Interested in the Paranormal If you live in western Pa and have the time 2 great events are coming to Hill View Manor
Some upcoming Events at Hill View Manor you may even see me there speaking on crossing to the other side while going thru stage IV Colon Cancer
Animal Intrusion , Rouge Employee or Poltergeist Possibly all 3 a very strange occurrence at a closed for season business in New Castle Pa.
Some days you have to play Detective in my security business.
Take the other evening after a heavy snow storm in New Castle Pa. area a customer of mine a retail swimming pool business had both its Glass Break and motion sensor trip.
I got on scene in morning due to all the snow to find over a foot of snow totally covering the lot thick enough I could not drive in.
I trudge thru the snow and find the door is locked but when I enter I find 3 trash cans tipped and tubes of Lube Tube a gasket grease all over the floor.
OK so I have a small animal attacking a grease product ??
Very strange animal would attack these tubes stranger yet I thought was the caps missing what animal takes the caps off and carefully removes a product from a open container .
Plus with all the snow and no tracks where or how did the animal get in.
At first I thought OK we have a rouge employee coming in when store is checked every other week and sniffing the glue making it look like this was work of an animal.
( very hard to get decent temporary seasonal employees for any business any more ) and I had this happen at another business but I was still not ruling animals out
So I changed the locks for owner and I would check store in a week and no one else would as we could tell when alarm is armed and disarmed But just to be certain I set poison bait all over the store.
maybe it is an animal.
But if it was animals how are they getting in and just how did the large piece of shelving bracket get on floor which caused the glass break to go off.
Even the cops where kind of creeped out what was going on like it was a Poltergeist in this store and since it one time served as State Police under cover division office well anything was possible. with such strange goings on and no trace who or what was doing it. If you have ever studied the Paranormal ou would be creeped out too.
They recommended a Trail Cam which I installed works great for people but not small rodents saw me coming and going and nothing else. I set the tubes container on floor filled with tubes and poison to prevent alarm motion going off and leave.
So a week goes by I walk in and once again cans all knocked over Lube Tubes all over floor and all the poison I put down gone it had been consumed. It was then I found when I walked back to little repair shop that ceiling tiles had fallen and there I found several dead squirrels from Rat and Mouse Poison I had put down.
Apparently they had been living in the building all winter having got in thru a missing vent in attic.
thats why there was no prints in snow.
OK case solved not a rouge employee or a poltergeist but squirrels. So just to be sure I brought the bitten tubes home put them in back yard where I feed a dozen squirrels and sure enough they where immediately after them. I have contacted the manufacturer who finds whole thing amusing but they can not answer why they are attracted to product as nothing of a food consumable is in product.
Take the other evening after a heavy snow storm in New Castle Pa. area a customer of mine a retail swimming pool business had both its Glass Break and motion sensor trip.
I got on scene in morning due to all the snow to find over a foot of snow totally covering the lot thick enough I could not drive in.
I trudge thru the snow and find the door is locked but when I enter I find 3 trash cans tipped and tubes of Lube Tube a gasket grease all over the floor.
Very strange animal would attack these tubes stranger yet I thought was the caps missing what animal takes the caps off and carefully removes a product from a open container .
Plus with all the snow and no tracks where or how did the animal get in.
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| just my foot prints |
( very hard to get decent temporary seasonal employees for any business any more ) and I had this happen at another business but I was still not ruling animals out
So I changed the locks for owner and I would check store in a week and no one else would as we could tell when alarm is armed and disarmed But just to be certain I set poison bait all over the store.
maybe it is an animal.
But if it was animals how are they getting in and just how did the large piece of shelving bracket get on floor which caused the glass break to go off.
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| black bracket which fell on floor |
They recommended a Trail Cam which I installed works great for people but not small rodents saw me coming and going and nothing else. I set the tubes container on floor filled with tubes and poison to prevent alarm motion going off and leave.
So a week goes by I walk in and once again cans all knocked over Lube Tubes all over floor and all the poison I put down gone it had been consumed. It was then I found when I walked back to little repair shop that ceiling tiles had fallen and there I found several dead squirrels from Rat and Mouse Poison I had put down.
