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Sat 31 May | Eastern State Penitentiary overnight with Mprt | | Eastern State Penitentiary overnight investigation from 4:00 pm to 3:00 am on May 31,2008.For more information contact Dave at mprt40@yahoo.com or call 410-558-6365. (duration: 39600) | | Sat 7 Jun | Historical St. Paul's Cemetery with Maryland TriState Paranormal | Location: Martin Luther King Blvd. & Redwood Street, Downtown Baltimore
(at the back of Univ. of Md's Emergency Room, walking distance
from Westminster Catacombs)
$7.00 per person (to be donated to St. Paul's Church)
If you are interested, please send Astralspirit a wave or e-mail
vzevut4g@verizon.net
Afterwards, we could all go grab a bite to eat at the Inner Harbor
or the historical Little Italy. Again, its Sat., June 7, 2008
at 7:00 pm (duration: 7200) | | Sat 7 Jun | OLD SAINT PAUL CEMETERY with Maryland TriState Paranormal | MARYLAND TRISTATE PARANORMAL IS SPONSORING AN INVESTIGATION/NIGHTOU TING AT THIS LOCATION.
OLD SAINT PAUL CEMETERY Martin Luther King Boulevard & Redwood Street in Baltimore
Cost $7.00 proceeds to go to St. Paul's Church
Its in the back of the emergency room of the University of Maryland (within blocks from the Westminster Catacombs). Maybe afterwards, we could all grab a burger at the Inner Harbor. (duration: 10800) | | Sat 13 Sep | Gabriel's Inn with Gabriel's Paranormal Society | Saturday, September 13 The Maryland TriState Paranormal will be at this event.
We would like you to join us investigate this beautiful haunted Inn.
Includes historical tour, investigation, and midnight snack
$35.00 per person
Limited number of tickets, book early !
Please call 301.865.5500 to purchase your ticket or email gabrielinn@aol.com
GABRIEL’S INN 4730 IJAMSVILLE ROAD IJAMSVILLE, MARYLAND (duration: 14400) |
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Save Our Seminary offers guided walking tours of Forest Glen Seminary. Info See also 35030, 35292, 35293, 35294. Ghost Walks and Tours
Point Lookout Lighthouse Repair
Here's a great way to directly make your mark on and help support priceless history. Led by kmmouse.
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and empowering enthusiasts, groups, and fans of the macabre.
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Curiousity and participation rewarded in positive social communities of invigorating discussions, knowledgeable and open-minded Members, and extensive, valuable information.
Seeking a favorite haunt? May this be it. Share your findings and investigations. Locate groups. Make lasting friends and memories. Learn. Enjoy history. Broadcast news and events. Collaborate on projects and research. Communicate effectively. Have a blast. Find your Truth.
"Knowledge is more like a stream than a lake, and sharing it does not decrease it." --Zaitsev
"We wish to pursue the Truth no matter where it leads. But, to find the Truth we need imagination and skepticism, both. We will not be afraid to speculate, but we will be careful to distinguish speculation from fact." --Carl Sagan
You can but need not join a group to enjoy this site.
Constantly evolving and improving, East Ghost is at least two things if not more:
- It supports our own non-exclusive group, a growing bunch of eclectic friends interested in physical and spiritual histories, anything paranormal, beyond-edge science, and topics macabre.
- It also supports a loose collection and collaborative society of many different people and various paranormal groups.
100% custom made enabling technologies include integrated, organized and powerfully searchable forums and databases of Haunts, Sites, media and pictures for friends, kindred spirits and fellow travelers to enjoy.
We're making this site into what we consider to be an open-minded nirvana, a paranormal powertool, a worthwhile community, a useful social network -- all with powerfully searchable discussion forums and database of haunts and historic sites, an integrated picture and media gallery, and a plethora of wonderful members and valuable information.
We welcome everyone compatible and genuine.
Custom made for paranormal enthusiasts, we offer a perfect place to:
- share your findings, pictures and stories for feedback and comment or just for fun without unwanted critique
- effectively communicate and advertise your events
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Free registration is required. Full Membership is an earned privilege. We'd love to hear your stories, share information and welcome another adventurous, inquisitive and advancing soul. We're not exclusionary: this site is made for individuals or members of any group to share their findings, gain information, communicate and freely participate.
