Lungs Old Vic Theatre, London

Lungs: "Breathe!"

A modern play for modern audiences particularly highlighting decisions to have a family, choosing or having the right partner, whilst the world around you falls apart.  Or said in many ways, is just "f**ked!"  With a look at green issues, the environment, political correctness be damned.  It's a personal choice and despair of how to live in this world.  To bring a child into it, or not.  To adopt, or not.  Sigh.  Want a baby, wait we're just talking about it.  It's just a "f**king conversation."  She's thinking out loud, then wants his input.  But doesn't really, but she does.

This couple had no names, no personal descriptions, they could be me, or you, facing the same challenges in a fast moving world.  Bring a child into it, with so much carbon consumption, the baby would be the size of the Eiffel Tower.  Do we need more people in the world, so adopt someone who is not loved.  Fast moving, breath taking, leaving you breathless.  Physical attraction, it's more than sex.  Want to make babies.  Their respective parents hate the respective partners.  She's studying for a PhD.  He's a struggling indie musician.  Get a real job, they both should.  He's not such a good musician in her opinion.  Oh sorry, sorry, sorry.  Full of apologies after the fact.  She was thinking it, so she said it.  So did he.  He reads books, books she reads, highlights passages he doesn't understand even after he reads the entire paragraph.

More dialogue on the state of the world, flying in planes.  They get together, make love some more.  Anxiously await the pregnancy test results.  It's positive, time moves on.  She has cravings.  He gets a corporate job.  Encourages the company to have a more social outlook and agenda.  He misses the meeting over lunch since they agreed to meet every Tuesday for lunch.  She bought a picnic, doughnuts and an apple to balance out the doughnut.  It's iced.  Let's be daring, have sex in a corner of the park. 

Sleepless nights, the baby...the baby.  More despair, depression...business as usual.  He goes to work.  She sits alone at home.  Time moves on.  They grow apart.  He meets a temp at work.  Years later they meet again.  Confess their feelings.  He's grown a beard.  He has a fiance.  Her mother's passed, so has his father but he didn't tell her.  Passions engulfs and enrages once more.  They jump into bed together.  Another baby...They don't marry.  The baby grows, gets older.  They marry. Years go past...fade to black

With a disco-y dance by the couple: Matt and Claire at the end.  Let it all out...

Wow, catch your breath!  Fast paced, exhilarating.  A momentous production.  Claire takes point in this and turns out has more to say than Matt does.  Sometimes she did drown him out a little, but you know, she's Queen Elizabeth so it's all good!  HA.  A simple stage, composed of solar panels, no change of clothes, just dialogue and lines and emotion.  It was different, it was topical.  It was a great production.  Matt was kind of his usual comedic self, not far removed from the Doctor, though I'll get berated for the comparison.  [Though she was the one who became a doctor, technically!  Ha.]  But it works for his character since he is musician, he's meant to be carefree.  Saying why can't musicians have kids.  Her response; the successful ones can.  Oof!  Claire is meant to be the calming voice, erratic, intelligent but can cut like a knife with the harshest of words.  But it works.

At stage door all Matt could ask is whether everyone enjoyed the play as he whizzed by signing autographs!  At least he signed for everyone!  As did Claire.  I got him to sign my newspaper clipping cos I could not for the life of me find that Doctor Who sketch I did of him years ago!  Never mind, it'll turn up.  He was surprised "wow a paper" as everyone else got their programmes signed!  Wonderful to meet him too finally!  My Doctor Eleven!  His energy was electrifying on stage and can see how he was mesmerizing as the Doctor.

A must see play for anyone who's interested in serious life issues interspersed with comedy and a lot we can all relate to!  After all they are "good people."

Lungs written by Duncan Macmillian
At the Old Vic until 9 November

Ghost Adventures Serial Killer Spirits Axe Killer Jail - Jake Bird

                                         
This one focused on not so well-known serial axe killer Jake Bird and how he cursed those who crossed his path and put him in prison, as well as perhaps the prison where he was eventually hanged.  Was this ep itself cursed or a bit of a pariah since his name wasn't mentioned in the title of the episode, unlike the other two thus far in this series.  Being referred to as Axe Killer Jail.

