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conversations.value: a description for a book titled Ghostly Encounters about Loves, Born, Lauderdale with the genre: Humor & Entertainment, Trivia & Fun Facts
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conversations.value: *Born in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. *Oldest of five siblings with one stepbrother and one stepsister *Honor Graduate of Statesboro High School (1985) *B.B.A. Business Management from Georgia Southern University (1998) *Loves to fish, play lottery, go to church, golf, go to yard sales, writing, grilling *Loves old cars, food shows, ghost shows, ghost stories, and being with family and friends, going to church, going to yardsales
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conversations.value: Swap the first and the last sentence.
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conversations.value: Business Management from Georgia Southern University (1998) *Loves to fish, play lottery, go to church, golf, go to yard sales, writing, grilling *Loves old cars, food shows, ghost shows, ghost stories, and being with family and friends, going to church, going to yardsales. Lauderdale, Florida. *Oldest of five siblings with one stepbrother and one stepsister *Honor Graduate of Statesboro High School (1985) *B.B.A.*Born in Ft.
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conversations.value: the first four paragraphs for this book
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conversations.value: Ghostly Encounters
  Rather than provide a floor-by-floor description of the asylum, I will instead share what I consider the highlighted areas, where a heightened creep factor and higher levels of reported paranormal activity correspond with the sad and horrific realities that make TALA one of the most haunted, if not the most haunted asylum in the United States.
  Before taking a closer look at some of the madness and sadness that defines TALA, it's worth noting some of the causes or reasons why a person could be admitted or committed to an asylum like TALA.
  This is some pretty bizarre stuff here! Causes and symptoms of insanity were wide, diverse, and often times completely subjective. Though legitimate mental and physical handicaps could lead to a committal, family members—usually the male head of the house—could just as easily commit a spouse or a child to an asylum, often with little or no supporting evidence. The truth is, in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, society operated from a completely different set of norms. Back in the day, American society was male dominated, and women, frequently referred and characterized as the lesser or softer sex, were treated as such. In the realm of the asylum, it often took little more than the accusation of an angry husband or father to commit a wife or family member. A husband wanting to pursue an affair with another woman needed to do little more than simply drop off his spouse at the asylum, claim some completely fabricated symptom or malady, and effectively dispose of her—anywhere from a few months to a few years—to a lifetime.
  Naturally, many of the committals were justifiable. With little understanding of conditions like Down syndrome and autism (conditions once referred to as mental retardation), we can understand how or why even loving family members felt helpless in providing for the afflicted. Of course, not all committals were reasonable or justified, and based on the menu of causes listed above, some motives were (by today's standards) completely criminal. Want to access your wife's inheritance? Drop her off at the hospital. Tired of dealing with a troublesome child? Drop him or her off at the hospital. Tragically, this all-too-common practice of integrating healthy and sane individuals with the legitimately insane destroyed lives and turned well-intentioned institutions into hellholes.
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conversations.value: Waverly Hills Sanatorium today is known for being a hotbed of paranormal activity, and the building itself has been on several paranormal television shows. Thousands of people died within the walls of Waverly Hills Sanatorium, and many believe that some of those unfortunate souls are still on the property. The building's normal paranormal claims involve full-bodied apparitions, shadow figures, unexplained lights, and disembodied voices.
  The Myrtles Plantation was built in 1796 and is known across the country as a paranormal hot spot. However there has been some inconsistency from the legends being passed down and of how many murders have actually occurred at the plantation. At this time the only documented murder came from a man who was shot on the porch of the house by an unknown assailant. There were, however, a number of deaths in the home as a result of the yellow fever epidemic. To this day, visitors continuously report sightings of what is believed to be the spirit of an African American woman wearing a green turban, spirits of young children, and a grand piano that is believed to play by itself.
  The Kennebunk Inn in Maine was built in 1799 and is believed to be haunted by two spirits. One spirit is thought to be of a prior owner, and the other is believed to be a former clerk of the establishment. Alleged paranormal activity in the Inn includes glasses falling off shelves, objects being moved, and disembodied voices.
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conversations.value: Alleman, (Pierce) Tillie, At Gettysburg, or What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle (1888, reprinted 1994).
  Corbitt, R. M.; History of Jones County, Iowa, Past and Present; S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, 1910.
  Ott, Thomas. "A Grave Position For Mentor To Be In, It's Not Certain Stone Really Marks Remains." Cleveland Plain Dealer, December 8, 1998, pg 1B.