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Krzymoose:
I just stopped in for a few minutes away from the live investigation going on now, ... man I missed your saga of Vincent! Reading sporadic threads of your story since you moved over from TAPS forum, I missed 
you like my sisters from AZ!!!!!! I was soooooooooo sorry I never took up your gracious offer to visit your home up in Northern Cal, .... so many things going on in our lives, ... always seems just as the old saying goes, .."You are always too busy working to be making a living" Maybe one of these days, my wife and I can stop and smell the roses! 😁
I won't ask you to reply with a brief update on all that has happened, ... as I am looking forward to that book we discussed soooooooooooo many times as did all your other livescifi friends. Am super glad to see 'Tim' and his crew are actively involved with your book building, ... I too am sorry I never met Tim as he seems like a learned pro who has a heart bigger than a house. The world could use many more like him, ... and you. Take care, ... drop me a line now and then just to keep in touch as I think you are one of those memorable people who find a place in our heart and keep it warm with your generosity in many ways. " title="Applause" />
-Much success in your love of life, family, and friends ............
Bad Lieutenant
glawritson@sbcglobal.net
Posted : 31/08/2008 5:22 am
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Krzymoose:
I just stopped in for a few minutes away from the live investigation going on now, ... man I missed your saga of Vincent! Reading sporadic threads of your story since you moved over from TAPS forum, I missedI won't ask you to reply with a brief update on all that has happened, ... as I am looking forward to that book we discussed soooooooooooo many times as did all your other livescifi friends. Am super glad to see 'Tim' and his crew are actively involved with your book building, ... I too am sorry I never met Tim as he seems like a learned pro who has a heart bigger than a house. The world could use many more like him, ... and you. Take care, ... drop me a line now and then just to keep in touch as I think you are one of those memorable people who find a place in our heart and keep it warm with your generosity in many ways.
" title="Applause" />
-Much success in your love of life, family, and friends ............
Bad Lieutenant
glawritson@sbcglobal.net
I always perk up when I see you've posted, not matter where it is BL, you are a great great person and I'm honored to call you my friend. Thanks so much for all the support you've given me and I'm sure will continue to give in the next year or so.
Blessings to you and your family and thanks (sniff-sniff) for the ever so kind words, I am humbled...
Posted : 31/08/2008 9:17 am
😁 ... thank you KM, ... I can't wait for that book to come out, I will be the first in line here in Aliso Viejo's bookstores (no matter where your book reaches us) to buy two copies. One for reading and dog-earing, ... the other I'd like to send back to you for your autograph, then sealed in plastic, and put into my 'treasure box' to give to my 6 year old grand daughter when she graduates from high school handing it to her with pride in telling her there are things unexplained that happen to very, very good people, ...
😮 , ... yet more very good people who stand to the challenge with courage to face what may come ... for answers to the unexplained. Some may face ridicule, some may face harsh detraction, ... but the will, fortitude, and need to seek and protect, .. perhaps to understand that which average humans find dark, mysterious, and dangerous.. makes bearable the cat-calls and whispers behind the hand from the less stalwart. I will be proud to tell my grand daughter who you are, and that I am priviledged to call you 'my friend'. " title="Applause" />
Continued progress and much success Diana........
-Bad Lieutenant
(Greg)
Posted : 31/08/2008 4:54 pm
Hey Lt. we all miss you and your "unique" writing texture! Sorry I missed you last night, only caught 'ya on the way out of the chat. 'Moose has definately made a great find with this locale! Absolutely filled with patience this Tim is, and I am thirlled to have followed her here. Nice to see that you have as well.
Posted : 31/08/2008 7:04 pm
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Well I'm sitting here in the state of confusion once more 😮 😁
Tapsmainforum has my old thread back up, but only half of it is there....what the heck??? Last I check the entire post was completely gone!
