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Monday, November 30, 2015

Strange Custom....Strange Trial


After the invention of daguerreotype photography, it became popular in the Victorian era to memorialize people through cheaper, higher quality photographs instead of expensive and not so lifelike paintings. Because of the high childhood and infant mortality rate, this was a significant way to remember lost family members. In many cases, this was the only photograph that depicted the entire family together.

This brings us to a strange lawsuit described in the Bedford Weekly Mail on May 31, 1901:

A criminal libel case was set for trial Wednesday before Judge Stephenson. The complaint is as follows:

"Cleopatra Saladee, being duly sworn upon her oath says: that Newton E. Ennis on the 14th day of February, 1901, was a photographer engaged in the business of photography in the city of Bedford, Lawrence county, Indiana. That on the 12th day of February, 1909, one George Saladee, a minor son of William Saladee and this affiant departed this life. That after the death of said deceased his said father and mother, who are husband and wife, procured the services of said Newton E. Ennis, photographer, aforesaid, to take a picture of said deceased, to wit: a photograph, for them, the said parents, and the said Newton E. Ennis did then and there make a photograph of said deceased. That said photograph was unsatisfactory, inaccurate and untrue, for which reason and other lawful reasons, the said parents failed to accept said photograph from said photographer and pay for the same: that said Ennis on the 25th day of April 1901 at the county of Lawrence and state of Indiana, then and there contriving and unlawfully, wickedly and maliciously intending to injure, vilify and prejudice said William Saladee and this affiant and to deprive them of their good name, credit and reputation and to bring them into great contempt, scandal, infamy and disgrace and with intent in like manner to blacken and vilify the memory of said deceased and to scandalize and disgrace his relatives and friends, did then and there unlawfully and maliciously write and publish and cause to be written and published a false, scandalous, malicious and defamatory libel of and concerning said parents and concerning the relatives and friends of said deceased in the words following, to wit: "Deadbeat," which said false, scandalous, malicious and defamatory words, the said Ennis then and there unlawfully and maliciously did write over and upon said photograph of said deceased person and did then and there unlawfully and maliciously place and post said photograph, upon which said words then and there appeared in a public place to wit: on a certain building on J street in said city, where the same was conspicuous and open to view by all persons pass and repassing on said street where the same was seen by divers persons passing and repassing on said street. That said libelous words were then and there unlawfully intended to charge and be understood as charging and were then and there by the divers persons who saw the same, understood to charge and mean, that said William Saladee and this affiant and other relatives of said deceased were irresponsible, dishonorable, dishonest deadbeats and not worthy of trust or confidence."

Prosecutor Zaring represents the State, J.H. Underwood the defendant. The matter was to come up Wednesday at 2 p.m., in Court house, before Judge Stephenson. The penalty, if guilty, is a fine of $5 to $1,000, and imprisonment not to exceed six months.

I found bits and pieces of the trial account, which reported that the State of Indiana:

"was unable to establish the fact that a photo of the dead boy Saladee had been exhibited with an offensive charge written on it, as alleged by Mrs. Saladee in her complaint. Three witnesses who saw a photo on the front of the Ennis gallery with writing on it were unable to identify it as the picture of Saladee, and a fourth witness who saw Saladee's photo on the same building saw no writing on it at all. On motion of the State a verdict of acquittal was rendered by the jury."

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'Colonial Ghosts' Williamsburg: The Lightfoot House


Many visit Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia to get a sense of history by seeing original buildings from the former colony along with reenactors dressed in eighteenth-century clothing. Founded in 1639, this city has stood the test of time and remains a popular place to live and visit. Like so many other places with a long history, tales of real ghost stories have emerged.

The Lightfoot House

For almost three-hundred years, the Lightfoot House stood nestled in the heart of Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. As one of the 88 original buildings in Williamsburg, tourist and locals visit the Lightfoot House to enjoy the structure’s authentic eighteenth century architecture.

The Lightfoot family first lived in this home between 1740 and 1838. Since its restoration in 1940, many prominent guests have stayed here including foreign heads of state and celebrities. Guests and workers at the house often experience strange phenomena.

