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Handpicked Handmade Boutique is a Favorite

8/18/2014

Ariel/Little Mermaid Tutut

Usually my blogs and posts are related to the paranormal but this time, it is something completely different!
As many of you know, I am a sufferer of chronic pain. But, I still try to compete in runs as often as possible, especially the fun themed runs.
Well, do I have an awesome story and product for you! Who wants to dress up for their next run without spending a ton of money? Who wants to support a young entrepreneur and help fight childhood cancer?
Hanpicked Handmade is an AWESOME online shop that makes some of the coolest running tutus and costume tutus you have ever seen! I have 3 of my own and they are just WOW!
Jessica is amazing to work with and she even takes requests. Check out her shop www.handpickedhandmade.etsy.com
and her facebook page
www.facebook.com/handmadehandpickedboutique
These tutus are fun for costumes, runners, convention, Halloween parties, or just for the heck of it because they are just so cool. Made by hand and look even better in person!!

Maleficent Tutu

Minnie Mouse Tutu

Jamie Pearce Wants to Achieve A Dream!

8/15/2014

Jamie Pearce, founder of Historic Haunts Investigations and author of the paranormal has a dream she wants to achieve before she gets any older.
Many don't know this, but Pearce has a half brother, a sister in law, 2 nieces, and a nephew. She has wanted to meet them for years. Due to money and medical issues, etc. it hasn't happened. As she gets older and has lost a few friends at a very young age she has set a goal to meet her family by April of 2015!
Pearce and her husband Deric are on a mission to raise a minimum of $1000 to meet her family. (The money is for travel expenses, she lives in Florida and her brother lives in Maine.) They have never met but have been in communication for sometime and have much in common and look forward to the day they meet face to face.
To help raise money for this event, please go to http://www.gofundme.com/d23b64 to help achieve a dream.

The Fox Sisters

8/15/2014

The Fox family moved into a house in Hydesville, New York on December 11, 1847. Several former tenants had vacated the premises due to mysterious noises. However, the family did not experience any problems there until March of 1848. At this time raps and noises as of moving furniture began to be heard at night. These increased in intensity until on March 31st, there was a very loud and continued outbreak of the inexplicable sounds. Mr. and Mrs. Fox looked all over the small house but could not find the origin of the noises. Then Kate, the youngest, noticed that the sounds responded to sounds that they made. The idea came to her to ask for an answer to the snapping of her fingers and in this way their first communication with the unseen was established by getting it to rap once if an answer was YES and not to rap when an answer was NO.
Mrs. Fox tested the noise by asking it to rap her children's different ages successively. It did so correctly even including a child that had died in infancy. She then ask if the noise was human and got no answer; when she asked if it was a spirit, she got a strong knock. Asking YES and NO questions, it was established that the spirit was a man age 31, a peddler, who was murdered for his money and goods in the house and buried in the cellar. Further questioning revealed that the spirit would also communicate with the neighbors. They were summoned and it did so, correctly answering their questions.
On Saturday night, April 1st they started digging in the cellar; they dug until water started filling the hole and they had to give up. That summer digging was resumed. At a depth of 5 feet they found a plank, deeper below charcoal and quicklime, and finally human hair and bones which were pronounced by medical men to belong to a human skeleton. However, nothing else was found.
The rest of the missing skeleton, and verification of the experience, was found 56 years later. According to a report of the Boston Journal of November 23, 1904, some parts of a rough wall built a yard from the true wall of the cellar fell down. Excavations revealed almost an entire human skeleton along with a peddlers tin box. The New York Times carried a similar artical on that date.
The manifestations continued and grew in intensity until most nights the sounds of a literal death struggle were heard. Consequently the family left the house and went to live with a married son, David. However, the raps continued in the house after they left and one night more than 300 people conversed with the invisible entity.
Even though they were away from the house, Mrs. Fox was convinced that spirit was following her daughters so it was suggested that they be split up and leave the area. Kate Fox went to her brother in Auburn and Margaret to her sister in Rochester. However the plan didn't work because raps and other manifestations broke out in both places but were especially violent in Rochester.
These violent disturbances continued until Isaac Post, a visiting friend, remembered that Leah's brother David conversed with the Hydesville spirit by using the alphabet. Tremendous raps came in answer to the first question and the message was spelled out: "Dear friends, you must proclaim this truth to the world. This is the dawning of a new era; you must not try to conceal it any longer. When you do your duty God will protect you and good spirits will watch over you."
After this time communications began to pour through and the manifestations became orderly. The table rocked, objects moved, guitars were played, and psychic touches were experienced.
On November 14, 1849, the first public demonstration took place at Corinthian Hall in Rochester. The spirits came through and made the usual physical manifestations. Also, a challenge was made; a committee from the audience would be selected by the audience to examine the mediums and ,the manifestations to determine if they be genuine; the committee was to give its report the following evening. After investigation, the committee was convinced of the genuiness of the mediums and the phenomena. Two more committees were subsequently selected and reached the same conclusion.
From this point on the movement began growing and other mediums began to develop. Mrs. Tomlin and Mrs. Benedict of Auburn were the first two well known mediums who were developed in the circle of Kate Fox.
On November 28, 1849 owing to the increased demand for sittings and the obvious handicaps to one following a normal occupation, professional mediumship was begun by Leah. Later under the aegis of the Society for the Diffusion of Spiritual Knowledge, free public sittings were initiated for which Mr. H. H. Day paid 1,200 dollars a year to Kate.
The phenomena in these first sessions were not powerful. Raps occurred, ,the table and chairs moved and the sitters were touched by invisible hands. Perhaps their most powerful early manifestation was recorded in 1853 by Governor Talmadge of New York. It was the complete levitation of the table with himself on top. He also claimed to have received a communication in direct writing from the spirit of John C. Calhoun.
In 1861, Kate Fox was engaged exclusively for Charles F. Livermore, a rich banker of New York whose wife, Estelle, died a year before. For a period of five years Kate gave him nearly 400 sittings of which detailed records were kept. The following conditions of the sittings were noted:

