The Front Porch Swing

[TexasLisa]

WOW, trying to keep up with the discussions on the porch is a full time job. The topics covered here ~ everything from chicken poop to homosexuality, to God, to recipes, kids, and world politics and on and on. If this isn't a cross section of America what is? And look, we can all agree - disagree, laugh- cry, ask for prayers and be prayed for. Or not.
I am still surprised how many times I read something posted here and say, Hey! I thought I was the only one who felt that way.
I am thankful I found this site. I am thankful for you all for sharing, and I am thankful to you all for respecting each other.

I have a request for all the creative, funny porch sitters. I am finishing my coop finally. Ok well, my husband is almost finished with the coop mostly, but I did help.

Any way I live at the end of Chicken Alley Road. YAH, can you believe it??? I am thinking I HAVE to give my coop a name of some sort that reflects my area. I'm Looking forward all your interesting suggestions.

CHECK THIS OUT. lol
Weirdness in Seymour
Posted on October 27, 2011 by Michael Bie
Shawano Leader:
Among the bizarre and weird sightings explored by paranormal researcher and author Chad Lewis, phantom chickens and disembodied voices at Chicken Alley in Seymour have been some of his most peculiar.
A simple country road consisting of four corners and not much else, Chicken Alley has been the source of what Lewis described as “a hotbed of activity.”
“When driving down the road, many people believe they have run over a phantom chicken,” he said. “They’re so convinced that they’ve run over a real chicken that they’ve gotten out to look at the damage to their vehicle or road kill only to discover nothing is there.”
Inevitably, the lack of physical evidence leads drivers to believe they have encountered the phantom chicken.
“I had a gentleman contact me who said he was driving along when all of the sudden a half dozen chickens darted out in front of him. He slammed on his brakes to avoid them, but then they disappeared right before his eyes,” Lewis said. “He was convinced he had seen the phantom chickens of Chicken Alley.”
Lewis has investigated but has not seen any phantom chickens, he said.
Chicken Alley is also reported to be the home of a disembodied voice.
“It’s said that if you walk out into the middle of the Chicken Alley and French Road intersection and stand there, you will hear the angry voice of a ghost man yelling at you to get out of the road,” Lewis said. “Legend states that if you do not heed his advice – much like hearing the Irish Banshee – you’ll be cursed with bad luck until the day you die.”
Knocking on a wood table, Lewis said he has yet to hear the mysterious voice after visiting the spot dozens of times.
Lewis’s presentation on Tuesday at the Shawano City-County Library also included stories about Wisconsin’s werewolves, phantom animals, witches, Bigfoot, sea serpents, and vampires.
About 100 people attended the free presentation.
“When you go to these places, I think they’re just creepy and a lot of fun. Letting yourself go and having fun with it is what it’s all about,” he said.
Lewis is a researcher and author for Unexplained Research L.L.C. He holds a Master of Science degree in psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Stout and has conducted paranormal research for more than 17 years.
His presentation was sponsored by Friends of Shawano County Libraries Inc.

Oooh, I love places like that. I am one of those who love to be scared. My husband, on the other hand, hates to be scared. Well guess who scares him??? I have to duck when I jump out and scare him. He will swing out. Heheheheee I know I know, I am weird.

I have a courtyard

This is the entry gate from the outside


This is the entry gate from the inside The steps to the house form a porch.

This is the patio I stood on to take the picture of the entry gate from the insde

This is the patio showing the big rock taken while I was standing on my front porch


deb

I love your courtyard Deb. The countryside is beautiful! Was the house built by that big rock or did it roll? I have heard you either love the desert or you hate it. I think I would love it.

Lisa

 

[Alice28]

Yep...this last fishing trip is likely the last we will go on with him as he is getting worse and worse.  He has Asperger's but won't admit it or try to deal with it~the part of the brain that deals with self-analysis is the most affected in Aspergers.  I had a talk with him before we even left about controlling himself and his temper tantrums for the sake of my aged mother....didn't mean a thing.  He still managed to ruin the last day of the trip with his bratness and idiocy....all because the other boys caught fish and he did not.  Can you believe that? 

