, the late Jerry well, when late-night revelers Palus spent a whirlwind evening complained to the police that a dancing with a lovely young woman had tried to jump on the woman at the Liberty Grove Hall running boards of their and Ballroom, previously automobiles as they made their believed to have been a tavern in way home after a night of her neighborhood but now dancing. Other Archer Avenue believed to have been another drivers have been surprised by name for the old Oh Henry a beautiful young woman who Ballroom, later the Willowbrook, will simply open the car door and which stood on Archer Avenue. climb in, directing the driver to When Palus offered her a ride proceed up Archer Avenue, home with he and his brother where she disappears in the she accepted, directing him up usual way, at the cemetery gates. Archer Avenue. In front of the Some bewildered drivers have gates of Resurrection Cemetery, even watched as she runs right the young woman said she had to through the locked gates and into leave him, and that he could not the darkness beyond. At still follow her. She left the car, other times, drivers have disappearing at the main gate, watched a woman in a flowing leaving Jerry –and his bewildered white dress walk along the brother—speechless. roadside and then vanish, as if switched off like a light. In some As dance hall encounters of the most harrowing incidents with this phantom partner of all, the woman has been multiplied, they seemed to center struck while bolting in front of on the Oh Henry, and it was here moving cars. Bleeding in the road that Mary forged her reputation. after these crashes, she has been But it was on the road itself, in known to dematerialize before or the wee hours of many a dark

Legends Magazine – Another Sutherland Production during approaches by would-be rescuers. The evidence begins with the following report, which Who is Mary? appeared in the Chicago Tribune on March 11, 1934:

Girl Killed in Crash. Miss Marie [sic] Bregovy, 21 years old, 4611 S. Darnen Avenue, was killed last night when the auto in which she was riding cracked up at [word missing] Street and Wacker Drive. John Reiker, 23, of 15 N. Knight Street, Park Ridge, suffered a possible skull fracture and is in the county hospital. John Thoel, 25, 5216 S. Loomis, driver of the car, and Miss Virginia Some researchers speculate that Rozanski, 22, of 4849 S. Lincoln this mystery woman heads for [now Wolcott] were shaken up one grave among thousands at and scratched. the 475-acre burial ground known as Resurrection The scene of the accident is Cemetery: site number 9819, known to police as a danger spot. section MM, that of a young Thoel told police he did not see Polish woman, Mary Bregovy. the El substructure. Records indicate that Bregovy was killed in a car accident in A close friend of Bregovy’s 1934, allegedly on her way home discovered in the mid-l 980s from a dance at the Oh Henry. that her late girlfriend’s name But attempts to link this Mary was being connected with the with the Resurrection legend famous phantom. She went on to have yielded far less than describe the fateful day of the satisfactory results. accident to an understandably eager reporter. According to

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Vern Rutkowski, who was killed in a car accident in the interviewed by the Southtown Loop sometime during the Economist on January 22, 1984, evening. Bregovy’s parents the two young women had would learn that, although their planned to go shopping on daughter had been sitting in the March 10, 1934, near 47th Street back seat before the time of the and Ashland Avenue. The girls accident, she was persuaded by accepted a ride to the popular her girlfriend to switch seats, shopping district from two since the latter was not getting young men who Bregovy had along with the driver. met, but Rutkowski became Described by Rutkowski as an irritated with the young men, agreeable and personable young who she remembered as “wild woman, Bregovy was happy to boys.” The girls left the men’s car oblige. Because of that while still some distance from congeniality, she was thrown their destination, but not before through the passenger window Bregovy made a date for that when their car struck one of night. On their way home, the I-beams of the downtown Bregovy criticized Rutkowski’s elevated structure. Three days unfriendliness and her later, Mary’s Polish and disapproval of Bregovy’s taste in Czechoslovakian parents buried men. Nonetheless, Rutkowski their daughter at Resurrection continued to express her dislike Cemetery. of their latest escorts and cautioned Bregovy about her Since Bregovy was killed in plans for that night. Determined downtown Chicago, probably at to keep her date, Bregovy left Lake Street and Wacker Drive, it her girlfriend for the day and is highly doubtful that this Mary went home to 4611 S. Darnen was on her way home from any Avenue. Southwest-side ballroom and most definitely not on the road Rutkowski stayed home that outside the legendary cemetery. Saturday night, and was This Mary, according to the awakened the next morning by records of the Satala Funeral her mother, who informed Home from which Bregovy was Rutkowski that Bregovy had been buried, was a young factory

Legends Magazine – Another Sutherland Production worker who died in the Ultimately, the musing of that ambulance on the way to one man may have been Iroquois Hospital, then on responsible for the permanent North Wacker Drive. matching of the two Marys in local memory. Apparently, the Old newspaper interviews with social conditions of Bregovy’s Satala suggest one obvious neighborhood were such that reason why Bregovy was the pairing was instantly pegged as the famous phantom, acceptable, the rumor was despite having the “wrong” hair spread, and no one seemed to color and style, the wrong mind the dubious nature of the clothes, and regardless of her connection. dying in the wrong place. Nearly 50 years ago, a caretaker at Still, the transformation of the Resurrection phoned Satala and Bregovy ghost into a “vanishing told him about a “ghost” that had hitchhiker” did not gain regional been walking the cemetery cultural prominence until much grounds. In the caretaker’s later. A general feeling exists opinion, the ghost was Bregovy’s. that neighborhood old• timers knew of a phantom Bregovy According to Rutkowski, long before the folklore of Bregovy loved to dance. But she distant Archer Avenue also had short, dark hair, a far cry popularized the story, from the flaxen fantasy described presumably according to through the years by Mary’s universal vanishing hitchhiker various escorts. In addition, the legends. It is probable that Mary’s late John Satala, the undertaker peers picked up adults’ talk who prepared Bregovy’s body, about the ghost of Bregovy in and once described Mary as “a Resurrection Cemetery and hell of a nice girl,” remembered began to elaborate upon the tale that the eternal attire was, in fact, during their drives to and from an orchid-colored dress, not a the old Oh Henry Ballroom. white one.