Frequently, maids who neatly make the bed, turn around to find the sheets and covers thrown on the floor. On one such occasion, the cleaning lady froze in shock when she saw the figure of a man dressed in eighteenth-century clothing. The maid insisted she had seen a ghost, and quit that same day. Could this man be a member of the Lightfoot family who used to reside here in the 1700s?

The Lightfoot House isn’t the only place in Williamsburg where people experience paranormal activity. The Williamsburg Public Gaol has also been rumored to be haunted. The Public Gaol served as Williamsburg’s jail from 1707 to 1910. Within the walls of the Gaol, thieves, runaway slaves, Tories, and spies served out their sentences. The jail’s infamous guests also included the pirate Blackbeard’s crew, who stayed here while they awaited trial and execution for looting ships off of the coast.

Today visitors can tour the Public Gaol in the daytime or at night during a haunted ghost tour of Colonial Williamsburg. Those visiting the former jail experience strange noises. On one such occasion, a guest noticed a ball and chain hanging on the door. Suddenly, the ball and chain began to sway entirely on its own. Perhaps some of the prisoners are still serving out a life sentence beyond the grave.

In another part of Williamsburg, stands one of the most haunted buildings in town, The Peyton Randolph House. Built in 1715, the Georgian style mansion became home to the prominent political figure, Peyton Randolph, who became famous for serving as the first president of the Continental Congress. Many famous revolutionary figures stepped foot inside this house including Peyton’s cousin, Thomas Jefferson.

During the war, the home doubled as a hospital for wounded soldiers. It seems many people met tragic ends at the Peyton Randolph house. In the 19th century a young boy fell to his death after climbing up a tree. Later a young girl died here after falling out of a second floor window. A former confederate soldier also died from illness while attending the College of William & Mary, Later in the 18th century, two men killed each other after getting into a heated argument.

Of course, a place where so many lived and died tends to attract paranormal activity. In fact, while Revolutionary General, Marquis de Lafayette, stayed in the home in 1824, he reported waking up suddenly to the feeling of a hand on his shoulder and the sound of strange voices. Later guests have witnessed seeing the glowing figure of a man, heavy boots trudging through the house, or the mysterious movement of furniture.

Do the former residents of Colonial Williamsburg continue to haunt this restored historical town? Come find out for yourself… if you dare!

I wish to thank Colonial Ghosts for this blog post. We have entered into a partnership with Colonial Ghosts - awarded 'Best of Williamsburg Tour Operator 2015' and noted as one of the Top 10 Ghost Tours in the US. They also have a blog at Tours, History, and Ghost Sightings Blog. I've been to Williamsburg several times (yeah, I'm an American / British history nut)...but I will definitely take the Colonial Ghost tour the next time I'm there.

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Saturday, November 28, 2015

Daily 2 Cents: Glowing Cube UFO / Ape-Like Being -- Missing Time...Possible Abduction -- Red-Eyed Beings Across the Street


Glowing Cube UFO / Ape-Like Being

Earlham, Iowa - 2002-07-04 - 12:00AM: Me and my dad randy were sitting on the roof of our house watching fireworks, when the porch lights dimmed and a sort of whining noise came and the dog started barking. I looked around in the sky and I saw nothing. The cows started mooing all at the same time. I heard a high pitched scream and out of the forest across the road came a huge apelike being. He saw us and began running south very fast. I looked to the east and I saw it. This large cube just floating towards where the ape had fled. It was very dark and dull color on the sides and very bright on the bottom it looked almost like a window. It was glowing yellow and pulsating. I heard the radio get very static-like and change stations. Then the needle in my compass began following the cube. The thing disappeared on the southern horizon. - MUFON CMS

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Missing Time...Possible Abduction

September 2013 – No location given.

A man called in to tell a weird story involving missing time. Sadly, Art never gave his name or his location.