Life is going to always be very hard for that boy and has been very hard up 'til now. 

Oh I know all about asperbergers. I'm sorry he's not ready to admit he has it. There is lots of help out there for family members and those to have it. That makes since why he controls everything. People with asperbergers need ruteen. It's extremely stressful to them not to know what's happening next and they don't emphasize with others at all, only themself. I had a young man tell me I don't like when people say (whatever it was that day) and I tried to explain well that's how others feel when you say ..... He looked at me like I was crazy and said "I don't care about that, we're talking about me" he just couldn't grasp how he made others feel. But even if he HATED doing something, if it was part of his ruteen he had to do it.

 

[jmoeller]

We are about 4 miles from "CHICKEN SHACK RD", in Oconto County.

Love the story about the Phantom chickens crossing the road. Maybe call your coop "The Other Side". As in, why did the Phantom chicken cross the road, to get to THE OTHER SIDE.
OK, maybe a little too obscure...

That's crazy. Did someone in the Wi. DOT have a chicken obsession?

 

[jmoeller]

Oooh, I love places like that. I am one of those who love to be scared. My husband, on the other hand, hates to be scared. Well guess who scares him??? I have to duck when I jump out and scare him. He will swing out. Heheheheee I know I know, I am weird.

I love your courtyard Deb. The countryside is beautiful! Was the house built by that big rock or did it roll? I have heard you either love the desert or you hate it. I think I would love it.

Lisa

Oddly enough I have lived here about 30 years and have never seen a haunted chicken, of course I live on the other end of the road so maybe it's to far for the chickens to walk to bother me. And it is true that the sign disappears some times but that's because kids like to come around and steal the sign.LOL I am much more like your husband. I don't like being scared or surprised. my kids do love to scare me just to see me scream

 

[wyoDreamer]

That's crazy. Did someone in the Wi. DOT have a chicken obsession?

Well, Chicken Shack is the name of the gas station at the corner that sells broasted chicken - so I'm fairly sure that is where the name comes from. Not as cool as the Phantom Chicken story.

The WisDOT doesn't have anything to do with the names of the local roads, those are proposed by the developers and approved or not by the County Development office.

I HATE to be scared because I swing first, ask questions later. Then breakdown and cry because I get upset about it.

Gave my sister a black eye one morning - teach her to wake me up by jumping on me. Also almost killed a guy in college - I got him in the throat when he jumped off the bunk bed at me... the force of him jumping down hitting my fist almost crushed his larynx (so he said), sprained my wrist on that one. DH has also learned not to scare me ... Fight or flight - my fight always takes over. Yep, I am bound to become extinct.

 

[tntchix]

Yes...many porches are extra living and storage space and that's okay too. We just did a MAJOR clean out and organization of our "inside" back porch at our back entryway. It is our catch-all all year long and then, once a year, we clean it up and out, carting many things to the storage shed and to the trash.

Even made a place for our guns this year, though not in a conventional way....more like a "woman" way of storing them. Will soon be putting up a shell just for the ammo.

I have one small porch and a nice size deck and neither one has anything on it but a gorgeous handmade wagon wheel style bench on the back one (that a tree damaged in the ice storm and it's too heavy to remove on my own). So almost completely bare since the day we moved back home. I just can't decide what I want out there. Plants??? Nope, no green thumb here. Oh wait, I think there is a bag of potting soil out there.

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote: The house was built the rock was already there. If you will notice its actually two rocks one on top of the other.

There are four Big rocks next to my water tank, here are two. and Behind them are about four more.... But this area is Boulder land. All made of a pinkish granite loaded with iron so cell phones dont work here.

Photo of my property from space. I captured about six acres of it.