Posted : 01/09/2008 6:18 am
Hey Lt. we all miss you and your "unique" writing texture! Sorry I missed you last night, only caught 'ya on the way out of the chat. 'Moose has definately made a great find with this locale! Absolutely filled with patience this Tim is, and I am thirlled to have followed her here. Nice to see that you have as well.
Gloomy:
Thank you for your comments! I don't do 'chat rooms' very often and it was kinda frustrating last night watching all the comments literally fly by while I was trying to get just one thought out! hahahahaha 😆 I'm sorry I missed you during that 'chat'. This next week I'll try and get more involved with some of the old gang from the old TAPS Forums. I've been real busy at work over the past 6 months and I miss getting involved with all you great folks! " title="Applause" /> Each person I've met here in livescifi has been tremendously welcoming, ... a tribute to the quality and patience of Ghost Hunters - no matter what their experience level. I look forward to getting to know you better as well, ... thanks again for the warm welcome! See you in the chat room (be gentle with me as I'm still a newbie) as my time allows. Take care, ...
-Bad Lieutenant
(Greg)
Posted : 01/09/2008 7:20 am
Well I'm sitting here in the state of confusion once more 😮 😁
Tapsmainforum has my old thread back up, but only half of it is there....what the heck??? Last I check the entire post was completely gone!
They've been having some odd problem where all the recent postings are gone. Supposedly it was going to be fixed late last week, but it appears they still have a very old backup posted in place. 😁
Posted : 02/09/2008 2:11 pm
I'll second that! They were back to November 2007, lost most of 2008 and boy is it that scary!
Posted : 03/09/2008 12:22 am
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Yeah I figured something went awry...it wouldn't be like them to do something for ME... 😮 😁
Posted : 05/09/2008 6:22 am
Hey Lt. we all miss you and your "unique" writing texture! Sorry I missed you last night, only caught 'ya on the way out of the chat. 'Moose has definately made a great find with this locale! Absolutely filled with patience this Tim is, and I am thirlled to have followed her here. Nice to see that you have as well.
Gloomy:
Thank you for your comments! I don't do 'chat rooms' very often and it was kinda frustrating last night watching all the comments literally fly by while I was trying to get just one thought out! hahahahaha 😆 I'm sorry I missed you during that 'chat'. This next week I'll try and get more involved with some of the old gang from the old TAPS Forums. I've been real busy at work over the past 6 months and I miss getting involved with all you great folks! " title="Applause" /> Each person I've met here in livescifi has been tremendously welcoming, ... a tribute to the quality and patience of Ghost Hunters - no matter what their experience level. I look forward to getting to know you better as well, ... thanks again for the warm welcome! See you in the chat room (be gentle with me as I'm still a newbie) as my time allows. Take care, ...
-Bad Lieutenant
lol BL i did see you join chat, but did not have a moment to even say hi...so now im saying it..hi..and please try to join us on Sat night..would be enjoyable dude 😁
train
Posted : 06/09/2008 4:28 am
Train:
Love your avatar! Thanks for your comments! I'll be on-line tonight as I guess the 'team' is checking out a morgue.(?) There HAS to be some lost souls and the like in places like that. When I was a 17 year old senior in high school, I worked a few jobs over the summer, ... one being a "floor man' who's expertise was to strip, seal, and finish or wax various tile/terrazo/limestone floors appropriate for the foot traffic expected. Anyway, I was assigned to strip-seal-and finish the basement receiving area in a Mortuary in Phoenix in 1969. The funeral home had been in Phoenix for many, many decades - probably had seen many a cowboy or shootist come through on the slab around 1910-30 - with just as many creaks and groans throughout the old place as my 90 year old grandad had! It was 2 stories tall with a huge basement/cafeteria(?) below. The initial flooring was a hard, solid wood, then at one time been upgraded to the old linoleum tile squares that degrade over years and is a real b*tch to prepare and finish with modern day floor compounds. I was looking at completing the 5,000 sq ft basement in about 10 days. To make the place look and seem like the old munsters house, I think they ran 40 - 60 watt bare light bulbs throughout the basement which cast more unearthly 'shadows' than I care to remember. The embalming room was directly above where I chose to start working on the floor and it was hard to keep my mind on what I was doing as I heard every delivery of some poor soul who's last ride ended at Mortenson/Kings Mortuary. I also heard the scraping of various wheeled carts, trays, and the grind of heavy cylinders being drug across the floor, hearing stainless steel instruments being dropped onto a tray with little ceremony... and of course the embalming machine with that penetrating 'whirrrrring' that even reached my ears 1 floor below. Ok, ... now that you have a sense of my surroundings, ... I started work everyday at 7 AM being let into the basement by the on duty embalmer who I swear through osmosis or some unGodly process that he himself had taken his turn on the slab, .. right out of Hollywood casting, this man must have been 6 foot 6 inches, gaunt, white haired, in his late 60's or early 200's 