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The Ana Norkus Connection records and photographs. He was astounded by the Far more compelling is the prominence of the legend in connection solidified through the local lore and fascinated by the rigorous research of Frank ability of so many individuals, Andrejasich of Summit, Illinois, including a number of his fellow which matches the legendary parishioners, to place Mary in lady to a wholly different entity. their own experience.

In August 1994, Andrejasich’ s One of these, Chester “Jake” brother mailed him an article Palus, turned out to be the which mentioned the Southwest younger brother of the now- Side’s most famous phantom. famous Jerry Palus, who is Already familiar with the story, supposed to have been Mary’s Frank became swiftly smitten first dance partner at the Liberty with the tale, finding that a Grove Hall and Ballroom in number of his fellow parishioners Brighton Park in 1936. at Summit’s St. Joseph Catholic Church had more than a nodding According to Jake, Jerry had acquaintance with the local been a passenger in his friend’s legend. car when the pair took “Mary” home that remarkable night, and In assembling his impressive she disappeared en route to the dossier on the elusive Mary, address she had given as her Andrejasich accumulated many home. Though he recites the opinions on the phantom’s story with ease, Jake himself has earthly identity. Relying heavily no comment on his brother’s on the recollections of his tale, refusing to express either cousin, Mary Nagode, and the credulity or disbelief. keen memory of John Poljack, Sr., a Slovenian emigrant, retired Claire and Mark Rudnicki-friends, Prudential insurance manager neighbors, and former St. Joseph and St. Joseph parishioner, Frank parishioners-told Andrejasich waded through a variety of first that Resurrection Mary could be and second-hand accounts, traced to the 1940s, when a newspaper articles, burial young Polish girl crashed near

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Resurrection Cemetery at around in life, Mary Miskowski of the 1 :20 a.m., after she took the southside Chicago neighborhood family car to visit her boyfriend of Bridgeport. In this narrative, in Willow Springs. Miskowski was killed crossing the street in late October in the According to this version of the 1930s, on her way to a story, the girl was buried in a Halloween party. term grave at Resurrection. Appropriately, Andrejasich After pondering the variety of wonders why a couple that well accounts, combing early off enough to own a car in the editions of the local papers, and 1940s would need to bury their checking with funeral directors daughter in a term grave. and cemetery managers, Andrejasich came to believe Adding to the explanations is that the ghost known as another parishioner, Ray Resurrection Mary is the VanOrt, who tells how he and his spiritual counterpart of the bride-to-be were the first youngest of all the candidates: witnesses at the scene of an a12-year-old girl named, accident on Archer in 1936, surprisingly, Ana Norkus. when a black Model A sedan collided with a wide-bed farm Born in Cicero, Illinois in 1914, truck at 1 :30 a.m. According to Norkus was given the name of VanOrt, of the two couples in Ona, Lithuanian for Anne. In that the car, only one person era, it was not the custom to survived, a girl who was badly christen infants with two hurt. Both men and another girl names. But after 1918, children perished. Today, VanOrt is were baptized with a Christian convinced that this was the name and an historic name to accident that killed our would- further pride on their main be Resurrection Mary. country.

Still another parishioner, claims As a young girl, Ana’s devotion that the wayward wraith was, to the Blessed Mother led her to begin using the name Marija,

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Mary, as her middle name. By the such a young age. In reality, time she neared her teenage the blame rested with the years, Anna had grown into a Chicago Streets Department, vivacious girl. Blonde and slim, who had failed to post warning she loved to dance, and it was her signs at the site of the cut. In relentless begging that convinced fact, another death, that of her father, August, Sr., to take Adam Levinsky, occurred at the her to a dancehall for her 13th same site the night after Anna’s birthday. demise.

On the evening of July 20, 1927, Between July 28th and father and daughter set out from September 29th, an inquest was their Chicago home at 5421 S. held at Sobiesk’s Mortuary in Neva for the famous Oh Henry adjacent Argo. Heading up the Ballroom, accompanied by five sessions was Deputy August’s friend, William Coroner Dedrich, the case Weisner, and Weisner’s date. reviewed by six jurors. The DesPlaines Valley News carried On their drive home, at the story of the inquest. Mary approximately 1 :30 a.m., the Nagode described the sad travelers passed Resurrection procession that left the Norkus Cemetery via Archer Avenue, home on a certain Friday turning east on 71 st Street and morning. then north on Harlem to 67th Street. There, the car careened First in line was Ana’s older sister and dropped into an unseen, Sophie, followed by her older 25-foot-deep railroad cut. brother August, Jr. The pastor, altar boys, and a four-piece Ana was killed instantly. brass band preceded the casket, borne on a flatbed After the accident, her father, wagon with pallbearers on each August Norkus was subject to side. Relatives and friends devastating verbal abuse, even followed the grim parade for being told that Anna’s death had three blocks to the doors of St. been God’s punishment for Joseph’s in Summit, where Anna allowing the girl to go dancing at had made her first communion

Legends Magazine – Another Sutherland Production only a year before. Between the Andrejasich discovered that at band and the priest walked a the time of Ana’s death a man terrified Mary Nagode, a friend named Al Churas Jr., brother-in- of Ana’s who had been pressed law to Mary Nagode, lived into service as a wreath-bearer. across the road from the gates of On summer vacation, Nagode Resurrection Cemetery, in a was weeding on an asparagus large brick bungalow that still farm in Willow Springs when she stands today. Al’s father was in had a visitor. It was Gus Norkus, charge of the gravediggers and Ana’s father or brother, asking was given the house to live in as her to participate in the funeral, part of his pay. In the mid-1920s, since Mary had made her first gravedigging was hard, manual communion with Anna and labor, rewarded with low pay. owned a white dress. Strikes were common.

When Mary returned home that As Resurrection was one of the evening, her mother informed main Chicago cemeteries, the her that she had accepted the elder Churas was often sent to request on her behalf. The girl the cemeteries of striking was deeply dismayed at the gravediggers to secure the proposition. Mrs. Nagode bodies of the unburied. reminded her daughter that refusal of such a request would Returning to Resurrection with a be a sin against Roman Catholic corpse in a wooden box, Churas’ moral living, which dictates that duty was to bury it temporarily one must attend to the burial of until the strike ended and the the dead. Anna was scheduled body could be permanently for burial in one of three interred in the proper lot. newly-purchased family lots at Because of poor coffin St. Casimir Cemetery, and it is construction and the lack of here where Andrejasich found the refrigeration, a body could not “if’ that may have led to an be kept long, except in the infamous afterlife for Ana as ground. If the strike dragged Resurrection Mary, or as Anna on, identification at the time of called herself, Marija.