Apparently they had been living in the building all winter having got in thru a missing vent in attic.
thats why there was no prints in snow.
OK case solved not a rouge employee or a poltergeist but squirrels. So just to be sure I brought the bitten tubes home put them in back yard where I feed a dozen squirrels and sure enough they where immediately after them. I have contacted the manufacturer who finds whole thing amusing but they can not answer why they are attracted to product as nothing of a food consumable is in product.
Black Panthers ? Mountain Lions in Pa. ? Yes there have been rumored sightings for many years.
Were they house hold pets released int the wild or people just misidentifying big feral house cats there has been persistent rumors of large mountain lion size cats and black panthers. as recently as this year of a black panther along Indiana Road in Penn Hills which a freind of mine clams to have seen a very large black type cat bolt across the road and up a tree.
So whats the truth?
http://hoothollow.com/Question%20of%20the%20Month/January-February%202012%20Is%20there%20a%20Puma%20Conspiracy.html
So many weird sightings of animals and creatures in Pa. its hard to keep track of them all.
that there are several groups formed in Pa over the years who study the phenomena.
So what is going on are there really Big foots and black Pumas and Mountain Lions in Pa;s woods
ask any hunter and many have strange stories of things they have encountered in the woods and while experts are quick to dismiss sightings as mis-identifications Im not so willing to knowing just how thick and deep and dark our forests are in this state and having my self seen animals moving about at night which are unusually large . Like the Squirrel I have in my back yard thats as big as a ground hog.
So until some one kills one and brings t forth or can provide solid photo evidence it will be just a wild tale or is it.
So whats the truth?
So many weird sightings of animals and creatures in Pa. its hard to keep track of them all.
that there are several groups formed in Pa over the years who study the phenomena.
ask any hunter and many have strange stories of things they have encountered in the woods and while experts are quick to dismiss sightings as mis-identifications Im not so willing to knowing just how thick and deep and dark our forests are in this state and having my self seen animals moving about at night which are unusually large . Like the Squirrel I have in my back yard thats as big as a ground hog.
So until some one kills one and brings t forth or can provide solid photo evidence it will be just a wild tale or is it.
A totally made up Urban Legend about a City of Clairton Pa neighborhood
The City of Clairton has gone thru a rough time like many of the Mon Valley community's and you will find entire areas of empty homes. One such section in the Wilson section of Clairton known as Lincoln Way .Which interested a writer Johnny Joo who wrote a made up story about a monster haunting it.
and how the monster had scared away the residents . The street is now totally abandoned and shut off to traffic .
and how the monster had scared away the residents . The street is now totally abandoned and shut off to traffic .
The whole story of any kind of a monster haunting this area is total nonsense . I know many who lived in the area and no one ever talked of a monster . The reason the homes are abandoned is because people moved away to find jobs elsewhere in the country. Plus these homes in particular where bought out for the stalled Mon Valley Expressway . Many a time I was up and down this road and never saw or heard a thing.,other than to see how it was deteriorating like so many other areas in the valley. The reason so much was left behind is because some of the people where elderly and moved to Nursing facility and did not need to bring things with them and they left stuff behind. See this all the time in community's an elderly person whose children live out of town gets sick goes to hospital and never comes home children come to town take what they want and leave the rest even see meals left on tables uneaten plenty of homes all over the area like this sitting abandoned and taxes and utility never paid and will never be fixed up due to all the tax and utility liens on them.
I have done work for realty company's and you should see all the stuff left behind by apartment renters especially college students when I go to do repairs and check units conditions.So how these homes where left does not surprise me. as far as cars left probably have blown engines transmissions etc. or could belong to some one in jail. My mom had a car sitting for 9 years across from her place after owner was sent to jail and city finally towed it.
I have done work for realty company's and you should see all the stuff left behind by apartment renters especially college students when I go to do repairs and check units conditions.So how these homes where left does not surprise me. as far as cars left probably have blown engines transmissions etc. or could belong to some one in jail. My mom had a car sitting for 9 years across from her place after owner was sent to jail and city finally towed it.
