SHAME ON THOSE WHO CRITICIZE FREE OR NEAR FREE PARANORMAL EVENTS
I am going to Piss off many in the Paranormal Community Too Bad . You have a problem come talk to me man to man about it .and don't slink away like a snake and talk behind my back.
I here plenty from those who do not like certain groups who hold free events because they want to see and hear Out of town Speaker and buy from fancy out of state vendors. Well that's fine and dandy then hold your own event . I don't care if you think the free events cheapens the Paranormal experience it does not .
There are plenty of Working Class Poor and Older Citizens on fixed incomes come to our events and Young Family's
Yes that's right Young Family's with kids who we should be encouraging to be the next paranormal enthusiasts.. How many family's do you see at higher paid events ?
Young working class family's can not afford $10 at the door a family of 5 that would be $50.00 that's half a days wages for a working poor family .Let alone cost of gas to get there and then try to even buy lunch . If the event is Free that $50.00 they would have spent can change a kids life at ours so maybe they can take a trinket or t shirt home and get a hot dog .
I have had several family's come up to me and seeing all the very expensive gear I have at my talks which I would not have if I did not do the high end troubleshooting I do and get paid well using it . Asking how they can as a family get more involved in the Paranormal experience on a working mans budget.
Its easy to say just go to this website and buy this and that . But when your having a hard time just feeding and clothing your family how do you afford extras .
I know what its like to grow up poor my dad was a mill worker and had a small Electrical business on side to provide for us . There where sometimes weeks I did not see my dad who worked swing shift Because he worked at mill then wired homes on side and not only did I have to overcome that I grew up with Learning and Physical Disabilities I also had to deal with as well and was constantly teased as a kid..
I never had brand name clothes and shoes like my class mates I wore K Mart clothes and Tokyo Toughie tennis shoes and work boots Still wear Walmart brand because brand Name clothes are just a name nothing more and few name brand clothes i do have where birthday gifts . I did not have mommy and daddy money to go to Concerts and other nice things I had to work for everything I had .
That's why unlike my class mates who did not further their education thinking they where going to work at the mill . I went into the trades I knew I could provide for myself and wife who also has disabilities . But when I came out of school the mills where going down in 70s and there where no jobs that's why I started My own business and struggled many years to make a go at it till A mobsters Son took notice of my work and helped me build up my business and how to run it properly because he liked what Electrical work I did for him and his friends
Now I understand there are expenses when running a show. There's hall rental ,banners advertising etc etc that's why you need to charge.
I also understand there are those who charge to speak that's fine I do not charge I very much enjoy what I do if i get an Honorarium payment to help with gas that's great if not no big deal
I run a business I understand overhead and why you have to charge a reasonable fee . But do not criticize those who can not afford a $10.00 or $20.00 or more fee Be glad your educated and not in their shoes .
With the way Inflation is tearing away at family budgets to feed their families I do not know how those on fixed budgets are surviving . Just look at all the homeless living in tents in downtown Pittsburgh.
I do Forensic Electrical Inspections on the side for insurance company's so I get to go to Million Dollar Homes to a poor families wooden company home in the Mon Valley with the cheapest policy they can afford I see struggles you do not. It is time to take off the Rose Colored Glasses and all work together if you do not want to see this great Hobby for many of us go away because of the infighting .
Don't like something then do something to change it and make the world a better place and stop the criticizing/
Photography Buffs , Videographers Movie makers or Industrial Spy's? who was Filming the Clairton Coke works and why
I was on my way to Uniontown and was across the river from the Massive Clairton Coke Works
in Clairton when I spotted something disturbing and notified the plants Security Force
There where 2 Chinese adult males with very sophisticated Camera equipment zoomed in and watching the coke works operations .
Now you see Amateur Photographers like myself all the time taking pictures like the one above its a neat thing to photograph . But we do not have $20k cameras with extra powerful zooms on them.
https://www.psp.pa.gov/Pages/See-Something-Send-Something.aspx
https://www.dhs.gov/see-something-say-something/reporting/pennsylvania
Now the strange part they had no vehicle which means they where dropped off by someone but who?
Its a very long walk to the nearest Bus Stop .
and usually anytime some one is taking photos they have a car and if they are professionals they have markings on their vehicles to indicate who they are and they dress like professional videographers
But not these 2 who threw up all kind of red flags . maybe there doing something innocent but better to be safe than sorry
Where they Industrial Spy's very well could be that's why I called the plant and let them know.
