Where the balls is this place exactly and who wants to go?

I'm down... Lets go next weekend. All Hallow's Eve and such. Should be fun.

XD .40 strapped to the hip, baybee!

What day are you guys thinking?  I've got a thingamajig on Saturday evening, but that should end by 11:00pm.

-b0b
(...always heard the "mansion" was just a rumor.)

My googling skills must be sub par. And Al Capone had a lot of mansions. 

Man reading up on this is exciting...yeah let's go this weekend!  Bring camera, guns, video cam if possible.  Good stuff

http://pub37.bravenet.com/photocenter/album.php?usernum=3165305714&album=12193&n...; - Some pics

X

So are we doing this? Sat night maybe?

How late is late? I was thinking in the spirit of things we would be going after dark anyways. As far as where, I think Patrick was looking for where exactly this place can be found.

Well seeing as TR is a hugely popular and well known city I can't fine the driving directions online.  However knowing a friend he says to take:

M-60 to Young Prairie Rd
First road on the right is Harter Rd
Then Williams Rd which is Purgatory.
It's two roads and take up both sides of the road.  The area is rather small so finding the buildings won't be too hard.

Also, do you guys care if we go around 12AM?

X

Is it ok if we meet at your (as in Bob's) house? and then we can all car pool with one or two vehicles
I have no prob driving I just don't know exactly where it is.  Other than with the directions I have.

X

You guys suck, I want to go

I hope you get lost.

Should I come...or are you afraid I might steal her.

X
(Thinks he somehow has the Midais touch...and doesn't know if he want to get rid of it or not)

Stewie, your woman would beat you down if she saw that!

-b0b
(...would supply the baseball bat.)

X is a frisky fella


What should we bring?

I'm wearing some good ole fashioned camo and bringing a flashlight or 2, maybe glowsticks.

Meet at bobs at midnight then... Dress appropriatly. Bring a flashlight. Anyone on here that wants to go, Give me a ring.

stick, you down?

I'm gonna pass, working in the morning.  My sister said she has been out there before and there isn't much to see.  She also said there is one cave to the right of the house and there are tunnels or something in the woods behind the house or something.

Here's some pictures.  Briney said he'd narrate when he got a chance.  Enjoy!

http://www.twncommunications.net/Other/Capone

-b0b
(...thinks we need to do this again.)

This is freaky, I enhanced the photo.  Can anyone see some windows or something in this picture too?  Let me post again with some arrows and stuff.

Bob took 2 pictures, I remember him doing it. He took one, and then he looked at the screen, saw that it wasn't good, so he used his flash for the next. We were at the entrance to a long road that prolly went to Capone's burnt mansion. We went down there, but there was a youth camp or something that was lit up so we left. But these pics are definetly wild.

The second one was taken with a flash, my headlights were on, and he was in front of the car. It was pretty dusty.

I thought that the thing was like a post or something but... now i dont know.

~BRiney

Ok last post on this... But Photoshop is too fun. Now these pics are scientifically sound....

...And I base that on absolutely nothing.



With smoke removed:



~BRiney

(...tra la la la la la)

Well if you look at the "apparition" it's about the size of the fence post.  Most ghost apparitions appear at their normal height.  So if it IS a ghost...it's a child.

X

When I come back to town, you motherfuckers BETTER take me up there, I want ghost pictures too god damn it!

Now being the most qualified person to talk about the paranormal since I have been studying the stuff since I was in 5th grade, I would like to offer my opinion into what the object is.  I have voted that it is in fact an optical illusion.  If you remember that night, it was late and the dew was decending.  That means there was fog.  There were also two light sources.  Briney's headlights and Bob's flash.  If you have a thick fog you often times capture what looks to be something more solid than the fog.  As you can also see in the pic there are different gradients of fog.  On the left hand side you see the fog is relatively less and on the right it is heavier.  Now I will say that it being a humaniod shape and seems to be at the level of the leaves it's "standing" on is very weird.  However you rarely have ghost pictures that are all white like you have here.  Usually if you get a shape it is not complete and if it is it's almost always transparents.  If this is not an optical illusion then it's closer to being an angel sighting which with angel sightings they rarely hide and make their pressence known on pictures only.  Again I put forth that this is just the fog and you know I'm not an govt debunker because I want to believe in this stuff more than anyone.  However I have to use reasonable doubt when looking at these types of pics.  Just like how some people saw the devil in the smoke of the second plane hitting the WTC, we often see things we want to see or see something our eyes tend to focus on more.  However, again with possibility, I could always be wrong.

X

you jerkwad

X wrote on Nov 5^th, 2005 at 4:33pm:



Yeah, that's the best part!

-b0b
(...woooo!)

You're mean.

I want to slap you in the face with a large trout.

Heck, I would do that anyway.

It sounds like fun.

Who cares about that. I feel more that trust was broken here. A practical joke doesnt last a week. Its a joke when the person knows hes been pranked on shortly after. When its dragged out a week, its just f**kin retarded. He even posted this thing on an unsolved mysteries site and sent them a link to this thread.  I even had some convos with bob about it during the week and he just kept going on about it.

Har. Har.

Hope you all had a good laugh.

I'm sorry if I made any upset, I had no clue that would happen.  In the future, I'll keep my practical jokes limited to 48 hours.  No harm intended.

-b0b
(...)

Any you are?

Sorry stick

And you are?

I don't think there is a "Purgatory Road."  Purgatory is the name of the hunting land that Capone's mansion was formerly located on.

-b0b
(...could be wrong.)

EVP's, you say?

If I may inquire, what is an EVP?

-b0b
(...is too lazy to use Google.)

If you could show on a map or give directions as to where that pic was taken, that would be awesome. I was under the impression the mansion itself burned down a few years ago, and that the only surving landmarks was a servants quarters and a half sunken house or something like that. looking forward to more pics and descriptions.

Thanks

~BRiney

Heck yeah...we have to do it for real this time.  If we could get actual directions or have someone take us.  I'd def go out there again.

X

Could you throw us some directions?

Also, next time you go you should post it with a time and place to rendezvue.  Stregnth in numbers to protect us from the red eyed bigfoot and the Satan worshipers.

X

I'm a skeptic.

-b0b
(...would love to be proven wrong, though.)

Oh ya, that photo was not of me...

and bOb...I could probably show you how to believe!!  Do you know of any haunted places?  Lets do the work! (NO PHOTO EDITING ALLOWED!!)

Sherry G

excuse me.


I was drinking tea.



and it came out of my nose.





Cait
    (...buah hahahahahahahahah )

gasp!



comon man!

Ghostbusters!

Oh and nice to meet you spiritchats.

Most of us are from a small town in Michigan.  Although very few if any of us actualy still live there.

And, uhh yeah, dont really pay attention to anything I post.  Most of it is vulgar and rarely constructive

Well, I will let you all know when we go back (if there is time) we like to be spontainous.

We live in Edwardsburg and the others in the group are from Elkhart and Mishawaka.

I am trying to put together a forum for us to interact, and to include others that are interested.   I AM a geek flunkie.

Any other info or locations would be greatly appreciated!