The houses were torn up by thieves looking for scrap to sell or old stained glass windows which could be stolen and doors and mantle pieces anything of any use was stripped from the homes by thieves not some made up monster.
But now that the whole made up story has hit the internet its being taken for gospel truth just like the totally fabricated story of the Gongalier mansion on Pittsburgh's North Side and the Wood Chopper in Penn Hills.
I recently saw some one post about a house with Address of 666 on Rodi Road in Penn Hills and they wondered what went on there. Again total nonsense there some ones imagination.
Yes ghost story's are fun but if your going to publish them as fact instead of legend you are doing the
paranormal community a disfavor.
Note : The entire block of homes has been torn down and leveled with No Trespassing Signs posted
in 2018
Note : The entire block of homes has been torn down and leveled with No Trespassing Signs posted
in 2018
Who switched the Account File at a Local police station that lead to police and fire being sent to wrong buildings?
Back before 911 in early 80's and local police depts dispatched there own officers one prominent community in the South Hills of Pittsburgh Bethel Park maintained their own Digital Communicator receiver to receive and dispatch alarms.
It was a high end Silent Knight Receiver and a alarm company AAA Alarm ( No relation to AAA Road Service )installed and maintained it for them Unfortunately AAA alarm did not have a very good reputation and was known for very poor installations.
I had a customer Larry Fulton who owned 3 Foodland Super Markets which had their alarms monitored at the Bethel Park Police Station.
System worked extremely well and police where always dispatched any time any of the alarms went off.
But then one day the now long gone South Park Food Land was broken into and meat and cigarettes stolen and Police where never dispatched.
After checking the system over I found out that the Acron Digital Communicator set for 3/1 format inside the Moose Panel had been tampered with .
At first it was thought and employee in the store messed with it but no one was ever charged and since it was a small burglary .
A few months after this happened the owner of AAA sold his company to Holmes Protection in Pittsburgh whose parent company was based in NYC.
I get a call from Larry one day to tell me Bethel Park was not getting alarm system when he checked it which he started doing weekly after the first incident.
I went to the store and again found wiring to communicator was tampered with but this time a service tech from Holmes had been in the store working in panel with out mine or Larry's permission.
Needless to say Holmes Protection got a registered letter from me about what was going on and all the stuff that was going on at Pittsburgh office including when I worked there.
I corrected the wiring and tested it to Bethel Park PD he said he did not get a signal . I tried it again and no signal . I put my telephone butt set on phone line heard communicator calling so I knew it was talking to receiver . I asked dispatcher did any other alarms come in and he said yes Presbyterian church came in twice. I asked him what was the account number he said #789 I said wait a minute thats South Park Food Land Alarm account number. Apparently some one switched out the log book with account numbers. Bethel Park PD launched an immediate investigation I got a call from a Sgt. who got my information and after it was found some one was fooling around with log book either by accident or deliberate they took immediate actions to prevent it from happening again .I do not believe an officer was involved but a holmes employee
We never had another issue after I found out the log book account numbers had been switched around which explained why alarms where not being received and why fire dept or police where being sent to non exsistant alarms.
When Allegheny 911 center was formed many depts no longer received alarms at their stations any more and its now handled by 3rd party monitoring centers and panels have communicators built into their boards preventing miswiring issues.
Holmes protection in Pittsburgh after Holmes Corporate came into town and saw how bad the operation had become sold the branch to Westec which is now Vector who cleaned house and straighten out the former holmes branch.
It was a high end Silent Knight Receiver and a alarm company AAA Alarm ( No relation to AAA Road Service )installed and maintained it for them Unfortunately AAA alarm did not have a very good reputation and was known for very poor installations.
I had a customer Larry Fulton who owned 3 Foodland Super Markets which had their alarms monitored at the Bethel Park Police Station.
System worked extremely well and police where always dispatched any time any of the alarms went off.
But then one day the now long gone South Park Food Land was broken into and meat and cigarettes stolen and Police where never dispatched.
After checking the system over I found out that the Acron Digital Communicator set for 3/1 format inside the Moose Panel had been tampered with .
At first it was thought and employee in the store messed with it but no one was ever charged and since it was a small burglary .