We're doing this because we love it. All we ask is that you play nicely and enjoy.
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What Many Members Do
Some thoughts on Why, what this is and what it isn't
May, 2008
This is not another annoying debunkers' site, but it's also not a sappy believer's site. That doesn't mean it's neither, as it's actually both, and that's probably part of why it's captivating...and maddening!
Broadly summarizing Members' activities and speaking for them about what drives them and what they enjoy about all this is no doubt impossible, but here's my very rough attempt:
Share and Share Alike
What many Members do is post their findings for friends to share and for everyone to enjoy. This usually includes pictures and personal anecdotes, and sometimes includes very private details and valuable information otherwise unattainable. Sometimes they request constructive criticism, as in, 'what do you all think of the unexplainable weirdness in this picture?' Other times they're specifically seeking raw critique of photos, peer review of information, that sort of thing.
Frequently, Members just want to share their experiences without facing a gauntlet or having to defend themselves or their findings, and that's perfectly okay, too. This is not a strictly procedural place where we find stuff and then studiously debunk it -- how pedestrian! I guess in that way we're partly ethereal, dreamy and imaginative.
Vicarious visits and Documentation
Quite a few Members "live vicariously" by essentially going along on the various investigations, after-the-fact, and the value and breadth of this can hardly be overstated. Numerous Members have repeatedly reported how much they appreciate this one aspect, along with many others.
I always do this myself when I read and enjoy every well-written and photographically documented investigation. Knowing what I like to see, and seeing how others have conducted and presented their excellent work, helps me learn and inspires me to do the best I can. Many times I'll shoot thousands of pictures over repeat visits, do the research, and share maybe hundreds of pictures along with much of what history, interviews and information I've compiled. As one result of our concerted efforts, we are amassing an unusual and, I think, important historical record that can't be so easily gotten any other way.
True historical appreciation and understanding
Presumably most Members, and definitely including yours truly, simply enjoy visiting haunted and or historic places and the incredible immersion in history.
For me investigating, researching, and yes, even exploring and "ghost-hunting", makes history vividly come alive and memorably matter in a thrilling way that I've not felt elsewise (ah, a new word), forming an indellible connection between the realities of now and then. It sort of 'ties it all together' for me, and I feel that I can begin to truly understand. Every single investigation I've ever been on, I can honestly say, I'm sure to never forget.
It -- it being whatever we do and share here -- also gives a strong goal and worthy purpose to activities (visiting, researching and photographing abandoned or historic places) that otherwise seem so ephemeral and touristy. You get a very different kind of treatment and tour (much more involved and uncommonly valuable), for instance, when you're photographing the Washington Monument, or any place, with a goal and purpose grander than just your personal collection. Documenting history and developing stories and content for immediate web and eventual print publication garners favorable treatment and access otherwise difficult or impossible to attain. The "paranormal" aspect can always be added to taste: Many places embrace their ghosts, some shun them; either is completely fine. Almost no one refuses honest historical research or keen interest for genuinely positive purposes.
At the fringes and beyond the cutting edges
Many Members, myself included, look to and beyond the cutting edges of science and understanding in a multi-disciplinary approach, trying to apply or expand existing theories, or develop new hypotheses, and report or present their research and information here in effort to help explain and understand various paranormality which seems to occur on a daily basis. In this way it's Fortean and scientific and bent toward increasing understanding, not exclusionary or affrontive debunkery, and this is fine because not everyone wants or welcomes scrutiny.
Often things and people and materials can just be left alone and taken at face value, or on their artistic merits. Since perception is personal reality and everyone's Truth is perhaps unique, adequate and tailored to them, it all works out. Geesh, that all reads like a Zen combination of "life isn't black and white" and "live and let live."
Never a dull moment, and always something new
Other Members probably just like the always interesting and constantly changing information and welcoming atmosphere that we maintain in our open-minded paranormal haven.
Anyway, blah blah blah... Maybe it's the comraderie, or maybe it's this unusual synthesis. Whatever it is, those involved love it and hope you do, too!