Oh and another think, shameless plug (or shameful) of the Haunted Museum!!  And a snippet shot of Peggy the Doll without any warning whatsoever to viewers and Zak had the gall to block me over 3 years ago for something I said about their disclaimers for the episode of GA where Peggy was included!  Well he blocked me for one of three tweets or all three, one was about Charles Manson!  HA!  Yeah I gotta laugh at that cos you know I'm such a rude person/troll.  Whereas others get away with much more, not that I'm bothered.
Anyhoo not to digress, aside from noticing the numbers on the door of the jail in Council Bluffs Iowa, 922, spelled 'ass' or as I tweeted to Jay about Iowa being synonymous with axe killers, re Villisca!

Bird killed 46 people with axes and caused one of his victims who survived to shoot his wife and then kill himself, his wife surviving.  He must have some serious mojo going to hex people since it had to be more of a coincidence that they met their fateful doom due to the potency of this hex.  Being from Louisiana he would have been more capable of cursing people, just an observation.  Also as I said, his name wasn't mentioned that much though it did appear on the new device used by Billy and Aaron in the basement of the jail and this one I thought was much better than the SB7 as it had less interference in terms of static noise and much more audible first time round.

Also known as the Tacoma Axe Kille, he was held there in 1928.  Zak referred to his power as supernatural and he predicted the people involved in his trial would all die, a year after he was executed, six men had died.  Immediately Zak finds it gets very cold with a breeze of strong air.  Speaks with Juli, who tells him about the noose on display, it's a museum, how would he not know that there'd be displays.  There's a bang during the interview with her and he gets chilled too.  Juli's great, great uncle was the jailer and he had to move out from the upstairs apartment with his family after experiencing activity.  A secret room was discovered in the jail and Aaron gets results from the room with the SB7.   "Search the house."  Whilst Zak looks at the noose.

Gary Galka's new invention of the SB7 being attached to a device being able to capture the response, slow it done, reverse it and record it too.  Used at Jake's cell.  Three bangs or thumps are heard, was that walking?  "Where are you?" comes through.  An anomaly is seen from his cell.  I don't hear "get back" but "he attacked me."  Not the "come attack me" part.  They then become breathless.  Perhaps a response to the voice of  being attacked.  That anomaly goes towards Zak.  Investigating the apartment they hear more banging.  Aaron feels energy come at him and a light anomaly is seen beside him and heading towards the floor as both he and Billy felt the floor shake.  Maybe synonymous with the steel stairs that were felt shaking by the tech there.

As Zak sits alone, I saw that light next to Jake's cell.  The black mass under the stairs was creepy.  Not intending to be caught but just hiding out there or being curious.  Billy sees the geophone move by Jake's cell but couldn't be concluded as being paranormal or not.  The puck says "mostly" when Billy asks if he's moving the device.  The ovilus responds "choose" and "Fay and Jackie."  Whoever they were, but Jackie can also be a male name.  I thought 'choose' was more a response to him saying they can use either device to communicate since he had two digital recorders there.  Aaron and Jake hear some sort of knocking in the basement.  Billy uses the new electric communication pod.  Billy asks if there are any cellmates and a voice replies "out of the basement".  Billy asks who they are. I hear "Shirley" (can also be male name) but sounds like a female voice.  'Bird' can be heard from the device.

"Is there a demand? sounds more like "at the band?"  Since Billy asks where Bird is. At what they call a laugh, it's more like the sqwak of a bird, to reinforce the name Bird.  I don't think it's a laugh. When Billy asks if that's you Jake Bird, I hear "buried??" in an English accent.

Oh and when Zak opened the door to the spiral squirrel cage from the attic room upstairs and the camera kept focusing on his crouch, I was gonna say (and I did to my sis) about how the camera kept focusing there, like me not being some kinda perv, cos yeah I really wanted to focus on his crotch didn't I!!  Before he said he was kicked there in the nuts!!  Thank you Aaron for having the balls to say it without worrying about decorum, cos really it'd be beeped out wouldn't it!  Billy made me chuckle when he said "testicles" being more the biological term for it.  Aaron says he felt that too earlier on.