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relocation could be gruesomely character. And yet, how much difficult. more there is (again, if only one believes in ghosts) if Ana was Thus, reasons Andrejasich, if mistakenly buried away from her the workers at St. Casimir family. were striking on that July morning in 1927, it is quite For here, the stories merge, possible that young Ana Norkus almost too easily. The resulting was silently whisked to a image is classically and temporary interment at completely appealing: Resurrection, and that a rapid Resurrection Marija combing the decomposition rendered her southwest suburbs for her kin, unidentifiable at the time of her father wandering the road exhumation. The result? A outside her unknown destination, mislaid corpse and a most watching and waiting for his lost restless eternity, if only one is beloved. willing to believe. Despite widespread belief in such Those not quite convinced may scenarios and the untiring work be persuaded otherwise by a of devoted researchers like further bit of Frank’s musing, this Frank Andrejasich, specialists in time connecting the otherworldly modem folk tales have utterly Anna to the sneering specter seen disregarded local attempts to on the road outside of her alleged trace Resurrection Mary to any resting place. earthly counterpart. Instead, many scholars explain Mary as The elder August Norkus merely a localized version of followed his youngest child to St. the widespread vanishing Casimir 30 years after her death, hitchhiker legends. These a broken man besieged by alcohol legends have passed from and blamed to his grave for his generation to generation daughter’s demise. As throughout history, but the Andrejasich reasons, it wouldn’t 20th– century versions always take much else to make a follow a strikingly similar pattern. ghost out of this ill-fated A hitchhiker, usually a young woman, is either picked up along

Legends Magazine – Another Sutherland Production a dark road or met at a dance, Changes from where she is given a ride home. In the latter situation, her Reports of Resurrection Mary would-be suitor may report increased significantly during having danced with the young renovations of the cemetery in woman, finding her somewhat the mid- 1970s. It was also cold. In both situations, she gives around this time that the her escort vague directions to phantom began to become more her house, but along the way she animated . . . and suddenly vanishes from the adventuresome. car. Sometimes, the driver will have procured her address and In 1973, Mary is believed to have proceeds to the house to ask shown up at least twice in one whether the girl has returned month at a far Southwest-side safely home. Upon his arrival, dance club called Harlow’s, 8058 he is told that the girl, whom he S. Cicero Avenue, wearing a dress recognizes in a photograph that looked like a faded wedding displayed in the home, was gown. A Harlow’s manager previously killed in a car accident described her as having “big on the road or near the dance spooly [sic] curls coming down hall where she met her from a high forehead. She was unfortunate escort. really pale, like she had powdered her face and body.” The Resurrection Mary stories Dancing alone in an off-the• wall bear an uncanny resemblance to fashion, she was as obvious as these widespread tales. In fact, could be, yet, despite bouncers at accounts of Mary by eyewitnesses the door who carded all guests, have conformed to the universal no one ever saw her come in or model even. more perfectly than leave. do most second-hand legends. That same year, at Chet’s Melody However, the existence of so Lounge, an annoyed cab driver many first-hand reports raises bounded in asking about his fare, questions about the assertions a young blonde woman. The that Mary is mere folklore. manager gave him the only

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answer he had: “A blonde woman removal of the damaged bars, never came in here.” embarrassed cemetery officials installed what they called A number of years later, a driver “repaired” bars, insisting that the happened to be passing the bent bars had been welded back cemetery when he glimpsed a to normal and not, as many young woman standing on the asserted, replaced with new ones. other side of the gates, clutching Still, some cemetery workers the bars. Worried that someone maintain that the bars were had been locked inside after bent by a crew member’s truck closing, he hurried to report the backing into the gate; the incident to the local police, who handprints were left by a hastened to rescue the worker’s glove when he reluctant prisoner. Upon their attempted to heat the bars with a arrival, they found the cemetery blowtorch and bend them back deserted, but their inspection of into shape. In response to that the gates revealed a chilling claim, local believers say: Yes, spectacle: not only had two of the the cemetery tried to blowtorch bars been pried apart, but the and restore the bars, to impressions of a pair of delicate eradicate evidence of the hands remained, bearing spectral handprints, which witness to the feminine touch witnesses continue to describe as that had accomplished the task. the well-defined fingers of a frail female. When cemetery management saw the state of the bars, they Whatever the claims, the tale’s reportedly called in officials undeniable fascination lies in from the Archdiocese of Chicago, viewing the cemetery gates who allegedly removed the even to this day, as two strips imprinted bars and whisked of discolored metal remain in them away. Akin to stories of the exact spot which once bore aliens in warehouses are local the mysterious handprints. In whisperings about the fact, and there seems to be no mysterious bars sitting today reason to doubt the rumor, it is in some secret Archdiocesan said that this part of the gate storehouse. Not long after the refuses to “take” either primer or

Legends Magazine – Another Sutherland Production paint. The result? An syndicated television show, embarrassing but apparently “That’s Incredible!” and told of his ineradicable scar on the face of experience. Before doing so, he the cemetery and its was warned that he would be management. (Note, in the late fired if he did. Notwithstanding summer of 2019, the two bars the alleged threats, the officer disappeared from the gate of told his story to network Resurrection Cemetery. It is audiences and was at least by unknown at this time if they were local accounts relieved of his removed by the Archdiocese or if duties. they were stolen.) After a bizarre decade that As if this carnival weren’t enough seemed to mark the climax of her for the cemetery to bear, it was restlessness, Mary was back to also around this time that her old tricks. Yet she didn’t Resurrection Mary began to seem quite her old self. In 1989, experiment with new methods. on a blustery January night, a cab Actually, folklorists have driver picked up a desolate young described a certain model of the woman outside the Old Willow phantom hitchhiker which is Shopping Center. Despite the best termed the “spectral inclement weather, she wore a jaywalker,” that is, the ghostly beautiful white party dress and vision that walks or simply patent leather dancing shoes. appears in front of a moving Climbing in the front seat, she vehicle. One such story tells of a made it clear that she needed to Justice police officer who called get home, motioning the driver an ambulance after hitting a up old Archer Avenue. But this woman in a bloody white dress time she behaved differently. She who was wandering the road in seemed confused, unable to give front of the cemetery. When the lucid answers to the cabby’s paramedics arrived on the scene, polite questions. Finally, with all there was no trace of the the clarity she could muster, the distressed woman. According to girl remarked, “The snow came some stories, the officer in early this year.” Then, in front of question went on the nationally- a time-worn shack across the