1.The doors and windows were carefully locked and the sessions, witnessed by prominent men, were often held in Livermore's own house.
2.While the medium retained consciousness, Estelle gradually materialized. She was not recognized until the 43rd sitting when she was illuminated by a psychic light.
3.Later, the materialization became more complete but the figure could not speak, except a few words. The communication took place through raps and writing. Estelle and another phantom, calling himself Benjamin Franklin, wrote on cards brought by Livermore.
4.While Estelle wrote, the hands of Kate Fox were held. The script was a perfect reproduction of the characters she used when on earth.
5.At the 388th session, Estelle declared that she appeared for the last time.

Livermore never saw her any more.
In gratitude for the consolation he derived from these sittings, Livermore enabled Kate Fox to visit England in 1871. While there she sat for many important people, gave excellent opportunities to learned men for investigation, and often held joint sessions with D. D. Home and Mrs. Gruppy.
Leah died in 1890, Kate in 1892, and Margaret in 1893. In a meeting of the Medico Legal Society of New York in 1905 the subject of Spiritualism was discussed. Mrs. Mellon, a woman doctor who did not happen to be a Spiritualist, told the story of the last hours of Mrs. Margaret Fox Kane. In a house on Ninth Street she passed some hours every day at her bedside. Mrs. Kane was unable to move hand or foot. There was not a closet in the place or any other hiding place of any kind. And yet knockings were heard now through the wall, now through the ceiling, and again through the floor. "They were heard," said Mrs. Mellon, "in response to questions the woman put to her guide, as she expressed it, and she was as incapable of cracking her toe-joints at this time as I was."

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Historic Haunts of the South Releases This Week

8/11/2014

Historic Haunts Florida 2 by Jamie Pearce is a continuation of the first Florida book. The sunshine state is overly haunted and couldn’t be kept in one book, or two for that matter.
More haunted inns, forts, lighthouses, pubs, and so much more makes it a great haunted travel guide for locals or the traveler.
Historic Haunts Investigations had the opportunity to investigate many of the locations in the book with future ones still to come.
Jamie Pearce will also soon be releasing Historic Haunts of the South 2 which will also include more from our beautiful state of Florida among the other southern states.
You can pre order Historic Haunts Florida 2 now by clicking this below link. If you order before August 15th you will receive a FREE story that isn’t in the book!
http://historic-haunts.net/order-historic-haunts--more.html

Paranormal Kicks Cancer 2014

8/11/2014

Mark your calendars for September 20th, 2014. Paranormal Kicks Cancer will be holding their event at the Comfort Inn & Suites in Winter Park Village area of Orlando.
Paranormal Kicks Cancer was started in 2010 as a fundraiser for the advancement of cancer research and was created by members of the paranormal field.
Make sure to check out their website for details on the event www.paranormalkickscancer.org

Illustrator Timothy Banks @ CONjure

8/6/2014

Illustrator Timothy Banks appeared at CONjure this past weekend in Orlando.
This artist is AMAZING. Jamie Pearce's husband, Deric Pearce, had an idea for the CONjure program and Banks brought it to life. Then Deric did, literally.
This man does amazing work and we hope to work with him again in the future. Please take the time to check out his work: http://timothybanks.com/

Supernatural Romance by Tiffany Easterling

8/6/2014

If you are a fan of the supernatural and a fan of romance and action novels, this is your book.
Tiffany Easterling has released her first book, Genesis Spell and covers all of the above topics.
She appeared at CONjure in Orlando this past weekend and is a dear friend of paranormal author Jamie Pearce.
You can order Tiffany Easterling's book at: http://evilbunnyempire.com/genesis-spell-by-tiffany-easterling/

Paranormal Talk w/Shawn Porter

8/6/2014

Jamie Pearce, founder of Historic Haunts Investigations, Shawn Porter owner of Ghost Stop and new investigator this season on Ghost Hunters, and Ting owner of American Ghost Adventures, talked about the paranormal with several guests this past weekend.
Several great panels on the paranormal from favorite locations, to worst experiences, to best equipment to use.
Shawn offers a lot of great ghost hunting equipment at an amazing price on his website www.ghoststop.com and Ting offers some fantastic ghost tours in the Orlando area at www.americanghostadventures.com
Pearce does private tours, and has written two books on the paranormal which are available here on this site.

CONjure 2014, Orlando Florida

8/6/2014

Author Jamie Pearce made several appearances on paranormal panels at the 2014 CONjure in Orlando Florida this past weekend.
Pearce who is the author of Historic Haunts Florida and Historic Haunts of the South talked about her books and the founding of Historic Haunts Investigations in 2004. She even appeared in costume to attend many of the festivities as an Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Johnny's Angels

8/6/2014

Jamie Pearce the founder of Historic Haunts Investigations loves supporting several different charities by donating time, money, time, or books for raffle. Many of them pertain to children and animals but she also has a major passion for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
Johnny’s Angels was initially started in 2007 and this charity raises money for Children’s Hospice and the Palliative Care Coalition and both charities Johnny Depp has supported for years.
100% of the donations collected go directly to the charities. Pearce has donated her books, Historic Haunts Florida, in the past to raffle off at different events and she is doing so again to help raise money to help support them.
If interested in sending a donation or learning more about Johnny’s Angels, please check out their website at www.johnnysangels.org
If you do not have the extra funds to donate, check with them about donating time or helping with fund raisers.

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