Ghost Adventures Serial Killer Spirits John Wayne Gacy

                                          
This one's about the infamous clown serial killer, John Wayne Gacy and his incarceration in Joliet Prison. Where he was executed for his crimes and also suffered from ill health, thus was taken to the hospital before being executed later.  Where Zak catches a strange pinky mist near the X-ray table.  I wondered if Gacy's clown make-up altered the colour of the mist.  Well it's a pertinent thought, question. 

Also this is where Jay sees a black mass and three light anomalies are caught by the static cam at the same time.  Where he also felt pressure on his chest and had to get out of there.  Lots of orbs seen and one enter Aaron, making it difficult for him to speak.  Almost slurring his words.

Zak also holds parts of Gacy's brain and said he was affected by it after it had been donated for research and kept by the psychiatrist, Dr Helen Morrison who met with Gacy over six hundred times and never really made sense of his killings.  Zak used the Ovilus and got "Need" and "Being" on it, although it wasn't really clear who this was from and what was meant by 'being'.  Billy surmized it meant it needed a being to go into or attach itself to.  Could also mean it was referring to itself as being around still here, or existing in a spirit state.

A stick figure was caught on the SLS by Billy and it was so surreal, as if it was hanging itself, as many prisoners did on the bars of cells.  It appeared that even the rope could be seen. 

I would say by far the most extraordinary and creepy capture was when they caught that funny shaped anomaly which when reverted really did resemble a person with a head and everything.  Zak said it was wearing a cloak and I thought, what if it was more a clownish outfit. 

In the first pic, it looks like a face to me, I know they're not clear here, but if you look at the actual footage and from far away.
They didn't get any responses from Gacy, not that we know of, but the prison is very active with dark shadows also being captured on Jay's camera during the walk through in the day.  Zak marking the map where they would investigate and he caught an orb outside the prison walls too in the night investigation. 

For some reason, I didn't get into this ep of the show, don't think it was as interesting as HH Holmes, maybe it was the subject matter after all, not that clowns scare me, or perhaps it was the quality of the upload on the ep, which had squeaky Chipmonk sound on it as far as their voices were concerned and mish mashed all the evidence together and also the end three minutes were cut!

Gacy of course was mentioned by me in regards to Supernatural 2. Everybody Loves A Clown in my Dudes and Demons book.

Sanditon Episode 8

                                                  

Eight weeks of this for it to end rather predictably.  We get a reversal of Jane Austen's opening of Pride and Prejudice, where it's not the man with a good fortune looking for a wife but rather a man looking for a wife with money, the new universally accepted truth.  Sidney (Theo James) was that man and yes this did end on a downer.  As we got Charlotte (Rose Williams) in tears.  Very anticlimactic as she changes him to the point where he admits he is his true self around her and then rats he has to bail out his brother and save the day and their fortune. Tom (Kris Marshall) failing to insure the buildings due to a high premium as is synonymous with most people today. 

This series is probably one of looks and outstanding glances, as once again Charlotte happens to see Sidney in town whilst visiting Georgiana (Crystal Clarke) and if looks spelled ravaging feelings, well they had them ten fold and more.  Except in Georgiana's case where, if looks could kill...!  As with Pride and Prejudice it began with loathsome looks and misunderstandings of character between both Charlotte and Sidney.  Before blossoming into love and ending in heartbreak for both.

Everyone even Mary (Kate Ashfield) expecting Charlotte and Sidney to get together and damn it man he was even going to propose.  Charlotte realizing how Stringer (Leo Suter) felt with his unrequited feelings towards her, at least she would have if she'd known.  But she did in a roundabout way suffer and realize you can't always get what you want. Even Lady Denham (Anne Reid) speaks of her lost love before she met her husband who actually went off with someone else; so perhaps foreshadowing here for Charlotte and her predicament.  However it seems Esther (Charlotte Spencer) was the only one who fared well from all this as she is forced by Lady Denham to take a carriage ride with Babington (Mark Stanley) who loves her even if she dislikes him and as he later tells her at the Midsummer Ball, he doesn't want to own her and make her his property but to walk side by side with her. Though she did fall to pieces when Edward came storming in, in a last ditched effort to declare his love for her.  Nay her money and Sidney must escort him to the London stage.  So Charlotte dances with Stringer instead who tells her of his news, having just walked out on his father (Rob Jarvis) after telling him of his apprenticeship in London.  His father all but calling him a traitor. 

