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Post by Ann on Feb 17, 2006 14:50:10 GMT -4
Anyone interested in Kent Island Ghost stories or UFO sightings-it's becoming an increasing hobby with me as i think this place has some history with both-seen a few weird things myself and wondered if anyone else has either-always been a skeptic to it but not sure anymore-it would be fun to hear other stories-
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Post by beantotherescue on Feb 17, 2006 16:06:58 GMT -4
Check out my thread on Benton Farm.
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Post by Ann on Feb 17, 2006 20:23:34 GMT -4
I read your thread on Benton Farm and yeah that is freaky stuff-can i ask you how you found out about that-are there books or web-sites on Kent Island farms or old places.Thanks!
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Post by beantotherescue on Feb 18, 2006 22:18:54 GMT -4
The old abandoned house at Benton Farm was kinda a playground for lots of kids my age when we were like 13 and up. The stories that we heard were passed down as our own folklore from certain kids that my sister and I knew whose parents lived here for a long time. I tried when I was a teenager to research Benton Farm using the local history books at the Kent Island Library but never really had much luck. Perhaps the bulk of the story that was passed down is fiction...but something had to happen because there is a masouleum on the property and thats pretty uncommon.
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Post by native on Feb 19, 2006 14:47:19 GMT -4
I definitly agree with you. Thats like a lot of the unknown places and farms on this Island (not much easily found info). But i fully believe that the stories had to have started somewhere. I wouldn't go as far as saying that what you know is fiction because they just recently installed video surveilance at the front gates. Whatever is back there must be pretty important. Your info though, is greatly appreciated. It just seems like for as many locals around here, no one really knows or talks much about the history of certain places, but i could just be talking to the wrong people. If you don't already have it, go pick up one of Nick Hoxters books about Kent Island, very very interesting and a lot of pics.
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Post by beantotherescue on Feb 19, 2006 20:11:29 GMT -4
Thanks for your comments Native. Im definetly gonna check out that book you suggested. And in regards to your other post about rich people moving here...since I was little..we have referred to them as Chicken Neckers. Chicken neckers willl continue to move here sadly. I used the term before when I went away to college and man did I get some weird looks from people!
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Post by native on Feb 19, 2006 20:59:38 GMT -4
Well I was going to call him a Chicken Necker but I doubt he would have understood. I just hope this place doesn't go to s**t just like Glen Burnie and Montgomery County. You know, I love where I live, and I always hear people say, "there is nothing to do on this island", but I don't agree with that. The peacefulness is the beauty of this place; it is serene, picturesque, and full of history that is very interesting to me and the research alone on learning the history is a chore in itself. I have just never found walking around a mall for 6 hours or sitting in a bar all day to be that interesting. I'd rather explore the woods, fields, hidden graveyards, and old historic plantation houses around here. That may sound boring to some, but I guarantee if the nay sayers did it for a week they would be hooked. I have seen things on parts of this island that would put the greatest of skeptics to shame, and to top it all off I just don't want to see all of these historic interesting places burned to the ground just to be replaced by waterfront condos and industry warehouses.
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Post by native on Feb 20, 2006 1:30:31 GMT -4
I hope that the lack of response on this page is not because people are afraid to post something in fear that they will be looked down upon. Believe me everyone on this page is very open and interested in what everyone has, hasn't, or wants to see. Doesn't anybody have any good stories to tell or any good questions to ask? I'm interested and would love hear what anyone has to say.
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Post by Alex on Feb 20, 2006 9:34:33 GMT -4
Does anybody know if there is a running train on the island. I have heard a train at night several times but can't find one.
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Post by beantotherescue on Feb 20, 2006 9:46:20 GMT -4
Well I was going to call him a Chicken Necker but I doubt he would have understood. I just hope this place doesn't go to s**t just like Glen Burnie and Montgomery County. You know, I love where I live, and I always hear people say, "there is nothing to do on this island", but I don't agree with that. The peacefulness is the beauty of this place; it is serene, picturesque, and full of history that is very interesting to me and the research alone on learning the history is a chore in itself. I have just never found walking around a mall for 6 hours or sitting in a bar all day to be that interesting. I'd rather explore the woods, fields, hidden graveyards, and old historic plantation houses around here. That may sound boring to some, but I guarantee if the nay sayers did it for a week they would be hooked. I have seen things on parts of this island that would put the greatest of skeptics to shame, and to top it all off I just don't want to see all of these historic interesting places burned to the ground just to be replaced by waterfront condos and industry warehouses. No I totally aggree with you there. Ive always been able to stay entertained living here.
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Post by z on Feb 20, 2006 11:08:25 GMT -4
Alex- I can't believe you spoke of a train-how long have you lived here? There's been so many people i've spoken to through the years who have said the same thing-Evidentally,there was a train that use to run in the vicinity of Love Point Park years and years ago-the train station is still back there for the public to see-that's great another story about the train-must have some validity to it -you are among many who've told the same tale.
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Post by Alex on Feb 20, 2006 11:15:40 GMT -4
I know about that one,on back of Love Pointe Cafe. I both my wife and I have heard a whistle always late night 10-11PM. Strange..
