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Sarobia: Sanctuary for Human Beings, Birds and Animals
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Sarobia: Sanctuary for Human Beings, Birds and Animals
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Tag Archives: American History
Time Warp
Yesterday, the 22nd, was the 56th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. For kids today, that far back must seem like McKinley’s 1901 assassination did for me. It was a Friday afternoon in 1963. … Continue reading
Memorial Day 2017: War is Hell
I’ve been where you are now and I know just how you feel. It’s entirely natural that there should beat in the breast of every one of you a hope and desire that some day you can use the skill … Continue reading
Haunting at Pen Ryn: The Ghosts from Christmas Eve Past – The Conclusion
The Bickleys were blue bloods and they made sure everyone knew it. The colonial aristocrats remained loyal to the Crown during the American Revolutionary War, as did most of the other comfortably rich families in the colonies during that era. … Continue reading
The Haunting of Pen Ryn Manor: The Ghost of Christmas Eve Past
“Spirits are just video-like replays of awful events. A supernatural apparition is triggered by atmospherics, that is, when the climate is precisely as it was when the event occurred,” according to a local ghost chaser, a very perceptive way of … Continue reading
The Christmas Eve Haunting of Pen Ryn Manor
This stately mansion belonged to one of America’s founding, aristocratic families, originally from England, Quakers who came to the provinces for escaping religious persecution. The history of the dynasty’s American lineage started with William and Susannah Bickley, who landed in … Continue reading
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