Charlotte telling Georgiana about her love for Sidney and she should see him in a new light, walking to the town with Sidney as she has a dress fitting but doesn't make it there as he's anxious to speak of the night before and his feelings for her.  Finally kissing. 

Arthur tells Georgiana she should come to the ball and they dance. Diana (Alexandra Roach) thinking he's going to leave her and she'll be all alone.  However he says they're just pals and he doesn't know about the pitfalls of marriage or engaging in it.  As they come across the fire started by Stringer senior who suffers a stroke and dies. 

Charlotte and Sidney not getting their dance together but also ending up in that same balcony scene under different circumstances now.  Sidney must rescue the family before Lady Denham sends for the debtors for Tom.  Sidney engages himself to Eliza (Ruth Kearney) who gets him after all in what appeared to be a bad version of Jane Eyre, where Rochester had the secret, mad wife and he wanted Jane, where Sidney rides up in the carriage for a not so fond farewell with Charlotte and she hopes he will be happy. Well Mr Rochester he wasn't or Mr Darcy. As she's said her goodbyes and returns home. 

Stringer stays in Sanditon to rebuild for his father's memory and will try his luck later as an apprentice as Charlotte tells him she's going back and probably won't be back again.  Oh and she didn't seem to say goodbye to Georgiana either!  What a friend!

Esther getting married in the ending I think Jane Austen would've reserved for Charlotte and Sidney who were definitely her romantic leads.  As Sidney started out as a roguish Willoughby from Sense and Sensibility, minus penchant for money. but ended up that way to save Tom and the family.

As said this wasn't Austen's ending so we can come up with our own version of however we would've wanted things to be and after eight weeks of this it wasn't the finale most wanted.  Might as well have made it a Wuthering Heights!!  

Sanditon Episode 7

                                                  

As Lady Denham (Anne Reid) lays dying, Edward (Jack Fox) and Clara (Lily Sacofsky) can't wait to be filthy rich, only she blabs to Esther (Charlotte Spencer) about how they found the will and burnt it. Also how Edward was gagging for her as they lay on the drawing room floor and done it. Rubbing it in Esther's face and then digging the knife in deeper by saying she doesn't know how that is cos she's never done it with him. 

Esther tells all this to lady Denham as she lays in her bed feeding her much needed fuel also by saying how she'll die alone without friends as it was always about money with her and hopes she's happier in heaven. This causes Lady Denham to rise from her deathbed and take drastic measures in sending Clara away to London and removing them both from the will. Giving everything to Esther. Adding she'll have to redo the drawing room floor as it's got an "indelible stain" that can't be removed.  Edward thinks his fortune's made with Esther now and they can get money for their future. Esther tells him he has nothing and hasn't got her either after what he did with Clara on the floor. Could count the number of times floor was used in this ha. 

Plans are underway for the regatta and Tom(Kris Marshall) is disappointed there hasn't been a larger turnout.  As Charlotte (Rose Williams) helps with the planning.  Stringer (Leo Suter) wasn't able to tell her how he feels but she thanks him for his listening abilities as she vents about not getting what she wanted (in Sidney) but isn't more specific. 

Georgiana (Crystal Clarke) tells Sidney (Theo James) people can't change and he can't as he tells her he wants to make amends and be a better guardian as she refuses to leave her room.  Prompting Arthur (Turlough Convery) to come to take her to the regatta under the guise of needing help in the duck race.  There's not such a race. He wanted to get her out and about as he too is riding in the Parker boat. 

Lady Susan (Sophie Winkleman) arrives in town and after the sandcastle building contest where Sidney brings Mrs Eliza Campion (Ruth Kearney) who asks about Charlotte and who she is.  Looking after the children at times and nothing more, she thinks that's all she is.  Tom is told about Lady Susan and he rushes to meet her but she's here for Charlotte who tells her she's mistaken about being in love with Sidney.  Susan thinks they need to find the weak link in Eliza's armour.  Which she does at the regetta saying it's Charlotte herself.  As Eliza denigrates Charlotte by saying she should marry someone from her village and Sidney mentions how she just reads books.  Charlotte walks off and Sidney follows but she doesn't want to listen to him when he tells her it's just a joke.  Later he takes her out on the river as he needs practice and helps her to row by holding her hands which Eliza sees. 