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Post by Rich on Feb 20, 2006 11:50:58 GMT -4
Alex - are you sure that it's not the fog horn that you are hearing?
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Post by Alex on Feb 20, 2006 12:03:12 GMT -4
Yes I am sure. I am a boater so I can tell. Even my wife thought it was a train whistle. They are two different sound. There is nothing wrong with a few ghosts now and then..
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Post by z on Feb 20, 2006 20:07:20 GMT -4
Wow-that's where i heard you can hear the whistle-how often do you hear it and has it been recently?I agree-nothing wrong with a few FRIENDLY ghosts!
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Post by native on Feb 20, 2006 22:00:09 GMT -4
I can't believe that the train is one of the first stories on here. When I was a kid I was at Love Point Park back by the basketball courts at about 9 'o' clock having practice. Sometime in the middle of practice, not only I, but the whole team heard what we thought was a train whistling! Now, at the age that I was, it didn't really seem that odd to me because I had never had a chance to explore the island or really know if there was a train that existed here. So later that nigh t when I got home, I asked my dad about what I had heard. His reply was, "no, there is no train on the island but, there used to be one that crossed the island about 40 or 50 years ago." He also told me that the original tracks weren't very far off from where the cross island trail runs next to Love Point. So after finding out that a train did not exist, I just played off what I had heard as maybe a really big tractor trailer going down the road. I thought nothing more of it for about 9 years until my friend and I were sitting in his garage working on his car. He was very careful in the way he asked me his question saying, "Have you ever heard the sound of a train here before? Because sometimes when I'm on the computer late at night I leave my window open. And on more than one occasion I have heard what sounded like a train like really far away." What he said wasn't the only reason my child-hood memories jumped back into my head but for the reason that he also lives in Cloverfields and his bedroom window faces Love Point Park. So after all these years I am extremely shocked and amazed by the exact same response from so many people.
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Post by native on Feb 20, 2006 23:37:38 GMT -4
You can find them at the local library in the Maryland section in the back. Or you can buy them at most book stores or offline.
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Post by native on Feb 20, 2006 23:39:35 GMT -4
I meant online, sorry.
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Post by native on Feb 20, 2006 23:45:03 GMT -4
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Post by native on Apr 13, 2006 23:53:42 GMT -4
O.K. so the other night about 2 weeks ago after the weird weather (hail, rain, wind, lightening, etc.) we had, I was sitting on the porch with my laptop. It was about 11:15 or so and I heard what sounded like a 747 passenger plane go over the house. I know that doesn't sound very interesting but the weird part about it was that it sounded like it was only about 200-300 feet above the house. Well I didn't really think anything of it until I heard another one about 30 seconds later. After about the fourth one I got up to go outside and see what it was. It was kind of still cloudy but as low as the aircraft was flying I could clearly see a silhouette. It didn't look like a regular jet or airliner, yet more triangular like a stealth bomber. After about two more flew over they stopped all of a sudden. I didn’t know what to think of it. Then around mid-night I heard it again. I told a friend of mine to come outside with me. As soon as we got outside there they were again, the exact same triangular shape aircraft flying over head one right after the other. This went on for a good 15 minutes or so. I didn’t know what to think of the incident whether it was military or extraterrestrial. But if it were military why would they be flying so low on such a cloudy and rainy night and if it were civilian aircraft they wouldn’t be flying so close together under airspace regulations, so I have no idea what I was seeing but was just wondering if anyone else saw the same thing.
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Post by Bob on Apr 14, 2006 15:01:02 GMT -4
It was military. They fly either really high or low because we are at the outskirts of the BWI pattern.
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Post by native on May 3, 2006 19:49:40 GMT -4
Could you maybe expand on that answer? It just sounds like every other answer I've ever heard about what is going on up there. If that is true then could you let me know where you got your information.
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Post by Jeff on May 20, 2006 1:24:50 GMT -4
WOW, when I first saw that comment on the train my jaw dropped, I've been facinated by the history of this place for a while (almost single-handedly wrote the article at Wikipedia), and know about the train that used to run along what is now the Cross Island Trail. Very cool. Anyway, something that's been confusing me, and I haven't been able to figure out what it is... I work at the KI Depot and get off at 9 on night shifts. When driving home on those nights, while passing the field just north of Kent Island Estates I look to the right and have seen bright "lights" either above or across the bay. They're too bright to be stars and I don't think they're planes because I've seen them in the same general spots on several occasions, I have also thought that they might be antennas but they seem way too high up. Anyone else seen them/know what they are?
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Post by native on May 22, 2006 18:27:14 GMT -4
Are there usually 2 or 3 in the same vicinity (right around Matapeake pier) and do they look almost like small flickering fireballs?
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Post by Jeff on May 22, 2006 22:42:59 GMT -4
Yeah, there are 2 or 3 in the same vicinity, but they are more in the direction of Kent Point, likely off the coast of Kent Island Estates, but then again, that might just be an illusion so they really could be comming from around Matapeake Pier. I guess they could be described as flikering fireballs, and they seem kind of yellowish.
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