An often passed but missed memorial to a motorcyclist killed in a bizzare drunk driving accident in Etna Pa

When you ride up Washington Street in Etna as a short cut thru Cherry City to Millvale right at the split  with Friday Road sits a memorial many who pass every day do not even realize is there

 It sits all alone deep in the hillside and when you stop to examine it you will find it is a memorial to a well liked biker who was killed on that spot 

 Alan Brockelbank known by his Biker Buddy's as Silver fox was out for a ride when he was killed by a fallen tree which struck him

 August 9th 2008.

While this is tragic what makes it even more horrifying is it was 100% avoidable because the tree came down when a drunk man in a pickup truck hit it.  

https://www.carsandracingstuff.com/library/articles/5719.php

The drunk driver paid his debt to society but Silver Fox will never be able to pursue his lifers goals  .

If there is one crime where i believe the punishment is not harsh enough it is drunk driving .

My You rest in Peace  Silver Fox and the piece of shit who killed you be tormented about it for the rest of his life.  

An Old Mysterious Building on property my friend bought leads to rediscovery of early navigation system

 My Friend bought a property out near Greater Pittsburgh Airport but on far edge of property sits a mysterious small red brick building  with signs warning FAA  property .

But what did it do ? Its obviously much older than airport which was originally built in 1952 .

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_International_Airport

 

well one thing lead to another and old memory of mine from Baldwin Boro has discovered it was part of an early aerial beacon system  that guided airplanes to airports im talking the old Original Allegheny county Airport in W. Mifflin 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegheny_County_Airport

 

  My childhood memories of 60s  i remembered a strange field of antennas and a green buildings in Baldwin Boro off Streets Run Road  which is now housing . site was similar to image below 

 

It then when all this started coming together along with large arrows on tops of old buildings 

Before modern Radar and GPS   Radio Beacons where used to direct planes as well as arrows on tops of buildings and on ground. 

https://www.airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/guiding-light-airway-beacon-tower

 

 

Even More Events

 

A Line has been Crossed in the Paranormal Community and it Stops Now

 Eric H. Altman of Greensburg has crossed a line no Paranormal Researcher should ever cross.

He is now banned from ever appearing in any Dark Matters platform  

He put up and then later took down a very Humiliating ,Disgusting and degrading meme of a local Paranormal Couple loved by many in the Tri State  .that was screen captured.

He claimed he was hacked but offered no apologies and if he was hacked how did the hacker know this couples names no sorry Eric no one is buying your line of BS  .

You owe them and the paranormal community and apology.

This shit stops today I am tired of hearing the personnel attacks  on Paranormal members and groups.

Just because some one has a different opinion on Bigfoot  being flesh and blood or  multidimensional

etc. They are entitled to there opinion. because we don't know and will not know till one is caught and examined. 

 

Believe it or not at one time you could stop along Pa Turnpike and attend Sunday Church Services

 Yes hard to believe but near New Baltimore Pa you could stop along the turnpike walk up the steps to St Johns Catholic  church and attend Sunday Services 

 For years the church had a non working clock in its tower which was then repaired and put into service by a local volunteer.

But until they expanded the turnpike to 3 lanes in both directions you could attend church till 2007 

 https://www.gribblenation.org/2017/03/the-church-of-turnpike-st-john-baptist.html

 

Upcoming Paranormal Events

 

A forgotten and little know Uprising and Racial Riot by Black Troops during WWII in Mercer County Pa.

 Yes its hard to believe during WWII troops raising there voices in revolt  in the US  but that's exactly what happened in Mercer county. during WWII

While the Port Chicago explosion and revolt is widely known  by black troops and a movie made about how Black troops where mistreated it was the same here .

 It started while troops where training and awaiting deployment to overseas assignments  .

at the Shenango Personnel Replacement depot which later became camp Reynolds  .

which was located near Transfer Pa. which is North of Lake Shenango

https://anothercenturyblog.wordpress.com/2020/10/29/the-shenango-depot-massacre/?sfnsn=mo

 

https://campreynolds.com/history-page/history-page.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Reynolds

 

It was a hot summer and Black Troops where badly mistreated at Camp Reynolds  especially at the PX Store where unlike White Troops which had full use and buying of items  Black Troops where allowed water and a moon pie that was it .

Blacks also where quick to be picked up on a minor Day Pass  violation  or other simple matters. made to wear leg chains when taken to a local restaurant for meals often to be eaten outside if southern officers where eating 

There was also only one small black only theater and if there was room in white theater they had to sit in the back.  

Full Jim Crowe laws where being enforced. It was Mid July 1943

Black Troops had enough and a melee  occurred when they tried to enter the whites only PX 

it was quickly put down by white and black MP who where on duty. 2 soldiers where taken to 

onsite confinement and when those already there on charges heard what happened they broke out and started the fight all over again. This time armed with weapons and in the end 1 black soldier was killed.

but estimates are as high as 35. 

 Rioters where quickly rounded up and sent overseas to fight and its if the incident never happened . very little information or pictures is available. because of this blemish on the US Army Command