Edward gets drunk and remarks about Esther being worthless and they're over, to Lord Babbington (Mark Stanley) just after he's told Crowe (Matthew Needham) he's no longer pursuing her.  Edward also sees Clara who's heading back to London.

Stringer wins the regatta and is disappointed in not winning Charlotte's heart. Sidney tells Charlotte Eliza's gone and he's not going with her.  High hopes for Charlotte then, Ester and also Tom as he may get the investment still from Lady Denham.  Maybe Georgiana may find a fondness for Arthur as he has for her, but not romantically, as well as Babbington having a change of heart with Esther and vice versa.  Also Esther isn't really sure if she will inherit or not yet.  Not looking for ward to the final episode as it'll just be what the writer wants more so than what would actually have been written in the book had it been completed.

Ghost Adventures "Serial Killer Spirits HH Holmes Murder House"

                                                
HH Holmes' Murder Castle in Chicago is a well known place which no longer exists, however there still stands HH Holmes house in Irvington, Indiana, where the owner states that something dark and evil stands in her home.  A little boy was murdered in Samantha's house and she found out about the murder two years ago, Howard was the little boy.  Alan Hunter says how Holmes poisoned Howard and then cut up the body into pieces and tried to burn them, that was so Sweeney Todd, Mrs Lovett, but this was actual fact.  Holmes wrote of how he was born with the devil inside of him.  Parts of Howard are still on the property surrounding the house. She said how her late mother said the spirit of Holmes was inside of her and also she called Samantha, "Howie."

No one goes out at night in the area as they believe that his spirit is still around and how he's trying to get into the house.  Samantha used a Ouija board from a toystore and found something dark came through and she burned the board.  As well as getting marks on her arms whilst asleep.  Alan has a chest of personal items belonging to Holmes.  The lock of hair from a murder victim.  As well as scalpels and medical tools he used.  Zak wasn't able to buy any of the items for the museum.

The psychic medium, Cindy, sensed the presence of Howard who is sad and no one can help him.  Which is why it was heartwarming to see Billy try to send him on his way away from the house to be with his family and especially with what he went through with the choking.  Aaron runs a spirit box session with Cindy and I'm sure you can hear some child voices come through in the beginning.  The voice on the spirit box was a male voice.  A male voice, I hear "you haunt me..."  I don't hear 'hunt'.  Also "I hate."

Holmes' name was Mudgett and he used the alias Holmes to evade capture.  His great, great grandson, Jeff, who heard the voice "Mudgett" in his ear in the attic the first time he came here and he wanted some form of closure from Howard and to exact some form of forgiveness from him.  In the attic he feels dizzy and had to hold the bed to maintain his balance, as well as having a choking sensation.  The opening for the furnace is in the attic where the smoke came through from below in the basement. There's a door squeaking heard from below.

The kitchen area freezes as Billy notices a black mass thing behind Zak.  Aaron takes Polaroid photos which aren't revealed until the end, which show Aaron's experience in the attic of seeing a man with a hat but only half his hat, face can be seen.  The photo shows half a picture of Zak where only half of his face is visible with his hat.  What does that mean, Zak was the man he saw, ha, or rather Holmes or someone was passing through Zak.  The unexplained male voice I hear is "closing the gate??"  Gate of hell?

Sorry not so clear.
On the Puck Billy gets the words "beside" when he asks "are you Howard?"  Billy starts coughing on the stairs of the kitchen already.
"Where is HH?"
Answer : "Past Manor."
Before Zak asks a question he gets "7 Girl" on the puck.  As Holmes is alleged to have killed seven girls, two of whom were definitely killed by him.

"What is happening to Billy?"
"Killed."
"How are you killing Billy?"
"Cough."
"Who is killing Billy?"
"Soldiers."  As Jay interjects the line of the devil being beside Holmes.  So the soldiers were those who were such evil and went to hell for their acts, thus became soldiers: strong and aggressive demons.

The temperature increases rapidly and Aaron is left in the room alone.  Aaron asks "why do you make us angry".  The voice comes through "they" and a child's scream.  The unexplained voice Aaron hears doesn't sound like English.  Aaron almost blacks out and falls on the stairs when getting out. Three stick figures are caught on the SLS, supposedly soldiers.

