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Comment on Bownessie, oh Bownessie by Hayley

Hayley — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:58:13 +0000

As I said, I haven’t done any on site investigation. Yet.

I have no reports to link you to. Yet.

Before I can do any investigation I need to know the full available details of what has already been done.
People like yourself and Dean aren’t exactly making that easy by withholding information…

Why are you withholding the forensic report?

Comment on Bownessie, oh Bownessie by Linden Adams

Linden Adams — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:46:46 +0000

Could you provide first Hayley your results and methods of evidence gathering for your own investigation on this please. You state that you had on site investigators could you please allow us to see your methods, results and of course the professional background.Or has this been a keyboard investigation from the start, you should be able to provide text, a diary of time spent on location, photographs to name a few of the ingredients of a real investigation. What I’m trying to do is a complete investigation which takes time to get the correct people involved hence the Marine Zoologists. These results will never be hidden even if the object turns out to be a Duck I can ensure you of that. For anyone to jump or to take a leap of logic too suggest that its a normal sized fish then lets see the evidence backing that claim. I have only every put my photographs forward for debate and never suggested it’s a monster or can you provide evidence to suggest I have other wise.

Comment on Revisiting Bownessie by Hayley

Hayley — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:39:34 +0000

Additionally, I haven’t done any on site research, a friend of mine lives in the area and has had a look around. Any expeditions I did, the results would be online for all to see.

While we’re talking of results, can I get a copy of Mark’s analysis of your photo like I’ve asked before?

All I have are those two pictures and a statement.

Comment on Revisiting Bownessie by Hayley

Hayley — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:20:32 +0000

My current research is indeed inconclusive. I haven’t stated otherwise.

Comment on Revisiting Bownessie by Linden Adams

Linden Adams — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:56:40 +0000

You mentioned in an earlier blog that you have had on site investigators could you then show your evidence of your claims and results please. I do agree with certain points of your skeptic reports but without a reconstruction of the event for example trying to photograph a bird on the water from two Kilometers away or say a floating log measuring 1 meter to simulate a Pike, then your work seems inconclusive.

Comment on Sophia by Robert Weeks

Robert Weeks — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:18:41 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to write this Hayley.

I even managed to sneak some Carl Sagan into the order of service:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2478757/Sophia%20order%20of%20service.pdf

I say sneaked, I wrote the service from start to finish and guarded what went in “religiously” (if you’d excuse the pun). The only sense of control I had in the run up to the funeral was with giving our daughter the best send off we could.

If you want to almost feel like you were there on the 20th, you can read the text that was read out too

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2478757/Sophia%20order%20of%20service%20-%20text.pdf

One thing that lots of people said on the day, and in the weeks after, is that it was one of the most uplifting funerals they’d ever been to. I wasn’t aiming to “best” a religious funeral, but at the same time I do think a humanist service can lend itself to being focused on the individual’s life – all the religious funerals I’ve been to only have a short piece dedicated to the person whose party it really is.

It’s possible that many people end up with a religious funeral because they don’t make their wishes clear. At the time you are all over the place and it’s probably easy to let the funeral director contact a local priest and let them organise the majority of the service.

But the fact is, it’s not overly difficult to sort out the service yourself, once you sit down with a 45 minute slot to fill you soon do fill it up…. and we did that with a life that was only eleven weeks long. Imagine what it could be like for any of us, that have been on this planet a lot longer.

Comment on Sophia by Skepticat

Skepticat — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:50:39 +0000

Rob’s tribute is beautiful.

I blogged a defence of humanist funerals a couple of years ago when some priest was whingeing about them.
http://www.skepticat.org/2009/10/in-defence-of-humanist-funerals/

Comment on Bownessie, oh Bownessie by Episode 106 – ooh, monsters! |

Episode 106 – ooh, monsters! | — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:35:46 +0000

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Comment on Bownessie, oh Bownessie by Hayley

Hayley — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:58:47 +0000

p.s. your claim that it is an unknown fish species is a testable claim. Provide the evidence.

Comment on Bownessie, oh Bownessie by Hayley

Hayley — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:53:49 +0000

Nice sarcastic ending there. Pity I’m going to rise about it.

As you stated in your previous comment, Ian did indeed state he wasn’t sure what caused the photo when you asked him to write a statement. However he has gone on to change his mind. It’s what people with open minds do when new information becomes available to them, or when they’ve been able to think more on something.

I haven’t hidden anything you’ve sent me. In fact, if any of my site visitors read this article: http://hayleyisaghost.co.uk/revisiting-bownessie/ you could see the ‘forensic’ details that you sent to me.

Why would I hide anything?

I hope you’re not accusing me of having an agenda.

Also, do not assume that it is your place to ‘stick to ghosts’, don’t assume you know better than me, and never try to belittle me. It just wont work.