Zerelda is at Mommy's. Went swimming for a little bit today. She then demanded ice cream so we left 😂

Friday. 5 weeks post op.

got a tiny bit farther on Body Grooves workout. watched American Outlaws. I know he was a bad boy, but long live Jesse James. finished The Stand. leftover pizza for lunch. finished Mr. Zak Bagans doll. I think he's adorable. the other boys have bodies, they just need wardrobe. working on a big steppin tee for Aaron. (now Aaron is dressed). Tracy said I should make her a Zak. I had thought about it,and even saved 2 big baby blues....watched last nights Ghost Adventures Screaming Room. ordered last 2 Christmas books for grandkids...don't know why this has been so hard. 3 books + a cryptid book. not rocket science. Kevin mandatory overtime.Sasquatch help me, had to unfollow my pregnant teenage Facebook "friend." enough with the baby bump pics already. I. am. over. it.

Thursday.

did my first Body Grooves workout....went till my stomach started telling me to quit...

DVD 1 - 3 Complete Workouts Each Body Groove workout series consists of six to seven, 4-5 minute dance routines and each workout is about 30 mins long. DVD 1 includes: Workout Series #1 (7 routines – 39 minutes) Workout Series #2 (6 routines – 28 minutes) Workout Series #3 (6 routines – 27 minutes) That's 19 easy, fun and EFFECTIVE dance workout routines, each between 4 - 9 minutes in length. From high-energy dances like “The Love Bus” and “House of Dance”, to mellow grooves like “Chiller’s Lounge”, there’s so much variety in the collection! Body Groove DVD 2 - 2 bonus workouts Bonus Workout #1 - "Stretch & Flex" (7 routines – 33 minutes) Bonus Workout #2 - "Mind & Body" (6 routines – 24 minutes) As we age, it’s ESSENTIAL that we keep our bodies flexible to decrease our risk of getting hurt, and to keep us mobile. That’s why I created these 7 Stretch & Flex workouts. And unlike “regular” exercise, where you just mindlessly follow an instructor, Body Groove lets you engage your mind in every workout. That’s what we highlight in this gentle yet challenging collection of dances. Misty I know you're going to love Body Groove! I'm 100% convinced that once you experience how different Body Groove is... And see for yourself that the best path to vibrant health is moving your body in your own unique way... You'll never want to go back to traditional follow-the-leader style exercise again!

walked a lap at park without stopping day 2. first post-op trip to Hy-Vee. first time wearing denim capris since surgery....you know, REAL pants. Pizza Hut carry out. Kevin & KJ lugged new dresser to KJ's room. and played pizza with Relda.

Mother Abigail just sent Stu, Larry, Glen, & Ralph out West...and Katie & Brayden made it to Arizona.

my final thoughts on Black Moon Manor....

this is just one more place I'll never get to investigate...but that's ok. Ghost Adventures (and probably other tv shows) did it for me. there are books and all kinds of internet info out there. my ghost hunting right now is all home bound.

more on Black Moon Manor.... https://mysteriousheartland.com/does-it-matter-if-black-moon-manor-was-a-fake/

Yesterday, Mysterious Heartland posted an excerpt of the book Echoes from the Grave by Larry Wilson featuring Black Moon Manor near Greenfield, Indiana. Shortly thereafter, a friend messaged me and alerted me to the fact that allegations of fraud had come out about the location and its proprietor, Matt Speck. The farmhouse was torn down in early December 2012. This may seem like old news to some of you, but I think it raises important questions about paranormal investigation and places that market to paranormal investigators. I did a Google search and this article (“Black Moon Manor CONFIRMED as a fraud by the REAL OWNER!”) was one of the first to pop up. The article allegedly reprints a conversation between Dan Scheider from Ohio Gothic Paranormal and Walter Eastes, who owns the property. I use the word “allegedly” because I have no idea who the author of the post is, or who Dan Scheider is. For all I know, Dan Scheider has an axe to grind against Black Moon Manor’s proprietor Matt Speck and fabricated the entire conversation in order to discredit him. But for the purposes of this article, we’ll assume everything in this internet post is true. In his email, Dan Scheider presents research that disproves many (if not all) the history related by Matt Speck about the farmhouse he called “Black Moon Manor.” Scheider goes on to accuse Speck of “spreading fraudulent information” about the owner’s family and “trying to make a buck by making up stories about your family.” (On a side note, if someone was doing that about my family, I would be rather annoyed.) So according to Scheider, he spoke with Walter Eastes over the phone. Eastes told him (again, allegedly) that he rented the dilapidated house to Matt Speck for $100 a month (that’s incredibly cheap!). Speck told him he wanted to turn it into a haunted attraction, but he could not get the proper permits, so he started charging paranormal teams to investigate the place. The owner said the home had no sentimental value for him and he just wanted to tear it down (which he eventually did).

