Where did my Moms Sewing Pins can go? The strange phenomena of things disappearing and re-appearing . But this time with a twist
Have you ever had an object disappear then reappear several days later despite looking everywhere
they say the spirits are at work
https://www.liveabout.com/what-is-the-disappearing-object-phenomenon-2595929
https://www.yourtango.com/self/disappearing-object-phenomenon
http://amasci.com/weird/unusual/objs.html
My Mom made many of the clothes we wore when I was young in the 1960's she was quite the seamstress even making a wedding dress for a neighbors daughter.
But one day a small round metal typewriter ribbon can she kept her pins in on the sewing machine side board disappeared into thin air
We looked high and low could not find it.
Now I had toys like my Match Box Cars disappear and found out neighborhood kids who we befriended had stolen them yea some friends they stole several items over the years till we said no more coming over to our house to play. . So it was likely they where swiped for what ever reason.
So a few days later my mom has this very weird dream , Grandfather Markowitz was standing in front of her and holding her can of pins . he kept saying to her why have you dishonored me?
She kept asking him what she did but there was no answer. She told my dad and us about the dream and we al thought nothing of it.
Mean while my Grandfather Markowitz had Passed that summer previous and my dad paid a Memorial Maker in E. Liberty to put a grave stone on my grandfathers grave , but the place never did my dad and others got ripped off.So my Dad went to Sears of all places and got him a new one and they placed it as winter was coming in . It was approx 2 months after my moms pins went missing we decided to go to to the cemetery with weather now making it possible and to my dads Horror they had placed the Tombstone on the wrong grave .
The Grave stone makers where contacted and they quickly corrected the embarrassing situation we went out a couple days later to find the stone was now on the right grave. When we came home there on the sewing machine where my mom had left the pins was the can of pins.
Was this divine intervention ? a message from the beyond ? A scientific phenomena ? who knows
An uprising and Riot by Draft Dodgers in Central Pa during the Civil War Now mostly forgotten
As the Civil War dragged on more and more men decided to either dodge the draft or desert the Union Army such was the case of Thomas Adams of Knox Clearfield county in the center of Pa.
https://www.visitclearfieldcounty.org/parks_cabins_bloody_knox
Who had a cabin in Knox Twp.
He became Martyr of shorts killed by union troops when they got wind that he and large group of resisters where at his cabin .having a party
The resisters where causing problems all over the county including looting and the union army had enough when 500 men where drafted in Clearfield and only 150 showed.
When a sheriff was shot by resisters working as Loggers enough was enough
on December 13 1864 Union troops went in search of the resisters and it would be known as the Bloody Knox incident and would see Thomas Adams and Union Solider Edgar L Reed laying dead and 18 arrested and eventually 150 captured and incarcerated .
https://www.visitclearfieldcounty.org/parks_cabins_bloody_knox
Now Knox was not the only incident as their where riots in city's all over the northeast but Bloody Knox
saw some of the worst of it .
A long forgotten location of early settlers homestead in Baldwin Boro Pa.
The walls where still standing when I was a kid in 60s along Glass Run Road a 1- 1/2 story early frontier stone house which was built into a hill side to prevent Indian attacks. From the rear all traces of it now long gone except for couple foundation stones .Why it was not preserved I will never know but the Pittsburgh Region has a way of just destroying its history.
I contacted the Baldwin historical group for info on this pioneer home but they where of no help at all.
As you wind down the road way from Baldwin Fire Dept about half way down you round one of the bends will see a nice split level home with a miniature barn with Mail pouch tobacco sign painted on it
Back behind where the pickup is parked if you go back into the hillside you will find whats left of the
one time pioneer home a couple foundation stones.
They can be seen better during winter time. But as Always Remember this is private property if you have a desire to further check it out. .
Don't know if the home owner even knows the home was back there. stopped a couple times but no one was home. .
The Secret Fur Coat Storage Business which operated quietly in a Pittsburgh Oakland Neighborhood for many years
Back in the early 1900s into the 1980s before all the synthetic Coats and when women where more into wearing stylish clothing . With the harsh winters of Pittsburgh many wore Fur Coats and or stoles
Those during summer time who could afford it would pay to have them safely stored in a cold storage vault to help preserve them from drying out and deteriorating .
The Numerous Dry Cleaning Stores that where around before Non Wrinkling easy clean business clothing came out had signs saying. " Please allow Us to safely store your fur Items this summer in our secure vaults "
Also Furriers who sold Fur Coats would offer summer storage as well. At one time downtown Pittsburgh had several fur stores now their is only one.
Since fur has fallen out of favor due to easier to care for fabrics and animal abuse activists
Of course not every store had a vault it was a gimmick just like all the Drug Stores that all developed film Before they acquired Mini Labs.
The stores 3rd party contracted it out.
In the case of Furs it was the Pittsburgh Fur Cold Storage Company
They had this very old Dark green box truck with no name on it and a yellow sign on back doors warning that a BABACO Alarm System was in use .
A lot of people thought the signs where a joke but this is a very old line prestigious company that designed and protected valuable loads around the USA and world
This truck quietly went around Pittsburgh neighborhood shops picking up the furs then
ended up backing into a buildings basement from a back alley at the corner of Baum and Bigelow Boulevard . Now a Real estate office where all signs of the garage are gone now just a glass entry way
but you can see how it sloped downward into basement
Once in the garage they where unloaded and Furs where carefully examined repaired if requested put into protective sleeve or box and stored in a vault with the hundreds of other coats .
I only knew about this place because I worked for Holmes Protection in 1980 for a short time before starting my own alarm business out of disgust how they ran theirs.
I was with my assigned trainer Stanley that warm summer night when we pulled up to the building which had a furrier upstairs who sold fur coats .With no idea what went on down below .
We walked inside and where lead to the very large basement with several vault's where we repaired the burglar alarm system that protected them overnight .
It was one of many Hidden businesses operating in the back alleys of Pittsburgh quietly minding its business and providing a needed service.
That was till late 80s one late afternoon 2 men stole the fur truck as it was sitting outside the garage and got away with some of the furs.
Like the Purolator Armored car garage and vault robbery they tried to keep it hushed up but they could not and the cat was out of the bag .
But by then Fur industry was on its way out and by the early to mid 90s the business appears to no longer exist.
An extensive internet search has yet to provide details of the theft or the business .
But its one of those unique crimes which happened in Pittsburgh area. Now long forgotten.
Hopefully i will eventually find more information and be able to present it.
So what was the large White Owl I saw along Allegheny River Blvd. Is this what others say was the Moth Man ?
2 summers ago I was driving down Allegheny river Blvd. toward Verona and just passing the Verona Shops when a very large white owl came out of no where and landed on a tall tree stump it was mostly white with a very long wingspan almost 4 ft hanging down.
It looked very much like this white Arctic Owl I slowed down to get a picture and it took off.
Now OK so I saw a big white owl no big deal only there is a big problem .
They are not native to here . They are in very northern parts of Canada and the Arctic.
not Pennsylvania.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowy_owl
So was this bird just off course or is its some ones pet they let loose? did it escape from an Aviary? Who knows but if this big owl is what people in WV saw this at night I can see it being confused as a moth man
Because they are not suppose to exist around here. but other strange and exotic birds have shown up here after storms knocked them off track so maybe that's the case with this owl and it made its way back to Canada .
Whatever it was it was magnificent.
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