Its now secret that China has machinations on the USA
and our DOD and other agency's are warning of an Black Swan Attack.
like they say See something say Something . When it does not look right report it.
https://www.psp.pa.gov/Pages/See-Something-Send-Something.aspx
https://www.dhs.gov/see-something-say-something/reporting/pennsylvania
The last Soldier to die on Gettysburg Battle Field was 60 Years after the battle ITS TRUE ?
Yes as bizarre as that statement appears it is true .
Two active duty military members who where on duty crashed their military plane into one of the battlefields
In June of 1922 Capt. George Hamilton and Gunnery Sgt. George Martin where Flying a Dive Bomber
plane during Military Reenactments when it went down in the field of William Johns whose house still stands today .
the plane went down approx where best Western Hotel sits today.
The Infamous Gates Of Hell Near Uniontown
If you go down US 119 past Uniontown you will run across tent Church road and you would be best advised to keep running past it by locals who claim all kinds of Paranormal activity along it.
https://www.angelfire.com/pa5/ssweitzer/Page.html
But there is nothing but an Urban Legend Involved .. usual story a lonely single house where husband and wife killed each other etc etc ,
I take care of the radio Towers nearby for WMBS 590 AM in Fair Chance and have been down the road numerous times and nothing.
Now of course sit there at night of course you will hear noises it the rural country.
But then again nothing more than that its a total made up story. Probably to scare the local kids away
A forgotten and most unusual Street Car Bypass in Mt. Oliver section of Pittsburgh .
Street Cars where fantastic to ride when I was a kid in 60's but by early 70s they where all gone except in Sawmill Run Valley and Mt Lebanon area
However I remember many of the lines riding with my mom or grandmother as we went on trips to Dr. or visit relatives. Riding to Oakland on the 77/54 Flying Fraction as it was known and over to North side and even all the way out to to Kennywood with the family.
One of the strange little parts of the Street Car line was the 47 Arlington Car which went along Mt. Oliver Street and then used a skinny little slipway which was at a steep grade that took the car up and down from Arlington Ave .
Now the 51 Carrick came up 18th Street and connected with Mt, Oliver St. and why the trolley line was not connected there instead of having to use the slip way is one of those enduring mysteries.
was it the grade angle or property line issues ? Who Knows .One interesting note the slipway and track was owned by the Mt Oliver Incline which ran to the south side from Mt Oliver street and Warrington
But I remember riding the Arlington car down to the South Hills Junction
and always being fascinated by it as well as other trolley buffs and it was quite the thrill going down it .
No signs of it even exist today if you visit the site next to a Gas Station that sits on corner of Mt Oliver,Arlington and 18th streets you find a big dirt lot and houses are gone as well.
The Strange Thunder in the Allegheny Valley during Civil War
During the Civil War if you lived in the Allegheny River and Kiski River Valleys from Pittsburgh to Kittaning you could often here the sound of thunder yet the sky was clear.
What people where hearing was the testing of Cannons which where hauled up on flat cars on the Old Allegheny Valley Railroad
Which at one time went from Pittsburgh to Kittaning along the Right side of the Allegheny River it now stops at Arnold and is a short line industrial railroad owned by Box Car Express. at the time there where no railroads running on north side of river.
But just a mile or 2 further up the now abandoned railine where the Tarrentum Bridge is located is where they would test Cannons including the enormous for its time Rodman Cannon .
The Cannons were made at the time at Fort Pitt Foundry in Pittsburgh Strip district which was across from present day Heinz History Center
Which closed a decade after the Civil War.
Imagine sauteing along the Tarrentum side of the river on a sunny afternoon dressed in your best to watch across the river as the cannons where fired from the rail cars as they where too heavy to take on and off .
Had to be quite the experience. But testing of weapons has been going on in Pa. for a long time as Pa is considered the Armorer of the USA.,because all the defense contractors in Pa. and those who supply them
During WW2 Torpedoes produced in Mercer County where tested in the Pymatuning Reservoir
and at one time II- VI Corporation in Saxonburg would test the latest in infrared scope technology
at local gun ranges according to one of my gun collector friends
Since 9-11 happened most of the testing of defense contractors is kept out of public view but at one time that was a local attraction.
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