. His manner was friendly, yet each time his eyes would meet mine, I imagined he was sizing me up for what proper needles, catheters, or trocar I would require when it was my turn, ... guesstimating my weight and blood volume to ply his trade on. (Habits of any profession maybe as I did the same when meeting people in their home, ... quickly assessing flooring and carpeting mentally inventorying what I'd need to do to save the patient so to speak. Onto the story, each day I heard disjointed and unattached sounds in the ante room right off the wooden stairwell that people negotiated to gewt to the basement for viewing the selection of caskets ... all under the 40-60 watt bulbs. It was dusty and dank, and every nook, cranny, and shadow had; memorabilia, unclaimed cremains, commercial wreaths with witty send-offs, candelabbras minus the wax, old, I MEAN OLD transport guney's with the padding or mattresses still retaining the depressions of uncountable deceased humans sitting silent as if begging, "Next!, ... no waiting" I had heard many sounds each day and as I puffed up false bravado that any 17 year old kid would do, I merely 'whistled past the graveyard' as I slung foam, seal, and finish until 5 PM when old 'Digger O'dell' would let me out of the basement with that all knowing grin and still calculating eyes. One particular day, I decided to become even more bold and try to talk to anything or anyone making the noises. That day is when I heard the plastic wrapping being pulled off a vertically stacked casket in the basement ante-room and the unmistakeable scraping sound of heavy yet hollow aluminum across a cement floor. I stopped what I was doing, was approximately 50 feet away from the ante-room and in all my 17 year old wit and machismo, managed to peep-out, "Anybody there?" Nothing. Then more scraping. I remember asking 'whomever/whatever' was doing the scraping if they needed help as the grinding wasn't doing the casket finish any good. Still nothing. Well, I had to go past the ante-room to get to the stairwell to the main floor and to my truck. As I approached the doorway to the ante-room, I saw one corner of the heavy plastic sheeting that normally covered the model caskets moving as if being pulled. I again asked if anyone was there .. with no reply. I decided just to make a power-walking beeline to the stairwell and not to look back. As i stepped into the ante-room, I remember feeling as if the ante-room was a refrigerator because it felt freezing as I passed thorugh it. I did glance at the plastic which by now was bunched up under a small table next to the vertical row of caskets ... with one particular, bare, casket standing at an odd angle with both 'lids' propped open about 2-3 feet to keep it from falling over. As I scooted up to the first floor, I found a young funeral director who's father was one of the co-owners of the mortuary. I told him what had happened. He looked at me with a kid's zeal for discovery and said, "Well, Let's go see!" I wasn't too thrilled about taking 'sparky' down stairs with me as he wasn't any bigger than a popcorn fart with my ego telling me he'd be useless in a life or death struggle with a plastic-pullin', casket movin' spook, .. but then I remembered how big Audie Murphy had been and felt somewhat relieved! As we arrived, I saw another casket with half it's plastic pulled off. The room was still very cool if not cold which sparky said has always been like this since he remembered. He surveyed the situation then told me it didn't make sense that the casket just took off it's plastic and 'waddled' out into the middle of the display floor. When I started telling his again what happened, he interrupted me and said, "Look, you didn't have to make this up if you just wanted to look inside a casket to see what it looks like, but you damaged the aluminum finish on the bottom which will cost to repair." I asked to speak to his father, and soon we were standing in the basement - all three of us - trying to figure out what happened. Basically what the outcome was was that barring no other explanation, damage would be assesed to my carpet and tile company. My boss was livid and took my side since I had never given him any reason not to trust me. The floor remained incomplete, we never got paid for the portion I did, there never was any resolution to the moving casket, and I felt bad that I seemed to be the catalyst of the whole affair! It wasn't until much later in life that I started believing in being able to work with entities, ghost, spirits and the like, but anytime I hear the word mortuary, I remember my moving casket and the sounds of someone pulling off plastic sheeting and stuffing it under something. It's unmistakeable and even more spooky when you can't see the entity or person who did it.
