becasue I am a NEGATIVE NEGATIVE NEGATIVE person and sooooo enjoy beating up on people and making peoples lives miserable and just cannot stand laughter at all because laughter is so so so bad and heck there is just NOT enough DRAMA in everyday life that you cant always control so I just have to get more here on line
The Salt Lake Tribune) The haunted history at Log Haven restaurant
Late in the evening, after all the diners have gone home, the ethereal apparitions appear.
Sometimes the chef will sense that someone is watching him as he cleans the kitchen. Or maybe a server, resetting the dining room tables, will see an image float by the window. Or the owner, closing the day’s books, will hear children laughing.
It’s all part of the haunted history at Log Haven, one of several Utah restaurants where friendly ghosts have been reported to roam.
“There’s so many stories about ghosts at Log Haven,” said Margo Provost, whose most vivid experience with the spirits came shortly after she reopened the 90-year-old mansion in 1994. She recounts what happened one night after diners had left and the kitchen was closed.
“A server and I were standing at the bar doing paperwork and we could hear children playing,” said Provost. “We thought someone left their kids!”
Provost remembered that experience later, when she learned the bar area was once a children’s bedroom.
Through the years, there have been at least a dozen other reported paranormal encounters, and the staff has begun keeping a list of the “sightings.”
L.F. Rains, Log Haven’s founder and owner of a ghost town outside of Helper, has been seen. So has a woman in Victorian garb. But the ghost that appears most often is a tall, thin man wearing a black suit and a stovepipe hat, Provost said. He is usually in the library and is believed to be the architect who built Log Haven in the 1920s
In Chicago, no other event described the bloody era of the Roaring Twenties like that of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. It marked the end of the peak of Al Capone's Chicago mob. Not many gangland murders have stimulated as many gangland ghost stories.
It happened on February 14, 1929, in a red brick warehouse located at 2122 N. Clark St., the SMC Garage. Capone was the leader of the Italian South Side mob, Bugs Moran was the head of the Irish North Side mob. Rivalry had been going on between them since 1927, and in 1929, Moran had supposedly shot down Pasquilino Lolordo, one of Capone's gang. Capone swore he would have Moran taken out on February 14. On that morning seven men waited in the garage when a police car pulled up outside. Five men from the car went inside and a few minutes later the sound of machine guns filled the air. The five men left the building and drove away.
The landlady was annoyed by the barking of a dog in the garage and sent a border over to see what was wrong. When he returned and told the landlady to call the police as the garage was full of dead men.
Moran's men had been lined up against the rear wall and filled with machine gun bullets. There were seven dead, but they had missed Moran who had arrived late, saw the car, and took cover.
The massacre started a change that broke Capone's hold of his southside gang. It also started a flood of eerie stories about the blood-drenched site.
In 1967, when the building was scheduled to be torn down, a Canadian businessman bought the bricks from the rear wall and started selling them for $1000 each. One by one, though, were returned. It was said that anyone that had bought one was suddenly hit with bad luck: illness, financial ruin, divorce, and even death. It seemed that the bricks had become possessed by the bad force of the massacre.
Even the warehouse became haunted with the sounds of screams, machine guns, and crying. After all these years, though the warehouse is no longer there, the sounds are still reported by those passing by where it once stood.
since its almost Halloween thought it would be fun to share some haunted places/stories:
"Resurrection Mary"
"Resurrection Mary" is undoubtedly Chicago's most famous ghost. This blonde-hair, blue-eyed beauty has been seen since the latter 1930s. According to legend, she had went to a dance at the O'Henry Ballroom which is now called the Willowbrook, 8900 Archer Avenue and apparently got into an argument with her boyfriend. She then began to hitchhike down Archer Ave. and somewhere between the Willowbrook and the main gates of Resurrection Cemetery, 7600 Archer Ave. she was struck and killed by a hit and run driver. Soon after this, people began to see a girl in a long white dress and blond hair hitchhiking for rides along Archer Ave.
The very first, first-person account came from Jerry Palus, a south-side man who recently died. He picked up a girl at the Liberty Grove Dance Hall near 47th and Mozart and danced with her the entire evening. The only strange thing is that she was very cold to the touch. Later she asked for a ride home which was somewhere in the Bridgeport area of Chicago but decided she'd like to go for a ride past the large Catholic cemetery along Archer Avenue, Resurrection. As they began to approach the main gates, she began to act very strangely. She told Jerry to pull the car off the road and, for some reason, she had to run toward the cemetery and that Jerry could not follow. Before he knew what was happening, she darted from the car, ran towards the main gates but disappeared before reaching those gates in plain view of Jerry. He then began to put all of this together and surmised that he had been with a ghost that evening. On a later visit to the home of Mary, he was greeted by a woman who told him that her daughter had been dead for sometime. He even saw a picture of her sitting on a table and was convinced that she was the same girl he had been with. However, that was impossible!
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riding a Harley?