 

[Triple Willow]

She didn't use to be this bad. When I first met her she was so fun and amazing. My oldest niece, her oldest daughter, was born with many problems. More and more things over time. She was misdiagnosed and finally was diagnosed with the right thing. Something only 13 people in the world had and it's terminal and there is nothing anyone could do. So they had to just let her die. As my niece got worse and worse so did her moms control issues. She has been getting better (yes this is better) but I can't imagine how out of control her life felt. Months at a time in a hospital, being confined to your home. Not being able to make plans. I think she just wanted control over somthing. At this time I'm not going to argue. Like I said, it's getting better. I can't imagine how she feels when I miss my niece so much. It has to be heartbreaking waking up every day to your daughter not being there. But maybe I'll slip some ashwaganda in her coffee with the alcohol!
*ashwaganda is an herb that is used for adha and helps calm

Yep, sounds like her life was out of control so she tries to control everything possible. Sad really.

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote:

Shawano Leader:
Among the bizarre and weird sightings explored by paranormal researcher and author Chad Lewis, phantom chickens and disembodied voices at Chicken Alley in Seymour have been some of his most peculiar.
A simple country road consisting of four corners and not much else, Chicken Alley has been the source of what Lewis described as “a hotbed of activity.”
“When driving down the road, many people believe they have run over a phantom chicken,” he said. “They’re so convinced that they’ve run over a real chicken that they’ve gotten out to look at the damage to their vehicle or road kill only to discover nothing is there.”
Inevitably, the lack of physical evidence leads drivers to believe they have encountered the phantom chicken.
“I had a gentleman contact me who said he was driving along when all of the sudden a half dozen chickens darted out in front of him. He slammed on his brakes to avoid them, but then they disappeared right before his eyes,” Lewis said. “He was convinced he had seen the phantom chickens of Chicken Alley.”
Lewis has investigated but has not seen any phantom chickens, he said.
Chicken Alley is also reported to be the home of a disembodied voice.
“It’s said that if you walk out into the middle of the Chicken Alley and French Road intersection and stand there, you will hear the angry voice of a ghost man yelling at you to get out of the road,” Lewis said. “Legend states that if you do not heed his advice – much like hearing the Irish Banshee – you’ll be cursed with bad luck until the day you die.”
Knocking on a wood table, Lewis said he has yet to hear the mysterious voice after visiting the spot dozens of times.
Lewis’s presentation on Tuesday at the Shawano City-County Library also included stories about Wisconsin’s werewolves, phantom animals, witches, Bigfoot, sea serpents, and vampires.
About 100 people attended the free presentation.
“When you go to these places, I think they’re just creepy and a lot of fun. Letting yourself go and having fun with it is what it’s all about,” he said.
Lewis is a researcher and author for Unexplained Research L.L.C. He holds a Master of Science degree in psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Stout and has conducted paranormal research for more than 17 years.
His presentation was sponsored by Friends of Shawano County Libraries Inc.

Oooh, I love places like that. I am one of those who love to be scared. My husband, on the other hand, hates to be scared. Well guess who scares him??? I have to duck when I jump out and scare him. He will swing out. Heheheheee I know I know, I am weird.

I have a courtyard

This is the entry gate from the outside


This is the entry gate from the inside The steps to the house form a porch.

This is the patio I stood on to take the picture of the entry gate from the insde

This is the patio showing the big rock taken while I was standing on my front porch


deb

I love your courtyard Deb. The countryside is beautiful! Was the house built by that big rock or did it roll? I have heard you either love the desert or you hate it. I think I would love it.

Lisa
Oh and Yes you either love it or hate it. I love the wind I love the memories of my dad with regard to the desert. I have always lived in arid climates. San Bernardino CA, Colton CA, Roswell NM, Las Vegas NV, San Diego CA, Santee CA, and finally Jacumba CA.

Two places I would go back to are Nevada and New Mexico... but I would have to be given an offer I couldn't refuse for this place.

This land is part of the Kumeay path to and from Mexico. Not reservation but imprinted with thousands of years of passage. One time when i was sitting watching a movie in the living room I had a spirit walk through the room.... She was dressed in Native American garb and looked like she had been on a long journey. I see them here too. you have to look with your peripheral vision.

Funny thing was she was walking on the ground not on the floor of the house. Residual haunting. I went to some Native American Friends and talked to them about smudging the house with sage for energy and they assured me it didnt need to be done by a Shaman. I need to do it again when i go back... long story.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote:
Its a coping mechanism many people slide in to to survive.

deb