OK, so now that we know what the allegations are, let’s get into the meat of this article. As far as I’m concerned, any of the following possibilities still exist: Black Moon Manor was not haunted and Matt Speck intentionally fabricated its history, as well as claims of paranormal activity. Black Moon Manor was actually haunted and Matt Speck unintentionally related false historical information (that is the opinion of Amy Hansford who wrote this article and said “I do not hold Matt Speck responsible for the miss information. He seems to be just going by what others had told him.”) Black Moon Manor was actually haunted, but Matt Speck intentionally fabricated its history. Given that Mr. Speck leased the house with the sole intention of using it as a haunted attraction, I think it’s highly likely that he made up a creepy-sounding history for the property in order to enhance its appeal. That’s not fraud — it’s marketing. I also think it’s possible that the home just happened to be genuinely haunted. However, if the whole thing was a fraud, and the house was not haunted, what does that say about all the “evidence” collected there by paranormal investigators? Wouldn’t that mean the techniques used to investigate Black Moon Manor were flawed because they produced false results? Or were the expectations of the investigators themselves producing the false results? If so, how can any evidence gathered on a paranormal investigation ever be accepted? In other words, if Black Moon Manor was a fraud, why didn’t every paranormal investigation team leave the place empty handed? But there’s an even bigger question. Let’s say Matt Speck fabricated Black Moon Manor’s history and made up claims of paranormal activity. So what? Does that completely invalidate everything that was experienced there? And by “experience” I don’t mean just experiences of the paranormal variety. I mean all the time spent exploring, reading about, and participating in the experience of “Black Moon Manor.” A different way of asking this question is, does the fact that the 1993 film Gettysburg inaccurately portrayed the battle of Gettysburg mean you wasted 4.3 hours of your life watching it? (Gettysburg is one of my favorite movies, by the way.) Calling something a “fraud” implies that everything about it is tainted and that it should be thrown in the wastebasket and forgotten. But what if it turns out that there never was any such thing as “ghosts” or “paranormal activity” — a fact that skeptics already believe. In that case, every place that ever laid claim to being haunted is “fraudulent.” That is something I believe everyone interested in this subject needs to take a long, hard look at. Because if your interest in the paranormal rests solely on proving its reality, you may be setting yourself up for a great deal of disappointment. There are many, many Black Moon Manors out there. Finally, I would like to ask why we should be outraged when it’s discovered that a place like Black Moon Manor isn’t really haunted. Again, let’s say Matt Speck fabricated Black Moon Manor’s history and made up claims of paranormal activity. Who was harmed? You could say that the paranormal investigation teams who paid to investigate the place were defrauded out of their money. But don’t most paranormal investigation teams consider it good practice to assume a place isn’t haunted before they investigate, or to try and disprove claims of paranormal activity? So if the stories were fake and the results of their investigations were negative, they accomplished their goal. Or, on the other hand, the team expected to find paranormal activity and did not, so they’re disappointed. But is there ever any guarantee that paranormal activity will take place? Of course not. Matt Speck can claim anything he wants to about strange things that happen there, but even if they really did happen, he can’t make them materialize on command. In my opinion, then, paranormal investigation teams got what they paid for — a chance to prove or disprove the alleged paranormal activity in the house. No one did (or ever could) guarantee they would find something. As I mentioned earlier, I am more concerned that Matt Speck may have improperly used the property owner’s family while weaving his tales. If he had told Walter Eastes what he planned to do, and Eastes was on board with the plan, that would be one thing. But I have a problem with Speck incorporating Eastes’ family into the history of his (fictional) haunted house without getting Walter’s permission (if that is what happened). While unscrupulous and possibly unethical, however, I’m not sure it rises to the level of a criminal offense.

Black Moon Manor in Indiana.....watched an old episode of Ghost Adventures last night....

by Kimmie Chameleon: Ghost Adventures Recap: “Black Moon Manor”... Original Air Date (Travel Channel): Friday October 12, 2012... Season 7 Episode 5 Location: This episode takes us to rural Buck Creek Township in Indiana.... History: Black Moon Manor is one of the oldest homes in the township of Buck Creek, Indiana. Built in 1859 by the Eastes family, many legends and stories have been attached to the building. It is rumored that a doctor by the name of Dr.Harvey treated several hundreds of people with smallpox after he turned the home into an infirmary. It has also been speculated that this doctor introduced and spread the disease to further his career. Another legend told is that during the 1930’s, a woman committed suicide by jumping 70 feet down into a well that runs underneath the house. It has also been said that the 5 year old daughter of the Eastes family, named Rachel, died in the house... The current owner of the house, Matt Speck has his girlfriend share a story about the time she gave a tour of the home to some friends. When she walked into the house, she felt overcome with raging emotion and started cussing up a storm. She then felt something grab her back and she was left with a large scratch. They provide us with a photo of this bright red scratch. Janie O’Daniel, a paranormal investigator, shares with the crew her experiences investigating the house. She says that this is the only place out of 300 plus investigations that she has done, where she has been scared out of. She has seen shadows come out of a bathroom, door handles shake, and the floors vibrate. Another paranormal investigator by the name of Jeffrey Poe backs up the claim that Black Moon Manor is haunted by showing a videotape capturing a rocking horse rock all by itself during an investigation that he did in 2011. What is eerie is that just as Jeffrey starts to play the video, the computer suddenly shuts down.