A few months after this happened the owner of AAA sold his company to Holmes Protection in Pittsburgh whose parent company was based in NYC.
I get a call from Larry one day to tell me Bethel Park was not getting alarm system when he checked it which he started doing weekly after the first incident.
I went to the store and again found wiring to communicator was tampered with but this time a service tech from Holmes had been in the store working in panel with out mine or Larry's permission.
Needless to say Holmes Protection got a registered letter from me about what was going on and all the stuff that was going on at Pittsburgh office including when I worked there.
I corrected the wiring and tested it to Bethel Park PD he said he did not get a signal . I tried it again and no signal . I put my telephone butt set on phone line heard communicator calling so I knew it was talking to receiver . I asked dispatcher did any other alarms come in and he said yes Presbyterian church came in twice. I asked him what was the account number he said #789 I said wait a minute thats South Park Food Land Alarm account number. Apparently some one switched out the log book with account numbers. Bethel Park PD launched an immediate investigation I got a call from a Sgt. who got my information and after it was found some one was fooling around with log book either by accident or deliberate they took immediate actions to prevent it from happening again .I do not believe an officer was involved but a holmes employee
We never had another issue after I found out the log book account numbers had been switched around which explained why alarms where not being received and why fire dept or police where being sent to non exsistant alarms.
When Allegheny 911 center was formed many depts no longer received alarms at their stations any more and its now handled by 3rd party monitoring centers and panels have communicators built into their boards preventing miswiring issues.
Holmes protection in Pittsburgh after Holmes Corporate came into town and saw how bad the operation had become sold the branch to Westec which is now Vector who cleaned house and straighten out the former holmes branch.
A little known tragedy at a Cannonsburg Pa Opera house which left 26 dead from a Panicked Stampede
It has been a law for many years in many states that it is illegal to yell FIRE in a crowded theater when it is not on fire. Anti Panic laws as they are known are in place for good reason after numerous tragedy's resulted in people stampeding to escape a venue and people being crushed to death after some one would yell fire or bomb etc to get a rise out of the crowd.
This case of a false fire alert played out with deadly results on a warm Saturday evening Aug 26 1911 in the Morgan Opera House in Canonsburg.
Home to singing greats Bobby Vinton and Perry Como you would never expect such a tragedy that would tally 26 dead would have played out in such a small town but it did.
The theater was playing several serial features when one of the film strips caught fire in the Projection Booth and the projectionists quickly where able to remove the flaming film and stomp it out . But in the mean time a young man passing the open door to the booth saw the flames and yelled
FIRE a panic crowd quickly ran to the single steep staircase and the pushing and shoving would result in the deaths of 26 men woman and children.
As there had been several well publisied fire tragdys in opera house around the county at that time
This may well have been what set people off in such a panic but we will never know as will we never know the name of the young man who yelled fire when there was not one.
The opera house would close and be turned into apartments and you would never suspect such events ever took place riding by it today.
This case of a false fire alert played out with deadly results on a warm Saturday evening Aug 26 1911 in the Morgan Opera House in Canonsburg.
Home to singing greats Bobby Vinton and Perry Como you would never expect such a tragedy that would tally 26 dead would have played out in such a small town but it did.
The theater was playing several serial features when one of the film strips caught fire in the Projection Booth and the projectionists quickly where able to remove the flaming film and stomp it out . But in the mean time a young man passing the open door to the booth saw the flames and yelled
FIRE a panic crowd quickly ran to the single steep staircase and the pushing and shoving would result in the deaths of 26 men woman and children.
As there had been several well publisied fire tragdys in opera house around the county at that time
This may well have been what set people off in such a panic but we will never know as will we never know the name of the young man who yelled fire when there was not one.
http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/46659
https://books.google.com/books?id=Bepp6zrcI0gC&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&dq=morgan+opera+house+disaster&source=bl&ots=SElNm5gCBK&sig=iea8H_hwpzu4AzYrGROUccJ3YEQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjB2Y-G-bPKAhUGPz4KHUzmBdkQ6AEIQTAJ#v=onepage&q=morgan%20opera%20house%20disaster&f=false
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