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Canary with bouffant hair-do nicknamed after BoJo! + Meet the Paranormal Moms Society

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Budgie with bouffant hair-do nicknamed after Boris Johnson
https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/201...s-johnson/

INTRO: The RSPCA has named a canary found in a Plymouth Park after the new Prime Minister [Boris Johnson] because of his bouffant of blond hair. The yellow canary was found flying loose in a park near Farm Lane on Saturday (3 August).


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Meet the Paranormal Moms Society
https://narratively.com/meet-the-paranor...s-society/

EXCERPT: . . . Christie Carpenter-Chaidez is one of eight women who make up the Paranormal Moms Society, or PMS, of Northlake, Illinois. Founded in 2007, the members all have full-time jobs and families that they balance with their investigations, which are often an all-night ordeal, followed by weeks spent analyzing the hundreds of hours of footage, audio files and EVP recordings. This off-kilter work has led to lifelong friendships — and a sense of purpose. Any case that deals with kids or animals gets pushed to the front of the pile. “It’s the mom in us,” says Carpenter-Chaidez.

When Carpenter-Chaidez first moved to Northlake, a 12,000-person city half an hour outside of Chicago, she didn’t know many people. “I became a stay-at-home mom when my son was born, so then I was really isolated,” she says. It was on a regular walk to school that she struck up a conversation with one of the neighborhood moms and found a shared interest: paranormal investigations. Both avid fans of Ghost Hunters, the two women purchased some basic tools and started their own paranormal searches in cemeteries like the famed Bachelor’s Grove.

Their humble beginnings, without fancy equipment or really any clear idea of how one actually becomes a ghost hunter, sparked something in Carpenter-Chaidez. While her co-founder would end her affiliation with the group not long after it started, Carpenter-Chaidez wanted more. She soon began searching for other like-minded moms. “I wondered how many other moms who are like us are out there,” says Carpenter-Chaidez. “[Moms] looking for something they could do to get away from the kids on a weekend and looking for something that they are really into.”

Each woman has a different story about how they got interested in the paranormal...

[...] Some of the women’s family members do not support or understand their paranormal hobbies. Liz Mason’s mother was against it for religious reasons, but over the years she has become more accepting, and now she even watches the live feeds of their investigations. Theresa Ban’s sons were skeptical too, but after Ban went through evidence and showed them what the work entails, she says they understood. “Both of my boys are supportive; they don’t make fun of it or anything,” says Ban. “They know this is Mom’s hobby and I like to do this.”

But this is more than just a pastime for these women; it’s a responsibility. If there is anything their own paranormal experiences have taught them, it is that no one should ever feel scared, alone or hopeless. And they are committed to doing this work no matter what. “I have shown up to cases with a cane, I have a team member that has arthritis and even when she can barely move, she will still come on a case,” says Carpenter-Chaidez. “My case manager Crissy showed up at this site and she didn’t look great to me … well, it turns out she had been having a heart attack and stayed, so that is who is on my team.”

The women of PMS are not in ghost-hunting for fame or recognition. They all genuinely believe in what they are doing, and they see this as an opportunity to help others.“It is all worth it to me,” says Mason. “Especially when we help people, when we validate [their] claims, and they go, ‘See I wasn’t crazy!’”

“In the beginning, I was trying to find answers for myself,” says Carpenter-Chaidez. “I wanted to know what was after me when I was a child. But over the years it has become about finding these answers for other people, so they don’t have to have that fear that I did.” (MORE - details)
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Quote:After my mom passed, every time my grandson would come over I would videotape [him]. I would always catch an orb in the video. I thought that’s great-grandma right there because she never got to meet her great-grandson


That’s proof enough of ghosts for some people. 

One of them remembers a ghostly shadow from the time they were 6. I’d hang my hat on that piece of evidence as more proof. 

Part way through article I totally lost interest. Do they list any major findings? 

Maybe the bible study groups can learn from this. Organize to seek the truth. Get out there and prove God exists instead of just reading about it. Angel
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I love how paranormal investigation is so grassroots. Everyday people taking charge of a field of research science totally ignores. More power to them!
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(Aug 8, 2019 05:15 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: I love how paranormal investigation is so grassroots. Everyday people taking charge of a field of research science totally ignores. More power to them!

A patent clerk would certainly have to take a back seat to investigative mothers who show up at haunts with a cane, arthritis, can barely move or are recovering from a recent heart attack. Great role models for the disabled.
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(Aug 8, 2019 04:02 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote:
Quote:After my mom passed, every time my grandson would come over I would videotape [him]. I would always catch an orb in the video. I thought that’s great-grandma right there because she never got to meet her great-grandson


That’s proof enough of ghosts for some people. 

One of them remembers a ghostly shadow from the time they were 6. I’d hang my hat on that piece of evidence as more proof. 


I remember one of those at age seven. What resembled an elderly woman in robes repeatedly entering my bedroom and attaching what looked like cards to the curtains of a window. I was hunkering under the covers the whole time, just leaving enough of a panoramic crack open to view her activity across that distance. No doubt she was present in my vision via my imagination engaging in augmented reality, but I suspect nobody else would have seen the shadowy phantom if they had been present.

Quote:Part way through article I totally lost interest. Do they list any major findings? 


There may be a sub-section on the PMS site that documents such. If so, I'm leaving it up to those with fully non-biased stamina to explore it for anything unexpectedly interesting. I admittedly tucker-out after about 5 steps up the hill of anything that poses the possibility of being familiar, a rerun, etc. But gee, like a freeloader I'm sure back there in a blink if the gold panners find some non-pyrite nuggets in the stream.
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