#haunted ground

[soggy-shifter]

How do I explain that this is my gender

[book-challenger]

Travel Destination: Ireland III

Normal People by Sally Rooney

Connell and Marianne grew up in the same small town, but the similarities end there. At school, Connell is popular and well liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation – awkward but electrifying – something life changing begins.

A year later, they're both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years at university, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together.

Skippy Dies by Paul Murray

Why does Skippy, a 14 year old boy at Dublin's venerable Seabrook College, end up dead on the floor of the local doughnut shop?

Could it have something to do with his friend Ruprecht Van Doren, a genius who is determined to open a portal into a parallel universe using ten-dimensional string theory? Or could it involve Carl, the teenage drug dealer and borderline psychotic who is Skippy's rival in love? Or could "the Automator"―the ruthless, smooth-talking headmaster intent on modernizing the school―have something to hide?

Haunted Ground by Erin Hart

When farmers cutting turf in a peat bog make a grisly discovery, the perfectly preserved severed head of a young woman with long red hair, Irish archaeologist Cormac Maguire and American pathologist Nora Gavin team up in a case that will open old wounds.

Peat bogs prevent decay, so the decapitated young woman could have been buried for two decades, two centuries, or even much longer. Who is she? When was she killed? The extraordinary find leads to even more disturbing puzzles. The red-haired girl is clearly a case for the archaeologists, not the police. Still, her tale may have shocking ties to the present, and Cormac and Nora must use cutting-edge techniques to preserve ancient evidence.

The Wren Hunt by Mary Watson

Once a year, Wren is chased through the woods near her rural Ireland hometown in a warped version of a childhood game. Her pursuers belong to the judges, a group in control of an ancient, powerful magic they stole from her own people, the augurs . . . but they know nothing of her real identity. If they learned the truth, the game would surely turn deadly.

Though she knows the risks, Wren also goes on the hunt, taking a dangerous undercover assignment as an intern at enemy headquarters, the Harkness Foundation. If she can uncover a long-buried secret, she can save her family and end the judges' reign once and for all.

The Spellbook of the Lost and Found by Moïra Fowley-Doyle

One stormy summer night, Olive and her best friend, Rose, begin to lose things. It starts with simple items like hair clips and jewellery, but soon it’s clear that Rose has lost something bigger; something she won’t talk about.

Then Olive meets three wild, mysterious strangers: Ivy, Hazel and Rowan. Like Rose, they’re mourning losses - and holding tight to secrets.

When they discover the ancient spellbook, full of hand-inked charms to conjure back lost things, they realise it might be their chance to set everything right. Unless it’s leading them towards secrets that were never meant to be found

[chromarin]

Nr.183

Poor Fiona Belli and Hewie in their funniest and cutest costumes.

[abandonedinthesouth]

The Battle of Gettysburg, fought from July 1 to July 3, 1863, is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. After a great victory over Union forces at Chancellorsville, General Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania in late June 1863. On July 1, the advancing Confederates clashed with the Union’s Army of the Potomac, commanded by General George G. Meade, at the crossroads town of Gettysburg. The next day saw even heavier fighting, as the Confederates attacked the Federals on both left and right. On July 3, Lee ordered an attack by fewer than 15,000 troops on the enemy’s center at Cemetery Ridge. The assault, known as “Pickett’s Charge,” managed to pierce the Union lines but eventually failed, at the cost of thousands of rebel casualties, and Lee was forced to withdraw his battered army toward Virginia on July 4.

[ninja-muse]

Mystery! (i'm trying to branch out from my usual fantasy fare lol)

Haunted Ground by Erin Hart. It’s set in the Irish peat bogs, described so well you can smell the earth and feel the breeze, and it deals with bog bodies and history, both ancient and modern. A lovely leisurely pace, too, so you really get a sense of the main characters and the village they’re staying in. And it’s the first of four, so if you like it, there’s more! I just wish she’d keep writing.

Thanks for asking!

Ask me things!

[abandonedinthesouth]

Harry Houdini’s House

2400 Laurel Canyon Blvd, Los Angeles 90046

After magician Harry Houdini died on Halloween night in 1926 his wife Bess organized a seance in order to contact her husband. After all, he had promised that he would contact her from the afterlife. Bess lived in the house for a decade regularly holding seances hoping Houdini would communicate with her.

After 10 years of trying she finally gave up and moved saying, “Ten years is long enough to wait for any man.” But her vacation may have angered Harry as the house went through a series of strange and unfortunate events including transfer of ownership to a con man cum evangelist preacher who used the house as a retreat for his followers to a brushfire that swept through the canyon and destroyed the home.

The house sat in disrepair for years occupied by vagrants and visited by Houdini fans. The chauffeur’s cottage on the property has been restored by the current owner and the property is now rented out for parties, charity events, and film shoots. Many have claimed they’ve caught a glimpse of Houdini wandering around the grounds but, just like in his magic acts, the apparitions may only be an illusion

[abandonedinthesouth]

[abandonedinthesouth]

Basingwerk Abbey North Wales...known to be haunted..