New Paranormal website!

Yes, this is shameless self-promotion from good 'ol Eric, but, too bad. LOL

I started a new website-
the Paranormal Evidence Archive.

I will be collecting pics, video, audio, and weblinks on ANY and all paranormal activities. Meaning, not only Ghosts, but Bigfoot, Faeries, UFO's, and anything else, well, PARA-normal. ;) Don't worry, I'll sift thru things personally and decide if they should be posted or not. I can spot fakes or "iffy" pics pretty well. (20+ years of digital photo editing and photography experience)

If YOU have any pics, video or audio, please email it to me at ercinc1@gmail.com
I WILL give credit for any evidence I collect. Please include time & place along with it. If you PERSONALLY didnt obtain the evidence, PLEASE include where you DID get it from.

ALSO- if you have any favorite paranormal sites on the net, send me the link- I'll give you credit.

If you are a member of ANY local (Indiana-ish) Paranormal group and would like to link to my site- send me your url and I will blog it in and promote you!

Why am I doing this? well, I have too many friends across TONS of different groups, that I could never personally join just ONE, so I want to be the "hub" (on the web, at least, without being in a silly "webring" LOL). And, I see a lot of good evidence on different group sites, but it takes a lot of time and searching on the web to find them all, I wanna help narrow that time down a bit.

Feel free to pass and post this email on to anyone or any group who might be interested as well- THANX!!

Eric Craig
http://p-e-archive.blogspot.com

The Haunted Story Inn

Well, we had a great vacation! Yeah, I know the last thing you wanna hear is how someone else had a good time on days off from work that you don't have. Well, at least I'm not busting out the slide projector. :P

Friday (July 25th) A.M., we left home and drove to Richmond Indiana to drop the kid of at Grandmas. Yaay! Mommy & Daddy time! LOL
We then took off for French Lick, Indiana. It took us a good 3 hrs to get there, but the GPS we borrowed from Kim's parents helped. Kim is in a bellydance troupe, and they were performing at an outdoor festival a few miles west of French lick. We busted out the tent and camped there until Sunday morning. (it was TOO damn hot to camp, in case you were wondering). Kim was awesome in her dance routine!

Sunday we packed up, and drove up to Nashville, IN. (Just east of Bloomington, in Brown County.) There we stayed at the haunted Story Inn (pic above). I HIGHLY recommend it if you want a little out-of-the-way bed-and-breakfast, but still near enough to drive for all kinds of shopping and Brown County activities. They have kept all of the exterior 'old-tyme' decor, but the interior accommodations are excellent! They also have a famous 5-star restaurant on the ground floor. I know it doesnt look like it from the outside, but this is "fine dining" at some of it's best. We had scallops the size of hockey pucks! Most of the food they serve (except for the seafood and tropical fruits) are either grown in their own huge botanical gardens out back, or bought locally- INCLUDING the bison and chicken eggs!
As for being haunted- Kim and I stayed in the "Blue Lady" room, supposedly the room with the most activity from several of the ghosts in the area. Honestly, we didn't get bad feelings, nor did we see anything the entire time- HOWEVER, something strange did happen on our second day. We came back from an early dinner in Nashville, and decided to take a nap before we woke up and tried to contact the "Blue Lady" to see if anything would happen. Suddenly, a loud CLICK-CLACK came from inside our room while we were napping on the bed- it startled both of us awake. For the next half-hour I went around the room, rapping and dropping items to try and reproduce the sound we heard. Finally I hit on it- In the room, there is an old vanity with a huge mirror on it. The vanity has a glass top to it. On the glass top (for decor) they have an old time silver hairbrush and handmirror set lying there. When i picked up the hairbrush and dropped it back on the glass from the height of about a half-inch, i got the exact noise we heard! (Interestingly the handmirror when dropped made a different sound). I shook the vanity to see if it was wobbly, but no- it was very sturdy. The glass top itself wasn't loose either. I even tried jumping on the floor near it- but nothing happened. Only when I picked up the hairbrush about a half-inch and dropped it did I get the sound. Nashville was beautiful, and it was fun shopping and all, but the haunted Story Inn is what I'll remember most!
Kim and I are definately going back! Anyone wanna get a group together and do some ghost-hunting on a 3-day weekend sometime???

P*rn in 5 clicks?

I truly believe that porn is 5 clicks (or less) from ANY website, even religious ones. Now, I'm all for the sexual enjoyment of consenting adults to do and see what they want. But I don't want it coming to MY email box. If I wanna see it, I'll go look for it.

Who else wants to see an end to spam? And I believe it can happen. All we have to do is start a national "do-not-email" list, kinda like the don't call one. An advertiser just has to run that email list thru their bots before spamming, and bingo- no more spam for you if you're on the list.

I'm not naive, i do realise that there's ways to send emails and mask who it's from. This is where the law comes into play. MAKE all ISP's and the like directly responsible for any spam emanating from their servers. They will whine "well, we cant control what people send out!"- no they cant, but they can discover who sent what message -if the police came to them with a spam message, they can find the person who sent it, because they have to be logged on and registered with their ISP to send it, and then make THEM responsible.

Ok- what about the people who bounce ISP's? then EASY- make the company who's product/services being advertised responsible as well- and then shut them down for unsolicited mailing.

Now, a lot of people will scream "privacy rights!" and "anonymity will be gone!" However, if my daughter opens up a email in our family email account, and suddenly t*ts or p*ssy pops out at her in a photo or "click here for penis enhancement" link takes her directly to a site with not only penis enhancing, but links to other porn sites?, that kind of ad invasion is WORSE than an annoying telephone call during dinner- so WHY don't we have a "do not email" list????????

And also- wouldn't that be the advertiser allowing a minor to see pornography? Isn't that illegal already???- how does the spammer know the person at the other end of the email is 1- over 18(21), and 2- WANTS to see it? Why is this still legal??? Bars have to physically card people because of age-restrictions. Why do porn-spammers not have to? (I'm not talking about the "click her if over 18" websites- I'm talking about the porn that comes DIRECTLY to your inbox!)

And no- not all spam filters will catch all of that kind of crap delivered to your mailbox, so the companies cannot claim that I'm "not doing everything in my power to filter our email", when it doesn't work that way.

I cant tell every single ad company in the world that I want to opt out when there are new ones every day. DO NOT COME TO ME IF I DON'T ASK FOR IT. There needs to be a world-wide opt-OUT list.

simple as that.
Who's with me?