Used to be semi-segregated (when not entirely segregated) from the mainstream white lodges in America, but in Scotland they apparently had mixed-race lodges going back to the turn of the last century:
The black initiates were from a touring vaudeville act, though. Not sure how they would've been treated if they'd lived here and could've been expected to attend regularly. It's easy to appear welcoming to people if you know they'll soon be going away again.
All the pictures in this thread are great. Every one of them.
I've got what might be a ghost in one of mine (wasn't expecting that). Will try to post them later.
"The universe is 40 billion light years across and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. That is the position of the universe with regard to human life."
Didn't see this till I was checking out the pictures and zooming in on them.
Not exactly what you want to see in one of your pictures, is it?
The castle does have a ghost (all castles do) but it's the standard Green Lady - not this, which looks like a bald guy in a suit peeking out the door, and looking at where I was standing. I'm sure it's just a trick of the light/shadows, etc. but it was still no fun at all to find it there.
"The universe is 40 billion light years across and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. That is the position of the universe with regard to human life."
Well, I got frustrated with trying to post pictures of my locale (Nordics, your's are pretty cool, I like the day to day stuff you capture!), so I posted some over in the oureye flickr group.
~don't let your mouth write a cheque your ass can't cash~
I love pics of Scotland. The guy in the doorway reminds me of Nosferatu, all hunched over and menacing and sad at the same time.
I love all these pics! Pic posting shy here because of..experience.
Peregrine, instead of adding an attachment upload your pics to http://tinypic.com/ and post the forum link it provides in between the image tags. I really need to see 'wild orb pictures with the skull in it'. I've often been tempted to go ghost hunting just for the possibility of capturing a pic of something cool.
Peregrine wrote:Well, I got frustrated with trying to post pictures of my locale (Nordics, your's are pretty cool, I like the day to day stuff you capture!), so I posted some over in the oureye flickr group.
Just testing something Peregrine, you can tell me to remove them if you want.
Nice pics, some quality pumpkin carving! Been many years since I did that, but I'd like to again. Hopefully the small version pics are clickable, to take people to the full size versions. To get them full size on the thread you have to sign in to Flickr, right-click on the image, go to Copy Image Location in the drop down list, then come back to your post and paste the copied data between tags like Sunny said. It sounds kind of complicated, but is easy once you get used to it. Wasn't it you who showed me how to post Youtube videos here, back in the day? You should know this stuff!
Peregrine wrote:He looks a rather sad bloke. I think I would be too, if I was trapped between two worlds.
sunny wrote:The guy in the doorway reminds me of Nosferatu, all hunched over and menacing and sad at the same time.
The closer you zoom in on him the more he starts to look a bit like a cartoon character or a cardboard cutout... he's not though, there was definitely nothing there. He does look unhappy. Maybe he wanted to talk but was too shy. I doubt he gets many visitors during the winter months. I think it's just the way the shadows have arranged themselves on the old stone through the two doorways, though, an optical illusion, but a good one. If I start seeing him in other places, that'll be a different matter.
sunny wrote:I really need to see 'wild orb pictures with the skull in it'.
Me as well!
sunny wrote:I love pics of Scotland.
Got loads more Scotland pics, for obvious reasons. I like the American ones - it's weird because the sheer omnipresence of the US in global media makes me feel like I've been there before. I mean, the drained canals in LA - I've been there, surely? During a car chase, like Jack said. And the El train tracks in NY - surely I've been up there as well, while being pursued by Gene Hackman in a porkpie hat or something? But I haven't.
Colorado looks amazing, like something out of a video game. No wonder the Bushes and that Enron guy bought up half the state.
"The universe is 40 billion light years across and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. That is the position of the universe with regard to human life."
gnosticheresy_2 wrote:Hadrian's Wall, roundabout solstice time
I actually walked the entire length of Hadrian's Wall about five years ago. It was a fantastic trip.
According to the comments sections on The Telegraph and Daily Mail they will be rebuilding it soon.
"The universe is 40 billion light years across and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. That is the position of the universe with regard to human life."
Decided to take a wander up Dechmont Law, scene of the 1979 "Livingston Incident" - a pretty unique close encounter case that me and Mac briefly discussed in the "Where Is Ufology At" thread. I wasn't expecting much, and I didn't get much either. It is a silly place.
I am for the time being a believer in Robert Taylor's account of the incident, and a believer that the incident actually occurred in objective real terms, but I have to say that the hole in the ground at the end of my vid - caused by somebody dropping a thinnish log into the earth while logging - is very, very similar to the holes that the police recorded back in '79. The encounter site itself is massively anticlimactic to find because:
1) the locals will send you all over the woods looking for it, just for a laugh (and who can blame them?)
2) it is just a medium-sized rock in the woods that has had the commemorative plaque ripped out of it repeatedly by either UFO enthusiasts or seriously desperate scrap metal dealers.
Some pictors:
A horror tree. There are a lot of horror trees in the area.
Incontrivertible evidence of an underground base. Or municipal waterworks.
The far more interesting "ghost town" of Bangour, visible from the top of Dechmont Law. It was an entire psychiatric village at one time, and has a slightly RI-ish (if not Patrick MacGoohanish) history:
The hospital was modelled on the Alt Scherbitz asylum of the 1870s, near Leipzig in Germany, and represents one of the first "colony" plan psychiatric hospitals in Scotland. The Bangour institution comprised individual villas which would house approximately 30 patients each. The village also incorporated its own railway station, a farm, bakery, workshops, recreation hall, school, shop, library, and latterly, and a multi-denominational church.
The hospital was requisitioned by the government War Office during both wars when it became "Edinburgh War Hospital" and "The Scottish Emergency Medical Hospital", reverting back to a psychiatric hospital between and after the wars. ...
During September 2009, the hospital grounds were used as the site for "Exercise Green Gate", a counter-terrorist exercise run by the Scottish Government to test de-contamination procedures in the event of a nuclear, chemical or biological incident. This involved 250 volunteer "casualties" and 400 emergency staff.
Interestingly, AbandonedScotland, an urban exploration group, found themselves unable to access the hospital recently due to what they called "unusually active and vigilant security." Must cost someone quite a bit to guard these empty buildings in the middle of noplace.
Back to the scene of Robert Taylor's gassing and time-loss, where he says he was attacked and rendered unconcious by small robots that had emerged from a larger UFO (which was landed in a clearing). He described the robots as being like "World War 2 naval mines."
Apparently the local council unwisely had the plaque made out of golden diamonds.
"The universe is 40 billion light years across and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. That is the position of the universe with regard to human life."
March is usually our snowiest month in Denver, but this year there has been hardly a trace. Fire season's starting early. I took these pictures of the one near Conifer this afternoon. It could get smokey here tonight.
I've often been tempted to go ghost hunting just for the possibility of capturing a pic of something cool.
I like the American ones - it's weird because the sheer omnipresence of the US in global media makes me feel like I've been there before. I mean, the drained canals in LA - I've been there, surely? During a car chase, like Jack said. And the El train tracks in NY - surely I've been up there as well, while being pursued by Gene Hackman in a porkpie hat or something? But I haven't. 