Zak gets cleansed by Jay.  The two Polaroid photos taken on the stairs show a light, which has a face inside it.  That's what I do when I look at anomalies/orbs, as sometimes they do have faces in them.  That face is pure evil and creepy as hell!  I changed my mind about adding it here, go see for yourself in the ep.
FFS it took me three attempts at downloading the pics to upload here, what's going on??

My potted HH Holmes history from my Supernatural Dudes and Demons book.

Sanditon Episode 6

                                           
Charlotte (Rose Williams) arrives in London and finds it altogether different to Sanditon with the hustle and bustle and no one wanting to help her find the street she's looking for.  As well as finding the pub where Otis (Jyuddah Jaymes) is meant to reside but it's only the landlord, Sam Sidaway (Clinton Blake) who lives there and Otis just collects his mail from there.  As she leaves she's accosted in the alley and is rescued by none other than Sidney (Theo James).  Well that's becoming a common occurrence now and he just happens to be in the right place at the right time again.  Though he says he didn't know it was her.  She refuses to leave and says they're wasting valuable time if he must take her back.  Mary not knowing she's here either as she also forbade her to come.  Charlotte recalls "The Sons Of Africa" and Sidney confronts Otis who swears he had nothing to do with it.  However he has a gambling debt so Beecroft (Jon Foster) must have kidnapped her.  He claims that Otis bragged about the money Miss Lamb (Crystal Clarke) had but Otis swears this isn't so.  Anyway his debt has been paid and Beecroft sold her to someone else.

However Sidney thinks they'd be on their way to Scotland by now.  But Charlotte thinks Beecroft must still be hiding her until he is actually paid.  Being right as she's at a brothel indeed and Howard (Jack Brady) can't wait to marry Georgiana and also get her fortune.  As Sidney asks Mrs Harries (Liz May Brice) where Georgiana is as she's his ward.  Charlotte isn't happy with Sidney and how he made his money though he admits he abhors slavery and was done with the sugar trade when he found out.  Also how Georgiana's father saved his life and this is how he repays him.  They catch up to the coca with Sidney performing a daring do, or rather his stuntman, by jumping onto the coach to stop it, rescuing Georgiana.  Howard is still owed £1800.  Georgiana is angry at him and also at Otis, but Charlotte doesn't think he would take such advantage of her.

Tom (Kris Marshall) tells Charlotte about Sidney's lost love, Eliza (Ruth Kearney) who called off the engagement and married an older, wealthier man, breaking his heart.  Making him leave for Antigua and when he returned he wasn't the same.  Conveniently mentioned for this episode as she pops up already later at the most talked about ball in London, for which Babbington (Mark Stanley) has scored an invite for Tom so he can sell the regatta and also Sanditon.  Babbington says Charlotte should come too but she's not in a good frame of mind.  Sidney brings Otis to see Georgiana saying they should have a proper farewell, but somehow you think he's just rubbing it in her face in a way.  That he was right all along and Otis was a cad.  However Otis tells Georgiana he was prideful in speaking of her and how lucky he was but never about her wealth.  Which Georgiana says it too late.

Charlotte apologizes to Sidney about her prejudice against him (here we go Lizzy and Darcy!) and he says he cannot accept as he should apologize to her.  She dresses in a gold dress for the ball which impresses both Sidney and Tom.  Even dancing with Sidney after she meets Susan (Sophie Winkleman) who says the anger she feels towards Sidney is love.  As well as dancing with Tom, who tells her the woman Sidney is with right now is Eliza, his lost love who is now a widow.  Seems Sidney is enamoured all over again at seeing her and completely forgets about Charlotte.  Appears his apology was shortlived and Charlotte was probably right to misjudge him.  Nobody is interested in the regatta or Sanditon and Sidney lends Tom £3,000 to pay the men.

Lady Denham (Anne Reid) is in bad way and says it's just a slight head cold, also telling the vultures that her will is safe and she won't need a priest or a solicitor.  Leaving Edward (Jack Fox) tearing up the house in search of it.  Seeing it as a way of securing his and Ester's (Charlotte Spencer) future.  However Clara (Lily Sarcofsky) has it all along and suggests he burn it and he gives her a fifth.  After they do the dirty on Ester right then and there, Clara insists on a quarter share as is a lady's prerogative to change her mind.  Edward saying she's far from a lady and she asks if Ester is a lady, knowing about their intimacy.  Well Edward isn't exactly a gentlemen either.  Apparently Lady Denham has left her money for the building of Sanditon and the donkeys.  Begging the question of why she didn't just give it to Tom now if she was so interested in the town and its future.