“Every Wednesday, after I drop my son off at school I'll take a ride up the mountains to this restaurant on my bike. It's about a half hour ride. Two Wednesday’s ago, I dropped him off at 8:00, it's about a thirty minute ride up to this restaurant, I get there, I sit down and order my... I always get breakfast there and order my usual and the lady says we're not serving breakfast anymore. I said, 'What do you mean, did you guys stop serving breakfast?' and she say's, 'No, we still serve it but we stop at 10:30.' and I said, 'Well, it can't be no more than 9:00, or 8:30.' So I pull out my cellphone and it's a little after 11:30 and I totally started thinking, did I drop my son off late for school? Then I said, nah, I remember all the cars were there, it was 8 o'clock. I went outside and I was just kinda scratching my head, getting ready to head back down trying to make sure I didn't drop my son off late and I had this burning sensation on the back of my neck and when I got back home, I got in the mirror and looked at it. It looked like a little burn. A few weeks later it healed but it feels like there's a little BB inside there or something and somewhere, it appears, I've lost three hours. I ended picking up my son at school and asking him and he said, 'Nah, you dropped me off on time, I was there the entire day.'

Source: Art Bell's Dark Matter Radio - October 1, 2013

Transcribed by Jamie Brian


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Red-Eyed Beings Across the Street

Vernal, Utah: On Feb 10 2013 at about 1:30am I and my son were in my driveway installing a stereo in my Durango when we heard in the field across our street coyotes had started to feed the kits a very late pack of them when we heard several like howls from something unknown then they began to hoot at each other. And then all hell broke out it seemed that whatever was howling attacked the coyotes and was tearing them apart it was very very loud and terrifying to listen to. After it ended my neighbor came out and asked us what the hell it was we said we had no idea what just attacked the coyotes we went into the woods to see but had a terrible fear and went into our home. The next evening it was raining a lot and I had several friends over and told them of what we heard so we all went outside to tell n show them about where it happened and in the field was red glowing eyes staring right at us. I hit them with a laser pointer and then from behind the first being four then six more stepped out from behind it and then they were like jumping and frolicking about each other but at all time the first one stayed staring at us when I noticed that 2 on each side started walking to toe side of the field and I said they are hunting us and we're trying to gain our flanks and we ran into our home. We waited several hours but all through the night they were there staring at my house. The next day they were gone we could not find footprints which was crazy as it rained all night when we measured to the height of the red eyes they were at about ten feet tall. After that I have had several strange events and floating strong orbs in the sky above my home one night me my son and a friend witnessed one of the flashing lighted crafts land in the mountain range just above my home. I have been unable to shake the fear and uneasy feelings after these events my dogs have several times run into my home and been scared and ready to attack whatever had spooked them one night a terrible swooshing wing and a jet like explosion blew through my yard and a tree in my back yard that had fallen down going in a south direction it was picked up turned 180 degrees and sat down with no markings from it being moved in the earth I live in fear and unease I can't even leave my house some days from the fear I don't know what is surrounding my home n life but it is getting worse I need help please. - MUFON CMS

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Trump Says Media Suppressed 9/11 Footage

Billionaire Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is doubling down on their outrageous claims that “thousands” of Muslims in Jersey City were seen on television celebrating the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. They are now flat-out accusing the media of a conspiracy.

In an interview with Breitbart News, Donald Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski demanded that the widely-disproven footage does infact exist, and that the campaign forwarded it to media outlets who refuse to cover it, as part of an “anti-Trump conspiracy.”

“For the mainstream media to go out and say that this didn’t happen is just factually inaccurate,” Lewandowski stated. “We know it happened. They should go back and check the FBI records. Mr. Trump has provided them to local media outlets that have covered this coverage that they don’t want to go and talk about.”

He then accused the media of pushing an agenda to have an “establishment candidate” elected.

“He’s provided many opportunities for them to go and see it but they have their own agenda, the media has their own agenda,” Lewandowski claimed. “They want to try and discredit as many people as possible so they can have an establishment candidate come in and think that everything is going to be the same because they are all controlled by the special interests and they are all controlled by the media and it is what the American people are just so tired of.”

Politifact, a politician fact-checking website, deemed Trump’s “pants on fire” regarding his claims, the biggest lie rating one can receive on the site.

