Dr. Cryssie @KitCatNightmare

@wired4wonder That is perfect! I need to be there.

@MoneyQuotesX Act average, stay average.

@wired4wonder Some of them are. 🙂 we have a few here that are interesting, but can't find much, if anything, online about them.

True Crime meets Paranormal 👻 The Greenbriar Ghost: West Virginia 👻 Zona, a young woman in Greenbrier County, had recently married Edward Shue, a blacksmith. A few months after the wedding, she was found dead at the foot of her staircase. The town's doctor quickly ruled it an accident, claiming "everlasting faint". Her mother, Mary Jane Heaster, said "the devil has killed her". However, with no evidence, she could do nothing but pray. She prayed every night for four weeks hoping Zona would return. Then she did. The vision visited over four consecutive nights. Zona told her mother that Edward had attacked her in a fit of rage because he believed she hadn't made his dinner properly... she didn't make any meats. He broke her neck. The spirit proved it by rotating her head 180 degrees. Mary Jane went to the prosecutor. He was skeptical, of course, but he had enough doubt to send deputies to reinterview people. An exhumation was ordered. The autopsy found that Zona's neck had been broken. The official report stated the neck was dislocated between the first and second vertebrae, the ligaments torn and ruptured, and the windpipe crushed, with finger marks on the throat. Shue's own lawyer made the mistake of cross-examining Mary Jane extensively about the ghost visits, hoping to discredit her. It backfired. She did not waver despite intense badgering. The judge found it difficult to instruct the jury to disregard the ghost story since it was presented by the defense, and the community believed her. Shue was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison with mercy. "It was no dream… she was there." Mary Jane Heaster said in her court testimony. The historical marker still stands today near the cemetery, reading: "Interred in nearby cemetery is Zona Heaster Shue. Her death in 1897 was presumed natural until her spirit appeared to her mother to describe how she was killed by her husband Edward. Autopsy on the exhumed body verified the apparition's account. Only known case in which testimony from ghost helped convict a murderer. "

@JRP_42069 I'm swimming with botox infested sharks every week. 😂 Even the older ones here can't even smile or lift their eyebrows. Some can barely talk. It's crazy. I'd rather just age naturally and have wrinkles than all that.

@bipr_uk Having talked to you for a bit, I think your approach to this is what is definitely needed. You'll change the entire field.

I believe hers would have been unfinished business. Of course, looking at the psychological aspect of it, too. Because her mother, of all people, would have known her daughter's husband was mean or abusive to the girl. The same way we can tell with our friends. She even said, "The devil killed her". It's natural to suspect the husband in the murder, then. And our brains will fill in the missing information. She wanted to see her daughter again...and she did. Much like us dreaming of something we think about deeply before going to sleep. But also, if it hadnt been a spirit story, the prosecutor and jury may not have listened to a grief stricken mother at those times. There's always a chance that the prosecutor didnt necessarily *like* the husband, too, but politics are a different beast. And... in those years, there weren't many sound laws about domestic violence. Many reasons then.

@iashwinikumaar I love it. 🙂

@wired4wonder West Virginia does have a lot. But also Indiana, for some reason. 😂 Then there are states that have a lot that I never knew about. Mostly ones that are small local legends, somewhat disorganized.

@ZaraBriggsBooks Some quotes just ht harder.

@bfpteam Would that include the objects they throw at my head... or just by their own touch? 😬

@iashwinikumaar At most times, I agree. I've seen too much to fully agree. This sketch is awesome and does capture the thought well, though.

@MoneyQuotesX Very beautiful and relaxing.

By the time the medical examiner arrived, the husband had already moved her body to the bed and dressed her in clothes with a high neckline and scarf and was sitting on the bed with her, holding her head. The examiner did actually see some bruising around the neck when he looked, but didn't look any further because the husband became violent when the examiner tried. Because it was the late 1800s, that also had a great deal to do with it. Female complaints were used as causes of death. Or really for a lot of things, such as them being committed to asylums for hysteria and being unruly or defying their husbands. But also, the men's grief was considered above everything else. Even if there had been suspicions, both the area she lived in and the era, they would have just left it alone, at least until it's pushed as her mother did. Tight knit communities are like that, even still. There were not any more visitations by the ghost to the mother (or at least never mentioned).. and no mentions of her ghost haunting anyone else. So it would seem like her spirit is at rest.

@iashwinikumaar Wasn't really scary. Just... different. 😂

@iashwinikumaar It's art. I think as long as you have the content warning, why not? It isn't like you're posting random xrated stuffs.

@uday_devops That will be awesome! Scary awesome, but can't wait anyway.

@magoniareview @BCA4Barnes @OSOArtsCentre That's awesome! They look like such a happy family.

@JeffysIdeas Science has studied this a lot. It's true for many reasons. "Positive vibes" didn't come from nowhere.