Posted on 10/19/2008 7:42:55 PM PDT by CurlyBill
NEW YORK (AP) — It is a fitting backdrop for a ghost story: An old mansion on a secluded hilltop sits empty, save for a caretaker who lives upstairs. A no-trespassing sign is staked near the locked metal gates, and the stately grounds are covered in thistles.
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Ghost Ping!! This is the first of two Ghosty Pings tonight!!
“Ghost & Mr. Chicken” with Don Knotts.
Everybody - Volunteer & Donate.
Make sure we are all at local McCain HQ helping out with GOTV the weekend before the election. If you are retired - volunteer now. Ignore the polls.
Only in connection with things like mob slayings can one justify the use of adjectives like “grisly.”
I didn't do it, nobody saw me and you can't prove nothing!
Doesn't sound like that was enough to make sure he was dead and gone.
Scary ghostie bump.
Glad to see you CurlyBill.
The victims were first strangled, then stabbed and then finally drowned.
Google “bog people” to check it out.
In Braveheart, that is why Wallace died the way he did.
[hanged, disemboweled, drawn and quartered with his body parts sent to the “four corners” of the country and his head placed on the palace gate pike]
His killers wanted to tap into the ancient psyches of the Scots by reenacting a “killing of the sacred king” scenario to dissuade them from another attempt at rebellion.
Cool! I was looking for your Ghost pings!
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