In fact, Trump has earned more “pants-on-fire” ratings from Politifact than any other candidate so far. Even Ben Carson, who so far has not received a single “true” rating from the site, is behind Trump when it comes to false statements.

The mayor of Jersey City has also come out against Trump’s claim.

“Trump is plain wrong, and he is shamefully politicizing an emotionally charged issue,” Mayor Steve Fulop said in a statement. “No one in Jersey City cheered on September 11.”

“Clearly, Trump has memory issues or willfully distorts the truth, either of which should be concerning for the Republican Party,” Fulop said. - Trump Campaign Accuses US Media of Suppressing 9/11 Footage

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Arcane Radio Presents: Joshua Cutchin - A Trojan Feast: The Food and Drink Offerings of Aliens, Faeries, and Sasquatch


This week we welcome fortean author Joshua Cutchin to Arcane Radio.

Joshua Cutchin is a native of North Carolina with a long interest in forteana. He holds a Masters in Music Literature and a Masters in Journalism from the University of Georgia, and currently works as a public affairs specialist in the southeast. In addition to his media work, Cutchin is also a published composer and maintains an active performing schedule as a jazz and rock tuba player, having appeared on eight albums and live concert DVDs. A A TROJAN FEAST: The Food and Drink Offerings of Aliens, Faeries, and Sasquatch is his first book.

Accept food from faeries, and you’ll never escape their realm, according to European folklore. Accept food from Sasquatch and you will forever be trapped in the spirit world, according to indigenous North American tales. And today, abductees—at least those who have returned—often report being offered strange beverages from their captors. Are these similarities mere coincidence, or is something more at play?

In this outstanding example of scholarship on the unknown, Joshua Cutchin has created the world’s first survey and analysis of the food and drink offered by aliens, faeries, and Sasquatch. The offerings are often not what they appear to be: some liquids have healing or aphrodisiac qualities, some foods expand awareness, and there are ointments that reveal an invisible world.

Through his playful explorations of every possibility—from the outer regions of space to the inner sanctum of the human mind A TROJAN FEAST: The Food and Drink Offerings of Aliens, Faeries, and Sasquatch offers new insight into our relationship with these strange creatures of the outer edge.


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Friday, November 27, 2015

Humanoid Encounters 1995-1999: The Others Amongst Us


Albert S. Rosales has recently released the 2nd book in his humanoid series, titled Humanoid Encounters 1995-1999: The Others Amongst Us
Description: The World's most amazing Humanoid encounter cases. The bizarre, real, global reports of; UFO occupants - Ultraterrestrials, Extraterrestrials, Cryptoterrestrials, Robots & more. Mysterious beings - Bigfoot, Flying Humanoids, Werewolves, Chupacabras and even stranger exotic humanoids. Albert S. Rosales is the world's leading expert on humanoid encounter cases.

Here are a few examples of the accounts in the book:

Location: Between Kinyara & Kitanosie, Uganda.
Date: 1995.
Time: Night.

The anonymous witness whilst walking home on a road through the sugar cane fields, abruptly stopped by the side of the road by an unfinished air strip and turned to his left and there stood a huge red colored winged creature with glowing blond curly hair and what seemed to be a halo effect surrounding his head. The sugarcane at the time had been left uncut for many years and stood about 16 ft. tall.

The “angel” was about 12 ft. tall and the most beautiful creature that he had ever seen, the being appeared to have an additional set of ribs that were below his normal ribs unlike a human being, at waist level his legs were fur like and it stood upon hooves instead of feet. They stood about 60 ft. apart and just looked at each other for about five minutes. The being exuded a very bright light from its body and his head, which gave a halo effect. The witness thrust his hand towards the being as a gesture of contact and at this point heard a message of a religious nature and of future warning for humanity, all in his mind.

After the message the “Red Angel” turned and his wings unfurled and trailed behind his body as he returned back into the sugar cane. The witness continued to walk towards home. About 150 yards further up the road the “Red Angel” appeared again standing amongst the cane. The witness turned and faced him again, this time standing about 30 ft. away, the being’s face, although white was glistening black as if in shadow. Soon the bizarre humanoid disappeared into the sugarcane field again.