Again not much going on in this episode of the "poor man's" Pride and Prejudice ha, with two episodes left, things will be tied up very quickly where they've been dragging on for 6 episodes.  Babbington asking Charlotte what she thinks of a woman changing her mind about a man in an instant, referring to Ester of course.  But she doesn't answer, too caught up with staring at Sidney.  Of course Esther would've been better off with Babbington, rather than the roguish pipsqueak Edward who isn't really interested in her all along, but is a master at seducing her to his will!!  Charlotte having no answer for Babbington since she has done the same thing, changed her mind about Sidney and then changing it again in an instant after seeing how he is with Eliza!

Ghost Brothers Haunted Houseguests 1.7 "Haunted By History"

                                          
Meg who lives and runs the Stonewall Farm B&B, New Hampshire, tells of many spirits throughout the house and basement.  Her husband Skip, gave her a bone he found there that is a femur and probably that of a seven year old boy who has attached himself to her daughter, Laura.  It was the part of the Underground Railroad, Hillsborough, New Hampshire was the last stop on the Railroad before crossing into Canada.  Juwan says how this case could be personal especially as it was part of the Underground Railroad and all of that past history.  Meg also tells them of her husband, Skip, who passed nine years ago from the onset of Alzheimer's so he may not know he's passed and she wants to know if he's in a better place.  As he may still be stuck here.  She is now married to Ed.

Dalen says that Meg's done her own research with the help of a medium who has given her the names of the spirits and where they passed.  As well as a paediatrician telling them the bone could belong to a child.  The Bickford's owned the property after 1835, John Bickford was a son and before he graduated Law School, he drowned in the river during a heatwave when he decided to swim and he drowned.  In his room, in the second floor window, Laura saw a face staring back at her.  Ed heard a child asking for his "mama."  The boy lives in the basement and they think Jonathan is part of the people who were hiding in the basement.

In John's room, Marcus finds the temperature increases and when Dalen asks the spirit to increase it to 80, it does so on command.  Associating that with John drowning during a heatwave.  The secret stairs can be seen from the room which lead down to the basement.  Dalen is chilled seeing the staircase and knowing that the freedom fighters walked there.  Outside the medium told Meg there are numerous bodies from the Underground Railroad.  In the basement, Laura uses dowsing rods which cross when Jonathan appears and Juwan catches him on the SLS, raising his arm when asked to do so.  Also he doesn't appear later when they investigate the basement, but they do hear a noise there. Ed feels Jonathan could have died here when he was with his family and still remains, perhaps still hiding out.

They use the Poltercom in John's room and they hear "Skip" on there showing Meg's husband is still around.  I think I heard "I am" before he says his name. Then he says "Ed."  He's happy that Meg has married again and how this property, family, is love to him.  Dalen finds out the route of the Underground Railroad showing the farm is close to the route so the house could have been used.  Not all of the runaways made it, so they had to be buried in the house or on the property when they passed. 

Doria brings in the ground penetrating radar outside and they pinpoint an area where the layers have been shaken up and disturbed.  The results find that the land might have some remains there and they will need to bring in some archaeologists to dig there.  When they use the Poltercom in the woods at night, Dalen receives "what" when he says the word at the same time.  Back in the basement Skip comes through on the Ovilus too and he's communicating to let them know he's fine and he's watching over the property and them.  They call on Skip to guide Jonathan and maybe to his own family.

In the living room, they pour some bourbon and are joined by Skip again where they drink a toast to him.  They ask if Skip is the boss and "Ed" comes through.  They helped give the family closure as far as Skip goes and also peace of mind.  Meg adding that the Underground Railroad deceased people will be respected.  A very personal one for the Brothers as their ancestors were a part of this.  Meg tells them, five weeks later that they are working with the archaeologists and they're happy that Skip is there.  Love the episodes connected with history showing we've come a long way but not far enough still.