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road from Resurrection, the Investigators might theorize that disoriented passenger ordered, this disruption could have caused “Here!” disappearing without Mary’s apparent disorientation. another sound. Possibly. For, although the site of the grave was finally disclosed Also in the late 1980s, two to the public after many years of teen-aged boys were driving secrecy, the plot turned out to be along Archer A venue at unmarked. Mary Bregovy’s was Christmastime when they saw a a “term grave,” a plot that was strange woman dancing down sold on 25-year terms during the the road outside the cemetery ’20s and ’30s, in a section of fence. They noted that other Resurrection that was renovated passers-by seemed totally during the ’60s and ’70s. It is unaware of her antics; in fact, therefore possible that the girl’s they didn’t seem to see her at all. family either did not repurchase The teens reported the bizarre the grave, resulting in the filling- scene to their parents, who at in of the plot, or that they or the once related the famous tale of cemetery administration moved Resurrection Mary. Never the grave to discourage the having heard the story before, curious. the boys must have questioned whether the off-the-wall vision There is one other peculiarity they had seen was really the same worth noting. Resurrection Mary as the legendary hitchhiker, has traditionally been connected whose aloof sophistication with the former Oh Henry seemed wholly unbefitting the (Willowbrook) Ballroom, where wacky wayfarer of their own she is alleged to have danced experience. during her lifetime, and where she is guessed to have danced What has happened to her last. Some accounts, Resurrection Mary in these past however, specify that on the decades? night of her death, Mary was at a A ghosthunter’ s classic dance for Christmas or even summation would point to the Advent, the Christian season disruption of the Bregovy grave preceding Christmas. The fact during cemetery renovations. that so many Resurrection Mary

Legends Magazine – Another Sutherland Production encounters occur in December might seem to render this obscure lore somewhat more credible, although the timing would also undermine the connection to the Mary Bregovy who was killed on March 10th. Dealing only with conjecture about the behavior of ghosts, researchers continue to seek the Bregovy grave at Resurrection Cemetery in hopes of finding some end to a grueling JOIN US FOR OUR but engaging search. RESURRECTION MARY AND ARCHER AVENUE GHOST TOUR An Enduring Legend . . . or Visit us at www.chicagohauntings.com to Something Else? see the calendar and book your Continued in next issue….. tickets!

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I found this photo quite interesting. we have the usual phase shifting,

but the couple at the left part of photo is actualy stepping into a light...which is quite beautiful. I just wished that people that I take out there were sensitive enough to pick up on the experience and be able to relay back to me what they felt.

When you look at all their faces and body positions they all seem to being pulled to the direction of that light...unconcsiously I am pretty sure. Thus we need to listen to our subconscious when doing this type of work. or going for the dimensional experience. we need to quit depending on our rational thinking and just enjoy the moment with a

childs mind

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Eddie Waitkus...The Natural Bill Matteson

Here is a story...I don't know how it will fit in ...the Movie, the Natural with Robert Redford as Roy Hobbs, was based on a true story, but more important to the story is the message it delivers...about universal magic ...keeping your faith ..losing

it...and redemption

Professor Bill’s Corner Eddie Waitkus was a born Memories of Times Past baseball player. He was so good ‘Professor Bill’ Matteson that when he played minor league with a small town in Maine, they I am blessed or cursed with the type of called him a Natural. He was born mind that remembers certain things of immigrant Lithuanian parents that I have read, heard or on Sept. 4th 1919. experienced over the years. I find little cubby holes to tuck them He signed with the Chicago Cubs away. Then on a given day, a little in about the1939/1940 time more of the story filters in; then inside bracket, playing full time in 1941. the mind comes a blinding explosion; the light comes on and the story pops Then the war broke out and most up. able-bodied ball players signed on to serve their country. Here are some of those stories.

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Eddie went with the Army and town sports figures stayed there, fought many a bloody battle in while most of Chicago's players the Philippines, winning 4 bronze stayed at the Sheridan Plaza. stars. Unbeknownst to Eddie, he was He returned to the Cubs in 1946 being stalked. He had an admirer. playing 1st base, replacing Phil Caveretta, who moved to left Ruth Ann Steinhagen was field. uncontrollably infatuated with Eddie. She registered at the hotel Eddie was a highly educated under the name of an old sportsman and everyone liked classmate of Eddie's and sent him him. He could speak five an urgent message to meet her in languages and was the poster boy her room. of sportsmanship for the media. Yes, everyone loved him; maybe a When he walked in, she shot him little too much. in the chest with a 22 cal. rifle; she then called the desk and In 1948 he was traded to the explained what happened. When Philles for three players, help arrived, she was cradling including Dutch Leonard, a great Eddie's head in her lap. Eddie knuckleballer. almost died several times, but they were successful in removing Now the Phillies had been the bullet, which narrowly missed scheduled to play 11 games over his heart. the 1949 season. On Aug.19., 1949, just 2 months Arriving in Chicago June 14th, after being shot, Eddie suited up 1949, he registered at one of and played at Shibes Park for Uptown's finest hotels, the Eddie Waitkus Night. Edgewater Beach. A lot of out of

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Today, our highly paid athletes books, movies, and radio get a hang nail or a sprained programs finger, they sit out the season. (I like to mention this part about Ruth Ann Steinhagen never went Christy because his family changed to trial. She spent a long time in a their name from Matteson to mental institution and died of Mathewson while living in natural causes last December Pennsylvania.) 2012. Bernard Malamud wrote The Sometime in 1952, a book was Natural. Roy Hobbs was molded published, written by Bernard after all players mentioned. Malamud, inspired by these events. Malamud took parts of the A lot of good things come out of Eddie Waitkus story and then Uptown, or at least Uptown borrowed from the life of played a major part in them. Shoeless Joe Jackson, a few more baseball role models, including Editor's note: Bill Matteson grew Christy Mathewson, the greatest up in Uptown in the forties and pitcher of his day and the fifties. inventor of the fade-a-away, the present day screwball, a reverse curve, so to speak.