HC addendum.
Source: Direct from witness. Type: E

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Location: Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Date: April, 1995.
Time: Evening.

Maria Bone and her younger sister were walking along a local park when they noticed a small child-like creature that appeared to be chasing a similar smaller creature at an incredible rate of speed. Upon noticing the witnesses the taller creature ran behind a tree and began making strange sounds apparently directed towards Maria. According to Maria the creature had a long neck, was gray in color and was about 4-½ ft tall.

Its face resembled that of a bird with large black reptilian eyes. She observed the creature for about 15 minutes until it disappeared into the woods. The creature’s back resembled that of a normal human being. She informed the police about the incident but she was ignored. Mrs. Bone holds the opinion that the earth is going through changes of an evolutionary nature creating new species and creatures.

HC addendum.
Source: Jorge Martin, Conspiracion Chupacabras. Type: E

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Location: Cuscatancingo, El Salvador.
Date: February 29, 1996.
Time: 10:00 p.m.

On March 2, 1996, at 6:30 a.m. police found a 17-year old boy wandering confused at the edge of Ilopango Lake. Later under interrogation he related a bizarre story.

During the night in question he had been walking towards his home during a local “black-out.” Suddenly there was a bright flash of blue light from behind him. Thinking that it was the police he turned slowly around. Then his next memory was of being in a completely white “space” or room. He could not distinguish any walls or furniture of any kind. He then realized that he was lying prone and unable to move in some sort of “bed.” He noticed numerous “cables” that appeared to be connected to his chest area, and on his right arm he had an object resembling a blood IV machine.

He then saw several humanoids, about 1.2 meters in height. They had extremely large heads, huge eyes and in the forehead area he could see what appeared to be another “protuberance” resembling another eye. They also had sparse beards around the mouth and chin area. In a horrible state of confusion he noticed other humans in the room but could not tell if they were also prisoners or not. He remembered seeing a terrible scene in which he saw several of the humanoids apparently operating on a woman, seemingly cutting her in half. Then they took the upper half of the human female and somehow inserted it on top and back of a “hump-like” area of one female humanoid that had apparently was being prepared on another bed.

The humanoids wore white tunics on which they had a strange “symbol” on the right side of their chests. He was then taken to the shores of Lake Ilopango where they told the witness that their race “was in a state of war and could not reproduce in their original normal manner.”

He then had the sensation of falling towards the lake. This part was very confusing and could not be remembered in detail. The beings also told the witness that on the bottom of the lake they had their reproductive “eggs.” Several strange scars were found on the witness body.

HC addendum
Source: Y Files, Dr. Luis E. Lopez. Type: G
Comments: Again a rare abduction report from this other Central
American country and very bizarre in nature.

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Daily 2 Cents: Is the DB Cooper Mystery Solved? -- Giant Cannibal Crocodile -- 'I Know That Man'


Is the DB Cooper Mystery Solved?

The man who successfully hijacked an airliner in 1971 might have been a missing grocery store manager.

The incident began when a mysterious man, who at the time went by the name Dan Cooper, boarded Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 to travel from Portland to Seattle.

During the trip Cooper called over one of the flight attendants and asked them to write out a note declaring that he had a bomb in his briefcase and that the plane was being hijacked.

When the aircraft stopped at Tacoma International Airport he allowed the passengers to leave in exchange for four parachutes and the sum of $200,000 in cash.

After the plane had taken off again, Cooper strapped the bag of money to himself, put on one of the parachutes and jumped out somewhere between Seattle and Reno. No trace of him was ever found.

Fast forward to the present day however and now a woman by the name of Lisa Lepsy has come forward to claim that DB Cooper may have actually been her father, a grocery store manager who had gone missing at around the same time that the hijacking had taken place.

She made the connection after recognizing him in a news report about the incident.

"When the composite sketch of DB Cooper came on the TV screen, everyone looked at each other and said, 'That's dad!'" she said. "We were stunned because the resemblance was unbelievable, and my brothers and I were all sure that was our dad."

