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As Ghost and Grave Hunters, the world may consider us to be odd ducks, but we still make very frustrating, very human mistakes. As hunters, we all have equipment we use to help us keep doing our thing. The mistake a lot of us make is in not knowing that equipment, and in not keeping spare parts around. We tend to buy it, use it till it breaks, and buy another. But what if you HAVE to fix it? To borrow from a friend’s recent… adventure… do you even know what a Cat5e Keystone jack IS? Well, trust me on this, neither do the store clerks in that little town you stopped in. If you don’t know what it is, why it broke, and where to get a replacement… you are going to be SOL. So just take a few minutes to get to KNOW your equipment. Look it up online… what is most likely to go wrong with it? And then be prepared. You’ll be glad later.

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No matter what else could be said about Liberace, he was one fine music maker. Wladziu Valentino Liberace was born to immigrant parents from Poland and Italy. His father played the french horn for the Milwaukee Philharmonic, and his mother played a mean piano herself, giving the boy an excellent musical lineage. With a background like that, it is little wonder that he made his musical debut at age fourteen, with the Chicago Symphony, no less. A brief television and movie career led to his playing sold out shows in Vegas for many years. And, while popping in a Liberace tape drives my WAY too modern teens from the room, those of us with taste still enjoy the lovely music he made. He is buried next to his mother and brother at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, in the Court of Remembrance.

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If you have had trouble getting your comments past moderation in the last week or have noticed that you can’t at the moment LEAVE a comment, please just be patient with me… things are getting fixed. Since I moderate every comment myself, every notification hits my inbox. In the last week or so, some nitwit had been spamming comments on here with links to obscene sites… to the tune of roughly eight HUNDRED comments. They are getting around akismet somehow, filling up my server space, and making my laptop memory go crazy when I try to download… so I had to turn it off. I will get the moderation of REAL comments done, and am working on a better filter system. Comments will return shortly.

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Anton Adner was a nearly Santa Clause like figure. A Bavarian toy maker, he sold his wares in markets as far away as Switzerland. Not trusting other people to be careful with shipping boxes of his toys, he instead WALKED to all these markets and sold the toys himself, after carrying the wares all that way attached to a large wooden rack on his back. In spite of, or perhaps because of, this rigorous lifestyle, he lived to be a hundred and seventeen years old. He is buried in “Old Cemetery” in Bayern, Germany.

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I read a lot of audiobooks, “read”, of course, being subjective. Before I lost most of my vision, I read a LOT, and I couldn’t ever kick the habit. It’s a pretty expensive habit, too. But I did just find a place that offers free audio books for signing up for the free trial, and they have over fifty thousand to choose from. Their every day prices aren’t bad either. And the books aren’t garbage. They have everything from the classics to newer fiction, self help, kids, the whole range. It’s well worth clicking through and checking em out! Now, back to our regular programming….

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Donna Reed, born Donnabelle Mullenger, was an Oscar winning television and motion picture actress. She always seemed to get cast into roles playing upright, extremely wholesome mother types, as in the classic Christmas film “It’s a Wonderful Life”, where she starred opposite James Stewart, who played a sort of mortgage life insurance lender. It was no different in her own television show, “The Donna Reed Show”, which aired in the fifties and sixties. (In that, I was never sure WHAT her husband did for a living, but he always wore a suit and tie to do it.) She died of Pancreatic Cancer, and is buried in the Westwood Memorial Park in Los Angeles, Section D, #110.

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Jerry Reed died the other day. I missed it until now because of other people that were apparently considered more important as far as the national news folks were concerned. But for those of us who have been fans for years, this came as quite a shock. A man who appeared to be more at home with horses or used Harleys, he still came shining through in just about any situation. It’s said that he wrote the theme song for “Smokey and the Bandit” in less than three hours one day… and was worried no one would like it. “East Bound and Down” went on to become a major hit. He has been buried in the Woodlawn National Park in Nashville, Tennessee. RIP, Jerry.

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Alma Rubens was a movie star, considered to be extremely glamorous, and was the adored idol of the acne and bobby socks set. Leading lady to Douglas Fairbanks Sr., she was indeed a star. Her grand image came crashing down around her, along with her career, and her life. She died of complications from drug addiction, forever dulling the glamour that was her image. She is buried in the Ararat Cemetery in Fresno, California.

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Queen Victoria Jackson Haley was born a slave. She was married to a local ferry operator after the civil war, and was the grandmother of renowned author Alex Haley. The story of her life was the basis for one of his novels, “Queen”, which has also been made into a miniseries. It is said that her first name occasionally gave her problems… well, think about it. These days, if you anounce that you are a queen, someone is bound to suggest introducing you to Orovo detox. She is also featured in the miniseries “Roots: The Next Generations”. Queen Haley is buried in the Savannah Cemetery in Savannah, Tennessee.

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One of the most mistold stories in American History is that of the legendary Sacajawea, a native Shoshone. At age twelve, when modern almost teens are hunting for acne scars cream and just beginning to think about dating, Sacajawea was kidnapped by an enemy raiding party, then sold as a slave to a Frenchman. He claimed her as his wife, and BOTH of them, not just the young indian girl, were hired by the Lewis and Clark expedition as guides. In spite of what is usually told, the young indian girl’s primary duties involved gathering roots and berries, for food and medication. When she gave birth to her first child on the trail, the party didn’t even slow down… she strapped the child to her back and carried on, as expected. No one is exactly sure what happened to her husband, but he did disappear. And as for Sacajawea, legend states that she died of a white man’s disease at the ripe old age of twenty four or five, around the time of her husband’s disappearance. MUCH more credible evidence says that she ACTUALLY lived to be around a hundred years old, passing away on an indian reservation sometime around 1877. Because no one really knows what version is true, there is no way to locate a gravesite.

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