Found some pics of this same monument on a few sites showing orbs around it.


Found the woman who had posted them, she wants to try some EVP recordings and figures the nearest full moon to the anniversary of the massacre would be the best time. The massacre was 165 years ago on October 5th. Strangely enough, we found out that we had taken our pictures within 2 weeks of each other almost 2 years ago. Although she said she felt things when she visited this site, I`ve been there many times and never felt ill-at-ease.
She`s done this kind of thing before but I haven`t. Does anyone have any suggestions or advice for a rookie?

More info:
pictures of monument and historical marker at Killough pix[/URL] The historical marker pic tells the story.

[ October 07, 2003, 07:05 PM: Message edited by: loner ]

Holy dog-snotters! Nobody has a single word of advice? am I on the right board?

Sorry, I'm not feel too well today so my brain and typing fingers aren't working too well.

A tip I haven't seen mentioned lately is blessing yourself or saying a prayer before you go and also afterward to make sure they don't follow you home.

For recordings, make sure you note the time any sound is made if you know the sourch (12:30 - so and so just coughed). Also, note the wind conditions - a windy night isn't good for recording.

That's all I can think of for now. Hopefully someone else can fill in.

OH P.S. has is ever been called a massacre when whites attacked indians?

Connie I don't beleive they ever called the murdering of indians massacres. (sp) Just like the Trail of Tears was thought of as a slight relocation. Sorry, had to comment.
Half Cherokee and Proud of it!
Piggerita
=(

That's always been an irritating term to me also Peg.

Do you have any ghost hunting tips for Loner?

Loner, my calendar shows the next full moon is tomorrow night. Is that when you're going?

Hi Loner;

I have done a number of cemetreys and used to do charcoal sketchings of stones.
1. Opening prayer including all in the group. This can be a short prayer, asking for guidance, protection, respect for the dead and the living.
2. Do not walk directly on someones grave. If you happend to do so, please say excuse me or at least sorry.
3. Cemetreys are not for fun and games. All due respect should be given the the people interred there.
4. Don't forget the closing prayer, a thankful one wish all there great peace. Again, all in the group.
Just be careful, there's alot of souls in these places. When I go, I have so many emotions it unbeleiveable. Respect for these places of rest and honor is the word.
On a cute note, the last cemetry I investigated I took my three year old grandaughter with me who is also sensitive. She was running all over, I was behind her, sorry, sorry. I then sensed in my head that it was alright, she was a baby? And they liked her. At that moment my grandaughter stopped and said take my picture here gramma, this guy likes me? Amazing isn't it? I took a pic and Lexi looks like she is just glowingly beautiful and she told the man who died in 1877 she would be back to see him.
If you visit these places with love and respect you should be alright. Still, be careful.
Piggie

We are going out tomorrow (Friday) night. I`ve already been advised as to the blessings both before and afterward. As to referring to this as a massacre, what else would you call it when a bunch of people come out of the woodline and slaughter unarmed men, women and children? I also have a wee bit o` Cherokee blood and have taken the accredited course of Cherokee history, partially taught by Chad Smith.
I`ve been to this cemetery many times. If you look closely at the picture, you`ll see a large branch that fell out of a pine tree on the fence. I went back out after the weather warmed up and cut it up with my chainsaw and got it out of the cemetery. The first person in my family to go there was my great-great-grandfather. He came up with General Thomas Jefferson Rusk and helped bury those 4 men.

[ October 09, 2003, 09:07 PM: Message edited by: loner ]

Hi Loner,
where is this place at?
From the surroundings, it looks like some place
back east. It looks familiar to me. Like I have
been there before.
Doreen

I think this is in East Texas, yes? It's a beautiful monument. Looks like some good ecto, too.

Loner, did you go on an investigation with Cindy @ R.I.P.? How did it go?

Kell

Whew! Sorry to take so long to get back to y`all but it`s been hard to get into the board. The site is northwest of Jacksonville, Cherokee County, Texas. I took a bunch of digital picturs and got some pretty intesesting ones, including quite a few with orbs. I`m still waiting to hear whether or not we got anything on the tapes but we did hear some really strange things as it was. That was my first stab at paranormal investigation (I don`t know Cindy@RIP, is she in East Texas?) and I`m looking forward to doing more. I`ll post some pics as soon as I can.

Here`s a couple of pics. Orbs[/URL] For some reason, the orbs were concentrated on the northwest corner of the monument. The second pic I thought I screwed up by getting a finger in front of the flash until I looked again at my camera: the flash is on the RIGHT side, not the left. Great flyin` orbs, that one looks like sunrise! =P

[ October 15, 2003, 10:42 AM: Message edited by: loner ]

Just one more thing that came back to me. Before we went into the actual cemetery and while in it, we took temperature readings and had some wildly fluctuating readings. You could face one direction and get 72, turn around in the same spot and get 22. At one point right after it got dark, we felt a sudden chill, the goose-bump-ly thing. Then about an hour later, we all got hot, but only in one spot in the cemetery (same spot with that big light, pic above).
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