Christy was a role model for all young boys, not ever drinking or smoking and going to church. Christy even became the role model for the Frank Merriwell adventure series with over 800

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My Transmedium Family I remember when I was about 4 years old, my Mom came in from Bill Matteson outside and laid down on the couch. I watched as Mom's My great grandmother was a appearance change to some woman who traveled around rich grotesque mask ,gasp and choke society at the turn of the century and started to turn blue. as a "Trance Medium" contacting the dead and spirits of loved I ran outside screaming for the ones; big business in those days ! farmer who came running in , She was supposedly very good at grabbed Mom and lifted her off this and very much in demand. the couch and dragged her out side. In 1909, Anna Tremain Buchanan died during a trance. She had two Her looks and breathing went sisters,who did the same thing; back to normal and she said one went crazy during a seance something to the farmer about his and the other just quit claiming daughter; he turned "white and she ‘had enough’. ran in and dragged the couch outside and burned it. My grandmother Ruth Buchanan did almost all the same stuff, as Seems his daughter years before did one of her sisters. had fallen into the cattle watering tank and he brought her in and My Mom, Thelma was very active layed her down on the couch in spirit contact and healing, My where she swallowed her tongue Dad Was working for the CCC in and choked to death. Kansas and for a while we were staying at some farmers house. We moved into town soon after that and upstairs from us lived a neat old couple the Armstrongs,

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I woke up one night crying, I Mom never and would never wanted to see Mr Armstrong. take any money for her services, Mom took me upstairs to him, she claimed it was a gift. and I told him I wanted him to read me the bible story of Daniel and the Lions, which he did. I fell I have a true documented asleep and he carried me back to Werewolf story from afghanistan my Mom and stayed awake with for next Issue - My Son Mark was me all night, until I woke up. stationed there and was involved.

Concerned, my mom asked questions as to why he reacted in such a way. She was told that on that very night twenty-five years ago, their 4 year old son woke up crying and wanted the same bible story.but he died during his sleep.

Mom said we are all messengers . She was a spiritual healer who patched up everyone… she patched me up many times.

I remember my Dad drilling a hole in a nutmeg, my Mom putting a "blue' silk ribbon through it and tying around a woman's neck, Mom said it would Brad Sutherland - Center of the cure her neuralgia, three days World – Outside of Yuma Arizona, later she said she was cured. on California side – Great Sand Dunes.

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Atala Dorothy Toy Awakening to Nature Signs by Crystal Life

Nature spirit author, workshop leader and photographer Atala is the founding president of the holistic company Crystal Life Technology, Inc. and a past vice president of the American Society From day to day, season to of Dowsers. For over 25 years, season, nature signs speak to Atala and her staff have been everyone. Sometimes it’s a totem providing handcrafted energy reminding us to tap into our gifts products, therapeutic crystals and power, other times it is a and a wealth of information on reappearing animal that our holistic topics via their website guides have sent with a message. www.crystal-life.com Everything we come across in our Appearing here are articles Atala daily way of life is a sign. Bird and her staff write on holistic and songs, a familiar shape seen with esoteric topics.. unusual frequency, sometimes even a familiar car is a sign of communication from the person you associate with that vehicle.

Signs may come to you from your guides, or perhaps from spirit. These signs may be given to you

Legends Magazine – Another Sutherland Production in response to a wish or a prayer could be a sign about a life lesson you’ve expressed, or perhaps you are currently going through. they’re helping to give you a little push towards a healthy life One of my totems is the cardinal, choice. and it never fails that there is one in the tree outside my bedroom Nature can also send messages window when I awake, calling its from a loved one to let you know glorious song to the world and to they are always with you, that the my soul. love you shared is eternal. A friend of mine was woken daily Personally the robin has come to by mourning doves when her be a sign of my beloved father marriage ended, another had who has passed on. A neighbor hummingbirds hovering near her has a specific butterfly that she frequently during a particularly feels is sent to her from her joyous time in her life, while husband, while another has a another came across dead birds shape that comes from a loved every time she passed a hurdle one passed too soon. during a difficult time in her life.

Do not discount such impulses, The messages don’t have to be so the universe is a complex and complex either, they can be wondrous place, it is completely simple. A cricket or a hawk may possible for your loved ones to be letting you know a message, a send you messages and care. communication you’ve been waiting for is on the way, while a butterfly may be telling you to Do you have a nature sign that flourish, to transform. greets you every day? This too In my life, the more frequent could be one of your totems, or it visitor of late has been a beautiful green grasshopper who seems to

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have taken a liking to my hedge If you are out in nature, bring a roses. He sits steady and sure as small note pad to jot down what my daughter and I trim and dead you’ve seen, eventually patterns head the flowers, a gentle heart will emerge, and you’ll become song emanating from his energy. more aware to how nature calls out to you. Music players and We greet each other daily, and phones should be left in the home I’ve begun to notice more of his when you are outside; this only family throughout my fairy desensitizes you to what nature is garden. Grasshoppers are trying to communicate. Be patient, unusual for me, and as they’ve be open to everything, and listen. been placed in my line of vision I You’ll soon be well on your way know that I should pay attention to discovering what nature to what the lessons this beautiful wishes to communicate to you. creature has been chosen to communicate with me. “Most people look for the sacred in the unusual and the often Grasshoppers are a nice positive dramatic, supernatural message of uncanny leaps experience. But the irony is the forward into sunny situations. Divine mysteries are found in the Nature signs work with our ordinary, the mundane and the people to bring us natural aspects of life-softly whispering to us. ” Ted Andrews encouragement, and information.