So, ... in my round-about, landscape and scenery methodology, I look forward to watching tonight as the mortuary gets investigated. Should be good and hopefully revealing!
Thanks to all who stuck with this post!
-Bad Lieutenant
Posted : 06/09/2008 6:51 pm
*caaaaaaaaaa-racking up here*
OMG..."popcorn fart"..."digger o'dell"..."Sparky"
You're a hoot. OMG, you're an absolute HOOT!
Posted : 09/09/2008 8:55 pm
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😆 😆
My turn to suggest we have another budding author amongst us!!
You should soooo write a book BL....or better yet......help me with mine!!!! 😮 😆
Did I mention that BL has a great post earlier in this very thread on the similarites in conducting a homicide investigation and a paranormal investigation? Very well worth the read!
Posted : 09/09/2008 9:15 pm
😁 ... thank you Melanie and KM for your words of kindness. I do go on sometimes when I get all wound up about something, ... if I could ever give anyone some advice that I've lived with all my life and continue to do so, it is this: NEVER and I mean NEVER take yourself so serious that you can't at least laugh at yourself 100 times a day. If given the yin and yang choice to either laugh or cry for eternity, you know what I'd choose!!! 😆 In the scheme of things, we are all miniscule, but yet as a group doing positive things, we can change our world. If I could ever meet someone who has the like sense of humor and is a giant among wordsmiths, it is Stephen King. If I was ever lucky enough to settle down long enough to eek out a book, I would feebly attempt to imitate King's ability to describe people, places, things, and the unknown with such claritiy, caricature, and vision, that If I ever acheived that, I'd probably soil myself!
Thanks again ladies and as always, ... it is soooooo nice to keep in contact with those who are special!
-Bad Lieutenant
(Greg)
P.S. Thanks for the mention of my past post, KM, ... yes, I feel everyone who is seriously investigating, documenting, helping, and putting closure to incidents of the unknown through spiritual invitation should be labled as 'Death Investigators' after all, the similarities between Homicide Investigation and ghost hunting are quite close. It's just that one oculd involve a death hours earlier, .. the other, a century ago. Both seek the .. truth, and that is admirable!!! 😉
Posted : 10/09/2008 12:59 am
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Just a small update on whats been happening with me.
I went down to California last weekend, with Noah and Spike in tow....When Noah found out we were going to the old property the first thing in the car was SPIKE! Somehow along the way, Spike disappeared ( I think he fell out at a rest stop or restuarant along the way) needless to say, Noah was so distraught over losing him!
The property seemed so very sad and empty. I went away feeling very depressed over that was left there. Kayla has seen Vincent twice since I left...which she doesn't like to talk about but forces herself out of obligation to me i think.
I'm really very happy and content in Montana so I'm not sure if I ever want to go back again at this point. I'm sure that will change as a little time passes.
Posted : 26/10/2008 5:21 pm