Investigating Ghosts in Gettysburg

Friends went armed with digital cameras and anEMF detector (a little machine that detects electromagnetic fields) to Gettysburg, PA. These are the tools that the modern ghosthunter uses to pick up spirits or ghosts that may be lurking around. We looked through all the pictures taken, looking for orbs. An orb is a round spot of light that shows up on the digital camera (or sometimes to the naked eye) . These are thought to be energy spots from spirits or ghosts that are floating around. They took this amazing photo in one of the graveyards.

Now when you look at a photo like this you first try to debunk it (everyone else will!), meaning what in the area could have caused the phenomenon. A lot of times inside orbs may be dust particles in the air that show up looking much like an orb. But outside you are hard pressed to say one huge piece of dust is floating around the Gettysburg graveyards. You then make sure that you take another picture of two of the same exact spot, most times they will come up with no orb, which is what happened here. The other thing you think of is, was there something on my lens? In this case I would say no, it did not show up in the subsequent pictures of the same spot. Also, if you look closely at the picture, the orb is directly over and BEHIND the headstone. It can't be from the camera. This is the best orb shot he has ever taken, and one of the best I have seen. And yes in the other photos of the battlefields and headstones there were smaller fainter orbs, but nothing like this.

The other point of interest is that they had the EMF detector on. The EMF detector will beep when it detects fluctuations in the magnetic field around it. It detects energy, which is what a spirit, or an orb is. In the house the thing goes pretty crazy because of the outlets, electronics, etc. Outside if you are near powerlines it will beep due to the EMFs from powerlines. But if you are in an area that should have no EMF, or no power, you get nothing. Like we got nothing at the Eastern State Penitentiary because there is no live electricity in the place, and apparently no ghosts either. On the battlefields and graveyards of Gettysburg there is no electricity, the detector would make no noise, but then for a second it would start beeping, and then again be silent. This would seem to confirm small amounts of energy passing by or that they passed through. Ghosts? You decide.

One caveat though, the detector when held up to my head and started beeping and when held to someone else's it did nothing. LOL, I guess that is another investigation all together!

Oh Baby Baby!

I just finished the little pink sweater I crocheted for a friend's granddaughter, it turned out really cute! I plan on giving it to her tomorrow, so I hope I can get a picture of her in it, maybe on with her Grandpa! I used Bernat's Baby Coordinates yarn and the little buttons have little white rabbits on them!

Now I'm off to start knitting the poncho my brother commissioned to give to his niece. It will be the same one I gave to my niece about a year ago.

I also just had to put a picture of this afghan that a girl on http://www.crocheville.org/ made. It is a picture of the face of Jesus from the Shroud of Turin. It is so amazing that I had to pass it along. She took a picture of the face and used some computer software to graph it out, the crocheted according to the pattern. It truly is one of the most amazing things I have ever seen!

Funny or NOT

Ok, the first funny thing is my dear Mother telling me she got around to reading my GLOB. Say WHAT??! I didn't laugh at first because I didn't know if she was serious, she has a habit of putting her unique spin on book and movie titles, and then I said you mean my BLOG? And she started laughing, I was like, WHEW. But between you and I, I think she WAS serious.

Another funny thing, since I have been in a crocheting mood lately, is this picture I found of a life size GREYHOUND someone crocheted! I don't know that I would have the patience to do something like this, but heck then I would have to crochet a dog bed for each floor to go with the greyhound, and I don't think it's worth it.

What's NOT funny is that I am still hacking away with this cough/cold thing. I'm a mess!