How can you be sure it’s a sign? There are a few books that help you understand nature messages, Frequency is often the first as well as help you learn how to indication. Other times it is how discover your animal totems. the sign strikes you, impacts your awareness. Animal Speak and Animal Wise by Ted Andrews are two of my favorites.

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Path Of The Skinwalker South West Regions of USA

15 years ago, a book was released that recounted the harrowing ordeal of a simple family living on a Utah ranch. While there, the

family witnessed a host of bizarre Rick Hale phenomena that can only be Rick Hale is Spooky Isles Deputy described as truly terrifying. They Editor (Mysterious Phenomenon) encountered giant wolf-like and staff writer for Legends creatures that preyed on their Magazine. cattle, strange aerial phenomenon and what appeared to be A native of Chicago, Illinois, he doorways to other worlds. has had an interest in anomalous Researchers of anomalous phenomena since having a phenomena call this, High positive encounter with an Strangeness. apparition at an early age. The family depicted in the book, Rick is the author of 'The Geek's Hunt For The Skinwalker, lived in Guide to the Strange and Unusual: constant fear of the high Poltergeists, Ghosts & Demons, strangeness that threatened to and his second book, Behold! destroy their livelihood. And their Shocking True Tales of sanity. When seeking answers for Terror...And Some Other spooky what was happening to them, a stuffboth sold on Amazon.com Native American shaman https://www.facebook.com/rick.hale.10 explained their property laid in

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the path of the Skinwalker. An have incurred the wrath of these evil entity found in the folklore of wicked sorcerers and have paid the Native the price. But is there any historical proof to back up the stories concerning skinwalkers? It would appear there is.

For years we assumed the putting to death of alleged witches was exclusive to superstitious European settlers to the shores of North America. Nothing could be further from the truth. In the 19th century, settlers in the south west heard a disturbing story of a Navajo war party attacking and destroying a village populated by their own people. According to American people of the American the Navajo, the village was home south west. But what is a to a clan who practiced the Skinwalker? And why is it Witchery Way and were known something to be feared and skinwalkers. It was reported over avoided at all costs?To the 100 people were rounded up, Apache and Navajo, no creature beheaded and burned. The evil borne of their darkest that cursed the land was dealt with harshly and immediately. Skinwalkers have the ability to shapeshift into grotesque animals It was believed for countless ages, with a taste for human flesh and only the Navajo and Apache had blood. They are further known to to fear the Skinwalker. That was bring sickness and blights upon until Caucasians arrived in the the land. Many Native villages region and discovered they too

Legends Magazine – Another Sutherland Production had something to fear. One family was a drifter on the side of the who road. When the man lifted his head, the officer was horrified to see a monster looking back at him. When the police officer drove off at a high rate of speed, the creature kept pace and tried getting into the car. The creature eventually broke off the pursuit and the police officer left the job.

Skinwalkers, as witches, are believed to use powerful spells to was vacationing in New Mexico attack and murder their victims. claimed a man-like creature One suspected Skinwalker who followed them home and banged was captured was found in on the walls and howled like a possession of bone beads covered wolf. On the inside of their home in a mysterious powder. When they experienced poltergeist asked, he stated it was used to activity as household items were incapacitate his victims. destroyed by an unseen hand. The hellish activity finally came Another Skinwalker was in to an end when a Navajo holy possession of dolls similar to man exorcised the Skinwalker voodoo dolls. He would hold the with a lengthy ritual. dolls over fire torturing his victims from afar. According to Police officers who patrol the him, the goal was to cause his region have also claimed to come victim so much pain, they into contact with a Skinwalker. eventually ended their own life. One officer reported that he approached a man he thought The Yee Naaldlooshi is so feared among the Navajo, they believe

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even mentioning this evil witch Chicago, would often be heard would bring about destruction singing, "Dunning, Dunning and death. open you gates, here comes Johnny on roller skates." These people live very close to the land and are intimately This peculiar rhyme illustrated a familiar with doorways to other much feared area of Chicago realms. And skinwalkers walk along Irving Park Road. An area of between those worlds spreading the city that terrified citizens of all the chaos they can. the Windy City for well over a century. Rick Hale To many, the neighborhood now known as Dunning was a nightmare just waiting to happen.

Chicago's Neighborhood Of Terror.

Dunning -North West Side Rick Hale

Dunning in the 21st century is a pleasant middle class neighborhood, known for quaint houses, well manicured lawns and friendly people.

Children who grew up in the far north west neighborhoods of

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Although Dunning is part of The latter two decades of the Chicago, it has a suburban feel to 19th century, the Dunning area it the other neighborhoods don't remained sparsely populated. have. This has not always been Few people didn't think moving the case. their families near an insane was such a great idea. All that changed In the mid 19th century, the in 1916, when the Schorsch remote area of Cook County Brothers real estate, bought appeared to be the perfect place several acres of land west of to set up a poor farm. There, the Irving Park Road. They named the poor of the quickly expanding city neighborhood West Portage Park could put in an honest days work. and claimed the area was safe The county purchased a 160 despite the asylum. The brother's acres from Peter Ludby, the man efforts resulted in a huge housing who farmed the land since 1939, boom. and opened the poor farm. People may have moved to the As time went on, the poor farm area, but the fear of patients began attracting people who escaping the asylum haunted the clearly suffered from significant residents of the newly mental health problems. The farm established community. The was then closed and the Cook anxiety was very real, and people County Insane Asylum was worried the insane patients opened. To help manage the would escape and murder their growing population, two family. Two dramatic incidents additional buildings were added didn't help assuage those fears. In and the hospital could now fact they made matters worse. accommodate over a thousand In 1912 and 1923, fires broke out patients. causing extensive damage to two of the buildings. In the resulting

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chaos, several patients did escape The crew and developers had no and caused a few minor idea where they were building problems. Citizens of the was once the graveyard of the neighborhood and the rest of poor farm residents, as well as Chicago began to see the asylum the patients of the old asylum. It as more trouble than it was wasn't uncommon for bones to be worth. seen flying through the air as the crews worked. One body that was By the 1970s, the old state discovered was so well hospital was falling into shambles preserved, you could make out and half the buildings were torn the handlebar mustache and down. In its place the Chicago- sideburns that were fashionable Read Mental Health Facility was among men of the 1880s. built. With a safer, more secure facility in place, Dunning experienced another housing boom. And that's when things started to get weird.