How eastghost.com's creators describe this site:
Angie: It's made specifically for paranormal enthusiasts and fans of the macabre. All different kinds of people are involved with eastghost.com, and the more the merrier. We have professional historians and researchers, published authors, lecturers, doctorates, members of various clergy, photographers, engineers, skeptics, die-hard explorers, law enforcement officers of all types, homemakers, business people, and the list goes on --literally, people from all walks of life.
Kim: Of course some members' interests are less formal, more passing fancy, and possibly the only peculiarity in their otherwise "normal" lives! Total immersion, er, being a "paranormal nut", is no prerequisite by any means. The only thing necessary is natural human curiousity.
Michael: The neatest part is how the paranormal connects so many different people in inumerable ways. Most of the world's population presumably believes in some form of religion or spirituality. Ghosts, the afterlife, the paranormal and the unexplained is so broad that it touches and often captivates nearly everyone at some level. It's sometimes a very keen interest, though general interest is definitely growing as people "wake up" to possibilities, ideas and knowledge. We think this spiritual renaissance is a compounding result of itself, that is, sharing and learning beget sharing and learning.
Chris: eastghost.com is meant to be a no-pressure, fun atmosphere to learn, with emphasis on sharing and communicating. It's also meant to be serious and worthwhile. The value of the years of collected information is amazing, and growing. We already have several thousand organized and edited entries in our haunts database, with no shortage of new entries: over ten thousand more are waiting to be typed in, and those are just the ones we know about and already have notes on.
Drew: We want to make this one of the coolest places on the net, vying for the tippy top...a real top-drawer, "A-list" kind of site. That starts with excellent members and useful content. Writing cool software helps. When it's right, it should fulfill needs and desires.
Kim: Groups often gather for meetings and investigations. Sometimes they're big events, sometimes it's just a single person taking pictures of a neat place, maybe relating any stories or experiences they may have had.
Michael: Sometimes the investigations are more formal, structured, purposeful and scientific. Many times people share news or stories or tidbits that they find interesting. As long as it's even remotely connected to anything paranormal, we usually welcome it. We like diversity. We like depth and breadth. We like learning.
Chris: Many members share their findings here, often for comments, sometimes just for curiousity. We help promote various groups and events. We help people communicate with people and also locate and connect with nearby groups. We try to make this an easy place for people to share their findings, interests and passions. The whole site is custom written and comprehensively integrated with the purpose of empowering members and enabling collaboration, and we actively expand and improve it almost daily.
Angie: We want eastghost.com to be the site that we love and enjoy and use daily, the site that makes us always smile in pride, the site that's thoroughly worthwhile, the site where we feel our contributions are appreciated and valued, if not prized. If others happen to like and want and need this and want to share, we think that's wonderful and nothing could be more thrilling...well, maybe except for seeing another full-bodied apparition! We welcome everyone compatible and genuine.
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- Find and make lasting friendships
- Participate without getting slammed
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- Promote upcoming events and meetings
- Share pictures and results of investigations
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4 years, 7 months, 6 days, 3 hours, 24 minutes, 31 seconds until the Mayan end of Age. December 21 2012 (11:11am GMT)— The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, notably used by the Maya civilization among others of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, completes its thirteenth b'ak'tun cycle since the calendar's mythical starting point (equivalent to 3114 BC August 11 in the proleptic Gregorian calendar, according to the "GMT-correlation" JDN = 584283). The Long Count b'ak'tun date of this starting point (13.0.0.0.0) is repeated, for the first time in a span of approximately 5,125 solar years. The significance of this period-ending to the pre-Columbian Maya themselves is unclear, and there is an incomplete inscription (Tortuguero Stela 6) that records this date. It is also to be found carved on the walls of the Temple of Inscriptions in Palenque, where it functions as a base date from which other dates are computed. However, it is conjectured that this may represent in the Maya belief system a transition from the current Creation world into the next. The 2012 Winter Solstice will also occur on this day at 11:11 UTC. --wikipedia . See also "Oh, for an empty Hell and full Heaven!" --Richard Baxter | |