Even if she is right however much still remains unexplained about the case - especially what happened to Cooper after he had parachuted from the plane.

The discovery in 1980 of wads of rotting $20 bills matching the serial numbers of the notes given to him during the hijacking had long suggested that he may have perished after jumping out. Read more at Has the mystery of DB Cooper been solved?

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Giant Cannibal Crocodile

The incredible images show the huge, terrifying beast brutally grabbing a smaller croc by its neck and violently lashing it around – before blood-thirstily ripping its head off.

The jaw-dropping moment was "snapped" by Rob Bowie – an amateur photographer from Cape Town, in South Africa's Letaba river.

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'I Know That Man'

1987 – Sturgis, Michigan

Jim from Louisiana called in to tell a strange story from his childhood.

“Okay, my little brother and my mother one day – I grew up in Sturgis, Michigan and we grew up on 2 acres of property with multiple cornfields around us. And he was six years old and my other brothers and I, I got four brothers, we were all in school. And my mom was out hanging laundry and she had seen like a dark shadow or something. We had a bunch of Walnut trees in our yard so she just thought it was maybe clouds or something casting a shadow. And something told her, something wasn't right, I don't know, I can't remember exactly how she described it. She looked to her left and my little brother William always, always stood by her side and helped with the laundry but he was gone and she couldn't find him. Well, she ran around like some brush that was in our yard and there he was staring up at the sky. She went over there and told him not to run away anymore. So she sent him inside and nothing came of anything. So later in the day, we get home and she asked us to watch my little brother as she went to the store and made some other errands. She came back home and when she came back home, it was one of our favourite things was to go through the bags and see what mom got, you know. So I was digging through the bags and I took this book out and it happened to be your book (Whitley Streiber's “Communion” - the one with the cover adorned with a black eyed alien grey), this was around spring of '87. It might have been the summer, and I took the book and I put it on the counter and I was like, Oh, what is that? I was like, Oh, I've seen those on television, you know, that's an alien, you know, whatever. And I made a comment about it to my mom and then we didn't think anything of it. We put the groceries away and stuff like that. And then, all of a sudden, we were all kind of walking through and my little brother was staring at me and he was laughing and he said, 'I know that man!' and this is a true story, I'm 43 years old. I don't tell lies and I've never seen any UFOs in my life. Come to find out, when my little brother took off from my mom's side that day, there was a craft in the air and he said that he saw that man in that craft.

Source: Art Bell's Dark Matter Radio - October 1, 2013

Transcribed by Jamie Brian


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Dead landlord haunting his tenants from the grave

He’s dead and buried, but landlord Menachem Stark — whose list of enemies was so long that cops were scratching their heads to find a prime suspect in his 2014 murder — is still making life hell for tenants.

Occupants of all 20 units in a pricey Williamsburg apartment building have been left homeless for the holidays because Stark had hired contractors who did a shoddy job, causing the Buildings Department to issue an immediate vacate order Tuesday, records show.

A notice left on the front door of 120 S. Fourth St. warned residents that the five-story building “has questionable structural integrity [because of] the installation of substandard structural steel columns, trusses, beams, welds.”

One of around 50 displaced renters, Cristal Ledesma, 25, lamented the awful timing on Thursday.

“It sucks. Why would they do this right before the holiday?” she said. “I’m really starting to get stressed.”

Units range from studios to three-bedrooms and go for $4,200 to $5,300 a month, listings show.

“We all have stuff trapped in there, textbooks and computers and everything else,” said another tenant, Melissa Yamamoto.

“I’m staying with my boyfriend. One of my roommates wasn’t so lucky. He left before we knew, so he’s going to come back and has no work clothes.”

There was no word on when the tenants could return.

Stark, whose suffocated and burned body was found in a dumpster in Long Island in January 2014, had many foes, a law enforcement source said.

“Any number of people wanted to kill this guy,” the source said. Continued reading at Dead landlord haunting his tenants from the grave

NOTE: I'm not surprised someone 'popped' this guy. You can read more about this asshole slumlord here...Lon

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