The mortal remains of hundreds of people were inadvertently dug up

While breaking ground for a new Several concerned community shopping mall and condominium members and a local pastor came complex in 1989, construction together to hold a memorial crews made a grisly discovery. service for these poor, forgotten The mortal remains of hundreds people. And in its place a of people were inadvertently dug memorial and the Read-Dunning up. Memorial Park was established to remember those who died. The community hoped the service

Legends Magazine – Another Sutherland Production would give peace to these long apparitions in 19th century attire departed people. Unfortunately walking down darkened they were wrong, because corridors. When staff goes to Dunning is very haunted. question them they vanish from sight as soon they turn the corner.

There have been a handful of unexplained experiences at the Jewel food store in Dunning

Square Mall. Shopping carts are Wright Community College known to take on a life of their appears to get a disproportionate own as they roll down aisles as if amount of the paranormal guided by an unseen person. activity that allegedly happens in Automatic doors that typically the neighborhood. Following it's open when someone goes to move into a new facility shaped enter, have opened of their own like a pyramid, the overnight accord as if someone just passed cleaning staff were the first to through. report the ghostly activity. Lastly, the Dunning ward office is Among the mostly immigrant a third site known to have night custodial staff, tales of unexplained activity. The encounters with ghosts are heard apparition of an elderly woman in in hushed conversations. Some of a hospital gown has been the activity includes lights witnessed by employees and mysteriously turning on and off visitors. She is said to give off the and slamming doors are heard unpleasant feeling of sadness. when the college is quiet. A few By all accounts, Dunning on employees have further reported Chicago's north west side is a nice witnessing full bodied place to live. That is if you don't

Legends E-Magazine mind sharing it with the long dead souls of its original Trivia Corner inhabitants. Honey H oney was Our First Candy or Confection . It was also used to heal MONEY SPELLS the body from infection.

CON fection = NON (in)-FECTION You will need: Every denomination of coin: a dollar Honey was used throughout history coin, half dollar, quarter, for healing and ‘body preservation’

dime, nickel and penny. The Burmese priests are said to You’ll also need sea salt and a have preserved the bodies of their welcome mat at the front abbots in caskets filled with honey.

door or a rug at the front In parts of the Arabian Peninsula, door. deceased children of wealthy Place all coins in a circle families were preserved in sealed under a rug or welcome mat jars of honey. (it can be indoors or outdoors doesn’t matter). There is the legend of the ‘Mellified Men’ who, as old Arabian men, Place the coins starting with would willingly eat nothing but the largest denomination first honey for one month, after which they would die. Their bodies would and make a circle. As you then be placed in a stone coffin place the coins, say these filled with honey and stored for one words: hundred years. When the coffin was “Money, money, money on finally re-opened , it contained the floor; Welcome through ‘confection’ with strong powers of my front door.” healing.

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The Ghost Box The Saga Continues Chapter 2: Incredible Experiences in the Burlington Haunted Woods

In the chapter prior, I spoke about my first visit to the Haunted Woods and the trail that winds through it. If I hadn’t seen a ghost, it’s doubtful that I would have returned. I think the woods Jeff Brigham knew as much and wanted me back. The woods were needy for Paranormal Researcher and attention, had stories to tell Founder of the paranormal through electronic voice investigation group called SWAG, phenomena, images on still an acronym for Southeastern pictures and videos, and personal Wisconsin Area Ghosts. experiences.

Armed with the latest tech gadgets his team of of ghost- hungry explorers conduct paranormal investigations at homes, bars, cemeteries, funeral parlors, abandoned houses, barns, roads, hotels, and other places. https://www.facebook.com/profi After assembling a motley team of le.php?id=763034653 inexperienced ghost

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investigators, four of us total, I We smelled the inexplicable odor returned to the Haunted Woods. of leathery cologne. While standing on the rock pile just off A minute’s hike onto the trail, the the beaten path, the pleasant sun fading fast on the horizon, I odor wafted. We checked among was karate chopped on the ourselves and nobody had worn shoulder by someone behind me. cologne or any kind of product Startled but not in pain, I turned that might give off that scent. to look and saw no one. The two guys behind me were quite a way I took pictures, fired off a series of back. What just hit me then? I shots that should have captured searched the ground around me an empty trail. But it wasn’t and found a single acorn. Did I empty. I appeared to have just get pelted by an acorn? If it captured a disembodied floating had been, it didn’t just fall from a mist, similar to the mist I saw tree: It was thrown with great with my eyes a couple weeks force. Unsure what to think, I prior. Yes! I got a picture of it and picked up the acorn and pocketed accomplished the goal I’d set for it. This was the first time this myself! Now I could show other evening that I would get hit by a people what I had seen with my flying acorn. The second time bare eyes. happened a while later.

As investigators, we may have been inexperienced but our hearts were in the right place. We shared the united goal of having genuine encounters with the paranormal. None of us would have been pitching acorns at my back as a prank. We stayed on the trail until well past dark and split up into two

Legends Magazine – Another Sutherland Production teams. Jake and I stayed near the same thing that I saw. rock pile by the camp fire clearing and the other two trekked back toward the parking lot.