Validate Ghost Adventures crew likes to back up claims with evidence, so they head to the local library to meet with two historians after a quick jaunt to the Eastes Cemetery. They research the stories and legends and can only determine that the little girl by the name of Rachel possibly died in the home. The wild stories of hundreds of deaths in the home and the mere claim that the home was an infirmary are inconclusive. The crew head over to a former tenant of the Black Moon Manor named Matt Gephardt. He tells them that he often heard disembodied conversations, footsteps constantly coming from the second floor, and the fact that one time a friend of his felt like he got punched after mocking the ghosts. Zak shares with him some of the old stories and legends. He also shares with him the fact that a little girl named Rachel died in the house. Matt surprises him when he tells him that when they first moved into the house, the name “Rachel” was scrawled all over the walls of the house. The Lockdown Base camp is set up in a tent outside with Billy Tolley watching over 4 stationary night vision cameras placed around the manor. Aaron is sent in alone first. Zak radios over Aaron’s walkie talkie a message to the spirits in the house and as Zak is talking. Aaron begins to hear footsteps upstairs. Aaron begins to provoke the supposed evil spirit: Aaron: “Maybe the legend’s true, or the legend is false. I don’t know. You’re not showing me sh*t.” After this statement, Aaron and the crew inside the base camp all hear distinct whispering in response to Aaron. Zak tells Aaron to head upstairs, and as he gets out the Mel Meter her hears a woman say: Disembodied voice: “No one’s up here.” With these clearly heard disembodied voices, Zak attributes the clarity to the fact that the well that runs underneath the house as a geomagnetic source of energy that these spirits can draw off on. Zak can resist no longer and joins Aaron in the house, ready with the SB-7 device. Zak: “Is there anybody in here that wants to talk to us?” SB-7 device: “There are some.” Zak: “Can you come and communicate with us?” SB-7 device: “Yes, I am.” Zak then feels something touch his hair. Zak: “If there’s a spirit here, talk to us.” SB-7 device: “Did.” Both Zak and Aaron begin to feel uncomfortable. Zak is getting a bit too close to the edge of the well and Aaron asks Zak to step back as the SB-7 device warns: SB-7 device: “Evil.” Zak gets out the Mel Meter and watches as it continuously spikes off the charts. The SB-7 device once again speaks: SB-7 device: “A demon.” The Mel Meter then shows that the temperature is 66.6 degrees, the sign of the devil. Zak begins to ask: Zak: “Are you making this thermometer to 66.6 degrees?” SB-7 device: “Yes.” The Mel Meter is lighting up non-stop and Zak tells us that he has never experienced this device respond so highly. Zak: “What color are you making this thing light up?” SB-7 device: “It’s green.” At this point, Zak feels like his body is being drained of all it’s energy and can barely stand up. He leaves the house to regain his strength for a while. Aaron leaves for a small break as well, and they leave Nick alone to investigate the upstairs bedroom. Zak requests that Nick go through the small attic opening to investigate the hidden area. It takes an insurmountable amount of gumption for Nick to finally crawl into the room and ask some questions. He captures no E.V.P.s but feels like it was very difficult to breathe in the small room. Aaron and Zak have recovered and rejoin Nick inside of the house. Zak begins to take some full spectrum still pictures and notices that in a couple of shots pointed toward the staircase, there appears to be a bright mass and a mysterious dark mass. As the crew wraps up the investigation and leaves to review footage in the tent, Zak returns to the house and repositions some of the cameras and hears something being thrown in the room. Aaron and Nick return to the house to look for what was thrown, and believe that it was a piece of wood that had been unexplainably thrown.

Quotable Quotes: Zak: “Someone’s living here. They don’t breathe and they don’t have a heartbeat. Something lives in this house.” Aaron: “The past.” Zak: “Yeah. They’re trying to tell us what happened in the past. And once they do, then they may be able to rest.” DarkMedia contributing writer Kimmie Chameleon was born and raised with a healthy appreciation for horror and science fiction. She currently covers Supernatural, Ghost Adventures, BBC’s Being Human, Syfy’s Being Human, and Sherlock. When she’s not out ghost hunting with her kids, you can find her stealing a moment to add to her own pieces of fiction. Follow her on Twitter @dvsduo and “friend” her on Facebook.

I want to go. comments say it was ripped down by owner and all a fake. I didn't watch much of the episode before I got too tired and turned off tv. sure I watched original but that was loooooooooong ago and my memory ain't so good these days.

Mercer Co. Sheriff's Report

MCAD dispatched...deputy responded to ATV wreck...cattle out...cattle out Rt K west of Mercer...concealed carry permit...cows out...man wanted on MC warrant brought in...sheriff responded to one car accident...structure fire...deputy responded to report of a suicidal subject...deputy responded to a report of a domestic disturbance...deputy reponded to a report of a fireworks disturbance....