At the base of a tree glowed these two mysterious green bulbs of light, each no bigger than a necklace bead. The pair seemed to be resting on the ground, not hovering in the air. I told Jake to come and look but unfortunately, he couldn’t verify what I was Another time while alone, I set up seeing because he didn’t have his an infrared video camera with glasses on. I was on my own with tripod to record a length of trail this experience. I should have and heard a man’s voice taken a picture but I was so taken mumbling from the other side of by the experience I wasn’t a bush. The utterance was thinking of that. Instead, I unintelligible. I stopped, listened, extended my index finger to and finally said, “Can I help you?” touch them. Just inches away they What else does one say in a faded out and disappeared. I used situation like this? I produced my a flashlight to look for clues and flashlight and peered through the found nothing. I did manage to brambles. No one was there. That accidently capture these two was the last I heard of the glowing lights in a randomly disembodied voice. Upon taken photo near the original reviewing audio, the disembodied location. They seem to show the voice had indeed been captured, but it was faint and unintelligible, no matter how many times it was replayed. It didn’t sound angry or

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evil or anything of that nature. It On some occasions we would see sounded conversational, like the Mary Sutherland out on the trail tone of someone making a casual with her tour group. It was observation. It could have always a pleasure meeting up mumbled, ‘Nice camera you’ve with her on the haunted trail. On got there.’ these nights Mary often had campfires lit, people mingling, Each trip to the Burlington taking photos, hoping to capture Haunted Woods resulted in anomalies, and often times doing success. Even if it felt like nothing so. The woods had become had happened, a later review of notorious for capturing digital evidence usually told a mysterious double-exposure- very different story. One of our style photos, where a photo of photos (a bizarre photo that someone results in ‘echo’ images should have shown tree branches of that person. In other words, a and leaves, but instead showed a person might appear twice or ghostly female figure with arms three times in the same photo outstretched, strange orange with different expressions, in streaks, and a large hand in a different poses. Often times restful position) even won photo- strange light anomalies can be of-the-day on Art Bell’s Coast to seen streaking through these still Coast Am website in 2011. images.

One night in particular I recall Mary telling her tour group that the trail was acting-up in a strange way and would disorient you if you weren’t careful. Disorient me? Nah. Not me. I’d been to the trail too many times and had become a ‘hardened’ investigator. I bid farewell to

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Mary, went on my way back on when he heard feet running at the trail, and a few minutes later, him. He actually cursed loudly found myself cocking my head in while jumping up and out of the confusion. Where did the trail go? way of the ghostly charger. Were we still on it? Yes. Wait—no. Had we wandered off? A very • I set out onto the trail to strange and uncomfortable, begin an investigation and was almost claustrophobic sensation. frightened right back out to the Unable to see the clear definition parking lot at the sound of heavy, of trail, I began to feel lost. I said bipedal footfall, thump, thump, this to Kristi, my girlfriend, who thumping through the woods walked alongside me. Kristi then close by. I yelled out to someone reminded me of what Mary had to see if it was a person, got no said about feeling disoriented. I response, then hurried to my car had forgotten. Sure enough, it in the parking lot for a brief happened to me. I take it all back period while gathering my now about being a ‘hardened’ courage to re-enter the woods. investigator. (I’m there to investigate ghosts, not Bigfoot or Dogman!) I can’t count how many investigations I’ve done in the • My buddy Dan was doing haunted woods in Burlington. an EVP session by the power lines Maybe twenty or thirty? Here are when he started talking about some other things that happened something mundane, like a to me and my fellow SWAG college class he was taking, when he caught a very clear and loud investigators: male EVP accusing him of lying! • My buddy Jamie was doing an EVP session near the • Often times a spider silk campfire (when no one else was sensation caressed the skin. Some around) and was terribly spooked believe this to be the touch of a curious spirit. I think they’re

Legends E-Magazine right. But also, there are real The One-Eyed Scythians spiderwebs spanning this trail Marines with Brass Balls that cannot be seen in the dark. By Warren Bonesteel (Bones) Big spiders live on them. I’ve taken photos of spiders with "Of these too, then, we have whom I’ve had close calls and knowledge; but as for what is posted them on SWAG’s Facebook north of them, it is from the site. Isotones that the tale comes of the one-eyed men (Arimaspoi) and the • Trinkets, candy, Grypes (Griffins) that guard gold; homemade dolls and other this is told by the Scythians, who have heard it from them; and we offerings can be spotted by the have taken it as true from the keen eye wedged into tree nooks, Scythians, and call these people by dangling from branches, or the Scythian name, Arimaspoi; for deposited on the ground in in the Scythian tongue 'arima' caches in certain areas. While not means one, and 'spou' means the paranormal of itself, these items eye." - Herodotus, Histories 4.27.1 certainly lend a mystical flavor to Modern man is not as advanced the atmosphere. as he thinks himself to be - It’s interesting to me that many While the paranormal events of people discount the works of these haunted woods have stayed Herodotus, Aeschylus, Plato, with me, the ghost of Burlington Homer, Josephus and many that impacted me most wasn’t others like them claiming them to found in nature; it waited in be nothing but mere tellers of darkness under a trap door in the myth and tall tales. Deny as one century-old basement of Mary might, through the actual deed of accusing others of their belief in Sutherland’s Sci-Fi Café. “magic” we show that we still To be continued… believe in “magic.” Robert A. Heinlein, a celebrated author and scientist, once said, “One man’s

Legends Magazine – Another Sutherland Production magic is another man’s charge the enemy lines while engineering.” unleashing yet more arrows before drawing their swords and In ancient tales, one man is said using their lances. to have walked upon water. Another is said to have raised Scythian children learned to ride people from the dead. Yet others before they could walk. They are said to have flown without were given bows and arrows artificial aids. Still others are said appropriate to their size before to have been giants. Elijah they could run. They grew up on climbed into a flaming chariot horseback and with a bow in and was never seen again. their hands. Throughout their lives they would have possibly Among these ancient stories and often heard, “Use one eye when tall tales were the Scythians who looking at your target!” It would were said to have been a race of have become a proverb among one-eyed people. Some even said them, and the phrase would've that they were born with only one been used as a metaphor for eye! Some think that this belief “focus and concentration” in may have come from them having other areas of life, as well. "One one eye closed while sighting on eye ...One eye." In military forces their targets. It may have been around the world such sayings that they were just brilliant and are often used in training. In the skilled cavalrymen who, in times United States Marine Corps, one of war, used the bow and arrow such acronym regarding to devastating effect. They would marksmanship is well known; ride to within range of their B.R.A.S.S. Breath, Relax, Aim, Stop, enemies and unleash their Squeeze. It is sometimes used as a arrows, and then, to the same metaphor in other situations as devastating effect, rain just as well, particularly in regards to many arrows upon their enemies internal or external politics. while riding away. They would do this until their enemy’s forces There will always be some that were depleted or their lines were believe the stories behind the disrupted. Then they would ‘race of one-eyed people’ is a

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